Luke Tursi

Luke Tursi has had a very successful 45 years career in the educational publishing industry. All of that experience has been focused on the Sales and Marketing of Curriculum and Assessment to the Birth-12 market. As the New York City sales representative he distinguished himself in the Special Ed market becoming partners with the leadership and sponsoring high quality professional development while selling both group and individually administered diagnostic tests to citywide and district-wide programs.

With AGS Publishing he successfully managed the Northeast Regional sales team for ten years winning state programs and open adoptions in large urban areas. The highlight of those years was managing the very first Reading First Statewide program, Massachussettes.

As National Director of Sales for the past 10 years he managed and led a national sales team of 21 Masters and Ph.D. level salespeople and managers responsible for revenues in excess of $100m. During this time he led the sales team through the Pearson acquisition and integrated the AGS field personnel, operations department, and product management into the Pearson organization.He recently retired form Pearson (and is having the time of his life!).