Our Leadership
Sharing a passion for educational equity, New Meridian’s leadership team is leveraging their decades of experience and powerful insights to develop a new way of assessment thinking.
Our Executive Team
The New Meridian executive team has deep experience in education and state and national assessment programs. Working towards the same goal of equity in education, our team of passionate innovators set the vision and foundation for our organization.
Arthur VanderVeen, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer Arthur VanderVeen, Ph.D., is Chief Executive Officer at New Meridian, responsible for innovation, strategy, and customer engagement at the company he founded in 2016.
Will Bunting
Vice President, Program ManagementWill Bunting leads all aspects of New Meridian’s program management services, including contract execution, schedules, communication and risk management.
Ashley Eden
Senior Vice President of State Partnerships, Business Development and PolicyAshley Eden leads sales strategy, account management, and policy for New Meridian, supporting current state partners, identifying new sales opportunities, and managing relations involving various decision makers at the state level.
Kristopher John
Vice President, Product StrategyKristopher John leads product strategy for New Meridian. His work includes conceiving and developing high-quality assessment solutions for students across the country.
Maria Cammack
Vice President of Assessment Design and DevelopmentMaria Cammack oversees assessment design and development at New Meridian, serving as executive leader of both the content and psychometric teams.
Steven Titan
Chief Financial OfficerSteven Titan is Chief Financial Officer at New Meridian. He is responsible for finance, accounting, human resources, strategic operations and business administration.
Neil Lane
General CounselNeil Lane is New Meridian’s General Counsel, advising the company on all issues related to legal compliance, licensing, contracting, intellectual property management and more.
Board of Directors
Our Board Members are committed to expanding opportunities for all students through high-quality education and assessment. The Board helps New Meridian define its vision, mission, and purpose — and helps make sure we live up to those promises through sound organizational and financial planning and management, as well as compliance with relevant laws, bylaws, and policies.
Tom Higgins
ChairmanMr. Higgins brings more than 40 years of experience in financial management, process improvement, internal controls, and systems design.
Jesse Markow
DirectorFormerly Chief Strategy Officer for the WIDA Consortium, Mr. Markow helped develop standards, curriculum resources, and assessments for a consortium of 37 states in support of English language learners.
Technical Advisory Committee
The Technical Advisory Committee ensures that New Meridian assessment solutions meet the highest professional standards in the industry. Committee members, who together have decades of experience in psychometrics and academic testing at all levels, review methodology and advise us on best practices to produce the most reliable student data available.
Dr. Henry Braun
Technical AdvisorHenry Braun is the Boisi Professor of Education and Public Policy in the Lynch School of Education & Human Development at Boston College. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from Stanford University.
Dr. Robert L. Brennan
Technical AdvisorDr. Brennan is the E. F. Lindquist Chair in Measurement and Testing (emeritus) and the Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Measurement and Assessment at the University of Iowa’s College of Education.
Dr. Derek Briggs
Technical AdvisorDr. Briggs is a professor in the Research and Evaluation Methodology program at the University of Colorado—Boulder’s School of Education. He is also director of the school’s Center for Assessment Design Research and Evaluation.
Dr. Richard Luecht
Technical AdvisorRichard Luecht, Ph.D. is a Professor of Educational Research Methodology at the UNC-Greensboro where he teaches graduate courses in applied statistics and advanced measurement.
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