MARTEN ROORDA
Chief Executive Officer, ACT
Marten Roorda is the Chief Executive Officer of ACT since October 1st, 2015. ACT, headquartered in Iowa City, USA, is the world market leader in measuring college and career readiness. Before joining ACT, Marten has been the CEO of Cito for thirteen years, an international testing organization leading in educational measurement, adaptive testing and learning, and learning analytics. Marten shared his first future vision of testing during a keynote speech for the Association of Test Publishers in 2004. In 2006 he co-founded Kryterion the first company in the world to offer remote proctoring, and currently market leader. He also co-founded OAT Technologies in Luxemburg, the company responsible for the open source TAO platform. Marten Roorda has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Test Publishers for ten years. In 2010 he served as Chair of the ATP, and from 2012 through 2015 he has been the Treasurer. Prior to working at Cito, Marten had several positions in the publishing industry, at VNU and Reed Elsevier among others. Marten holds a master’s degree in language and literature at Utrecht University. He is married and has seven children.
