Young-Sung Lee, M.D., Ph.D. - Chairman

Dr. Young Sung Lee, M.D. Ph.D. has been leading MedRic (Medical Research Information Center), a Ministry of Science and Technology funded organization in S. Korea, focusing on research and development in medical informatics, medical data visualization, telematics, Virtual Reality-based medical training, and health communication and promotion policies and programs. Dr. Lee is Professor of College of Medicine at Chungbuk National University and a visiting scholar at Stanford University Medical Media and Information Technology. He has lead many global health literacy initiatives covering diseases such as AIDS, Avian Influenza, cancer series (e.g., lung, colon, and breast cancer), and other diseases such as pneumonia, malaria, tsutsugamushi fever, haemorrhagic fever, and leptospirosis). He is currently serving as a board member of the Korean Society of Medical Informatics.

Paul Kim, Ph.D - President

As the Chief Technology Officer for Stanford University School of Education, Paul Kim is responsible for providing leadership in all aspects of academic and innovative technology.  He received his Ph.D. in Educational Technology from University of Southern California and has been collaborating with educational research and development institutes such as U.S. Satellite Laboratories, Medical Research & Information Center, and Korea Educational Research and Information Service.  Kim served as Vice President for Vatterott College, MO and Chairman of the Board for Intercultural Institute of California.

At Stanford, he teaches EDUC392 - Enterprising Higher Education in the Digital Age, EDUC391– Web-Based Technologies for Learning, EDUC480 & 490 Directed Studies with topics such as Private Post-Secondary Education, Digital Portfolios, and Concept-Map-based Assessment. His recent publication topics include "Perspectives on a Visual-map-based Electronic Portfolio System," "Effects of 3D Virtual Reality of Plate Tectonics on Fifth Grade Students' Achievement and Attitude Toward Science".  His recent presentations include "Assessment through Digital Portfolios", EDUCAUSE, "Development of Large-Scale Stereo 3D Image DB Network for Medical Education Using KOREN", Korean Association for Educational Information & Media,"Enterprising Higher Education with ICT", APEC (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation) Education Forum.

Neha Taleja - Executive Director

Neha Taleja is a financial content developer for an educational technology firm. Her past experience has been as a journalist covering the education sector and PR manager. With an educational background in public relations, business management and majors in finance, she is determined to use her diverse skill sets and make a difference in the education system especially in her home country – India. She is responsible for managing teams, executing and coordinating projects and motivating a team of volunteers for the organization.

Kenneth Lee, Esq. - General Counsel & Secretary

Kenneth Lee is a founding partner of the Law Offices of Lee & Kim and has over 20 years of experience representing foreign companies conducting business in the United States..  For many of these companies, Lee acts as outside general counsel providing a wide variety of legal services for his clients.  He also represents many high-tech start-ups.

Lee has taken an active leadership role in many non-profit organizations including the Korea IT Network (founder, director and president); Korean Americans for Political Empowerment (founder and president); Korean American Professional Society (founding director); United Way, Community Initiatives Committee; Advisory Board to the San Jose Independent Police Auditor; among many others.  As a member of the California State Bar, Lee began his legal career with a large international law firm in San Francisco specializing in the representation of foreign companies (primarily from Asia).  He received his B.A. from Columbia University and his JD from New York University School of Law.

Tina Hong - Chief Financial Officer

Tina Hong is a CPA in private practice in Silicon Valley.  She provides her clients with year-round accounting, tax and financial services, and she provides consulting services to many start-up businesses.  She has over 6 years of accounting and audit experience with high-tech companies.  Most of her clients are individuals, partnerships, or corporations.  Hong received her B.S. in Accounting from San Jose State University and a B.A. in History from Busan National University in Korea.  She is fluent in English and Korean.

Deborah Todd - Board Member

Deborah Todd is an award-winning game designer, writer, producer, and director in the interactive arena, and has worked with some of the industry’s top publishers and Hollywood studios, including Disney Interactive, Disneyland, Fox, DreamWorks, MGM/UA, Columbia, Warner Bros., Nickelodeon, Humongous Entertainment, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Company, Mindscape, Broderbund, Houghton Mifflin Interactive, McGraw-Hill, Thomson Higher Education, Cengage Learning, Random House, and Stephen Spielberg's Starbright Foundation. She has designed games on subjects ranging from early-learning reading and math, to algebra, astronomy, and CAD engineering, and has worked with such major marquee properties as Curious George, Blue’s Clues, The Pink Panther, and 101 Dalmatians. Her work has garnered the ABA Book Sellers Choice New Media Award, the ComputEd Best Interactive Story Award, Child Magazine’s Best Software of the Year Award, Parenting Magazine’s Software Magic Award, and U.S. News and World Report’s Top 12 Titles of the Year.
Ms. Todd is a distinguished speaker and panelist at industry conferences and film festivals worldwide, and an international consultant and lecturer at universities. As a pioneer in the convergence of Hollywood and games, she founded the WGA’s Northern California Interactive Writers Caucus, created and co-wrote the monthly column “alt.screenwriters” for Written By magazine, and is on the steering committee for the WGA Video Game Writing Caucus. A prolific writer, with 21 published titles in games, television, and non-fiction books, her most recent book Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light includes a forward by producer Jon Landau, who hails her as “a veteran of two entertainment industries: Hollywood and video games,” stating that “Throughout her career, Deb’s constantly innovated new ways to deliver entertainment through gameplay…And from the start, she’s spoken and written about the right ways to marry technology and entertainment to create great games.” This book was recognized as one of the five most important industry books of 2007, by Game Developers Magazine. Ms. Todd lives in Marin County, California.

