John R. Bourne, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Ex-Officio Member of the Board
John Bourne is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Olin College, Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship at Babson College, and directs the Sloan Consortium. 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. He founded the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN) and remains as editor. He established the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supported Asynchronous Learning Network (ALN) Web in 1996. In 2008, he incorporated Sloan-C as a non-profit corporation in the state of Massachusetts.

Kathleen S. Ives, D.M.
Associate Executive Director
Kathleen Ives has worked in online technology for over 20 years and serves as The Sloan Consortium's Events Producer. Formerly, Dr. Ives oversaw all forms of alternative instruction at Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, MA (distance learning, accelerated programming). She teaches online for University of Phoenix and Axia College of Western University, and in an accelerated enviornment for working adults at both Regis College in Weston, MA and the University of Phoenix, Greater Boston Campus. 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. Dr. Ives sits on the Massachusetts Department of Education's Distance Learning Advisory Board for Adult Basic Education. 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.

Janet C. Moore, Ph.D.
Chief Knowledge Officer
Janet Moore is the Chief Knowledge Officer for the Sloan Consortium. She is an editor for the Sloan-C View, the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, effective practices, and annual volumes in the Sloan-C quality series. She participates in various initiatives, including helping design and conduct Sloan-C workshops and seminars, and Sloan-C Catalog reviews. She is the author of Elements of Quality: The Sloan-C™ Framework, Pillar Reference Manual.

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 of Online Learning

Katie Fife Schuster is the Director of Online Learning for Sloan-C. She manages The Sloan Consortium workshop program. In this capacity, she manages the planning, development, and production activities. 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 Frederick
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 works with the marketing and publishing aspects of Sloan-C. Along with publishing the monthly e-newsletter, The Sloan-C View and the bi monthly, Sloan-C Now, she also markets memberships, online workshops, teaching certificates, and conferences. Joanna serves as the main contact for all membership questions and specializes in retention. 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 Coordinator
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.