Lynzi Ziegenhagen
Founder of Bandio
Lynzi Ziegenhagen
Founder of Bandio
Tucson, Arizona
Overview
Work Experience
Founder/CEO
2023 - Current
Bandio is a public benefit corporation created by Common Sense and Aleo Foundation and supported by a group of leading technologists, internet activists and committed parents passionate about fostering safer experiences for kids online without compromising parent and child privacy. Bandio by Common Sense enables parents to create an age band for each child to use across their favorite social media, gaming, and other sites so that they get the benefit of age-appropriate content and safety settings and features. Bandio's privacy-preserving age solution is built upon Aleo’s groundbreaking zero knowledge proof technology.
Advisor
2023
Advisor to ed tech startup leveraging LLMs to make education data analytics more efficient and useful to educators and leaders.
Advisor
2023
Advisor to ed tech startup providing teachers with an easy way to create “just right” instructional materials for all of their students. Diffit leverages LLMs and beloved organizers to save teachers tons of time.
Advisor to Strategic Data Fellows
2023
Advisor to education data leaders participating in the Strategic Data Project (SDP) Fellowship run out of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy & Research.
Board Member
2022
Board member for national nonprofit building pipelines of future education executives. Finance and audit committee.
Board Member
2020
Board member for ed tech startup whose postsecondary access and success platform drives exceptional student outcomes.
Strategic Advisor to Startup Founder/CEOs
2023 - 2023
Strategy Consultant, Data Architect, Data Engineer, Data Analyst, and Advisor to mission-driven startups and nonprofit organizations.
SVP, Product Platform Interoperability
2022 - 2023
I catalyzed the creation of the new Ecosystem product and engineering team focused on accelerating the benefits of product interoperability for the tens of millions of students and educators around the world that we serve. I created the vision, rallied people from across the company around it, hired great leaders, and started the hard platform work to double down on the connections we have already built between these products to make student learning even more relevant, teachers' picture of that learning even clearer, and leaders’ insights into what really helps students even deeper.
VP, Data Strategy & Operations
2021 - 2022
I started and led an effort to enable colleagues throughout Renaissance with the information they need to do their part in realizing Renaissance's mission of accelerating learning for all children and adults of all ability levels and ethnic and social backgrounds, worldwide. As part of this effort, we created a modern data warehouse using dbt, Fivetran, and Snowflake, a cohort and self-paced Data Champion program, and a Snowflake-based internal Data Exchange. The efforts led to more data-informed decisions, more efficient operations, and upskilled power users throughout the company.
CEO, Schoolzilla by Renaissance
2019 - 2021
Post acquisition, led integration of 30+ Schoolzilla teammates into larger Renaissance including product, engineering, sales, customer success, and support. Successfully simplified Schoolzilla (now known as Renaissance Analytics) to enable it to scale for Renaissance customers, and now the product is used by schools serving 20 million students globally.
Founder/CEO
2012 - 2019
Schoolzilla provides school and district leaders with quick and easy access to the critical insights they need to accelerate growth for every student. I created and led the team at Aspire Public Schools who built the data platform that became Schoolzilla. We spun out as a Public Benefit Corporation in 2013 and grew to serve tens of thousands more hard-working educators. Schoolzilla was acquired by Renaissance Learning in 2019.
Pahara Aspen Fellow
2017 - 2018
The Pahara Institute develops and facilitates programs which strengthen and sustain diverse, high-potential leaders pushing for new solutions, policies, and practices that create equitable and high quality educational opportunities for all children – especially those from low-income and underserved communities. The Pahara-Aspen Fellowship selects cohorts of 20-24 exceptional men and women who undertake a program of four advanced leadership seminars with thought-provoking readings and discussions about leadership, diversity, and important issues in public education and social change.