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Board of Trustees
Executive Board:
Marshall C. Milligan -
Chair (click
here for bio)
Corporate and Non-Profit Director
Santa Barbara, CA
Scott Pearson
- Vice
Chair (click
here for bio)
Board Chair, Leadership Public Schools
Washington D.C.
Nadine Terman
- Treasurer (click
here for bio)
Investment Partner, Blum Capital Partners
San Francisco, CA
Trevor Watt
-
Secretary
(click here
for bio)
Director, Hellman and Friedman
San Francisco, CA
Board of Trustees:
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| Former Breakthrough Trustees gather for lunch
in San Francisco. |
Andrew Ach
Partner, Norcross Hill & Ach.
San Francisco, CA
Mark Atkinson (click here
for bio)
Chief Executive Officer, Teachscape
San Francisco, CA
Tim Barton
Managing Partner, Barton Executive Search
Atlanta, GA
Melissa Buckley
Health Care Consultant
San Francisco, CA
José Davila
Vice President, Field Human Resources, Gap North America
San Francisco, CA
John Flickinger
Advisor, Breakthrough
Miami
Miami, FL
Matt Gunn
San Francisco, CA
Betsy
A. Hannaford (click
here for bio)
Community Volunteer
Wayzata, Minnesota
Sheila Larsen
(click here for bio)
Community Volunteer
San Francisco, CA
Esan Looper (Breakthrough
Alumnus)
Program Manager, Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco
San Francisco, California
Robert Macrae
(click here
for bio)
Head of School, Cincinnati Country Day School
Cincinnati, OH
William Matthes (click
here for bio)
Managing Partner, Behrman Capital
San Francisco, California
Stu McLaughlin
(click here for bio)
Associate, Sansome Partners
San Francisco, CA
Kate Mehr (click here for
bio)
Executive Director (National Network), Citizen Schools
Annapolis, Maryland
Polly Merrill
Retired Teacher/Community Volunteer
New York, New York
Billy
Peebles (click
here for bio)
Head of School, The Lovett School
Atlanta, Georgia
Michael Schweitzer
Deputy Head of Products and Services and Head of
P&S Consulting, UBS Financial Services Inc.
New York, NY
Andy Shin
Executive Director, Breakthrough San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Sarah E. Stein (click
here for bio)
Managing Director and the Deputy Director of Research, Hall Capital
Partners LLC
San Francisco, California
Glen Tripp
Chief Executive Officer, Galileo Learning
Oakland/San Francisco, CA
Carl Vogt
Former Senior Partner, Fulbright&Jaworski, LLP
San Francisco, CA
Grace
Voorhis (click
here for bio)
Former Partner, Morgan Stanley Venture
Partners (MSVP)
San Francisco, CA
Joan Wattles
(click here for
bio)
Committee Member, Breakthrough Kent
Denver
Denver, CO
Kathe Williamson
Community Volunteer
Washington, DC
David Winton
(click here for bio)
Founding Partner, Winton DuPont Films
San Francisco, CA
Rhea Wong (click
here for bio)
Executive Director, Breakthrough New York
New York, NY
Beth C. Porter, Ex Officio (click
here for bio)
National Executive Director, Breakthrough Collaborative
San Francisco, CA
Mark
Atkinson The founder and Chief Executive Officer
of Teachscape, Inc., a national organization that assists educators
in introducing 21st-century teaching practices into their classrooms,
Mr. Atkinson is an award-winning journalist who previously worked
for both ABC and CBS News. Mr. Atkinson graduated from Yale.
Betsy
A. Hannaford currently serves on the boards of
The Guthrie Theater and Graywolf Press, and is an active volunteer
at The Blake School in Minneapolis. She is a former board member of
Planned Parenthood of Minnesota and the Ripley Foundation. Betsy graduated
from Pomona College and NYU School of Law.
Sheila
Larsen has been long involved in
Bay Area civic affairs. She has been affiliated with San Francisco
School Volunteers, the Northern California chapter of Achievement
Rewards for College Scientists, the San Francisco Educational Fund
and the Children’s Theatre Association of San Francisco. A graduate
of Stanford, Ms. Larsen earned a master’s degree from Northwestern’s
Medill School of Journalism and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s
Wharton School of Business. A professional actor, she also worked
as the director of operations for Levi Strauss and director of volunteer
activities for the San Francisco Symphony.
Robert
Macrae is the Head of School at Cincinnati Country Day School
in Cincinnati, Ohio. He previously spent seventeen years at The Pingry
School in New Jersey where he was Assistant Headmaster, Head of the
Middle School, Head of the Upper School, teacher, advisor, and coach.
