Susan is an apparel retail and operations expert with experience leading corporate social impact and philanthropy as President of Gap Foundation. In this role, Susan led the Foundation’s Board of Trustees while overseeing the Foundations overall grant-making strategies, disaster response, global employee volunteer efforts, and the operation of its signature programs, This Way Ahead and P.A.C.E. Throughout her more than 25 years at Gap, Inc., Susan held various leadership roles across North America store operations for Athleta, Banana Republic, and Gap brands. As a long-time advocate for change and community engagement, her key priorities are working to clear a pathway for women, girls, and underserved communities while supporting organizations that are working to eliminate systemic racism. Under her leadership, Gap Inc. developed and launched the ASCEND program, which was designed to help the company’s minority leaders realize their potential and achieve their career aspirations through mentorship, opportunity, and individual capacity building. Bridging her experience in the above mentioned roles, Susan most recently has parlayed her background in operations, philanthropy, and leadership to take on a Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion role with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society where she will also oversee the national field chapters.  Susan currently sits on the Advisory Board for the Center for Equity, Gender, and Leadership (EGAL) at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. While with Gap, Inc., Susan was an eight-year member of the Corporate Diversity Council and an Executive Sponsor for the African American Network Group (AANG) as well as the Color Proud Council.

Fred was AlixPartners CEO from 2008 – 2015, and is now Senior Vice Chair and member of the Board of Directors. Fred is an internationally recognized strategist and operations restructuring specialist who has been involved in many of AlixPartners’ most-high-profile situations. He is the architect, board sponsor, and senior mentor of AlixPartners’ global leadership program. Prior to joining the firm, he held senior positions at other major consulting firms and worked in operations and brand management in industry. Prior to consulting, he was in the areas of supply chain and brand management in roles of increasing responsibility. Fred has an MBA from Indiana University. He is coauthor of “The Myth of Excellence,” a BusinessWeek and New York Times best seller that details his research on consumer motivation and corporate strategic response. Frequently involved with the media, he is a sought-after presenter.

Stephanie Cohen is Goldman Sachs’ Global Co-Head of Consumer and Wealth Management. Building on a 20 year career in M&A, serving Corporate as well as Financial Sponsor clients, she is leading the firm’s commitment to client centricity, innovation and diversity. She was named partner in 2014 and an ex-officio member of management committee in 2018.

3Alexander Farman-Farmaian is Vice Chairman, Partner and Portfolio Manager at Edgewood.  He joined in January 2006 and helped implement the current valuation approach of the Edgewood Investment Committee. He is an analyst on portfolio companies, served as Director of Research, and produces the “Economents™”, a periodic economic and financial markets update for clients.  Prior to joining Edgewood, Alex was for 19 years a senior member of the Portfolio Management team at W.P. Stewart & Co. where he chaired the Investment Oversight Committee. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR – NY), the World Presidents’ Organization (WPO), and serves as a Trustee of the International Women’s Health Coalition (IWHC), an organization that promotes access to health services and fundamental human rights of women and girls around the world.  Alex was formerly President of the Princeton Club of New York, is a member of the Economics Club of New York and is on the board of Kalinat S.A., a potato chip manufacturing company in Caracas, Venezuela.  He received a BA in Economics from Princeton University in 1987, and speaks fluent French, Spanish, Farsi and conversational Italian.

Joel joined Facebook in 2012 and leads the global Sales Planning & Operations team, which scales Facebook’s business through planning, enablement, and operations. Prior to Facebook, Joel worked at Yahoo! for five years with roles leading the Americas Ad Marketplaces team, as the Chief of Staff to the CEO, and in the Corporate Strategy group. Prior to that, Joel spent seven years with McKinsey & Company leading digital media business growth and go-to-market strategy in high tech.

Joel also serves as Chair of CollegeSpring’s Bay Area board of directors. He has an M.S. in Applied Physics from Caltech and a B.S.E. in Engineering Physics from the University of Michigan, and currently resides in San Jose, CA.

Mr. Kubal has invested in seed and early stage information technology companies for the last 31 years, having founded Labrador Ventures in 1989. Labrador Ventures is one of the oldest, premier earliest stage funds in Silicon Valley. With over $200 million under management, Labrador has invested in more than 100 companies, helping transform the way we work, communicate and transact business. Labrador was among the founding investors in Pandora Media, where Mr. Kubal served on the board for seven years up to the IPO. He has been named one of the top 100 venture capitalists.

In addition to his investment experience, Mr. Kubal was a corporate strategy consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Prior to consulting, Mr. Kubal worked extensively in computerized database publishing for McGraw-Hill Publications Company and for the Academy for Educational Development.

