Hyde

Mr. Fixler, a partner in WolfBlock’s Private Client Services Group, is resident in the firm’s New York office. He concentrates his practice in the fields of estate planning and administration, providing services to a wide range of clients including family business owners. Mr. Fixler designs and implements plans for the inter-generational transfer of family wealth—including family business interests—the reduction of gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer taxes, estate liquidity needs, and charitable gifts and bequests. He also supervises the administration of estates and charitable and other trusts.

In the family business arena, Mr. Fixler advises owners of businesses and commercial real estate on ownership structures, owners’ agreements, compensation arrangements and business succession. He is a member of Attorneys for Family-Held Enterprises, a non-profit organization comprised of attorneys from throughout the United States. Mr. Fixler received a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Villanova University and his J.D. from the Washington College of Law of the American University where he served as Director of the Legal Aid Society. Upon graduation from law school, he served as a VISTA volunteer and then entered private practice in New York. Prior to joining WolfBlock, Mr. Fixler was a partner at Hall Dickler Kent Goldstein & Wood LLP where he was Co-Chair of the Estate Planning and Administration Department.

Herbert M. Kaplan, Director of Fund Development Operations at Women’s American ORT, is a former Hyde parent. At Women’s American ORT, he is involved in a variety of fundraising activities with specific responsibilities in major gift campaigns, foundation and corporation grant solicitations, online donations and constituent cultivation, and planned giving administration. Mr. Kaplan received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and MBA from Harvard Business School. He brings valuable fundraising experience to the HLCS board.

Jeffrey Lund is a former Hyde parent and HAPA Parent Regional Leader. He currently is a HAPA volunteer for Family Education at Hyde Leadership Charter School. Mr. Lund is an entrepreneur who has founded and developed several information technology companies in Latin America (where he became fluent in Spanish) and USA in the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical industry.

He lives in Norwalk, Connecticut and has a son who is a junior at Clemson University. Mr. Lund received his Liberal Arts degree from The College of William and Mary and an MBA from The Wharton School of Finance at Pennsylvania University. In addition to being on the Board of Trustees at Hyde Leadership Charter School, Mr. Lund is also on the Board for The Fund for William and Mary at the College of William and Mary.

David M. Steadly, CIMA® Senior Vice President-Wealth Management at Citigroup-Smith Barney is dedicated to Hyde-Bronx and this past summer organized a fun day on Randall’s Island for 18 aspiring tennis players for a day of tennis lessons.

In 2006, he earned the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) designation from the Investment Management Consultants Association. At Citigroup-Smith Barney, he is a financial advisor who works with high net worth individuals and families in developing and implementing financial plans for both their retirement and their estate planning. Mr. Steadly received his undergraduate degree from The University of Connecticut.

Deborah Dumont, is an educational consultant with a focus on progressive education, educational reform and advocacy, with a special interest in children at risk. Deborah’s 35 year career has led to leadership positions in a broad range of educational organizations, including Head of Schools, Co-founder of Hawkins Centers of Learning, an educational think-tank and Videatives, a teacher education company; she held executive positions at Educate and Aramark Work/Life Partnerships all multi-national education companies; and she currently leads a research and consulting practice focused on early education, school reform and systems thinking.

Deborah has published in education journals on topics ranging from professional development models and attachment theory in adolescent education to how school building design impacts learning. In October 2009, she was elected as a trustee of the Hyde Leadership Charter School in the Bronx.

Wilder Baker is the principal of GPS For Management, a management communications consultancy, and Adjunct Professor of Advertising and Marketing Communications at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Wilder enjoyed a long and successful career in the advertising industry. He entered the New York agency business with Benton & Bowles and then Ogilvy & Mather. He later joined a small Boston agency of which he became President before selling it to Wilson Haight and Welch, then the largest agency in New England.

Returning to New York, he joined Warwick Welsh and Miller as Executive Vice President, remaining with that agency for the balance of his advertising career. After becoming Chairman, CEO, the agency was renamed Warwick Baker Fiore and then Warwick Baker O’Neill, the name it operated under until being sold in 2002.

Wilder was a two-term President of the Advertising Club of New York, a Board member of the American Association of Advertising Agencies and Chairman of the American Advertising Federation where he continues as a Director. He also is a member of the Advisory Board of the Business School of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Past directorships include the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, the Massachusetts Association of Mental Health and the San Diego Junior Chamber of Commerce.

He is a graduate of Yale University and lives in Darien, CT.

A graduate of Hyde School in Bath, Maine, Joanne Goubourn began her distinguished career in education in 1988 with the primary goal of “changing American education.” No small task—but she has been accomplishing this by starting up four successful inner city schools, including the Hyde Leadership Charter School in the Bronx. She is the former head of the Hyde Leadership Public Charter School in Washington, DC, the model for Hyde-Bronx.

Prior to leading a Hyde school, she was an integral part of the leadership team on three school start-up operations, one public magnet school and 2 charter schools. She was the Director of the New Leadership Charter School, Springfield, Massachusetts. Her understanding of the Hyde philosophy, school administration and school governance combined with her experience serving a similar population to the one Hyde-Bronx serves, places her exceptionally well to serve as Executive Director of Hyde-Bronx.