Eastside Preparatory School

Trustees

Byron Bishop Board President	Byron Bishop President of the Board of Trustees. In February 2003, he 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. He also serves on the boards of The Nature Conservancy of Washington and DreamBox Learning. Byron has two children at EPS, a son in the 11th grade and a daughter in the 9th grade.
Andrew Lewis Board Vice President	Andrew Lewis , is Vice President of the Board and he chairs the Institutional Advancement Committee. He 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. Andy’s son is currently a Sophomore at EPS.
Maureen O'Hara Board Secretary	Maureen O’Hara Secretary of the Board of Trustees. She chairs the Accreditation Committee and sits on the Institutional Advancement, and Assets Management Committees. Maureen teaches part-time in the school of Business Management at the University of Washington and does management consulting. Holding a B.S. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Management Information Science, Maureen has worked for over 24 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 cyclist. Her son is currently in the 12th grade at EPS.
Patricia Friel Board Treasurer	Patricia Friel , Former Vice President of the Board of Trustees, is currently Treasurer and Chair of the Assets Management 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. Patricia is the mother of a current EPS 9th grader.
Janet Levinger Immediate Past President	Janet Levinger Since 1996, Janet has worked as a community volunteer and an advocate for children. She currently serves on the boards of United Way King County, League of Education Voters, Social Venture Partners, Child Care Resources, and Bellevue Schools Foundation and on the Advancement Committee of Thrive by Five Washington. She co-chairs the Brown University campaign in the Seattle area. Janet worked in marketing, marketing programs, and training for startup and established high-tech companies. She has one child at Eastside Prep, in grade 10 and her oldest child was a member of Eastside Prep’s inaugural graduating class in 2009. She has a BA Magna Cum Laude from Brown University.
Brett Burris Trustee	Brett Burris graduated from Cornell University’s College of Engineering in 1987, spent 10 years in high-tech, and currently runs a real estate investment company. He is passionate about supporting children and environmental initiatives. With Social Venture Partners, he has served on the Environment Grant Committee in 2002. Brett joined the Child Care Resources Board in 2007. Brett is married with two children.
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. Susan DelBene’s son, Zach, is currently in the 11th grade, and Becca graduated from EPS in 2009. “She currently serves on the Reed board of trustees. Her son is a junior at EPS and her daughter was a member of EPS’ first graduating class of seniors in 2009.
Janelle Durham Trustee	Janelle Durham Janelle Durham is the mother of a tenth grade girl and a seventh grade girl at Eastside Prep. 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 childbirth educator, doula, and social worker. She serves as the Great Starts trainer for Parent Trust for Washington Children, and is taking on a new role as Program Coordinator for PEPS – the Program for Early Parent Support.
Richard Fade Trustee	Richard Fadeis Partner at Ignition. Richard focuses on infrastructure software, consumer and B2B services investments, and currently serves on the boards of Talyst, Azaleos, Centeris, and GotVoice. Prior to joining Ignition, Richard spent 16 years at Microsoft Corporation in several leadership roles. Most recently he was Senior Vice President OEM division where he was responsible for Microsoft's licensing business with PC OEM and embedded device manufacturers. Before that, he served as VP Desktop and Consumer Applications, overseeing the creation and launch of Office 97, Outlook and several Microsoft Office product line extensions. Richard has also served as Vice President of the Internet Business Unit, and as Vice President Far East Region where he was responsible for product development, sales, marketing and operations for Japan, China and Korea. Richard and his wife Susan, co-founded the Autism Center at the University of Washington. Richard is a board member of the Autism Center, and co-founder and prior chairman of the Autism Treatment Network. His son is currently in the 8th grade at EPS.
John Glover Trustee	John Glover is a co-founder of DDJ Collab, a marketing and brand strategy firm focused on helping establish, define and grow technology companies. In the past two years DDJ helped two local start-ups grow and ultimately be acquired by large multinationals (Twango acquired by Nokia in 2007 and Pi Corp acquired by EMC in 2008). Prior to starting DDJ, he worked for eight years at Microsoft in a variety of marketing positions, including the successful launches of Office 2000, Office Update and the Site Builder Network. John worked as a securities trader prior to getting his MBA from the University of Michigan and then moving on to Microsoft. John is currently the Vice-President for Volunteerism for the EPS Parent Association. His daughter, Emma, is a 6th grader at EPS and Emma’s sister, Sophia, joined the 5th grade this year.
