Meet The Founders
Edufied’s Founding Team
Lyria Zeh
President & CEO
Lyria has a decade of experience in education technology driving results in numerous capacities, including product and project management, business and data analysis, and data governance.
She started her career in a charter school district, KIPP Texas, where she led the data team and implemented data governance structures to enable efficient data use for educators to support students in the classroom. She then transitioned to education technology consulting as a project manager and business/data analyst and began implementing Ed-Fi technologies in states and districts.
She is deeply committed to supporting educational organizations in creating sustainable business models for their Ed-Fi implementations.
Lyria has a B.S. in Engineering from N.C. State University and an M.B.A from The University of Texas at Austin.
Geoff McElhanon
Chief Technology Officer
Geoff has over 30 years of technology experience, having spent the last 20 years in education starting with the Texas Education Agency as the architect of the PEIMS data collection team, and rearchitecting their solution to be scalable in handling the demands of peak periods of statewide data collection.
In 2010, he was handpicked as the original architect of the Texas Student Data System (TSDS) Teacher Dashboards, the project which led to the realization that the Ed-Fi data standard was needed. He also was the lead architect for the development of the Ed-Fi ODS API and the Ed-Fi API Publisher utility.
He has consulted with various SEAs and LEAs supporting them with their Ed-Fi implementations including Texas, Tennessee, Arizona, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and South Carolina, and continues to work directly with the Ed-Fi Alliance on the evolution of the Ed-Fi ODS API as part of the Ed-Fi Platform team.
Geoff is committed to serving the Ed-Fi community with his technical expertise and continues to do so through Edufied.
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