Leadership Team
Valentina Texera-Parissi
President & CEO
Peter Walton
Chief Financial Officer
Sarah Claypool Friedland
Chief Operating Officer
Great Books Team
Charlie Adam
K–12 Partnership Manager
Denise Ahlquist
Senior Academic Consultant
Linda Benson Royal
Senior Customer Success and Onboarding Specialist
Renee-Diedrick
Training Coordinator and Support
Nicole DiGiacomo
National K-12 Partnership Manager
Laura Exline
Director of Creative Development
Matt Gignac
Technology Generalist
Stephanie Hallock
Head of K–12 Partnerships
Bridgette Jackson
Accounts Payable/Receivable Manager
Teri Laliberte
Executive Director of Professional Learning
Dan Lindstrom
Director of Marketing and Development
Gina Linko
Senior Production Editor
Kim Rockwood
Director of Customer Success & Support
Nic Rueth
Content Editor
Josh Sniegowski
Digital Strategy Director and IT Systems Engineer
Board of Directors
Chairman
Paul Barton
Holy Innocents’ Episcopal School
Vice-Chairman
Alex Pollock
The Mises Institute
Members
Charles Brummell, Jr.
Lupus Society of Illinois
Byron M. Lawson Jr.
Trinity Preparatory School of Florida
Karen MacGilvray
World Family English
James M. Reum
Winston & Strawn, LLP (Retired)
George L. Schueppert
The Great Books Foundation
Marcia Wachs Dam
USA for UNHCR
David Ward
Great Books Summer Program
Life Members
James W. Haugh
American Capital Asset Management LLC (Retired)
Jane C. Hunt
College of DuPage
William Lawlor
Morgan Stanley (Retired)