Jesse Soleil likes to make things, break things, and regularly suffers from “The Innovators’ Dilemma.”
He’s founded and co-founded several startups including Akili Network, Massiverse, Spry Marketing Technologies (for Omnicom), Tomorrow Foundry, and TeacherTally. He spent 6 years at Omnicom as EVP, Global Director of Digital supporting agencies in 130 countries for Porter Novelli.
Jesse spent many years at Scholastic, the largest children's publisher in the world, leading adaptive reading technology product development and their businesses for Scholastic Education; consumer R&D for the Lab for Informal Learning; and ultimately eScholastic, overseeing the $2B company's digital division that included 14 eCommerce stores and scholastic.com.
Jesse also has extensive creative experience designing video games, developing interactive toys, co-creating TV shows and developing original IP that works across platforms.