Company

Investors

Abroad101 is currently seeking professional and institutional investors. If you would like more information, please contact us at contact@abroad101.com.

Mission

Abroad101 is an interactive online community for students, parents, and study abroad administrators to foster a safer, well-researched, and more meaningful experience abroad.

Abroad101 is a service provided by The Westonian Group, Inc, a Delaware C Corporation chartered in 2007.

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Our Team

Mark Lurie - CEO

Mark Lurie is a 2007 graduate of Harvard College. He has initiated and led several ventures including a summer storage service at Harvard grossing $70,000 in FYE2005. In these ventures Mark managed employees and oversaw the development of an e-commerce platform. In 2004, Mark was selected as a semi-finalist in the Harvard Business School 2004 Business Plan Competition. Mark also has experience in financial services, through which he gained familiarity with a range of financial instruments; In 2006 he marketed and traded interest rate derivatives and currency derivatives as a Summer Analyst at Deutsche Bank. Mark has been accepted to Harvard Business School and has deferred for two years. He is excited to be working on Abroad101!

Mike Stone - President

Michael Stone is a recent graduate of Tufts University with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Communications and Media Studies. He has extensive and international background in the marketing industry through his experience in account management at Arnold Advertising, in Boston and Melbourne, Australia, and helped teach and administer a Tufts study abroad program in France. Michael was also a Fellow in the Spring 2007 StartingBloc Institute for Social Innovation, a national conference devoted to social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability. During StartingBloc, Michael was a winning team member of the Social Innovation Competition and a co-founder of DisasterLink, a natural disaster relief satellite communication system. Michael looks forward to coupling his experience in marketing and social entrepreneurship with his extensive knowledge of the travel industry at Abroad101.

Adam Miller - CTO

Adam Miller recently graduated from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. He began providing computer consulting services at the age of thirteen and has been providing technology consulting services to early-stage companies under the business name Vident Technology for the past few years. Vident Technology operates under the umbrella of The Newport Beach Company, Inc., which aims to become a leader in web start-up incubation. Miller is also the Director of Business Development for CPI Interactive, a Southern California business process management and web technology firm.