We don’t
just teach
the future.
We build it

Pene co-founded Crimson Global Academy six years ago inside Crimson Education, the world's largest college admissions consulting firm. The trend was hard to ignore: high school students, all over the world, with limited access to flexible, world-class teaching. Crimson Academies followed. Five schools, one belief: a student's postcode should not dictate their future.

Our largest school in the group is Crimson Global Academy, supporting 3000+ students in 72 countries around the world in live online classes.

With 15+ years scaling technology companies and a Masters in Technological Futures, Pene is a hands-on builder. She designs and creates the platforms our schools run on and works with our Principals to design education systems that prepare students for their future, not the past.

Jamie founded Crimson Education at seventeen, after being admitted to 25 of the world’s top universities including Harvard, Stanford, Cambridge, MIT and every Ivy League school. He chose Harvard, graduating magna cum laude two years early with a double-degree in applied mathematics and economics.

A Stanford MBA as an Arjay Miller Scholar, a Rhodes Scholarship and DPhil at Oxford, and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School followed. Crimson is now the world’s largest university-admissions company US$1B valuation, 800+ employees, 25+ countries. He founded Crimson Global Academy in 2019 and Crimson Academies in 2025, to build the institutions he wished had existed when he applied.