Meet the team
Paymon Rouhanifard
Co-Founder + CEO
Paymon has spent nearly 20 years working in education. He started his career as a 6th grade teacher in New York City and served in a number of roles across the New York City Department of Education, Newark Public Schools, and the Camden City School District, where he was the superintendent from 2013 to 2018.
Faisal Anwar
Co-Founder + Chief Technology Officer
Faisal has a passion for technology and education. He’s a former teacher in Boston Public Schools and a startup veteran leading engineering teams and launching products serving millions of users. Most recently, he was Head of Engineering at Teachers Pay Teachers.
Eleanor Laurans
Co-Founder
Eleanor has spent over 20 years working in and with school districts. After working in the New York City Department of Education and several years with Parthenon’s education practice, Eleanor went on to become the Chief Financial Officer of Boston Public Schools.
Majken Fisselier
School Success Manager
Majken began her career in education programming with museums before becoming the director of operations of a middle school where she was responsible for the school’s master schedule, amongst many other responsibilities.
Eddie Branchaud
Product
Eddie began his career as a 7th grade science teacher before becoming a director of operations of a middle school. He went on to join Education Resources Strategy as a consultant supporting schools with their scheduling and budget strategy before joining the Timely team.
Laura Miller
School Success Manager
Laura has over a decade of experience working in education, starting her career as an elementary school teacher and later transitioning into school operations. She also spent time managing operations and data at an education nonprofit and an education technology company prior to joining the Timely team.
Will Brockman
Software Engineer - Core Algorithms
Will began his career teaching math, but soon returned to his roots in software. He has built innovative products in domains ranging from radar to healthcare. At Google, he was on the founding teams of several projects, including Android for Education.
Kristin Bedont-Combs
Sr. School Success Manager
Kristin began her career as a high school teacher in the School District of Philadelphia. She later led their Office of School Organization, overseeing scheduling and academic planning for all district schools. Today, Kristin assists schools nationwide in adopting innovative scheduling tools designed to meet their needs.
Diane Rosenkrans
School Success Manager
Diane began her career as a high school teacher in Florida. She transitioned to teaching back home in New Jersey, where she went on to become the Principal of a High School in Newark. She has spent the last few years consulting for districts and high schools around the country.
Jake Lessem
School Success Manager
Jake has spent over two decades in education, teaching high math in New Mexico and Chicago, working as a professor at graduate school of education, and serving as a data analyst for a large charter network. Prior to joining Timely he also worked to build schedules for middle and high schools throughout the midwest as a private consultant.
Orion Smith
Head of Product
Orion brings over 20 years experience developing educational products at the intersection of operations and impact. Prior to his role at Timely, Orion grew Ellevation Education as the product and instructional leader. He loves hard problems and collaborative users: a perfect match for Timely!
Tim Follo
Software Engineer - Data Integration
Developing seamless data integrations has been the focal point of Tim’s career - he loves collaborating to solve client challenges. Before coming to Timely, Tim worked on Data Integrations and Operations at Panorama Education, supporting delivery for thousands of schools across the country.
Taran Raghuram
Software Engineer - Data Integration
Taran has spent his career at the intersection of research, technology, and strategy in K-12 education. His roles have spanned consulting, venture capital and technology development. He was most recently a data scientist at Equal Opportunity Ventures and prior to that was a consultant at Education Resource Strategies.
Sam Wolfson
Head of Operations
Sam has over a decade of experience in education, teaching high school math, serving as a director of operations for a turnaround middle school, and most recently working as a consultant in EY-Parthenon's education practice supporting strategic projects for state education agencies, districts, and non-profits, in addition to evaluating investments in K-12 education technology.
Rakibul Hasan
Lead Software Engineer
Rakibul is a seasoned full-stack engineer with extensive experience in cloud infrastructure and API development. He has contributed to complex systems at companies such as Spotify and Datadog, focusing on improving platform reliability and scaling services. At Timely, Rakibul leverages his expertise in backend architecture and seamless integrations to drive the development of innovative scheduling tools for schools.
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