Concord Consortium board members comprise a distinguished group of educators and business people, including the following:

Lauren Walters, Chair

Lawyer, Co-Founder and CEO of Two Degrees Food

Lauren Walters, a lifelong political activist and entrepreneur, is Co-Founder and CEO of Two Degrees Food. Walters is a Concord resident and former Chairman and Member of the Concord-Carlisle Regional School Committee. He earned a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and a law degree from Georgetown University. He was a Fulbright Professional Scholar in Law and International Business. Walters has been in private law practice, worked with Arthur D. Little, Inc., and served as a professional staff member on the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget. He is a private investor in early state new media, technology, and biotechnology companies and provides management and strategic consulting to the private and public sectors. Walters has been a member of Concord Consortium's board since 2002.

Richard Abrams

General Manager, Tom Snyder Productions, a Scholastic Company

A 22-year veteran of the educational software industry, Rick Abrams has guided the growth of Tom Snyder Productions from a start-up company into one of the leading educational software publishers in the K-12 market. He is a member of the Education Section board of the Software & Information Industry Association and is a board member of Educators for Social Responsibility. He is also a corporation member of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Abrams graduated from Colby College. He and his wife Susan, an attorney, have three children and live in Lexington, Massachusetts. Abrams has been a member of Concord Consortium's Board of Directors since 1997.

Goery Delacote

Chief Executive of At-Bristol in the U.K.

A renowned science educator, Dr. Goery Delacote has recently become the Chief Executive of At-Bristol, the award winning science center in Bristol, England. Previously, for fifteen years, Delacote was the Executive Director of the San Francisco Exploratorium, the finest and most innovative science museum in the world. Upon the death of the Exploratorium's founder and long-time director, Frank Oppenheimer, he took on the challenging job of leading this successful organization and giving it a vision and mission within an information-rich future. Delacote has recently accepted the challenge of expanding his influence by moving to At-Bristol where he will be working in collaboration with science centers throughout Europe as well as maintaining an on-going relationship with the Exploratorium. As a French physicist, he brings content, an international perspective, and a deep understanding of learning to the Board. Delacote has been a member of Concord Consortium's Board of Directors since 1997.

Diederich Framhein

International Investment Consultant based in Europe

Diederich Framhein is an International Investment Consultant based in Europe. A German national, he earned a law doctorate from the University of Cologne and an MBA at INSEAD. In 1969 he joined S.G. Warburg & Co., Ltd., the British investment bank, where he held senior positions in London and Paris related to international finance until 1998. Since then he has been associated with a corporate finance advisory firm in Paris. His special interests include biotechnology-related research. Framhein has been a member of Concord Consortium's Board of Directors since 2003.

Greg Gunn

Entrepreneur in Residence at City Light

Greg is an Entrepreneur in Residence at City Light. In 2000, he co-founded Wireless Generation, a leading educational software company now serving more than 3 million children with groundbreaking assessment and instruction products. As President, Greg created and led the product development team, shipping the award-winning mCLASS® handheld formative assessment platform. He took over and revamped the company’s sales division, landing key state and district sales and tripling the company’s revenue in 18 months. As Chief Scientist, he designed highly effective professional development techniques and created the company’s analytics and data mining division, turning raw data into new insights about student learning progressions. The company was sold to News Corporation in December 2010.

Prior to founding Wireless Generation, Greg served as Product Manager for InterDimensions, a Web solutions firm; as Product Manager for Clique.com, a New York based e-commerce startup; and as an associate at the Carlyle Group, where he focused on investments in new media, healthcare, and systems integration businesses.

Greg has experience teaching mathematics, physics, and computer science to all ages from grades 4 through postgraduate. He worked for the Champion International Middle School Partnership, where he developed technology-assisted teaching methods for 6th grade mathematics. During college, he taught in the University of Chicago’s Summer Math Program, where he helped develop innovative math experiences for grades 7-12.

Greg holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Chicago, an MBA and Master’s in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He currently serves on the boards of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, the Concord Consortium, and the Oliver Program.

Margaret Honey

President and CEO, New York Hall of Science

Dr. Margaret Honey is the President and CEO of the New York Hall of Science. Previously, she served as a Vice President of the Education Development Center and Director of EDC's Center for Children and Technology. Her doctoral studies in developmental psychology at Columbia University led to early involvement in the notable public television series 'The Voyage of the Mimi', and to continuing work using digital technologies to support children's learning across the disciplines of science, mathematics, engineering and technology. Margaret Honey has led numerous innovative and successful education efforts involving the use of digital media, including the nationally recognized reform work in the Union City (NJ) school district. Dr. Honey has shared what she's learned before Congress, state legislatures, and federal panels, and through numerous articles, chapters, and books.

Penny Noyce

Writer and Noyce Foundation Trustee

Penny Noyce is a trustee of the Noyce Foundation, a national foundation supporting improvements in public education, particularly in the areas of science and mathematics. Trained as a physician specializing in internal medicine, Penny has been active for twenty years in supporting math and science education in Massachusetts. For eight years she served as a co-PI of the NSF-funded Massachusetts State Systemic Initiative, PALMS. She has worked on Massachusetts curriculum frameworks and professional development systems; a current focus is work to strengthen the field of informal science education. She serves on a number of non-profit boards and chairs the Rennie Center for Education Policy and Research. She is also author of a kids' fantasy book, Lost in Lexicon: an Adventure in Words and Numbers.

