Ryan Craig is a managing director at Achieve Partners, an investment firm engineering the future of learning and earning. He is the author of
A New U: Faster + Cheaper Alternatives to College, named in the
Wall Street Journal as one the Books of the Year for 2018. He is also the author of
College Disrupted: The Great Unbundling of Higher Education. Ryan's writing appears regularly in the
Gap Letter,
Forbes, and
Inside Higher Education. He is a cofounder of Apprenticeships for America, a national nonprofit dedicated to scaling apprenticeships across the
U.S. economy. Previously, Ryan led the Education & Training sector at Warburg Pincus. His prior experience in online education was at Columbia University. From 2004 to 2010, Ryan founded and built Wellspring, a national network of boarding schools and summer camps for overweight and obese children, adolescents, and young adults. He began his career at McKinsey & Co. Ryan received bachelor's degrees summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, and his law degree from the Yale Law School. He lives in Pacific Palisades, CA, with his wife, three boys, and goldendoodle.
