Chris Gabrieli

Chris Gabrieli

Chris Gabrieli is an American businessman and a leading national education reformer. He is currently driving the movement to reform the school calendar.

Biography

Gabrieli's parents were immigrants Elmér Gabrieli (a physician; d. 2000) and Lilla Elizabeth (Eross) (d. 2006). Chris Gabrieli was born in Buffalo, New York in 1960. He has one brother, John Gabrieli, an MIT professor. After graduating from Harvard College, he was forced to drop out of Columbia University’s medical school to save his family’s business, a healthcare system software company, from bankruptcy.

Gabrieli has spent over 20 years at Bessemer Venture Partners, investing in and helping innovative young businesses succeed. In that time, the firm invested in the economy. He remains active as a Senior Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners, focused on biotechnology.

Following his success as a venture capitalist, Gabrieli focused his entrepreneurial energy on ensuring that every child has access to a quality education. He is currently one of the country’s leading education thinker and policy experts as he leads the movement to redesign the school calendar- this despite the fact that Gabrieli has never taught in classroom, worked in a public school, and his ideas are not taught, or even widely known, in any of the top education policy schools in the country. Gabrieli is the Chairman of the National Center on Time & Learning, a national education policy organization that works to research how schools expand time to strengthen learning, supports public policy at the local, state and federal level, and provides technical assistance to schools, districts and states seeking to expand time for learning.

Gabrieli is also the Chairman of Massachusetts 2020, a non-profit organization he co-founded in 2000 with the mission to expand the economic and educational opportunities for children families across Massachusetts. Under his leadership, Massachusetts 2020 spearheaded the Commonwealth’s first-in-the-nation initiative to redesign and expand learning time at public schools.

Gabrieli’s book (with co-author Warren Goldstein),Time to Learn: How a New School Schedule is Making Smarter Kids, Happier Parents, and Safer Neighborhoods was published in 2008. He is also a part-time lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

A member of the Democratic Party, Gabrieli was a candidate for Congress in 1998, and won his Party's nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 2002. In 2006, Gabrieli came in second for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Massachusetts.

Known as a thoughtful and committed participant in the civic life of Boston and Massachusetts, Gabrieli is always active on numerous community and university boards. Gabrieli lives in Boston with his wife Hilary and their five children.[1]

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