Board of Directors

Andrew H. Tisch, K12 board chairman, is chairman of the Executive Committee of Loews Corporation and he serves on the boards of directors of Bulova Corporation, Canary Wharf Group PLC, and Zale Corporation. He is also involved in other organizations—he is chairman of the Children’s Hearing Institute; president-elect of the City Parks Foundation; member of the Visiting Committee, Harvard Business School; member of the Executive Committee and trustee, Wildlife Conservation Society; member of the Executive Committee and trustee, PENCIL, Inc.; member of the Dean’s Council, Cornell University, Hotel Administration program; and a member of the Executive Committee, New York City Police Foundation. Mr. Tisch holds a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

Ron Packard is founder and CEO of K¹², a vice president of Knowledge Universe, and a senior executive officer of Knowledge Schools, which provides high-quality childhood education in community and employer-sponsored centers, and invests in, incubates, and operates several charter school companies. Previously, Mr. Packard worked for McKinsey & Company as well as for Goldman Sachs in mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Packard holds a B.A. in Economics and Mechanical Engineering (with honors) from the University of California at Berkeley. As a Hughes scholar, he spent his undergraduate summers writing an image-processing language. He holds an M.B.A. (with honors) from the University of Chicago and he is a chartered financial analyst.

Guillermo Bron has served as Chairman of the Board and a director of United Pan Am Financial Corp. (UPFC) since April 1994, and as a director of Pan American Bank, FSB, a federally chartered savings association and former wholly owned subsidiary of UPFC, from 1994 until its dissolution in February 2005. Mr. Bron is a Managing Director of Acon Funds Management LLC, a private equity firm, and the Managing Member of PAFGP, LLC, the sole general partner of Pan American Financial, L.P. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Bron was a director of Telemundo Group, Inc. Mr. Bron founded UPFC and organized a Hispanic investor group that acquired certain assets and assumed certain liabilities of the Bank’s predecessor from the Resolution Trust Corporation in April 1994. From 1994 to 2003, Mr. Bron was an officer, director and principal stockholder of a general partner of Bastion Capital Fund, L.P., a private equity investment fund primarily focused on the Hispanic Market. Previously, Mr. Bron was a Managing Director of Corporate Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. Bron holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

Steven B. Fink, in addition to serving as a director of K¹², currently serves as the board chairman of Leapfrog, Inc. Mr. Fink has been the chief executive officer of Lawrence Investments, LLC, a technology and biotechnology private equity investment firm that is controlled by Lawrence J. Ellison, since May 2000. Mr. Fink also serves as a vice chairman of Knowledge Universe (now renamed Krest LLC), a private company focused on building leading companies in areas relating to education, technology and career management and the improvement of individual and corporate performance, a position he has held since 1996. From 1981 to 1986, Mr. Fink served as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of Anthony Manufacturing Company, a specialty glass and conductive coatings manufacturer. He currently serves as vice chairman of Heron International, a European real estate development company, and as non-executive chairman of the board of Spring Group PLC, an information technology services company in the United Kingdom. Mr. Fink is a director of Nextera Enterprises, a former provider of economic consulting services that has sold its operating businesses, Nobel Learning Communities, Inc. (a non-sectarian, for-profit provider of education and educational services for the pre-elementary through twelfth grade market) and C-COR Incorporated (a provider of operations support software and technical services). He also serves on the boards of directors of privately held companies. Mr. Fink has a B.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. and an L.L.M. from New York University.

Dr. Mary Futrell is an accomplished leader in the field of education and has committed herself throughout her career to children, public education, and the profession of teaching. She is best known for serving six years as president of the National Education Association from 1983-1989. Ms. Futrell received a Bachelor of Arts degree in business education from Virginia State University and obtained a Master of Arts from the George Washington University. After teaching and holding various administrative positions in different secondary schools, Ms. Futrell joined the faculty at the George Washington University, while earning her Ph.D. in education policy studies. In 1995 she was promoted to dean of the Graduate School of Education and Human Development. She is currently the director of the George Washington Institute for Curriculum Standards and Technology and the founding president of the World Confederation of the Teaching Profession. Formerly, she served as president of the Virginia Education Association, Education International, and ERAmerica. She has also served on the boards of the Kettering Foundation and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Leadership, and on the editorial board of Phi Delta Kappa. She has published articles in a number of scholarly journals, such as Education Record, Foreign Language Annals, and Education Administration Quarterly. She is also the recipient of numerous honors and awards, including more than twenty honorary degrees.

Jane M. Swift joined us a director in August 2008. Ms. Swift served as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 2001 to 2003 after having served as Lieutenant Governor and as a member of the Massachusetts State Senate. Ms. Swift currently serves as an education advisor and principal of WNP Consulting, LLC, an organization that she also founded. Prior to WNP Consulting, Ms. Swift served as a general partner at Arcadia Partners L.P., a venture capital firm focused exclusively on the for-profit education industry. Ms. Swift has served as a director of Suburban Propane Partners L.P. since 2007 and she previously served as a director of Wellcare Health Plans, Inc. from 2004 to 2006. Ms. Swift holds a B.A. in American Studies from Trinity College. She has also held fellowships at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and Williams College and she has received six honorary doctorates and numerous awards.

Thomas Wilford is president and director of Alscott, Inc., a Boise-based firm that deals in real estate and other investments. He also is chief executive officer and a director of the J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation. Prior to joining Alscott, Mr. Wilford acted as office managing partner for Ernst & Young in Alaska and for Ernst & Whinney’s Audit, Tax, and Consulting division in Idaho, where he was also tax manager. Previously, Mr. Wilford was a tax partner with Watson, Wilford and Spackman, and acted as a data processing management consultant and an auditor for Ernst & Ernst in Chicago. A retired U.S. Air Force officer, Mr. Wilford holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business from the University of Minnesota, as well as certificates from the Effective Executive and Management in the Business Sector programs at the Wharton Business School.