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Jeff Livingston

Senior Vice President, McGraw-Hill Education

Jeff Livingston is Senior Vice President of RISe, Readiness and Intervention Solutions, for the McGraw-Hill School Education Group. In this capacity, he is responsible for product development and marketing for Advanced Placement, Career and Technical Education, Adult Basic Education, Health, Fine Arts and College Readiness curriculum areas. Before this assignment, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing for SRA/McGraw-Hill and Wright Group/McGraw-Hill. Jeff previously served as the Vice President of Urban Markets, Database Marketing and Inside Sales. 

Before joining McGraw-Hill Education in 2004, Jeff was a successful entrepreneur with specialties in instructional technology and marketing to urban school systems. As Co-Founder, President and Chief Operating Officer of Achieva.com, Jeff helped to build the largest provider of online test prep and college prep for American high schools. Achieva.com was sold to the Kaplan K-12 Learning Solutions, a division of the Washington Post Company, in 2001. In the early 1990s, he spent several years in investment banking and trading of financial derivatives for Merrill Lynch. 

Jeff holds a baccalaureate degree in Government and Economics from Harvard University. Jeff currently lives in Columbus, Ohio.
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