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Dov Seidman
Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer
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Fifteen years ago, long before Enron, Dov founded LRN with a powerful vision that the world would be a better place if more people did the right thing. From that basic notion, he has grown a successful business that has helped to shape the ways millions of employees, managers and leaders behave and interact all over the globe. LRN helps more than 400 leading companies worldwide – including Disney, Dow Chemical, eBay, Procter & Gamble, Raytheon, Pfizer, DuPont, Johnson & Johnson, and 3M – develop ethical corporate cultures and inspire principled performance in business.

Dov maintains that in today's connected and transparent world, people and organizations stand to gain by dedicating new thought and energy to how they do what they do. That's the inspiration behind "HOW: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything ... in Business (and in Life)," an award-winning book, most recently recognized as a best business book of 2009 and by Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek. Since its release, the book has been published in the U.S., Germany, China, Korea and Brazil.

The HOW philosophy is prominently featured as one of the nine rules for companies to embrace in Thomas L. Friedman's seminal book, "The World is Flat." In Friedman's latest work, "Hot, Flat and Crowded," Dov explains how to lead a green revolution by adopting the HOW philosophy to outbehave and outgreen the competition. Friedman's latest edition suggests the sustainability of our institutions, countries and world lies in HOW.

Dov is frequently invited to speak at leading industry events, and to senior corporate managers and boards of directors. Recent presentations include The World Economic Forum, The World Business Forum, The National Press Club and The Aspen Ideas Festival. He has also been the keynote speaker at University of California Los Angeles's annual commencement.

Dov's views on business behavior, success and corporate culture have been quoted in dozens of print broadcast media, and online, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, The Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Charlie Rose and ABC's Good Morning America. Each month, Dov shares his views on human behavior as the ultimate source of competitive advantage in a monthly column for BusinessWeek.com.

Dov testified in 2004 before the U.S. Sentencing Commission arguing that corporations must move from a check-the-box-compliance-only approach to instead focus on fostering ethical cultures and behaviors. His proposals were adopted and today are the very standards by which companies, cultures and programs are judged.

Led by a lifelong pursuit and passion for ethical leadership, he and his company LRN became the exclusive corporate sponsors of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity Prize in Ethics in 2008, as the institution was in its 20th year of celebrating ethical decision making among America's youth.

Dov earned simultaneous bachelor's and master's degrees, summa cum laude, in philosophy from UCLA. He later earned a B.A. with honors in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University. He graduated with honors from Harvard Law School. He, his wife Maria and their son live in Los Angeles.

Prior to joining LRN, Blackie served as group vice president of North American sales at Gartner, the technology industry's premier analyst firm. There, Blackie helped to increase Gartner's North American business more than five-fold, and was responsible for driving over $500M in annual revenue bookings. He also served as head of the sales division for Gartner Learning, a comprehensive provider of technology learning solutions. Prior to joining Gartner, Blackie served for seven years in numerous sales and management positions at Xerox Corporation. During his tenure at Xerox, he contributed to growth by successfully leading numerous sales teams and was a recognized as a top corporate performer in marketing new Xerox digital products.

Blackie holds a B.S. from Santa Clara University, and currently resides in Los Angeles.

Charow joined LRN after being with Fujitsu Consulting, where he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer responsible for finance, administration, IT and legal affairs. Prior to Fujitsu, he held leadership positions with Westburne Inc. and Deloitte & Touche. Charow has significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, having completed more than twenty such transactions over his career both in industry and while in public practice on behalf of clients. Charow began his career in public accounting with KPMG.

Charow holds a Graduate Diploma in Public Accounting from McGill University and a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Concordia University, both in Montreal, Canada. He holds the title of Chartered Accountant and has lectured extensively in the graduate program of McGill University on topics ranging from financial reporting to financial engineering.

Greenberg joins LRN from Altria Group, Inc., where his tenure of more than two decades culminated in the role as Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, heading Altria’s enterprise-wide efforts on compliance and integrity as one of only five senior vice presidents of the parent corporation. Prior to this, he held numerous senior positions at Altria and its operating unit Philip Morris International in the United States, Europe and globally, including responsibility for environment, social responsibility, government affairs and communications. Greenberg also was a partner with the law firm of Arnold & Porter, served as Legislative Director and General Counsel for the Consumer Federation of America, and was a legislative representative, organizer and writer for Ralph Nader.

Greenberg received a J.D./M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Law School/Graduate School of Business. He also attended Williams College and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.