Team · AgenticED

Kenneth Austin

Chief Compliance Officer

Kenneth Austin, J.D., builds the frameworks organizations run on, including AI-driven legal and management systems. He was Chief Legal Officer of Trinity Wall Street and, before that, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Vice President of Policy Engagement at The Wallace Foundation, and he has chaired the board of Philanthropy New York. He began his career as an Honors Attorney at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and a corporate attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell. A.B., Harvard College; J.D., Yale Law School.

Alvin Crawford

Founder and CEO

Nearly thirty years listening to what districts need in order to scale effective practice, leading teams that have sold more than $750 million in urban district and state business. As Chief Revenue Officer at Revolution Foods he grew revenue 80% a year with full customer retention. He was General Manager of Education at Public Consulting Group, CEO of Knowledge Delivery Systems, and led sales, marketing, product, and business development at SchoolNet. He also founded EdviceK12, which helps EdTech companies with product-market fit and go-to-market. MBA, Boston College; B.S., Tufts University.

Steven Hodas

Chief of Partner Ecosystem

Steven Hodas has spent more than thirty years where technology, public policy and institutional change meet. He was Chief Innovation Officer at the New York City Department of Education, and has held leadership roles at Digital Promise, Grand Valley State University, Citymart, Princeton Review and NASA. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Reinventing Public Education and advises organizations building next-generation approaches to education, workforce development and agentic AI.

Bob Runcie

Strategic Advisor

Bob Runcie is CEO of Chiefs for Change, a national network of education leaders working to improve student outcomes and economic mobility. He led Broward County Public Schools as superintendent for a decade, earning several Superintendent of the Year honors, after senior roles at Chicago Public Schools, including Chief Information Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. He also brings more than twenty years in technology, management consulting and entrepreneurship. Harvard College; Northwestern University.

John Tupponce

Chief of Partnerships, Cities and Philanthropy

John Tupponce, EdD, is Founder and Principal of J. Tupponce Advisors, working with family offices, foundations and individuals between private capital and public impact. He was Chief Operating Officer of City Year, and before that rose from classroom teacher in Virginia and Philadelphia public schools to Assistant Superintendent, shaping the direction of about seventy K–12 schools. He serves on the boards of North 10 Philadelphia, Bound Utah and the Center for Supportive Schools. EdD, University of Pennsylvania.

FROM ALVIN CRAWFORD

Why We Built This

My path has been on the market side. I have never taught in a classroom. For nearly thirty years I have listened to districts describe what it takes to scale practice that works. I have watched strong systems fail to reach the students they were bought for, and I have watched students go without support because the adults around them were buried in compliance work. Agentic infrastructure changes that. It carries the regulatory load so educators can spend their time on students.

Our team understands the struggles of public education and is clear on how to build solutions you can trust to meet the needs of your students.

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