Partner Bios

 
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Bob Freier

PARTNER

  • Has been placing Superintendents, Assistant Superintendents and Principals for over fourteen years

  • Executive Recruiter - 30 years of building technology companies and matching Entrepreneurs with Venture Capitalists

  • Helped form some of the most successful high-technology companies of the last two decades

  • School Board Member - Member of the East Williston School District Board of Education (2008 - 2012)

    • Actively involved in the hiring of Administrative Staff

 

 

 
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Joann M. Kaplan

PARTNER

  • Guest speaker for NYSCOSS Pipeline Committee

  • Educator, Roslyn School District

  • PTO Coordinating Council President, East Williston School District

    • Served on many committees and held various titles

  • School Board Member of the East Williston School District Board of Education (2006 - 2009), Vice President 2009

    • Hired: Superintendent of Schools, Principals (Elementary School, Middle School, and High School), Assistant Superintendent of Business, Director of Guidance and Assistant Business Administrator

 

 

Mark Kamberg

Associate

  • Owner, S Kamberg & Company – 33 years of Contract Negotiations, Conflict Management Relationship Building

  • School Board Member – East Williston School District Board of Education (2008 – current), Vice President, 2009, President, 2010 – Present

    • Actively involved in the hiring of Superintendent, Central Office, Administrators

    • NYSSBA Workshop Panelist

    • Long Island School Board Representative for the committee to the NYSED Commissioner

 

 

Hilary Grasso

Associate

  • 15 years experience as an education lawyer - served as counsel for public school districts, private schools, charter schools, and parents

  • Current school board member of Chappaqua Central School District (2019 - present) - served multiple terms as President

  • Adjunct professor of education law and special education law at St. John’s University School of Law as well as adjunct professor of legal writing at Columbia University School of Law

    • Trained mediator and former negotiations instructor for public and corporate clients

    • Active community volunteer