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Board of Trustees (page3)

JR Matthews, Board Chair
Mr. Matthews is a Managing Director of Tregaron Capital, a Palo Alto based private investment firm. He is a current member of the Alliance of Chief Executives. He currently sits on the Boards of Pump It Up (PIU Management) and EMSI. His previous work experience includes ten years as Chief Executive Officer of a group of wholesale, retail and real estate companies with more than 300 employees. Mr. Matthews received a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Duke University with Distinction and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Stu McLaughlin, Board Treasurer
Mr. McLaughlin is a partner at Sansome Partners, a San Francisco-based investment firm. Previously, he worked in venture capital and as a management consultant. Mr. McLaughlin was on the Board of The Breakthrough Collaborative, where he served as treasurer. He holds an M.B.A. from Stanford and a B.A. from Williams College.

Ana Olazava-Broadbent
Ms. Olazava-Broadbent is the Academic & College Counselor at LPS-San Jose. She previously worked a number of years with the University of California, providing outreach and resources to under-represented high school students for college preparation and eligibility. She also has worked with Adolescent Counseling services working with foster and at-risk youth in group homes. Ms. Broadbent holds a B.A. in Psychology/Legal Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a M.A. in Education with a P.P.S credential from San Jose State University.

John R. Selby
Mr. Selby co-founded Clarium Capital Management, a macro hedge fund based in San Francisco. He was previously a company Director and Senior Vice President at PayPal, Inc. and Vice President at GFTA Analytics GmbH, a Düsseldorf-based financial consulting company. Mr. Selby earned a B.A. degree in Economics from Hamilton College.

Nicole Sheehan
Ms. Sheehan is involved in fundraising for Stanford University, Sidwell Friends School and Lick-Wilmerding High School. She recently completed six years of service on the Board of The Bay Area Discovery Museum, serving three years on the executive committee. Ms. Sheehan has an extensive work history, including investment banking and portfolio management, most recently at AT Symphony Asset Management. Ms. Sheehan received a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Alex Terman, Board Vice Chair
Mr. Terman is co-founder and CEO of Digital Parent, an online parent education service. He also serves on the board of Rocketship Education, a non-profit charter management organization. Previously, Mr. Terman served as Chief Business Officer of the Stupski Foundation, an operating foundation focused on transforming urban school districts, and as a founding staff member and Chief Operating Officer of Leadership Public Schools. Prior to joining LPS, Alex worked at America Online, Bain & Company and as a John Gardner Fellow in the Office of the United States Trade Representative. He also completed the Broad Residency in Urban Education, which prepares participants for leadership positions within public education. Alex has a B.A. degree in History from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

Ricardo Toyloy
Mr. Toyloy has 20+ years of business experience designing and developing technology strategies, including technically qualifying customers and assisting sales teams by interfacing with technical decision makers. Additionally, he has worked with customers and business partners at various companies prototyping and implementing corporate products and service solutions. His current position is in IT Vendor Management for Citigroup's Strategic Infrastructure Services.  He also worked many years at Raychem Corporation, now known as Tyco Electronics, where he designed and implemented the infrastructure solution for the manufacturing division. While at Raychem he served on the SAP core team implementing the new corporate solutions worldwide. He has volunteered his entire career helping children and young adults achieve their full potential. Mr. Toyloy graduated with a business degree in Information Technology at the University of Phoenix.

Dr. Louise Bay Waters, Board President
Dr. Louise Bay Waters is the Superintendent and CEO of Leadership Public Schools. Dr. Waters comes to LPS from the Stupski Foundation where she headed research on districts that have accelerated the performance of students of color and poverty. Her work at Stupski built off of her experience in the Oakland Unified School District. As Associate Superintendent of Student Achievement in Oakland, Dr. Waters led the instructional reforms from 2001 – 2004 that resulted in district achievement gains that out-paced the State. She was also responsible for Oakland’s exit from two long-standing Office of Civil Rights oversight decrees related to bilingual education and disparate academic opportunities for African American students. As a principal in the New Haven district (Union City), she designed award-winning assessment and extended day programs. Prior to her career in district administration, Dr. Waters led the state’s first new teacher program, a partnership between Oakland and the California State University, East Bay. As a professor of Teacher Education at the university, she was head of a number of urban teacher preparation programs.

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