PAUL BERNSTEIN, Chair
Paul Bernstein is the Chief Executive Officer of The Pershing Square Foundation, which makes grants to entrepreneurial leaders who facilitate problem solving and change in the areas of education, global health care, human rights, poverty alleviation and threats.
Paul was previously the Global Managing Director of Absolute Return for Kids (ARK), a London-based international children’s charity. ARK seeks to offer an excellent education to more children and to close the achievement gap between children from disadvantaged and more affluent backgrounds.
Paul is a trustee of Tzedek, which draws upon the skills and resources of the Jewish Community to better the lives of those less fortunate. Tzedek aims to nurture and empower Jewish community leaders to promote the fight against extreme poverty.
ENRICO GAGLIOTI
Enrico Gaglioti is the head of Equity Sales in North America for Goldman Sachs. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Don Bosco Prep, a college preparatory high school for young men, dedicated to empowerment through high academic standards and extracurricular enrichment. Enrico also serves on the Board of Directors of the US Soccer Foundation, which seeks to improve the health and well being of children in urban economically disadvantaged areas using soccer as a vehicle for social change.
He serves on the Advisory Council of James Madison University’s College of Business, which BusinessWeek has ranked third among public schools list and fourth among all undergraduate business schools in the U.S. for return on investment.
JEN HOLLERAN
Jen Holleran is the executive director of Start Up: Education and is an educator with more than two decades of experience. Prior to her position with Start Up, Jen was the Director of New Leaders for New Schools, a program that works to attract, train and support principals in California’s Oakland and Bay Area schools.
Jen began her career as a high school teacher and principal. She worked as a management consultant McKinsey & Company before returning to education to apply her management skills as an administrator for Oakland Unified School.
Jen was educated at Harvard University and holds a Masters Degree in Education.
MAYOR CORY BOOKER, Ex-Officio
Mayor Cory Booker is serving his second term as mayor of Newark. Mayor Booker previously served as Councilman for the Central Ward.
In 2003, he founded Newark Now, which serves as an intermediary organization that partners with municipal government, residents, grassroots organizations, and the philanthropic community to catalyze the achievement of significant positive outcomes throughout the city. The organization channels the efforts and energy of the grassroots community to improve safety, economic independence, and civic participation.
Mayor Booker previously served as a senior fellow at Rutgers University’s Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, a staff attorney for New York City’s Urban Justice Center and a Program Coordinator of the Newark Youth Project.
Directly following graduation from Yale Law School, Mayor Booker started several free legal clinics for low-income residents of New Haven, CT.
Mayor Booker also holds a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in sociology from Stanford University.
WHITNEY TILSON, Non-voting Member
Whitney Tilson is the Founder and Managing Partner of T2 Partners LLC and the Tilson Mutual Funds, vice chairman of KIPP Academy Charter Schools, co-founder of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, and a director of Democrats for Education Reform.
In 2010, Whitney produced a documentary film – A Right Denied: The Critical Need for Education Reform – that explores the achievement gap between low-income, minority students in the US and their wealthier peers as well as the separation between the achievement levels of the US and its peer countries. Prior to launching his investment career in 1999, Whitney co-founded the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and ICV Partners, a national for-profit private equity fund focused on minority-owned and inner-city businesses that has raised nearly $500 million.
For his philanthropic work, Whitney has received the 2008 John C. Whitehead Social Enterprise Award from the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York.
Whitney holds and MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College.
