Viridis Learning





Viridis Learning is an innovative educational and job-matching platform guides students through online courses and degree and non-degree programs with community colleges nationwide, and then matches them to highly compatible employment opportunities. After extensive market research, multiple technology innovations, and pilot studies that yielded a 93% completion rate, 70% placement rate and 65% job retention rate amongst users, Viridis Learning is a powerful enterprise employability solution that enables students to identify and pursue highly individualized career pathways systemized by proprietary algorithm technology. For education professionals and career counselors, Viridis Learning offers a customizable, one-stop case management tool that enables them to measure and interact with students seamlessly along that pathway in real time, and a growing network of more than sixty partners can evaluate job candidates efficiently and effectively from Viridis Learning’s real-time human capital pipeline of highly skilled and specialized workers.

  • Industry: Education
  • Year Started: 2009
  • Organization Type: For-Profit
  • # of Employees: 14 ( as of Dec 31, 2013)
www.viridislearning.com
 

Felix W. Ortiz III

Founder, Chairman & CEO

Felix Ortiz is an entrepreneur who proudly served in the U.S. Army 18th Airborne Corps & JAG Corps, and attended St. John’s University. Currently, he is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Viridis Learning, an education technology company that combines workforce education and human capital solutions for the middle-skill workforce. Previously, Felix started several companies, including Visionary Trade & Export at age 20. After several multi-million dollar deals through this venture, he turned his sights toward helping others. In 2008, Felix served on the National Finance Committee Council for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama, and was a member of the Advisory Group for International Trade & Economics on the Obama-Biden Transition Team. During the 2012 presidential campaign, Felix served as a national co-chair of Gen44, where he engaged youth in civic and political involvement. In 2013, Felix was selected to be part of NYC Mayor-Elect Bill DeBlasio’s Technology subcommittee.

  • Age: 40
  • Ethnicity: Latino & Hispanic
 
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