President

Alex Barrios serves as Chief Executive Officer of Educational Results Partnership (ERP). He led the creation of ERP’s Skills Currency Initiative and the ERP Institute, initiatives designed to strengthen skills-based hiring for students and employers and to improve collaboration between educators and employers to support more efficient talent-to-job matching.

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Before becoming CEO, Alex served as President of ERP, where he managed the California Partnership for Achieving Student Success (Cal-PASS Plus), the state’s first longitudinal student data system. He also led the development of software for the Equity Intelligence Platform, a data-driven tool designed to help organizations, governments, and communities measure, track, and improve outcomes for underserved populations .

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Prior to joining ERP, Alex was a member of the Superintendent’s Cabinet at Sacramento City Unified School District. Earlier in his career, he spent more than a decade in the executive and legislative branches of California state government, serving as a special assistant, consultant, legislative representative, and director to multiple legislators and constitutional officers. He has also worked as a public affairs consultant to Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations.

Alex’s leadership and service have been recognized through formal resolutions from the California State Assembly, California State Senate, the County of Los Angeles, and the City of Sacramento. He earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in communication studies from California State University, Sacramento.