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Wireless Generation is supported by a network of leaders across industries who believe in the power of introducing mobile technologies to educators across the country. Our advisors include education experts who offer guidance on the company’s product development directions, and provide advice on enhancing the company’s growing role in assessment and learning. Our advisors also help to inform key education stakeholders and influencers about how Wireless Generation’s innovative offerings are transforming the way teachers and administrators use assessments. Directors Stacey M. Childress Stacey Childress is a Lecturer in the General Management unit at Harvard Business School, and a co-founder of the Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard University. Childress studies entrepreneurial activity in public education in the United States. This includes the behavior and strategies of leadership teams in urban public school districts, charter schools, and nonprofit and for-profit enterprises with missions to improve the public system. She has authored more than two dozen case studies about large urban districts and entrepreneurial education ventures, and is the co-author of the Harvard Business Review article, “How to Manage Urban Districts.” Stacey is also a co-editor of the book Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership, Harvard Education Press, November 2007. Before working in academia, Childress was a co-founder of an enterprise software company and spent ten years in a Fortune 500 company in sales and general management. Early in her career, she taught in a Texas public high school. She is a graduate of Baylor University and Harvard Business School, where she was the first woman in school history to be elected by her classmates to deliver the class day graduation address. Jay Clark 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 F. Holloway 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 boards of The Curry School Foundation at the University of Virginia and of Kenyon College. Mr. Holloway holds a BA degree from Washington and Lee University and an MBA from the Colgate Darden School at the University of Virginia. Ray Lamontagne 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. Stephen Leavitt 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. Since 1995 Dr Leavitt has continued as an investor in companies focused on education, medical records, logistics, and food services. Dr. Paul Ofman As managing director for the New York office of RHR International, Dr. Paul Ofman leads RHR’s consulting team and business presence in the Greater New York area. His consulting skills help organizations ranging from small start-up firms through Fortune 100 companies achieve business goals by aligning leadership behavior with corporate strategy. As part of this process, Dr. Ofman assesses and develops executives and their teams, advises corporate boards, and designs and executes leadership selection and succession planning programs. An architect of RHR’s Private Equity services, he evaluates the success potential of management teams and guides portfolio companies to increased productivity for an enhanced rate of return. Companies that have benefited from his experience cover a wide range of industries, including education, pharmaceutical/biotech, technology, financial, manufacturing, distribution, media, health insurance, and consumer products. Dr. Ofman is also a nationally recognized expert in the field of corporate and public sector crisis leadership, and actively consults in this area. Known for his community service, he has served as a trustee of three community-based associations and was volunteer partner to the chief response officer for the American Red Cross in Greater New York. In addition, Dr. Ofman advised key government officials on how they could most effectively lead in the aftermath of 9/11. Dr. Ofman received his bachelor’s degree from City University of New York/Queens College in 1980 and a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from New York University in 1987. He completed an MBA with a specialization in Health Care Management at City University of New York and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1995. Dr. Linda Roberts 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. Jane Stoddard Williams Jane Stoddard Williams works in the fields of communications and education, in the for- and non- profit worlds. She serves as Chair of National Board of the Horizons Student Enrichment Program, an educational organization serving low-income students, which is being replicated across the country. She previously chaired the board of the founding Horizons program in Connecticut. She recently joined the board of WNET, PBS’s flagship station. Prior nonprofit experience includes serving as President of the Board of Trustees of New Canaan Country School and as a member of Duke University's Council on Women's Studies. Jane spent a decade in the television industry followed by many years in the communications field. Most recently she has worked part-time as a radio host for news/talk station WICC 600 in Connecticut. She is a former producer of the PBS series "Inside Story" and was Executive Producer of "Panorama", a daily, live, news and public affairs program in Washington. She was later a producer at WHYY and KYW-TV in Philadelphia. Jane graduated magna cum laude from Duke University. Larry Berger, Co-founder | Chief Executive Officer Josh Reibel, President | Chief Operating Officer
