Mark Angel is the CEO and Co-founder of Amira Learning, the company bringing reading science into every classroom, with AI. Amira is a rapidly growing, ventured-funded startup. Amira is the first intelligent reading assistant for teachers. Mark formerly served as Chief Technology Officer at Renaissance Learning, where he lead the R&D organization and worked on the two most successful reading apps in the United States – Accelerated Reader and STAR. He has worked for 30 years in the Silicon Valley as a CEO, CTO and General Manager for innovators in the realm of Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (Ernst & Young, Nuance, KANA Software). Mr. Angel is the founder of three successful start-ups. He is a chief inventor on more than 10 patents in the areas of search.