The SOLVED founders, executive and supporting teams are made up of educators. Unlike most Silicon Valley tech companies, we are committed to building products that elevate your school rather than our brand.

​BEN CARNEY

Founder & CEO

MATIAS BROCATO

Chief Operating Officer​

JENNIFFER ROJAS

Director of Internal Operations

JULIO PENAGOS

Founding Member & Director of Professional Learning

​BIANCA SOTO

Founding Member & Senior Consultant

ALBERT BARABAS

Senior Consultant/Leadership Coach​

SCOTT WALKER​

Managing Systems Administrator​

​BETHANY OSBALDESTON

Partner Relationships/Tech Manager

​DAMIAN BUTLER

Partner Relationships/Senior Consultant

CAROLINA PENAGOS

Partner Relationships/Tech Producer

BROOKE TEKELL

Partner Relationships/Tech Producer

​JAKE KLERLEIN, PH.D

Partner Relationships/Data Specialist

ANGELA REYNOLDS

Senior Consultant​​

CARRIE
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Senior Consultant​

CHRISTINE DEL NEGRO

Senior Consultant

DENISE SAVOY​

Senior Consultant

ELIMELECH GOTTLIEB, PH. D​

Senior Consultant

HALLE KANANACK

Senior Consultant

HANNAH DATO

Senior Consultant

HELENE ALALOUF

Senior Consultant

MARCY SUTHERLAND

Senior Consultant

MARTIN WILSON

Senior Consultant 

MARY DANKE

Senior Consultant 

RIA GROSVENOR​

Senior Consultant 

RISA KATZ​

Senior Consultant

SUSAN MIDLARSKY

Senior Consultant

WAYNE EDWARDS

Senior Consultant

JEREMY ST. ROMAIN

Creative Producer

ALVARO NOGUERALES

Data Specialist

 EDUARDO  LUNA

Data Specialist

GABRIEL AGUSTIN

Data Specialist​

​​MELISA MANANES

Data Specialist​

WHY DO WE DO WHAT WE DO?

SOLVED was founded and is led by former NYC Public School educators.
In collaboration with school leadership teams, SOLVED consultants support teachers’ efforts to improve students’ learning opportunities. We leverage six major areas of instructional design and implementation to improve teachers’ pedagogy and students’ learning outcomes.
Promote Growth Mindset for Students & Teachers

• A school culture which values growth mindset encourages students and adults to persevere, learn from their mistakes, and take ownership of their own learning
• ​As students and adults learn how their brain becomes stronger through persistence and effort, they start to develop an attitude more conducive for intellectual growth.

Demonstrate Effective Feedback Strategies

• Support teachers’ learning of using real-time verbal feedback to deepen student understanding.
• Model research-driven feedback strategies to assess students’ work and encourage their continued improvement.
  
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We Work to Modify the Educating Experience

The evolution in the tech world demands a more enthusiastic approach to engaged learning through recorded sessions, easy sharing of documents, personalized learning patterns, enhanced performance analysis, etc. And GRADED+ has something above these general features, improving learning for students and providing a better teaching experience.
Design is Influenced By:

• The audience we serve 
• The industry we wish to lead
• The trend we compete with 
• The ease we want to provide

The professional development efforts we inculcate in building the right solution are based on the concept of reshaping your classroom and school culture. Such an application will empower users with outstanding features streamlining the maintenance of institutions, their students, teachers, staff, and parents and providing better collaboration. ​

Fresh out of college, Ben Carney taught mathematics in two NYC DOE public high schools while simultaneously obtaining a Masters of Teaching from Pace University and a Masters of Education Policy at New York University.​Embracing differentiation was a key component of Ben’s teaching philosophy as his students' mathematical abilities ranged from well below grade-level to incredibly advanced. So Ben asked, “if we believe in differentiation, then why don’t we simply take it one step further and truly embrace personalized learning experiences for all students?”

​Ben has been obsessed with personalized learning ever since.​​Ben Carney, President & Founder of SOLVED,  began his journey as an independent Education Consultant in 2013. Over time, as an instructional coach, he collaborated with several teachers to modernize mathematics instruction by implementing a variety of blended learning models. Most recently, Ben has expanded the SOLVED services and the team of Innovative Education Experts. SOLVED has designed and built over 40 custom school mobile apps, continues to bring innovative solutions to classroom teachers in over 80 schools, and expanded the SOLVED team to 20+ experts.