Deborah Quazzo

Deborah is the co-founder of the ASU+GSV Summit and the Managing Partner of GSV Ventures. Her work professionally and personally is focused on scaled education innovation. Deborah has been included on Insider’s list of top 100 seed investors three times. GSV Ventures has over $500M in assets under management in three funds with investments that include Coursera, Nearpod, Handshake, QuillBot, PhysicsWallah, ClassDojo, Quizizz and MasterClass.

Now in its 17th year, the ASU+GSV Summit celebrates innovations and innovators across the global “preK to Gray” learning and workforce skills landscape, and attracts over 15,000 attendees to two premier events in April in San Diego.

Deborah serves on a number of education focused boards including, Ascend Learning, Degreed, Uplimit, Toddle, Ellucian and Turnitin. She is a member as well of the boards of The Common Ground Foundation and Steppenwolf Theatre Company.

Deborah graduated cum laude with a BA in history from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard University. She received an Honorary Doctor of Science (ScD) from the University of North Florida.

           "All around the world, innovative schools and school leaders are driving education transformation at scale and improving life outcomes for students. It’s my honor to be a part of the Varkey Foundation’s Global Schools Prize jury."