Board of Directors
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Nancy Cantor
As the eleventh Chancellor and President of Syracuse University, Nancy Cantor is helping forge a new understanding of the role of universities in society as SU pursues its vision, Scholarship in Action. This entails a view of the university not as a traditional "ivory tower," but as a public good,...
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Caryn Effron
Caryn Effron is a Senior Director at Ackman-Ziff Real Estate Group, a mortgage brokerage firm that raises capital for commercial real estate nationwide. Ms. Effron has been with Ackman-Ziff since 2000, and has held her current position since 2001. Prior to Ackman-Ziff, Ms. Effron was a principal...
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Joel Greenblatt
Joel Greenblatt is the Managing Partner of Gotham Capital, an investment partnership he founded in April 1985. Since 1996, he has been a member of the adjunct faculty of Columbia Business School where he teaches "Security Analysis." Mr. Greenblatt serves on the Investment Committees of...
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David M. Knott
David Knott is the CEO of Knott Partners Management, LLC, which manages a group of hedge funds that he founded in 1987. Mr. Knott serves as a director of Paramount Resources of Calgary, Alberta. He is a Board member, treasurer, and chairman of the investment committee of Boy's and Girl'...
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Cathy Lasry
Cathy lives in New York City, is married to Marc Lasry, and is the mother of five children. She sits on the Board of Trustees of Clark University, the Trevor Day School, Say Yes to Education Inc., and is a founding board member of the Eleanor Roosevelt Legacy Committee. Ms. Lasry worked...
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Arthur Levine
Arthur Levine is President of The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Previously, he served as President and Professor of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Prior to his tenure at Teachers College, he served as Chair of the Higher Education program and Chair...
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Deborah Miller
Deborah Miller is an entrepreneur and investor in early stage venture capital companies. She founded the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Academy Charter School in West Trenton, New Jersey, which was the first public boarding school to be chartered in the United States. In addition to the Say Yes to...
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Norman Newberg
Dr. Norman Newberg has served as a senior fellow at the Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania, and Executive Director of Say Yes to Education, Inc. over the past two decades. Dr. Newberg began his career teaching English in urban public schools, followed by two years...
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George Weiss
Founder
George A. Weiss is President of George Weiss Associates, the money management firm he founded in Hartford, CT, in 1978.
Mr. Weiss also serves as chairman of Say Yes To Education, Inc., a national non-profit foundation committed to opening access to post-secondary education for high poverty...
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Mary Anne Schmitt-Carey
President
Mary Anne Schmitt-Carey is President of Say Yes to Education, Inc. (Say Yes), a national non-profit foundation committed to changing the lives of inner-city youth through the promise of post-secondary education and the delivery of comprehensive support services.
Schmitt-Carey joined Say Yes from...
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Daniel S. Och
Daniel S. Och is the Senior Managing Member of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group. The firm, which he founded in February 1994, currently has offices in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and manages over $15 billion in assets. Prior to this, Dan spent eleven years at Goldman, Sachs &...
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Sol H. Pelavin
Sol H. Pelavin was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Institutes for Research.
Previously, Pelavin had served as AIR's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, a position he assumed when the education research firm he had founded in 1982...
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Jane Toll
Jane Toll is now retired. She worked for many years as a teacher and then as a custom home builder. She funded, ran and lived a program to support 60 inner city kids from third grade through college. In addition Jane is very active in Seeds of Peace which brings children...
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