Blackboard Inc
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| Privately held | |
| Industry | Educational technology |
| Founded | January 1997 Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Founders | Stephen Gilfus, Daniel Cane, Michael Chasen, Matthew Pittinsky |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C., United States |
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Number of locations
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18 |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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William L. Ballhaus (CEO) |
| Services | Platform and enterprise consulting, managed hosting, student and training services, online program management |
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Number of employees
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3,000 |
| Parent | Providence Equity Partners |
| Website | www |
Blackboard Inc. is an educational technology company with corporate headquarters in Washington, D.C.. It is known for its Blackboard Learn learning management system.
The company's CEO is William L. Ballhaus, formerly President and CEO of SRA International, who was also named Chairman and President on January 4, 2016, following the resignation of Jay Bhatt, who had led Blackboard since October 2012. just after Michael Chasen departed. The firm provides education, mobile, communication, and commerce software and related services to clients including education providers, corporations and government organizations. The software consists of seven platforms called Learn, Transact, Engage, Connect, Mobile, Collaborate and Analytics that are offered as bundled software. The firm was founded by Stephen Gilfus, Daniel Cane, Michael Chasen and Matthew Pittinsky through a business combination in 1997, and became a public company in 2004. It operated publicly until it was purchased by Providence Equity Partners in 2011. As of January 2014[update], its software and services are used by approximately 17,000 schools and organizations in 100 countries. Seventy-five percent of US colleges and universities and more than half of K–12 districts in the United States use its products and services.
CourseInfo was founded in late 1996 as a cutting edge software provider founded by Cornell University students Stephen Gilfus and Daniel Cane. Gilfus wrote the business plan for CourseInfo and its Interactive Learning Network product while an undergraduate at Cornell. CourseInfo with Gilfus as the business lead and Cane as the lead developer had developed an innovative new platform for internet and networked learning called a "Course Management System". Gilfus as product strategist and Cane as lead tech guru had already identified a market fit and defined a category, as well as built a portfolio of 15 institutional clients. The product was initially sold to schools on an annual FTE licensing model - full school deployment model.
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