Gene M. Fay is an academic coach as well as the founder and president of Great Grades Strategies, an academic study and life skills company that focuses on helping students and student athletes succeed in the classroom and in life. He is also an online instructor and guess lecturer at Northeastern University.  Great Grades Strategies was launched in 2003 and is located in North Andover, MA.

During a successful 17-year career as a high-tech entrepreneur, Gene also began working as an academic coach for high school and college students and student athletes. He started Great Grades Strategies as a result of his own experiences as a student athlete.  Gene was a below-average student in high school. His academic struggles continued during his first semester at Northeastern University.  Determined to become a winner in the classroom, Gene taught himself study skills that resulted in a dramatic academic turnaround while he was still a freshman. 

Initially, Great Grades Strategies only offered on-site seminars for athletes at colleges and universities that included Gene's alma mater, Northeastern University, as well as Boston College, Boston University, University of Massachusetts, Rutgers University and others.  Great Grades Strategies introduced an innovative academic study and life skills video product that Gene designed specifically for competitive high school and college students.

Gene holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Northeastern University.  He also received an MBA from Northeastern, where he served as class president and graduated summa cum laude.