Larry Berger

Larry Berger is the CEO of Amplify, a Brooklyn-based education company he co-founded (previously Wireless Generation) in 2000. He has led the invention of mobile software to help early reading teachers and next-generation English, math, and science curricula for elementary and secondary schools. Larry was a Rhodes scholar, a White House Fellow who worked on education technology at NASA, and a Pahara-Aspen Education Fellow. He serves on the boards of the Academy of American Poets, the Institute for Sustained Attention, and the Southern Education Foundation. Prior to founding Amplify, Larry served as the educational technology specialist at the Children’s Aid Society, where he led development of community computer labs in Harlem and Staten Island, New York City, that became models for using technology to empower young people. Larry also developed, with Amplify co-founder Greg Gunn, The Hole in the Web, an online extension of Paul Newman’s Hole in the Wall Gang camp for children with cancer and blood diseases. Larry holds a BA from Yale University. He has published widely on education and educational entrepreneurship and has served as a co-investigator on several federally funded research grants.