Charlie Kratsch
Founder and CEO

Charlie began his professional career during high school by working for the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) where he developed software and configured computer labs for local school districts. Upon graduation, he vowed never to set foot in another school and bypassed college to become a technology entrepreneur. He founded and sold several companies that developed information systems for the healthcare and telecommunications industries.

Ironically, after a brief retirement, his stepfather, a school principal, challenged him to use his knowledge and experience to help education. Rising to the challenge, Charlie founded Infinite Campus in 1993 while serving as a district technology director in order to learn about education “from the inside.” As a result, he has spent the better part of the last thirteen years in schools all over the country and has developed a thorough understanding of how schools work and interrelate. 

Charlie Kratsch - Growing a Business (.pdf)
Dick Youngblood: School Data Flood Leads Tech Firm to a River of Revenue

 
Eric Creighton
Chief Operating Officer

Eric joined Infinite Campus in a leadership role in January 2003 with over 10 years of experience in the field of commercial, packaged software development. Prior to joining Infinite Campus, Eric served as a senior alliance manager for Lawson Software where he architected and executed strategic third-party product initiatives to enhance the Lawson ERP suite.

Prior to Lawson, Eric served in a marketing capacity for ScenicSoft, a start-up software vendor based in Seattle, Washington, and as a staff member for former U.S. Senator David Durenberger, focusing on healthcare and education policy issues. As chief operating officer for Infinite Campus, Eric is a member of the executive leadership team and oversees the internal operational aspects of the organization including finance, human resources, administration, legal and contracting, internal and external technology infrastructure, and partnerships. Eric holds a bachelor's degree in communication/rhetoric with a focus on organizational design.

 

David Van Meter
Chief Services Officer

Dave has over 19 years of technology, product development and large-scale enterprise software implementation experience. As the CSO of Infinite Campus, he is responsible for product development, implementation services and architecting the Accelerated Implementation Methodology (AIM).  He has been with Infinite Campus since 2001 when he was tasked with creating the first formal support and services organization for the company.

Prior to joining Infinite Campus, Dave was the Partner responsible for technology business strategy in the Minneapolis branch of marchFIRST (formerly WhittmanHart) where he consulted with C-level executives of fast growing technology companies throughout the state of Minnesota.  Prior to marchFIRST Dave held senior technology management positions at North Central Consulting and System Software Associates (SSA), a $500M ERP software development company out of Chicago.

Dave graduated from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN with dual majors in mathematics and quantitative methods in computer science.  While at St. Thomas he played varsity football and track for all four years.