Gideon Stein

Stein graduated with honors from Wesleyan University with a degree in Economics and History. He attended St Edmund Hall at Oxford University as a Visiting Scholar in Development Economics and European History.

Stein is the CEO of Write Label, a crowd-sourced platform for short-form writing. Previously, he was the founder and CEO of LightSail Education, an adaptive literacy solution for K-12.[6] Stein was the founder, chairman and CEO of Omnipod, Inc.,[7]a leading on-demand provider of real-time messaging to the enterprise market, until its sale in 2005 to MessageLabs Group, Ltd.,[8] one of the world’s largest private software companies (and now a division of Symantec). Stein was a founding partner of MR Ventures, a private investment firm with a portfolio of companies concentrated in media, commerce and software. Stein also served on the board of directors of the Real Silk Investment Company,[9] a publicly traded regulated investment company, until its sale to Lord Abbett Affiliated Funds.[10]

In May 2019, Stein became the President of his family foundation, The Moriah Fund.[11] Stein is a board member of New Classrooms[12] as well serving as treasurer of Chalkbeat, a leading non-profit education news outlet for New York City, Denver, Indianapolis, Memphis, Chicago, Newark and Detroit.[13] He serves on the board of directors of Narrative 4,[14] a global empathy building organization, and University Prep Public Schools.[15]