Board of Directors

Tim Armour

Tim Armour is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund. Tim served for fifteen years as executive director and later executive vice president of the JASON Foundation for Education, a nonprofit organization committed to improving science and math motivation and performance among middle school students in the US. Tim’s earlier career includes start-up and executive roles in business as well as the senior external relations and fundraising official at Harvard Business School, and fundraising and alumni relations at Amherst College.

Tim earned his BA in Political Science from Amherst College, an MA in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, and the MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Boris Bulayev 

A 2007 alumni of Amherst College, Boris has been working with Eric Glustrom on Educate! since the beginning of his sophomore year of college. During the summer of 2007, he spearheaded the development of Educate!’s new leadership program and made connections with countless individuals in the government, non-governmental organizations, and schools.  After spending the first two years post-college working on Educate! in his free time, Boris jumped back into the organization full time in November 2009 and, in his role as President, manages fundraising and general operations in the U.S.. 

Boris was born in Latvia, and lived there until the age of 7, when he moved to San Francisco.  He is currently based in New York, but also spends time in Uganda and San Francisco.  Before coming back to Educate!, he worked at startup incubator Loeb Enterprises. 

Contact Boris: boris@experienceeducate.org

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Angela Thieman Dino

Angela received her B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Colorado at Boulder. As a cultural anthropologist her research has focused on human rights and youth in post-war Bosnia-Herzegovina and on African-American middle-school girls in urban Denver. She has enjoyed integrating her anthropological and human rights interests in local and international work as an educator and community organizer. She has participated in founding several non-profit organizations and has served on the Board of Directors of local and national human rights, human services, and development organizations, including Amnesty International USA and the Rocky Mountain Survivors Center (serving survivors of torture living in Colorado). Angela has served as a longtime mentor to Educate!’s staff and lives in Denver with her husband, Brian, and young children, Dante and Lia.

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Eric Glustrom

Eric founded Educate! in 2002 after meeting several refugees in Kyangwali Refugee Settlment, Uganda of his age, 17, that did not have the means to pay for their education. Realizing that an education was the only way for these refugees to solve the challenges facing Kyangwali, Eric decided to help. He founded Educate! soon after he returned home. He graduated from Fairview High School in Boulder, Colorado in 2003 and then from Amherst College in 2007.

He now lives between Uganda and the US working to develop both sides of the organization.

Contact Eric: eric@experienceeducate.org

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John McDermott (Chairman)

Also a graduate of Amherst College, but of another generation from Boris and Eric, John is a long-time professor at Moravian College and ardent supporter of Educate!. John gives constant advice and support to Eric and Boris and provides valuable direction for the organization. John and his wife Emily reside in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Contact John: john@experienceeducate.org

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Keren Murumba

Keren grew up in Uganda where she attended school up through Makerere University. After receiving her masters in education policy and curriculum development in Australia in the 1970’s, Keren moved to New York. In New York she has extensive experience teaching students of all levels, most notably at Children’s Storefront, a small private school in the city.

Keren’s background being educated in the Ugandan education system, and her extensive professional experience in education bring a highly valuable perspective to Educate!’s mission and approach.

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Rick Pfeiffer

Rick was formerly Chairman and CEO of AIG’s Consumer Finance Group (CFG).  Rick joined AIG in January 2007 and was brought in to fix and grow CFG’s businesses, which are the 19 retail banks and consumer finance companies that AIG owns outside the USA. He brought over 20 years of banking and consumer finance experience covering general management, operations, systems and business development. He has recruited senior talent for functional and business roles in NYC and in the field.

Immediately prior to AIG, Rick worked for 6 years as a founding partner of The Ambertek Group (TAG), which provided advisory services to leading international banks and consulting companies on strategies and tactics to globalize financial service operations. TAG also worked with large private equity companies to acquire outsourced services companies that provided customer contact management and back room processing operations to US and UK corporate clients.

Prior to TAG, Rick was ING’s Head of Consumer and Commercial Banking for Asia-Pacific from 1998 through 2000 and was based in Hong Kong. Before that, he worked for 16 years at GE Capital and GE Information Services.

Rick has a B.A. degree from Amherst College and a MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School.