Powerful Ideas for Global Learning and Leadership in the 21st Century

GASTON CAPERTON

Governor Caperton is the eighth president of the College Board. He is a founding advisor and enthusiastic supporter of his wife's foundation. 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' 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 practices. 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.

SEYMOUR PAPERT

Dr. Papert is a leader in Constructionist educational theory. He serves as an advisor to various organizations, including the One Laptop Per Child Association (OLPC) and MaMaMedia, Inc. A mathematician by training, Dr. Papert was a pioneer of artificial intelligence. He is internationally recognized as the seminal thinker regarding computers and pedagogy for children. 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 early 1960s, Papert came to MIT, where, with Marvin Minsky, he co-founded the Artificial Intelligence Lab in the late 60’s and co-authored their seminal work Perceptrons. It was in his laboratory at the AI Lab that children first had the chance to use the computer to write 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. He 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). Papert co-authored several articles with Dr. Idit Harel Caperton, including the book Constructionism (1991) and contributed a series of essays on MaMaMedia.com called 21st Century Learning (1996-2002).