Sarah Hager Trustee	Sarah Hager is an author of children's literature and she joined the Board in July, 2005. A graduate of Smith College, she has a degree in philosophy. Her picture book, Dancing Matilda, was published by HarperCollins, and she is currently working on her second novel for middle-school readers. Her first novel, The Thorndycrafts, is being represented by the Dunham Literary Agency. She has also received two first place awards in the annual Pacific Northwest Writers Association Literary Contest. A “practicing writer,” Sarah frequently attends writing workshops, and recently accompanied two Eastside Prep students to a workshop in California. She has three children including her youngest son, who is in the 11th grade 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 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 an MBA from the University of Illinois. Retired from professional work to focus on family, she volunteers at school and family oriented organizations and has previously volunteered with the Girl Scouts and Eastside Mothers of Multiples.
John Molloy Trustee	John Molloy worked at Microsoft for 11 years in a variety of leadership capacities including finance, operations, IT, compensation & benefits, and developer business strategy/community roles. During his 3 ½ years as the General Manager of Comp & Ben he drove ground-breaking compensation changes that made Microsoft a hi-tech industry leader in company-wide restricted stock and stock option buy-back programs. Prior to Microsoft, he was the Director of Finance and HR at Electronic Arts – Bellevue; was an Audit Manager at Clark, Nuber CPAs and a CPA at KPMG Peat Marwick. John received his Accounting and Business degree at the University of Washington. John has always been involved in community efforts as a President of the Bellevue Junior Rotary (Rotoract), founding member and treasurer of the UW chapter of the Beta Alphi Psi Pre-Law Fraternity and President of his 280 home homeowners association. John’s son is in the 6th grade at EPS.
Randall Reina Trustee	Randall Reina senior vice president of Digital Product Development runs the McGraw-Hill Center for Digital Innovation, which builds and delivers web-based instructional programs for the K-12 school market. Randy spent the first part of his career as a teacher and administrator in both public and private schools before joining McGraw-Hill in 1998. While at McGraw-Hill, Randy led digital product development efforts, ran the Inside Sales group, and built integrated email marketing and ecommerce capabilities. Randy has a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.B.A. from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Randy and his wife Jeanne have two daughters.
Rob Short Trustee	Rob Short is taking a break, studying uses of technology in the developing world, after 30 years as a designer and manager in high technology. For eight years he was a Corporate Vice President for Windows Technology at Microsoft leading the design of the operating system core as well as managing the complex partnerships with the other companies in the industry. Leaving Microsoft in 2007, he lived with his family in France for year. He volunteers with several groups, has travelled to Ghana to build homes with Habitat for Humanity and helps build software for Microfinance in the developing world. Rob is a graduate of CIT in Cork, Ireland and also holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Washington.
Dev Stahlkopf Trustee	Dev Stahlkopf is a senior attorney for Microsoft. 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.
Kathy Weber EPS Parent Association President	Kathy Weber has been a private Wealth Manager at Smith Barney since 1982. She has received top honors by being list in Barron’s Top 100 Women Financial Advisors in 2007 and 2008, and Seattle Magazine’s, Best in Client Satisfaction, Top Wealth Manager in 2007 and 2008. She is currently a member of the Director’s Advisory Group and Director’s Council at Smith Barney, The East King County Estate Planning Council, the Seattle Philanthropic Advisor’s Network, and the Washington Women’s Foundation. Kathy has been a Certified Financial Planner since November 1997, and has graduated from the Wharton School at U Penn, CIMA, and the University of Washington with a BA in Art History. Kathy is a mother of a university junior, and has an 8th grade son at EPS

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