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Jay Clark recently retired after a 35-year career with National Computer
Systems, a major provider of products and services to education markets
worldwide. While at NCS, he held positions ranging from Systems Engineering
to President of a strategic business unit. Areas of professional interest
have been focused on how children learn, how teachers instruct, and
the interaction between the two. Clark holds 22 domestic and international
patents, including the application of imaging technology to scoring
essay responses, and various printing and binding inventions. Current
activities include Director positions with several firms, and consulting
with domestic and international companies that provide products and
services to education.
Gary Holloway is the Chairman of Five Mile Capital Partners. Prior to Five Mile Capital Partners, he served as the Chairman of the Board of Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc., where he previously held the positions of President and CEO. He also served as Co-CEO of Greenwich NatWest. He currently serves on the board of The Curry School Foundation at the University of Virginia. Mr. Holloway holds a BA degree from Washington and Lee University and an MBA from the Colgate Darden School at the University of Virginia.
Chuck House is the Societal Impact of Technology Director for Intel,
reporting to IT, currently focused on Advanced Productivity Initiatives.
House joined Intel via their Dialogic acquisition, where House first
was President of Spectron Microsystems, and then Executive Vice President
of Core Systems Development and Communications Research. House has held
a variety of management roles at Hewlett-Packard, Informix, and Veritas.
House is currently on the Board of Technology Networks (NASDAQ: TIII)
in Long Island, NY and he is Chairman of privately held Attensity Corporation
in Mountain View, CA. He served as President of ACM, and has been instrumental
in establishing the new Center for Information Technologies and Society
at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
House is the recipient of a host of major awards
recognizing his leadership and innovation, including the Electronics
Award of Achievement, 1977; Hewlett-Packard Award of Defiance, 1982;
Computer Design Hall of Fame, 1984; IDSA Gold Medals for Software (MOTIF,
VUE), 1989, 1990; IEEE Fellow (for Logic Analysis), 1990; EE Times Historic
Contributor Award, 1997; IEEE 3rd Millenium Achievement Award, 2000.
Most recently, he was inducted into the 2002 Electronic Design Hall
of Fame for his work on Logic Analysis, judged one of the top 50 inventions
in electronics. Fellow inductees included Edison, Marconi, Hewlett,
Packard and Grove.
Ray Lamontagne has had a diverse career in business, public policy,
and philanthropy. He was President of Seavest Inc., a venture capital
company based in White Plains, NY, and he is now the President of the
Encore Company, a private investment company. He is Chairman of the
Board of City Center, the New York City-based arts center and theater.
He is also Vice Chairman of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute,
and Chairman of the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps, Paul Newman’s
camps for children with cancer and other serious blood diseases. He
serves as a trustee of the Dyson Foundation.
Dr. Leavitt has been a private investor in San Francisco since 1995.
He holds a BA from Harvard College and an MD from New York University
School of Medicine. In 1968 Dr. Leavitt completed a residency in Psychiatry
and Neurology at the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatry Institute of the
University of California, San Francisco. Subsequently he went on to
a Post-Doctorate position in Social Psychiatry and membership on the
U.C. clinical faculty. There he began research on the effect of information
systems on medical care outcomes. Beginning in 1969 Dr. Leavitt served
as founder and later as Vice Chairman and Executive Vice President of
Teknekron Corporation, a business incubator specializing in electronics,
systems integration, and software. With other members of Teknekron management,
he participated in the formation of companies serving governmental and
corporate clients in financial services, manufacturing, nuclear engineering,
telecommunications, transportation, and health care information.
Linda Roberts directed the U.S. Department of Education’s Office
of Educational Technology from its inception in September 1993 to January
2001, and served as the Secretary of Education’s Special Advisor
on Technology. Roberts developed the first National Technology Plan,
and increased the technology budget from less than $30 million to over
$900 million annually. She championed the development of the E-RATE,
now a $2.25 billion program that helps bring the Internet to the nation’s
schools and libraries. Before joining the Clinton Administration, she
was a Senior Associate at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment,
where she directed three landmark studies: Power On! New Tools for Teaching
and Learning; Linking for Learning: A New Course for Education; and
Adult Literacy and Technology: Tools for a Lifetime. She is a former
elementary school teacher and reading specialist, university professor,
and Academic Dean. Roberts served as an advisor to the Children’s
Television Workshop during the development of Sesame Street and The
Electric Company. She has received many awards, including the Smithsonian
Computer World Award for Leadership in Education, the ISTE Pioneer Award,
the Federal 100 Award, and the U.S. Distance Learning Association’s
Eagle Award. Roberts is now a consultant to the educational technology
industry. She serves on the Board of Directors for Carnegie Learning
and the ProQuest Company, and is a Board Trustee for Sesame Workshop.
She is also a Senior Advisor at Classroom Connect and Apple Computer.
Richard D. Segal is President and CEO of Seavest Inc., a privately owned
investment management firm concentrating in private equity and real
estate transactions. He is Chairman of the Board of Nat Nast, Inc.,
a manufacturer of luxury men’s clothing and Vice Chairman of Mediplex
Medical Building Corporation. In addition to serving as the President
of the A.L. Mailman Family Foundation, Mr. Segal is Chairman of the
Board of Publicolor, a not-for-profit institution dedicated to revitalizing
inner city schools and communities. He is a member of the Board of Trustees
of the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, Vice President of the
Board of Trustees of Rye Country Day School and a Trustee Emeritus of
the Big Apple Circus. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown,
CT.
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