CEO/Founder

Farbood Nivi

My passions are progressive learning practices, and developing effective, sustainable and scalable business models and best practices. To this end, I have studied and been influenced by the works of…

• Peter Senge – Organizational Learning
• Edward Tufte – Information Design
• Peter Drucker – Business Management
• Russell Ackoff – Systems Thinking, Learning
• Steve Jobs – Product Development
• Sue Miller-Hurst – Progressive Learning
• 37signals – Web Development
• Seth Godin – Marketing
• Ray Kurzweil – Health
• Stephen R. Covey – Organizational Psychology
• W. Edwards Deming – Quality Management
• Brian Greene – Quantum Physics and String Theory

Putting my learning into practice, I co-founded Grockit to help the world teach itself.

CTO/Founder

Michael Buffington

Michael is driven by perpetual curiosity and a love of learning. Past projects include Price.com, Adaptive Path’s MeasureMap (later sold to Google), llor.nu, and Stikkit.

“I think Grockit is the most important project I’ve ever been a part of. Most of the projects I’m proud of listing can be considered great – but Grockit is the first with real world changing possibilities. And it’s certainly true that I’ve never worked with such a good team.”

Director of Academics

Heather Gilchrist

As a teacher Heather Gilchrist considers herself a “translator;” her job, she says, is to convey to students and team members the simple, in the complex. A test-prep pro for nearly a decade, she’s taught every national standardized admissions test through the graduate school admissions level, written curriculum, developed teacher training programs, trained teachers and content creators, and developed systems for other teachers and content creators to use in sharing their knowledge.

Nathan Sobo

David Marino

Wil Bierbaum

Jacob Van Putten

Jeff Whitmire

Ari Bader-Natal

Kunal Anand

Jan Nelson

Crystal Scheltzer