​Board Meetings

October 31, 2013:     Board Agenda        Board Minutes

January 27, 2014:     Board Agenda          Board Minutes

April 10, 2014:         Board Agenda          Board Minutes

June 25, 2014:         Board Agenda          Board Minutes

July 21, 2014:           Board Agenda          Board Minutes

October 6, 2014:
  Board Agenda
  Board Minutes 

January 7, 2015:
  Board Agenda
  Board Minutes

January 28, 2015:
  Board Agenda
  Board Minutes

April 15, 2015:
  Board Agenda 
  Board Minutes

June 5, 2015
  Board Agenda
  Board Minutes

August 7, 2015
  Board Agenda
  Board Minutes

October 5, 2015
​  Board Agenda
​  Board Minutes

December 7, 2015
  Board Agenda
​  Board Minutes 

February 23, 2016
​  Board Agenda
​  Board Minutes

April 26, 2016
  Board Agenda
  Board Minutes

June 21, 2016
  Board Agenda
​  Board Minutes

​September 9, 2016
  Board Agenda
  Board Packet
​  Board Minutes

​December 12, 2016
  Board Packet
  Board Minutes

February 16, 2017
  Board Packet
  Board Minutes
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 April 17 @ 1PM
Board Packet
Agenda (Spanish)
Board Minutes

June 14 @ 3PM
Agenda Packets:
English
Spanish
Board Minutes (DRAFT)

Upcoming
Board Meetings
Sept 18 @ 1PM
Dec 4 @ 1PM
Feb 26 @ 1PM
April 23 @ 1PM
June 4 @ 1PM 

* Board meetings are open to the public and public participation is welcomed (see link below for details).  
* The agenda for each meeting will be posted here in advance.  Meetings are typically held at either the Richmond Community Foundation (1014 Florida Ave #200) or ChangeMakers Academy in Vallejo
(1357 Colusa Street).  See specific meeting agenda for details.
* Public Participation Rules (English)
*Public Participation Rules (Spanish)

 Ron Beller, Co-Founder

Ron Beller has been active in education for the past 11 years. He led the Children First reform program and restructuring of the New York City school system, the largest in the country with more than one million students, working under Chancellor Joel Klein. He is co-founder and Chair of Governors of King Solomon Academy an all-through state school in London which has been rated “Outstanding,” the highest ranking by OFSTED, the UK schools inspectorate. He is a co-founder and board member of Ark Schools, a high performing network of 31 state schools in the UK and is a founding board member of Leading Educators, a New Orleans based teacher leader training organization. Ron was founder and CEO of investment companies Branch Hill Capital and Peloton Partners and was a partner at Goldman Sachs, a global investment bank.  Ron is a graduate of Brown University. He is married with three children. 

Pete Briger, Board Member

Pete Briger is a principal and Co-Chairman of the board of directors of Fortress. He has served as a member of the board of directors of Fortress since November 2006 and was elected Co-Chairman in August 2009. Pete has been a member of the Management Committee of Fortress since March 2002. He is responsible for the Credit and Real Estate business at Fortress. Prior to joining Fortress in March 2002, Pete spent fifteen years at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he became a partner in 1996. He serves on the board of Tipping Point, a non-profit organization serving low income families in the Bay Area. Pete received a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dan Katzir, Board Member

Dan Katzir joined Alliance College-Ready Public Schools in LA as CEO and President in March 2015. Most recently, Katzir has been an independent strategic education advisor to CEOs and boards of directors in school districts, charter management organizations, state departments of education, and education for-profit and non-profit organizations. He has helped numerous clients across the country in curriculum design, operational planning, executive/board training, and many other issues educational institutions and organizations face today. Prior to serving as an independent consultant, Katzir was the founding Managing Director at the Eli & Edythe Broad Foundation, where he served for elevn years. During his time at the Broad Foundation, he designed and implemented four national flagship initiatives, including the Broad Prize for Urban Education and the Broad Institute for School Boards.

