BOARD OF DIRECTORS IDIT HAREL CAPERTON Dr. Caperton is the Founder, President and Chairman of the Board of The World Wide Workshop for Children's Media Technology & Learning. She provides the organization’s vision and product strategy. She also serves on Advisory Boards of several for-profit corporations and not-for-profit institutions, and provides consulting services on the use of technology in learning both nationally and internationally. THOMAS HEYWOOD Mr. Heywood is the Managing Partner at the law firm, Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP. Prior to joining a private law firm, Mr. Heywood had many years of public service. Most recently, from 1989 - 1993, he served as the Chief of Staff for then West Virginia Governor Gaston Caperton. Mr. Heywood is a member of the American Bar Association and the West Virginia State Bar Association. He holds a JD degree from Harvard Law School (1982), where he was Editor, Harvard International Law Journal and Editor of the Harvard Law Record. Mr. Heywood also earned a BA from Stanford University with distinction (1978), and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society. Mr. Heywood provides legal services to the Workshop pro bono. REBECCA BYAM Ms. Byam is a member of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Capital Management Group where she advises the management of companies raising capital and involved in mergers or acquisitions. In the mid to late 1990s, Ms. Byam was the Chief Financial Officer for two start-up companies, including MaMaMedia Inc. She formerly was associated with Apax Partners, Inc. (formerly Patricof & Co. Ventures, inc.), a $10 billion private equity company that she joined in 1985, and from which she withdrew in 1995. In 1991, she was invited to advise the Investment Advisory Council which was charged with revamping the Small Business Investment Company program of the U.S. Small Business Administration. She has served as a board member for various organizations and companies. She holds a BA from Kenyon College and an MBA from New York University Stern Graduate School of Business. She is a CPA, and a member of the AICPA and New York State Society of CPAs. Ms. Byam provides advice on operating strategy and assists the Workshop in writing its annual report, development plan, and related documents. BOARD OF ADVISORS GASTON CAPERTON Governor Caperton is the eighth president of the College Board. He is a founding advisor and enthusiastic supporter of his wife's organization. Since his appointment in 1999, Governor Caperton has transformed the College Board into a resolutely mission-driven, values-oriented organization that takes bold steps to connect greater numbers of students to college success and opportunity while raising educational standards. Improving education is not new for Caperton. As a two-term governor of West Virginia from 1988 to 1996, he developed a comprehensive plan that emphasized the use of computers and technology in the public schools. He has received numerous state and national awards and special recognition, including eight honorary doctoral degrees. He was chair of the Democratic Governors' World Wide Workshop 1 Association and served on the National Governors Association Executive Committee. He holds several board seats at various organizations and corporations. DANA WADE Dana Wade is a member of Spencer Stuart's global Consumer Goods & Services and Marketing Officer. She specializes in chief marketing officer, general management and senior-level communications leadership searches across the consumer packaged goods, professional services, retail and consumer durables industries. Dana has held general management and communications management positions at global advertising agencies such as DDB, Young & Rubicam and McCann Erickson. She advised CMOs, CEOs and division presidents of Fortune 500 companies, including Nestle USA, Pepsi Cola, Frito Lay, Johnson & Johnson and McDonald's on brand and communications strategies for highly developed brands and new product launches. Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Dana was president of SpikeDDB, a unit of DDB Worldwide, where she quadrupled the agency business in four years through significant new business wins. Dana has been featured for her work in the New York Times, Advertising Age, Adweek, and USA Today. Dana also has won numerous industry awards including Advertising Age's "Women to Watch" and a gold and silver EFFIE. Dana earned a B.S. in journalism from the University of Oregon. She is a member of the Journalism Advancement Council and a board member to the New York Urban League. She is also a former board member of Advertising Women of New York. Dana is a runner and tennis player and resides in Essex County, New Jersey, with her husband, Ryan, and their son. THOMAS W. MALONE Dr. Malone, Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is the founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence and author of the critically acclaimed book The Future of Work. He was also the founding