Craig Pines

Craig Pines is the founder and Principal Advisor of CP Global Advisors, a strategic advisory firm focused on education technology and services. With 25+ years of experience as a CEO, board member, and investor, Craig specializes in helping companies and their investors navigate growth, strategic expansion, and successful exits.

Craig currently serves as Chairman of FourthRev and Amerigo Education, member of the Alliant University Board of Trustees, Strategic Board Advisor to Castify, and Advisor to nxtclick. He is also a Venture Partner at Emerge Education, a UK-based pre-seed fund investing in the future of learning and work.

His operating career includes 16 years as CEO of two high-growth EdTech companies. He co-founded Deltak, an online program management provider, and grew it to a successful exit via sale to Wiley. He subsequently co-founded Amerigo Education, building it from start-up to a leading K-12 international education service provider with partner schools across the US, Canada and the UK.

Craig holds a B.S. in Finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and is based in Chicago.