Hanna Skandera

President & Chief Executive Officer at Daniels Fund

📍 Denver, Colorado, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 10 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
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Board Member
Jan 2025
Perdoceo’s accredited academic institutions offer a quality postsecondary education primarily online to a diverse student population, along with campus-based and blended learning programs. The Company’s academic institutions – Colorado Technical University (“CTU”) and the American InterContinental University System (“AIUS” or “AIU System”) – provide degree programs from the associate through doctoral level as well as non-degree seeking and professional development programs. Our academic institutions offer students industry-relevant and career-focused academic programs that are designed to meet the educational needs of today’s busy adults. CTU and AIUS continue to show innovation in higher education, advancing personalized learning technologies like their intellipath® learning platform and using data analytics and technology to serve and educate students while enhancing overall learning and academic experiences. Perdoceo is committed to providing quality education that closes the gap between learners who seek to advance their careers and employers needing a qualified workforce. Our nationally-recognized programs combine innovative, award-winning technology with specialized curricula taught by industry professionals. Our programs have been: Ranked among 2019’s Best Online Bachelor’s Programs by U.S. News & World Report for CTU Ranked among 2019’s Best Online Graduate Computer Information Technology programs by U.S. News & World Report for CTU’s Computer Science and Information Technology Ranked among 2019’s Best Online Criminal Justice programs by U.S. News & World Report for CTU Received 2017 Tier One North American MBA School and Top Ten Global Online MBA school rankings for CTU Received multiple awards for our online learning technologies, including CTU’s 2016 Gold Medal from the IMS Global Learning Consortium for the Virtual Classroom, Eduventures 2016 Innovation Award winner for the CTU Mobile app, and the 2015 Distance Education Innovation Award for intell
Board Member, State Education Chiefs
Jun 2020
RIDGE-LANE Limited Partners is a strategic advisory and venture development company founded by financier R. Brad Lane and The Honorable Thomas J. Ridge – focused on root-cause solutions to grand challenges in Education, Sustainability, and Information Technology – with a team of General Partners, Venture Partners, and Senior Advisors who have served at the highest levels of finance, government, and military. As a triple-bottom-line business RIDGE-LANE LP creates value by bridging the gaps between private-sector innovation, investment capital, policy and procurement – across the Federal, State, and Local levels: an innovation ecosystem, providing corporate development to commercialize and scale novel venture-backed technology companies, as well as place-based solutions that improve cities and quality of life. Our team serves as a fiduciary advisor to companies looking for strategic ways to accelerate growth, providing an integrated offering of Advisory, Capital, and Business Development – aligning the commercial interests of private business, with the needs of society and our future civilization – where our knowledge and networks are leveraged to create maximum value for all stakeholders.
Board Member
Apr 2020
Newsela is a fast-growing education technology startup with a single ambitious goal: Meaningful classroom learning for every student. We provide engaging, relevant instructional content for teachers that both educates and inspires. With nearly two million teachers signed up, Newsela is helping kids improve their reading skills in all 50 states and more than 150 countries. We seek passionate, creative employees with quick minds and warm hearts. If you believe that all students deserve a more rigorous, more personalized learning experience, please apply to join our team.
Board Member
2019
Code.org is a non-profit dedicated to expanding participation in computer science. Our vision is that every student in every school has the opportunity to learn how to code. We believe computer science and computer programming should be part of the core curriculum in education, alongside other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses, such as biology, physics, chemistry and algebra.
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2025
Board Member
Jan 2025
Perdoceo’s accredited academic institutions offer a quality postsecondary education primarily online to a diverse student population, along with campus-based and blended learning programs. The Company’s academic institutions – Colorado Technical University (“CTU”) and the American InterContinental University System (“AIUS” or “AIU System”) – provide degree programs from the associate through doctoral level as well as non-degree seeking and professional development programs. Our academic institutions offer students industry-relevant and career-focused academic programs that are designed to meet the educational needs of today’s busy adults. CTU and AIUS continue to show innovation in higher education, advancing personalized learning technologies like their intellipath® learning platform and using data analytics and technology to serve and educate students while enhancing overall learning and academic experiences. Perdoceo is committed to providing quality education that closes the gap between learners who seek to advance their careers and employers needing a qualified workforce. Our nationally-recognized programs combine innovative, award-winning technology with specialized curricula taught by industry professionals. Our programs have been: Ranked among 2019’s Best Online Bachelor’s Programs by U.S. News & World Report for CTU Ranked among 2019’s Best Online Graduate Computer Information Technology programs by U.S. News & World Report for CTU’s Computer Science and Information Technology Ranked among 2019’s Best Online Criminal Justice programs by U.S. News & World Report for CTU Received 2017 Tier One North American MBA School and Top Ten Global Online MBA school rankings for CTU Received multiple awards for our online learning technologies, including CTU’s 2016 Gold Medal from the IMS Global Learning Consortium for the Virtual Classroom, Eduventures 2016 Innovation Award winner for the CTU Mobile app, and the 2015 Distance Education Innovation Award for intell
2023
Board Member
Aug 2023
MGT is a national technology and advisory solutions leader serving state, local government, education (SLED) and targeted commercial clients. Our specialized solutions solve the most critical issues that live at the top of our clients’ leadership agenda. We partner to help clients build resilience, implement systematic change and strengthen their foundations, now and for the future. MGT is committed to impacting communities for good. For more information, visit us at mgt.us.
2022
Board Member
May 2022
The Philanthropy Roundtable is a national association of individual donors, corporate giving officers, and foundation trustees and staff. The Roundtable attracts philanthropists who benefit from being part of an organization dedicated to helping them achieve their charitable objectives. In addition to offering expert advice and counsel, the Roundtable puts donors in touch with peers who share similar concerns and interests. What We Believe -Philanthropic freedom is essential to a free society -A vibrant private sector generates the wealth that makes philanthropy possible -Voluntary private action offers solutions for many of society’s most pressing challenges -Excellence in philanthropy is measured by results, not by good intentions -A respect for donor intent is essential for philanthropic integrity
2020
Board Member, State Education Chiefs
Jun 2020
RIDGE-LANE Limited Partners is a strategic advisory and venture development company founded by financier R. Brad Lane and The Honorable Thomas J. Ridge – focused on root-cause solutions to grand challenges in Education, Sustainability, and Information Technology – with a team of General Partners, Venture Partners, and Senior Advisors who have served at the highest levels of finance, government, and military. As a triple-bottom-line business RIDGE-LANE LP creates value by bridging the gaps between private-sector innovation, investment capital, policy and procurement – across the Federal, State, and Local levels: an innovation ecosystem, providing corporate development to commercialize and scale novel venture-backed technology companies, as well as place-based solutions that improve cities and quality of life. Our team serves as a fiduciary advisor to companies looking for strategic ways to accelerate growth, providing an integrated offering of Advisory, Capital, and Business Development – aligning the commercial interests of private business, with the needs of society and our future civilization – where our knowledge and networks are leveraged to create maximum value for all stakeholders.
Board Member
Apr 2020
Risepoint (formerly Academic Partnerships) is an education technology company that provides services to help universities grow and increase access to affordable, life-changing education.
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