director of the MIT Center for Coordination Science and one of the two founding co-directors of the MIT Initiative on "Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century. Dr. Malone co-founded three software companies. He consults and serves as a board member for a number of organizations. Before joining the MIT faculty in 1983, Malone was a research scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where his research involved designing educational software and office information systems. His background includes a PhD and two master's degrees from Stanford University, a BA (magna cum laude) from Rice University, and degrees in applied mathematics, engineering-economic systems, and psychology. GAYLE MANCHIN Gayle Manchin is President-Elect of the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), Vice President of the West Virginia State Board of Education, and co-chair of the Globaloria-WV Advisory Board. Mrs. Manchin served as West Virginia’s first lady from 2005-2010; a commissioner on the West Virginia Commission for National and Community Service; the chairwoman of the Governor’s Healthy Lifestyles Coalition and the West Virginia Citizen’s Council on Children and Families; and as co-chair on the Governor’s 21st Century Jobs Cabinet. She currently serves on the board of Vision Shared, as an Emeritus Member of The Education Alliance, a past president of the Vandalia Rotary Club of Charleston, and remains involved with the Black Diamond Girl Scout Council, Children’s Trust Fund, the Mountaineer Food Bank, and the Clay Center Board. As an educator, Mrs. Manchin has worked in Marion County Schools, was on the faculty of Fairmont State University in Developmental Education and was Director of the university's first Community Service Learning Program. In addition, Gayle serves on the advisory board of Horton's Kids in Washington, DC, and participates in International Club III with Senate and Ambassador's Spouses. In 2010, she was appointed by Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan to the FIPSE (Federal Improvement for Post-Secondary Education) Board. 2 World Wide Workshop BOB WISE Bob Wise is president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia. He currently cochairs the Digital Learning Council with Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida. Governor Wise also chairs the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Under Governor Wise’s leadership, the Alliance has created an active Center for Secondary School Digital Learning and Policy and continues to build its reputation by working to ensure that all students graduate from high school prepared for college, careers, and to be contributing members of society. Governors Wise & Bush’s Digital Learning Council, with its Digital Learning Now! campaign, is leading the nation in defining the policies that will integrate current and future technological innovations into public education. Governor Wise is a sought- after speaker and advisor on education issues. He has advised the U.S. Department of Education, White House Transition Team, and frequently testifies before the U.S. Congress. In 2011, he was named to The NonProfit Times "Power & Influence Top 50," an annual listing of the fifty most influential executives in the nonprofit sector and received the 2011 Friend of Education Award from the National Association of State Boards of Education. SEYMOUR PAPERT Dr. Papert is a mathematician by training, and a pioneer of artificial intelligence and programmable learning technologies. He is internationally recognized as the seminal thinker regarding computers and learning for children. Papert is also a leader of the Constructionist educational theory. In 2004 (prior to his tragic accident in December 2006 that left him brain damaged), he was the founding advisor of the World Wide Workshop who helped Dr. Idit Harel Caperton in establishing its vision and mission. He served as an advisor to various organizations, including Logo Microworlds, the One Laptop Per Child Association (OLPC), and MaMaMedia, Inc. His collaboration with Jean Piaget at the University of Geneva led him to consider using mathematics to help understand how children can learn and think. In the 1960s, Papert came to MIT, where, with Marvin Minsky, he co-founded the Artificial Intelligence and co- authored their seminal work Perceptrons. It was at the AI Lab that children first had the chance to use a computer for writing and to make graphics. The Logo programming language was created there, as were the first children's toys with built-in computation. With Nicholas Negroponte he co-founded the MIT Media Lab in 1985. With former Governor of Maine, Angus King, he worked on the Maine Learning Technology Initiative, a program that provided a laptop for every middle-school student in Maine. Papert is the author of Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980); The Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of the Computer (1993); and The Connected Family: Bridging the Digital Generation Gap (1996).