What Happened?
Cambridge, MA-based Fullbridge Appointed Candice Olson as Chief Executive Officer
About the Company
Fullbridge is a high-growth, education technology company based in Harvard Square with offices in New York and the Middle East. Our goal is to transform young adults into high-impact workforce contributors. Fullbridge delivers highly collaborative, rigorous educational programs that help young people develop real-world business and professional skills through a dynamic online platform and live coaching. Since 2009, Fullbridge has run 85+ programs for 6,000+ students in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, with participants ranging from Harvard Law School students, to veterans, to US liberal arts college students, to female vocational students in Saudi Arabia. In addition to our flagship programs, we are moving into an exciting phase of growth developing large-scale educational programs and technology solutions for private and public sector clients around the world. Fullbridge has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Businessweek, and Forbes as a leader in competency-based education and 21st century workplace skills. Fullbridge CEOs Peter and Candice Olson have both lead publicly- traded companies, and the Fullbridge senior management team includes alumni of McKinsey and Bain.
About the Person
Candice Carpenter Olson is Co-CEO and founder of the Fullbridge Program. As Founder and CEO of iVillage.com, she became one of the first women to lead an IPO in the U.S. She`s held executive positions at American Express and Time Warner, and been an advisor at AOL. She is an Emmy Award winner and a recipient of the MIT Award for Entrepreneurship. She holds a BA from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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