RICK RATTRAY
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
FOCUS AREAS: STRATEGY, FINANCE, PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT, PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS, PRIVATE EQUITY
Rick is a career innovator in the intersection of private and public-sector education, having founded several successful firms in the space before launching the Parliament Group. Rick has held numerous senior executive roles with firms helping to transform the learning landscape, including having launched and managed US university operations for ILSC Education as Founding Managing Director of ILSC GlobalFoundations; developing operational structure for US partnerships for Shorelight Education as SVP of Portfolio Management; building the industry-leading SaaS training provider, ReliasLearning (sold to Bertelsmann), as President of the platform company and then Executive Vice President of Products; leading the US division of Kaplan Global Solutions (university services) as SVP/GM and co-founder of Kaplan’s Online Program Management firm, Colloquy (sold to Everspring). With the pragmatism of an operator with experience running organizations/depts with up to $100M in revenue, Rick brings deep domain expertise in on-ground, blended, and online learning for international audiences. He holds a Masters of Public and Private Management (MPPM) from Yale University.
