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Since taking Coursera's helm in 2017, Maggioncalda took the platform public, signed Google, IBM, and Meta as certificate partners, and scaled it to 150 million learners — then repeated the category-defining CEO feat he first pulled off at Financial Engines.
Jeff Maggioncalda is the former CEO of Coursera, the online learning platform he led from 2017 through its 2021 IPO and growth to over 150 million registered learners and partnerships with more than 300 universities and companies.
Earlier, he served for 14 years as founding CEO of Financial Engines, the investment advisory firm co-founded by Nobel laureate William Sharpe, which managed over $100 billion in assets.
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