Parker Hudnut, Chief Executive Officer. Prior to joining ICEF,
Mr. Hudnut was responsible for supporting and holding accountable a portfolio
of over 200 schools within the Los Angeles Unified School District that
educated over 100,000 students and included charter, pilot, expanded school
based management and network partner schools. In addition, Mr. Hudnut and
his team oversaw the implementation of the District's Public School Choice
Resolution, a process that annually transforms low performing schools into more
autonomous, highly accountable schools focused on student achievement.
Previously,
Mr. Hudnut was the COO/CFO for Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, a Los
Angeles based network of public charter schools serving 7,000 grade 6-12
students in some of the most socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods of
the region. He was one of the first employees at Alliance and was
responsible for finance & accounting, technology, facility development
& operations, human resources and many strategic partnerships.
Mr. Hudnut
holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of
Pennsylvania, where he was a Leadership Fellow and received a Morgenthau
fellowship for dedication to public service. He earned his B.A. in
Environmental Science at the University of Virginia. Mr. Hudnut also
spent two years as a resident with the Broad Residency in Urban Education.
Melissa
Kaplan, Chief Academic
Officer, serves all ICEF schools working on professional development for
teachers and school principals, alignment of the curriculum from K-12 and the
development of strong college-preparatory curriculum as ICEF grows to scale
adding new schools each year. Ms. Kaplan has been with ICEF Public
Schools since 2003, serving in a variety of roles from Co-Director of the
Summer Boot Camp, Instructional Coach for the Toulmin Writing program, English
Department Chair and Assistant Director of View Park Preparatory High
School. She was ICEF’s Teacher of the Year in 2005. Prior to ICEF,
Melissa worked in the Palos Verdes Unified School District and
has consulted for a number of CMOs throughout the States and abroad.
Melissa holds a BA in Education from DeSales University in Pennsylvania and
a Master of Education from UCLA’s Principal Leadership Institute.
Chris Borunda, Director, of Centralized Operations, is responsible
for managing facilities and IT. Focused on improving efficiency, reducing
costs, and increasing transparency, he has implemented tools and practices that
enable school site administrators to base their future operations decisions on
the organization's valuable past experiences. Prior to joining the Broad
Residency, Borunda worked as an independent consultant where he managed supply
chain activities, conducted market analysis, analyzed inventory tracking
methods, provided implementation recommendations, and dissected operational
data. Previously, Borunda worked for large multi-national organizations
such as Sony, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Caterpillar in the areas of supply
chain and information management where he worked on top organizational
initiatives from leading process improvement projects to managing cost
reduction activities. Borunda holds a bachelor's degree in business
administration with an emphasis in supply chain management from the University
of San Diego and a master's degree in business administration from the Darden
School of Business at the University of Virginia. Borunda is a
participant in The Broad Residency in Urban Education (Class of 2009-2011),
serving his two-year Residency at ICEF Public Schools.
Ron Bauer, Chief Administrative Officer, comes to ICEF after
a 3 year hiatus, having retired from active LAUSD-duty in 2005.
Ron, Linda, his wife of 42 years, their three adult
children, and two school-age grandchildren are all products of the various
public school and university systems. Their eldest son Brian, is the Executive
Director of Granada Hills Charter High School, the nation’s
largest conversion charter school with an enrollment of 4,200.
During Ron’s 34 year LAUSD career he served in six
secondary schools as a math teacher, counselor, coordinator, and assistant
principal, before beginning a successful 8 year experience as principal of El
Camino Real High School. During his final two years in the district, Ron
supervised as many as 12 comprehensive and alternative high school campuses,
some in areas now served by ICEF charter schools. Since retiring from
LAUSD in 2005, Ron has worked as a principal mentor, administrative academy
instructor, a college instructor at CSUN and interim administrator and
principal at various LAUSD sites. Ron brings considerable knowledge and
experience in school management, instruction and the charter movement.
Amarpal Khanna, Director of Visual and Performing Arts, has been a
professional artist working in the Animation, Illustration, Comic Books, and
Children's books industries for over ten years. Previous companies he has
worked with include DreamWorks Animation, the Anti-Defamation League, and
Original Syndicate Press. A passionate advocate for arts education, he
has taught art at all grade levels including college at the Art Institute of
California-Los Angeles in the Animation department. Mr. Khanna started the ICEF
Visual Arts program twelve years ago and is a graduate of Otis College of Art
and Design.