Hon. James B. Hunt --Chairman Governor Hunt is a nationally recognized leader who has dedicated years to improving education in his home state of North Carolina as well as across the country. Governor Hunt has long been at the forefront of education reform in the United States, promoting excellence in teaching and learning. As North Carolina Governor for a historic four terms, he put into place one of the nation’s most rigorous approaches to measuring student performance and providing assistance to turn around failing schools. In 1985, he co-chaired with David Hamburg the “Committee of 50,” which led to the Carnegie Forum on Education and the Economy and eventually, to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. He served in that capacity for ten years, developing standards for what accomplished teachers in America need to know, and be able to do, as well as assessments to “Board certify” them. He has served as chairman of the National Education Goals Panel and vice chairman of the board of Achieve, Inc. Now a partner in the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge and Rice, Governor Hunt has maintained his commitment to education. He chairs the board of the James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy, established in 2001 to work with current and emerging political, business, and education leaders on a national level to improve public education. In addition, he serves as the chairman of the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, and chairman of the National Center on Public Policy and Higher Education in San Jose, California. Governor Hunt has been the recipient of numerous awards for his contributions to education in the U.S. These include the Education Commission of the States “James B. Conant Award;” The Horace Mann League’s “Friend of Education Award;” The Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education; The Children’s Defense Fund Award; The National State Board of Education’s “Policy Leader of the Year Award;” and the National Education Association’s “Friend of Education Award.” Dr. Walter G. Amprey Dr. Walter G. Amprey has played an active role in both the Baltimore County and Baltimore City Public School System, holding a variety of positions including his appointment as Superintendent of Public Instruction for Baltimore City Public Schools in August of 1991. He was honored as Maryland Superintendent of the Year for the 1994-95 school year. He also served as the 1995-96 president of the Large City Schools Superintendents of the U.S. and Canada. In July of 1997, Dr. Amprey resigned from Baltimore City Public Schools to take a position as National Vice President for Urban Education with the National School Conference Institute, an organization that endeavors to use technology to provide Comprehensive Professional Development to school districts nationwide. In March 1999, Dr. Amprey accepted a position as Senior Vice President of Urban Education with Bingwa Educational Software in Atlanta, Georgia. In May of 2000, Dr. Amprey established his own Educational Consulting Firm named for his daughters Kimberly and Keli. The KimKeli Group endeavors to assist school districts around the nation in their efforts to find greater financial efficiencies and to find instructional programs that are proven to be effective. In July of 2000, Amprey served as facilitator with Reverend Jesse Jackson at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition’s Public Policy Education Conference, “Closing the Gap,” in Chicago, Illinois. Ms. Judy Bornstein Judy Bornstein is the Chief Financial Officer of McCown DeLeeuw and Company, a private equity investment firm with $1.2 Billion of capital under management. Previously, Ms. Bornstein was the CFO of InterDimensions and prior to that, Director of National Operations for SmartRoute Systems. Ms. Bornstein currently serves on a number of corporate and not-for-profit boards. She began her career as a 5th and 6th grade teacher and math specialist. Dr. Cornelia Brunner Cornelia Brunner has been involved in the research, production, and teaching of educational technology in a variety of subject areas for more than thirty years. In addition to conducting research projects about the relationship between learning, teaching, and technology, she has designed and implemented educational materials incorporating technologies to support inquiry-based learning and teaching in science, social studies, media literacy, and the arts. She has worked extensively with staff and students in a variety of school environments on curriculum development projects, teacher support and training, and informal education. She has taught experimental courses at Bank Street College and the Media Workshop New York, in which teachers are introduced to new technologies, learn how to integrate technology into their curriculum, and learn to use multimedia authoring tools to design their own educational programs. Dr. Brunner has also been an industry consultant for the design of educational and entertainment products for children of all ages since 1970. Dr. Herbert Ginsburg Herbert Ginsburg is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Psychology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. His research interests include the development of mathematical thinking (with particular attention to young children and disadvantaged populations) and the assessment of cognitive function. He has developed mathematics curricula for