Simmi Bhuller

Simmi Bhuller serves as the Publisher & Chief Revenue Officer at The Chronicle, the nation’s largest newsroom dedicated to covering colleges, universities and the philanthropic enterprise. In this capacity, Simmi oversees all of the business, delivery and marketing operations within the organization. She spends a good deal of her time in the higher education market, understanding trends, needs and up-at-night issues facing executives in the industry.

Prior to joining The Chronicle, from 2020-2021, Simmi served as the VP of Sales & Operations at PerfectServe, a healthcare company. From 2018-2020, she served as the Executive Director at POLITICO, LLC, establishing and leading POLITICO’s new agency division, AgencyIQ.

The majority of Simmi’s career (16 years) was spent at the Advisory Board Company, and subsequently, EAB (formally the Education Advisory Board). Simmi helped to establish and create EAB, an organization that serves to provide the education sector with best practices and innovative strategies, serving the first university member, to 1,100 universities, colleges and K-12 Districts. In her time at EAB, she worked to create and oversee the launch of 18 new products, working at the intersection of product, sales and account management. She spent much of her time in the industry, working to understand the issues facing education, and back at EAB, helped to translate those needs into different products.

In her time there, she oversaw and trained sales teams, account management teams and worked with research and product teams on messaging, delivery and packaging.

Prior to her time at the Advisory Board and EAB, Simmi was on the staff of a gubernatorial campaign in Connecticut.

in 2019, Gov. Ralph Northam (D-VA) asked Simmi to serve on the Board of Visitors at her alma mater, George Mason University. She currently serves as the Vice Rector on the Board.