Our team brings talent and experience in Internet and multimedia technologies, Online instructional design, marketing and sales, strategic planning, program administration, corporate account management, finance and technical operations.
Dr. Hartman is an internationally renowned educator, having served the past 30 years as a university professor, academic administrator, and consultant at several leading universities, including The University of Pennsylvania, The University of Delaware, New York Institute of Technology, and Drexel University. Before becoming President, Ken served as senior vice president for marketing and business development, and DeL's academic director.
Ken is the founder and national chairman of National Distance Learning Week, and has received numerous awards including the 2006 Partners in Education Award from the Pennsylvania Association for College Admission Counseling, the 2007 Penn Educator of the Year Award from the University of Pennsylvania and the 2008 Leadership in Distance Learning Program Administration Award from the United States Distance Learning Association. Most recently, he is the recipient of the 2011 Alumni Association Professional Achievement Award from the State University of New York at Geneseo. He is the author of numerous publications related to educational technology (books, articles, CD-ROMs), and formerly a syndicated newspaper columnist, television talk show host, and commissioned military officer. He has also served as NBC10 (Philadelphia),station's on-air technology contributor.
Dr. Hartman holds an undergraduate degree from The State University of New York at Geneseo, a master's degree from Michigan State University, and a doctorate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Mark Shay, Senior Vice President Marketing and Business Development
Mark Shay is a business developer with a long history of success helping higher education institutions recruit students. In an illustrative career that has spanned three decades, Mark has served thousands of customers, ranging from individual faculty members and graduate deans, to university presidents and foreign governments. He is well known for balancing the non-commercial spirit of educators with the commercial realities of operating efficiently and effectively using technology to improve results.
Mark’s most recent success was the launch of IDP Education’s North American expansion, affirming the company position as the world’s largest student placement firm. Under his leadership, IDP established a very credible portfolio of US and Canadian colleges, universities and language schools who use the company to recruit foreign students to their campuses. Now with a regional headquarters in Philadelphia, IDP’s team of twelve university relations professionals serve to increase the enrollments of its member schools and draw new university clients into the cooperative. IDP serves as the universities agent overseas, but is unlike any other agent. Delivering that message and establishing the company’s well regarded brand in the US and Canada was one of Mark’s major accomplishments.
Before coming to IDP, Mark was the founder and former CEO of Educational Directories Unlimited, a leader in the emerging market of computer-based student recruiting. EDU began in the early days of the Internet, creating market-leading online academic directories that connected students with schools including the popular and effective GradSchools.com, StudyAbroad.com and IIEPassport.org. Mark developed a reputation as one of the leading authorities in the field of online marketing of education and in using the Internet to communicate with students.
Mark’s experience with student recruiting has touched all media, all types of programs coming from all corners of the earth. As a pioneer in the lead generation and use of Internet in student recruiting he brings a wealth of knowledge to Drexel University Online. Trained as an electrical engineer, he also knows well that there have been great advances in the practice and that experience is only a base to build from. Having worked both for himself as well as a large corporation he understands the power of a strong team and is drawn to Drexel by both the opportunity, as well as the people. He is hard working, down to earth and focused on building successful and scalable enterprises. Mark holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University.
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Todd Lucca, Vice President of Business Development
Todd Lucca is a member of the Executive Team and responsible for the strategic alignment and performance of the Business Development, Lead Cultivation, and Applicant Services Teams.
Todd previously spent 4+ years at DeL, where under his direction, and through the hard work and dedication of his teams, the Business Development department played a major role in the new student generation and revenue growth DeL experienced during his tenure. Todd has a proven track record of serving as a leader, strategic thinker, and tactician. Todd holds a MBA from Boston University and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Jack Mayher, Vice President of IT and Operations
Jack Mayher is responsible for DeL’s technology strategy and implementation. As a member of the founding management team, Jack has been instrumental in building and managing the company’s technology, operations, infrastructure and information systems from the ground up. In addition to technology, Jack oversees, technical support and company facilities. Prior to DeL, Jack was Senior Director of Content Technology at Work.com, Executive Producer at Dow Jones & Co. and Director of Internet Development for ZDNet. Jack began his career in sales for Zagat Survey. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Williams College.
Eric Hagan, Senior Program Director
