We’re excited to announce that Sanjeev Midha is Springboard Collaborative’s new president.
Earlier this year, we announced that Aubrey White, former President, was stepping away from Springboard after 10 years of leadership. This was a natural time for the transition: we are entering a new phase of growth and launching a new strategic plan. Springboard has always envisioned a world in which all children have the requisite literacy skills to access life opportunities, and with ~1.7 million marginalized students entering the fourth grade below reading level, we need to excel in scalable solutions. Sanjeev’s leadership and operational expertise will serve us well in these new endeavors, and we are excited to be entering this new phase of our organization’s history with Sanjeev at the helm.
Sanjeev officially joined the Springboard team in February of 2022 as Interim President and had served as Treasurer on Springboard’s Board of Directors for seven years prior. “I was introduced to the amazing people at Springboard Collaborative ten years ago, when they were in their first years of operation. I was blown away by the potential of the team and the early results. It was an honor to act as an advisor and then board member. Ten years later, I’m even more excited about the team, the impact they continue to deliver, and the incredible plan we’ve put into motion to grow that impact by an order of magnitude,” Sanjeev shares.
“I first met Alejandro and Aubrey in 2014, and was immediately floored by their vision, passion, intellect, and ability to build such an incredible team. When the opportunity arose to work more closely with [Springboard], it was a very easy decision for me to make.”
He’s spent his career as a leader in operations and continuous improvement–first at the Boston Consulting Group, then Aramark, and most recently at Compass. Sanjeev has led teams numbering in the hundreds and overseen revenue in the hundreds of millions, earning a reputation for his ability to empower people and his orientation to data-driven decision-making. At this stage in his professional journey, he feels called to transition from the private sector to the social sector so that he can lean more deeply into his passion for education. Though this is his first FT role in the social sector, Sanjeev has demonstrated his passion for education as a board member, Sanjeev has served on the boards of Young Scholars and KIPP Philly for a collective fifteen years.
Springboard exists to close the opportunity gap, starting with the early literacy gap. With almost 1.7 million students entering fourth grade below reading level, we have our work cut out for us, but we have ambitious goals for our future. This work is more important now than ever as we learn more about how the ongoing pandemic has dramatically impacted marginalized students. This is why we aim to scale our impact to support 200,000 students annually by 2032, a ten-fold increase from today’s scale. As President, Sanjeev will be charged with leading us toward our vision and ambitious goals.
“He has a preternatural ability to create simplicity, focus, and accountability in a rapidly scaling organization,” CEO and founder Alejandro Gibes de Gac observed. “This is precisely what we need to keep scaling Springboard’s impact.”
We have significant work ahead of us, but we’re energized by the promise of new leadership leading our organization toward our familiar goal: closing the literacy gap by closing the gap between home and school.