OUR TEAM. WORLD CLASS RESULTS.

Irina Jitomirskaia, Ph.D., M.Ed.

CEO & Co-Founder

Irina Jitomirskaia is a Co-Founder and CEO at 4Schoolers, LLC. Irina is a mother and teacher with a background in education, who has found it difficult to balance work and family life and has observed the same problem affecting our colleagues and friends over the years. Her struggles inspired us to create 4Schoolers. Irina is a true people person and has built our relationships with the schools, drivers, tutors, and especially the parents of each 4Schoolers child. Irina holds a Master’s in Education and Psychology and Ph.D in Psychology from Moscow State Pedagogical University.

Nicole Stabnikov, B.S.

Employee Benefit Sales Specialist

Nicole Stabnikov is the Employee Benefit Sales Specialist at 4Schoolers, LLC. Nicole holds a Bachelor of Science degree, and majored in International Management, and double minored in academics and finance. She has been tutoring since 2014 and has advised a number of students on their private school applications. She is responsible for coordinating schedules and payments between our office, our service providers, and our clients. She has earned multiple awards for her outstanding academic achievements, holding honors on the Dean’s list every year.

Pierreport Johnson III, M.A.

VP of Business Development

“PJ” is a VP of Business Development at 4Schoolers, LLC. PJ’s primary responsibility is to help develop and curate 4Schoolers’ corporate relationships. PJ is also responsible for assisting in expanding marketing campaigns for the company. He has great communication and marketing skills. He has a passion for helping people and being involved in meaningful work.

Alexander Lukyanov, Ph.D.

Physics and Mathematics Teacher

Visiting Associate Professor & Visiting Research Fellow, Lecture of numerical methods, Advisor of MSc & Ph.D. students, National grants receiver, Organizer of international workshops, Reviewer of international journals, Collaborator with leading scientific groups.

Leah Prizant

Math and Science Intern

Leah is currently a student at Boston Latin School. Her passions include music, dance, math, and biology. She also actively tutors fellow classmates of all ages at school. She is at the top of her math and science classes and wishes to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for Neuroscience.

Daniyar Aubekerov

Tech Advisor/Consultant

“Danee” is a founder of an online educational platform for students interested in math competitions. He won numerous math Olympiads: Silver medal on Final Round of National Olympiad in Mathematics (Kazakhstan, 2012), Silver medal on Balkan Mathematical Olympiad (Greece, 2015), Double Bronze medalist on International Zhautykov Olympiad (Kazakhstan 2011,2012), Third place on All-Russian Sharygin’s geometrical Olympiad. Starting in 2015. Danee has been traveling and preparing gifted students as a guest lecturer in different schools and organizations. Outside of academics he enjoys playing table tennis and soccer

Philippe Izedian

Academic and Admissions Advisor 

Philippe has been with 4Schoolers since its inception in 2015. He is a teacher specializing in SSAT + ACT preparation, writing, and admissions. He also helps 4Schoolers sell its services to corporate clients.
 

Pavel Roskin, M.S.

IT Consultant / Physics Teacher

Pavel Roskin is an IT Consultant at 4Schoolers, LLC. His responsibility is the analysis of feasibility of the prospective IT designs and solutions to be used by the company. Pavel holds Master’s degree in Physics, but he has made his career in software development.
He is working as software engineer at Virgin Orbit, a company aiming at affordable access to space. Pavel enjoys spending time with his stepson visiting museums and hiking.

Yenchi Kuo

Academic and Admission Advisor

Yenchi Kuo works as an Academic and Admission Advisor for 4Schoolers, LLC. He graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelors in English Literature. He is passionate about and specializes in education and language teaching.

Nancy Adler, J.D.

English Teacher / Academic Advisor

Nancy Adler is an English Teacher and Academic Advisor for 4Schoolers, LLC. For more than 20 years Nancy has assisted students writing personal statements for high school, college and graduate programs. A former attorney, who raised her family in Cleveland, Ohio, Nancy also teaches interview techniques to students at Harvard, Tufts, UMass and BU Medical Schools. In addition to her law degree from NYU School of Law, Nancy is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Tufts University with a concentration in Child Study. As a professional harpist she was a featured soloist with the Boston Pops Orchestra. Nancy has a real estate broker’s license and does not like roller coasters.

Olga Katkova, Ph.D.

Director of Mathematics

Olga got her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Kharkiv University. She is now a professor at University of Massachusetts, Boston.

Alexander Aristarkhov, Ph.D.

Biology / Chemistry Teacher

Professor Aristarkhov holds a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology. He helps 4Schoolers students improve their biology knowledge, prepare for academic competitions, and find internships related to drug development and biomedical sciences. 

Elena Aristarkhova, Ph.D.

Chemistry Teacher

Elena Aristarkhova has over 20 years of teaching experience in the sciences. She received her PhD in Bio-organic Chemistry from the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. She currently holds dual appointments in the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Elena teaches Biology, Chemistry (General and Organic), Genetics and Molecular Biochemistry. She also prepares students for all standardized testing including the SAT, ACT, AP and the MCAT.

Divya Bachina

SAT/ACT Teacher / Academic Advisor

Divya Bachina is a junior at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute majoring in Computer Systems Engineering, and is a graduate of BU Academy. She is adept in several programming languages and excels in Math and Science related areas. She is planning to pursue graduate school. Divya works with 4Schoolers as an Educational Consultant, advising students on secondary education, and also tutors many students in Math and English subject areas. Her interests include data analytics and programming and applying algorithms to automated learning methods.

Zlatko Vasilkoski, Ph.D.

Physics / Data Analytics Teacher

Zlatko Vasilkoski is the Chief Data Scientist at FacilityConneX and has over twenty years of teaching experience at Tufts, MIT, Suffolk, BU, and Bentley. Since 2012, he has taught at BU Metropolitan College, where he developed the Web and Text Analytics course. He earned his PhD in physics from Tufts University, collaborating on Nobel Prize-winning research in protein folding. His postdoctoral work at MIT and Northeastern focused on computational physics and neuroscience. At BU, he contributed to neural network research and the development of robot computer vision techniques. His current interests include adaptive optimization algorithms, data analytics, and neural networks.