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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 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.
Ember Reichgott Junge, Esq. is currently serving as the Vice President and Chief Advancement Officer of Lutheran Social Service of Minnesota, the largest nonprofit in Minnesota providing wide ranging services to children and families, senior citizens, and people with disabilities. A Former Minnesota State Senator, Ms. Reichgott Junge is the author of Minnesota’s 1991 first-in-nation charter school law, which was a winner of the 2000 Innovations in American Government Award from the JFK School of Government at Harvard University. As a national spokesperson for public
charter schools, she has made appearances with Bill Clinton, Al Gore, U.S. Education Secretaries Richard Riley and Lamar Alexander and many others. In 1992, Ms. Reichgott Junge was honored by Business Week Magazine as one of “Six Local Heroes Making a Difference” in sponsoring one of the “most innovative experiments in the nation.” She also sponsored into law the first public school open enrollment initiative in the country, allowing students to attend public schools of choice anywhere in Minnesota.
Ms. Reichgott Junge was recently inducted into the National Charter School Hall of Fame for her many years of dedication and service as a former board member of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
Ms. Reichgott Junge holds a Juris Doctor from Duke University School of Law, an MBA from the University of St. Thomas, and a B.A. from St. Olaf College.
Mike Kirkman joined Spencer Stuart in 2002 to launch the firm’s Washington, D.C. office, departing in 2008 to pursue other interests. Over nearly three decades of executive search experience, Mike has conducted assignments across a broad range of industries and functions, assisting companies of all sizes and stages of development. Industry experience includes financial services, defense contracting, technology, healthcare, associations, education and general non-profit. He was also an active member of the firm’s Financial Officer Practice.
Mike was the former Office Managing Director for the Mid-Atlantic region for the Washington, D.C./Tysons Corner offices of Korn/Ferry International. Earlier in his career, he co-founded one regional executive search firm (Kirkman & Searing) and was partner in another (Interface Group, Ltd). Prior to executive search, Mike worked in financial services, consumer packaged goods and higher education.
Mike has been a member of the Federal City Council and the Economic Club. He also is involved in the Capital Hospice and the Virginia Volunteer Emergency Family Care program. He previously served in an advisory capacity to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington and the Greater Washington Initiative and was a member of the board of the Graduate Management Admissions Council.
Mike holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in political science, with distinction, from the University of Virginia.
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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