Łukasz Nowak has almost 15 years’ experience in the delivery of IT services to public sector clients. He has worked at the Public Consulting Group since 2008. From 2008 to 2010 he followed a two-year managerial program at the PCG headquarters in Boston. He coordinated and participated in a number of consulting, training and IT projects, implemented at the request of local government and education sector institutions, both in Poland and in the USA. He initiated institutional cooperation with the company Partners in Progress, as well as its acquisition. He coordinates and develops the cooperation between PCG Academia and its commercial and strategic partners. He studied Business Communication at Clark University near Boston, IT Management at the Warsaw School of Economics, Education Management at the University of Lodz and English Philology at the Academy of SocialSciences. He holds a number of certificates, including Project Management Professional (PMP) andAgile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP) awarded by the international Project Management Institute. He is an active member of the Warsaw branches of PMI and ISACA.

Grant Blair manages PCG consulting services in the field of education. Over the past ten years, he has collaborated with hundreds of school districts in the United States in information technology, data, operations and financial initiatives. He was the director of PCG projects for large-scale implementation of information technology in school districts, including the School District of Philadelphia; Broward County Florida School Board; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools; and in public schools in Minneapolis. He also oversaw the launch of PCG’s implementation of the nationwide student information system in the United States and the EasyGo ™ PCG special training management system in Tennessee. Has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina.