PTE Board of Directors:

Cara Brugger: Cara is a corporate communications manager for Google and YouTube, where she presently focuses 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 while on a leave of absence from the clearing corporation during the Board of Trade’s search for a permanent CEO.  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.   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. 

Jake Rollow: Jake is a masters candidate in the International Affairs program at Columbia University in New York.  He previously worked as a reporter for the El Paso Times and was a co-creator of “Seven-String Barbed Wire Fence: Many Faces of Latino Immigration to the United States,” an award winning museum exhibit. Before moving to Texas, Rollow wrote for the Washington, D.C.-based Hispanic Link News Service and Journalism Foundation. He received the Hopwood Award for fiction from the University of Michigan, where he studied English and Social Justice.

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.

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.   

Gabriel Suk:  Gabe Suk is the Executive Director of PTE where he focuses on program creation and development, communications and fundraising.  Prior to founding PTE he spent two years teaching in China at the Middle School, High School and University Level.  He is a graduate of the University of Iowa and holds certification in Development of Life Skills for Community Based Programs earned during seven months of HIV/AIDS education work in rural South Africa.

PAST BOARD MEMBERS:

Vincent Pan: Vin is the executive director of CAA (Chinese for Affirmative Action / Center for Asian-American Advocacy), a nationally recognized civil rights organization based in San Francisco that works on a range of social justice issues including language access, affirmative action, educational equity, and immigrant rights. Prior to joining CAA, Vin served as a specialist for the William J. Clinton Foundation in Beijing, where he worked with the Chinese national government, the United Nations, and the World Health Organization to develop a five-year $50 million HIV prevention effort. From 1996 to 2003, VIN was the co-founder and executive director of Heads Up, a $3.5 million education nonprofit in Washington, D.C. that provides low-income children with after-school and summer tutoring and mentoring in reading, math, and other subjects. He holds his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and is a former fellow of the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University.