Cesar Armendariz
Cesar Armendariz is currently the Director of Executive Offices at TELACU (The East Los Angeles Community Union), the nation’s largest community and economic development corporation. His role is to manage and oversee all the activities relating to the President and CEO, including business development, and public, corporate and governmental relations. Concurrently, Mr. Armendariz also serves as an advisor to Hispatech USA, an online provider of performance applications and business tools for chambers of commerce and business organizations, and Hombre Media, Inc., the nation’s first Spanish language cable network for men. Mr. Armendariz previously served as the Executive Director of the International Business Center where he was in charge of coordinating the trade promotion efforts among the various public and private stakeholders of the center, attracting new international trade partners, and maintaining focus on the core mission of assisting small-to-medium-sized California companies expand their current customer base by seeking new export markets. Mr. Armendariz studied at the University of Southern California, where he is often a guest lecturer for the MBA programs on business cultural practices and protocol in Latin America.



Michael Banner
Michael Banner is the President and CEO of the Los Angeles LDC, Inc. (LDC), a nonprofit community development financial institution that provides innovative financial advisory services to achieve the target investment goals of its private and public sector clients. As the President and CEO of the LDC, he manages multimillion relationships with a growing cadre of investors, which includes municipalities, banks, pension funds, insurance companies, and community development capital providers. Mr. Banner is an Urban Land Institute (ULI) Trustee and Inner City Advisor, and has an extensive background in commercial banking, real estate finance with a special emphasis in utilizing federal funds for real estate and business development. He is active in many community reinvestment initiatives and is a charter member of the Los Angeles Community Reinvestment Committee, ULI-LA, District Council Inner City Sub-Committee, Community Technologies/Merrill Lynch Minority Business Research Advisory Committee and Fannie Mae/LA Trade Tech College Mortgage Finance Advisory Committee. He serves on the board of commissioners Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles and Business Tax Advisory Committee.



Hud Croasdale
Hud Croasdale is currently the Director of Information Technology Strategic Partnerships at Virginia Tech and has responsibility for developing and managing Virginia Tech's strategic partnerships with private sector organizations, research universities, government agencies, and economic development groups; specifically in areas relating to information technology, Internet 2, and advanced telecommunications activities. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, Mr. Croasdale was the Director of the Old Dominion University Northern Virginia Higher Education Center. In 1994 he was appointed by Virginia’s Governor, George Allen, to serve as the Director of the Council on Information Management, as the Chief Information Officer of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Mr. Croasdale also has over 18 years of information technology experience in the private sector serving in senior management positions with C&P Telephone Company, AT&T, and the Lockheed Martin Corporation. Mr. Croasdale has a Bachelor of Science degree in education from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia and a Master of Science degree in systems management and information systems from the University of Southern California in Los Angles California.



Frank Donaghue
Frank Donaghue is Chief Executive Officer of the After-School All-Stars and The Arnold Schwarzenegger Youth Foundation. Prior Mr. Donaghue has served as the Chief Executive Officer of one of the largest and most successful chapters of the American Red Cross, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter located in Philadelphia. During his Red Cross career, he played a variety of national leadership roles within the organization. Following the September 11 catastrophe, Donaghue was the main Red Cross spokesperson for the relief efforts at Ground Zero in New York, and played a similar role in Turkey, following the 1999 earthquake that killed nearly 17,000 people. Twice he served in senior positions at Red Cross headquarters in Washington: in 1995 as interim vice president with responsibility for revamping the national organization’s fundraising operations, and again in 2001-2002 as the senior national communications executive during the difficult period that followed in the months after the September 11 attacks. Mr. Donaghue serves on the Board of Directors of the Community College of Philadelphia, the Rena Rowan Foundation for the Homeless, and the Tenet Healthcare Community Advisory Board (associated with Hannehman University Hospital) and has been an instructor at Drexel and Temple Universities. He holds graduate degrees from Seton Hall University and the University of Pennsylvania.



