Since October, 2001, F. Philip Handy has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Industries, a portfolio of companies in diversified service and manufacturing businesses. All of the companies have been significantly restructured and taken to a global presence and enhanced profitability.

Until January, 2007, he served for six years as Chairman of the Florida State Board of Education, a seven person board appointed by Governor Jeb Bush, which has constitutional responsibility for Florida’s public educational system (over 4 million students).

Mr. Handy has been appointed twice by President George W. Bush to the National Board of Education Sciences (confirmed by the U.S. Senate), where he has served as Vice Chairman.

Mr. Handy currently serves on the public Board of Directors of Anixter International, Inc., the world’s leading distributor of wire and cable and Owens Corning, a world leader in building materials systems and composite solutions. He also sits on the private Boards of Directors for WRS Infrastructure and Environment, Inc., a national environmental and remediation company.

Mr. Handy has been a member of the Florida Governor’s Council of 100 since 1987.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and graduated Cum Laude from Princeton University and later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He completed the sixth forum at The Rugby School and graduated from Northfield Mount Hermon School. He received the Doctorate of Laws “h.c.” from Flagler College. He also served six years in the US Army Reserve and was honorably discharged in 1973.

Mr. Handy has owned and operated many businesses. They include Maryland Club Foods, a nationally branded coffee/beverage company (purchased from Coca Cola), Majik Markets, a 1000 store food/gasoline retailer, and Equality Specialties, a package decoration wholesaler. He has also served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of two public companies….Chart House Restaurant Group and Rewards Networks. From 1996 through 1999, Mr. Handy was managing director of Equity Group Corporate Investments, a private investment firm controlled by Sam Zell.

Mr. Handy was a securities analyst at Fidelity Management and Research from 1968 to 1970. He then joined Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette where he served as Vice President from 1970 to 1976. In 1976, he became the Chief Executive Officer of Combanks, a multiple bank holding company based in Orlando, Florida. In 1980 he commenced his career in the private equity business.

In the political and eleemosynary area, Mr. Handy is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, an Advisor to the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a Director of The Education Equality Project. Mr. Handy is also a director of the Foundation for Excellence in Education. He also co-chaired Senator John McCain’s Florida Presidential Campaign and served as Chairman of Senator McCain’s National Policy Council on Education. He served as the State Chairman of Jeb Bush’s gubernatorial campaigns in Florida in 1993-94 and 1997-98; and as co-chairman of Jeb Bush’s 2002 gubernatorial campaign. In 1991 and 1992, he was chairman of Limited Political Terms, a political committee, which led the most successful petition drive in Florida’s history, which resulted in a 77 percent affirmative vote. Mr. Handy has chaired ten statewide political races (won 6, lost 4).

Mr. Handy served as a Trustee of the Northfield Mount Hermon School (his alma mater), where he has served as Treasurer and as a member of the Executive Committee. He was a member of the Board of Overseers of Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business. For ten years he was a member, and the President for three years, of the Board of Trustees of the Orlando Museum of Art.

Mr. Handy was appointed to serve on the Investment Advisory Board for the State Board of Administration (Florida’s pension fund manager). He served as Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee.

Dr. Zachariah is one of the leading cardiologists in the nation. He is President of the Fort Lauderdale Heart Institute, a thriving private practice with five cardiologists/physicians and 30 employees. He is the Director of Cardiology for Holy Cross Hospital, a 570 bed not-for-profit community hospital in Fort Lauderdale and serves as a volunteer Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami.

Dr. Zachariah serves on the Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the management of Florida’s university system, and a Trustee for Nova Southeastern University, the largest private university in the Southeast United States with more than 26,000 students. He is a member of the Council of 100, a statewide organization of business leaders who advise the Governor on issues of public policy. He is also a member and former Chairman of the Florida Council on Economic Education, a not-for-profit organization that educates students in kindergarten through high school on economic principles to better prepare them for personally and professional success in our free enterprise system.

Previously, Dr. Zachariah served on the Board of Medicine, where he held the positions of chairman and vice president. Zachariah attended University Intermediate College for Graduate Training, received an M.B.B.S. degree from Armed Forces Medical College in Poona, India and completed an internship at University Medical College in Trivandrum, India and an internship and residency at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center. He immigrated to the United States in 1972.

He is a partner at the WilmerHale law firm in Washington, DC., where he is Vice Chair of the firm's Public Policy and Strategy Group and a member of the Regulatory and Government Affairs and Litigation/Controversy Departments. Mr. Brown joined the firm in 1997, and served as special assistant to the President and Associate White House Counsel from 2003 to 2005. Mr. Brown also served as Deputy General Counsel to Former Governor Jeb Bush, Assistant to the CEO and Vice President of Corporate Strategy for Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Federated States of Micronesia early in his professional career. Mr. Brown is a member of the Board of Visitors of the George Mason University in Virginia, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Advisory Committee on Procedures and the American Council on Germany. He is an honors graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School, and lives in Alexandria, VA with his wife Tiffeny and their two children.

He is president of the Univision Networks at Univision Communications Inc., the premier media company serving Hispanic America. He is responsible for overseeing Univision Communications’ television networks, which include Univision Network, TeleFutura, Galavisión and TuTv Networks (including De Película, De Película Clásico, Telehit, Ritmoson Latino and Bandamax). He is responsible for Univision Studios, which was created in December 2009 to build on the 4,000 hours of original programming that the company produces across multiple genres annually. He also oversees various corporate functions, including government relations, community affairs, corporate communications and public relations. He reports directly to the CEO.

