Board of Directors
PCSD’s board of directors brings an abundance of philanthropic, business, and development experience to help guide the organization as it moves forward with its goals.
- Kevin Hall
- Julie Mikuta
- K. Robert Turner
- Glenn Pierce
- Reginald H. (Reggie) Gilyard
- Ken Zeff
- Nadya Chinoy Dabby
Kevin Hall
Kevin Hall is President & CEO of Charter School Growth Fund, which invests philanthropic vetnure capital in the nation's highest performing charter school operators. He joined CSGF in July 2009 to lead a process of developing CSGF's new strategic plan, refining its investment strategies and launching its second fund. Before joining CSGF, Mr. Hall served as the Chief Operating Officer of The Broad Foundation for several years where he led various aspects of the Foundation's grant investment strategy and work. Prior to Broad, he was a co-founder and ran business development for Chancellor Beacon Academies, a manager of charter and private schools across the U.S. Previously, Mr. Hall ran a division of infoUSA, and worked at McKinsey & Co., Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Teach For America. Mr. Hall was an elementary school teacher and teaching fellow at Harvard University, and earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and B.A. from Swarthmore College.
Julie Mikuta
Julie Mikuta is a Partner with NewSchools Venture Fund’s West Coast office, where she oversees investment strategy, and management assistance to the firm’s portfolio ventures. A former Rhodes Scholar, Mikuta has worked as a high school teacher for Teach For America and later served as the organization’s Vice President of Alumni Affairs. She served on the District of Columbia’s Board of Education and helped start the DC-based SEED Public Charter School. Mikuta holds a B.A. from Georgetown University and a Ph.D. from Oxford University.
K. Robert Turner
Bobby Turner is a Founding Partner and CEO of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, LLC and a Managing Partner of Canyon Capital Advisors, LLC, money management firms and registered investment advisors headquartered in Los Angeles, with over $18 billion in assets under management. Mr. Turner oversees all of Canyon's real estate investment activities including its mortgage debt platforms, the Canyon-Johnson Urban Funds. Since joining Canyon in 1992, Mr. Turner has been involved in over 250 real estate and mortgage transactions totaling in excess of $9.5 billion including the development, construction, rehabilitation, and repositioning of over 40 million square feet of commercial property and 20,000 residential units located throughout the United States. Mr. Turner serves on the advisory board for the Virginia Avenue Project, a Los Angeles based not-for-profit organization providing after school services for inner-city and at-risk youths and on the boards of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) a national not-for-profit organization promoting a market-based approach for inner-city revitalization, and the Leadership Forum at Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies. Turner received a B.S. in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he and his wife endowed a curriculum development fund and speaker series for social impact studies and where he serves on the school's Undergraduate Executive Board of Advisors.
Glenn Pierce
Glenn Pierce is President & CEO of Canyon Agassi Partners, a newly created investment arm of Canyon Partners formed in 2010 for the purpose of encouraging mission related investments in high-quality public charters schools nationally. Prior to that, he founded and led Pacific Charter School Development since 2004 as Director, President & CEO upon graduating from The Broad Superintendents Academy. Prior to 2004, Pierce developed 60 charter schools in 10 states and was a commercial banker for 10 years. Pierce received an AB in Economics and Business from Lafayette and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Reginald H. (Reggie) Gilyard
Reginald H. (Reggie) Gilyard is a Partner and Managing Director in the Los Angeles office of The Boston Consulting Group (www.bcg.com) – a $3B global management consulting company which advises the world’s largest companies and public institutions on issues of effective management, strategy and operations. Mr. Gilyard joined BCG in 1996. Mr. Gilyard is a 1985 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy where he received a BS in Mathematics/Operations Research, a 1989 graduate of the Air Force Institute of Technology where he received an MS in Computer Systems Engineering, and a 1996 graduate of the Harvard Business School where he received a Masters in Business Administration.
Ken Zeff is the Chief Operating Officer of Green Dot Public Schools. He previously served as Chief Operating Officer of ICEF Public Schools. Previously Ken had been appointed as a Senior Consultant for Policy Development in the Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education. In that role, he worked primarily on the Administration's blueprint for No Child Left Behind reauthorization. Ken was also awarded a White House Fellowship which he spent at the White House Office of Management and Budget. Before his time in Washington, Ken worked for the Superintendent of San Diego City Schools as a Broad Resident where he managed the campaign for universal preschool access for all four year olds in the district. As a manager at Deloitte Consulting, he led process redesign, strategic planning, and financial management projects for Fortune 500 companies. Ken also took a leave of absence from Deloitte to create computer learning centers in the inner city of Seattle as a member of AmeriCorps*VISTA. Ken received his BA in Economics from the University of Michigan and his MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Nadya Chinoy Dabby is the director of The Broad Education Foundation where she identifies and evaluates potential investment opportunities. She has a background in management consulting, primarily for nonprofit and government organizations, in the areas of health care, human services, youth development and affordable housing. Most recently, she was with the consulting practice of the Corporate Executive Board in Washington, D.C. Before that, she worked for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Local Economic and Employment Development Program. Chinoy Dabby received a bachelor’s degree in international development and a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
