Laurence Holt is a Senior Advisor at XQ Institute. He was previously Chief Product Officer of Amplify and Wireless Generation where he oversaw the creation of the company’s education technology products, now used by millions of K-12 students and teachers.
Prior to that, Laurence founded Quidnunc, a business and technology consulting firm with clients such as Apple Computer, Sprint, the BBC, and Goldman Sachs. Quidnunc grew to 300 people with offices in London, New York, and San Francisco and won the prestigious Economist Knowledge Culture Award for Europe.
More recently, Laurence followed a long-time interest in knowledge acquisition and learning processes by founding Stikky, a publisher of research-driven instructional books on topics ranging from analyzing stock charts to tree identification. Laurence has written three award- winning books.
Previously a bond trader with Credit Suisse First Boston, Laurence also created “multi-user calendar” software, which was later sold to Microsoft and was integrated into Microsoft Outlook.
Laurence holds a First Class BSc (Eng) Hons in Computing Science from Imperial College London and a Masters in Neuroscience and Education from Columbia University.