Yael Aufgang leads Kaplan, Inc.’s legal team.

With Kaplan since 2016, Yael was previously in private practice. She was a litigator at Jones Day (Chicago), Goodwin Proctor LLP (Boston), and Cahill Gordon & Reindel (New York), focusing most recently on antitrust litigation.

A native of Argentina who moved to the United States as a young child, Yael made immigrant justice a primary focus of her extensive legal pro bono work while in private practice. She also was a Teach for America corps member before she attended law school. Yael is a member of the board of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, a 501(c)(3) charity that provides academic advising and financial support to community college students from underrepresented communities who wish to transfer into competitive four-year schools.

Yael earned a bachelor’s in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from the Fordham University School of Law.

Brandon Busteed oversees Kaplan’s higher education partnerships in North America, leveraging its global educational assets—ranging from recruiting and housing international students and assessing outcomes to enabling distance education via online learning and university hosting programs—to provide institutions help in expanding access and their scope of services and meeting the changing needs of their students and the workplace.

Busteed’s 20-year career has been largely focused on the education arena. Before joining Kaplan, he was Senior Partner and Global Head, Public Sector at Gallup, overseeing its higher education, government, foundation and corporate social impact segments. While at Gallup, he led dozens of ground-breaking studies, such as the Gallup-Purdue Index (a long-term study of college graduates’ work and life outcomes) and the Strada-Gallup Education Consumer Survey (the largest representative study of U.S. adults and education consumers’ education pathways and experiences).

Prior to Gallup, Busteed was the founder and former CEO of Outside The Classroom, a company that pioneered adaptive online education to change risky student behaviors. He sold the company to EverFi in 2011.

He is a prolific writer and sought-after speaker about innovation and trends in education and workforce development. Busteed’s articles have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Fast Company, and other publications.

Busteed is a graduate of Duke University, where he studied public policy. He is a trustee-emeritus of Duke and also served on the Board of Visitors for the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

Tom Horton oversees Kaplan’s corporate and strategic development, including acquisitions, investments, partnerships, new business initiatives, and strategic planning. He also provides consultative support to Kaplan’s leaders on high priority operational improvement and product quality initiatives.

Horton served in a similar role at McKesson Technology Solutions, the former healthcare technology software and services division of McKesson Corp., at which he was Senior Vice President and Chief Process Officer. As both an independent consultant and senior-level corporate executive, Tom’s career has spanned the education, healthcare, and technology sectors. This experience includes serving in senior positions at IDX Corporation, a healthcare information technology supplier, working in both their U.S. and U.K. operations, as well as several years at McKinsey & Company in their Montreal, Stockholm, and Stamford offices. He began his career as a history teacher, coach, and Academic Director at Burke Mountain Academy (East Burke, Vermont), a specialized private high school for top-caliber ski racers and the first dedicated sports academy in the U.S., where a number of his students went on to compete on various national and Winter Olympic teams.

Horton earned a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.

As CEO of Kaplan International, David Jones is responsible for Kaplan’s English study abroad business and university pathway colleges for international students. This involves overseeing 50 colleges and 25 admissions offices on 5 continents.

Jones’s lifelong involvement with international education began after leaving Oxford University. He led student groups on adventure programs in the Middle East, the Indian Sub-Continent and the Himalayas. He later went on to organize expeditions in the Sahara and remote areas of French West Africa.

Since then Jones has been a pioneer in international education, developing businesses in Asia, Europe, North America and the Pacific. He was instrumental in building America’s largest operator of educational tours and for a decade was President of EF International Language Schools.

Having acquired the Aspect Education group in 2000, he was Chairman and CEO when the company became part of Kaplan Inc. in 2006.
Jones is a strong believer in the benefits of international education at the tertiary level, both for the students themselves and for the institutions in which they are enrolled.

Mack built Kaplan’s brand and reputation infrastructure as the company evolved from a small, U.S.-based test prep company to one of the world’s largest providers of educational services. Mack oversees internal communications and public relations activity across the organization, in support of Kaplan’s strategic priorities. She led the development of Kaplan’s master-brand strategy, consolidating dozens of brands and creating a unified identity for the company; and she introduced the Branded Environments program to optimize the customer and employee experience, and promote Kaplan’s brand consistently across locations.

Mack oversees human resources at Kaplan, where her responsibilities include organizational effectiveness, employee engagement and talent management. And she oversees the Kaplan Learning Innovations team, which implements evidence-based practices in the design and development of assessments and instructional materials.
Mack serves as Chairman of the Kaplan Educational Foundation, a public charity that she helped to create, and which she has overseen since its inception. The Foundation provides academic advising and financial assistance to underrepresented, high-potential community college students from the New York City area who wish to transfer into competitive four-year schools.

Mack holds a B.A. degree with honors from Brown University.

Gregory Marino leads Kaplan’s businesses and operations based in the United States. These businesses provide individuals, educational institutions, and businesses a broad array of services, including higher and professional education, test preparation, corporate and leadership training, and student recruitment, online enablement and other university support services.

Marino joined Kaplan Inc. in 1993, has served in numerous senior roles and subsequently played an integral role building the former Kaplan University’s highly successful student-focused service model and innovative technology platform. Under his leadership, Kaplan University was acquired in 2018 by Purdue University and began operating as Purdue University Global. This disruptive acquisition of Kaplan University by Purdue was heralded as a landmark transaction in the higher education industry, whereby for the first time a for-profit institution was converted to a non-profit institution owned by a public entity. Marino has led the transition of KHE to a Managed Services Provider and is dedicated to building long-term strategic partnerships with higher education institutions and employers to address their educational needs.

Marino earned an MBA and Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Maryland University College. He previously served on the Board of Directors for the Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance and was an executive committee member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. In 2019, Florida Trend Magazine named Marino to the Florida 500, the most influential executives in more than 60 economic sectors throughout the state. He was also a former recipient of Business Leader magazine’s South Florida Movers & Shakers Award.