Carrie Swanson
Raised in both the UK and USA, Carrie spent 20 years in global new product development and marketing with both Unilever and Seagram and as an entrepreneur establishing both AcuPOLL Europe - a new product testing company and the Quizzing Glass which trained marketeers on new product development techniques.
In the last 10 years she has been a partner in Camp Experts & Teen Summers (www.campexperts.co.uk) helping parents & students around the world find educational enrichment opportunities from summer camp to gap years. She has developed a thorough understanding of the US and UK educational systems including the IB and has helped families around the world navigate helping their students prepare to apply to University. This interest in educational enrichment has lead to her desire to help improve educational opportunities for all.
Carrie has a BA in History and International Relations from Brown University and an MBA in Marketing and Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is also mum to two girls, one currently at University and one in secondary school, wife to Donald and proud dog mum to Montague.