David Marr
President, Blackboard Transact
David leads Blackboard’s Transact business that delivers enterprise Commerce, Security Management and notification platforms. The Transact platforms provide a comprehensive and secure enterprise-class software and hardware solution that can also integrate with Blackboard’s enterprise e-Learning application. The Transact solutions enable institutions to deliver on-campus, off-campus and online commerce, security and notification solutions to students, faculty and staff.
Prior to leading Transact, David was the SVP of Global Consulting and ASP services for the Blackboard global community. His leadership ensured that clients’ mission critical e-Learning programs were effectively integrated, implemented and maintained to meet the needs of their diverse constituencies.
Before joining Blackboard, David was as a Managing Director at BearingPoint (formally KPMG Consulting), a global systems integrator where he served educational institutions, as well as federal, state and local governments. Prior to his Managing Director position at BearingPoint, David served in the audit practice at KPMG Peat Marwick.
David brings twenty years of business experience in working closely with academic and government entities to develop and implement customized business solutions enabled by leading-edge technology. His career highlights include deploying the countries largest K12 data warehouse for the State of Georgia’s 1.7m students and its 186 school districts. The solution also integrated with the district’s academic systems in support of statewide assessment and reporting. David led BearingPoint’s multi-year modernization partner re-engineering effort at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Federal Student Aid, BearingPoint’s National Higher Education Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence solution as well as developed BearingPoint’s CRM strategy, “Student for Life”.
David has served as a national speaker presenting on topics such as: “The Future of Technology in Education,” “Modernization of the US Department of Education,” “Providing Access to Education through Technology,” and “Emerging Issues in Higher Education.”