Team: Board of Directors

Siva Kumari served the International Baccalaureate (IB) for 12 years, leaving as the only woman to have served as its Director General (Global CEO) managing curricular and assessment services for K-12 schools. She held this role for over seven years, following her role as the Global Chief Operating Officer. The IB is a multi-national not-for-profit with offices in Geneva, Hague, Cardiff, Singapore and Washington DC serving 7,300 programmes offered worldwide in over 5,400 schools in 158 countries working with a large network of stakeholders including schools, ministries of education, universities, teachers, examiners and heads of schools.

Prior to joining the IB, Siva spent 15-years at Rice University as the first Associate Provost for K-12 Initiatives having served as Associate Dean prior to that. In her career at Rice, she won competitive US National Science Foundation funding, local and national corporate foundation funding, and national and regional awards for her research and work in teaching and learning in both higher and K12 education. She led the creation of a Master’s for school principals called Rice Educational Entrepreneurship program that included an MBA. She also developed the largest training institute in USA for advanced placement teachers; and, she developed a Digital Library for AP Science subjects as part of the National Digital Library Initiative.

Siva has a Bachelor of Science degree from India, a Master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Houston, Texas, USA in online learning for which she received an outstanding doctoral award. For her work in international education, she has been awarded an honorary doctorate from Amity University in India.

Linda Fayne Levinson has been a Non-Executive Director of multiple public and private
companies over the past 20 years. Presently Linda is Chair of AZA Finance, Clearpath Robotics
and Wndyr and a Non-Executive Director of Nate and PDC Wellness Brands. Previously, Linda
was Chair of Hertz, Lead Independent Director at NCR and Jacobs, and a non-executive director
of Western Union, Ingram Micro and Genentech. Linda is also on the US Advisory Board of
CVC Capital. She is the 2022 recipient of the B. Kenneth West Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Earlier in her career, Linda invested venture capital in technology and fintech at GRP Partners; at
Wings Partners, a private equity firm, she was part of the team that took Northwest Airlines
private; at American Express, she ran the US leisure travel agency and tour business. In 1972,
she joined McKinsey & Co. and was elected the first woman partner to the firm in 1978.

Linda is also an active investor in early stage technology both as an LP and an angel investor.

Stephanie is an impact driven entrepreneur and social venture investor. She is passionate about big ideas that drive significant shifts in markets and open opportunities for social impact, particularly leveraging technology and business model innovation. Her experience spans the fields of education, workforce development and healthcare in both the private and non-profit sectors, in the U.S. and several countries across the globe. During her thirty year career, she has played significant leadership roles as CEO, Executive Director, as well as advised and enabled leaders to realize their own potential through her board service as a venture philanthropist.

Stephanie was on the founding team of Cambridge Technology Partners (NASDQ: CATP), a visionary startup in the tech space that went public where she built their healthcare practice. She was also Co-Founder and CEO of Surebridge, an early software as a service provider that was sold to Navisite/Time Warner. She also founded Higher Aims, LLC a firm dedicated to developing innovative workforce solutions to enable high potential women and caregivers to remain in the workforce at senior levels. She has served on numerous social impact boards over the course of her career.

Stephanie served as a Faculty Dean of Cabot House at Harvard University and on several University wide initiatives under President Faust including Belonging and Inclusion and Sexual Assault Prevention. She also serves on the President’s Council of Cornell Women. She received her BS from Cornell University, an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an MPP from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Wendy Kopp is CEO and Co-founder of Teach For All, a global network of independent organizations that are cultivating their nations’ promising future leaders to ensure their most marginalized children have the chance to fulfill their true potential.

Wendy founded Teach For America in 1989 to marshal the energy of her generation against educational inequity in the United States. Today, more than 8,000 Teach For America corps members outstanding recent college graduates and professionals of all academic disciplines—are in the midst of two-year teaching commitments in 52 urban and rural regions, and Teach For America has proven to be an unparalleled source of long-term leadership for expanding opportunity for children. After leading Teach For America’s growth and development for 24 years, in 2013, Wendy transitioned out of the role of CEO. Today, she remains an active member of Teach For America’s board.

Professor Brakman Reiser has been a member of the BLS faculty since 2001, and teaches courses in Corporations, Social Enterprise, Nonprofit Law, Property, and Trusts and Estates. She is an expert on law and finance for philanthropic organizations and social enterprises – businesses that pursue a social mission. Her most comprehensive work on the latter is Social Enterprise Law: Trust, Public Benefit, and Capital Markets (Oxford University Press 2017) (with Professor Steven A. Dean). Her scholarship on philanthropy and social enterprise also has appeared in Boston College Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Indiana Law Journal, and Notre Dame Law Review, among others. Professor Brakman Reiser has also been a visiting professor at Fordham University School of Law.

Professor Brakman Reiser is affiliated with the Dennis J. Block Center for the Study of International Business Law, the Center for the Study of Business Law & Regulation, and the Center for Health, Science & Public Policy. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and was an Associate Reporter for its project on the Principles of the Law of Nonprofit Organizations. She is also a member and past-Chair of the Section on Nonprofit and Philanthropy Law of the American Association of Law Schools, and an active member of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.

Before joining the faculty, Professor Brakman Reiser was a legal fellow in the Office of the General Counsel of Partners HealthCare System, Inc. and served as a law clerk to Judge Bruce Selya of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. In law school, she was a note editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Scott McKinley is a seasoned executive leading global innovation and corporate entrepreneurship in the education field throughout Asia, Europe, and the USA.

He thrives on taking disparate facts, people, markets, and processes and distilling them into differentiated business models that drive sustainable innovation. Several noteworthy examples: Scott co-founded Neumont College of Computer Science (neumont.edu), led strategic and corporate engagement for Cisco’s Internet of Things education program, and led Laureate Education’s entrance into Asia. He has lived and worked outside of the US for 20 years across many Asian countries and in Europe. Scott is the founding partner of McKinley Hodge Group. He previously worked for Amazon Web Services as the Global Lead for the AWS Academy program.

Scott has a B.A. from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. from New York University.