Key Management

Keith Bourne - Founder, CEO

Keith Bourne founded Adaptive Campus with the goal of utilizing education technology to positively impact hundreds of millions of lives across the globe, to significantly improve the fluidity of the global workforce in adapting to rapidly changing environments, and to make dramatic improvements to how human knowledge is created, distributed, and utilized. See the www.memcatch.com website for more information. Prior to Adaptive Campus, Keith spent the past several years at Sloan-C (a non-profit serving the field of online education) as Marketing Director and Chief Operations Officer, working with hundreds of online programs across the country and gaining a deeper understanding of how the future of education is taking shape. Under his leadership, Sloan-C grew from 200 to over 1800 member institutions worldwide and attracted several million dollars in grant funding. He also established and grew most of Sloan-C’s major revenue generating services through 2008. In 2005 he played a key role in the Sloan Semester, an emergency effort utilizing online asynchronous learning networks to replace higher education courses missed by students displaced by Hurricane Katrina and Rita. Prior to Adaptive Campus and Sloan-C, he founded the company Web2URadio, a wireless music service provider, in 1998 and served as the Chief Marketing Officer until 2001. He has more than a decade of experience in developing and successfully implementing business, marketing, sales, and IT strategies. He received his BSBA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and his MBA from Babson College.

Peter Sabbagh - Vice President of Sales and Marketing

Peter Sabbagh has 18 years of experience in global and domestic marketing, recruitment, management, and launching start-ups. He has founded, help build, and consulted for several companies and corporate divisions in the for-profit and not-for-profit business sector. These environments ranged in size from $1.5 million to $3.32 billion. As Vice President of International Marketing and Operations (recruitment), he was responsible for generating global revenue streams in a mature market of over $1 million annually, through marketing, PR, recruitment and management processes. He has also orchestrated media partnerships, branding, sourcing, outsourcing, strategic partnerships, event planning, and social network marketing campaigns into the United States and the following foreign countries: United Kingdom, Philippines, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, India, and South Africa. Peter’s experience in business start-ups comes from the educational (President), information technology (President), and health care (COO) business environments. He is an avid blogger and digital marketing specialist having founded the Resource for Social Media Blog, a writer for Technocrati Blog Critics, and as Vice-President of a Marketing consulting company specializing in digital and traditional media. Peter has also developed marketing and advertising campaigns in niche environments. He was a guest speaker over a two year period on South East Asian Culture for the American Museum of Natural History in NYC (educational division), published a promotional magazine article on India to promote tourism to Southeast Asia, and produced a multimedia video for Television for the Government of India. He holds a BFA in Communications (NYU), and a Masters in Law and Political Culture (NYU), completing his degree through joint studies at Harvard University and New York University.

Sharad Gupta - Vice President of Operations

Sharad Gupta has experience in launching or advising multiple global start ups in a variety of consumer oriented fields, including an Israeli software, a Brazilian digital asset management, medical tourism, and builders’ hardware equipment exports. He has also worked as a business process consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers advising Fortune 500 multi-national corporations operating in a diverse range of industries. Sharad has a Bachelors and Masters in Commerce at the University of Delhi and an MBA from the University of Michigan.