Cara Brugger
Cara is a Director of Business & Legal Affairs at Fox Interactive Media/Fox Audience Network in Santa Monica, California. Prior to joining Fox, Cara was a corporate communications manager for Google and YouTube, where she focused on YouTube’s corporate, international and legal communications. She a member of the California Bar and a graduate of Harvard Law School where she was an article editor for the Harvard Negotiation Law Review and a TA for the Harvard Program on Negotiation, Negotiation Workshop. Cara received her B.A. with departmental honors in American Studies at Northwestern University where she graduated Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
Dennis Dutterer
Dennis A. Dutterer was President and Chief Executive Officer of the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation (now The Clearing Corporation) from 1998 – February, 2005. Mr. Dutterer also served as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Board of Trade from April 2000 until January 2001. Prior to joining The Clearing Corporation in 1985, Mr. Dutterer was the General Counsel of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) from 1981 to 1983. Currently Mr. Dutterer is a consultant to the financial services industry with a specialty in the clearing and settlement of financial derivatives. Mr. Dutterer also served as Acting Interim Chief Executive Officer of the New York Portfolio Clearing Company, a subsidiary of the New York Exchange and the Depository Trust Clearing Corporation. Before beginning professional activities in the commodities industry, Mr. Dutterer was Deputy Chief of the Civil Division of the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia from 1978 to 1981. Prior to that appointment he practiced as a trial lawyer from 1973 to 1977 at the United States Department of Justice, and served one year in 1977 as Assistant United States Attorney. Mr. Dutterer holds a Masters of Law degree from George Washington University Law School; a Juris Doctorate degree from American University Law School; and a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland.
Daniel Fletcher
Dan is an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Washington DC where he practices antitrust law. He holds a Juris Doctrate and B.A. in economics and political science from the University of Iowa, both degrees earned with honors. Dan was the winner of the Trandafir International Business Writing Competition in 2005, a past representative to the Iowa Student Bar Association and a Fulbright Scholar in Korea during 2003-04.
Jake Rollow
Jake Rollow is a founding board member of PTE. For nearly five years he worked as a journalist covering U.S.-Hispanic and border issues and he is currently a field representative for New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman. Rollow studied English and social justice at the University of Michigan and he holds a Master of International Affairs from New York City’s Columbia University.
Dr. Alan Simon
Alan is an associate professor of leadership at Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois. He previously served as a superintendent for three Illinois school districts, most recently at District 25 in Arlington Heights. He has also been a principal in four Chicago area schools and a teacher in three grade schools. Alan holds a Doctor of Education degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, a Masters of Education from National Louis University and a B.A in political science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Alan’s writings about education have been published in numerous education journals over the past 30 years and he has taught about education at six Universities in the Chicago area.