Hanold Associates has launched the Chief Human Resources Officer search for Teaching Strategies, a portfolio company of private equity firm, Summit Partners. Jason Hanold, Mayank Parikh and Omar Safi lead the search for the role based at Teaching Strategies’ headquarters in Washington, DC.
Teaching Strategies, LLC, a dynamic educational technology company specializing in early childhood, was founded in 1988 by Diane Trister Dodge, a noted educator, author, speaker, and child advocate. With ground-breaking solutions and a strong belief that a child’s first eight years form a critical foundation for school success, Teaching Strategies has been an advocate for the early education community for nearly 30 years.
Teaching Strategies partners with early childhood educators to provide innovative, effective curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family connection resources to empower and inspire them as they teach and care for the youngest learners. Teaching Strategies’ mission is to advance the early childhood field through high-quality, integrated resources; responsive, ongoing support; and research-based, research-proven solutions that enable every early childhood educator to open doors to lifelong learning. Their award-winning products like The Creative Curriculum® for Preschool and widely-adopted assessment solutions like GOLD® reach over 2 million children each year.
Summit Partners was founded in 1984 with a commitment to find and partner with exceptional entrepreneurs to help them accelerate their growth and achieve dramatic results. Since then, Summit has become the investment partner of choice for many of the best growth companies in the world. They’ve grown to a team of more than 100 investment professionals, led by 27 managing directors. They are currently managing more than $14 billion in capital and are dedicated to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities. They are equally comfortable investing for minority or majority positions. The firm has offices in Boston, Palo Alto, London, and Mumbai.
Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, Kai-Lee Berke, the Chief Human Resources Officer will serve as a crucial member of Teaching Strategies’ executive team and will be instrumental in guiding the company through growth and change.
Teaching Strategies and Summit Partners are building a company for the long term and are seeking a human capital leader who will coach the CEO and executive team, set a strong HR foundation, and take the lead on designing and implementing the longer-term vision, mission, and brand of human resources for the organization. The CHRO will step in as the first executive-level leader of the Global People function and strategically partner with senior leaders to help determine how to best utilize their talent-base to innovate and support the business.
