Shawn Mahoney

Founder

Shawn Mahoney is a highly-effective executive with proven success creating value and leading high-performing teams in the public sector and in private equity industry. She most recently led the strategic design, development, and global implementation of an early-career cloud seller and future leader university for the Worldwide Public Sector at Amazon Web Services.

After starting her career as a bilingual math and language arts teacher, Mahoney served as the Chief Product and Learning Officer at Illuminate Education, the SVP of Product Development and Chief Learning Officer for McGraw-Hill Education K-12 Schools, and the VP of Product Research for North America at Pearson.

In recognition for her exceptional contributions to business impact, Shawn was most recently awarded the AWS MVP Leader’s Choice Award for 2022 in Shared Services and Business Operations for the Worldwide Public Sector. She was the recipient of the Intellectual Contribution and Faculty Tribute Award for the Technology, Innovation, and Education cohort at The Harvard Graduate School of Education, and was named one of the Faces of Change by Insight Partners.

Dr. Mahoney holds a B.A. in Secondary Education, an M.A. in Bilingual Education, an M.A. Ed. from The Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. in Educational Technology from Arizona State University. Shawn is a Certified Cloud Practitioner with Amazon Web Services.

Shawn was invited to join the board of EdWeek, commencing a three-year term in spring 2023 and serves as the Chair of the Governance Committee.