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Jonathan Grayer is Chairman and CEO of Kaplan, Inc. During his tenure, Grayer has overseen Kaplan's expansion from an $80 million test preparation company in 1994 to a large and diverse educational conglomerate with nearly $1.7 billion in annual revenue in 2006. Kaplan has approximately 25,000 employees and annually reaches 1 million students around the globe.
Under Grayer's leadership, Kaplan has embraced an aggressive, outcomes-based approach that has served as a model in the education community. The Company continues to explore untapped markets in test preparation, postsecondary education, professional training, distance learning and K12 programs for schools and families in the U.S. and abroad.
Grayer joined The Washington Post Company in 1990 in the marketing department of Newsweek, Inc., where he became Newsweek's Marketing Director. He joined Kaplan in 1991 as Regional Operations Director, and held several titles before assuming responsibility as President and CEO in July 1994. Grayer became Chairman and CEO in February 2002. He received an A.B. degree from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
Grayer serves on the boards of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and the Partnership for New York City. In September 2005 he was named by U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings to the Commission on the Future of Higher Education.
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