John Couch Vice President, Education Biography: John Couch is Apple�s vice president of Education and is responsible for driving Apple�s sales and marketing strategy in the education market. He has over thirty years experience as a computer scientist, executive and advocate for technology in education. Directly prior to his current position at Apple, Couch was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DoubleTwist Inc, a leading provider of genomic information and bioinformatics analysis technologies which made headlines as the first company to provide a comprehensive annotation of the human genome. The year before joining DoubleTwist, he was Executive in Residence for Mayfield Fund, where he provided strategic planning, management and technology advice to high technology companies. Couch began his professional career as a project manager at Hewlett-Packard, and in 1978 joined Apple, where he held various positions as a director and vice president. In 1985, he turned his focus to education at the Santa Fe Christian School. Here he initiated a program to turn this debt-laden private school into an example in the creative use of technology to revolutionize the classroom. Under his leadership as Chairman of the Board of Santa Fe Christian School, and as co-founder and President of the Santa Fe Educational Foundation, the school's annual losses were annulled as the student body grew from 150 to 1000; and the school's modest facilities were expanded to a new 17-acre site, offering a range of world-class resources, including a fiber optic network of Macintosh computers. The Santa Fe Educational Foundation (which developed interactive multimedia for K-12 education in collaboration with several hi-tech companies such as Resolution Technologies, Tudor Publishing, Josten's Learning Corporation, Key Technologies and Moody Films), obtained more than a dozen major grants to support Santa Fe Christian's development of computer laboratories, teacher training programs, multimedia systems and materials, and a New Start program that linked them with other schools who were interested in learning from their success. Couch holds a Bachelor degree in computer science and a Masters degree in electrical engineering, both from the University of California at Berkeley. He is also the author of the science research associates textbook, Compiler Construction: Theory and Practice. For questions regarding CEO Technology Institute registration, please contact:
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