About Us
CulturePop is the only 100% profile-free, anonymous e-learning and engagement platform in the world.
Powered by proprietary NoProfiles technology, CulturePop personalizes learning experiences, group analytics and personal progress, without as much of an email address or phone number.
Practicing Clean AI is the very core of CulturePop’s technology and team principles. We believe it is both the essence and the future of e-learning and culture engagement.
Learn Better.
Engage More.
The CulturePop team formed amongst 10 diverse co-founders who all had one common thread; they were exposed early in life to diverse people, situations and ideas, forever shaping their habits to seek people and build teams “not like themselves.”
The team has organized with geographic, ethnic, racial and gender diversity which are only a fraction of the 32 attributes that fully describe the “diversity wheel.”
Using Clean AI and NoProfiles, CulturePop increases the surface area of diversity and inclusion intelligence for anyone, anywhere, in a self-paced way.
Leadership
Drew Bartkiewicz
Drew Bartkiewicz is the Co-Founder and CEO of CulturePop. In 2016, he was named one of the Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs, and his company Patriapps was named a Top 25 veteran founded business by Forbes that same year. He has been held leadership roles at salesforce.com, BroadVision, UTC and Mashery. Drew graduated from West Point in 1989 and later earned his Masters in Public and Private Management from Yale University in 1994. He served in Italy and Iraq an officer with the 82nd Airborne, where he received the Bronze Star and Meritorious Service Medal during the Gulf War. He speaks four languages holds 4 Information Sciences Patents, having founded lettrs, SignID, Patriapps, MentalFlow and Musist. He has also published two books, “Unseen Liability” and “Poetguese” with globally acclaimed author Paolo Coelho.
Colonel Gregory D. Gadson
Colonel Gregory D. Gadson is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of CulturePop. He is a Chesapeake, Va., native and a 25-year career Army officer. Commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant of Field Artillery in 1989 from the United States Military Academy at West Point, Greg served in every major conflict of the past two decades. Greg's greatest challenge came in Iraq, where an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack cost him both legs above the knees and normal use of his right arm and hand. Despite this, Gadson remained on active duty in the Army and continued to inspire many with his message of courage, perseverance, determination and teamwork. He is an accomplished photographer/artist, speaker and actor that remains active in cycling, skiing, skydiving and scuba. He received the Distinguished Service Medal; Legion of Merit (2); Bronze Stars (3); Purple Heart; the Meritorious Service Medal (3) and the Army Commendation Medal (3). He is a graduate of Command and General Staff College and holds a master’s degree in Information Systems from Webster University, and Policy Management from Georgetown University.
Everton Cranston
Everton Cranston is the Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer of CulturePop. He is an established leader for high-potential companies for launching, transforming and evolving world-class companies into profitable and growing businesses. Everton is a graduate from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point with a BSc. in Engineering Management. He has a graduate certificate from the University of Southern California in Information Systems Management and an MBA in Marketing from Pace University, Lubin Business School. He served as an officer with the United States Army's 32nd Field Artillery Regiment during the Gulf War.
Albert Alba
Albert Alba is the Co-Founder and Chief Engagement of CulturePop. He is a retired military veteran with over 26 years of service. He earned a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Military Academy in 1989 and an MS in Applied Physics (Nuclear) from the Naval Postgraduate School in 1997. He served three combat tours of duty and was awarded the Silver Star and 3 Bronze Stars. He also taught Physics and Nuclear Engineering courses at West Point and was the Professor of Military Science at the University of Texas at Arlington. After retiring from the military, Al worked as an educational consultant in the United Arab Emirates. He is also authoring the book about his father’s life, who served as a Filipino immigrant and steward with the US Navy.
Co-Founding Team
Software that Scales the Necessary
“To increase my knowledge and appreciation of people not like me, is to help me understand and appreciate what’s unique about me. We should make that e-learning as accessible to as many minds as possible.”
— Roy E. Alston, PhD, Co-Founder
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Our Values
”If software can create addictive behaviors for gaming, socializing and dieting, then we should be able to distribute a higher application of technology to expand and elevate our diversity instincts and habits.”
- Adolphus Gwynn, Co-Founder
