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 Frank D. Riggs
Frank Riggs, CSDC President and CEO, serves as Chairman of the Board's Credit Committee. He served three terms as Representative of California's First Congressional District (from 1992-94 and 1994-98). While in Congress, he sat on the House Appropriations, Banking and Financial Services, and the Education and the Workforce Committees. From 1996-98, he chaired the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families, where he authored the Charter Schools Expansion Act of 1998, and sponsored legislation to improve programs covering special education, vocational and technical education, literacy, teacher training, and bilingual instruction.
Mr. Riggs is a U.S. Army veteran, former California police officer, and a summa cum laude graduate of Golden Gate University in San Francisco where he received the Associates Award as the outstanding graduate of the baccalaureate program in the College of Business and Public Administration.
Wade Dyke
Wade Dyke is Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of AP Ed Ventures, LLC, a company focused on building a technology centered business in education. Prior to founding AP Ed Ventures, Mr. Dyke spent five years at Chancellor Beacon Academies, an education management organization he helped found, and led the growth of the charter school division to 22,000 students and over $90 million of revenues. Early on in his career, Mr. Dyke served in public policy roles at the federal and state level, including as Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Education under Secretary Lamar Alexander and as Director of the Governor’s Workforce Office in Wisconsin under Governor Tommy G. Thompson. In these roles, he was actively involved in public policy initiatives to create education partnerships with business, to promote school reform and to institute quality management practices in public agencies.
Awarded a Rhodes scholarship and a White House fellowship, Mr. Dyke holds a Doctorate from Oxford University and a B.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin.
Tom Nida
Tom Nida is Senior Vice President and Senior Corporate Lending Officer for United Bank, in Washington, DC. Mr. Nida has been very active in the charter school movement in Washington, DC, serving as a board member and treasurer of one school, the Arts and Technology Academy Public Charter School, which he helped obtain DC Revenue Bond, tax-exempt financing. He was appointed to the DC Public Charter School Board by Mayor Anthony Williams in April, 2003, and was elected Chairman of the Board in October, 2004. He also has real estate development experience, having founded and managed several land trusts focused on renovation of historic commercial properties over the past twenty-four years. Mr. Nida is recognized nationally for his expertise in charter school financing, having written two articles published in the RMA Journal.
Mr. Nida graduated from the University of Wisconsin and completed an Executive Program at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia.
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