Published mark
Coursera, Inc.
NYSE: COUR. Coursera, Inc. operates an online learning platform that provides education and skills training in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, and internationally.
US
Record source reportedRecord not claimedNo Eval published
- Alpha ID
- alpha:company:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa
- SEC CIK
- 0001651562
- Website
- www.coursera.org Open
- Record version
- vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce, published Oct 16, 2026
- Newest evidence
- May 11, 2026
- Monitoring
- Not yet monitored Details
- Integrity
- Not yet signed Methodology
- CEO
- Gregory M. HartSince Mar 31, 2025
- Chair
- Not published
- Independent
- 7 / 99 directors published
- Published claims
- 374 distinct sources
- Evidence records
- 90 pinned
- Source conflicts
- 0None open
Built from 4 distinct sources and 9 evidence records. Every Claim links to where it appears. Where nothing was published, the record states the coverage gap.
CorroboratedSource reportedAlpha inferenceNot disclosed
Public record. Alpha publishes governance facts about this organization from regulatory filings and company statements. Private enterprise overlay data is never projected here. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. How this works
DIRECTOR APPOINTED
Lydia Paterson seat on Coursera, Inc., effective 2026-01-01.
EffectiveEffective Jan 1, 2026E2
Monitoring
ContinuousWhat the published record states about identity, evidence, evaluation, monitoring, authority, and freshness. Watched-source schedules are not published for this record.
- IdentityunclaimedPublished
- Evidencesource_reportedPublished
- Evaluationnot_evaluatedPublished
- MonitoringNot yet published for this record.Not published
- AuthorityNot yet published for this record.Not published
- FreshnesscurrentPublished
Leadership
Evidence| Role | Person | Since | Status | Claim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | Alan B. Cardenas | Mar 2025 | current | Source reportedE3 |
| President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director | Gregory M. Hart | Mar 2025 | current | Source reportedE4 |
| Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer | Kenneth R. Hahn | Mar 2025 | current | Source reportedE5 |
| Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer | Marcelo C. Modica | Mar 2025 | current | Source reportedE6 |
| Vice President, Accounting and Chief Accounting Officer | Michele M. Meyers | Not captured | unknown | Source reportedE7 |
Board of directors
Evidence9 directors published. 7 of 9 with a published determination are independent.
| Director | Status | Since | Committees | Claim |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Y. Ng | Not independent | 2011 | None published | Source reportedE2 |
| Christine Chang | Independent | 2021 | Compensation, chairCompensation · Chair; Nominating and GovernanceNominating and Governance | Source reportedE2 |
| Christopher D. McCarthy | Independent | 2023 | AuditAudit; CompensationCompensation | Source reportedE2 |
| Gregory M. Hart | Not independent | 2025 | None published | Source reportedE2 |
| Lydia Paterson | Independent | 2026 | Audit, chairAudit · Chair | Source reportedE2 |
| Marylou Maco | Independent | 2026 | Nominating and Governance | Source reportedE2 |
| Scott D. Sandell | Independent | 2011 | Compensation | Source reportedE2 |
| Sohaib Abbasi | Independent | 2026 | Compensation | Source reportedE2 |
| Theodore R. Mitchell | Independent | 2020 | AuditAudit; Nominating and Governance · ChairNominating and Governance, chair | Source reportedE2 |
| Andrew Clark | Independence not published | Not published | AuditCompensation | Source reportedE8 |
| Sabrina L. Simmons | Independence not published | Not published | Audit, chair | Source reportedE8 |
| Susan W. Muigai | Independence not published | Not published | Compensation | Source reportedE8 |
Committees and risk ownership
Evidence| Committee | Chair | Members | Risks assigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| Audit | Sabrina L. Simmons | Lydia Paterson, Sabrina L. Simmons, Andrew Clark, Christopher D. McCarthy, Theodore R. Mitchell | Not described in the published record |
| Audit · Chair | Not published | Lydia Paterson | Not described in the published record |
| Audit; Compensation | Not published | Christopher D. McCarthy | Not described in the published record |
| Audit; Nominating and Governance · Chair | Not published | Theodore R. Mitchell | Not described in the published record |
| Compensation | Christine Chang | Christine Chang, Andrew Clark, Christopher D. McCarthy, Scott D. Sandell, Sohaib Abbasi, Susan W. Muigai | Not described in the published record |
| Compensation · Chair; Nominating and Governance | Not published | Christine Chang | Not described in the published record |
| Nominating and Governance | Theodore R. Mitchell | Theodore R. Mitchell, Christine Chang, Marylou Maco | Not described in the published record |
Committee AppointmentLydia Paterson: chair, Audit
Committee AppointmentSabrina L. Simmons: chair, Audit
Committee AppointmentAndrew Clark: member, Audit