In addition to being a member of the Board of Trustees for Summerbridge
Cincinnati, Inc., he is also currently a member of the Board for The
Fund for Independent Schools of Cincinnati, Inc. (FISC) and Queen
City Foundation. Rob received his Doctor of Education degree and a
M.A. in educational administration from Teachers College, Columbia
University. He graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in economics,
mathematics and computer science, and holds an additional M.A. in
educational administration and policy analysis from Stanford University.
William
Matthes joined Behrman Capital in April 1996 and has been
a Managing Partner of the firm since January 1999. Most recently,
he was Chief Operating Officer of Holsted Marketing, Inc., a direct
marketing company owned by his family. Previously, Mr. Matthes spent
seven years at Brentwood Associates, a leveraged buyout and venture
capital firm with more than $500 million under management, where
he was a General Partner. Prior to that, he was an Analyst with
Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. In 1986, Mr. Matthes earned an MBA with
high distinction from Harvard Business School, where he was both
a Baker Scholar and a Loeb Rhoades Fellow. He has an AB in Economics
from Stanford University, where he graduated with honors and distinction.
Mr. Matthes currently serves on several boards including The Management
Network Group, Inc., Tandem Health Care, Inc., Celerity Group, Inc.,
ILC Industries, Inc., and Hunter Defense Holdings, Inc., where he
serves as chairman. At both Stanford and Harvard, he was active
as a Teaching Assistant and Tutor in Finance and Engineering. He
continues his interest in education both as a Trustee of the University
School in Cleveland, Ohio, and as a guest lecturer at Stanford Business
School.
Stu
McLaughlin is a partner at Sansome Partners,
a San Francisco-based investment firm. Previously, he worked in
venture capital and as a management consultant. More importantly,
he was a teacher at the Breakthrough Program in San Francisco for
two summers, once as a high school student and once as a college
student. Stu holds an M.B.A. from Stanford and a B.A. from Williams
College.
Kate Mehr has
been the Executive Director of the National Network for Citizen
Schools since 2005 which, like Breakthrough, combines her love of
young people, communities, and growing organizations.
Joining the Breakthrough Board was like coming home for Kate. In
1995, she served as the Chair of the Board for Summerbridge
Cambridge, a Breakthrough Program. Her 20 year career has focused
on children and communities in the non-profit and public sectors.
After beginning her career as a teacher, Kate helped found the Massachusetts
Legislative Children's Caucus. After the passage of President Bill
Clinton's National Service Act in the 1990's, Kate launched the
Massachusetts State Commission on National Service. In 1998, she
was appointed to a White Fellowship for national leadership. Working
with social entrepreneurs from around the world, Kate then launched
the United States-Canada Program for Ashoka. Kate also served as
the Vice President of Community Impact for the United Way. Kate
received a BA in political science from Amherst and an MPA from
the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
Marshall
C. Milligan is a graduate of Stanford Graduate School of
Business and Yale University. He is the former President of the
Board for the Thacher School and former President and C.E.O. of
Bank A Levy. Having chaired many committees and boards, Marshall
is known for encouraging relevant discussion, for building consensus,
and for helping boards to exceed their own expectations.
Scott
Pearson is primarily involved in community
and philanthropic activities related to children both in the US and
Central America. He serves as Board Chair of Leadership Public Schools,
an organization opening small college preparatory high schools in
underserved communities of California. Scott founded and leads the
Fund for Children and Youth, which funds educational and social programs
in Costa Rica and he serves on the board of San Francisco's Bay Area
Discovery Museum. From January, 1997 to February, 2000, Mr. Pearson
was Vice President for Corporate Development at America Online. Previously,
he ran AOL's e-commerce business, served as a trade negotiator for
the United States Government, and worked as a management consultant
with Bain and Company. Mr. Pearson holds a Bachelors degree from Wesleyan
University, a Masters degree in Business Administration from Harvard
Business School, and a Masters degree in Public Administration from
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is married with
two children.
Billy
Peebles is Headmaster at The Lovett School in Atlanta, Georgia.
Previously, he was Headmaster at The Asheville School for ten years
and at Powhatan School for seven years, and has enjoyed teaching American
History for almost 25 years. In addition to being a member of the
Board of Trustees for Breakthrough Collaborative, he is also currently
a member of the Board of Governors at St. Catherine’s School,
the Breakthrough/Atlanta Board of Advisors, and the Board of Directors
of the American Association for Gifted Children. Mr. Peebles received
an AB in Politics from Princeton University, an MBA from the Colgate
Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia,
and is currently pursuing a PhD from Virginia Theological Seminary.
