Our Team

The People Behind Infinity School

Eric

Director & Explore Studio Guide

Eric is a father, husband, and servant leader to the Infinity School community. He is a certified Ontario and International Baccalaureate educator. In his career, he has taught and led as a department head in English, English as a Second Language, the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business. 

Eric is a believer that the best teachers are experience, opportunity, community, dialogue, and failure. He thinks it is a gift being around so many incredible learners each day. 

Kim

Ignite Studio Guide

Kim is a teacher, artist, playwright and game maker. She has a Bachelor of Education degree and has taught in elementary and high schools, French Immersion, Forest/Nature schools, Montesori, and international ESL programs.

She also writes and directs plays and designs and facilitates collaborative live-action storytelling games for all ages. Kim’s art and fabric sculpted wool felt doll characters have been shown in local and regional art shows and craft festivals.

Melissa

Discover Studio Guide

Melissa is a passionate educator and proud mom. She is a certified Ontario and International Baccalaureate educator. She brings experience in educational management and over a decade in the classroom.

She is a strong believer in the power of voice, real-world learning, and nurturing the unique creative self of each learner. She is a nature lover and avid reader.

Andrea Nair, Infinity School Co-Founder

 Andrea was a teacher and counsellor before starting Infinity School. She is also a well-known parenting writer, having been quoted in most of the major magazines and online publications in North America including Maclean’s Magazine, the Globe and Mail, and The New York Times Motherlode Blog.

Vineet Nair, Infinity School Co-Founder

 Vineet is a family physician and co-owner of The Core Family Health Centre, a medical clinic in London. He is also the author of, Healthier You: A Family Doctor’s Guide to the Fundamentals of Better Living. Vineet has extensive experience in family medicine in a variety of settings, having practiced in British Columbia, Alberta, and Ontario, in rural and urban settings.

Jeff Sandefer, Acton Academy Co-Founder

Jeff lives a dual life as an entrepreneur and a Socratic Guide. As an entrepreneur, he founded his first company at age 16 and went on to found or co-found seven successful businesses. As a Socratic teacher at the University of Texas, Jeff’s students five times voted him the school’s Outstanding Teacher and Businessweek named him one of the top Entrepreneurship professors in America. Jeff went on to co-found the Acton School of Business, an MBA program perennially ranked by the Princeton Review among the best in the nation. In 2012 The Economist honored him as one of the top fifteen Business School professors in the world. Jeff is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, where he served for over twenty years on the school’s governing committees. He was a longtime director of the Philanthropy Roundtable and National Review magazine and one of the youngest members ever elected to the Texas Business Hall of Fame.

Laura Sandefer, Acton Academy Co-Founder

Laura lives at first studied at Vanderbilt University in the College of Arts and Sciences.

After being awarded the highly competitive Walter Wattles Fellowship at Lloyd’s of London, Laura worked in the aviation insurance industry in New York City. Deciding to follow her calling into the world of education, Laura returned to Nashville and earned her Master of Education at Peabody College. This led her to her work at the Oklahoma Arts Institute, creating fine arts education programs for teachers and talented high school students. Laura married Jeff Sandefer and is the happy mother of Sam and Charlie and step-mother to Taite. It is the inspiration of these children that led Laura and Jeff to co-tound Acton Academy. Her greatest hero is her mother who was a Master Teacher. Her wisest mentor is her father who sent her off to college with two words of advice: “Be curious”.