Committee AppointmentChristopher D. McCarthy: member, Audit
Committee AppointmentTheodore R. Mitchell: member, Audit
Committee AppointmentChristine Chang: chair, Compensation
Committee AppointmentAndrew Clark: member, Compensation
Committee AppointmentChristopher D. McCarthy: member, Compensation
Committee AppointmentScott D. Sandell: member, Compensation
Committee AppointmentSohaib Abbasi: member, Compensation
Committee AppointmentSusan W. Muigai: member, Compensation
Committee RecordNominating and Governance: Chair Theodore R. Mitchell; Members Theodore R. Mitchell (Chair); Christine Chang; Marylou Maco
Committee AppointmentTheodore R. Mitchell: chair, Nominating and Governance
Committee AppointmentChristine Chang: member, Nominating and Governance
Committee AppointmentMarylou Maco: member, Nominating and Governance
Control and voting power
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Authority to act
Evidence and agent registryWho can act for the company, and on whose authority. This is what a counterparty's agent checks before it accepts an order, signs, or pays.
Principal executive officerGregory M. Hart, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director, from Mar 31, 2025
Who can authorize an agentNot assessedNo Alpha inference about signing authority or board-reserved matters is published for this record.
Not assessed
AI agents registered by the companyNot registered in the public RegistryAgent Deployments, Agent Use Cases, Authority Grants, TrustChecks, Action Ledger entries and Governance Receipts live in the private enterprise overlay. They are never projected into the public Registry without explicit cross-plane authorization. Absence here is a plane boundary, not evidence that the enterprise operates no agents.
Agent registry
Delegations publishedNot disclosedBoard and officer delegation resolutions are not public filings and are not published in this record.
Search scope
Financials and market context
EvidenceSecurity ListingCOUR (NYSE)
Index membershipsNo current membership is published in Alpha's tracked index universe.This is not evidence that the company is absent from every market index.
None publishedAs of Oct 16, 2026. Rights-filtered public evidence only; no redistribution or model training is granted. Only source-backed memberships with an explicit public redistribution basis are returned.
Governance and policies
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Risk, audit, and cyber
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
AI oversight and accountability
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Legal and regulatory
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Compensation
EvidenceNo published claims
Nothing is published for this section yet. A missing Claim is a coverage state, not a negative finding.
Other published claims
EvidencePublished Claims that belong to no section above. Each keeps its permalink, evidence, and assertion state.
Legal NameCoursera, Inc.
Entity StatusPublic listing published
Published FactUS
Published FactEducation
Published FactEducation & Training Services
Not yet in this record
CoverageA gap is a coverage state, not a negative finding. These sections are expected for this entity class and are not yet published.
- Corporate structureNot reviewed. Parent, subsidiary and predecessor structure explains who is governed.
- OwnershipNot reviewed. Ownership and voting power determine who can influence the board.
- FinancialsNot reviewed. Governance-relevant financial context frames capital and audit decisions.
- CompensationNot reviewed. Pay design shows how incentives are governed.
- GovernanceNot reviewed. Governing documents and provisions set the rules of the enterprise.
- Shareholder governanceNot reviewed. Meeting and vote records show shareholder dissent and support.
- AuditNot reviewed. Auditor, controls and restatements show assurance over reporting.
- LegalNot reviewed. Material legal and regulatory matters show enforcement exposure.
- RiskNot reviewed. Risk ownership links the board, committees, executives and controls.
- CyberNot reviewed. Cyber and data governance is a disclosed oversight domain.
- AI governanceNot reviewed. AI oversight is a differentiated Alpha governance domain.
- Markets externalNot reviewed. Auditors, advisors, investors and regulators form the external ecosystem.
- Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a leadership role, committee, or disclosure is not evidence that it does not exist.
- Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.Only explicitly published canonical company identity and current confirmed public roles are included.
- Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.Absence of a board, committee, executive, listing, or claim is not evidence that it does not exist.
- Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.Public retrieval does not grant redistribution, model-training, direct-contact, or relationship-pathfinding rights.
- This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.This Company Profile is an identity and evidence record, not an Alpha rating.
