Brian Alspach

Brian Alspach has spent his career as a senior leader in startups specializing in educational technology, games and web-meets-world services. Prior to joining Higher Ground, he was a member of the founding leadership team at E-Line Media, helping to grow the company from its inception to becoming one of the world’s leading developers and publishers of games for education and social impact. As leader of the company’s education division, his portfolio included the company’s youth game making initiatives (Gamestar Mechanic, Endless Studios), which empower young people to explore their passion for designing and making video games through entertaining learning experiences, digital design tools, hands-on programs and competitions. He also led the development and execution of the company’s publishing strategy for MinecraftEdu, the first educational edition of Minecraft. Collectively, these products reached millions of youth across tens of thousands of classrooms around the world, resulting in millions of youth-created digital experiences that have been played tens of millions of times. During his time at E-Line, he also served as Product Manager for the company’s consumer games division, leading product strategy for the company’s direct-to-consumer game offerings including the award-winning Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna), a puzzle platformer game developed collaboratively with the Alaska Native community (based on a traditional story handed down over hundreds of years) that has been played millions of times. Prior to his time at E-Line, Alspach served in several operational and technology roles at National Healthcare Resources, a healthcare and insurance services provider that delivered its offerings through an innovative, highly distributed operating model before ultimately being acquired by its largest competitor, Concentra. He received his Bachelor of Arts in English from The College of New Jersey.