Bruce Bent
Chairman of The Reserve Funds, co-inventor of money-market funds, named to the Money magazine “Hall of Fame” as one of the top eight financial innovators of the 20th century, co-founder of the Leeway School for Handicapped Children, and trustee emeritus of St. John’s University.

Peter M. Flanigan
Advisor of UBS Warburg, Founder of the Student-Sponsor Partnership and the Patrons Program, Co-Chairman of St. Ann’s School in Harlem, Board Member of the Children’s Scholarship Fund and the I Have a Dream Program, Founder of the Center for Educational Innovation, and former Director of the White House Council of International Economic Policy.

Richard Gilder
Senior Partner of Gilder, Gagnon, Howe and Company, former Chairman of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Board Member of the American Museum of Natural History and the Central Park Conservancy, and Co-Founder of the Gilder Lehrman Collection, the largest private collection of American historical documents.

Christopher L. Jacobs
President of Avalon Development, former Director of Economic Development for Erie County, Founder of the Bison Scholarship Fund, Founder and Chairman of the South Buffalo Charter School, and member of the City of Buffalo’s board of education.

Ed Kirby
Senior Project Manager for the Walton Family Foundation, board member of Portsmouth Abbey School, and Associate Commissioner of Education for Massachusetts.

Bruce Kovner
Chairman of Caxton Corporation, Chairman of the Julliad School, former Vice Chairman of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and the Dean’s Council of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Frank Macchiarola
President of St. Francis College, former Chancellor of the New York City Public Schools, and former President of the New York City Partnership.

Virginia James
Private investor, Chairwoman of the Empire Foundation for Policy Research, founder of A Brighter Choice Scholarships, member of the Board of Advisors of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and supporter of the Marwen arts education programs in Chicago.

Omar Wasow
Executive Director of Blackplanet.com (the leading internet site for African Americans), Internet Analyst for MS-NBC and NBC’s flagship New York TV Channel WNBC, founder of New York Online, described by Newsweek as one of the “fifty most influential people to watch in cyberspace,” and Former Chairman of the Brooklyn Excelsior Charter School in Bedford Stuyvesant.

Robert W. Wilson
Private investor, former Chairman of the New York City Opera, Managing Director of the Metropolitan Opera, Vice Chairman of the Whitney Musieum of American Art, Vice Chairman and Treasurer of the World Monuments Fund (which preserves art and architecture worldwide), and former Board Member of Environmental Defense Fund.