Board of Trustees (page2)

Marsha Dugan
Ms. Dugan is a former businessperson, now active in civic affairs and caring for her family. Ms. Dugan’s business background includes 12 years in the oil and gas exploration business, time in Prague with the MBA Enterprise Corps, and work in branding with Prophen. She is active with the St. James Church, serving on the vestry, and co-chairing their program for homeless meals. Ms. Dugan holds a B.A. from Randolph Macon Women’s College and an M.B.A. from UNC Chapel Hill. 

D'Lonra Ellis
Ms. Ellis is Associate Corporate Counsel with Gap, Inc., where she specializes in intellectual property matters. Previously, she was an associate with Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin's Litigation Department where she worked on a wide variety of cases, ranging from employment litigation matters to trademark litigation matters. She also represented Leadership Public Schools on a pro bono basis. Ms. Ellis grew up in Richmond, California. She currently sits on the Board of Lighthouse Community Charter School in Oakland, California.

Mutiu Fagbayi
Mr. Fagbayi is Founder, President and CEO of Performance Fact, an educational consulting firm that specializes in educational reform. He has an extensive background in facilitating and coaching educational leaders and their teams at the national, state and local levels. His areas of focus include strategic planning and school improvement; creating and sustaining high-performing learning organizations; implementing accountability systems; developing leadership at all levels; and building trust.

David Finke
David Finke is Managing Director of Russell Reynolds Associates, a member of Russell Reynolds Associates’ Technology Sector and co-leads the Hardware and Electronics Practice. Based in Menlo Park, David conducts CEO, board director and senior-level executive assignments for semiconductor, systems, software and cleantech companies. Additionally, he specializes in operations and supply chain searches, often helping clients to recruit world-class talent from outside their industry or region. David's clients include global public companies as well as private equity-backed emerging growth and turn-around businesses. David has held senior management positions with public and private companies in the software, business services, computer systems and consumer electronics industries. David received his B.A., summa cum laude, in East Asian studies from Yale University and his M.B.A., with high distinction, from Harvard Business School. He is fluent in English and Japanese.

Karene Gray, Parent Member
Pastor Karene Gray is a native of Oakland. For the past 20 years, she has devoted her life to her ministry, serving poor communities in East Oakland and San Francisco. Pastor Gray is the CEO of Executek, a multi-service nonprofit organization that helps formerly incarcerated men and women in East Oakland take charge of their lives and transition successfully into the community. As Chaplin and Self Esteem Workshop facilitator for the Epiphany House of San Francisco, Pastor Gray  creates a safe haven for women who healing from the chains of substance abuse, physical abuse and loneliness. Pastor Gray is a loving mother and grandmother. She and her husband are raising six of their nine grandchildren, two of whom attend LPS-College Park. These two grandchildren went from barely passing to making the honor roll and being involved in many community activities. 

Heather Hiles, Board Secretary
Ms. Hiles is CEO of RippleSend, Inc. Prior to joining RippleSend, she was Founder and CEO of the Hiles Group, a firm that provided strategic and operational support to a wide range of foundations, family enterprises, corporations, public agencies and nonprofit organizations. She has 20 years of experience in K-adult education, ranging from direct service, to policy development and grant-making. Ms. Hiles was the first CEO of San Francisco Works, a nationally recognized public-private workforce development intermediary, and a cofounder of EARN, a city-wide asset accumulation and economic development program for low-income families. Prior to SFWorks, she created and ran the Affluent Market Practice for Spectrem Group, a financial services consulting firm. Her early career was spent in direct service and program management with educational programs serving low-income teens and families in the Bay Area. Ms. Hiles served as a Commissioner of the San Francisco Board of Education and a member of the San Francisco Workforce Investment Board. In 2003, she was Communications Director for the Gavin Newsom for Mayor Campaign. She holds a M.B.A. with emphasis in Finance and Strategic Planning from Yale University School of Management, and a B.A., with honors in Development Studies from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a Coro Fellow.

Mark Kushner
Mr. Kushner is CEO of Flex Public Schools, a nonprofit operating California’s first fulltime hybrid schools, combining the best of online education with traditional education in partnership with K12, Inc., where he also serves as a VP for School Partnerships. Mr. Kushner founded and was the initial CEO of Leadership Public Schools from 2002-2008. A former attorney, high school English teacher and Principal, he previously founded the first urban startup charter high school in California, which has one of the highest graduation rates for African Americans and Latinos in the state. He founded and continues to serve as a member of the California Advisory Commission on Charter Schools, which advises the California State Board of Education on all charter matters. He teaches a course on School Choice at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and School of Education, and serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including the boards of San Francisco University High School and the Town School for Boys. Education honors include the Harvard Club of San Francisco's Secondary School Educator of the Year and the Hart Vision Award for School Site Administrator, the highest award given to charter school educators in California. Mr. Kushner received a B.A. from Wesleyan University and completed graduate work in literature, law and educational administration at the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (affiliated with Keble College, Oxford University), University of San Francisco (J.D.) and Harvard University (Ed.M.). He is married with two children.