Gordon Freedman - Board Member

Gordon Freedman has a thorough practice, academic and policy knowledge of K12, higher education, government agencies, textbook publishing and education technology vendors in the U.S. as well as in many other countries globally. Freedman has held numerous executive positions that, along with his extensive consulting with for-profits, non-profits, and institutions, have influenced both the development of education technologies and education policy and practice. Through his research, writing, and participation in various settings, Freedman firmly believes that major education transformations are underway in each of the segments, and between the segments, and that these are largely occurring without adequate planning, guidance, measurement, public and expert comment, or social and technical architecture and integration.

Freedman is a visionary thinker who has led transformational efforts that require the development of broad consensus with diverse groups to achieve common objectives. Freedman’s knowledge and leadership in media
production, technology development, and organizational consulting has placed him in a unique position to be a change agent who can stimulate new levels of thought leadership and business activity. Freedman's contact base and supportive relationships are extensive in most of the areas of education. Freedman lives in Carmel Valley, CA with his wife, a veterinarian, and their three boys.

Freedman is involved with the local public schools and is a cofounder
and long-time board member of a K-8 Charter International School.

Dr. Mark - Schlager - Board Member

Dr. Schlager’s research focuses in the application of cognitive and social learning theories to the development of online strategies and technologies for teacher education and professional development.  As Director of the internationally recognized Tapped In® online teacher community program (http://www.tappedin.org/) and the NSF Centers for Learning and Teaching Network   (http://www.cltnet.org/), he has developed and researched effective online strategies, services, and technologies that enable education professionals to engage in a wide range formal and informal collaborative learning activities. Tapped In has been cited in the National Research Council book, How People Learn (2000), the Web-Based Education Commission (2000) report, The Power of the Internet for Learning: Moving from Promise to Practice, theOpen University Press Professional Learning Series book, Teacher Learning for Educational Change (2002), and several text books teacher education and  professional development text books.  Dr. Schlager recently led the development of the School 2.0 eToolkit site (etoolkit.org) for the U.S. Department of Education. He has also consulted with commercial vendors, national education organizations, university teacher education programs, and education agencies on the design and implementation of online strategies for teacher education, induction, and professional development. His clients have included the Intel Education Web Strategies Group, PBS TeacherLine, UNext, Council of Independent Colleges, National Writing Project, National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, and Milwaukee Public Schools. Dr. Schlager has published several articles on technology support for teacher learning, and he has served on the Technology Board of Advisors for two U.S. Department of Education Regional Education Laboratories. Dr. Schlager earned his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder. 

Rosemary Brebner, M.B.A - Board Member

Rosemary Brebner, MBA has had a notable career involving several professional roles in health care in the United Kingdom.  Initially, as a registered nurse, she was in involved in pioneering transplantation research.  Following this, Mrs. Brebner held a succession of senior business roles in the pharmaceutical industry, ultimately holding a position as Clinical Lecturer, working closely with leading medical researchers in planning and operating clinical projects.  Mrs. Brebner then became a Research Fellow in social science at the University of Edinburgh, working on a project concerning acute care for elderly hospital patients.  Following from this, she was invited to join a team aiming to increase entrepreneurship amongst researchers at the university.  Since moving to the USA in 2002, Mrs. Brebner has been very active in community activities, including service to the Los Gatos Chamber of Commerce and board membership of Los Gatos Museums.

Susan J. Maunders - Board Member

Susan J. Maunders is a developer of award-winning educational media with a long-standing reputation for creating designs that use media in educationally innovative ways. She has written or produced over 200 multimedia titles and is President of Interactive Masters, a consulting firm with a current focus on strategic planning and production of educational media for adult and adolescent learners.

Maunders has won numerous awards for her products and has judged many media design competitions as an established expert in educational media. She is also currently a Doctoral Candidate in Educational and Psychological Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is an active researcher in the Learning Sciences, specializing in the design of virtual learning environments for adolescents.

Arafeh Karimi, M.A., - Board Member

Arafeh Karimi is a professional e-learning consultant and trainer. She holds a Master degree in multimedia and e-learning technologies and currently works as the head of Reasearch, Training and Consultancy Unit in the Asia Centre for E-Learning (ACE) at Asia e University.

She has years of experience in teaching and training in different educational levels and industries.
She is also actively involved in offering her expertise in various online committees related to education and technology.
Arafeh has delivered papers and run workshops for peer professionals at international conferences. Among her publications topics are 21st Century learning and teaching framework, Academic Facilitators' motivation in Online Distance Learning, mobile learning perceptions,e-learning challenges in higher education, Wiki as a collaborative technology, digital narrative and virtual reality for children.
Currently she is actively involve in various collaborative research projects globally and collaborate with colleauges from various countries to achive global learning experience.
Among her professional interests are mobile learning and e-learning technologies, instructional design and web 2.0 technologies, teacher empowerment and competency, virtual reality and digital narrative for children, Game design for blinds and Visually Impaired children and online k-12 education.
Her passion is sharing knowledge and implanting seeds of empowerment in the lives of underserved children around the world.

Vridhi Tuli, B.A., - Board Member

Vridhi Tuli is currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology with a minor in Symbolic Systems at Stanford Univeristy. Her research interests lie in promoting mobile education to rural and middle-class segments in India, and other emerging economies. Vridhi is part of various student groups on campus, serving as a coordinating officer for BASES, Business Association of Stanford Entrepreneurial Students, and as the past Programming Director of the Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Association.

She enjoys yoga, teaching children, traveling and networking in the Valley. She aspires to be an educational entrepreneur and is working rigorously towards it.