Jack Lynch

Chief Operating Officer
EducationSuperHighway

Jack Lynch is the chief operating officer at EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit focused on closing the digital divide in America’s most unconnected communities. Between 2012 and 2020, EducationSuperHighway helped to connect 43 million K-12 students to the minimum speed necessary for digital learning and secured commitments from governors in all 50 states to upgrade their schools for the 21st century. Lynch also serves as an adviser to Project Waves, a nonprofit ISP focused on serving unconnected residents in Baltimore. He began his career as a hardware engineer at Cisco Systems, but was driven to make a career change by a strong belief in the power of technology to create equitable opportunities for everyone. He has an electrical engineering degree from the University of Southern California’s Viterbi School of Engineering.