Team

Left to right: Karen Lien, Geoff Ralston, Tim Brady, Catherine Uong

We believe the future of our country and our way of life will be determined by how well we prepare our children for success in the 21st century. Today we see great potential for the application of technology to enrich and transform education for all learners. At Imagine K12, we are doing everything we can to help realize that potential as quickly and effectively as possible.

Tim Brady, Founder
Tim has been involved with the education industry since 2004. Prior to Imagine K12, Tim was CEO of QuestBridge, an educational start-up company that helps bright low-income high school students gain admissions and aid to many of the nation's best colleges. Tim is also a partner at Y Combinator.

Tim currently sits on the board of four education companies; QuestBridge, Equal Opportunity Schools, Hapara and Class Dojo.

Tim spent eight years at Yahoo! Inc. as the company's Chief Product Officer. After the two founders, Tim was Yahoo!'s first employee. From writing the business plan that attracted the first venture capital financing to helping scale the business, he helped lead the company through multiple stages, challenges and opportunities.

Tim also spent three years with Motorola in Tokyo. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He is married and has two children.

Geoff Ralston, Founder
Geoff has been an investor in, board member of, and advisor to a variety of start-up companies, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also a partner at Y Combinator.

From 2007-2009 Geoff was the Chief Executive Officer of Lala Media, Inc., an innovative cloud music start-up in Palo Alto that was purchased by Apple in December of 2009.

Geoff worked at Yahoo! from 1997-2006 after their 1997 acquisition of Four11 Corp. At Four11 Geoff was the VP of Engineering and led the creation of Yahoo! Mail's predecessor, RocketMail. At Yahoo! Geoff was Senior Vice President and general manager of the Communications Business Unit and subsequently served as the company's Chief Product Officer.

Geoff holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College, an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from INSEAD, the European Institute of Business Administration.

Karen Lien, Director
Karen joined Imagine K12 in 2011 to help launch its first cohort of edtech startups. Before Imagine K12, Karen was the Director of College Relations at QuestBridge, a non-profit organization that connects talented low-income high school students with admission and financial aid at top colleges across the country.

Prior to QuestBridge, she briefly taught high school chemistry, getting a first-hand taste of the challenges and rewards of working as an educator. Karen has a B.S. in astronomy and physics from Yale University and an M.S. in astronomy from UCLA.

Catherine Uong, Operations Manager
Catherine is passionate about learning and the power of creativity to help unlock students’ potential. A strong advocate for active student participation, Catherine dedicates her free time to bringing the Maker movement to students. During her time at the University of Southern California, Catherine managed micro-grant competitions and helped grow social entrepreneurial communities.

Catherine has a B.S. in Business Administration and a B.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures.

Imagine K12 Founders

Imagine K12's Founders (left to right): Tim Brady, Alan Louie, Geoff Ralston

We have been involved in web-based companies from their very beginning. Soon after Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web, we recognized the potential of the Internet to transform society, and we committed our energies and talents to that change. We are technologists who cut our teeth in Silicon Valley start-ups and learned at some of the Valley's greatest success stories, from venerable HP to Yahoo! and Google.

Through hard-won experience we know what it takes to get an idea off the ground and how to build a successful company. Now we are bringing that experience to bear in supporting a new generation of startups out to shake up edtech.