Board of Directors

Kevin Hall
Julie Mikuta
K. Robert "Bobby" Turner
Glenn Pierce

Kevin Hall

Kevin Hall is the Chief Operating Officer of The Broad Foundation. He is a co-founder and was Senior Vice President of Business Development of Chancellor Beacon Academies, which manages public charter and private schools across the U. S. Prior to working at Chancellor Beacon, Hall was a Senior Vice President of infoUSA, a publicly traded information services company. He has also held management positions at McKinsey & Co., Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Teach for America. Hall also served as an elementary school teacher, and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. Hall received a B.A. with honors in political science and economics from Swarthmore College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Julie Mikuta

Julie Mikuta is a Partner in NewSchools Venture Fund’s West Coast office, where she focuses on investment strategy, human capital, and management assistance to the firm’s portfolio ventures.

Prior to joining NewSchools, Julie was Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at EdBuild. Previously, she led trainings for school board and superintendent-teams of large urban districts at the Center for Reform of School Systems, through an initiative supported by the Broad Foundation. Julie also served as an elevated member of the D.C. Board of Education from 2001 until 2004. During her time on the School Board, Julie also worked as Vice President of Alumni Affairs for Teach For America, where she developed programming for the organization’s 10,000 alumni. She also helped found Washington DC’s SEED Public Charter School, interned at the White House Domestic Policy Council, and served on the DC Public Charter School Board’s application review and monitoring teams. Julie began her career in education teaching high school science in new Orleans through Teach For America.

Julie completed her doctorate at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. She graduated from Georgetown University, where she was captain of the women’s basketball team.

K. Robert (Bobby) Turner

K. Robert (Bobby) Turner is a Managing Partner, Co-Chair of Canyon-Johnson Realty Advisors, co-chair of the Fund Investment Committee, and a Managing Partner of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors. An expert in the acquisition, development, finance and management of commercial real estate assets, Mr. Turner directs Canyon’s real estate activities. Mr. Turner has over 18 years of experience in the acquisition and development of retail, residential, industrial, and office properties; the structuring and restructuring of mortgages and mortgage securities; and the special servicing and asset management of commercial real estate assets. At Canyon, Mr. Turner has been involved in over 164 real estate and mortgage transactions totaling in excess of $1.8 billion dollars including the development, construction, rehabilitation, and repositioning of over 7 million square feet of commercial property located throughout the United States. Prior to the formation of Canyon, Mr. Turner was a Senior Vice President at Banque Indosuez, where he specialized in structured real estate transactions including CMBS and whole loans. From 1989 to 1991 he worked for AIG Trading Corporation as the Assistant to the President specializing in interest rate and currency risk management. Prior to 1989, Mr. Turner worked at Drexel Burnham Lambert where he was the derivatives product liaison between the commercial mortgage finance department and high yield institutional sales and trading. Mr. Turner is a graduate of the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) with a B.S. in Finance.

Glenn Pierce
President & CEO, Pacific Charter School Development

Glenn Pierce, President & CEO, co-founded Pacific Charter School Development with NewSchools Venture Fund in 2003. He brings over twenty years of experience in corporate finance, food service and K-12 education management. He has been a leader in the development of charter schools since 1997. During that time, he has developed over thirty charter schools in ten states and the District of Columbia. Projects ranged from brand new construction to retrofits of former big box retailers and supermarkets to the refurbishment of former parochial and private schools. These projects created over 15,000 incremental student seats. He was Chief Financial Officer for Advantage Schools and Chief Financial Officer and Chief Development Officer for Charter Schools USA.

Previously, Glenn was Chief Performance Evaluation Officer & Chief Development Officer with Colonial Bagel, a regional franchisee of Einstein Noah’s Bagel, Inc., and a Senior Director of Asset Development with the Pizza Hut division of PepsiCo (now Yum Brands). This followed roughly nine years in commercial lending with Citibank and regional banks that are now a part of PNC Corp and Wachovia.

Glenn holds a bachelors degree in Economics and Business from Lafayette College and a masters in business administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Citicorp’s Institute for Global Finance and the Broad Center for Urban Superintendents.