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David Yaskin is an executive with more than twenty years experience delivering innovative software to better the lives of people. As the former VP, Product Strategy for Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB), Yaskin worked extensively in conceptualizing, developing and communicating the product roadmap for Blackboard. Over the last eight years, he helped lead Blackboard from a successful startup to the world’s leading provider of e-Learning technology with annual revenues of more than $235 million. He is credited with such Blackboard innovations as defining their enterprise course management strategy; pioneering their Blackboard Building Blocks open programming framework; defining the vision for their Community Portal System; and inventing the Blackboard Outcomes System, a platform that unifies assessment activities of the whole institution.

Yaskin is a highly sought-after speaker and presenter at various forums on education and technology. Prior to Blackboard, he held software development responsibilities in the areas of education, healthcare, safety testing, and earth science at such industry leaders as IBM, SAIC, Thomson, and Hughes. Yaskin holds a BS in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University

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