Luyen Chou
Senior Vice President, SchoolNet, Inc.

Luyen Chou is Senior Vice President at SchoolNet, Inc., the market leader in school performance management systems for schools and school districts.   He leads SchoolNet’s global online community initiatives.  Prior to joining SchoolNet, Luyen was the Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Learning and Teaching, and the Associate Head of The School at Columbia University – a K-8 laboratory school on the campus of Columbia University in New York City.  Luyen played an instrumental role in the design and launch of the new school in the fall of 2003. 

Previously, Luyen was Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Learn Technologies Interactive, Inc. (LearnTech), a New York-based company that develops innovative educational software tools and applications.  LearnTech’s principle shareholders included Time Warner Inc. Carvajal S.A., and Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH & Co. KG. 

Prior to founding LearnTech, Luyen served as Director of Operations for the New Laboratory for Teaching and Learning at The Dalton School in Manhattan, and oversaw a $3.5 million grant funded effort to develop innovative K-12 classroom technologies.  Among other things, Luyen also taught philosophy, multimedia, and history to high school students at The Dalton School; developed an award-winning curriculum on New York City in the Civil War; and developed the school’s first multicultural high school history curriculum unit. 

Luyen is involved in numerous additional non-profit initiatives: He is a founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Brooklyn Prospect Charter School; Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of MOUSE, a non-profit organization dedicated to facilitating the integration of technology and learning in New York City’s public schools; former Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Teachers’ Network, a non-profit organization aimed at the development and delivery of innovative curriculum; team leader of a the Appleseed Foundation website taskforce, which redesigned the New York City Department of Education website (www.nycenet.edu) in 2003; and a member of the New York City Department of Education Human Resources and Instructional Technology advisory boards.