Top 20 EdTech CEOs 2022
DMAI/AILA - Creating education platform with AI driven algorithm.
Helen Thomas began her career at LeapFrog, where she was part of the team growing the global business exponentially and later became the founding CEO of LeapFrog China, after she successfully built educational businesses in Japan and South Korea. She then joined another startup Livescribe and launched the world’s first Smartpen worldwide. She also started two other companies- Bluefocus Communication Group of America and Touchjet USA, Inc. Most recently, she has been working with the founders of DMAI (Dark Matter Artificial Intelligence) and successfully launched their first education platform with AI driven algorithms to deliver the right content at the right time.
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Top 20 Education Technology CEOs of 2022
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Helen Fu Thomas | CEO DMAI, Inc DBA Animal Island Learning Adventure (AILA)
Women in Tech: “Don’t be discouraged. Carry on.”
Helen Fu Thomas is the CEO of cognitive AI company DMAI, Inc. and successfully launched their first education platform, with AI-driven algorithms to deliver the right content at the right time.
Prior to DMAI, Inc., she started her high-tech career at LeapFrog (NYSE: LF). She was part of the team growing the global business exponentially and became the founding CEO of LeapFrog China after she successfully built educational businesses in Japan and South Korea.
She also helped Livescribe launch the world’s first smartpen. At the beginning, she was the only female and minority senior staff member. She also started two other companies from scratch, Bluefocus Communication Group of America and Touchjet USA, Inc., as founding CEO.
Helen earned her MBA in Marketing at the Haas Business School at UC Berkeley.
Throughout my 27-year career, I never forgot where I came from and how I was raised.
“What is really rewarding is to impact people’s lives in education early on,” says Helen Fu Thomas, CEO of DMAI, Inc.
“Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, AILA helped tens of thousands of American households and many daycare centers educate the toddlers and preschoolers effectively,” she adds. AILA is the no. 1 New Release on Amazon in the Toddler Electronic Learning System category.Daycare providers can use AILA as a simple solution to help combat pandemic learning loss..”
– Toddler Device Combats Pandemic Learning Loss THE SARATOGIAN
“Helen is Chief of Staff and Chief Marketing Officer at DMAI, Inc. to lead the go-to-market strategy and commercialization of Cognitive AI technologies to empower teachers to provide more personalized instruction. AILA Sit & Play™, a new AI-driven edutainment system for toddlers, leads DMAI’s planned roll-out of at least four other AI applications within the next two years to improve healthy, joyful living throughout all stages of life, from K-12 to elder care.”
– How Helen Fu Thomas of DMAI tackles the extreme work life balance
“Helen Fu Thomas is the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Touchjet USA, Inc. An award-winning entrepreneur and marketer, Helen has a track record of building technology and digital media companies from the startup to exit. She was the founding CEO of LeapFrog China. At Livescribe, she grew worldwide sales from 0 to $50 million within three years. She built BlueFocus Communication Group from 0 to $200 million in North America within two years.”
“My goal is to build one of the biggest integrated marketing communications group in the world,” says Ms. Thomas, President of BlueFocus Communication Group of America, a company that specializes in public relations, media and marketing.
A highly successful international marketing professional with 20 years of experience in marketing communications and brand building, Ms. Thomas was invited by Oscar Zhao, Founder, CEO and Chairman of BlueFocus Communication Group, Ltd., a public company in China, to establish the company’s presence in America.
– National Association of Professional Women
BlueFocus Communication Group “reported total revenues of RMB3.6bn (US$592m). Around a third of that, said BlueFocus America president Helen Fu Thomas, can be attributed to PR revenues, which are now grouped with digital under the BlueDigital brand.
The eye-catching increase in PR revenue reflects both the reorganization of the group's earned media businesses, and the hectic pace of acquisition. On a like-for-like basis, BlueDigital's revenues grew by 78% over 2012.”