Sarah E.
Stein is currently
a Managing Director and the Deputy Director of Research at Hall Capital
Partners. She was an English teacher in Guangzhou, China in 1998 and
spent a summer in college teaching at Peninsula Bridge (which offers
a program similar to Breakthrough). She holds an MBA and a Masters
in Education from Stanford University and a BA in History from Princeton
University. Sarah currently serves as a Board Member for Crystal Springs
Uplands School, KIPP Bayview Academy and is a member of the Investment
Committee of the San Francisco Foundation.
Nadine Terman and her husband are strong believers
in the link between education and lifetime achievement. Although she
learned a significant amount through her husband's leadership positions
at several Bay Area, education-focused non profits, Nadine wanted
a more direct impact on improving educational opportunities for our
youth and, thus, joined Breakthrough Collaborative. Nadine is a Partner
with Blum Capital, an investment firm focused on both public and private
equity markets. She works extensively with portfolio companies' management
teams and boards of directors on business, financial, and governance
initiatives. Nadine has a BA with Honors and with Distinction from
Stanford University, and she has an MBA from the Stanford Graduate
School of Business, where she was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
Grace Voorhis is a
former Partner at Morgan Stanley Venture Partners (MSVP), a venture
capital firm with $1.2 billion under management. She was responsible
for health care and medical device investing and, in that capacity,
sat on the Board of several small for-profit companies. Prior to MSVP,
Grace was an Analyst with Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc. in New York.
Grace left her job in 2002 to spend more time with her husband and
two young boys. She currently serves as Treasurer of the St. Francis
Homes Association and acts as an advisor to The Zeum, Charley’s
Fund, and Crystal Springs Uplands School. Grace has also been active
with The California Academy of Sciences and The Randall Museum. Grace
received her AB magna cum laude in Social Studies from Harvard and
her MBA from Stanford Business School.
Trevor Watt is a Director at Hellman & Friedman, a San
Francisco-based private investment firm. Previously, he worked as
an Executive Director in the Investment Banking Division at Morgan
Stanley. Trevor holds an AB in Politics with high honors from Princeton
University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
His mother is a former teacher of romance languages at public schools
in Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as in his original hometown of
Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Joan
Wattles has a long-standing dedication to volunteering and
has served as board and Committee member to organizations such as
the Colorado Ballet, St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH, Kent
Denver School, Breakthrough Kent Denver, Rio Grande School and Santa
Fe Prep. Joan has been a long-time supporter of the Breakthrough Kent
Denver and the Kent School. She has seven kids and holds education
as a top priority.
David Winton is
the founding partner of Winton duPont Films, a film and television
production company with offices in New York and San Francisco. His
company produces programs for leading broadcast and cable networks,
including PBS, The History Channel, National Geographic, and TechTV,
as well as Fortune 100 companies, advertising agencies, and public
interest groups. He is on the board of trustees of the Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco. He is also head of the contemporary acquisitions
committee for the Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy
Andover, as well as a member of the advisory councils to the Bard
Center for Curatorial Studies and the Institute for Recruitment
of Teachers. He is a graduate of Harvard College and lives in San
Francisco with his wife, Charlotte Vaughan, and their three children.
Rhea Wong was
born and raised in San Francisco, CA and considers herself a Breakthrough
“lifer”. She was a student at the original Breakthrough
(then known as Summerbridge) site in San Francisco. Following her
experience as a student, she taught at our sites in Hawaii (1996),
Hong Kong (1997) and New York (1999). Rhea also worked for three
years at Breakthrough’s National Office, specializing in teacher
recruitment and alumni relations. She is thrilled with the opportunity
to bring her myriad Breakthrough experience to the board in thinking
through steps for the future of the organization. Rhea
received a BA with honors in Political Science from McGill University
in Montreal, Canada. In addition to serving as ED of Breakthrough
New York, Rhea is the Chair of the Breakthrough Directors Council.
Beth
C. Porter, National Executive Director
Beth Porter has worked for Breakthrough for 13 years in the development
and program departments. Beth brings 19 years of fundraising experience
to her position and has worked in education, arts and political action
organizations. Beth has her B.A. in Sociology and Japanese from Middlebury
College and her M.A. in Asia Pacific Studies from the University of
San Francisco. When she is not at Breakthrough, she is kept busy by
her two- and four-footed children.
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