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Message from Judy I. Burton
President and CEO
One of our greatest assets is our Board of Directors. We are pleased to welcome two new directors to the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools. Mr. Alan Arkatov and Dr. Ana Tilton. Welcome aboard!
Alan Arkatov is Chief Strategy Officer for Rogers & Associates, the leading independent Communications firm on the West Coast. Alan previously served as CEO of Burson-Marsteller S. California, and was President of the eEducation Group, where he served as the Chief eLearning and Strategic Consultant for the LA Unified School District and USC, among others. He was the Founder and Chairman of OnlineLearning.net, the leading online continuing education provider in the United States. When the company was sold to Sylvan Learning Systems, it had more the 25,000 degree credit enrollments from all 50 states and 72 countries, and was cited by the Chronicle of Higher Education for its unparalleled track record of academic outcomes and student satisfaction. Previously, Alan was a television producer and political media consultant, having created the ads for over a dozen successful Mayoral, Gubernatorial, US Senate and Presidential campaigns. Alan is a State Commissioner and former Chair of the California Postsecondary Education Commission, was President of the City of LA’s Commission for Children, Youth, and Their Families, an appointee of the Secretary of Education to the Congressional Web Education Commission, and President of the Board of Commissioners for LA’s Information Technology Agency.
Dr. Tilton is Partner at NewSchools Venture Fund, where she focuses on investment strategy and management assistance in the Charter Accelerator Fund and the Performance Accelerator Fund. Before joining New Schools, Dr. Tilton served as Senior Vice President of State and District Services for New American Schools. In this role, she supported active networking among schools, school districts, and education service providers as they worked toward system-wide improvement and innovation. Ana also served as Senior Vice President of the School Support Division of Edison Schools. During her five-year tenure at Edison Schools, she was actively involved in new school development and ultimately responsible for half of Edison's portfolio of schools. Her region encompassed approximately 50 schools in 7 states, with an enrollment of approximately 40,000 students, with oversight of client relations, school start-up, student achievement, daily operations, fiscal accountability, and leadership development.
Prior to joining Edison in 1999, Ana had a long and successful career as a California public school administrator. Dr. Tilton served as a Superintendent of the Soquel School District and Assistant Superintendent for the Chula Vista School District. While in Chula Vista she supervised charter school development and provided statewide consulting and facilitation for school and district reform. Dr. Tilton began her 33-year career in education as a teacher in the Denver Public Schools with a master's degree in bilingual and multicultural education. After serving the district as an elementary and secondary teacher, a curriculum coordinator, and assistant principal of a large urban high school, Ana relocated to California with her family, where she received her doctorate at the University of Southern California in Educational Policy and Administration.