Institutional credibility

Leadership shaped by delivery, entrepreneurship, and systems thinking.

LevelUp is led by founders who have worked across workforce development, entrepreneurship, applied learning, and institutional partnerships in international markets.

What you'll find: How the founders and initiative leads bridge entrepreneurship, learning design, partnerships, and public-value execution.
Why it matters: The model depends on leaders who can move between vision, delivery, and institution-building.

Editorial portrait of LevelUp Economy founders Lana Zumbrunn and Mitchell Robertson — Founder leadershipLana and Mitch lead LevelUp from Seattle with a global systems-building lens.

Founder leadership

The people who set the thesis and carry it to partners.

Lana and Mitch lead LevelUp from Seattle with a global systems-building lens.

Co-founder

Mitchell Robertson

Economic systems, institutional partnerships, executive AI adoption, and venture-building

Mitchell leads LevelUp's systems thesis and institutional partnerships across international markets, and works directly with executives on adopting AI at the level where strategy is actually set.

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Co-founder

Lana Zumbrunn

AI engineering, technical architecture, curriculum systems, and ecosystem building

Lana is LevelUp's technical lead. She came up through software development and ecosystem building and now works at the front edge of AI engineering, and she owns the architecture underneath the programs — the platforms, the delivery infrastructure, and the curriculum itself.

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Initiative leads

The people who take a thesis into technical delivery.

Mike leads strategy, startups, and venture-building work; Djavan leads cybersecurity and digital forensics curriculum, instruction, and large technical growth projects.

Strategy & Venture Lead

Mike Ma

Strategy, startups, product building, and venture-building

Mike brings LevelUp a 0-to-1 builder's lens shaped by more than two decades across product leadership, startup creation, venture incubation, AI-enabled products, and learner-driven education.

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Cybersecurity & Digital Forensics Lead

Djavan Norris

Cybersecurity, digital forensics, instruction, and growth-project strategy

Djavan supports LevelUp as a cybersecurity and digital forensics initiative lead, instructor, and strategist for large-scale growth projects that need real technical depth and learner-centered delivery.

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Who we are

The team behind LevelUp connects strategy, delivery, and ecosystem execution.

The credibility of the model depends on the people who can carry it from idea to implementation.

Beyond the four profiles above, LevelUp brings together instructors, curriculum designers, operators, and delivery partners who can move between public strategy and hands-on implementation. That range is what makes it possible to run systems work through to real delivery rather than stopping at the recommendation.

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Open roles

Instruction, curriculum design, and delivery roles as initiatives scale.

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Partners and funders

The delivery partners, funders, and institutions the team works alongside.

Partners and funders

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Whether you are scoping a program, a funding structure, or an institutional partnership, the fastest path is a direct conversation.