Independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit
EIN 99-3712775. Search the official IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search using our EIN.
About Quan Pathways
Clearer choices, without an enrollment agenda
We help families compare education and earn-and-learn pathways using reviewed sources, practical tradeoffs, and the realities of each family's actual situation.
Named leadership and accountability
Quan Pathways is led publicly by Alex Tran and David Chan.
Reviewed sources and corrections
We show source notes, limits, and a route to question or correct our work.
No provider commissions
We do not accept commissions or referral payments for recommending one pathway over another.
Why Quan Pathways exists
Families deserve a way to compare unlike paths.
Schools, recruiters, training providers, and employers naturally know their own routes. Families must compare cost, time, fit, flexibility, and risk across options that do not arrive in the same format.
- reviewed profiles
- 94
- career areas
- 5
- practical guides
- 12
Leadership and accountability
People you can identify and question
Alex Tran
Founder · President · Co-Director
Alex spent decades in Silicon Valley across engineering, sales, marketing, entrepreneurship, software development, and nonprofit leadership, including work at HP, Teradata, and Computer Associates. He founded Quan Pathways to help families compare high-stakes choices without treating college, apprenticeships, military service, or work as the automatic answer. His role is to bring practical decision experience while keeping the family's goals and constraints at the center.
David Chan
Co-Director · Secretary · Treasurer
David brings decades of technology leadership from HP, Oracle, and Proofpoint, with experience in enterprise software, strategic planning, and decision-support systems. His work as a caregiver and partner in family financial decisions also grounds his view of what families carry when choices are uncertain. At Quan Pathways, he helps turn complex information into questions families can examine and challenge.
How information is reviewed
Show what is known, what is not, and how to improve it.
- Prefer primary sources from programs, employers, government agencies, and education institutions.
- Separate verified facts from unknowns and show review dates, source notes, and limits.
- Maintain a visible correction route and update records when stronger or newer evidence appears.
This method applies to our reviewed Earn & Learn directory. Report a correction or ask a question.
Money, independence, and privacy
Our incentives should be clear.
Quan Pathways does not accept commissions or referral payments from colleges, training programs, employers, military branches, apprenticeship sponsors, or other pathway providers in exchange for recommending one route over another.
Quan Pathways may charge families directly for clearly identified, optional mission-related tools, including the Family Blueprint. The price and purpose are disclosed where offered.
Quan Pathways does not sell family information.
Verification and accountability
Check the work yourself.
- Verify Quan Pathways through the official IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search
- Review the official Colorado Secretary of State record search
- Review how we check information
- Report a correction
- Contact Quan Pathways
Quan Pathways is based in Denver, Colorado, United States.