Meet the New Members of the Board of Directors
Kim Bohen
George Knight
Kim Bohen has 16 years experience as an independent management consultant for local and national public and non-profit clients. She is the former Director of Education Initiatives at the United Way of Greater New Haven, where she oversaw education-related community investments and partnerships. Before starting her consulting practice, Kim managed grant making in K–12 education for the IBM Corporation and served as Assistant Press Secretary in the New York City Public Schools. Kim holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA from Brown University. She and her husband, Doug James, live in Wallingford on the Choate campus, where Doug teaches English. Their son, Jack, just graduated from Foote and is attending Choate. Daughter Lily (seventh grade) and son Grady (fifth grade) attend Foote. George Knight is an architect and principal of Knight Architecture LLC, a firm that designs residential, educational, and institutional buildings. Prior to founding his own firm, George was a Senior Associate at Cesar Pelli & Associates in New Haven. Since 2004 he has been a critic and instructor at the Yale School of Architecture, from which he graduated. He also attended Princeton University and Deerfield Academy. He Summer/Fall 2011
Bruce Mandell
serves on the Board of Governors at the Ivy Club in Princeton, NJ, the City of New Haven‘s Historic District Commission, and the Board of Directors for the International Festival of Arts & Ideas. George lives near Foote with his wife, Meg, and their five children. Son George just graduated from Foote and is attending Westminster School. Daughters Healy and Grace are in eighth and fifth grades, respectively, son Logan is a seventh grader and son Finn is a new kindergartner. Bruce Mandell is President of DataMail, Inc., a family-owned business founded in 1971 and located in Newington, CT. Data-Mail is one of the nation’s largest direct marketing production facilities. Prior to joining Data-Mail, Bruce was a corporate lawyer in Manhattan. He graduated from Tufts University and Georgetown University Law School. Bruce and his wife, Lillian Garcia, live in Woodbridge and have two daughters at Foote, Madison (sixth grade) & Isabella (third grade). Bruce is a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees of the Kingswood-Oxford School, a trustee of the Boys & Girls Club of Hartford, a board member of the World Lung Foundation, and a Fire Commissioner for the Town of Woodbridge. He is also a trustee of
Nadine Koobatian
the Mandell Family Foundation, a charitable foundation focused on philanthropic efforts to further medical, educational, and social development. PTC Co-President Nadine Koobatian previously served as the group’s treasurer. Nadine and her family moved to Connecticut in 2000 from Los Angeles, where she practiced commercial and insurance coverage litigation with a large international law firm. Prior to that, Nadine worked with a law firm in New Jersey, focusing on education and special education law. She has also lived in Washington, DC, where she served as an enforcement attorney for the federal government and as a judicial law clerk. She has a BA from Tufts University and a JD from American University. Nadine and her husband, Greg, a physician, live in Madison with their children John (seventh grade), Elizabeth (fifth grade) and Nicholas. Nadine is in the process of founding a business that will provide advocacy services to special education students. She has served on the boards of the Valley-Shore YMCA, the Shoreline Foundation, TEAM (Taxpayers Education Alliance of Madison), and the Ryerson School PTO. She is regional chair of the Tufts University Alumni Admission Program. 13