Celia Stokes

Celia leads Teaching Strategies' product, education, research and marketing teams. Together, they lead innovation in the early childhood market, connecting curriculum, assessment, family engagement and data together on a one-of-kind SaaS platform to make high quality, developmentally appropriate practice possible at scale for any kind of program and teacher. Celia has more than 25 years in CEO, executive leadership, board, and strategic consulting roles for disruptive growth-oriented and mission-driven companies across B2C, B2B/G, and enterprise SaaS models. Her work has spanned the ed-tech, IoT, telematics, Usage-Based-Insurance (UBI), mobile app, Internet/e-commerce, and airline industries. She has experience across public, private, venture-backed, and private-equity backed companies and has participated in multiple transaction events, including successful IPO and private-equity transactions. Before joining Teaching Strategies, Celia was the CEO at eDriving, where she led the development of a smart-phone-based, global enterprise SaaS product that reduced vehicle crashes by up to 67%—a product that was rapidly adopted by Fortune 250 global companies, including Amazon for their employee and contract drivers in multiple countries. Celia has also held leadership roles at K12 and Independence Air, where she managed passionate, mission-driven teams and spearheaded marketing and customer experience initiatives that resulted in market leadership positions and unprecedented growth for the organizations she served.