Daryl Fox

Chairman

Daryl Fox has spent the past thirty years in Ed Tech, and Higher Ed publishing — acquiring, developing, marketing, and managing digital and print content used by millions of students around the world.

Mr. Fox began his editorial career as the Economics Editor at Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich and then published extensively in the Sciences at Pearson and Macmillan. He currently sits on three non-profit boards, advises a UK-based education consulting firm, plays the cello, practices hot yoga, and plays competitive league tennis.

He holds degrees from Miami University, Southern Methodist University, and the London School of Economics.

He lives in Hudson Valley, New York, and Austin, Texas.

William J. Gedale

Director

William J. Gedale is Managing Member of Promosome LLC, Executive Chairman of Visum Pharma.  He is a Senior Advisor at NGN Capital of which he was a co-founder.  He co-founded NGN Capital from Mount Everest Advisors which he founded in 1996.  Prior to that he was President and CEO of General American Investors where he worked from 1969-1995.

Mr. Gedale holds an MBA from New York University, a JD from Fordham University and an AB from Syracuse University.  He was also a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the University of Chicago.

He and his wife live in Stamford, CT.

Bob Clyatt

Director

Bob Clyatt had a business career in programming, information technology and was an early internet entrepreneur.  He studied liberal arts at UC Berkeley and London School of Economics, then earned a master’s degree in Management of Innovation at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

In 2001 Bob left the business world to learn to sculpt, and has since created and shown his figurative ceramic sculptures around the world.

In addition to serving as the Harcourt Jovanovich Foundation’s newest director, Bob is a board member of the 150-year-old realist arts center, The Salmagundi Club in NYC, and is a founding Board member of Tuesdays at 10, a men’s community service organization in Rye, NY, where he has lived since 1994.

Robin Thrush Jovanovich

President

Robin Thrush Jovanovich has spent most of her professional life in newspaper and magazine publishing, starting off as a contributing writer and photographer and, eventually, editing and publishing a local newspaper for a quarter of a century. She is also the author of a young adult mystery.

She grew up in Westport, Conn., and New York City, where she attended The Brearley School and edited the school newspaper. From there she went on to Skidmore College, where she rewrote the student handbook, was a features writer for the college paper, and earned an undergraduate degree in American Studies.

In 1992, after years of moving across the country and across the Atlantic for her husband’s work in book publishing, she and her family settled in Rye, N.Y.  It is in this tight-knit community that she discovered the joy of giving back through volunteerism. For her dedication to many of the town’s nonprofit organizations, she has received several awards. Earlier this year, for her efforts in advancing the literary arts, she received the Mayor’s Award at the Rye Free Reading Room.

For the last eight years, Ms. Jovanovich has served as president of the Harcourt Jovanovich Foundation (formerly the Alfred Harcourt Foundation). “Working with young scholars from their first semester all the way to graduation has been one of life’s greatest rewards for me, as it was for those who came before me,” she offered.