Mr. Kubal has served on the boards of and consulted for a number of education nonprofits. He is currently a national board member of Achieving the Dream and Narrative, in addition to CollegeSpring. Mr. Kubal is also a long-time TEDster and a member of the NationSwell Council.

Mr. Kubal received his undergraduate degree from Duke University, cum laude with departmental distinction, and his MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Aaron has built a career leading digital product development that supports student educational outcomes.  He currently serves as a consultant to educational nonprofits, mission-focused startups, and a large state educational agency.  All are connected by an interest in creating systemic change that propels more students into high-quality post-secondary education and supports them as they complete their programs and enter the middle class.

Before starting his consulting work in 2021, Aaron joined College Board in 2014 to lead the development of Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy, helping to launch the world’s greatest SAT practice resources that just happen to be free. With a goal of leveling the playing field and improving achievement, Official SAT Practice makes high-quality personalized practice materials available to all students. As Vice President of College And Career Access, Aaron led digital efforts to clear a path for students to college and career success with responsibility for tools such as Big Future and ACCUPLACER.  Previously, Aaron held leadership roles at Kaplan in digital product management, sales, and educator support. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two children.

Juanita Lott is the founder and former chair and CEO of Bridgestream Software, an enterprise software company that was sold to Oracle in 2007. Gartner recognized Bridgestream as one of the ‘cool vendors in security and privacy’, and Burton Group recognized Ms. Lott as ‘a pioneer’ in role based access management solutions.

Ms. Lott has extensive operational expertise in global companies, particularly those undergoing rapid growth. She served as EVP and CHRO of Epicor Software where she focused on talent, leadership development, organizational and globalization strategies for this privately held ERP software business. Ms. Lott also served as a member of Sybase’s executive team as the organization successfully transitioned from a pre-IPO company to over $1B in revenue.

Ms. Lott is an Investment Partner in the Portfolia Investment Fund and a former member of the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives where she received the Forum’s Trailblazer Award in 2001, 2003 and 2004. She is a trustee alumna of Springboard Enterprises, a venture catalyst organization that provides support to women led businesses.Ms. Lott continues to work as an advisor and mentor to women entrepreneurs and is currently on the advisory board of Talent Sonar Software. She has been a presenter at Stanford’s MBA program on entrepreneurship from the perspective of women and is a contributor to Inc.com.

Ms. Lott received her Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts from the University of California and her Master’s Degree from Mills College

Garrett is the co-founder and former CEO of CollegeSpring. Garrett incubated CollegeSpring at Stanford University, where he majored in Economics and realized that his experience could help other students prepare for college. During his time at Stanford, Garrett interned at the U.S. Department of Education, conducted research with America’s most prominent education economist, served as an advisor to Google’s Education Applications Team, and co-directed Stanford Dance Marathon, the largest student-led philanthropic event in the Bay Area. He also served as a voting member of Stanford’s Board of Trustees and Public Service Student Advisory Board and Co-Chair of the Senior Gift Committee, where he led an effort that doubled the previous class gift record. Garrett has been honored as an East Palo Alto Social Venture Fellow, Stanford Nonprofits Board Fellow, Public Service Leadership Fellow, and Young People For Fellow. His work has been profiled in the New York Times, BusinessWeek, the Orange County Register, the Stanford Daily, and the USC Trojan, and he has served as an invited speaker at events hosted by The College Board, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Stanford University, among others.

Lindsay Page is the Annenberg Associate Professor of Education Policy at Brown University and is a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her work focuses on quantitative methods and their application to questions regarding the effectiveness of educational policies and programs across the pre-school to postsecondary spectrum. Much of her work has involved large-scale experimental or quasi-experimental studies to investigate the causal effects strategies for improving students’ transition to and through college. She is particularly interested in policy efforts to improve college access and success for students who would be first in their family to reach postsecondary education. She holds a doctorate in quantitative policy analysis and master’s degrees in statistics and in education policy from Harvard University. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College.

Todd oversees the U.S. Education team’s College Preparation & Completion portfolio, which empowers more high-need students to graduate from high school college-ready, enroll in college, and obtain a bachelor’s degree. Prior to joining the foundation in May 2008, Todd spent 13 years at Dell Inc. in various marketing and support positions, his last being Director of Worldwide e-Support. Before Dell, he worked with Exxon Chemical Company and Deloitte Haskins & Sells. Todd has a bachelor’s in business administration in accounting from the University of Texas at Austin and a master’s of business administration in finance from the University of Michigan. Todd is currently the Treasurer at Girlstart, an Austin, Texas-based nonprofit that empowers girls in science, technology, engineering and math, and serves on the board of CollegeSpring, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that helps students from low-income backgrounds boost SAT scores, navigate college admissions and financial aid, and confidently pursue college degrees.

