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Meet the Team

Executive Leadership
Driven by their mission to connect learners worldwide with digital solutions that empower them to grow and excel, IXL's leadership has consistently identified and cultivated the most meaningful products and platforms on the market, developing a suite of educational tools at DMG that is unparalleled in breadth, depth, and quality.

Paul Mishkin

Chief Executive Officer

Jennifer Gu

Chief Operating Officer

Joe Kent

Chief Technology Officer

Jessica Lee

Vice President of Marketing

Debbie Chang

Vice President of Product

Suzanne Pelz

Vice President of Engineering

Kate Mattison

Vice President of Editorial

Ad Operations & Business Development Leadership
The key personnel focused on DMG's ad operations share a common talent: a knack for leveraging great UX to build powerful, performant revenue streams across brands and business models. By collaborating closely with editorial and content teams, creative designers, and engineers, they build loyal audiences that are deeply and sustainably engaged in the DMG product family. This, in turn, allows them to partner with advertisers to unlock invaluable audience targeting opportunities, custom sponsorship options, and more.

Dan Kort

Head of Business Development

Marc Henseler-Kozachenko

Advertising Operations Manager

Lauren Hefferon

Senior Business Development Manager

Brandy Gamoning

Head Marketing Consultant

Creative Leadership
No other ed tech platform out there boasts the sheer talent to be found in DMG's editorial and creative workshops. The content developers and designers working on DMG's brands are boundlessly skilled and remarkably accomplished at delighting users across a variety of ad-supported and subscription-based UX models. They bring each unique campaign to life with vibrant, vivid color.

Roddy Lang

Head of Creative

Eldar Burnashev

Lead Experience Designer

Michael Hays

Lead Game Designer

Rachel Thorson-Hernández

Spanish Editorial Lead

Steve Johnson

English Editorial Lead

Technical Leadership
The engineering team at DMG combines ad tech savvy with software development capabilities spanning web and app tech stacks, gaming technologies, SEO optimization, and beyond. By seamlessly and efficiently managing all variety of ad implementations, engineers enable DMG to nimbly and intelligently capitalize on new opportunities, continually optimize existing campaigns, and identify future areas for growth.

Stephen Machnowski

Lead Engineering Manager

Suzanne Ohlhausen

Senior Engineering Manager

Jacob Frederick

Senior Engineering Manager

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