The entrepreneur and angel investor takes over a newly created position.
Nick Ducoff, previously vice-president of edtech Boundless, joins Northeastern University for a newly created position. Ducoff becomes the university’s first vice-president for new ventures, as which he will be responsible for furthering the institution’s strategic growth and expansion initiatives.
Ducoff held the position of vice-president of content and operations at Boundless for two years, until May 2014. Boundless creates low-cost and free textbooks which it distributes online. Prior to that position, he co-founded InfoChimps, a cloud big data company acquired by CSC in 2013.
He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University and a Juris Doctor from Texas University.
Ducoff has invested in a number of Boston startups, including Dunwello and Panorama Education, the startup that closed a $4m seed round in October 2013 which included Mark Zuckerberg – in his first edtech investment – and Yale University.