Brittany joined Workday in 2018 to lead Workday’s strategic investing and help accelerate the growth of portfolio companies.  In addition to investing, she is responsible for establishing, maintaining and growing relationships with disruptive enterprise technology companies, investment partners and industry thought leaders. Brittany is also a member of Workday’s Corporate Strategy team, responsible for developing integrated business strategies.

She joined Workday after nearly a decade at Goldman Sachs where she was a senior technology investment banker in San Francisco. Brittany brings a deep expertise in enterprise software as both an investor and advisor and was named one of the Top Women Leaders in SaaS of 2018 by The SaaS Report.

Passionate about creating opportunities for under-represented groups, Brittany sits on the National Board of Directors for College Spring and Co-Leads All Raise’s Finance and Operations team.

Brittany is a Georgetown University alum, a former NCAA Division 1 golfer, and IMG Academy / David Leadbetter Golf Academy alum.

Olga has served as the Chairman of Teaching Matters for the past ten years. During her tenure as chairman, Teaching Matters has grown its cross-disciplinary portfolio of teacher development and coaching services so that more than 1,000 schools, 30,000 teachers and 500,000 students in underserved communities have been positively impacted.

Prior to her work at Teaching Matters, she was the Director of Music Programming at the 92nd Street Y.  Ms. Votis brings creativity and know-how to the Board, along with the ability to apply an entrepreneurial spirit to her leadership. She holds a B.A. from Brown University and an MPhil from Cambridge University. Olga served as a Co-Chair of the New York Public Library and as a founding board member of the Columbia University Innovation Center.  Olga also served as Executive Producer of The Shed in New York as it opened at Hudson Yards and she has been certified by the NACD since 2018.

Tom Friel retired as chairman and CEO of Heidrick & Struggles International Inc. in 2007. Tom joined Heidrick & Struggles in 1979 and played an important role in developing the firm’s leadership position in key markets. He was co-founder and then later assumed the responsibility of managing the firm’s technology practice, which he led from 1987 to 1995. From 1992 to 1999, Tom undertook the additional role of managing partner, Asia Pacific. From 1999 through 2001, he served as president of Heidrick & Struggles Ventures, the firm’s division responsible for all future initiatives, new business strategies, investments and alliances. He served as Chairman from 2003 to 2007, and CEO from 2003 to 2006. Tom is a graduate of Purdue University, where he majored in industrial engineering. He also holds a master’s degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and served on the Business School Advisory Council. After serving as CollegeSpring’s founding Board Chair for 13 years, Tom currently serves as a Board Member of the Computer History Museum and TalentSky, and is a member of the advisory boards of Docusign Corp. and the Seraph Group.

Mindy Rogers began her career at Bain & Company. She later joined Wells Fargo Bank as Vice President, where she held a variety of managerial positions in banking operations including General Manager of Northern California check processing, a 24/7 operation with over 300 employees and an $11 million budget. After leaving Wells Fargo, she became a consultant to the bank on a range of issues, including merger integration support, cost reduction, operational management, marketing, and new product launches.

Mindy is very involved in her community. At Sacred Heart Preparatory Atherton, Mindy served in a variety of volunteer capacities, including for seven years as a member of the Board of Trustees. For four years, she chaired the Board, where she led a strategic planning process, worked with the administration to implement numerous key initiatives and launch a $95 million capital campaign, led a search for a new head of school, and worked to improve governance and financial reporting. Mindy served as a founding member of CollegeSpring’s National Board for 13 years. Currently, she is a Board Member for Stanford New Schools-a network of charter schools in East Palo Alto run by the Stanford School of Education-and an active volunteer with Project Read, the Boys and Girls’ Club of the Peninsula, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and Stanford University. Mindy earned her B.A. in Economics, with Honors and Distinction, and her M.B.A. from Stanford University. She is married to Jesse Rogers, with three children.

Dr. Choi has over a decade of leadership, management, and fundraising experience, primarily with organizations serving underrepresented youth. In 2020, she was named a Presidential Leadership Scholar by the program led by the presidential centers of George W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson. She has published articles about testing and college access in Inside Higher Ed, The Hechinger Report, and EdSource. She earned her doctorate in anthropology from the University of California at Irvine, as well as a master’s degree from New York University and a bachelor’s degree from Scripps College.