Leadership Team
Valentina Texera-Parissi
President & CEO
Peter Walton
Chief Financial Officer
Sarah Claypool Friedland
Executive Director
of Operations and Training
Louise Galpine
Executive Director
of Creative Development
Great Books Team
Charlie Adam
National Educational Sales Consultant
Denise Ahlquist
Senior Academic Consultant
Joi Arceneaux
Professional Learning Consultant
Carly Brink
Business Development Representative
Punit Dhandhania
Senior India Educational Consultant
Michael Elsey
Director of Digital Learning
Bobbie Fleming, M.Ed.
K-12 Partnership Manager
Bridgette Jackson
Senior Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable Specialist
Teri Laliberte
Professional Learning Consultant
Matt Lemen
Director of Sales and Marketing
Dan Lindstrom
Marketing Manager
Gina Linko
Production Editor
Danielle Martin, M.Ed.
Senior Professional Learning Consultant
Kim Rockwood
Manager of Customer Service
Nic Rueth
Digital Curriculum Editor
Josh Sniegowski
Digital Marketing Manager
Peter Swanke
Operations and Training Associate
Roula Villis
Customer Success Manager
Katherine Young
E-Learning Product Manager
Board of Directors
Chairman
Charles Brummell, Jr.
Lupus Society of Illinois
Vice-Chairman
Alex J. Pollock
The Mises Institute
Members
Paul Barton
Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School
Barbara T. Bowman
Chicago Public Schools
Lindsey Ciochina
Cloud for Good
Marcia Wachs Dam
USA for UNHCR
Karen MacGilvray
Highlights for Children INC
James M. Reum
Winston & Strawn, LLP (Retired)
George L. Schueppert
The Great Books Foundation
David Ward
Great Books Summer Program
George Wu
Sahara Street LLC
Life Members
James W. Haugh
Jane C. Hunt
College of DuPage
Michael L. Igoe
William Lawlor
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Associate Board of Ambassadors
Lana Burge
AbelsonTaylor
Kendall McDermott
HLK
Victoria Conner
Jade and Co Candles
Michael Heaney
Avison Young