Education
Tripp received a bachelor"s degree in Economics in 1985 and an Master of Business Administration in 1989, both from Stanford University.
Tripp received a bachelor"s degree in Economics in 1985 and an Master of Business Administration in 1989, both from Stanford University.
Educational Centers and InsideTrack, the college student coaching company he formed with Kai Drekmeier. He is a regular speaker and contributor to the national discussion on higher education. Tripp was a management consultant with Boston Consulting Group (Boston Consulting Group) and worked as an analyst for H&Q Technology Partners.
He has also worked as a reporter and editor for The Wall Street Journal.
In 1992, Tripp launched Service Corps of Retired Executives! Educational Centers, a provider of customized supplementary computer-based education services for children in kindergarten through tenth grade. On 17 April 1996, Kaplan acquired Service Corps of Retired Executives! in a deal worth less than $10 million United States dollar. He stayed on as general manager and helped open nearly 100 centers with more than 1,500 employees.
The company is now a unit of The Washington Post Company. In 1999, Tripp co-founded InsideTrack with Kai Drekmeier.
The firm serves a wide variety of American universities with technology and service solutions for increasing student engagement, enrollment and graduation rates.
Tripp was a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Graduate School of Education from 1999 to 2004, where he co-taught the core course for education entrepreneurs. Tripp also acts as Board Chair for the non-profit website, GreatSchools.net.