Past Honorees
Kathleen M. Hurley

Past Honorees

Kathleen M. Hurley
Vice President Education Industry Affairs
PLATO Learning Inc.
2003

Kathy Hurley, Vice President, Education Industry Affairs for PLATO Learning, is a 30-year veteran of the education industry. Prior to PLATO Learning's acquisition of NetSchools Corporation, Ms. Hurley served as the Senior Vice President for NetSchools, where her responsibilities included overseeing the Marketing and Business Development departments of the company.

Ms. Hurley has also served as Senior Vice President of Education Marketing for The Learning Company and Senior Vice President of Skillsbank Corporation (now Achievement Technologies). Ms. Hurley has also held important positions with IBM, Mindscape, Grolier and DLM.

She currently serves on several key industry and education advisory boards, including, the National School Boards Foundation (NSBF), the Software and Information Industry Association Education Division (SIIA) and the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). She is also past president of the Association of Educational Publishers and was a longtime member of their Board of Directors.

Ms. Hurley began her career in education working with learning disabled students, after receiving her Masters degree at Jersey City State College. To this day, she continues to support her undergraduate institution, the University of Dayton, by serving on the Advisory Board for the School of Education.

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