young children, tests of mathematical thinking, and video workshops to enhance teachers' understanding of students' learning of mathematics. Currently he is exploring how computer technology can be used to help teachers assess children's mathematical knowledge. He has been teaching a graduate course on the psychology of mathematics education for many years and has published widely in this area. Mr. David Hawk David Hawk is the Director of Energy Natural Resources with the J.R. Simplot Company in Boise, Idaho. He formerly held the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors for Remington Oil and Gas Company, a publicly traded Oil and Gas exploration and production company. Previously, he was Exploration Geologist with Atlantic Richfield and Tenneco; Vice President with IGC Production Company; Vice President with Sundance Oil Company; and Senior Vice President with Horn Resources Corporation. Hawk has an extensive record providing testimony to Canadian and U.S. federal and state regulatory bodies on natural gas pricing, pipeline and utility rate making and avoided cost (PURPA) issues. He has been a frequent lecturer and keynoter at a variety of conferences on renewable and alternative energy sources along with traditional sources and conservation and efficiency Dr. Chris Heegard Chris Heegard has a BS and MS degree from the University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. degree from Stanford University; all in Electrical Engineering. For 19 years he was a Professor at Cornell University. For over 25 years Dr. Heegard has been an active member of the consulting community. He is the founder and chief scientist for Native Intelligence, a digital communications company. Dr. Heegard was the CEO and a founder of Alantro Communications, now a part of Texas Instruments. Recently, Chris has become involved in ranching in Cottage Grove, Oregon; he is also an independent investor and consultant. Dr. Paul Horwitz Paul Horwitz is a physicist with broad interests in the application of technology to science and mathematics education. In 1984, he was Principal Investigator on the ThinkerTools Project, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, which designed a curriculum and associated software that successfully taught the elements of Newtonian physics to students at the sixth grade level. In 1992, a simulated "Relativity Laboratory" that he designed won two EDUCOM Higher Education Software Awards, one for Best Natural Science Software (Physics), the other for Best Design. Currently, he is exploring the educational effectiveness of computer-based "hypermodels" applications that integrate multimedia materials with a manipulable model of a domain, using each medium as a tool for navigating the other. Hypermodel activities typically pose problems to students, then monitor and log their actions as they attempt to solve them. Data collected from such activities provide a rich resource for researchers and teachers, and enable them to assess the students' understanding of a scientific concept. Ms. Truda Jewett Truda Jewett is Associate Executive Director, External Affairs of the Children's Aid Society (CAS) in New York City. One of the largest children's organizations in the country, CAS provides a broad spectrum of health, education, recreation, and emergency services to more than 150,000 needy children and families in New York City each year. For more than 20 years Jewett spearheaded the development efforts at CAS, attracting donors from government, foundations, and individuals to enable the agency to provide its needed services. Today she is contacting and making connections with governments and international organizations that want assistance in replicating the work of Children's Aid. She serves on the Visiting Committee of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is a founding member of the Leadership Committee at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is also a trustee for a number of other organizations, including the Smith Barney Charitable Trust and Outward Bound. Mr. James A. Kelly James A. Kelly is a senior advisor to education organizations, government agencies, foundations and corporations. Early in his career, he was a public school teacher and administrator, professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and from 1970-1981, was a senior program officer at the Ford Foundation. His current and recent clients include the Atlantic Philanthropies, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, Asia Society, World Bank, Standard & Poors, Widmeyer Communications, Hewlett Foundation, and the Wallace Funds. From 1987 to 1999 he was President and CEO of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS); upon his retirement in 1999, the NBPTS elected him to the lifetime position of Founding President. