Corporate Staff Bio

Dr. Bryan E. Carlson
Collegiate Enterprise Solutions
President & COO

Dr. Carlson served for 23 years as President of Mount Ida College, and brought that institution through a period of extraordinary financial growth, enrollment expansion, and academic transformation. Mount Ida grew from a small junior college into the leading TWO-PLUS-TWO baccalaureate college in the northeast. Subsequently, Dr. Carlson has served as president of four different entities in the higher education sector including the New England Exchange for Executive Leadership (NEXEL) and College Bound Selection Service (CBSS). In addition to his current role as President and Chief Operating Officer of CES, he is President of the Registry for College and University Presidents--the nation's premier interim presidential service, and is also a Senior Consultant for R.H. Perry & Associates in Washington, D.C.