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Behind our software is a group of passionate people working to build a better today for educators and a better future for today’s students. Learn more about our mission, who we are, and what people around the world are saying about Alma.

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Leadership

Founders and Board of Directors

Andrew Herman

Co-Founder + Chief Executive Officer

Andrew founded Alma based on the belief that schools deserve a modern, future-ready technology system that provides the core administrative and classroom management needs in one intuitive, flexible platform. As CEO, Andrew sets long-term strategy and leads team development and collaboration to plan and meet product development goals. Under his leadership, Alma has achieved optimum growth - and is now in 43 states and 35 countries. Alma is now widely recognized as the best-in-class SIS solution available on the market.

Before starting Alma, Andrew served in several financial and corporate management positions, including founding a successful analytical instrumentation company and leading numerous acquisitions for Danaher Corporation. As an early member of the Advertising.com team, he lead the venture investment raise for the company and helped lay the foundation for the company's long-term success. Andrew's passion for education began early in his professional career when he taught middle school at Link Community School in Newark, NJ. Andrew earned an MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University.

Elizabeth Long

Co-Founder + VP of Customer Engagement

Elizabeth has worked at Alma since the company was founded. As the Vice President of Customer Engagement, she leads the customer service and account management teams. Elizabeth is responsible for customer relationship management, collecting and amplifying customer feedback, market research and sales.

Elizabeth brings more than 10 years of experience in business development, management and entrepreneurship to the Alma team. She is also active in the community of female leaders as a Fellow of the Alliance of Women Entrepreneurs. Elizabeth earned a Bachelor of Science from Philadelphia University.

Mike Oliver

Co-Founder + Board Member
Mike is the former Head of Product at Alma where he lead product development and implementation teams to ensure the company's offerings meet the evolving needs of schools with a strong focus on the user experience. He has more than nine years experience in IT management and software development.  Prior to joining Alma, Michael co-founded Backstory, which enables sites to get to know their visitors and why they're visiting and then customize their site on the fly to provide a fully personalized experience. He also worked as an associate at Pillsbury and Cooley in their technology practices, where he focused on early stage companies and venture capital financings. He earned his J.D. from New York University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College.

Terry Crane

Board Member

Terry is a leading ed-tech visionary with over 30 years experience leading industry critical ed-tech companies. Terry has led Apple Education, Jostens Learning, AOL Education, and Compass Learning. She has sat on Board of Renaissance Learning, Nobel Learning, and numerous other highly successful Ed-Tech companies.

Michael Eidenschink

Board Member

Michael is a managing partner and founder of pe-top ltd. and supports a variety of top tier private equity funds on the improvement of their portfolio companies. Previously, Michael worked as a director at Terra-Firma, a private equity company. Michael has significant operating and lean management experience as a business leader, including running businesses across a variety of industries for Crane Merchandising Systems, Danaher Corp, and Infinis. Michael has also worked as a principal for the Boston Consulting Group.

Brad Herman

Board Member

Andrew founded Alma based on the belief that schools deserve a modern, future-ready technology system that provides the core administrative and classroom management needs in one intuitive, flexible platform. As CEO, Andrew sets long-term strategy and leads team development and collaboration to plan and meet product development goals. Under his leadership, Alma has achieved optimum growth - and is now in 43 states and 35 countries. Alma is now widely recognized as the best-in-class SIS solution available on the market.

Before starting Alma, Andrew served in several financial and corporate management positions, including founding a successful analytical instrumentation company and leading numerous acquisitions for Danaher Corporation. As an early member of the Advertising.com team, he lead the venture investment raise for the company and helped lay the foundation for the company's long-term success. Andrew's passion for education began early in his professional career when he taught middle school at Link Community School in Newark, NJ. Andrew earned an MBA from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University.

Our Mission

Alma Mission Line Empower progress. Spark potential.

Alma builds critical MIS tooling that significantly improves school operations and empowers educators to foster better student outcomes. Alma’s goal is to create the greatest generation of educators, so that they can create greatest generation of students.

Students always come first. We are here to improve the education of students. Our focus is on the whole student – we build tools that ultimately help enrich both their intellectual and emotional growth. We do this by empowering the greatest learning resource that students have at school: educators.
We believe that educators and parents best understand how to help our children grow intellectually and socially. Our job is to empower educators with more time and better data to enhance whatever style of learning they deem best for their students.

Our product designs are based on research done at schools. Our product development process starts and ends by interviewing each constituency in schools (administrators, educators, students, and families) and creatively developing solutions that empower the school and parents. While this approach requires enormous amounts of time and energy, we feel it necessary to produce a world-class software platform with real impact on schools and students.

What busywork would you like to offload on Alma? What information helps you improve student performance – to whom, when, where and how should this information ideally be presented? What works well at your school? What was your most painful headache today, this week, this month? If you have any suggestions, let us know or, better yet, have a conversation with us.

We look for and identify innovative best practices that are happening in schools. We then build our tools to allow schools to more easily adopt these best practices, if the schools feel it is right for them.
Every educator must perform a wide spectrum of activities that range from busywork to highly nuanced interactions with students and fellow educators. We build well-designed tools that reduce the time and energy the busywork requires, leaving beneficial face-to-face interactions to educators.

Every day we make our platform, customer service, communications, and process better. Our software is never “done,” as we will keep further refining and developing. We will never stop pushing to better serve and communicate with our clients. As an organisation, we celebrate finding ways to get better and implementing those improvements.

We are a team of entrepreneurs and educators. Each team member represents a critical piece in determining the success of our company. As individuals, we take ownership over our roles and responsibilities and drive them until they are done well. As a team, our solutions will have a societal impact. Accordingly, we operate with a tremendous amount of mutual respect and accountability.
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