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), and serves on boards of several other educational, corporate, and civic organizations. Mr. Kelly is a member of the National Academy of Education. Dr. Sherry King Sherry King was the Superintendent of the Mamaroneck Union Free School District from February 1996 until her recent retirement in the spring of 2005. From 1992 to January 1996, she was Superintendent of the Croton-Harmon Schools, Croton, New York. She has been a high school principal, assistant principal, and teacher of English, beginning in 1973 at Scarsdale High School. She is involved with a number of educational movements including the National Center for Education and the Economy and the Coalition of Essential Schools. She is an Annenberg Fellow, a trustee on the Board of Directors for Jobs for the Future, and a senior researcher for the Chicago Small Schools, funded by the Joyce Foundation. Dr. Eugene Paslov Eugene T. Paslov started his education career in 1959 as a high school English teacher. In 1963 Gene Paslov joined the Peace Corps as a volunteer and taught English as a foreign language in Ankara, Turkey for two years. Gene completed a MA from California State University, Long Beach in 1967, a ME.D and Ed.D in public policy and political science in 1970 and 1972, respectively from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Gene Paslov has served as State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Michigan and Nevada for a total of eleven years. He also spent a total of 14 years in the Michigan State Department serving in all management levels of the 2500 FTE agency. Gene has served as the Executive Director of a nonprofit Research and Development firm (New Standards Project) in Washington, D.C. where he was instrumental in overseeing the development of national academic standards and performance assessments. Paslov spent the last three years of his forty-five-year career as the President of Harcourt Educational Measurement, a Harcourt Assessment Company. He retired from the Nevada State Department of Education in 1995 and he again retired from Harcourt Assessment in 2002, but continues to do national and international consulting on public education policy and education leadership issues. Ms. Nancy Pelz-Paget Nancy Pelz-Paget is the director of the Aspen Institute Education and Society Program as well as one of the founders. Ms. Pelz-Paget is engaged in the development and dissemination of new strategies for education and public policy. The current Aspen program focus is on high school transformation and the multiple pathways and opportunities that young people need to succeed beyond high school in college, work and as effective citizens. Through a combination of workshops involving practitioners, policy makers, and research analysts, commissioning papers, networks of district and state leaders, the program has contributed to creating the framework of ideas and policies for what has rapidly become a national movement around high school transformation. Ms. Pelz-Paget has served as Director of Policy Programs, for the Council for Aid to Education, a subsidiary of the RAND Corporation, where she was responsible for organizing and executing policy forums with state, education and business leaders on reform in higher education. This work was related to raising awareness at the state policy level of the Council’s findings in the report “Breaking the Social Contract: The Fiscal Crisis in Higher Education.” Ms. Pelz-Paget has also been a television executive in charge of program development for public television where she was involved in production, marketing, outreach and distribution at WNET/Channel 13 and for an independent TV production company. Productions include:Adam Smith’s Money World; Bill Moyers: The Public Mind; The Secret Government; Report from Philadelphia; and On the Issues with John Chancellor. Prior to working in television, Ms. Pelz-Paget served as special assistant to Francis Keppel, Chairman of the General Learning Corp., where she worked on various public policy projects: serving as project director for the NYC Fleischmann Commission on public education and as staff director for Gov. Nelson Rockefeller’s Task Force on Higher Education in New York State as well as for the Education Panel of the Rockefeller Critical Choices Commission. She is former vice president of the Board of NY Women in Film and Television and also serves on the advisory boards of the Center for Research, Evaluation and the Advancement of Teacher Education, a Consortium of Texas A&M University System and the UT System, the three largest producers of teachers in Texas; the Center for Educational Innovation-Public Education Association; and the American Ditchley Foundation. Dr. Robert Peterkin Robert Peterkin is currently Director of the Urban Superintendency Program at Harvard Graduate School of Education. At Harvard, he is also Francis Keppel Senior Lecturer on Educational Policy and Administration and Chair, Programs in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy. Dr. Peterkin has held school superintendencies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and has enjoyed a long career from teacher to deputy superintendent, mainly with the Boston Public Schools.Dr. Elliot Soloway Mr. Charles (Chuck) House Chuck is executive director of Media X and a senior research scholar in the Human Sciences and Technology Advanced Research Institute at Stanford University.. Chuck has been a high-tech executive for forty years, with Intel, Veritas, Informix, and HP. He is currently chairman of two public companies (Tii Networks and Coroware). He is co-founder and co-owner of InnovaScapes (business consulting), and RedRockReports (K-12 educational funding services). House, a graduate of Caltech, Stanford, U. Colorado, and the Western Behavioral Science Program of U.C.San Diego, is a past president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and an ACM and IEEE Fellow. His contributions are acknowledged widely, including Engineer of the Year; Computer Design Hall of Fame,; ASME International Leadership Award; and National "Wizards of Computing"
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