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Alison Pendergast
Senior Program Officer at The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Alison M. Pendergast is a Senior Program Officer in Digital Learning at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she focuses on postsecondary success. She has over 25 years of experience in developing and scaling digital learning and educational technology solutions.12 Before joining the Gates Foundation, Pendergast was a co-founder and the Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer at Acrobatiq, an adaptive learning and analytics platform for higher education, which she helped grow from its inception in 2013 until its acquisition in 2018.1
Pendergast's career also includes roles as the Chief Marketing Officer at Ascend Learning, where she led the transformation of Jones and Bartlett from a print publisher to a provider of instructional, assessment, and learning management solutions. She has held executive positions at Pearson Education, where she co-developed an e-book commerce platform and a public-private partnership for accessible textbooks.1
She holds an MBA from Norwich University and is a Distinguished Military Graduate from the University of Connecticut Army ROTC. Additionally, she served as a U.S. Army Medical Service Corps Officer.1
