GHOSTWRITER - Key Persons


Akimi Gibson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President,  Multiplatform Global Education Planning & Integration

Alison Bryant

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Operations Team
  • Chief Research, Education, Data and Impact Officer

Alvin Fu

Job Titles:
  • Vice President and General Manager, Greater China

Amy Beth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees

Anita Tandon - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Marketing

Ann Rubenstein Tisch

Job Titles:
  • Founder and President, the Young Women 's Leadership Network

Brett Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Operations Team
  • Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Finance, Technology, and Facilities

Carla Harris

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Senior Client Advisor, Morgan Stanley

Danni Hill - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Chief People Officer
  • Member of the Operations Team

Deborah Lehr - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founding Partner

Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum

Job Titles:
  • President Emerita, Spelman College

Florence Ann Romano - CEO, Founder

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Founder

Frans Hijkoop

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees

Gabriela Arenas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Operations Team
  • Senior Vice President, Global Licensing and Latin America and Australia / New Zealand and Southeast Asia

Gabrielle Sulzberger

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Chairman - Board of Trustees, Sesame Workshop, Senior Advisor at Two Sigma and Centerbridge Partners

Hillary Strong

Job Titles:
  • Chief Development Officer
  • Member of the Operations Team

Hosh Ibrahim

Job Titles:
  • Board Director / Mo Ibrahim Foundation

Jason R. Graefe

Job Titles:
  • Chairman / Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, ISVs, Cloud Computing & AI / Microsoft

Jeanette Betancourt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Operations Team

Jeffrey Weiss

Job Titles:
  • Principal, Five Forty Investments

Jenna Arnold

Job Titles:
  • Author, Activist and Entrepreneur

Jenna Mack

Job Titles:
  • Executive Producer and Host, in the Grey

Jennifer Ahearn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Operations Team
  • Senior Vice President, Global Themed, Partnerships, and Canada

Joan Ganz Cooney

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and Lifetime Honorary Trustee

Kathleen G. Elsesser

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Global Chair Consumer Retail and Healthcare Groups, Investment Banking Division, Goldman Sachs

Kay Wilson Stallings

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Operations Team
  • Executive Vice President, Chief Creative Development and Production Officer

Lee Eastman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Partner, Eastman & Eastman

Lesley Bourns

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, International Social Impact

Lloyd Morrisett

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and Lifetime Honorary Trustee

Luis Alberto Moreno

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, Allen & Co LLC / Former President, Inter - American Development Bank

Manabu Nagaoka

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, General Manager, and Executive Producer, Japan, and Head of Sesame Street English

Mariam Alsikafi - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder

Maureen Trantham

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Operations Team
  • Senior Vice President, Head of Strategy and Social Impact & Philanthropy Operations

Michael G. Manasse

Job Titles:
  • President and Chief Operating Officer, Peterson Management LLC

Michael Preston

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President and Executive Director, Joan Ganz Cooney Center

Miriam Rivera

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Co - Founder and Managing Director Ulu Ventures

Mohammad Shah Alam

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director of Sesame Workshop Bangladesh
Before assuming that role in 2018, Alam was the Literacy Program Director at Room to Read Bangladesh for six years. Previously, Alam spent seven years with Sesame Workshop's Sisimpur program from 2005 - 2011 with Nayantara Communications, the co-producer of Sisimpur at that time. Alam has extensive experience in managing early childhood education and non-formal primary education programs throughout Bangladesh, including with organizations such as Save the Children USA, Plan International, and BRAC. Alam studied International Relations, Primary Education, Development Studies, and Strategic Management in universities in Dhaka and the Netherlands. He loves working with children and believes that investing in the early years brings tremendous returns in the future. He has written dozens of storybooks for children, published by different local publishers. Mohammad Shah Alam is the Managing Director of Sesame Workshop Bangladesh, home of Sisimpur.

Paul Lindley

Job Titles:
  • Founder, Ella 's Kitchen

Rosemarie Truglio

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, Curriculum and Content / International Management / International Management

Samantha Maltin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Operations Team
  • Executive Vice President, Chief Marketing & Brand Officer

Sarah Richardson

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Shadrach Kisten - CTO, SVP

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer
  • Member of the Operations Team
  • Senior Vice President

Sherrie Westin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Operations Team
  • President and Interim CEO

Sonali Khan

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, India

Taska Carrigan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President of Production Management, Operations, Business Affairs, and Legal

Thasunda Brown Duckett

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Chief Executive Officer, TIAA

Tom Donilon

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, BlackRock Investment Institute / Former National Security Advisor

Tsitsi Masiyiwa

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder / Higherlife Foundation

Tyler Lewis

Job Titles:
  • CFO and COO of Pinky Promise Films

Valerie Jarrett

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Distinguished Senior Fellow, University of Chicago Law School

Valerie Mitchell Johnston - Chief Legal Officer, EVP

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President
  • General Counsel
  • Member of the Operations Team

Varun Chandra

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Trustees
  • Managing Partner, Hakluyt & Company

Wanda Witherspoon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Operations Team
  • Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer / Senior Management / Senior Management

Whit Higgins

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Operations Team
  • Executive Vice President, Head of Global Enterprises