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Just added a new expert (a Stanford lecturer and former assistant dean) to my list of independent reference letter experts!
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He has been a member of the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business since 2008, where he teaches and conducts research at the intersection of the future of work, learning, and technology. His recent scholarly work includes co-authored research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and by Harvard Business Review Press. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Urstein spent more than a decade in senior leadership roles at Stanford University, including serving as Assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Business, where he oversaw the school’s highly selective PhD admissions process across finance, economics, political economics, and operations and information technology. In that role, he helped evaluate the academic and industry experience of more than 900 highly accomplished applicants annually to select cohorts of approximately 30 doctoral students each year.
Outside academia, Dr. Urstein has extensive experience as an entrepreneur, investor, and advisor in technology and education. He co-founded and served as CEO of Gather Learning, a venture-backed education technology company acquired in 2024, and previously served as Principal at Guild Education and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Entangled Ventures. Across his academic and industry work, he has advised Fortune 500 companies, startups, and public-sector organizations on innovation, organizational strategy, and technology implementation, including work involving standards-based systems (ISO, IEEE) and regulated environments. He also served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Oslo, Norway, working with the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Education. His background includes more than twenty years of experience evaluating exceptional talent, advanced research, and technology-enabled organizational innovation across academic, scientific, and professional domains.