John Gamba

John Gamba is a serial entrepreneur who has founded, funded and led several education technology ventures over his 30 year career. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, John co-founded PACE, a school to home communications network that connected thousands of schools to millions of parents across the United States. PACE was eventually sold to NTI Group and then to Blackboard for $182 million. John currently serves as Entrepreneur in Residence at Catalyst @ Penn GSE where he mentors aspiring education entrepreneurs and oversees the Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition, now in its 15th year. The Milken competition has awarded $2 million dollars to education entrepreneurs and those ventures have gone on to raise $200 million in follow-on capital.