Adam Goldberg, M.Ed is the Founder and CEO. Prior to Torchlight, Adam co-founded and directed the Goldberg Center for Educational Planning. He also spent significant time in IT sales and marketing with EMC, Lucent Technologies, Kenan Systems, and Prodigy Internet. Adam has been featured on NPR’s Here & Now and in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, New York Times, Mass High Tech, Employee Benefit News, and Boston Business Journal, in addition to showcases at the DNC, RNC and The White House. Adam earned a B.S. with honors from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, and an M.Ed. with distinction in Special Education and Assessment from Framingham State University.

Kelly Wahlberg, CFO, is Co-founder and Partner at Delta Capital Partners. Her corporate experience ranges from publicly-traded software companies such as INSO and Allen Systems Group, (formerly Viasoft), to technology start-ups including Epidemico, Upromise, Fiksu, Cartera Commerce and Axway, (formerly Cyclone Commerce). Kelly's particular focus and talent is in developing, implementing, and scaling financial and operational processes and controls. Kelly graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor's degree in Management from the University of Massachusetts.

Vice President of Product, Carolyn Romano, JD, is trained as a special education and elder law attorney and consultant. She has close to 25 years’ experience working with families and school systems around the country on systems change efforts and support for children at risk. In addition, she is certified in mind-body medicine and self-care from the renowned Center for Mind-Body Medicine in DC. In her role as VP of Product, she brings this range of experience to bear along with her extensive knowledge of teaching and learning strategies for both children and adult learners, information design, data collection and Scrum. She earned her BA from Drew University and her Juris Doctor from Boston University School of Law. She just entered her sixth year at Torchlight.

Amy Lyman is a competent professional who brings a unique combination of mental health skills and corporate experience. In addition to years in the financial services industry, she has experience working in a mental health clinic with adults individually and facilitating support groups. She has most recently been a successful EAP counselor supporting employees and advising HR and managers about workplace dynamics. She has a strong training and facilitation background, has managed complex projects, and has been interested in the role of mental health in the workplace since the start of her career. In addition, Amy is passionate about suicide prevention and assessment.

Paul brings 25 years of product engineering experience to Torchlight. From prototype to production, he always remains on schedule and within budget. Prior to joining Torchlight, Paul held development and infrastructure leadership roles at Glance Networks, Ginkgo Bioworks, Bridge International Academies, and FuseSource (now Red Hat). Paul is adept at building quick-moving, productive, customer-focused teams and leading them in taking technology to the next level. Paul and his teams have developed best of breed products for a broad range of enterprise technologies, including highly scalable distributed systems, data mining solutions, and eCommerce Web sites.

Aimee is a strategic marketing professional with over a decade of experience in B2B tech. Entrepreneurial in spirit, she was one of the founding members of a full-service marketing agency that engaged hundreds of startups and SMBs across the innovation economy. She has a proven record of helping companies take their marketing from zero to sixty, always looking for creative ways to stand out in crowded markets.
Prior to her career in marketing, Aimee received her Masters’ in Counseling Psychology and worked as a clinician in an emergency room. Today, Aimee is a member of her town’s Diversity Equity, and Inclusion committee and is a passionate social justice advocate.

For over 35 years, Rebecca Bernson has distinguished herself as an accomplished senior executive who has led sales organizations to achieve benchmark revenue and growth results. Across a variety of industries and companies, she has brought her energetic and innovative approach to communicating vision and leading new ‘go to market’ strategies. She excels in a collaborative style, strong communication skills and a results driven approach that has been the hallmark of her success. From 2003-2010, Rebecca held the position as Senior Vice President of ADP National Accounts, where she was the first woman at ADP to hold this executive leadership role. She was responsible for $1.5b in revenue and over 600 associates covering sales, marketing, contracting, training and solution support. In 2011, Rebecca was recruited by Bain Capital in a transformation of WorldPay US. As the Senior Vice President of Sales, her challenge was to lead the growth and reconstruction of a 350 associate division in the debt and credit card processing market with over $295m in revenue. Today, Rebecca also serves on the board of the Georgia Center for Civic Engagement.