Nelson B. Heller, Ph.D
President, EdNET
MDR
2009

Bio | Induction Speech | Acceptance Speech

Read Nelson Heller's AEP Blog entries about his career in educational publishing.

• Part 1:His greatest influence and the advice he would give to those choosing educational publishing
• Part 2: His greatest challenge and his proudest accomplishment
• Part 3: The greatest challenge facing our industry in the next five years

Nelson Heller is president of EdNET at MDR, a D&B company. EdNET publishes a weekly e-mailed industry news service, sponsors the annual EdNET: Educational Networking Conference, and offers periodic EdNET Virtual Roundtables with panels of experts regarding key issues impacting educational sales and marketing.

Nelson Heller started The Heller Reports in 1988. In 2002, the business was acquired by Scholastic Inc. and QED. Nelson joined MDR when QED was acquired by MDR in February, 2009. In its early years, in addition to EdNET, The Heller Reports offered periodic international EdNET Trade Missions and published two valued technology-focused newsletters: Educational Technology Markets, and Internet Strategies for Education Markets, covering business opportunities in the education markets. The Heller Reports pioneered electronic education market B2B publications with a news alert service, archive and virtual community for educational industry executives.

Dr. Heller has been quoted in the numerous business publications and has spoken at or keynoted at many domestic and international conferences.

He previously served as research vice president for the SFN group of companies including Scott Foresman, Silver Burdett and Southwestern and, before that, was president of Educational Programming Systems and the Technology Assisted Learning Market Information Service (TALMIS).

Dr. Heller is recipient of the “Making It Happen” education industry award. He holds a BEE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and graduate degrees from MIT and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.