Linked people
Same claims as person records- Alan B. CardenasSenior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretarycompany:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:17
- Gregory M. HartPresident, Chief Executive Officer, and Directorcompany:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:18, company:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:11
- Kenneth R. HahnSenior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurercompany:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:19
- Marcelo C. ModicaSenior Vice President and Chief People Officercompany:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:20
- Michele M. MeyersVice President, Accounting and Chief Accounting Officercompany:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:21
- Andrew Y. NgDirectorcompany:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:8
- Christine ChangDirectorcompany:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:9
- Christopher D. McCarthyDirectorcompany:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:10
- Lydia PatersonDirectorcompany:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:12
- Marylou MacoDirectorcompany:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:13
- Scott D. SandellDirectorcompany:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:14
- Sohaib AbbasiDirectorcompany:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:15
- Theodore R. MitchellDirectorcompany:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:leadership_role:16
- Andrew ClarkDirector (committee appointment)company:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:committee_record:22
- Sabrina L. SimmonsDirector (committee appointment)company:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:committee_record:22
- Susan W. MuigaiDirector (committee appointment)company:2863b42b-0517-4205-a8a1-61ed8c523dfa:committee_record:28
Subject and corrections
Public-role doctrineThis record exists because the company is in the published Registry. The company can claim the record, correct, or dispute any Claim. Corrections are versioned and the original stays in history.
- Basis
- Published company record built from public sources
- Sources
- 9 evidence records cited. 0 with redistribution rights.
- Never published
- Private enterprise overlay data: deployments, authority grants, TrustChecks, receipts, telemetry
- Record claimed
- No
- Open disputes
- 0
- Identity ownership
- unclaimed
Claiming not yet available
If the company claims the record, its statements appear as their own assertion state and never overwrite the cited evidence.
Evidence
Authority and rights- E1Alpha canonical company public projection. canonical identity. Retrieved Oct 16, 2026. Cited by 6 Claims.
- E2sec proxy. Published May 11, 2026. Retrieved May 11, 2026. Cited by 9 Claims.
- E3sec filing. Published Mar 31, 2025. Retrieved May 7, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E4sec filing. Published Mar 31, 2025. Retrieved May 7, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E5sec filing. Published Mar 31, 2025. Retrieved May 7, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E6sec filing. Published Mar 31, 2025. Retrieved May 7, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E7COUR executive roster sourcesec filing. Published May 3, 2026. Retrieved May 3, 2026. Cited by 1 Claim.
- E8board_seats. board seats. Cited by 13 Claims.
- E9board_seats. board seats. Cited by 4 Claims.
What changed in version public-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce
vpublic-1:d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce:ro-d751713988987e9331980363e24189ce published Oct 16, 2026- Lydia Paterson seat on Coursera, Inc., effective 2026-01-01.
- Marylou Maco seat on Coursera, Inc., effective 2026-01-01.
- Sohaib Abbasi seat on Coursera, Inc., effective 2026-01-01.
- Audit · Chair committee of Coursera, Inc., effective 2026-01-01.
- Lydia Paterson member of Audit · Chair, effective 2026-01-01.
- Alan B. Cardenas executive of Coursera, Inc., effective 2025-03-31.
- Gregory M. Hart executive of Coursera, Inc., effective 2025-03-31.
- Kenneth R. Hahn executive of Coursera, Inc., effective 2025-03-31.
- Marcelo C. Modica executive of Coursera, Inc., effective 2025-03-31.
- Gregory M. Hart seat on Coursera, Inc., effective 2025-01-01.
- Christopher D. McCarthy seat on Coursera, Inc., effective 2023-01-01.
- Audit; Compensation committee of Coursera, Inc., effective 2023-01-01.
- Christopher D. McCarthy member of Audit; Compensation, effective 2023-01-01.
- Christine Chang seat on Coursera, Inc., effective 2021-01-01.
- Compensation · Chair; Nominating and Governance committee of Coursera, Inc., effective 2021-01-01.
- Christine Chang member of Compensation · Chair; Nominating and Governance, effective 2021-01-01.
- Theodore R. Mitchell seat on Coursera, Inc., effective 2020-01-01.
- Audit; Nominating and Governance · Chair committee of Coursera, Inc., effective 2020-01-01.
- Theodore R. Mitchell member of Audit; Nominating and Governance · Chair, effective 2020-01-01.
- Andrew Y. Ng seat on Coursera, Inc., effective 2011-01-01.
- Scott D. Sandell seat on Coursera, Inc., effective 2011-01-01.