INDIAN RIVER STATE COLLEGE NEWS
HAGELOH TO HEAD IRSC’S
STRATEGIC INITIATIVES
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BY SUZANNE SELDES
Indian River State College has hired
technology and education veteran Michael
Hageloh as executive vice president of
strategic initiatives. Hageloh, who has
spent his professional career at the nexus
of business and academia — including 22
years at Apple — assumes a newly created,
key leadership role within the college.
The appointment comes at a time of extraordinary
momentum for the Aspen-award-winning institution:
• In September, Dr. Timothy Moore began his tenure as the college’s
fourth president;
• In October, the college reintroduced its online learning platform
as IRSC Global;
• In early December, it broke ground on the IRSC Advanced
Workforce Training Complex; and
• In mid-December, it received the largest donation in its history
— $45 million from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott.
“Michael is a visionary leader with a deep background in
advancing breakthrough ideas,” Moore said. “He comes to IRSC
with myriad longstanding relationships with thought leaders,
policymakers and other influencers in the education and technology
sphere. He has worked with global education technology —
EdTech — start-ups, institutes of higher education, and was the
top in his field at one of the world’s most iconic brands — Apple.
We are excited and energized to see how he will help us shape and
change the educational space here at IRSC.”
As an education strategic partnership leader at Apple, Hageloh
built relationships crucial to Apple’s iconic status as a dynamic
force for innovation. For nearly two decades, as a leading contributor
in Apple’s Higher Education Division, he interacted with
trustees, students, university administrators, faculty and others to
execute Apple’s first university-wide student one-to-one technology
initiative, Apple’s first anytime anywhere athletic learning initiative,
and developing one of Apple’s top iTunes U content creators at
the University of South Florida — LitToGo. As a founding member of
Apple’s iconic student representative program, Hageloh pioneered
diversity recruiting within the program.
“Indian River State College is at the start of a journey to redefine
the delivery of education with Dr. Moore’s customer-driven vision,”
Hageloh said. “I’m excited to join the IRSC team at this pivotal
juncture to advance the college and inject a Silicon Valley mantra
— my mantra — of ‘not what is, but what could be.’ ”
Hageloh left Apple in 2010 and has since lent his passion and
expertise to firms such as Adobe, Kaltura and littleBits. He has
additionally led development efforts for the University of South
Florida Muma College of Business and College of Education. He
comes to IRSC from Kilgore College in Kilgore, Texas, where he
served as chief development officer. During his career, Hageloh
has nearly $1 billion in measurable results.
Hageloh is a native Floridian, musician, storyteller and published
author of a bestselling book, Live From Cupertino: How
Apple Used Words, Music, and Performance to Build the World’s Best
Sales Machine. He is also a published opinion writer and brand
commentator featured in Fast Company, MarketWatch, Business
Insider, the Chronicle of Philanthropy, CASE, Fox Business, Medium,
and national podcasts. He is pursuing a doctor of education
degree from Nova Southeastern University. v
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