Deborah is the co-founder of the ASU+GSV Summit and the Managing Partner of GSV Ventures. Her work professionally and personally is focused on scaled education innovation. Deborah has been included on Insider’s list of top 100 seed investors three times. Now in its 16th year, the ASU+GSV Summit celebrates innovations and innovators across the global “preK to Gray” learning and workforce skills landscape, and attracts over 15,000 attendees to three premier events in San Diego and Gurgaon, India.
Deborah serves on a number of education focused boards including, Ascend Learning, Class Technologies, Degreed, Dreamscape Learn, Ellucian and Turnitin. She is a member as well of the boards of The Common Ground Foundation, Steppenwolf Theatre Company and The Yidan Prize Foundation Advisory Committee.
Deborah graduated cum laude with a BA in history from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard University.