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Jodell Seagrave
President/COO
Rocket21

Jodell Seagrave is President/COO and a co-founder of Rocket21, a new youth media company connecting “Kids, Pro’s, and Possibilities”. The company was formed in 2009 and its first social network offerings are now in private beta. At Rocket21, Seagrave oversees the company’s early-stage operations and is focused on the development of strategic alliances and corporate partnerships.

Prior to forming Rocket21, Seagrave served as Managing Director of the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation, leading the creation, marketing, and distribution of education-oriented consumer brands for kids, parents, and teachers. Under Seagrave’s direction, Schwab Learning garnered scores of national and international digital media and consumer marketing awards, while reorienting ways in which teachers, parents, and students view and address differences in how kids learn.

Earlier, as COO for Communities.com, Seagrave managed the enterprise release of the company’s pioneering virtual worlds software and established key development and distribution agreements with entertainment and media partners.

In 1990, Seagrave co-founded KidStar Interactive, developing private equity and venture investments, strategic partnerships, and corporate sponsorship for one of the country’s first convergent media platforms for kids.

Seagrave began her career in broadcast advertising and media, representing the nation’s largest radio broadcast companies at New York-based Interep, and later spent over a decade in radio broadcast management, working with leading advertising agencies and sponsors.

Seagrave has been a frequent speaker at national and international youth media and marketing conferences, and serves as an advisor to several early stage education ventures and foundations. Seagrave is a graduate of the University of Illinois..