David Andrews, Ph.D.
Chair of the Board
David Andrews serves as both Chancellor of University of Massachusetts Global and Chair of the Board of NLET. Andrews is a lifelong educator committed to equity and access through personalized, student-centric approaches. Prior to joining NLET, he served as President of National University, California’s second-largest, private non-profit university. During his five-year term as President, National…Read more…
Gordon Freedman
President, Vice Chair, Founder
Freedman served as VP, Global Education Strategy for eLearning leader Blackboard, Inc. from 2005 until 2012. In this position, he visited 18 countries and met with numerous leaders in government, higher educations, schools, research institutes and related associations. He also helped create, as well as led, the Blackboard Institute, which concentrated on K-through-College progression in…Read more…
Ed Stanford
NLET Vice Chair, Board of Directors, former Chairman of the Board
Ed Stanford has spent over 40 years in educational publishing. He was president of two of the three largest higher education publisher for over twenty years. He was president of what was then the Prentice Hall College Division (now Pearson) from 1984-1994. From 1994-1997, he was president of St. Martin’s College Division as it was…Read more…
Phillip West, Ph.D
Phillip West, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor at The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, where he leads cutting-edge research on the intersection of mitochondrial biology and immune function. His work focuses on how mitochondria regulate innate immune and inflammatory responses and how disruptions in these processes contribute to genetic disorders, aging-related diseases, heart failure, cancer, and…Read more…