Rosanne Kinder
Vice President – Operations
For seven years, Rosanne Kinder was responsible for overseeing the Institute for Educational Excellence, a seminar company within ADP offering cutting edge information for human resource and payroll professionals to help them stay up-to-date and avoid penalties, fines and litigation that can result from non-compliance. She grew the business to over 250 seminars and 10,000 registrants a year, and expanded the program into online and onsite offerings as well. She advanced to this position after a successful start as an Instructional Designer at ADP.
In addition, Rosanne has an extensive background in HR, and has served as Director of Human Resources for the last six years at Realogy and ADP. Previously she was Director of Admissions at Gibbs College in New Jersey, where she was responsible for marketing business programs and increasing school attendance and revenue.
Rosanne holds an M.A. from Montclair University, and obtained her Senior Professional Human Resource Certification (SPHR).
"Three things that never come back:
The spent arrow, the spoken word and the lost opportunity"
-- W.G.P.
Dan Lynn
Co-Founder & CEO
A successful entrepreneur, Dan Lynn is the co-founder and CEO of Bluebird University. In 2008, Dan co-founded Again Mobile and Again Interactive, companies for which he also serves as CEO. Dan leads the Bluebird University's strategic direction with more than 20 years of proven experience, vision and innovation in marketing and sales.
Previously, Dan was CEO of DigitalGrit, an award winning interactive direct response agency he helped found in 2000. Under Dan's leadership DigitalGrit was recognized as #1 Best Place to Work in New Jersey for Small to Mid-sized Businesses, one of SHRM's Top 25 Best Places to Work in America for Small to Mid-sized Businesses, one of New Jersey's Finest Companies, and one of New Jersey's Fastest Growing Technology Companies (Deloitte).
In addition to DigitalGrit, Dan founded RelevantNoise in 2005, an innovative blog and social media mining technology company. In 2007, Dan co-founded Adverb Media, a leading full service digital marketing agency.
Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, Dan held various strategic roles at AT&T and ADP in Marketing, Sales, and Strategy.
Dan holds an MBA from Rutgers University.
Steven Goldthwaite
Co-Founder
Steven Goldthwaite is a co-founder of Bluebird University. In 2008, Steven also co-founded Again Mobile and Again Interactive, and he currently serves as a strategist in both of those organizations. Steven has over 20 years experience helping senior management at Fortune 1000 companies develop successful interactive and branding strategies for their organizations.
Previously, Steven co-founded DigitalGrit, a leading interactive marketing, search & direct response agency in 2000, RelevantNoise, an innovative blog mining technology company he co-founded in 2005, and was also the co-founder of Adverb Media, a full service interactive marketing agency in 2007 and CEO of Temel, a interactive marketing and branding design agency he founded in 1990.
Steven holds a BS in Marketing from Lehigh University.