Stephen Gilfus

The Gilfus Education Group is an education industry leader in providing strategy planning and technical implementations to the education sector. The company provides a wide array of services to clients across the United States and around the world, offering insightful and diversified expertise to the education industry. Since 1997 the Gilfus Education Group team has served thousands of universities, colleges, schools, academic content providers, education and technology companies in meeting their mission critical planning and technology needs.

Our group consists of individuals of the highest caliber talent and experience in educational research, strategy, planning, and technical implementation services. We provide non-biased approaches to:

• E-Education Strategic Planning and Organizational Alignment
• IT Assessments, Infrastructure Design and Support
• Business Process Administrative and ERP Systems
• Solution Implementation and Maintenance
• Portal and Single Sign On Technologies
• LMS Evaluations, Technology Review and Selection Processes
• Content Management/Object Repositories
• Commercial and Open Source Implementations
• Integration and Customization Services

With a foundation of more than a decade of unparalleled experience and success leading the eLearning industry, the Gilfus Education Group brings every project unmatched capabilities and personalized focus to achieve outstanding results. The team focuses on fulfilling educational planning and the eLearning, Portal, Content, Infrastructure and Technology needs of R1 institutions, state systems, community colleges, virtual high schools, K12, commercial and government clients across the world. Based in Washington, DC, the firm is led by one of the most respected and innovative executives in the education industry.

Stephen Gilfus launched a distinguished career as one of the founders of Blackboard Inc. and a principal designer of the company’s platforms and products.

In 2004, He was the primary author of the "Educational Technology Framework", a model used to guide hundreds of academic institutions to contemplate organizational, technological, and social impact of educational technologies on their institutions – sometimes referred to as “The Gilfus Model of educational technology adoption”

He is recognized by many organizations as a key driver behind the growth of the eLearning industry and has presented at hundreds of academic institutions and industry conferences. Prior to his departure from Blackboard Inc., on January 4th of 2008, Mr. Gilfus led the companies higher education strategy and technology consulting practice where he guided a team of 65 professionals, helping thousands of universities and leading educational publishers around the world plan, implement, and deploy eLearning technologies.

Mr. Gilfus has been active in various professional associations and community service organizations throughout his career. He has been a long-time member of EDUCAUSE. He serves on the board of directors of several companies with education initiatives including the Student Employment Council. He leads an extensive network as the organizer and head of Blackboard’s Alumni organizations with deep relationships at 85% of the companies in the education space.

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Gilfus is a serial entrepreneur, business leader, and noted software designer and inventor. Gilfus received a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University where he was an academic scholar and founder of the Cornell Entrepreneur Organization. He is a member of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, and an Advisory Board Member of Entrepreneurship@Cornell.