Gene Eidelman

Co-founder & President, Mosaica Education

Founded in 2015, GamePlan is being launched by serial entrepreneur and education reform pioneer, Gene Eidelman. He co-founded Mosaica Education in 1997. In 18 years, Mosaica—developer of the highly acclaimed Paragon™ integrated humanities and social studies curriculum—has provided a quality education for over 100,000 students globally. Mosaica currently operates more than 90 school programs throughout the United States, India and the United Kingdom. Through Mosaica Online, Mosaica has developed blended learning programs for families and schools around the world, including the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Under Gene’s leadership, Mosaica’s accomplishments are both recent and numerous. In February 2015, Mosaica International School of Hyderabad was named as one of the top 10 international schools in India by BrainFeed Magazine. In January 2015, the company’s Ft. Collins, Colorado school was named the Top Elementary STEM Program in the US by the Florida Educational Technology Corporation (FETC) at the 2015 STEM Excellence Awards. In a 2014 report published by the Beacon Journal analyzing the overall academic performance of 41 Education and Charter School Management Organizations (EMOs and CMOs) in Ohio, Mosaica ranked #1 in the state as its 17 charter schools averaged a score of 90.5 on the 2014 Ohio Achievement Assessments, with a student growth ranking of 7.8.

Also in 2014, Mosaica’s Columbus Preparatory Academy (CPA) was honored as a 2014 National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education. CPA is the highest performing public school in the state of Ohio for three years running (2012-2014) and it was named School of the Year by the Ohio Alliance for Public Charter Schools (OAPCS) in 2013 and 2014.

Such acclaim for both Gene and the company he leads is nothing new. In 1989, Gene was selected as one of the ‘Ten Outstanding Young Americans’ by US Jaycees, and one of the ‘Ten Outstanding Young People of the World’ by Junior Chamber International. In 2003, Mosaica was recognized as an “Education Innovator” by the US Department of Education. In 2007, Mosaica was the #1 Fastest Growing Company serving America’s urban communities, as determined by Inc. Magazine’s “Inner-City 100”. It would remain on Inc. Magazine’s list of the 100 fastest growing companies for four years in a row. And in 2009, Gene and his wife, Dr. Dawn D. Eidelman, were awarded the 2009 James P. Boyle Entrepreneurial Leadership Award by the Education Industry Association for their unwavering commitment to innovation in education.

Gene was born in Kiev, Ukraine and was a political refugee from the former Soviet Union. He immigrated to the US when he was 18, and conducted his undergraduate work at the University of Southern California, simultaneously starting a real estate development business in Los Angeles. In 1988, he launched Prodigy Consulting, a chain of corporate-sponsored child development centers. In 1995, Prodigy Consulting was sold to the publicly-held Children’s Discovery Centers and, in 1997, the combined businesses were acquired by Knowledge Universe. While at Children’s Discovery Centers, Gene was President of the Prodigy division, overseeing 69 corporate child care centers in 23 states.

Gene is a former Treasurer and Trustee of the Georgia Charter School Association. He is a board member of GamePlan and Mosaica Education in the US; President of the Board of Trustees of Aurora Education Trust in England; and founder of Sunshine Education Trust in India. With GamePlan, he brings a world of resources and customized solutions for students and families around the world.

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