Our proximity to the University of Virginia allows us to recruit highly qualified graduates of Master's and Ph.D. programs for full-time and consultant positions, as well as engage current students in research and content development projects. Our belief in training and ongoing education is evidenced by the fact that nearly all of our staff members hold graduate or postgraduate degrees. While the majority of our staff is located in our home office in Charlottesville, our sales staff members maintain virtual offices across the country.
Marsha Gartland Chief Executive Officer
Robert McNergney President
Griffin Fernandez COO
and General Counsel
Hugh A. O'Reilly Chief Financial Officer
Diane S. Reed Vice
President, Mid-Atlantic
Mercedes Cordero Vice
President, South
Marsha Gartland, Chief Executive Officer
mgartland@casenex.com
A co-founder of CaseNEX, Marsha was originally motivated to scale the CaseNEX learning model when her dissertation study revealed promising findings for taking case-method learning online. Marsha was instrumental in the company’s spin-off from the University of Virginia in 2000 and in securing an invitation the Darden Business School Entrepreneurship Program (where CaseNEX was incubated for two years). She has lead the company’s sales and fundraising efforts to date and continues to participate in research and development activities. A former high school English teacher, Marsha earned her Ph.D. in Educational Evaluation from UVA's Curry School of Education. She also holds a BA in English from Villanova University and an MA in Teaching from Simmons College.
Robert McNergney, President
rfm@virginia.edu
University of Virginia professor and CaseNEX co-founder and president, Robert McNergney has led international efforts to make case-based teaching and learning as prominent in teacher education as the processes are in other professions. McNergney fosters cooperation and partnership with corporations, education associations, and leads the company’s grant-writing and new product development efforts. He has co-authored and edited numerous books and written extensively for scholarly journals and leading newspapers. He chaired the Commission on Case-method Teaching and Learning for the Association of Teacher Educators. McNergney served as a member and chair of the Technology Committee for the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. McNergney has served as principal investigator or senior researcher on grants from the U.S. Department of Education, State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, AT&T/Lucent Foundation, Hitachi Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, and Spencer Foundation.
Griffin Fernandez, COO and General Counsel
gfernandez@casenex.com
Griffin has been with CaseNEX since 2005. He oversees operations, serves as general legal counsel, and leads the university partnerships and international outreach efforts. His experience in public education includes eight years as an administrator and teacher at the secondary level. Griffin also practiced law, serving federal and state regulatory agencies. He holds a BA in Philosophy and Government from The College of William & Mary, an MA in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America, and a JD from the Columbus School of Law at Catholic University. Griffin expects to earn his PhD from UVA’s Curry School of Education in 2008.
Hugh A. O'Reilly, Chief Financial Officer
horeilly@casenex.com
Hugh has worked on CaseNEX financing efforts since 2004 and has served as the Chief Financial Officer for CaseNEX since 2006. He is also the founder and Managing Partner of Agincourt Consulting Group, a consultancy based in Cambridge, MA, providing financial and other “deal management” services to early-stage companies. Prior to founding Agincourt, Hugh served as Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel to SANZ Inc., a publicly-traded data storage company. Before that he served on the initial management teams of two start-ups, one in the data storage industry (later sold to SANZ) and one in the software development industry (sold to a public company in the UK). For the first 11 years of his career he was lawyer in private practice, specializing in M&A and private company financings. Hugh received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and his law degree from Vanderbilt University.
Diane S. Reed, Vice President, Mid-Atlantic
dreed@casenex.com
Dr. Diane Reed, with CaseNEX since 2002, spent the bulk of her career as a teacher and administrator for Fairfax County School System. Diane also spent two years as the Technology Teacher in Residence at the U.S. Department of Education during the Clinton Administration. During this time, she assisted the director of the office of Education Technology in the implementation of the National Educational Technology Plan. Diane is widely respected in the field of Educational Technology and has been instrumental in the development of many CaseNEX client relationships.
Mercedes Cordero, Vice President, Southeast
mcordero@casenex.com
Dr. Mercedes Cordero has lead sales efforts in the Southeast since 2005. Her ten years of experience as an Area Manager and Regional Director for Co-nect (now a Pearson company) provided substantial experience in the area of school improvement and data-informed professional development offerings. Cordero also brings many years of K-12 experience that includes the successful piloting of three programs serving diverse needs of an English Language Learner (ELL) population in Miami-Dade County. Mercedes obtained a Master's in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) from Florida International University and a Specialist's degree in Computer Applications from Barry University, where she also completed her doctoral work.
