WorldQuant Learning Expands Executive Team to Lead Next Phase of Growth

Leadership expansion supports the company’s mission to accelerate pathways to knowledge and skills as it scales intelligent curriculum and hands-on technical learning

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WorldQuant Educational Technologies LLC, doing business as WorldQuant Learning™, an education technology company, today announced the expansion of its executive team with the appointments of Celeste Martinell as Chief Operating Officer and Tim Tomlinson as Chief Technology Officer. The appointments come as WorldQuant Learning scales Keystone™, its intelligent curriculum platform, and WorldQuant Learning Skill Labs™, its hands-on technical learning platform, across higher education, executive education, and workforce learning.

The appointments come as institutions face mounting pressure to build, maintain, and evolve programs faster, at scale, and without sacrificing quality.

“Celeste and Tim bring the operating discipline and technical depth this work demands,” said John Endrud, CEO of WorldQuant Learning. “The pressure on institutions to evolve how learning is designed, delivered, and governed has never been greater. Their appointments are a signal of where we are headed, and how seriously we intend to get there.”

Martinell joins WorldQuant Learning from AllCampus, where she served as Chief Operating Officer, focused on transforming business operations through automation and AI to drive revenue and profitability. She brings more than two decades of experience building and scaling recurring-revenue businesses across SaaS, higher education services, and technology-enabled platforms, with a sustained track record of modernizing revenue operations, driving profitability, and building executive teams capable of durable growth. Her career spans senior leadership roles at BenchPrep and Wiley Education Services, where she led revenue growth, customer retention, and M&A.

“WorldQuant Learning is doing something genuinely different,” said Martinell. “Keystone and Skill Labs are more than just incremental improvements - they offer new possibilities for supporting institutions and the learners they serve. What drew me here is the ambition behind the work: accelerating pathways to knowledge and skills while building learning that endures. That is a mission worth scaling, and the opportunity to help shape that future is work I am excited to be part of building.”

Martinell will oversee company operations and partner closely with the executive team on strategy, revenue performance, and long-range planning. She is based in Chicago.

Tomlinson joined WorldQuant Learning in 2024 and has led product and technology strategy through the build and launch of Keystone, which entered Early Access in April 2026. He brings more than two decades of experience leading product and technology organizations in education technology, including as Chief Technology Officer at Top Hat and Chief Product and Technology Officer at Blackboard, where he led the company’s cloud transformation and architecture modernization.

“I have spent my career building platforms in education,” said Tomlinson. “Few platforms truly change what is possible. I believe this is one of them. We are building infrastructure that enables institutions to move as fast as the world moves, with educators leading every step. The technology to make that real is here. The opportunity to deliver it is what brought me to WorldQuant Learning.”

Tomlinson leads all aspects of product engineering, platform architecture, and technical operations. He is based in Seattle.

About WorldQuant Learning

WorldQuant Educational Technologies LLC, dba WorldQuant Learning, is an education technology company founded to accelerate pathways to knowledge and skills for any learner. The company partners with higher education institutions to deliver high-quality, rigorous education at scale through Keystone™, its intelligent curriculum platform, and WorldQuant Learning Skill Labs™, its virtual labs platform for hands-on technical instruction. Founded in 2024 by Igor Tulchinsky, WorldQuant Learning is a separate entity from WorldQuant, LLC, a global quantitative asset management firm. Learn more at wqlearning.com.