Eileen Shihadeh
Director
Eileen Shihadeh has over 20 years of experience as a senior executive in strategic planning, product management, marketing, branding, and sales. She has held leadership roles at Texas Instruments, Compass Learning, Raptor Technologies, and Lightspeed Systems, where she led large teams and drove company growth. Most recently, she served as Chief Operating Officer at New Meridian. Eileen brings deep expertise in operational leadership and market strategy, and is driven by a strong belief that teachers are the most important factor in student success.
Eileen Shihadeh is New Meridian’s Chief Operating Officer, spearheading the company’s growth strategy, improving operational efficiency, and driving the achievement of company goals.
Eileen served in leadership roles for much of her career, with more than two decades of experience in strategic planning and execution, product management, branding, sales, and marketing at major companies such as Texas Instruments and Compass Learning.
At Texas Instruments, she led two departments as director of market strategy and development. At Compass Learning, she served as vice president of marketing and product management, leading a 25-person team responsible for product strategy, pricing, market research, go-to-market strategy and a great deal more.
More recently, Eileen served as chief marketing officer at Lightspeed Systems and before that was Senior Vice President for Sales and Marketing at Raptor Technologies, both SaaS companies serving the K-12 space.
Eileen joined New Meridian to act on a deep belief that teachers are the most important factor in student success.
“Empowering teachers is so important,” she said. “When assessment is done well, teachers get the data and information they need to ensure each child in their classroom has the opportunity not only to succeed, but to thrive.”
