Mark Johnston (Board Chair) 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.

Tony Asnes is the head of investor relations at Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P., a concentrated research-intensive fundamental value investor in long and occasionally short investments in the public markets. Prior to joining Pershing Square, from 2003 through early 2010, Tony was head of marketing and client service at Eagle Capital Management, LLC a long-only, value-oriented equity manager. He has seven years of experience in corporate strategy management consulting and was president and CEO of Pseudo Programs, Inc., an Internet television network. 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 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. He is also a founding trustee of Harlem Academy.

Jay Bargmann is the senior vice president at Rafael Vinoly 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 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, New York. Pam's educational credentials include an M. Ed. in counseling and consulting psychology from Harvard University, an M.A. in classics from Yale, and a B.A. from Vassar in ancient Greek.

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 M.Ed. in curriculum and teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Hans Hageman served as the executive director of Boys and Girls Harbor, a 67 year-old youth development organization that serves approximately 4,000 young people a year. Hans is also the co-founder and former executive director of the East Harlem School at Exodus House, an independent middle school. He and his wife are the co-founders of the Sulaxmi School for Girls in Lucknow, India. He is the treasurer of the Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement. Among his awards are a 2001 Essence Award and a Robin Hood Foundation "Hero Award." Hans is a graduate of Princeton University and Columbia University School of Law.

David B. Peterson (Finance Committee Chair) 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 B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from New York University.

John Schmidlin recently retired as 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 B.S. from St. John's University and completed the executive training program at Cornell University.

Timothy Speiss (Development Committee Chair), CPA PFS RIA, is partner in charge of the private client services at Eisner 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 B.S. and M.S. degrees at Widener University and completed postgraduate courses at Villanova University School of Law.

Alan Washington is a business development manager at Van Wagner Communications, LLC. Prior to his tenure at Van Wagner, he acted as an advisor to several education programs and most recently served as the 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.