In 1997 Ms. Rhee founded The New Teacher Project (TNTP) to bring more excellent teachers to classrooms across the country. Under her leadership TNTP became a leading organization in understanding and developing innovative solutions to the challenges of new teacher hiring. As Chief Executive Officer and President, Ms. Rhee partnered with school districts, state education agencies, non-profit organizations and unions to transform the way schools and other organizations recruit, select and train highly qualified teachers in difficult-to-staff schools.

Her work with TNTP implemented widespread reform in teacher hiring practices, improving teacher hiring in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Miami, New York, Oakland and Philadelphia. TNTP placed 23,000 new, high-quality teachers in these schools across the country.

Ms. Rhee has a bachelor's degree in government from Cornell University and a master's in public policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Mr. Salcito comes to Worldwide Public Sector from the U.S. Public Sector organization. While the general manager of education in the United States, he had responsibility for supporting K-12 and higher education institutions across the U.S. and leading Microsoft's efforts to support and increase the role technology plays to enhance learning. He developed education partnerships and innovative programs to better support education customers nationally.

Mr. Salcito helped launch the U.S. Partners in Learning program in 2003, which was recognized in 2009 with the Public-Private Partnership Award from the U.S. National Governors Association. He was the catalyst for Microsoft's involvement in the creation of the School of the Future - Microsoft's participation with School District of Philadelphia to build an innovative high school in the city of Philadelphia, which has served as a blueprint for Microsoft's worldwide Innovative Schools program.

Mr. Salcito has created several programs that have been leveraged broadly to support the company's giving efforts and Microsoft's Connected Learning Community initiative. He created the Microsoft Technology Friends Network, which links IT professionals and developers to schools and nonprofits to donate their technical expertise to aid with technology support.

Mr. Salcito joined Microsoft in 1992, helping to architect Microsoft's marketing outreach plan in the early 1990s. During his initial years with Microsoft, he had the opportunity to influence marketing and one-to-many programs including the product launches for Windows NT and Windows 95.

Mr. Salcito is involved with a variety of outreach projects; he has served on the board of directors for Stevens Institute of Technology WebCampus and Western Governors University, and currently serves on the board of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and the National Community Education Association.

Mr. Salcito shares his views on education news, trends and highlights in his blog, Education Insights: www.microsofteducationblog.com.