Ashley Andersen Zantop

Ashley Andersen Zantop is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Cambium Learning Group, the education essentials company delivering high-impact technology solutions for PreK-12 education. Cambium serves more than 30 million students and teachers in 95% of US school districts and more than 150 countries worldwide with award-winning products and services from Lexia Learning, Cambium Assessment, ExploreLearning|Learning A-Z, and Time4Learning. Ashley has devoted her career to closing the opportunity gap and creating positive outcomes in education through the power of social enterprise and innovation. Before joining Cambium, she served in C-suite executive roles leading startups, joint ventures and mature organizations in public, private and nonprofit sectors working all over the world, including GreaterGood, Capstone and Trudy Corporation. She began her career in the classroom as an elementary school teacher and collegiate coach. She serves as board director of Kahoot!, on the SIIA’s government affairs council and has served on the board of directors and executive committee for the SIIA's education division. She is the co-founder and former co-president of the Fairfield University MFA Alumni Association. Ashley received an A.B. in education and an A.B. in English literature from the University of Michigan, teaching certifications K-5 and 6-8, and an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University with concentrations in fiction and screenwriting. She holds certificates in Media Strategy from Harvard Business School, Executive Function in the Classroom from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Design Thinking instruction from Ideo U. She is the holder of two patents and the author of Now What? The Creative Writer’s Guide to Success After the MFA. Ashley is the recipient of the CODiE Award for Most Influential Thought Leader in EdTech, the EdTech Awards CEO/Founder of the Year Award, the EdTech Chronicle EdTech Person of the Year Award, the ASU+GSV Power of Women Award and has been named a Caliber One Top 25 Women in US PE-backed Software.