Mihir Shah
Executive Vice President
Mihir became the EVP of HES in 2018 after several years of leading innovative product development teams in the K-12 sector. In his role as EVP, he sets the strategic goals of the business to ensure all customers and employees have a successful experience with the company.
Michael Torrenti
VP of Sales and Marketing
Edtech veteran Michael Torrenti leads the sales and marketing team for Harris Education Solutions. He has successfully grown previous education technology brands while honing his business development and management skills. When he’s not coaching others to success, Michael enjoys fishing, travel and spending time with his six grandchildren.
Dan Youngren
VP of Operations
Daniel became the VP of Operations for HES in 2013 after several years of managing large scale student information and educational data-decision making system implementations. In his role as VP of Operations, he leads customer success best practices, which begin by partnering with districts on setting clear goals for onboarding and then continually reviewing and adjusting those goals with the district throughout the relationship as needs change and evolve.
Keriann Didier
Director of Product Management
Keriann is the Director of Product Management for Harris Education Solutions. She has been in the EdTech industry for eight years and in education for 17 years. Keriann started as an Elementary school teacher but her interests led her to pursue a career in education software. In her role, she most enjoys working with clients to gather feedback and help each HES product build out their roadmaps. She’s passionate about connecting the dots across products in the HES suite, to make sure that each solution is meeting and exceeding client needs. Keriann has a young son at home and loves spending time with family, having game nights and campfires with friends, and traveling when she can.
Nathan Howell
Director of Sales
Nathan serves as our Director of Sales. With over a decade in the EdTech space, he has worn many hats much like the educators he works with. His favorite Harris core value is “Solutions not Problems.” He loves working with educators to identify challenges and problems they are faced with and finding solutions to those problems through technology and services. Nathan is a life long learner and wants to pass that love of learning down to his 3 kids – including a set of twins. His hobbies include snowboarding, fishing, ice hockey, and music. He loves working with his hands and solving problems.
Leah Chase
Director of Partner Success
As Director of Partner Success, Leah Chase oversees the Professional Services team at Harris Education Solutions and its portfolio of products. Leah’s career started as an elementary school teacher in a district in Buffalo, NY when she realized how passionate she was about utilizing education software to help make her daily tasks easier in the classroom. Her passion for helping fellow educators find value in software that positively impacts student achievement led her to her 10 year career at eDoctrina before joining the HES team. Establishing long lasting relationships with district leads and going the extra mile to ensure all district interactions exceed expectations are two reasons why Leah is so excited to be working with the HES suite of products. Leah loves being a mom to two boys and is surviving on coffee and dry shampoo. Her closet is in order by color and she loves nothing more than fresh vacuum lines on her living room rug.