Previously Mr. Conde served as executive vice president and chief strategy officer for Univision Communications, Inc., spearheading strategic initiatives focused on the growth and profitability of the Company across all of the divisions. Mr. Conde has been an innovative leader since he joined the company, serving in many roles, including special assistant to the CEO; interim president of Univision Interactive Media; vice president and operating manager of the Galavisión Network; vice president of Corporate Development for the Univision Networks; and vice president of Sales and Business Development at the Univision Network.

Prior to this, he was appointed by President George W. Bush as one of twelve 2002-2003 White House Fellows. In that capacity, he served as the White House Fellow for Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.

Mr. Conde was vice president of business development at Univision Networks before becoming a White House Fellow. Before that, he was vice president of Business Development at StarMedia Network, the first Internet company focused on Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking audiences globally. He began his career as an investment banker at Salomon Smith Barney in their Mergers and Acquisitions Group.

In addition to his professional endeavors, Mr. Conde is very active in the development of educational opportunities for young Hispanics. He is the chairman and co-founder of the Futuro Program, a non-profit organization that provides role models and educational workshops to Hispanic high school students. While in college, he was president and co-founder of CAUSA, the Cuban-American Undergraduate Student Association at Harvard.

Mr. Conde is the recipient of numerous awards, including recognition in Fortune Magazine’s “40 under 40,” the Harvard Foundation Award, the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Foundation Award and the Cuban-American National Council Young Leader Award. He also has been honored by the “I Have a Dream” foundation with the Eugene M. Lang Achievement Award for his work in promoting educational achievement and by the Hispanic Scholarship Fund as the 2010 Honorary Inductee to the Hall of Fame.

He is a graduate of Harvard University and holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Conde is a Full Member at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

In January 2011, Joel I. Klein became CEO of the Educational Division and Executive Vice President, Office of the Chairman, at News Corporation, where he also serves on the Board of Directors.

Prior to that, Mr. Klein was Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education where he oversaw a system of over 1,600 schools with 1.1 million students, 136,000 employees and a $22 billion budget. He launched Children First in 2002, a comprehensive reform strategy that has brought coherence and capacity to the system and resulted in significant increases in student performance.

He is a former Chairman and CEO of Bertelsmann, Inc., a media company, and served as Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice until September 2000, and was Deputy White House Counsel to President Clinton from 1993-1995. Mr. Klein entered the Clinton administration after 20 years of public and private legal work in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Klein received his BA from Columbia University where he graduated magna cum laude in 1967, and earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1971, also graduating magna cum laude. He has received honorary degrees from Amherst College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Fordham Law School, Georgetown Law Center, Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, Manhattanville College, New York Law School, and St. John’s School of Education. He was selected by Time Magazine as one of Ten People who Mattered in 1999, by U.S. News and World Report as One of America’s 20 Best Leaders in 2006, and was given the prestigious NYU Lewis Rudin Award in 2009 and Manhattan Institute Alexander Hamilton Award in 2011.

William Oberndorf is chairman of the board of Aggregates U.S.A. and Rosewood Hotels & Resorts, director emeritus of Plum Creek Tiber Co, and founding partner of SPO Partners & Co. He is also co-founder, board member and past chairman of the Alliance for School Choice, a nationwide organization that works to bring about K-12 education reform and expand school choice for low-income families. Oberndorf also serves as a trustee of The Thacher School, The University of California San Francisco Foundation, University School in Cleveland, Ohio and former trustee of Williams College. He has a M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and B.A. from Williams College. He and his wife reside in California and have two sons.

He presently serves as president and CEO of Walmart U.S., responsible for the strategic direction and operational performance of the U.S. business, including more than 3,700 stores and 1.3 million associates. Previously, he was the chief operating officer and executive vice president of professional services and new business development for Walmart U.S. Before joining Walmart, in March 2006, Simon was vice president of professional services and new business development at Brinker International. He is retired from the U.S. Navy and Naval Reserves and holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics and an MBA in management from the University of Connecticut.

Currently, Mr. Yablonski is Vice President of Public Affairs for the St. Joe Company, Florida’s largest private landowner. In this role, he is helping to strategically plan nearly 800,000 acres of land in Northwest Florida. From 1999 to 2002, Yablonski served as Director of Policy and Deputy Chief of Staff for Governor Jeb Bush, where he assisted the governor in crafting the major policy initiatives for his first term in office. He also previously served as the communications director for the Foundation for Florida’s Future, editing its quarterly policy journal, Impact magazine, and co-authoring the book, Profiles in Character, with Jeb Bush.

Never far from public service, Yablonski sits as one of seven commissioners on the Florida’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the state agency charged with protecting endangered species and regulating hunting and fishing activities in the state of Florida. He is an adjunct fellow with the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), of Bozeman, Montana. The Center is the nation’s oldest and largest institute working to use market principles to solve environmental problems. In addition, Yablonski was appointed by the Florida Speaker of the House in 2007 to serve on the Florida Taxation and Budget Reform Commission, a constitutionally created body that meets once every 20 years to examine the state’s tax structure, and government efficiency and productivity. Finally, he is Florida’s representative on the Governor’s Council for the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.

Yablonski graduated with honors from Wake Forest University and the University of Miami School of Law, where he was a member of the University of Miami Law Review. Prior to practicing law, he served as a personal assistant in the White House to President George H.W. Bush from 1989 to 1990.