Phillip Stroup, Ph.D. is an educational consultant in marketing, development and admissions. Phil has nine years experience in international education including Director of Marketing and Development at the IS Bangkok from 2001-2006. His dissertation, “What corporate executives expect from educators who ask for funds/partnerships” led to a million dollar grant from the US Dept. of Education to train educators. Prior to his international experience, Phil was a Federal Project Director with Boulder Valley Schools in the USA, taught at Colorado State University on business/education partnerships, and served on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Partners in Education in Washington D.C. His experience includes local, state, national and international levels in marketing, admissions and fund-raising. He brings a process and strategies for international and independent schools to ensure financial stability for school improvement. 

Richard Tangye  is the Executive Director of the Council of International Schools (CIS). He has a degree in Economics and Politics from Cambridge University and, after a brief spell teaching in Papua New Guinea, joined the world of business. After working in North America for ten years, he has spent seventeen years with Jardine Matheson in Asia where, in addition to his business responsibilities, he actively participated in school governance, new school building and advisory bodies on education. He has been Board Chair at the British International School in Jakarta, Taipei European School in Taiwan, and South Island School in Hong Kong. In this latter location he was a member of the Management Committee of the English Schools' Foundation, and Chair of the Teachers' Pay Review Committee. 

Dr. David Willows is British and studied at the Universities of Durham, Oxford and London, UK.  He is currently Director of External Relations at the International School of Brussels (ISB), Belgium. With experience working and writing in the fields of Education, Philosophy, Marketing and Brand Development, Pastoral Care and Counseling, David is a regular presenter at international conferences, blogger and author of several books and articles in these fields.  He is currently serving on the Board of the European Association of Communication Directors (EACD) and a Member of the Commission on Marketing and Communications for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).  He is co-editor of the forthcoming book, Effective Marketing, Communications and Development in International Schools.  

John Sperandio is the founding Director of Stonehill International School.  He has more than thirty years experience as an IB teacher, a physicist/engineer, a school business manager and as a director of international schools. He joined the U.S. Peace Corps school. and served as a teacher in an Ed. project in Uganda. Followed by ten years of teaching math, physics and accounting in Kuwait, Malta and Tanzania.  His first administrative experience came in Malta, helping establish the parent foundation and governing body of the Verdala School. In Tanzania he followed as the School Business Manager for IS Tanganyika. John later returned to the USA as an engineer and scientist for Dames and Moore to model severe accidents in nuclear power stations and developed a multi-user computer interface, SAGE, for Gabor, Kenton and Associates to train power station operators in severe accident management. He returned to international schools as a financial consultant and was appointed Director of Support Services at Escuela Campo Alegre. In 1998, John was appointed the Director of the IS Azerbaijan, and in 2003, at  IS Dhaka. In January 2008, having added two new countries to the IB World map, John accepted a commission from the Embassy Group to develop the first accredited, IB World School in Bangalore to offer all three programmes of the IB.