Built by people who ran the registrar's office
- foundedIn Providence, Rhode Island
- 2016
- institutions liveUS, Canada, UK and Ireland
- 340+
- people61 of them former higher-ed staff
- 187
- profitable sinceNo pressure to move upmarket
- 2022
Who you will actually work with
Elena Marsh
Co-founder & Chief Executive
University registrar for eleven years before founding Bookcase Pro. Still sits in on the first discovery call of every implementation.
Dev Raman
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
Built the original multi-tenant record layer. Owns platform reliability and the tenant isolation testing program.
Aisha Bello
Chief Product Officer
Former director of institutional research. Runs the quarterly release cycle and the customer product council.
Tomás Ferreira
VP of Implementation
Has led 90 migrations off legacy student information systems. Wrote the parallel-term methodology we use today.
Nadia Hoffman
Chief Information Security Officer
Owns FERPA, GDPR, SOC 2 and ISO 27001 posture, and answers every institutional security questionnaire personally.
Grant Oyelaran
VP of Customer Success
Former dean of students. Leads the named success architect program and the annual adoption review.
How we got here
- 2016
Founded in Providence
Two registrars and an engineer start building a unified student record for colleges under 5,000 students.
- 2018
First ten institutions live
Academics, records and billing ship as one module set. The first parallel registration term runs at a Vermont college.
- 2020
Enrollment and advancement launch
Prospect CRM, application pipeline and the alumni record join the platform, closing the lifecycle loop.
- 2021
UK and Canada
SLC funding files, HESA reporting and provincial extracts open the platform to technical institutes and polytechnics.
- 2022
Profitable, and SOC 2 Type II
The company reaches sustained profitability and completes its first full-year SOC 2 Type II audit.
- 2024
Continuous enrollment engine
Rolling starts and non-standard terms ship, bringing online universities up to 50,000 students onto the platform.
- 2026
340 institutions, 1.9M records
Predictive yield modeling and the no-SQL query builder become standard on every tier above Foundation.
