Board Member

Mr. Randall Reiners

Chairman and CEO

Mr. Reiners is now recognized as a leading innovator in blended learning education. Yorktown Education is being recognized as the leading innovator quality education using advanced technology. Randall Reiners was driven to investigate the pitfalls and opportunities in the primary education system by his own experiences as a student and by his son’s development.

In his early years, Reiners was pegged as a “troublesome student” because of his short attention span. As is often the case, the problem wasn’t Reiners’s ability to learn – he was bored being forced to learn as slowly as the slowest learner in his classes.Recently, his son has faced the same challenge. Both Reiners and his son became superior students on very fast tracks when they were given the opportunity. In one year, Reiners completed 54 college credits at Iowa State and made the dean’s list in engineering while on the varsity NCAA athletic team that finished second in the national championships.

Reiners has carried out the conception and development of Yorktown and its educational business model including development of Yorktown’s patents. Reiners was also a volunteer teacher in the Memphis city schools in the 1980s and was a student in innovative, experimental learning programs in the 1970s.

He is an experienced executive with several industry-changing growth companies including Malone & Hyde/AutoZone, Inc., Tempur-Pedic, Inc., and Interactive Pictures Corporation, all of which went public by IPO. He was recently president, CEO, and director of the Professional Directors Institute with SEC Commissioner Isaac C. Hunt. Reiners has turned around and grown a number of firms – including OLTS, Cimtek(Medicalbuyer.com), ILS (the Ryder System Inc. information subsidiary), and Hencie, Inc. – that became listed on Inc. Magazine’s list of the 500 fastest-growing firms.

Reiners’ current or past memberships on boards of directors include Tempur-Pedic, Inc., the Professional Directors Institute, the Kellogg Business School Alumni Board (DFW), Horizon Data Systems, and the Memphis Association for Retarded Citizens. He is also an Eagle Scout. He serves as an advisor to NTEC, Inc., a medical technology incubator.

Reiners has a master’s degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (dean’s list, and graduated in one year) and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Missouri (honors degree, top 10 student award, and dean’s list).