Rollin Dick - Chairman
Consultant, MH Equity Investors

Steve Schuck - Vice Chairman
Chairman of the Board, Schuck Communities

Alan Dye - Secretary
Partner, Webster, Chamberlain & Bean

Tom Zupancic - Treasurer
Senior Vice President, Indianapolis Colts

John Gottsman
President & CEO, The Clarity Group

Vicki Perry
Founder/CEO, Advantage Health Care Network

Nina Rees
Senior Vice President, Strategic Initiatives at The Knowledge Universe Learning Group

Kevin Teasley
President/CEO, GEO Foundation

Rollin M. Dick, Board Chairman
Consultant, MH Equity Investors

Mr. Dick is a consultant with MH Equity Investors, a private equity investing group located in Indianapolis, Indiana.  In this role he participates in identifying and analyzing potential investments, structuring the financing to purchase the investment, and overseeing the ongoing management of the acquired company.  The group has investments in a number of companies located in various states.

Mr. Dick was previously Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Haverstick Consulting, Inc. located in Indianapolis, Indiana.  Haverstick Consulting is a business and technology-consulting firm that was one of the fastest growing companies in Indiana. Haverstick’s annual revenue increased from $7 million in 2000 when Mr. Dick joined the company to $100 million as a result of both marketing activities and strategic acquisitions.  Haverstick was sold in December 2007.

From 1986 to 2000 he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Conseco, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange financial services company with $100 billion of assets under management.  In that role Mr. Dick worked closely with the Chief Executive Officer to plan and execute Conseco’s numerous acquisitions and financings in addition to normal CFO responsibilities.

Mr. Dick has 58 years of accounting and financial management experience.  From 1965 to 1986, Mr. Dick was a partner at Coopers & Lybrand.  In 1970, he opened the Indianapolis office for Coopers & Lybrand.  From 1951 to 1965, Mr. Dick was with two smaller CPA firms in Des Moines.
 
Rollie has been an active “angel” and “venture capital” investor and has had interests in thirty businesses.  He is a director of numerous companies and three venture capital funds.  He received the Ernst and Young award as Entrepreneur of the Year for the support he provided new businesses.

He is also active with civic and non-profit organizations and is currently a director of Butler University, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, WFYI Foundation, St. Vincent Hospital Foundation, Fall Creek and Fountain Square Academies (charter schools), AIB College of Business, and GEO Foundation.       

Alan Dye
Partner, Webster, Chamberlain & Bean

Alan Dye has specialized in the representation of non-profit organizations since joining Webster, Chamberlain & Bean in 1975. His practice includes not only trade associations, but numerous think tanks, lobbying organizations, and political committees, with an emphasis on tax issues, charities, social welfare organizations, political and election law, and general corporate governance.

Education & Honors
Duke University (AB, Economics, 1968);
University of Florida (JD, 1971);
New York University (LLM, Taxation, 1973).
Assistant Professor and Director, Eastern Water Law Center, University of Florida College of Law, 1971-72.

Bar & Court Admissions
Admitted to the Bar: 1971, Florida; 1973, U.S. Tax Court; 1974, U.S. Claims Court; 1975, District of Columbia, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Judicial Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court.

Publications
• Co-Author: Association Legal Checklist, 1994.
• Co-Author: Trade Associations, Bureau of National Affairs, 1982.

Professional Activities
Mr. Dye is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel. Attorney Advisor to Judge Austin Hoyt, U.S. Tax Court, 1973-1975. Member: American Bar Association (Exempt Organizations Committee of the Taxation Section, 1977-, past Chairman, Subcommittee on Trade Associations); Federalist Society; American Society of Association Executives, past member of the Council of the ASAE Legal Section. Board of Directors: Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation, 1985- , Chairman, 1994-1996; Capitol Hill Restoration Society, 1975-1979; American Franklin Friends Committee, 1991-1995; Lee Fendall House, 1992-2003, Chair, 1996-2000; Freedom House, 1996-; Barracks Row Main Street, 2000-, Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation, 2000-; Fund for the Endowment of the State Department Reception Rooms, 2008-; Chairman, Washington Non-Profit Legal & Tax Conference, 1997-. Who's Who in America.

John Gottsman
President & CEO, The Clarity Group

The Clarity Group is a strategy and executive coaching firm specializing in business knowledge acquisition software and services to attract, retain and grow customers and high performing employees.

