Tess is Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer at Class Technologies, Inc., an education technology company in Washington, D.C. providing a synchronous online teaching and learning platform built for use with Zoom. After acquiring her interest in education technology with roles at PeopleSoft and SAP, Tess joined then fledgling startup Blackboard, Inc. in 1999, where she was responsible for building and managing the contracting function in an aggressively sales driven environment that saw revenues increase to over $600M annually prior to her departure in 2016. Upon leaving Blackboard, Tess joined education technology company Full Measure Education as SVP of Strategy & Operations. She is also Managing Director of Frazier Consulting Group, which provides strategic guidance to education technology companies. Tess received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Loyola University in Baltimore. She is an avid kayaker and lives in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. with her son Michael, a member of DeMatha Catholic High School’s Class of 2022.