Jonathan Grayer is the former Chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., a global education company that began as a test prep provider in 1938 and was purchased by The Washington Post Company in 1984. Grayer is credited with expanding the company to its current size since 1994 when he was first appointed CEO.
Grayer graduated with an B.A. from Harvard College in 1986 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Over the course of his college career, he ser...
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Jonathan Grayer is the former Chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc., a global education company that began as a test prep provider in 1938 and was purchased by The Washington Post Company in 1984. Grayer is credited with expanding the company to its current size since 1994 when he was first appointed CEO.
Grayer graduated with an B.A. from Harvard College in 1986 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Over the course of his college career, he served as a summer intern in the corporate development department at The Washington Post Company. Upon completing his M.B.A. at Harvard Business School in 1990, he joined the marketing department of Newsweek, another Washington Post company, where he was eventually named the director of marketing. Grayer joined Kaplan in 1990 as regional operations director, and held several titles before becoming president and CEO in July 1994. He was named Chairman and CEO of the education company in February 2002.(The Washingtonian, June 2005)
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