Background and History

Gilfus Advisors, a division of the Gilfus Education Group is an independent management and technical consulting organization that brings together a team of highly skilled industry professionals that foster global education innovation. The team partners with today’s organizational and industry leaders to develop effective and lasting improvements to education and provides independent consulting, technical implementation and industry research services to educational institutions, industry investors and the educational companies that serve them. Since 1997 the Gilfus Education Group and its team of advisors have served thousands of universities, colleges, schools, academic content providers, education and technology companies in meeting their mission critical planning and technology needs.

Gilfus Advisors bring every project unmatched capabilities and personalized focus to achieve outstanding results. The team focuses on fulfilling educational planning and the eLearning, Portal, Content, Infrastructure and Technology needs of R1 institutions, state systems, community colleges, virtual high schools, K12, commercial and government clients across the world. Based in Washington, DC, the firm is led by one of the most respected and innovative executives in the education industry.

Our Expertise

• Education Planning, Policy, Process and Compliancy
• Institutional and Organization Re-Alignments
• IT Assessments, evaluations and vendor selections
• The Social web and its impact on Educational Institutions
• Enterprise Resource Planning and Student Information Systems
• LMS Assessments, Evaluations and Vendor Selections
• Community, Portal and Identity Management Technologies
• New Media, Content Independence, Management and federated Object Repositories
• Commercial and Open Source Implementations
• Standards based Systems Integration and Customization Services
• Business re-engineering and Market Positioning