Our Team

We have an exemplary team to help you implement rapid item generation

Dr. Mark Gierl

President

Mark is the President of MGHL Partners. He is also a Professor in Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta. His current research program is focused on technology applied to assessment, which includes automatic and rapid item generation. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Educational Measurement.

mark.gierl@mghlpartners.com
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Dr. Hollis Lai

Chief Executive Officer

Hollis has worked to bring automatic and rapid item generation into practice for the past two decades. His dissertation described the process of item generation currently used. Hollis creates the ideas and leads the development of software, workflow processes, and procedures for this company. Hollis is also a Professor at the School of Dentistry, University of Alberta.
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Donna Matovinovic

Head of Corporate Development

Donna brings over 30 years of executive and senior management experience with some of the largest testing companies in the world. She is experienced in running teams of hundreds, managing complex change in large organizations, and guiding the adoption of new technologies. Donna successfully implemented automatic and rapid item generation in two large testing companies which resulted in dramatic shifts in their item development practices.
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Vasily Tanygin

Head of Technology

Vasily has worked on the development of automatic and rapid item generation throughout the past 10 years. He is a full-stack developer who has over a decade of experience creating automatic item generation and educational assessment technologies. He graduated with a BEng specialist degree in software systems development from Mari State Technical University, Russia.
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Gregory Chao

Head of Operations

Gregory has 10 years of experience in education and testing. He is responsible for the training, project management, and support needed to implement automatic and rapid item generation in operational testing programs of any size. Over the past two years, Gregory led the automatic and rapid item generation operations in one of North America’s leading testing companies.
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Dr. Craig Sherburne

General Counsel

General Council

Craig holds a Bachelor of Science with Specialization in Microbiology, a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine related to molecular biology, a JD in law from the University of Alberta, and is a Chartered Arbitrator. He is a Registered Patent Agent for both the United States and Canada and has nearly two decades of experience in trademark, copyright, patent, and other intellectual property assignment, licensing, and protection.
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Dr. Mark Gierl

President

Mark is the President of MGHL Partners. He is also a Professor in Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta. His current research program is focused on technology applied to assessment, which includes automatic item generation. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Educational Measurement.

mark.gierl@mghlpartners.com
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Dr. Hollis Lai

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Executive Officer
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Hollis has worked to bring automatic item generation into practice for the past 13 years. His dissertation described the process of item generation currently used. Hollis creates the ideas and leads the development of software, workflow processes, and procedures for this company. Hollis is also an Associate Professor in Dentistry at the University of Alberta.
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Donna Matovinovic

Chief Executive Officer

Head of Corporate Development
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Donna brings over 20 years of executive and senior management experience with some of the largest testing companies in the world. She is experienced in running teams of hundreds, managing complex change in large organizations, and guiding the adoption of new technologies. Donna successfully implemented automatic item generation in two large testing companies which resulted in dramatic shifts in their item development practices.

Vasily Tanygin

Head of Technology

Head of Technology
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Vasily has worked on the development of automatic item generation in the past 10 years. He is a full-stack developer who has over a decade of experience creating automatic item generation and educational assessment technologies. He graduated with a BEng specialist degree in software systems development from Mari State Technical University, Russia.
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Gregory Chao

Head of Operations

Head of Operations
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Gregory has 10 years of experience in education and testing. He is responsible for the training, project management, and support needed to implement automatic item generation in operational testing programs of any size. Over the past two years, Gregory led the automatic item generation operations in one of North America’s leading testing companies.
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Dr. Craig Sherburne

General Counsel

General Council
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Enhancing the quality of educational testing with the use of rapid item generation technology

At MGHL, we are

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driven by

We provide software and services for testing organizations to use rapid item generation technology for augmenting human expertise

Our proprietary technology is scalable to meet the testing needs of any organization

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Our Software

Our software and services enhance your test development practices

We incorporate purposeful AI to empower human expertise

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Composer

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Our Team

Our Clients

Enhancing the quality of educational testing with the use of rapid item generation technology

At MGHL, we are

guided by

driven by

We provide software and services for testing organizations to use rapid item generation technology for augmenting human expertise

Our proprietary technology is scalable to meet the testing needs of any organization

Step 1

Step 2

Step 3

Our Software

Our software and services enhance your test development practices We incorporate purposeful AI to empower human expertise

Manager

Composer

Marten™ AI

Harvester

Our Team

Our Clients

Our software and services enhance your test development practices

We incorporate purposeful AI to empower human expertise