John R. Bourne, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Ex-Officio Member of the Board
John Bourne is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Emeritus, at Olin College, Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship, Emeritus, at Babson College, and is the Executive Director of the Sloan Consortium. He received a BE from Vanderbilt University and MS and Ph.D from the University of Florida.  He was previously Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University, where he had been on the faculty since 1969. In 2000, Bourne became a Founding faculty member of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Ma. and Director of the Sloan Center for Online Education.  He founded the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) in 1996 and remains as editor. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering for 30 years.  He established the Asynchronous Learning Network (ALN) Web in 1996 with support from the Alfred P. Sloan-C Foundation. In 2008, he incorporated the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) as a non-profit corporation in the state of Massachusetts and is currently the Executive Director of Sloan-C.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering and author of numerious articles and books.

Kathleen S. Ives, D.M.
Associate Executive Director

Kathleen S. Ives, D.M. has worked in online technology for over 20 years and serves as The Sloan Consortium's Associate Executive Director where she oversees the organization's operations as well as facilitates workshops in higher education online best practices. Formerly, Dr. Ives oversaw all forms of alternative instruction at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, MA (distance learning, accelerated programming). She teaches in on-ground, online, and blended modalities for University of Phoenix and Bay State College in Boston, MA. Additionally, she serves on the Massachusetts Department of Education Distance Learning Advisory Board.

Dr. Ives began her career at CBS and helped to develop the service that evolved into Prodigy. She then spent fourteen years designing and implementing consumer online information services, first at AT&T and then at Verizon where she spearheaded the development of the nation's first online Yellow Pages product, now called superpages.com. Dr. Ives has degrees in communication, communication management, and organizational leadership from the University of California at Davis, the University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication, and the University of Phoenix-Online, respectively.

Sandi Fecteau, M.B.A.
Chief Financial Officer
Sandi Fecteau serves as the Chief Financial Officer for the Sloan Consortium. She possesses entrepreneurial financial expertise in Fortune 500, private and non-profit settings. Prior to coming to the Sloan Consortium, Ms. Fecteau worked as a consultant; advising start-up companies in all aspects of accounting, finance, business, and strategic planning. Prior to consulting, Ms. Fecteau served as controller for Verizon’s Electronic Commerce Services, where she served as a member of the leadership team, as well as directed and managed all aspects of accounting, financial planning/budgeting and analysis, measurements, billing and collections, and policies and procedures for this start-up electronic commerce business. Ms. Fecteau earned her M.B.A from Bentley College in Massachusetts.

Kathryn (Katie) Fife Schuster
Director, Conference Administration

Katie Fife Schuster is the Director of Conference Administration for Sloan-C. In conjunction with the Director, Conference Services and the Director, Partnership and Business Development, Conference Services, Katie provides direction and leadership toward the achievement of Sloan-C's annual conferences. Proir to her current role, she held the position of Director of Online Learning for Sloan-C and managed the planning, development, and production activities of the workshop program. She has also been Sloan-C's Director of Publications. She has experience from her years in the publishing industry prior to joining Sloan-C and holds a BA from Tufts University in anthropology and Spanish.

R.T. Brown
Director of Information Technology Services
R.T. Brown started his career with online technologies before there was something called THE WEB (early nineties). For many years he worked in the yellow pages industry creating online directory products, serving as a bridge between marketing/content groups and system developers. Somehow, even with his BA in English from Fordham University, he has most often found himself in technical positions. After working for large corporations for almost a decade, he decided to take a position as Director, Information Technology at the industry consulting and advisory group - The Kelsey Group. Then came DOT BOOM! He came to Sloan-C after having worked for a small urban public charter school with their virtual high school endeavors and teaching English and Computer Programming. At Sloan-C he's found the perfect arena to combine both educational interests with technology.

Jean Fredrick
Director of Marketing
Jean Fredrick has over 20 years experience in online marketing, product development and project management. Jean is currently the Director of Marketing for The Sloan Consortium, focusing on the growth of a multitude of core services and product initiatives. Jean previously served as Executive Marketing Director for The Kelsey Group, a strategic research and analysis leader in online directories and local media. Prior to this, Jean was Marketing Manager for Verizon’s online yellow pages team leading the successful creation and launch of today’s Superpages.com. As a marketing consultant, Jean has worked on projects for Stratfor, focusing on geopolitical, economic, political and military information services, and YellowBrix, focusing on data analytics and contextual advertising. Jean holds a BS in Business Administration from Emmanuel College in Boston.

Joanna Tong
Marketing Manager
Joanna Tong first joined the Sloan-C Consortium in 2006 as a Marketing Coordinator. Now as Marketing Manager, she manages activities involving memberships and retention, online workshops, teaching certificates, and conferences. Joanna also publishes the Sloan-C View, member, College Pass, and conference, newsletters. She graduated with a B.S. in Marketing from Bentley College in Waltham, MA. Prior to joining Sloan-C, she was the Marketing Assistant for the Boston General Office of New York Life Insurance Company.

Gail Sullivan
Customer Service Manager
Gail Sullivan joined The Sloan Consortium, Inc. in the fall of 2006. In this capacity, Gail is primarily responsible for processing the registrations for membership, workshops and conferences as well as resolving issues raised by workshop participants and members. In her capacity as the assistant to the Director of Online Education, Dr. Kathleen S. Ives, Gail is the secondary contact person for our workshop facilitators. She is also responsible for fulfilling requests for publications. Gail has a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University in Personnel and Industrial Relations and has been involved with Higher Education for approximately ten years.