John Danner is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in technology and education.  He is CEO of Flourish Education, a network of AI-powered private middle schools, which opened in August 2025 in Nashville.  He is Chairman of SparkSpace and Project Read.  SparkSpace is an AI writing tutor for children in 3-8th grade.  ProjectRead is an AI tutor teaching over 100,000 students to read in elementary schools.  Previously John was co-Founder and CEO of Rocketship Education, an elementary school network now serving 12,000 students annually with 25 schools in 5 states. John was a fifth and second grade public school teacher before starting Rocketship. John’s first startup was NetGravity, the first Internet adserver company, where he was co-Founder and CEO. John took NetGravity public in 1998 and sold the company in 1999. John has a B.S. and M.S. Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a M.Ed. in Education Policy from Vanderbilt University. He is a Stanford DCI Fellow,  Aspen Institute Crown Fellow, Ashoka Fellow, and was the 2010 winner of the McNulty Prize for Social Entrepreneurship from the Aspen Institute.  John is the co-instructor of Lean Launchpad for Education at Stanford, a class focused on student teams launching new education companies.

Suzanne Danner began her career as an Executive Assistant in Bay Area Tech at age 19 with Tandem Computers.  In 1997 after attending Interior Design School, Suzanne obtained her Real Estate license and found her niche developing and selling homes in the Los Gatos and Monte Sereno areas.  Seeking steady income after the 2009 - 2010 real estate crash, Suzanne found herself back in the Corporate world supporting C-level Executives at VMWare (2011-2019), and Hitachi Vantara (2019 - 2023).  

Retired from the corporate world, and with greater flexibility and time, Suzanne continues to look for opportunities to offer philanthropic assistance in our local communities. Helping seniors, finding solutions to reduce homelessness, and assisting families with children fighting cancer are of primary interest. In addition, Suzanne is currently working with families in Hawaii and is in the beginning stages of identifying needs and support for financial literacy.  Meanwhile, her greatest joy comes from spending time with her husband, John, and their blended family.