Meet the Team
Leadership
The founders and leaders building Greenway’s future.
Mark
Somerville
Founding President
Mark may be one of the most experienced new-university builders alive. Beyond founding faculty, Dean and Provost roles at Olin (25 years), as a senior consultant- since 2007 he was chief academic consultant for Fulbright University Vietnam (now graduated its first class), he helped INSPER in Brazil launch a new engineering college, revised the bachelor's degree at TU Delft's aerospace faculty, and worked with NMITE (UK), Plaksha (India), the Woodrow Wilson Academy, and institutions in Chile, Malaysia, and beyond. Profiled in The New York Times Magazine and IEEE Spectrum; MIT PhD, Oxford MA, Rhodes Scholar; spoke at SXSW EDU 2026.
Troy
McBride
Founder
Troy is a seasoned entrepreneur and engineer whose career bridges the gap between engineering education and real-world industry practice. During his six years as a faculty member, he helped launch an ABET-accredited engineering program. He also has a track record of building and scaling mission-driven companies, including SustainX, Norwich Technologies, and now Durion. Troy holds a PhD from Dartmouth College.
Rebecca
Holcombe
Founder
Rebecca has worked nearly every side of education there is: teacher, principal, superintendent, director of Dartmouth's Teacher Education Program, and the state's own Secretary of Education. She was appointed Secretary of Education in 2014 and elected to the Vermont House in 2022. Rebecca holds an EdD from Harvard University.
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Kristin Cantu
Business Manager
Kristin is a graduate of the Vermont Leadership Academy and a community-driven business leader whose work spans education, mentorship, and the arts, including serving on her local school board, founding a nonprofit, and leading a mentorship program for professional women. At Greenway, she serves as Business Manager, overseeing financial and operational strategy while advancing a more sustainable, community-connected model.
Kevin Ramos-Glew
Board of Directors
A career educator who started in the secondary school classroom then moved to higher education, Kevin joined Greenway from Dartmouth College where he served as director of enrollment planning. He also has experience in founding innovations in education.
Annick Dewald
Founding Faculty
Annick is an engineer and educator with experience spanning academia and industry, including roles at Boeing and electric aviation startup Electra. A graduate of Smith College engineering and an MIT PhD in aerospace engineering, Annick is now Founding Faculty at Greenway, where she is developing project-based and work-integrated curriculum.
Cal Thompson
Hannah Root
Chief of Staff
Advisor
Cal Thompson (they/them) has been a service designer since 2008 in non-profits, creative studios, consultancies and for the last 6 years, at Headspace. They were the VP of Product Design and Research at Headspace for 4 years, shepherding the work of Headspace's talented and compassionate Product Design team on the Headspace app, Ebb, consumer therapy, B2B offerings, and healthcare offerings. Previously, Cal was a Design Director at Fjord/Accenture delivering human-centered and digital transformation projects.
Hannah is a Middlebury College graduate with an MS in environmental science. After nearly a decade in K12 STEM teaching and curriculum design, she now works closely with the President to advance key initiatives and support the day-to-day operations of the institution.
Presidential
Advisory Board
Advisors across generations and disciplines, shaping Greenway’s vision for what comes next.
Jess Archibald
General Partner and Investment Committee Member at Top Tier Capital Partners
Emmanuel Attah
Greenway Pilot Semester Student, 2025
Sara Atwood
Ph.D., Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Elizabethtown College
Ally Bell
Investment Team at Baukunst, Co-Founder of The Network
Ela Ben-Ur
13+ years at IDEO, Founder of Innovators’ Compass
Rob Constantine
Head of Maine School of Science & Math
Matt Donahoe
Ph.D., Dean of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at Elizabethtown College
Aprille Ericsson
Ph.D., NASA Aerospace Engineer, STEAM Educator
Ed Fidoe
Founder and CEO of London Interdisciplinary School
Jazz Gonzalez
Greenway Pilot Semester Student, 2023
Dax Kepshire
President, Data Centers at On Energy
Ellise LaMotte
Ph.D., Associate Provost for Student Success, Tufts University School of Engineering
Erin McCusker
Chief Impact Officer, Executive Officer, and Executive Vice President at LIXIL
Rick Miller
Ph.D., President Emeritus of Olin College, Founder of LearningWell Coalition
Matt Murphy
CEO at Flux Energy
Chuck Ng
Co-Founder of Foundation for Science & AI Research, Investor at Databricks
Tom Peeples
Senior Engineering Manager at GE Aerospace
Bryan Penphrase
Ph.D., VP of Research at Soka University, author of "The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century"
Mihir Ravel
STEM Education Entrepreneur
Brian Rosenberg
Ph.D., President Emeritus of Macalester College, author of "Whatever it is, I'm against it: Resistance to Change in Higher Education"
Polina Segalova
Head of Product at Teal Health
Pooja Sinha Skogstad
International Education Consultant, Spark Growth Ventures
Ryan Spillane
CCO at Techstars
Karen Usher
Founding Director and Trustee of NMITE University
Thomas Van De Velde
Technology Executive (ex-Amazon and ex-Accenture) and Educator
Tony Wagner
Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute and Noted Author
“Legacy universities are just not capable of the innovation that our changing world demands — that’s why we’re wiping the slate clean and starting from scratch at Greenway.
Want to join us?”
—MARK SOMERVILLE, PRESIDENT