Gottsman led companies using technology to provide contract service management in engineering, systems consulting, real estate, transportation, distribution, wireless telecommunications and knowledge acquisition. He successfully led four corporate turnarounds with up to $1 B in revenue, and led a startup in K-12 and founded and led a startup in Higher Education both using interactive, multimedia instructional technology to accelerate knowledge acquisition.

Gottsman has been an Angel Venture investor and serves on fiduciary and advisory boards of several Silicon Valley startup companies, the Center for International Leadership in Washington, D.C., The World Future Society, The Greater Educational Opportunity Foundation, and served on the board of the now merged Institute for Research on Learning and The Foresight Nanotechnology Institute. He was a co-founder of an Orange County incubator, Gazelle Lab.

Gottsman has been active in the World Future Society for over 29 years and is currently Board Chairman. Gottsman was Chair for the 2003 and 2005 WFS Conferences in San Francisco and Chicago. He is also Chair of the Silicon Valley Node of The Millennium Project. He has been the Lead Mentor responsible for managing the recruiting and direction of all Mentors who participate in Santa Clara University’s Global Social Benefit Incubator. Gottsman has an engineering degree from Villanova University, and a Master’s degree in business from George Washington University where he was also ABD for a DBA.

Nina Rees
Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Knowledge Universe Education, LLC

Nina Rees is Senior Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at Knowledge Universe Education, LLC, a leading global education company with investments in early childhood education, before and after school programs and online instruction.

Before joining Knowledge Universe, Rees worked for over 15 years in Washington, D.C., most recently as the Assistant Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement at the U.S. Department of Education. In this post, she oversaw the administration of 28 grant programs (which supported 1300 projects around the country) and coordinated the implementation of several provisions of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act. Prior to joining the Education Department, Rees served as a domestic-policy adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, where she worked on the passage of NCLB.

Prior to joining the White House, Rees served as the senior education analyst at the Heritage Foundation where she authored more than two dozen policy briefs and served as the foundation's chief spokesperson on education. She has appeared on various news outlets including CNN, C-Span and PBS's NewsHour and her articles and opinions have been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Rees also spent two years on the staff of Rep. Porter Goss, R-Florida., while earning her master's degree in international transactions from George Mason University. As an undergraduate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, she majored in psychology.

Rees currently serves on the board of directors of the Washington Scholarship Fund and the Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation as well as the board of advisors of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and VA Tech’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Association.

Kevin D. Teasley
Founder/President, GEO Foundation

Kevin D. Teasley, married for 20 years to Colleen O’Brien and father of 12-year-old Audrey and nine-year-old twin boys William and Hays, is co-founder and chief executive officer of the Indianapolis-based Fall Creek Academy (formerly the 21st Century Charter School @ Union Station)—one of the first in the state of Indiana —and the Fountain Square Academy (formerly the 21st Century Charter School @ Fountain Square), the 21st Century Charter School @ Gary, and Pikes Peak Prep (formerly the 21st Century Charter School at Colorado Springs). He is also president and founder of the Greater Educational Opportunities Foundation, a non-profit educational organization headquartered in Indianapolis providing support to parents wanting additional education options. GEO Foundation houses the Charter School Service Center, a program which provides support and services to educators and community leaders who are opening their own charter schools. GEO Foundation is also an approved supplemental education service provider in both Indiana and Colorado.

The GEO Foundation is the nation’s only non-profit organization that provides a parent outreach program, sponsors charter schools, provides a state-approved tutoring program, and sponsors the Charter School Service Center to help charter schools succeed.

Teasley serves on the national advisory board of the National Charter School Institute, on the executive committee of the Indiana Charter Schools Association, and as a contributing editor of School Reform News. He is a co-founder and former president of American Education Reform Foundation and Council, and former vice president of the Los Angeles-based Center for the Study of Popular Culture. From 1992-3, Teasley served as executive director of ExCEL, the organization that sponsored California’s school choice initiative of 1993. He also served as Public Affairs Director of the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation, as public affairs associate with the Washington, DC-based Heritage Foundation, and the Reagan White House. His columns have been published in numerous newspapers including USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Indianapolis Star, Los Angeles Daily News, Washington Times, Orange County Register, and many others. He is a graduate of Indiana University with a double major in political science and journalism.