Andrew McCann

Andrew is an engineer by training. Early in his career he worked for GE building diesel engines and steam turbines. He left the big company thing for graduate school – in English Lit and Creative Writing.

He taught engineering design and writing at Drexel University for 10 years.

In 2006 he founded Waypoint Outcomes, an early innovator in competency-based assessment. He bootstrapped the company, growing to support a diverse set of K12 and higher education institutions across the world. In 2009 Waypoint Outcomes was acquired by Bridgepoint Education (NYSE: BPI).

Andrew ran the prepU adaptive learning business unit of Macmillan Learning which was acquired by Wolters Kluwer in 2016.