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Chad is a Founding Partner at Workshop, working across both climate and education.  Together, he and Eleanor co-founded SimpliSafe. Chad was CEO of SimpliSafe until 2020, overseeing all facets of the company’s growth, including engineering, product development, supply chain management, contract manufacturing, direct marketing, brand building, operations, and finance. An electrical engineer by training, he also personally developed significant portions of the SimpliSafe product and backend systems. Chad currently serves as Chairman of the Board.

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Eleanor is a Founding Partner at Workshop, working across both climate and education. Together, she and Chad co-founded SimpliSafe, where she led strategy for the company's first 13 years and continues to serve on its board of directors. In addition, Eleanor has worked extensively in education, most recently as CFO for the Boston Public Schools, where she oversaw the district’s $1.4B budget. She has also served as a member of the faculty at Harvard Business School where she taught first year strategy and launched a course on climate entrepreneurship.

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Mike is a Partner, specializing in the education sector. Mike has spent the last 17 years investing, operating and supporting startups across the entire ed-tech ecosystem, serving as the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Macmillan New Ventures, the Managing Director of Entangled Solutions, and as a Vice President at Guild. 

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Eddie is a Partner, specializing in the education sector. After graduate research in engineering, Eddie spent over a decade in schools as a teacher and school leader. Prior to joining Workshop, he supported district leadership teams and developed tech tools as a consulting manager at Education Resource Strategies. 

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Jason is a Principal Design Engineer, building across the stack from apps  to infrastructure.  Jason has spent over a decade designing and building highly scalable and fault-tolerant products and systems with millions of distributed IOT devices and app users. 

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