As Chief Executive Officer of Ascend Learning, Greg Sebasky looks over the education landscape and sees tremendous opportunity. His vision for the company is clear: Be the leading career solutions provider, delivering outcomes-based online education to help people enter, sustain and succeed in their chosen fields. It’s a path he’s been on since joining Ascend in early 2014. Greg is a 30-year veteran leader of  companies with markets in healthcare and education services. Before joining Ascend, Greg served as chairman of Philips Electronics’ North American division.  

Greg earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BBA in Accounting. He lives in the Boston area with his family. 

As Ascend Learning’s chief financial officer, Mandeep is an experienced and well-regarded leader who cultivates talent and develops high-performing teams that work to grow our brands organically, excel at mergers and acquisitions and invest in high value solutions.

Before joining Ascend Learning, Mandeep spent 24 years with the General Electric Company, where he held multiple senior CFO roles in the United States and Europe.  He has a strong track record of driving growth and operational excellence.  Mandeep served on several boards of GE subsidiaries and joint ventures globally and is the Vice Chairman of the board of Inspirica, a charity focused on alleviating homelessness.

Mandeep received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and his Bachelor of Science, Summa cum Laude, from Muskingum College.

As Ascend Learning’s Chief Technology Officer, Ash Siebecker is responsible for innovative strategy designed to mature our technology foundation with a focus on customer delight, efficiency and security.

Before joining the senior leadership team as CTO, Ash spent almost four years as Ascend Learning’s Vice President of Software Engineering for the Clinical Healthcare business.  In that position, Ash played a crucial leadership role in helping drive both ATI Nursing and National Healthcareer Association’s architecture and platform strategy, designing and deploying platform and product enhancements, and working with teams to deliver an ever-higher level of innovation for ATI and NHA customers.

Ash brings to his role 20 years of software engineering experience, with a combination of experience in the healthcare information technology (IT) industries and high-volume manufacturing. He previously spent time at Euronet leading the Americas and Australia SW Engineering organization.  Prior to that he spent several years at Cerner Corporation, one of the nation’s leading healthcare IT companies, where he managed several software engineering organizations delivering a variety of solutions, both enterprise and client-facing.  Ash also spent nearly seven years at Motorola/Freescale semiconductor. During much of his time there, he led the computer integrated manufacturing department at one of Motorola’s premier semiconductor fabrication facilities.

Ash resides in Olathe, Kansas and enjoys spending time with his wife and two sons, fishing and hiking.

Larry leads a team of lawyers providing legal support for Ascend Learning and its brands. He is an accomplished legal counselor, transactional attorney and innovative leader, with more than 25 years’ experience supporting technology and life sciences companies in the areas of corporate law and securities regulation, mergers and acquisitions, Board and shareholder governance, intellectual property, contracts, employment law and litigation.

Before Ascend, Larry worked for 10 years as General Counsel of Cimpress (Vistaprint), a publicly traded, global technology company where he served as an executive during a period of explosive growth that saw the company increase revenue more than 10-fold to $2B and expand operations to more than 30 countries. At Cimpress he also took on responsibility for executive compensation and talent, as well as founding and leading the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility program. Previously, Larry was a corporate partner at law firms DLA Piper and Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, where he represented emerging growth companies, venture capital firms, underwriters and executives.

Larry received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and a bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an avid sports fan, loves to travel and read, and most of all enjoys spending time with family and friends.