Board of Advisors

Business/Non-profit Management

John Bare

Vice President for Sports Philanthropy and Affiliated Funds, Arthur M. Blank Foundation

Tim Brady

Former Chief Product Officer, Yahoo!

Former CEO, QuestBridge

W. Hodding Carter III

Professor of Leadership and Public Policy, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill

Former President & CEO, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

Former Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Carter Administration

Print and Television Journalist; Four-time Emmy Award-winner

Stacey Childress

Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School 

Arnold Donald

Chairman, Merisant

Former President and CEO, National Diabetes Foundation

John Embree

Director of Student Recruiting, QuestBridge

Susan Hyatt

Community Leader

Paul Jansen

Director of the Global Non-Profit Practice, McKinsey & Co.

John Katzman

CEO, 2Tor

Founder and former CEO, The Princeton Review

Alex Mendez

Managing Director, Storm Ventures

Jerry Porras

Professor, Stanford University Graduate School of Business

Hank Webber

Executive Vice Chancellor, Washington University in St. Louis

Media Experts

Richard Benedetto

Former White House Correspondent, USA Today

Education Experts

Daniel Bennett

Administrative Director of the Center for College Affordability

Fritz Edelstein

Principal at Public Private Action
 

Rhonda E. Farber

Superintendent, Campbell Union High School District

Ron Haskins

Former Senior Advisor to President Bush for Welfare Reform

Robert Hughes

CEO, New Visions for Public Schools

Steven Syverud

Program Associate, QuestBridge

Russ Whitehurst

Former U.S. Assistant Secretary for Educational Research and Improvement

Ben Yurman-Glaser

Policy Analyst & Education Advisor, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed

Political Experts

Tom Downey

Chairman of the Downey McGrath Group, Inc.

Vin Weber

Managing Partner, Clark & Weinstock , Washington DC

College Guidance

Ivan Hauck

College Counselor, St. John's School, Houston, TX

Paige Johnson

College Counselor, Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo Alto, CA

Monisha Parakesh

Co-founder & CEO, TuitionCoach.com

Linda Wheeler

College Counselor, Annandale High School, Annandale, VA

Paul Wrubel, PhD 

Co-founder, TuitionCoach

Founder, Paul Wrubel and Associates Admissions Consulting

Karen Zalta

President, The Zalta Group, a college counseling firm

College Admissions

Michael Armijo

Senior Assistant Director of Admissions, Washington University in St. Louis

Demisha W. Lee

Associate Dean of Admission, Amherst College

Santa Ono

Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education & Academic Affairs, Emory University

Business/College Admissions Technology and Recruitment

Adam Park

Former President, Embark Corp

Former Vice President, The Princeton Review

CIO, Beyond 12

Young Shin

CEO and President, Higher Edge Marketing Services

Former Executive Vice President and General Manager, The Princeton Review

General

Assemblyman Jim Beall

California Assemblyman, District 24