Douglas Hull Doug Hull is the President, Connectivity Partners International Inc. (CPI), of Ottawa, Canada which assists governments in the development and implementation of their ICT and connectivity strategies. CPI has supported the Government of the Kingdom of Jordan with the creation and design of the Jordan Broadband Learning Network. CPI is presently focused on determining the feasibility of a Pan Arab University Research and Education Network and supporting the Government of Ethiopia in the planning and implementation of the ICT component of its public service capacity building program. Additional projects involve Chile, Lebanon and Kuwait. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Hull was Senior Director, Public Access and Learning Networks, Canarie, Inc. From 1992 to 2001 Mr. Hull was Director General of the Information Highways Branch of Industry Canada where he successfully envisioned, designed and executed major elements of the Government of Canada’s Connectedness Strategy, aimed to place Canada at the forefront of Internet access and usage. On completion of his work Canada had advanced from 7th to 1st place in terms of Internet penetration levels. Mr. Hull holds a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.



Yarrow Kraner
Yarrow Kraner is the co-founder and President of HatcH, a creative innovators mentorship program organized to HatcH creative minds, and propel careers in film, music, design, writing, photography, and numerous commercial applications of the arts. Yarrow has been a professional director and photographer in the entertainment industry since 1994. His list of past clients includes Warner Brothers, Columbia Records, Levi’s, Direct TV, CBS News, First Interstate Bank, Moonlight Basin Resort, several magazines, fashion clients, and boutique stores. Yarrow has won over thirty ADDY Awards for directing, spearheaded one of the highest-rated documentaries to air on Discovery Channel, and his photography has shown internationally. Having carried a camera since he was 8 years old, he graduated Montana State’s Film School, and moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to direct commercials and music videos. In 1999 Yarrow founded a company called Superdudes. Yarrow is currently a free-lance consultant specializing in branding, marketing, design, photography, film production, or interactive user experience. He splits time between Los Angeles, his beloved Bozeman, MT, and other location shoots around the world.



Kathleen Madigan
Dr. Kathleen Madigan serves as President of the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence. Previously she was Vice President for Instructed Behavior at Advantage Schools, a company that specialized in charter school management and direct instruction. Dr. Madigan has also been an Assistant Dean of Education at the University of Oregon where her duties included work as a liaison from the University to the state's Teacher Standards and Practice Commission as well as oversight for graduate education programs. Dr. Madigan has been a regular and special education classroom teacher, principal, college professor, curriculum coordinator, and research project director. She is experienced in the field of neurological health care and administration. As Regional Vice President for Learning Services Corp., Dr. Madigan managed a post-acute traumatic brain injury rehabilitation center and conducted research in memory and learning. Prior to that she directed an adult psychiatric program with direct responsibility for supervision of medical and clinical staff. Regarded as an expert in effective instruction and behavior management, she has conducted over 400 workshops to improve school wide, individual teacher, and leadership practices throughout the United States and Canada. Dr. Madigan's recent accomplishments include an appointment by Governor Paul Cellucci in Massachusetts to serve on a five person Education Management Audit Council, which operates as the independent oversight board for educational accountability in the state. She is also currently serving on the Select Panel to redesign teacher preparation programs for the Board of Regents, the State Board of Education and Governor Mike Foster of Louisiana. In addition, she serves on the technical advisory panel for the California Commission on Teacher Certification in the area of reading.




Jill Rademacher
Jill Rademacher brings more than 10 years experience in education and community development to The Case Foundation. As a vice president at the Foundation, she manages the foundation’s grants portfolio with an emphasis on children and families, social enterprise, and health. Before joining The Case Foundation, Ms. Rademacher served as director of content development for PowerUP, a national initiative that provided technology equipment, training, and after-school programming to nearly 1,000 youth-serving organizations across the United States. Her prior work experience includes several years as a teacher in Switzerland and Northern Virginia. She holds a master’s degree in Education from George Mason University and a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Michigan State University.




Edward J. Stucky
Edward J. Stucky has had a distinguished career in government, business and public affairs spanning over twenty years. During the Reagan Administration, Mr. Stucky served as Executive Assistant to the US Customs Commissioner, Deputy Executive Secretary of the US Treasury Department and Associate Director of the White House Office of Cabinet Affairs. Prior to his stints in the Reagan Administration, Mr. Stucky worked as a legislative aide to Senator Bob Dole. Mr. Stucky has participated in several international trade organizations, served as a consultant and director for numerous companies and started several enterprises. Mr. Stucky formed Republic Risk Management LLC, a consulting firm that analyzes legislative and regulatory risk in order to develop financial and insurance products to transfer this risk. In addition to his business activities, Mr. Stucky serves on several non-profit boards related to environmental, educational, and community development activities. Mr. Stucky holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Kansas.