Archipelago Learning - Board of Directors

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Peter O. Wilde: Peter Wilde has been a member of our board of directors and Chairman since January 2007. Mr. Wilde is a Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners. Prior to joining Providence Equity Partners in 2002, Mr. Wilde was a General Partner at BCI Partners, where he began his career in private equity investing in 1992. Mr. Wilde is also a director of Asurion Corp., a provider of wireless subscriber services, Decision Resources, Inc., a provider of healthcare research, Edline Holdings LLC, an educational technology company, Education Management Corporation, a provider of post-secondary education, JBP Holdings, LLC, which owns Assessment Technologies Institute, a provider of online educational products, and Jones & Bartlett Publishers, an educational publisher for higher education and vocational training, Kerasotes Theatres, Inc., a motion picture exhibition company, and Survey Sampling International LLC. Mr. Wilde received a B.A. from Colorado College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Chair of the Compensation Committee
Michael K. Powell: Michael Powell has been a member of our board of directors since December 2008. Mr. Powell is the chairman and chief executive of the MK Powell Group, a communications consulting firm, where he has been employed since April 2005. Mr. Powell served also as a Senior Advisor of Providence Equity Partners since July 2005. From January 2001 to April 2005, Mr. Powell served as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and just prior, from October 1997 to December 2000, as a Commissioner. From December 1996 to October 1997, Mr. Powell served as Chief of Staff of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. From July 1994 to December 1996, Mr. Powell was an associate in the law firm of O'Melveny & Meyers and clerked for the Hon. Harry T. Edwards, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from July 1993 to July 1994. From March 1988 to July 1990, Mr. Powell served as a policy advisor to Secretary of Defense Richard B. Cheney. Mr. Powell serves on the board of directors of Cisco Systems, Altegrity, Object Video, the Rand Corporation, the Aspen Institute and America's Promise. He also serves on the board of advisors for the Disabled Veterans for Life Memorial effort. Mr. Powell received a B.A. in Government from the College of William and Mary and received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee
J. David Phillips: David Phillips has been a member of our board of directors since January 2007. Mr. Phillips is a Vice President of Providence Equity Partners. Prior to joining Providence Equity Partners in 2005, Mr. Phillips worked at Hutchison Whampoa China and at Goldman Sachs in the Principal Investment Area. Mr. Phillips serves on the board of directors of Edline Holdings LLC, an educational technology company, and JBP Holdings, LLC, which owns Assessment Technologies Institute, a provider of online educational products, and Jones & Bartlett Publishers, an educational publisher for higher education and vocational training. Mr. Phillips received a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Tim McEwen: Tim McEwen has been our President and Chief Executive Officer since March 2007. From January 2004 to March, 2007, Mr. McEwen served as Chief Executive Officer of Harcourt Achieve, Inc., a multinational supplemental education company. From July 2000 to December 2003, Mr. McEwen served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Haights Cross Communications, Inc., which specializes in the development and publication of educational products. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. McEwen served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Learning's Higher Education and Lifelong Learning Groups (now Cengage Learning), a publisher of print and digital educational products. Mr. McEwen serves on the board of directors of Edline Holdings LLC, an educational technology company. Mr. McEwen received a B.S. in Education from East Stroudsburg State University and an M.S. in Education from the University of Georgia.
Brian H. Hall: Brian Hall has been a member of our board of directors since November 2009. From January 2007 to August 2007, Mr. Hall served as Vice Chairman of Thomson Corporation, a business and professional information company, where he created and led the new corporate investment process, and directed Thomson's corporate strategy, marketing, communications, and branding initiatives. From 1998 to 2006, Mr. Hall served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Legal & Regulatory and West Publishing. Prior to joining Thomson, Mr. Hall was President of Shepard's and Executive Vice President of McGraw-Hill. Mr. Hall is a former member of the board of directors of Bank One of Colorado Springs and Ryerson of Canada, and currently serves on the board of HIS, Inc., a provider of critical information and insight. Mr. Hall graduated from The Defiance College and has an MBA from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Chair of the Audit Committee
Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Member of the Compensation Committee
Thomas F. Hedrick: Thomas Hedrick has been a member of our board of directors since January 2010. Since 2002, Hedrick has been managing director of two venture capital investment and advisory firms, Dillon Joyce Ltd. and HP Growth Partners LLC. He has also been an advisor to Vortex Partners LP, a Dallas-based venture fund and to SSM Partners, a Memphis-based growth capital fund. From 1987 through 2002, Mr. Hedrick was with McKinsey & Company as director and managing partner of the Dallas office. Mr. Hedrick serves on the board of directors of All Web Leads, a provider of consumer leads for the insurance industry; Bulldog Solutions, an online marketing agency; RealManage, a provider of SaaS and services to homeowner associations; and CelAccess, a provider of wireless access control via SaaS. He is past president of an elementary and middle school board and currently serves on the advisory board for the Alliance for Catholic Education consulting initiative. Mr. Hedrick has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Member of the Audit Committee