Jeff Schon is currently CEO & Co-Founder of Akili Network Inc. The first commercial free digital broadcast network distributing the world’s best educational entertainment to the 18 million children of Kenya on digital television, mobile, tablets and computers.
Co-founder of Akili Network, a free-to-air digital content network broadcasting Akili Kids!, the first educational children’s entertainment platform in Kenya, distributing content across television, mobile devices and the Internet. As CEO, I am head of programming, production, strategy, finance legal and administration.
Prior to that he was President of Massiverse LLC a company that develops integrated cross platform entertainment and education content for kids. He is also General Manager of Eggbox LLC the company that developed Peep and the Big Wide World, a television program produced by WGBH which won the 2005 Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program.
Prior to Massiverse Jeff was a Partner at The Cheyenne Group, a retained executive search firm.
From 2001 through 2004, Jeff was VP Educational Technology at Scholastic where he was responsible for product development of educational software programs for preK-12 institutions, including the highly successful reading intervention program, Read 180.
From 1998 through 2000, Jeff was President and CEO of Grolier Interactive, the Division of Grolier that developed, marketed and distributed the highly regarded Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia on CD-ROM, DVD and online. From 1994 through 1997, Jeff Schon was President and CEO of Living Books, a Random House/Broderbund Company that published the most successful line of children’s interactive storybooks in the multimedia industry, including titles based on Dr. Seuss’s works.
Prior to the software industry, Jeff worked for twenty years in the film and television industry, producing and/or directing programs ranging from award-winning animated series such as The Legend of Prince Valiant, to documentary programs for the National Film Board of Canada and PBS to the first season of Pee Wee’s Playhouse.
He serves on the Board of Trustees of St. Stephen’s School, in Rome, Italy and holds a BA in economics from Swarthmore College.
He is a member of the Producer’s Guild of America New Media Council and the International Academy of Arts and Sciences (International Emmys).