Megan O'connor
VP Partnerships at Chegg
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Vice President, Head of Business-to-Institution GTM
2024 - Current
Leading the University Partnership Team for Chegg's student-first learning platform
Vice President, Head of Strategic Partnerships @ Chegg Skills
2021 - 2024
Manage revenue for Chegg Skills across strategic partnerships, channel partners, and enterprise sales.
Contributor
2022
Impact Advisory Committee
2021
Apollo is an asset management firm that focuses on the private investment-grade and fixed-income markets.
Raised $5,587,507,641.00 from BNP Paribas, Barclays and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank.
Venture Partner
2021 - 2023
Gutter Capital invests in early-stage, mission-driven businesses. We partner closely with founders to build companies of consequence impacting affordability, economic mobility, or sustainability for the average American.
We invest in ideas and individuals to advance the American experiment through affordability, economic mobility, and sustainability.
Advisor
2021 - 2022
Acquired by Power School in 2022. Kinvolved catalyzes students, parents, educators, and community stakeholders around a common mission: to improve family engagement and attendance in service of elevating student outcomes.
Kinvolved is a developer of a social enterprise platform designed to improve student attendance and reduce chronic absenteeism.
Raised $4,100,000.00 from Fund for Health, New York Ventures, New York Ventures, u2i, GingerBread Capital, Twilio.org, Excell Technology Ventures, The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, New York Ventures and The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2020 - 2021
- Serve on the Senior Leadership team advising on product and growth strategy - Launched Kaplans first Career Exposure product "Boost by Kaplan" in partnership with Google and Myers Briggs
Bauder College is a school in Atlanta.
Fellow (ODA1)
2020 - 2020
On Deck Angel Investors Cohort #1
On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.
Advisor
2016 - 2020
Chief Growth Officer
2015 - 2016
- Executed fundraising and growth strategies for the Human Ventures parent company - Supported the fund's portfolio companies
Human Ventures is an investment fund based in New York that provides support to founders in the early stages of their businesses.
Co-founder and CEO
2016 - 2019
Clark, NYC — Co-Founder & CEO (Acquired) - Developed SMB platform for tutors processing $4mm monthly - Raised $4.5mm in series seed led by Lightspeed Venture Partners - Hired and managed a team of 17 from PolicyGenius, Kickstarter, and others - Lead the Leadership team of Product Designer, CTO, and Head of Product - Created mobile app featured in Apple app store and Apple’s show Planet of the Apps
Clark is software for your tutoring business.
Raised $3,500,000.00 from Lightspeed Venture Partners, Winklevoss Capital, Rethink Education and Flat World Partners.
Director of Development
2013 - 2015
Pencils of Promise (PoP), NYC Director of Development - Served as the EdTech nonprofit organization’s top-performing fundraiser - Key relationship manager for PoP’s HNW investors, corporate partners, and influencers, including PoP’s invitation-only giving circle, the Advisory Board.
Pencils of Promise create schools, programs and global communities around the education for all.