Yesterday was a good day at Collegewise, as we officially hired Kate Sweeney, executive director of The Princeton Review’s New York office, as our new Collegewise Regional Vice-President of the Northeast. Her first official day at Collegewise will be April 7, 2014.
It became clear last year that Paul and I needed more help running and growing Collegewise. More than just an additional set of leadership hands, we needed somebody who appreciated our vision and wanted to be a part of doing the difficult work to build something great. We found all of that in Kate.
Since starting her Princeton Review career as an assistant director of high school programs in the Long Island office, Kate has risen through the ranks to become the executive director of the Princeton Review’s New York City office, where she grew their bottom line from $56,000 to $1.2 million in just two years. She has been incredibly supportive of Collegewise since we first became a part of Princeton Review. She even sat through two days of our recent training on the east coast just so she could meet our counselors and learn more about how we do things. Plus, she'll happily karaoke any song from the Dreamgirls soundtrack. That combination of substance and flash is exactly the kind of person we want to join the Collegewise family.
In Kate, Paul and I found exactly who we needed and wanted for this role, and we just couldn’t be happier to have her in our Collegewise ranks. So everyone, please say hi to Kate and welcome her to Collegewise.