Jim Knight

Jim Knight is VP of Education for Digital Learning Tree. http://www.digitallearningtree.com/products/ Holds an MA in Instructional Technology and has worked as an educator and entrepreneur for the past 25 years. He has also served as Executive Director for several non-profits in addition to working in the private sector as VP of Business Development for Silicon Valley Start-Ups. While serving with the Marine Corps in Vietnam 1969 Mr. Knight was awarded “Marine of the Month” for establishing a highly successful “GED” (High School Completion) study skills program with high graduation rates at Three MAV Correctional Facility for Marines in Da Nang, Vietnam. In the earlier part of his career in Instructional Television (1977-79) he coordinated the nation’s largest educational television consortium (five dedicated education channels) run out of a PBS television station in Spokane Washington. During this time he was responsible for providing programming for all five channels in addition to producing school district in-service on demand professional development programs for teachers and administrators. From 1996 to 1999 Mr. Knight launched and was Executive Director for the “Just Say YES” Educational Technology Foundation. “YES “stands for “Young Entrepreneurial Spirit.” The mission of “Just Say YES” was to help young adults establish their own on-line business ventures and then teach them how to creatively market their products and or services over the Internet with cutting edge Internet marketing techniques. the summer of 1999 through 2001, he worked as V.P. of business development for a profitable Silicon Valley company called “Top Startups.com”. Top Startups.com was written up numerous times in the Wall Street Journal as the premier place to list and profile top start-up companies looking for second round venture capital funding. In 2008 Mr. Knight and several other Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs established a company called “Digital Technology Systems”. Since 2008 Digital Technology Systems has incubated and launched four other Silicon Valley Startups. Please watch the short video I produced about what we are doing with one Startup that is now a C-Corp called Digital Learning Tree. Click on the Digital Learning Tree Website below to watch a video overview of what we provide school districts: http://www.digitallearningtree.com/