Tom Dretler

Tom is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Shorelight Education.

Prior to co-founding Shorelight in 2013, Tom was for 13-years the CEO of Eduventures, a best-practices and benchmarking organization that works with more than 500 top U.S. universities. Tom also was an executive-in-residence at Sterling Partners, a private equity firm that invests in education, health care, and business services companies.

Tom is Board Chair of US News Global Education and is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. He is co-author of the Bain & Company white paper, The Financially Sustainable University, which analyzed the financial health of all four-year colleges and universities in the United States and outlined solutions for creating new revenue streams that benefited students and other university stakeholders. Previously, Tom was the founding Board Chair of the Alliance for Business Leadership, an organization of CEOs committed to changing the role of business leadership in society.

Tom is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University where he was a Rhodes Scholar candidate and Phi Beta Kappa member. He also holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School where he was awarded the Goldsmith Fellowship.