Trustees

A co-founder of Montrose School, Bill Bowman P'95, '96, '98, GP '16, '18, '19 has led companies as President or CEO for more than 25 years. He is currently the President and CEO of Arete Consulting, a Washington-based firm that helps companies determine the human virtues most important to their customers, and then provides training to employees to develop those virtues. He is also an Associate Professor and former Dean of the Busch School of the Catholic University of America, specializing in strategy and management. Previously, Bill was President and CEO of U.S. Inspect in Chantilly, VA and President of ChildrenFirst Inc. in Boston (now Bright Horizons Inc.), the nation’s largest provider of backup child care services to corporations. Bill is a graduate of Northwestern University and received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. He and his wife Leigh live in Washington, DC and are the parents of nine children.

Calvin Harrison P ‘19, ‘19 is the Senior Vice President of the Video Quality Monitoring and Analytics business unit of Telestream, which specializes in products that make it possible to get video content to any audience regardless of how it is created, distributed or viewed. Cal holds a degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. 

Neil Jacob P '05 is MRP-NE Managing Principal. Formerly he was the Executive Vice President at Oxford Properties Group, a commercial real estate management firm, where he was responsible for the direction and execution of Oxford's U.S. strategies. Prior to that, he was a principal in Chatham Capital Partners, a private investment firm. Neil is the longest-serving member of the Montrose Board of Trustees and served as Chairman of the Board for 14 years. He is a graduate of Brown University.

Susan Mangels, PhD is Senior Vice President, Consulting Services at AC Fitzgerald, a fundraising consulting firm headquartered in Washington, DC . She holds a BA from Furman University, a Master’s in Education from Harvard University, and a PhD from the University of Illinois. Susan has been Chief Development Officer at the Independent Institute, Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Lindenwood University, President of Lexington College, and on the administrative leadership team of both Oakcrest School and Montrose School. She has served or serves as a trustee of Catholic Charities in St. Louis, the Women’s Board of the United Way STL, Focus STL, Morgan Park Academy in Chicago and Kingswood Academy. She speaks frequently on fundraising, university center building, executive leadership, and work-life balance. Susan lives in Chicago.