Matt Parks

Matt Parks has over 20 years of work experience in various roles. Matt began their career in 2000 as a Financial Advisor at Northwestern Mutual. In 2006, they joined McGraw-Hill Education as a Senior Sales Rep and grew revenue from $1.5 million to $4 million. In 2012, they became the Regional Director of Primal Pictures (Digital Anatomy & Physiology Software) at Informa and hit their quarterly new business sales goal in all 7 quarters during their tenure, growing the territory from $0 to nearly $1M+ in less than 2 years. In 2014, they were the Director of Partnerships at EF Education First and grew revenue by $1.5M+ in 2 years while adding dozens of new schools to EF's roster of institutional partners. In 2016, they joined Pegasystems as a Sr. Business Development Executive in their Global University Programs & Workforce Development Partnerships. In 2020, they were appointed Division Head, Career Development & Assessment at PAR - Psychological Assessment Resources and grew a 52-year old franchise by 22% YoY-growth in their first year. Additionally, they created and deployed a first of its kind enterprise solution for institutional clients.

Matt Parks holds a BA in History from Florida State University. Matt also holds certifications from LinkedIn, including "Taking Charge of Your Career" (2020), "Selling to Executives" (2019), "Motivating and Engaging Employees" (2019), "Programming Foundations: Object-Oriented Design" (2019), "Learning Cloud Computing: Core Concepts" (2019), "Managing Teams" (2019), and "Programming Foundations: Fundamentals" (2019). Additionally, they are a Certified Pega Business Architect from Pegasystems (2017) and holds a Professional Selling Skills (PSS) certification (2006) and Series 6, 7, 63, 65, 66 certifications from FINRA (2001).