Sarah Giblin

Sarah is the VP, Executive Development Institute at Shore Capital, a lower middle-market private equity firm focused on partnering with companies that have between $1-10 million of EBITDA.

 

As the leader of Executive Development, Sarah is responsible for developing programs and initiatives that help Shore’s highest potential leaders orient, integrate, and grow within Shore.

 

Prior to joining Shore, Sarah founded and scaled Valor Collegiate Academies, where she served as the Chief of Schools. Valor is known as the top performing network of charter schools in Tennessee. During her tenure Sarah helped to launch, run and grow the organization; including building three school campuses, growing from 20 to 250 employees and 150 to 1800 students. As Chief of Schools, Sarah was responsible for managing campus principals, Special Programs, Talent, and day-to-day operations of all campuses. Over her 10 years at Valor, she helped lead Valor schools to top 5% achievement and growth, led Valor campuses to be named as Reward Schools, and as a middle school principal, led her campus to the highest literacy growth in the state of Tennessee. For her exceptional leadership, Sarah was named Tennessee Charter School Administrator of the Year in 2018.

 

Sarah was a 2005 Teach For America Miami-Dade Corps Member, graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. from Loyola University Chicago, and completed graduate coursework at Dominican University.