Management Team

Busteed speaks and writes frequently on higher education policy, specifically as it relates to alcohol prevention and risk liability. He is a frequent guest lecturer at academic institutions, including MIT's Sloan School of Management, and the author of numerous articles and academic papers, including Trusteeship Magazine and Campus Safety Journal.

Alexander Packard
Chief Operating Officer
Alexander Packard joined Outside The Classroom as Chief Operating Officer in May 2008. He is passionate about building and growing businesses which are based on people and ideas that can change the world. Previous to joining Outside The Classroom, Packard spent four years at Monitor Group, the global strategy consulting firm, serving as Chief Operating Officer of Monitor Executive Development, the firm's dedicated executive education and development unit. In this capacity, Packard led the development and implementation of a new business model in the executive development field, hired a team of 30 professionals, and built operations in North America and Europe. Before joining Monitor Group, Packard was a Senior Partner in the venture philanthropy firm, New Profit Inc., based in Cambridge, MA. Previously, Packard spent ten years with a family of entrepreneurial organizations in Washington, DC, which included The Advisory Board Company; its spin-off firm, The Corporate Executive Board; and a related publishing enterprise, Atlantic Media. Over this ten year period, Packard led the growth of several research businesses, ran new product development, launched new product lines, and held several other general management roles in the business information and publishing sectors. In addition to his professional commitments, Packard sits on the Board of Trustees of ACCESS, a nonprofit organization that provides college financial aid advising and scholarships to high school students in Boston. At one time, Packard was a competitive oarsman at the national level and coached collegiate rowing for three years. Packard has a B.A. from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard and lives with his family in Brookline, MA.

Sean P. Casey
Vice President of Sales
Sean Casey has a passion for assisting organizations who have a mission to combine education with technology to enhance the learning experience and environment for today's student. Casey has more than a decade of experience leading sales and services organizations within the e-learning and digital content delivery market. Previously, Casey was responsible for strategy and new business development at Blackboard, Inc. (BBBB) where he led the content partnerships group. Prior to Blackboard, Casey was Director of Technology Sales at Cengage Learning where he was responsible for driving new business initiatives surrounding the most profitable digital asset in the Cengage suite of products. Previously, Casey held sales and professional services positions at Jenzabar where he was responsible for managing the development and implementation of the organization's first cross platform portal project. Casey also spent time at eCollege where he was the original member of their enrollment marketing department. Casey holds a BA from the University of Vermont and an MBA from Boston University and lives in Cohasset, MA with his family. He enjoys (thinking about) running marathons, skiing, and spending time watching his son run on the beach. Casey and Outside The Classroom's Founder and CEO, Brandon Busteed, ran competitively against one another in Pennsylvania during their high school days.

Angela Han
Vice President of Services and Operations
For the last 10 years, Han has been working in the fields of education and educational technology. As a classroom teacher, Han was the recipient of the 1998 Sally Mae First Class Teacher Award, a national award selected by educational experts of the American Association of School Administrators for exceptional ability and initiative in the classroom. She later became interested in the opportunity and powerful impact that technology could have on students' learning. Han became a professional development consultant with Tom Snyder Productions in Watertown, Massachusetts. She trained educators and administrators across the country about effective ways to use technology to meet pedagogical needs. Han later joined WebCT to help build out the site's innovative online college resources and communities. Her contributions included developing one of the first online student resource centers that could support college students' needs on a national level. Han has since been working at Outside The Classroom for the last five years, where she has been involved in all curriculum, product, and service development.

Han received her BA from Middlebury College, and MBA from Babson College. She lives in Westwood, Massachusetts, with her husband, Andrew, and daughters, Sophia and Baylee.

Sue Squires
Vice President of Finance and Administration
Squires brings over 20 years of experience in the financial, human resource and administration management of diverse entrepreneurial ventures. Most recently she was Vice President of Finance and Human Resources of LingoMotors, Inc., a developer of linquistic based software, helping to raise over $18 million in venture funding. Prior to LingoMotors, she was Director of Finance and Human Resources at World Times, Inc. a publisher of the WorldPaper, an editorial supplement with a circulation of 1.8 million in 24 countries. She was the founder of Squires & Associates a financial consulting firm that provided financial and management services to a diverse client base, including publishing, media, non-profit and software companies. Squires received her B.S. in accounting from University of Delaware and her MBA in finance and entrepreneurial studies from Babson College.

William DeJong, Ph.D.
Director of Program Research and Development
In addition to his role as Director of Program Research and Development at Outside The Classroom, Dr. DeJong is also a Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Boston University School of Public Health (BUSPH), where he teaches courses in intervention planning, program evaluation, and health communications. In 2007, Dr. DeJong was awarded the School's Norman A. Scotch Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Dr. DeJong served as director of the U.S. Department of Education's Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention (HEC) from 1995-2004. Under his direction, the HEC emerged as the nation's primary training and technical assistance resource for helping institutions of higher education develop, implement, and evaluate programs and policies for alcohol and other drug prevention on campus. He also served as director of the Center for College Health and Safety (CCHS), based at Education Development Center, Inc., in Newton, MA, from 2000-2005. He continues to serve as a senior advisor to both centers. In recognition of this body of work, he was awarded the first College Leadership Award by the American Public Health Association's Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Section in 2000.

Heather Haynes
Director of Technology and Development
Haynes brings 12 years of Web Development and leadership experience to Outside The Classroom, ranging back to the early days of the Internet. In the mid- to late-1990s, she served as the Webmaster for SUNY College at Brockport, a medium-sized public university in upstate New York. While there she was instrumental in bringing many automated features to the campus Web site, training various faculty and staff on creation and maintenance of their department sites, and migrating the core Web site to a Microsoft platform. From there, she moved to the Boston area and served in leadership roles in a number of dot com start-ups before landing at Outside The Classroom in 2001. Haynes received her BS from Rochester Institute of Technology and lives on the north shore of MA with her husband, Bernie, and twins, Nate and Maya.

Erika Tower
Director of Marketing and Communications
Tower's background has been highly focused on marketing, public relations, and corporate communications. In her role at Outside The Classroom, Tower has helped develop the company's marketing and communications department, creating and implementing a program that earned the team recognition as the PR Week Small Corporate Communications Team of the Year in 2005. Previously, Tower worked with David Copithorne at Porter Novelli International. There, Tower advised clients in its Boston office on the development of strategic marketing communications campaigns and managed the implementation of those campaigns. Prior to Porter Novelli, Tower was a communications consultant with William M. Mercer, where she developed and managed corporate communications programs for the company's clients. Tower earned a BA from Dartmouth College and is currently working toward her MBA at Boston University.