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District Management Council provides answers to common
management and strategic problems faced by public school
leaders. |
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John
J-H Kim
Managing Director |
For
the past fifteen years, Mr. Kim has started and led several organizations in
the education field. Prior to starting The District Management Council, Mr.
Kim was the founding CEO of Chancellor Beacon Academies, Inc., a Miami-based
company that develops and operates high-performance independent and charter
schools. Mr. Kim led it from its inception to serving approximately 20,000
students from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade.
Previously, Mr. Kim was
the founder and President of Kaplan Learning Services. He was responsible
for the institutional business segment of Kaplan, Inc., a wholly-owned
subsidiary of The Washington Post Company. During his tenure, Mr. Kim
managed a number of initiatives including extended-day supplemental learning
programs, assessment related projects, and public/private collaborations for
post-secondary schools and universities.
Prior to joining Kaplan,
Mr. Kim co-founded Crimson & Brown Associates, Inc., the nation’s leading
diversity and targeted career services firm. He served as Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of this company until its sale to Kaplan in 1995. Mr. Kim
also worked more than three years at McKinsey & Company, Inc., a global
strategic management consulting firm, where he served a broad range of
clients address strategic and management issues.
Mr. Kim was recently the
Chairman of the Board of Co-nect, Inc., a provider of innovative professional
development services for teachers that is now a part of Pearson. Mr. Kim
serves on the Board of Overseers of The Shady Hill School in Cambridge and on
the National Governing Board of BELL (Building Educated Leaders for Life), a
non-profit organization that increases the educational and life achievement
of elementary school children living in low-income communities. Mr. Kim recently
served on the Executive Committee of the Alumni Council of Phillips Academy,
Andover.
Mr. Kim received an A.B. in East Asian Studies, magna cum laude, from Harvard College and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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Joseph J. Scherer
Ph.D.
Managing Director |
Prior to co-founding The District Management
Council, Joseph Scherer was a Vice President s at Harcourt Education. There,
he focused his time on identifying incremental revenue opportunities for all
of the Harcourt Education companies. His previous experiences in the private
sector include vice president of Kaplan Learning Services, Key Accounts
Executive with IBM, vice president of Computer Curriculum Corporation and a
General Manager of Marketing with Control Data Corporation. Prior to the
experience in the private sector he administered a number of education
programs in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Scherer first came to Washington, D.C. as an
intern with the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Children and Youth. The
Institute for Educational Leadership selected him for a year fellowship with
the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare’s Office of Education.
Following a second year in the U.S. Office of Education, Scherer was
appointed to head up the Washington Office for the National PTA. He left the
PTA to accept the position of Associate Executive Director of The American
Association of School Administrators (AASA), and concluded his association
management as the Executive Director of the National School Public Relations
Association (NSPRA).
He has managed a gubernatorial campaign, worked
with elected officials in two state legislatures, Tennessee and Minnesota,
and taught from middle school through graduate school.
Dr. Scherer has earned a M.A. in Education, a
M.S. in psychology and a Ph.D. His doctoral degree is from Vanderbilt
University.
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Nicholas
P. Morgan
Managing Consultant |
Nick Morgan is the
Managing Consultant with the District Management Council (DMC). Mr. Morgan
joined the DMC at its inception in January 2004 and leads the firm’s research
and consulting activities. In addition to his responsibilities at DMC, Mr.
Morgan is an adjunct member of the faculty at the University of
Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. A son of two educators, Mr.
Morgan has a lifelong interest in improving the quality of public education.
Prior to joining the
DMC, Mr. Morgan was a Senior Principal with The Parthenon Group, a “boutique”
strategic advisory and principal investment firm based in Boston. Parthenon
was founded by partners from Bain & Company, a leading international
strategy consulting firm, and is known for its analytic rigor and devotion to
client service. Mr. Morgan’s work spanned market and product strategy,
mergers and acquisitions advisory, profit improvement and post-merger integration.
He led several efforts in the education sector for clients in both K-12 and
higher education markets. He also gained valuable experience in industries
as diverse as food, retail, manufacturing and financial services.
Prior to Parthenon, Mr.
Morgan was with Arthur D. Little (ADL), a pioneering global consulting firm
based in Cambridge, MA. Mr. Morgan was part of ADL’s Advanced Power Systems
group, which focused on developing new strategies for electric utilities, oil
majors and providers of emerging power generation technologies in a rapidly
deregulating world power market. Mr. Morgan began his career in BMW’s
Munich, Germany headquarters, where he was a member of the strategic planning
group responsible for worldwide parts distribution.
Mr. Morgan grew up and
attended the public schools in Lexington, Massachusetts. A Canadian by
birth, he received his BA in Economics from McGill University in Montreal,
Canada. Mr. Morgan received his MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at
Dartmouth College.
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Avi Urbas
Senior Consultant |
Avi Urbas is a Senior
Consultant at The District Management Council (DMC).
Prior to joining DMC, Mr.
Urbas was Director of Strategic Development at Catapult Learning, the school
services division of Educate, Inc. (formerly Sylvan Learning Systems). At
Catapult, Mr. Urbas worked with in partnership with many of the country’s
largest public school districts, to deliver reading and mathematics
instructional programs to thousands of low-performing Title I students. Mr.
Urbas also led strategic planning, product development and operational
improvement initiatives associated with Catapult’s entry into special
education services.
Prior to joining
Catapult Learning, Mr. Urbas worked as an equity research analyst for JP
Morgan Chase, covering the eCommerce industry through its rise, fall and
subsequent re-emergence. His responsibilities included researching key
industry trends and identifying winning business models in an industry noted
for rapid change and continuous innovation. Prior JP Morgan, Mr. Urbas
worked in a strategy development capacity for the international division of a
large consumer products company.
Mr. Urbas recently
served as a Board Director for the Sylvan Beach Foundation, a Baltimore-based
non-profit organization providing employment and life skills training,
academic instruction, counseling, and housing to at-risk, young adults from
Baltimore’s inner city. The foundation is unique in that its operations are
primarily self-funded using profits generated from an award winning ice cream
business run by Sylvan Beach program participants.
Mr. Urbas received a
B.A. in History from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and has
trained in economics, finance and accounting through the Chartered Financial
Analyst (CFA) program. He attended public schools in Yorktown Heights, New
York.
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