Meet Our Leadership Team
New Classrooms is committed to an organizational culture that values imaginative thinking, superior execution, ongoing professional development, and open and purposeful collaboration. The individuals who make up the New Classrooms team possess a diverse set of talents. Our team possesses a collective 300+ years of teaching experience, and many of our leaders previously served in key roles in leading educational and technology-based organizations.
Board of Directors
Trey Beck
Chairman
Innovations for Poverty Action
Former Managing Director
D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P.
Mike Bezos
Vice President and Co-Founder
Bezos Family Foundation
Murmuration
Palmina Fava
Partner
Paul Hastings LLP
Shavar Jeffries
National President
Democrats for Education Reform
Paul Massey
Founding Partner and CEO
B6 Real Estate Advisors
Gideon Stein
President
The Moriah Fund
Jeff Wetzler
Co-Founder
Transcend Education
Sara Allan (observer)
Deputy Director, K-12 Education
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Board of Advisors
Norman Atkins
Co-Founder and President
Relay Graduate School of Education
Robert Avossa
Senior Vice-President
LRP Publications
Former Superintendent
Palm Beach County School District
Doug Borchard
Managing Partner
New Profit Inc.
Anthony Bryk
President
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
Tom Carroll
President Emeritus
National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future
Chris Cerf
Former Commissioner of Education
State of New Jersey
Susan Fine
Former Chief Academic Officer
New Classrooms
Susan Fuhrman
President Emerita
Teachers College, Columbia University
Margo Georgiadis
CEO
Ancestry.com
John Katzman
Chief Executive Officer and Founder
Noodle Education
Former Chairman & Founder
2U
CEO and Co-Founder
Teach for All
Founder
Teach for America
Co-Founder
KIPP
Founder and Managing Principal
Salmon River Capital
Founder and CEO (ret.)
The New Teacher Center
CEO
Robin Hood Foundation
Tom Payzant
Former Professor of Practice
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Former Superintendent
Boston Public Schools
Adam Pisoni
Founder and CEO
Abl Schools
Doug Rohde
Engineering Manager and Education Community Liaison
Google Inc.
Richard Sarnoff
Chairman of Media, Entertainment, and Education
KKR
Philip Uri Treisman, Ph.D.
Executive Director
The Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin
Marla Ucelli-Kashyap
Assistant to the President for Educational Issues
American Federation of Teachers
Tom Vander Ark
Founder
Getting Smart
Gene Wilhoit
CEO
Center for Innovation in Education
Former Executive Director
Council of Chief State School Officers
Jessie Woolley-Wilson
Chair, CEO, and President
DreamBox Learning