In his more than two decades of leadership in the education sector, Katzir has also been Regional Director for Sylvan Learning Systems, the Executive Director for UCLA School Management Program, and Chief Operating Officer for Teach for America. He began his career as a consultant for Bain & Company, an international management consulting firm. Dan has served on many education boards, including The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College, and the advisory board of the Los Angeles Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools. Katzir has an MBA from Harvard Business School, and received a bachelor’s degree in history from Dartmouth College. In his spare time, he lectures at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and is a Volunteer Leader at Dartmouth College and Harvard Business School.


Jennifer Moses, Co-Founder & CEO
Jennifer Moses has spent the past decade in education, public policy and philanthropy after a career in investment banking. She is a founding Trustee of Absolute Return for Kids (ARK), one of the largest children’s charities in the UK, and co-founder of King Solomon Academy, an all-through state school in London. She is a partner at Ed-Mentor, LLC, a VC fund that invests in education technology startups. Prior to moving to California in late 2009,  she was a senior policy adviser to then British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. She was previously Chief Executive of the policy think tank Centreforum, following her banking career with Goldman Sachs. Jennifer is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Business School. She is married with three children.

Vivian Wu, Board Chair
Vivian currently runs education technology impact investments for Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan. Her focus is on investments in innovative for-profit companies serving PreK-12 with a dual focus on impact and sustainable, scalable business models. Vivian has over 15 years of experience in private equity and venture capital, most recently running investments for a family office. Previously, she was a Principal at TA Associates where she invested in and served on the boards of several growth technology businesses. Prior to TA, Vivian worked at Accel Partners, a leading venture capital firm, as well as Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in Hong Kong, where she focused on private equity investments in Asian growth companies. She started her career as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. Vivian holds an MBA from Harvard University, a B.S.Econ in finance, summa cum laude, Beta Gamma Sigma, from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and a B.A. in history, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Pennsylvania.

Tony Adams, Board Member

Anthony Adams is an independent consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area working with organizations through his firm, groupVision (US). Anthony graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in economics. Prior to moving to California, as president of groupVision (Switzerland) AG in Zurich Switzerland, he consulted with companies and institutions throughout Europe and Asia for twenty years. Anthony’s European clients included management teams in banking, re-insurance, technology, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, the food Industry, state agencies and the United Nations. Prior to his consulting career Anthony was a captain in the US Air Force stationed at Travis AFB and for three years in France. For seventeen years, he managed the family contracting, arid-plant nursery and tree business in Arizona. Anthony consulted on environmental projects for the Saudi royal family and for five years managed a start-up contracting firm in the Middle East for a Lebanon-based company.

Anthony was a routine guest lecturer at business schools including the University of St Gallen, University of Zurich, Rotterdam School of Management and the EPFL and IMD in Lausanne, Switzerland specializing in group collaboration and brainstorming techniques for risk-assessment, decision making, problem solving, negotiations, visioning and strategy development. Anthony trained consultants in risk-assessment skills at Deloitte, Cap Gemini, KPMG and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Over-arching themes emerging from Tony's work with computer-supported collaboration tools include: Learning Organizations, Knowledge Management, Vision Mapping and Systems Thinking for management teams. Anthony is currently a planning commissioner and chair of the general plan working group for the city of Vallejo where he also serves on the board of directors for two local museums.

José A. López, Ph.D, Board Member

José López is a professor of Educational Leadership at the California State University East Bay in Hayward.  José was the director of the CSUEB doctor of education program, Educational Leadership for Social Justice, for seven years until 2014. This program focuses on development of executive-level leadership for PK-12 school systems.
 
José was awarded his Ph.D. degree in Educational Leadership from the University of North Texas.  Prior to his current position, José was a school administrator in Texas for 19 years.  He served in numerous position in five school districts. He held the position of Superintendent, and in a variety of system-level positions and was a school principal for eight years.
 
José is also the Chief Operations Officer of Ragar Consulting.  Ragar specializes in supporting schools and districts in addressing English Learner achievement.  Until December 2015, José served on the Personnel Commission of the Hayward Unified School District.  He served as Chair and Vice Chair on the Personnel Commission.  The Personnel Commission is responsible for the implementation of the Merit System of the classified employees of the Hayward USD. José also served on the Board of Directors of the Emergency Shelter Program (ESP) in Hayward as President and Vice President.  The ESP addresses domestic violence and provides shelter, support and training for abused persons and their families. 
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