Board Officers
Chair
The Honorable
John E. Baldacci
Governor of Maine
Chair
Executive Committee
Thomas J. Tauke
Executive VP
Verizon Communications
President
Kenneth M. Smith
Chairman and CEO
Strategic Partnerships LLC
Secretary
China M. Gorman
Chief Operating Officer
Society for Human Resource Management
Treasurer
Carolyn Warner
President
Corporate Education Consulting, Inc.
Honorary Board Members
Honorary Board Member
The Honorable
Thomas R. Carper
US Senator
Delaware
Honorary Board Member
The Honorable
George V. Voinovich
US Senator
Ohio
The Honorable
Marc Racicot
Governor of Montana
(1993-2001)
Board Members
Governors
The Honorable
Mike Beebe
Governor of Arkansas
The Honorable
Mitchell Daniels
Governor of Indiana
The Honorable
John Hoeven
Governor of North Dakota
The Honorable
John H. Lynch
Governor of New Hampshire
The Honorable
William B. Richardson
Governor of New Mexico
Government Leaders
The Honorable
Paul G. Pastorek
State Superintendent of Education Louisiana
The Honorable
David Poythress
Lt. General
Georgia Department of Defense
Georgia
(Retired)
The Honorable
Michael Thurmond
Commissioner
Georgia Department of Labor
The Honorable
Donne Trotter
State Senator
Illinois
The Honorable
Stephen Wise
State Senator
Florida
Community Leaders
James H. Buford
President
Urban League of Metropolitan
St. Louis
Deidre Downs
Former Miss America
Educational Leaders
David F. Demarest, Jr.
Vice President
Public Affairs
Stanford University
Dr. Sharon Robinson
President & CEO
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
Gene Wilhoit
Executive Director
Council of Chief State School Officers
Corporate Leaders
Linden Blue
Vice Chairman
General Atomics
Adriane Brown
President & CEO
Honeywell Transportation
Systems
Lawrence Caruso
Corporate Human Resources
General Electric
Charles Cascio
Vice President Interactive Learning
Educational Testing Service
James Cicconi
Senior Executive Vice President
AT&T
Michael D'Ambrose
Senior VP
Human Resources
Archer Daniels
Midland
John L. Donnelly
Member
Exec. Committee Human Resources
JP Morgan Chase
James J. Duffy
Executive Vice President
CIT Group
Julie Nixon Eisenhower
Author
Dwight Fettig
Senior Legislative & Policy Advisor
Arnold & Porter LLP
Michael Golden
Corporate Vice President
Education Products Group
Microsoft Corporation
Joseph E. Griesedieck
Vice Chairman
Korn/Ferry International
Stephen G. Harrison
Chairman
Lee Hecht Harrison
Stephen Heyman
Senior Director
Government & Industry Relations
Sallie Mae Government Relations
Edward J. Hoff
Vice President Learning
IBM Corporation
Mark Nicholls
Corporate Workplace Executive
Bank of America
Fred Niehaus
Senior Vice President
Public Affairs
Western Union
Catherine McKee
Olesen
General Dynamics C4 Systems (Retired)
Teresa Orth
Vice President
Human Resources
Toys “R” Us
Martin Shultz
Vice President Government Relations
Pinnacle West Capital Corporation
John Steele
Senior Vice President
Human Resources
HCA
Richard Stoff
President
Ohio Business Roundtable
Joan Walker
Senior Vice President
Corporate Relations
Allstate Insurance
Dale Wunder
Vice President
Human Resources-Americas
Shell Oil Company
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