Stride, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors has elected Dr. Craig R. Barrett as Chairman of the Board. Dr. Barrett will succeed Nathaniel A. Davis, outgoing Board Chairman, and former CEO, who is retiring Sept 30, 2022, after a remarkable 13-year career with the company. During his tenure, Mr. Davis led the company in its improvement of student academic outcomes, retention, and graduation rates.

He prioritized the customer experience, strengthened teacher tools and student-teacher interaction opportunities, and ushered in an era that expanded the Company's use of new technologies. Under his leadership, Stride's revenues topped $1.5 billion on an annual basis, while increasing profitability and free cash flow. Dr. Barrett joined the Stride Board as a director in September 2010.

He served as Chairman and CEO of Intel Corporation, which he joined in 1974, until his retirement in 2009. Prior to Intel, Dr. Barrett served as a faculty member in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Dr. Barrett currently serves as Chair of the Carnegie Institution of Science and President and Chair of BASIS Schools, Inc. He earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in materials science from Stanford University.