Eastside Preparatory School

Trustees

Janet Levinger Board President	Janet Levinger, President of the Board of Trustees. She chairs the fund development and community relations committee and sits on all the rest of the board committees. For the last nine years Janet has worked as a community volunteer and an advocate for children with many local nonprofit organizations. She is currently Immediate Past President of Child Care Resources, a member of the board of the Foundation for Early Learning, on the Steering Committee for the Early Care and Education Coalition, and on the Advisory Council for the Pacific Northwest Ballet. Other organizations she has worked with include the Children's Alliance, the Bellevue Schools Foundation, and United Way. Janet has over 16 years of experience in the technology industry, where she worked in marketing, marketing programs, and training for startup and established organizations.
Andrew Lewis Board Vice President	Andrew Lewis served as Director and Vice President at Immunex Corporation (acquired by Amgen) and retired in 2002. He has over 20 years of project and operations management experience, combined with in-depth knowledge of research and development. Andrew holds a Bachelor of Science from Pennsylvania State University in Microbiology. He joined the Eastside Preparatory School Board of Trustees in 2006.
Maureen O'Hara Board Secretary	Maureen O’Hara, Secretary of the Board of Trustees. She chairs the site committee and sits on the fund development, marketing and the finance committees. Maureen has a part-time consulting business and teaches part-time in the school of Business Management at the University of Washington. Holding a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Management Information Science, Maureen has worked for over 22 years in the software development industry. She is also on the board of directors at NYHS on Mercer Island. In her spare time, Maureen is part of a bio-tech start-up and is an avid options trader.
Jon Reingold Board Co-Treasurer	Jon Reingold, Treasurer of the Board of Trustees and chair of the finance committee. Jon is a retired Vice President of Microsoft, where he spent twelve years working in product marketing and general management. His tenure included roles as Vice President of Corporate Marketing, Vice President of Marketing for Microsoft’s Application Division, General Manager for MS Excel, and General Manager of MS Project. Jon has a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A from Stanford University. Jon is an accomplished jazz pianist performing throughout the Seattle area.
James Whitney Board Co-Treasurer	James Whitney is the Principal Owner and Managing Member of Portage Bay Partners, a real estate development company. He started Portage Bay Partners in 1999 and leads the company with over 27 years of development experience. Throughout his career, Mr. Whitney has managed the development of major resorts, hotels, high-tech commercial business parks, and high rise office buildings. His experience includes the planning of new towns, theme parks, mixed-use centers, golf courses, and residential communities. In total, he has been charged with developing over 20 large-scale projects; many located in complex, and international settings. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Construction Management from Washington State University's College of Engineering and Architecture. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute. James joined the Eastside Preparatory School Board of Trustees in 2006.
Byron Bishop Trustee	In February 2003, Byron Bishop retired from Expedia Inc, a company he co-founded. He served as Senior Vice President and as an Executive Officer. During more than eight years of helping build Expedia, Byron’s roles included: responsibility for all product development, leading the air travel business, and most recently creating Expedia’s Corporate Travel division. Prior to Expedia, he worked for Microsoft for thirteen years. Byron holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Washington. Byron joined the Eastside Preparatory School Board of Trustees in 2006 and he also serves on the boards of The Nature Conservancy of Washington and the Seattle Aquarium.
Suzan DelBene Trustee	Suzan DelBene, corporate vice president of the Mobile Communications Business at Microsoft Corp., oversees all marketing efforts for the division, including for Windows Mobile software for Pocket PCs, Smartphones and Portable Media Centers, and the Windows CE operating system. Suzan joined the Eastside Prep Board of Trustees in 2007. Most recently, Suzan was chief executive officer and president at Nimble Technology Inc., a Seattle-based business integration technology company. She led the company from the development of its business plan to its initial generation of revenue and finally through the company's acquisition by Actuate Corp. in July 2003. Before joining Nimble Technology, Suzan served as vice president of marketing and store development at drugstore.com inc., an online pharmaceutical company. Suzan has a master's degree in business from the University of Washington and a bachelor's degree in biology from Reed College in Portland, Ore. She currently serves on the Reed board of trustees and her two children, Becca and Zach, are proud Eastside Prep students.
Jonathan M. Dulude Trustee	Jonathan M. Dulude, a Trustee of the School, founded DuVoice Corporation in 1990, a company that develops and markets voice and fax unified messaging systems for general business and hospitality applications. Jon graduated from the American School in Paris and received a BSID in Interdisciplinary Engineering and Management from Clarkson University. He serves as a Director of the Dulude Family Foundation and as a soccer coach for both boys and girls at the Lake Hills Soccer Club. He and his wife, Lezli, have two children.
