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Zeke Vanderhoek

Zeke Vanderhoek Founder & Chairman

Zeke Vanderhoek is the founder and Chairman of Manhattan GMAT.  A Yale graduate, Zeke began teaching as a member of Teach For America, the national teacher corps of top college graduates who commit to teach in under-resourced urban and rural public schools across the country.  Zeke was placed at I.S. 90, a public junior high school in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood, where he taught both sixth and eighth graders in all academic subjects.

At the same time, Zeke began tutoring a wide clientele of individuals ranging from elementary and high school students to Graduate School and MBA applicants.  Ultimately, word-of-mouth referrals brought in a remarkably high number of GMAT test-takers and thus, Manhattan GMAT was born.  Since then, Manhattan GMAT has emerged as the nation’s leading GMAT prep company, catering to students interested in learning advanced curricular content from a highly selective group of expert teachers.  Manhattan GMAT offers GMAT courses, private tutoring, advanced workshops, and free seminars to students around the world. In addition, its preparation guides are carried in bookstores worldwide.

In January 2007, Zeke stepped down as CEO of Manhattan GMAT and began the process of founding The Equity Project (TEP) Charter School (www.tepcharter.org), a 480-seat public middle school which will serve at-risk students in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. TEP was granted a 5-year charter by New York State in January 2008 and will open with its first class of 5th grade students in September 2009. In his spare time, Zeke plays piano and guitar and eats almond croissants at his local bakery.  He currently lives in Harlem with his wife Stephanie and daughter Ella.

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