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Michael Johnson is the President of Clearpath Global, LLC (formerly ISG Advisors, LLC), an internationally-focused risk intelligence firm. In 2010 Mike retired from the U.S. Government as a senior law enforcement manager with 27 years of international and domestic experience. He spent 18 years of his career with the Diplomatic Security Service, US Department of State, serving ten years outside the United States. In his security roles at various US Embassies, Mike worked with international schools to help strengthen their security and crisis planning programs. In addition to his work in school security, Mike has experience in high-threat protective security operations and crisis management; complex international criminal investigations; law enforcement and security operations; and written/oral communication and public speaking with extensive experience in policy-level briefings and presentations. Mike is a past recipient of a Gold Medal from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Attorney General’s Award for Excellence in Furthering the Interests of United States National Security. Mike also serves as a Director for iMarshals, a non-profit U.S. corporation that uses social media techniques to assist law enforcement in locating missing children as well as fugitives from justice. Mike is a Certified Protection Professional as awarded by the American Society for Industrial Security, the most recognized international security professional association.
Mark Klein is an Attorney at Law in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania and the Superintendent of Schools in Council Rock School District, Pennsylvania. He has been an adjunct professor for both Lehigh University, and Delaware Valley College in conjunction with their Education Leadership Programs. He has previously been nominated for both the National Distinguished Principal Award and the National PTA Education of the Year award. Mark has also been featured in both a documentary “Are We Educating Our Children for the Future” and Cable Access Programming “The Rights of Children”. Mark has presented Law seminars for Lehigh University.
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.
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 CEO of the International School Dhaka in Bangladesh and was formerly 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 new ECIS/CIS book on Effective Marketing, Communications and Development in International Schools.