LEADERSHIP TEAM - eScholar

LEADERSHIP

Meet Our Team

eScholar is passionate about accelerating innovation and improvement through data, people, and action. The leadership team ensures we strive to achieve that vision every day. eScholar’s parent company is Harris. In the face of this acquisition eScholar has grown stronger than ever before. Our leadership has a strong financial backing through Harris, while still having a small business feel.

John Pozzuto

Executive Vice President

As Executive Vice President at eScholar, John Pozzuto has played several roles at the organization since joining eScholar in 2005, including Development Manager, Security Officer, and Chief Technology Officer. He has worked with all of the product teams to develop a standard product life-cycle and has focused on the integration of an eScholar product suite. Prior to joining eScholar, John worked as a developer in the financial and human resource industries.

Andrea Hartman

Vice President of Research & Development

With more than twenty years of experience in IT, specializing in data services, technical support, and software development in the education industry, Andrea’s experience also includes nearly a decade in product management. Responsible for providing leadership roles in data integration, requirements analysis, quality assurance, implementation, support, training, and related subjects. She will work closely with teams implementing eScholar’s Uniq-ID and DirectMatch products.

Marc Hoffmeister

Vice President of Business Operations

Marc Hoffmeister’s role is managing a team of subject matter experts on the Client Services team, including Account & Project Managers, Customer Support & Education and Technical Business Analysts. His responsibilities include keeping close communication with all eScholar clients with focus on project implementations, ensuring project expectations and quality standards for all clients are reached, acting as a liaison between managers and executive management.

James Anderson

Director of Research & Development

James has more than 20 years of IT experience designing and developing solutions supporting application databases. He has been a database administrator and developer for very large and sophisticated databases in SQL Server, Oracle and PostgreSQL. In his current role, James oversees the IT team and team functions, including database administration, software installation, and general IT support. He provides database administration services to numerous state education clients.

Beverly Walker

CDW Development Manager

Beverly began her career as a Lead Application Developer building the first repository of eScholar Complete Data Warehouse® reports; including Product Manager and Quality Assurance Manager. Beverly played a key role in the development of early warning, assessment, false drop-out, and many other reports based on the of eScholar Complete Data Warehouse®. Beverly served in this role for 6 years before being promoted to the Development Manager for eScholar Complete Data Warehouse.

Eric Berlinghoff

Director of AI Enablement & Professional Services

Eric drives AI adoption across the business, helping teams spot opportunities and turn ideas into practical solutions. With more than 15 years of experience in R&D, professional services, and product development, and a background in software development, statistics, machine learning, and data science, he specializes in designing AI architecture frameworks with an emphasis on data governance and responsible AI. Eric partners with leadership, teams, and clients to build AI tools that reduce manual work and free people for decisions that matter.