About Eleven Learning

Eleven Learning publishes open-source, community-powered textbooks and etextbooks. Our books are more relevant, more up-to-date, and less expensive. Our product offerings include a web-based textbook reading interface and a community-commenting platform for textbook authors and educators. Eleven Learning is a privately held corporation. It was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Team

Andrew Bender, President Andrew is responsible for strategy, marketing, and overall operations of Eleven Learning. He held a similar role as general manager of Alloy Inc’s Sconex business unit. There he ran Sconex and SugarLoot, two social networks with around 1 million registered users apiece. He has also worked at BrassRing (now Kenexa), RealNetworks, SureBridge (now Navisite), and KPMG Peat Marwick. Andrew received his AB from Dartmouth and his MBA from Kellogg. You can follow him on Twitter at @andrewbender.

Dev Purkayastha, Chief Technology Officer Dev is in charge of the development and ongoing operation of Eleven Learning’s website and technical infrastructure. He held a similar position at Sconex, where he led the team that built SugarLoot from the ground up. Dev has also worked for numerous startups, including Auburn Quad (now Grassroots Giving Group) and BzzAgent. Dev has an AB from Harvard. You can follow him on Twitter at @devp.

Stephen Solomon, Chief Content Officer Stephen supports the author and professor community at Eleven Learning. Previously he worked at SAP Press, where he was active in their online community. Stephen has fifteen years of academic publishing experience at firms such as Pearson (Prentice Hall and Addison-Wesley), Cengage (Course Technology), and Jones & Bartlett. He has held positions in acquisitions, editorial management, development, sales, and marketing. Stephen has a BA from the University of Massachusetts. You can follow him on Twitter at @spsolomon.

Advisor

Bob Woodbury
Bob recently began the Digital Sources Project, an open-source effort to make historical documents more easily available to student researchers. A leader in academic publishing for decades, he served as Publisher at Course Technology (now Cengage), Editor-in-Chief at McGraw-Hill Technology Education, VP of Computer and Engineering Education at Addison-Wesley (Pearson), and Publisher for Behavioral and Social Science at CBS College Publishing. Bob was also Publisher at the Learning Network, a web start-up created to aggregate learning solutions for children, college students, and working adults. As a volunteer, Bob writes grants for Spare Change News, a street newspaper published by the Homeless Empowerment Project of Cambridge. He is a graduate of the University of Kansas.