Tom Dretler is Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Shorelight. Shorelight is a leading international student marketplace in the United States. Our platform connects international students, universities, and service providers to drive student enrollment and performance at scale. We do this so that a more globally diverse population can lead and prosper for generations to come. Together, we help Educate the World.

Prior to co-founding Shorelight in 2013, Tom was for 13-years the CEO of Eduventures, a best-practices and benchmarking organization that works with more than 500 top U.S. universities.

Tom also was an executive-in-residence at Sterling Partners, a private equity firm that invests in education, health care, and business services companies. Tom is Board Chair of US News Global Education and is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins University School of Education. He is co-author of the Bain & Company white papers, The Financially Sustainable University and The Financially Resilient University, which analyzed the financial health of all four-year colleges and universities in the United States and outlined solutions for creating new revenue streams that benefited students and other university stakeholders. Previously, Tom was the founding Board Chair of the Alliance for Business Leadership, an organization of CEOs committed to changing the role of business leadership in society.

Tom is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University where he was a Rhodes Scholar candidate and Phi Beta Kappa member. He also holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School where he was awarded the Goldsmith Fellowship.