Our Boards

Martin Schneider serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Peer Health Exchange. He is a Managing Partner at Fine Capital Partners, a hedge fund based in New York City. Marty is the Founder and former President of Health Pages, a consumer website devoted to providing consumers with background, experience, and quality information about health care providers. He is also the Founder and former President of Physician Hospital Alliance, a company that provided out-patient medical services. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of the Informed Patient Institute, and as a Board member of the International Center for the Disabled and Consumer Reports.

He received a BA from Amherst College, an MBA from the University of Chicago and a MSc from The London School of Economics. When his hip isn’t bothering him, he runs marathons and lives on the Upper West Side with his wife and three children.

Larry Berger is CEO and co-founder of Wireless Generation, an education company that has pioneered the adaptation of emerging technologies to improve PreK-12 teaching and learning. Mr. Berger led the invention of Wireless Generation’s mCLASS system, which enables educators to administer early reading and math formative assessments using handheld computers and then immediately receive results, analysis, and support for differentiated instruction. Today, Wireless Generation serves more than 3 million children and hosts one of the largest databases of longitudinal student data in the country.

Mr. Berger was a 2007 inaugural Fellow for the Entrepreneurial Leaders for Public Education Program. He serves on the board of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and on the Board of Overseers for the Annenberg Institute on School Reform at Brown University.

Patrice currently enjoys serving on several non-profit boards. Her primary passion has been around poverty and homelessness, and she has worked most intimately with that population. She serves on the board of the Washington Area Women’s Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to serving women and girls throughout the region living in poverty, ultimately helping them create financial independence. She also serves on the board of the Upward Bound Foundation, a nonprofit that provides gap funding for at risk children who have received scholarships for college, but lack the funding for “everything else” it takes to actually succeed once there. She serves on the Board of the Holy Child School, a high school in Potomac Maryland, where her oldest daughter attends school. She is currently chairing a Capital Campaign, and is working on a new Strategic Development plan. She serves on the Advancement Committee of the Norwood School, where her other three children attend school. She served for eight years on the board of the National Center for Children and Families, a nonprofit that serves the local homeless community, as well as at risk youth. There are seven programs ranging from a homeless shelter, girls and boys home, a school, independent living, and treatment foster care. She chaired a successful $15M Capital Campaign, built a Community Playground, and organized and ran a job fair for homeless women that still runs today. She worked directly with clients around employment, and active parenting. She enjoys hiking with girlfriends regularly, coaching soccer (8 year old girls) running, skiing, scuba, surfing, and most of all snuggling her kids. Her latest interests are around holistic integrative nutrition.

Lauren consults with various educational nonprofits and foundations. In addition to Peer Health Exchange, she serves on the Board of Directors for KIPP Bay Area Schools. She is a member of the first class of The Aspen Institute’s Entrepreneurial Leaders for Public Education Fellowship program.

For six years, Lauren was as a Partner at NewSchools Venture Fund, where she focused on investment strategy and management assistance to portfolio ventures in the Charter Accelerator Fund. Prior to joining NewSchools, Lauren was Vice President for Development at Edison Schools and served as Director of New Site Development for City Year where she led the expansion of the Boston-based urban service corps to seven other cities. She was Founding Executive Director of Teach for America in Oakland, California, and she began her career as a management consultant with Bain & Company in San Francisco.

Lauren received her bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley and her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she worked with other student leaders to launch the Public Management Initiative on Social Entrepreneurship. She spent an additional year at Stanford as a Research Associate in the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. She is married and has two young boys.

Laura Meier Fisher is actively involved in education non-profits in the Bay Area and nationally. She serves on the boards of KIPP Bay Area Schools, The Urban School and Stanford’s Philanthropy and Civil Society. She has also served on the boards of Leadership Public Schools, Stanford School of Education, and the Breakthrough Collaborative. She graduated from Stanford University in ’88 with a BA in economics. She and her husband have four children and reside in San Francisco.

Michael Grobstein is a retired Vice Chairman of Ernst & Young LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm. He is a Director of Given Imaging Ltd where he chairs both the Executive Committee and the Audit Committee and serves on the Compensation and Nominating Committee. He is also a Director of Bristol-Myers Squibb where he chairs the Audit Committee and serves on the Compensation and Management Development Committee.

He serves on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of the Central Park Conservancy. He chaired the Board of the New Yorkers for Parks from 2002-2007 and CORO-NY from 1999-2002. He previously served as a Director of Guidant Corporation.

Barbara has served on the Board of Directors of Peer Health Exchange since its inception. She is a Counsel to the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom LLP in New York specializing in risk management for the Firm. She has been an advisor to and served on the boards of the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association, the American Fund for Czechoslovak Relief, and Grameen America.

She received her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from Fordham University. She and her husband have two grown daughters and live in New York City.

Louise is the CEO and Co-Founder of Peer Health Exchange. She serves on the Board of Directors of Dwight Hall at Yale – the University’s Center for Public Service and Social Justice – and Generation Citizen. Louise graduated from Yale with a B.A. in History in 2003. While in New Haven, she co-founded and directed Community Health Educators, the student volunteer program out of which Peer Health Exchange, Inc. grew.