Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> June 15, 2000
JOHN KERNAN founded Lightspan Partnership, Inc., in September of 1993.
Mr. Kernan was formerly Chairman and CEO of Jostens Learning
Corporation, the nation's largest educational software company. He
developed Jostens Learning from a start-up company in 1985 (then named
Education Systems Technology Corporation), to one of the largest
software businesses in the US. Prior to founding Jostens Learning, Mr.
Kernan was an executive with Gill Cable Corporation, a Northern
California cable TV operator. He also was Vice President of Product
Development for DELTAK, Inc. (now Applied Learning), the nation's
largest provider of video-based training. Mr. Kernan also has served as
Director of Information Systems for two Fortune 500 companies. Mr.
Kernan has served as Chairman and President of the Software Publishers
Association, the primary trade association of the computer software
industry. He also serves on the boards of MediaShare Corporation
(multimedia software) and Academic Systems Corporation (higher-education
software), and he is a Director of the National School Boards
Association Foundation and Technology Network ' the high-technology
community's political action organization. Profile
Partnership, Incorporated?
Mr. Kernan: The actual name of the company is Lightspan, Inc. We changed
our name about a month
