Board of Trustees

*The board chairman is an ex-officio, voting member of all committees.

Tony Asnes

Tony Asnes is the head of investor relations at Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P., a fundamental value investor in long and occasionally short investments in the public markets. Prior to joining Pershing Square in 2010, Tony was head of marketing and client service at Eagle Capital Management, LLC and was president and CEO of Pseudo Programs, Inc. In the late 1980s he traded index options on the American Stock Exchange. Tony graduated from Yale with a degree in computer science and earned a master’s degree in management from the Sloan School at MIT. He is the chair of the board of trustees of the Bank Street College of Education and is a trustee of the New York Hall of Science.

Jay Bargmann

Jay Bargmann is the senior vice president at Rafael Viñoly Architects and manages the firm's 180 architects in offices in New York and London. He was born in Iowa, raised in Germany, and attended college in California and Iowa. Jay obtained his architectural degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Upon graduating, he moved to New York City where he has lived for the past 29 years. Jay and his family currently reside in Pelham, N.Y.

Pam Clarke

| Education Committee Chair

Pam Clarke is head of school at Trevor Day School, an N-12 independent school in New York City. Previously, Pam held the same position at St. Paul Academy and Summit School in St. Paul, Minn., and The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y. Pam's educational credentials include a master’s in counseling and consulting psychology from Harvard University, a master’s in classics from Yale, and a bachelor’s degree from Vassar in ancient Greek.

Will Cook

Will Cook is a sector head at Ziff Brothers Investments, L.L.C., the primary investment vehicle of the Ziff family and related entities. Will began his career at Morgan Stanley in 1995 and has been working in the investment management industry since 1997. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia and received a master’s in business administration from Columbia University. Will resides in Greenwich, Conn., with his wife and three children.

Mary Ganzenmuller

| Communications Committee Chair

Mary Ganzenmuller was the founder of Bray Family Academy, an independent non-profit start up school project in New Jersey which is currently hibernated. She serves on the board of trustees of Purnell School in New Jersey and on the Education Committees of several New Jersey organizations. Mary is a former Chicago public school teacher and earned her master’s in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Valarie A. Hing

Valarie Hing is a partner at Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, a New York based international law firm, where she specializes in mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. Valarie graduated from Hamilton College with degrees in mathematics and government and obtained her law degree from Stanford Law School. She resides in Brooklyn.

Mark Johnston

Mark Johnston is the president of Van Wagner Communications, LLC, the largest private outdoor advertising company in the United States and the dominant provider of scrolling advertising in basketball and baseball venues nationwide. He has degrees from Princeton University and the Fordham University School of Law.

Ann MacRae

Ann MacRae served as a docent at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for more than 15 years and previously worked at the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Ann is on the Board of Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts and is one of the teachers of its Architectural Education Program in local schools. She is involved with a number of education programs and schools throughout New York City as a trustee of the Cat MacRae Fund. Ann graduated from Hollins College with a bachelor’s degree in art history and received a master’s in art and architectural history from Columbia University.

David B. Peterson

| Board Chair*

David B. Peterson is a managing director at Tegris Advisors, a New York based advisory firm. Mr. Peterson has over 25 years of investment banking experience, with a primary focus on the media and communications industry, including most recently as head of Rothschild Inc.’s U.S. media practice. Prior to Rothschild, Mr. Peterson was an investment banker for Salomon Brothers and Citibank in their Global Media Group. Mr. Peterson has a broad range of client transaction experience, including work for MGM, Vivendi Universal, IMG, Yell Group, and Weider Publications. Mr. Peterson holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree in business administration from New York University.

Tom Reycraft

| Committee on Trustees Chair

Tom Reycraft is founder and CEO of Benchmark Education Company, LLC. Founded in 1998, Benchmark Education develops literacy materials and provides professional development training for the K-12 market throughout North America. It also distributes its materials in the international market, primarily in Asia, for use in English Language Teaching (ELT) programs. Tom graduated from the American College of Switzerland and holds a master's in international management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

John Schmidlin

John Schmidlin is the former chief technology officer and managing director of JP Morgan Chase. He joined JP Morgan in 1969 and held leadership roles in a variety of banking and technology initiatives, including a groundbreaking outsourcing effort with IBM. John earned a bachelor’s from St. John's University and completed the executive training program at Cornell University.

Laura B. Sillerman

Laura Baudo Sillerman is president of The Tomorrow Foundation, a New York City-based charitable foundation, and the co-founder of The Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy at Brandeis University. She serves on the board of The American Museum of Natural History, chairing their Education Committee, and is an advisory board member at Stony Brook University’s Southampton Campus, The Southampton Writers Conference, and The Southampton Review. A founding board member of Women’s Voices for Change and their poetry editor, she has served as a board and committee member at Marietta College and the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y.

Timothy Speiss

| Development Committee Chair

Timothy Speiss, CPA PFS RIA, is partner in charge of the private client services at EisnerAmper LLP, an independent member of Baker Tilly International. Tim is a member of various academic institutions’ development committees and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Tax Resource Panel. He was cited in 2003 as an Outstanding New York Businessperson by the U.S. Senatorial Committee and is a former staff assistant to U.S. Congressman Robert W. Edgar. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Widener University and completed postgraduate courses at Villanova University School of Law.

Alan Washington

Alan Washington is a master’s candidate in real estate development at New York University Schack Institute of Real Estate. Prior to entering graduate school, Alan worked as a private residential real estate developer. Alan has served as an advisor to several education programs and was the former director of Outdoor Leadership Experience, an outdoor education organization designed to teach middle school students self-confidence and leadership skills through challenging outdoor activities. Alan is an alumnus of Dartmouth College.