John Nester

CEO, Advisor, Board Member and Investor

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2021
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Board Member
2021
Helping institutions and learning providers find, enroll, and support adult learners at scale–from re-enrollment to graduation.
Board Member
2018
We are a world-class EdTech company that attracts more than 15,000 student enrollments annually for our university partners. As an employee at HE, youll be a part of a professional environment that emphasizes collaboration, inspiration, and mutual support. Our culture is based on communication, respect, accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and fun. We push ourselves to solve simple and complex issues to advance our partners’ success and our own professional learning. CONNECTING COLLEGES AND STUDENTS Our portfolio of education-focused websites helps us attract high-intent, high-quality prospective students and includes content that helps these students make an informed choice on where to enroll. Our portfolio of sites attracts over 75 million annual visitors. We partner with universities that want help gaining visibility and access to prospective students. INFORMING STUDENTS When it comes to exploring college education options, students today do most of their research online. What makes a college the “best” looks different to every student, and each search comes with its own unique challenges. We aim to help prospective college students find the schools that meet their needs through our partnerships with industry leaders like U.S. News & World Report and the development of our proprietary network of education-focused websites. We do this through our free and unbiased content products: - Hundreds of independent college rankings - In-depth planning, financial aid, and career guides - Expert panels on current issues in higher education - Original research tracking trends in online education OUR MISSION HigherEducation.com is dedicated to helping universities gain a national audience of prospective students, and helping prospective students make the best possible decisions to meet their education and career goals. Join us today and change the education industry.
Experience · 5 entries
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2021
Board Member
2021
Helping institutions and learning providers find, enroll, and support adult learners at scale–from re-enrollment to graduation.
2018
Founder and CEO
2018
About MARKETview Education Partners MARKETview is centered on developing a deep understanding of the specific goals of our partner institutions and identifying the elements critical to their success. Using higher education’s only aggregated and real-time student data set, we provide unmatched market intelligence and earlier insight into the students our partners seek to enroll so they can make better, more informed decisions faster. Our Mission and Values  The MARKETview mission is to optimize higher education access and maximize outcomes for students and families. By using a proprietary combination of data, context, and expertise we serve each college and university partner with an unwavering commitment to their goals and success.  In pursuit of this, we embrace the following ideals: Partners First: Deliver high-quality service and a positive return on investment. Trust: Build long-term relationships and deliver continuous value. Lifelong Learning : Continue to learn and evolve with the industry. Informed Action : Use data to improve outcomes for students, families, colleges, and universities.    The MARKETview Platform  MARKETview is a comparative analytics software platform that provides higher ed leaders with data that is updated and delivered daily, organized at the student-record level and standardized across schools. By harnessing tens of millions of student records and augmenting them with household consumer data our partners can now know more about their students than ever before.   Who We Serve  We take great pride in supporting a variety of traditional four-year, nonprofit institutions of higher education across the United States.  
Board Member
2018
Blueprint is a learning platform disrupting the professional training and education industry with one simple idea: students learn more when they are having fun. Our team of innovators creates the most engaging video lectures, personalized study planning tools, and adaptive learning technology. We are dedicated to improving the lives of our learners by helping them achieve results they never thought possible.
Board Member
2018
We are a world-class EdTech company that attracts more than 15,000 student enrollments annually for our university partners. As an employee at HE, youll be a part of a professional environment that emphasizes collaboration, inspiration, and mutual support. Our culture is based on communication, respect, accountability, continuous improvement, collaboration, and fun. We push ourselves to solve simple and complex issues to advance our partners’ success and our own professional learning. CONNECTING COLLEGES AND STUDENTS Our portfolio of education-focused websites helps us attract high-intent, high-quality prospective students and includes content that helps these students make an informed choice on where to enroll. Our portfolio of sites attracts over 75 million annual visitors. We partner with universities that want help gaining visibility and access to prospective students. INFORMING STUDENTS When it comes to exploring college education options, students today do most of their research online. What makes a college the “best” looks different to every student, and each search comes with its own unique challenges. We aim to help prospective college students find the schools that meet their needs through our partnerships with industry leaders like U.S. News & World Report and the development of our proprietary network of education-focused websites. We do this through our free and unbiased content products: - Hundreds of independent college rankings - In-depth planning, financial aid, and career guides - Expert panels on current issues in higher education - Original research tracking trends in online education OUR MISSION HigherEducation.com is dedicated to helping universities gain a national audience of prospective students, and helping prospective students make the best possible decisions to meet their education and career goals. Join us today and change the education industry.
2017
Executive Advisor
2017
New Harbor Capital is a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on investing in lower middle market, growth-oriented healthcare, education, and business services companies. Our Partners have over 90 years of combined experience, partnering with strong management teams to systematically enable accelerated growth in value creation. Since 2000, the New Harbor Partners have completed over 230 investments. As an experienced strategic partner, New Harbor supports management with ideas, connections and resources to capitalize on growth potential. ​For additional information, please visit www.newharborcap.com.
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2018–2021 · 3 investments
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