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Members of the 2005 “Rising Above the Gathering
Storm” Committee
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Relay University BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOUNDING PARTNERS | COLLABORATORS | INVESTORS |
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ABOVE THE GATHERING STORM, REVISITED Rapidly Approaching Category 5 By Members of the 2005 “Rising Above the Gathering Storm” Committee Prepared for the Presidents of the National Academy of Sciences National Academy of Engineering Institute of Medicine NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING, AND INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS Washington, D.C. www.nap.edu |
LEADERSHIP TEAM Our Team Norman Atkins, Co-Founder and President Yvonne Chao, Chief Financial Officer Mayme Hostetter, Dean Mike LaRosa, Chief Information Officer & Strategic Planning Lead Brent Maddin, Provost Tim Saintsing, Chief Operating Officer |
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Norman Atkins (ex oficio), Co-Founder and President, Relay Graduate School of Education
David Levin, Co-Founder and Superintendent, KIPP NYC Arthur Levine, President, The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Julie Mikuta, Partner, NewSchools Venture Fund Larry Robbins (Chair), Founder and CEO, Glenview Capital Management David Saltzman (Vice Chair and Treasurer), Executive Director, Robin Hood Foundation Dacia Toll, Founder, Co-CEO & President, Achievement First Carlos Watson, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs |
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| Members of the 2005 “Rising Above the Gathering
Storm” Committee (this is the now-belagured CED sector of modern corporate capitalism 1. corporate NORMAN R. AUGUSTINE [NAE/NAS] (Chair) is the retired chairman and CEO of the Lockheed Martin Corporation and a former Undersecretary of the Army. He is a recipient of the National Medal of Technology. CRAIG BARRETT [NAE] is retired chairman and CEO of Intel Corporation. GAIL CASSELL [IOM] is vice president for scientific affairs and a Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for Infectious Diseases at Eli Lilly and Company. She is the former president of the American Society for Microbiology and former member of the Food and Drug Administration Science Board and Advisory Committees to the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the Center for Disease Control. CHARLES HOLLIDAY JR. [NAE] is the retired chairman of the Board and CEO of DuPont. PETER O’DONNELL JR. is president of the O’Donnell Foundation of Dallas, a private foundation that develops and funds model programs designed to strengthen engineering and science education and research. LEE R. RAYMOND [NAE] is the retired chairman of the Board and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation. P. ROY VAGELOS [NAS/IOM] is the retired chairman and CEO of Merck & Co., Inc. 2. education NANCY GRASMICK is the Maryland state superintendent of schools. SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON [NAE] is president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ANITA K. JONES [NAE] is University Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia. She served as director of defense research and engineering at the U.S. Department of Defense and was vice-chair of the National Science Board. RICHARD LEVIN is president of Yale University and the Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Economics. C. D. (DAN) MOTE JR. [NAE] is president emeritus of the University of Maryland and the Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering. Additional members of the 2005 Committee: STEVEN CHU [NAS], a Nobel Laureate in physics, is currently serving as U.S. Secretary of Energy. ROBERT GATES, former president of Texas A&M University, is currently serving as U.S. Secretary of Defense. JOSHUA LEDERBERG [NAS], recipient of the Nobel Prize in physiology/medicine, passed away on February 2, 2008. CHERRY MURRAY [NAS/NAE] is dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. She is immediate past president of the American Physical Society and a past deputy director for science and technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She was formerly a senior vice president at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. RObERT C. RICHARDSON [NAS] is the F. R. Newman Professor of Physics and the vice provost for research at Cornell University. He was a co-winner of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1996. CHARLES M. VEST [NAE] is president of the National Academy of Engineering and is president emeritus of MIT and a professor of mechanical engineering. He is a recipient of the National Medal of Technology. GEORGE M. WHITESIDES [NAS/NAE] is the Woodford L. & Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University. He has served as an adviser for the National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. RICHARD N. ZARE [NAS] is the Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor of Natural Science at Stanford University. He was chair of the National Science Board from 1996 to 1998. |
FOUNDING PARTNERS | COLLABORATORS | INVESTORS FOUNDING PARTNERS Uncommon Schools KIPP (bd. of dirs)--conservative elites Achievement First COLLABORATORS Teach for America TNTP (Bain & Co.; Citizen Schools (investors) (Bain; Newscorp INVESTORS (Yipes!) Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York Credit Suisse J.P.Morgan The Laura and John Arnold Foundation Newschools venture fund Robin Hood |