Charles Thornburgh

Charles Thornburgh is a Co-Founder and serves as Vice Chairman and Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Civitas Learning. He is also an Angel Investor. He discovered a passion for education while teaching high school students on the weekends during his undergraduate days at Stanford, and upon graduating translated that passion into the founding of multiple education start-ups. These early ventures included ClickSafety.com, an online safety training company, and Testtakers.com, the first rich-media, diagnostic and prescriptive test prep tutoring application online. In 2002 his business was acquired by Kaplan, where he spent the next nine years as an in-house entrepreneur, launching several edtech businesses in the K12 and higher education markets. Charles is a two-time CODiE Award recipient for excellence in software development and a former director on the Education Board of the Software & Information Industry Association. He is also named on the "16 People Changing the Landscape of Online Education Forever" list by Find Education Online. He is a frequent speaker at education events around the country. Charles Thornburgh holds BA degree in Political Science from Stanford University.