Krista Marks is an entrepreneur, product leader, and board member who has spent her career building technology products that delight users. She has co-founded three companies, including Kerpoof, which Disney acquired in 2008, and Woot Math, an award-winning math education platform that merged with Saga Education in 2020.
After the Disney acquisition, Krista served as VP of User Generated Content for Disney Online, building platforms that reached millions of kids. She later served as CTO of Saga Education, where she led technology strategy for high-impact tutoring reaching 2+ million students nationally.
Earlier in her career, Krista was a hardware engineer designing custom electronics for high-energy physics experiments at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. There she won the lab’s highest achievement award and an R&D 100 award for heavy-ion cancer radiotherapy electronics. She went on to lead a team at Xilinx whose industry leading FPGA products generated over $250M in revenue.
Krista currently serves as a non-executive director for Tutorful, a leading UK tutoring company, and co-founded and chairs the board of restART studio, an art therapy nonprofit working to break the K-12 to prison pipeline one student at a time. She is a long-time Techstars mentor, LP, and angel investor.
Krista holds multiple U.S. patents and a Bachelor’s in EECS from the University of South Carolina. She is passionate about using technology to close the opportunity gap in education so all students have the confidence and academic strength they need to succeed.