Chris Rogers, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director, Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, Tufts University

Chris got all three of his degrees at Stanford Univ., where he worked with John Eaton on his thesis looking at particle motion in a boundary layer flow. From Stanford, he went to Tufts as a faculty member, where he has been for the last million years, with a few exceptions. His first sabbatical was spent at Harvard and a local kindergarten looking at methods of teaching engineering. He spent half a year in New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship looking at 3D reconstruction of flame fronts to estimate heat fluxes. In 2002-3 he was at Princeton as the Kenan Professor of Distinguished Teaching where he played with underwater robots, wind tunnels, and LEGO bricks. In 2006-7, he spent the year at ETH in Zurich playing with very very small robots and measuring the lift force on a fruit fly. He received the 2003 NSF Director's Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award for excellence in both teaching and research. Chris is involved in several different research areas: particle-laden flows (a continuation of his thesis), telerobotics and controls, slurry flows in chemical-mechanical planarization, the engineering of musical instruments, measuring flame shapes of couch fires, measuring fruit-fly locomotion, and in elementary school engineering education. His work has been funded by numerous government organizations and corporations, including the NSF, NASA, Intel, Boeing, Cabot, Steinway, Selmer, National Instruments, Raytheon, Fulbright, and the LEGO Corporation. His work in particle-laden flows led to the opportunity to fly aboard the NASA 0g experimental aircraft. He has flown over 700 parabolas without getting sick.

Chris also has a strong commitment to teaching, and at Tufts has started a number of new directions, including learning robotics with LEGO bricks and learning manufacturing by building musical instruments. He was awarded the Carnegie Professor of the Year in Massachusetts in 1998 and is currently the director of the Center for Engineering Education Outreach (www.ceeo.tufts.edu). His teaching work extends to the elementary school, where he talks with over 1000 teachers around the world every year on ways of bringing engineering into the younger grades. He has worked with LEGO to develop ROBOLAB, a robotic approach to learning science and math. ROBOLAB has already gone into over 50,000 schools worldwide and has been translated into 15 languages. He has been invited to speak on engineering education in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the UK, and in the US. He works in various classrooms once a week, although he has been banned from recess for making too much noise. Most importantly, he has three kids - all brilliant - who are responsible for most of his research interests and efforts.

David H. Rose, Ed.D.

Chief Education Officer, CAST

Dr. David Rose is a developmental neuropsychologist and educator whose primary focus is on the development of new technologies for learning. In 1984, Dr. Rose co-founded CAST, a not-for-profit research and development organization whose mission is to improve education, for all learners, through innovative uses of modern multimedia technology and contemporary research in the cognitive neurosciences. That work has grown into a new field called Universal Design for Learning which now influences educational policy and practice throughout the United States and beyond. Dr. Rose also teaches at Harvard's Graduate School of Education where he has been on the faculty for more than 25 years.

Dr. Rose is the author of several scholarly books, numerous award-winning educational technologies, and dozens of chapters and research journal articles. He has been the principal investigator on grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and many private foundations. Dr. Rose holds a B.A. in psychology from Harvard College, a master's in teaching from Reed College, and a doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Larry Rosenstock

Chief Executive Officer and Founder, High Tech High

Larry Rosenstock is the chief executive officer and founding principal of High Tech High, a network of innovative and high-achieving charter schools that emphasize student projects, real-world problem-solving assignments and internships with local businesses and community organizations. Launched 10 years ago as a single school by a coalition of San Diego business leaders and educators, High Tech High has evolved into an integrated network of nine schools spanning grades K-12 and a Graduate School of Education that enables teachers both inside and outside of the network to continue learning and innovating.

An influential voice in the national discussion of school reform, Rosenstock is an advocate of small, innovative schools or small learning communities within large urban schools. His accomplishments have impacted tens of thousands of students, and his work as an educational entrepreneur and innovator has received media attention from The Oprah Winfrey Show, PBS's NewsHour, Newsweek and Forbes. He is a winner of the Ford Foundation Innovations in State and Local Government Award, the 2010 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education, and is an Ashoka Fellow. In addition to his law degree, Rosenstock holds a B. A. from Brandeis University and a M.A. from Cambridge College.

Lev A. Sviridov

Senior Research Associate at City College of New York

Lev A. Sviridov is a Senior Research Associate at City College of New York. Sviridov received a Doctorate in Inorganic Chemistry from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from CCNY where he majored in chemistry and conducted research in the compositions and origins of aerosols. While at CCNY, Lev served as the student body president of the most diverse college in the United States and served on the Fiscal Affairs Committee of the Board of Trustees of the City University of New York. In addition to college-related activities, Lev served as the permanent representative of the Glasnost Public Foundation to the United Nations, representing the only human rights NGO from Russia to be recognized by the DPI NGO of the UN. He is a proud resident of the city of New York, where he resides with his mother, Alexandra, and dog, Duda.

Robert Tinker

President Emeritus, The Concord Consortium

Robert Tinker has pioneered constructivist approaches to education, particularly novel uses of educational technology in science. He earned his Ph.D. in experimental low-temperature physics from MIT and learned about education on the job at a historically black college in the 1960's. In the '80's, he developed the idea of equipping computers with probes for real-time measurements and of using the network for collaborative student data sharing and investigations. In 1994, he started the Concord Consortium so he could concentrate on applications of technology to improve the quality of education. His early work at Concord pioneered applications of portable computers to education and the use of the Web for professional development and teaching. One of these early projects created the Virtual High School, which was spun out as an independent nonprofit that continues to be a trendsetter in online teaching. His current research includes educational applications of portable computers, the development and testing of computational models in education, and the development of “smart graphs” that are able to interact with students about important features of a graph. He is also involved in policy formation relating to educational technology and its role in improving STEM education worldwide. Tinker is the founder of Concord Consortium and chair of the Virtual High School.