Anthony Tony O’Donnell

Mr. O’Donnell began his career as a speech pathologist. His first company, Independent Child Study Teams ("ICST"), was founded to conduct evaluations on students to determine their needs and to construct appropriate Individual Educational Plans (IEPs). He then began a division of the company that delivered Title I and New Jersey 192-193 services to students in parochial schools in New Jersey. This led to the founding of Educational In-Roads (EIR) which delivered Title I products and services to 36 states. IEP’s experience with private-public partnerships goes back to 1977 when Mr. O’Donnell, the owner of IEP, began his first company, Independent Child Study Teams. When ICST sold in 1997 along with its sister company, Educational In-Roads (EIR), they were serving 36,000 children every day. Later that same year, Mr. O’Donnell founded Innovative Educational Programs ("IEP"). For the past twenty years, Mr. O'Donnell has built IEP into a well-respected educational services company that actively serves approximately 20,000 students every day in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.