Janelle Durham Trustee	Janelle Durham, a Trustee of the school, chairs the Committee on Trustees. She has a BA in Sociology from Brandeis U, a master's degree in Social Work from U.W., and a professional certificate in Spirituality, Health, and Medicine from Bastyr University. She is a labor support doula, lactation specialist, and a childbirth educator. Janelle serves as the Education Director for Great Starts Birth & Family Education, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating and supporting expectant parents and new families. Her older daughter is a sixth grader at Eastside Prep.
Mark Fanning Trustee	Mark Fanning, joined the Eastside Preparatory School Board of Trustees 2007. A resident of Kirkland, Mark is now retired and a founding executive of Nextel Partners, Inc. Prior to retirement, Mark’s career included two decades of experience in executive-level human resource management. A graduate of Cornell University, Mark and his wife, Victoria, are the proud parents of three children: Katherine, Mitch and Michael. Michael is a 4th grader at Carl Sandburg Elementary in Kirkland and hopes to join his brother Mitch as a fellow Eastside Prep student and attend EPS beginning with the 2008-09 school year. Mark is now coaching youth sports; soccer and lacrosse.
Patricia Friel Trustee	Patricia Friel, Former Vice President of the Board of Trustees, sits on the fund development and community relations committee. She is a Product Unit Manager at Microsoft, where she has worked on a variety of programming language products including Visual Studio and Visual Basic for Applications. Prior to joining Microsoft 12 years ago, Patricia was a radar systems engineer for Lockheed Martin. She has been an active participant at Chestnut Hill Academy in Bellevue, focusing on the areas of teacher appreciation and the annual yearbook. Patricia received her B.S. in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina, an M.B.A. from Monmouth College, and an M.S. in Computer Information Systems from the University of Pennsylvania.
Sarah Hager Trustee	Sarah Hager is a children’s author. A graduate of Smith College, she has a degree in philosophy. Her first picture book, Dancing Matilda, has recently been published by HarperCollins, and she is currently working on a novel for middle-school readers. She has also received two first place awards in the annual Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest. Sarah has a daughter working toward an engineering doctorate at Stanford and a son at Santa Clara University. Her younger son is a student at Eastside Prep. Sarah’s years of school volunteering, in addition to classroom and library work, included two years on the Bennett Elementary School Program Delivery Council. As a PTSA officer, she twice conducted Bennett’s campaign for the Bellevue School District’s School Levy and she also served as a legislative issues liaison.
Deborah Johnson Trustee	Deborah Johnson, a Trustee of the School, is also a parent of two Eastside Prep students. In her professional career, she worked as a research chemist for Manville and in technical sales and product management for scientific instruments for Federal Signal and Anspec. She also spent 9 years at Microsoft in technical sales, product management, and product planning. She has a BS in chemistry from Colorado State University and a MBA from the University of Illinois. Retired from professional work to focus on family, she volunteers at school and family oriented organizations including the Girl Scouts and Eastside Mothers of Multiples.
Shirish Nadkarni Trustee	Shirish Nadkarni is a senior executive at Research in Motion responsible for managing all aspects of technology integration, marketing and sales with T-Mobile. Prior to RIM, Shirish was the founder and CEO of TeamOn Systems which developed a unique wireless e-mail platform targeted at the consumer market. TeamOn Systems was acquired by RIM and its technology integrated into BlackBerry, a market leading wireless device. Prior to starting TeamOn Systems, Mr. Nadkarni was a 12-year veteran of Microsoft, where he held various senior management roles in marketing, product planning, and business development. Shirish holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSE from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dev Stahlkopf Trustee	Dev Stahlkopf currently serves as an Associate with Perkins Coie; her areas of emphasis are Labor & Employment Law, and Education Law. She was selected for the distinction “Rising Stars of Washington Law” by Washington Law & Politics in 2006. Dev also served as the Managing Editor of the Arizona Law Review. Dev holds numerous degrees, including her law degree from the University of Arizona College of Law, two Master of Arts degrees in Philosophy (one from Duke University and one from the University of Arizona), as well as a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Washington. She joined the Eastside Preparatory School Board of Trustees in 2006.
Scott Thompson, AIA Trustee	Scott E. Thompson, AIA, is a founding principal of Weber + Thompson with over 35 years of architectural and planning experience. Scott specializes in high-density, urban infill and mixed-use buildings and has additional experience in commercial structures, planned-unit developments, high-end condominiums, multi-family housing, hospitality, health clubs and custom single-family residences. He received his undergraduate education from the University of Hawaii and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Design from the School of Architecture at the University of Washington. He is licensed to practice architecture in several western states; NCARB certified and is a member of the American Institute of Architects. Currently, Mr. Thompson is working on the development and design of Weber + Thompson’s new sustainable office building, located in the South Lake Union neighborhood. This building is the most recent in over 30 buildings that Mr. Thompson has designed throughout the Puget Sound. Outside of the office Mr. Thompson is a member of the South Lake Union Chamber of Commerce and has been a participant in the ACE mentoring program, working with high school students who have an interest in architecture and engineering.