Advantage Testing Foundation Board of Trustees

Arun Alagappan (President) is the President and Founder of Advantage Testing, Inc. He is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University and a graduate of Harvard Law School. At Princeton, he won the Class of 1869 Prize in Ethics. Mr. Alagappan sat on the Board of Editors of the Harvard International Law Journal, served as Law Clerk to Judge Dorothy Nelson of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and worked briefly at the law firm of Sullivan and Cromwell in New York City. He was a Teaching Fellow in Harvard’s Department of Mathematics and was awarded a Certificate of Distinction for Outstanding Teaching of Harvard Undergraduates from the Dean of the College. Mr. Alagappan serves on the Board of Trustees of Prep for Prep and as Vice President of the Board of Trustees of LEDA (Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America). The goals of these organizations are to nurture the academic and leadership potential of exceptional students of modest means and to increase the socioeconomic diversity of students at leading colleges and universities.

J. Tomilson Hill (Treasurer) is Vice Chairman of The Blackstone Group where he serves on the Board of Directors. Mr. Hill is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day activities of the firm’s marketable alternatives group, including investment management, client relationships, marketing, operations and administration. He also serves as a member of Blackstone’s Management and Executive Committees as well as the Private Equity group’s Investment Committee, where he participates actively in the development and review of merchant banking transactions. Mr. Hill has 32 years of financial industry experience. Mr. Hill is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations where he chairs the Investment Committee, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Lincoln Center Theater, where he serves as Vice Chairman. Mr. Hill serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. In addition, Mr. Hill is a member of the Investment Committee of the Smithsonian Institution’s endowment. He formerly was on the Board of Trustees of Milton Academy and The Nightingale-Bamford School.

John Edward Sexton (Vice President) is the President of New York University, as well as the Benjamin Butler Professor of Law and NYU Law School’s Dean Emeritus. President Sexton is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of both the Association of American University Presidents and the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves on the Boards of the New York State Commission on Higher Education, the American Council on Education, the Institute of International Education and the Association for a Better New York. While Dean of the Law School he was President of the Association of American Law Schools. President Sexton has received a B.A. in History from Fordham College, an M.A. in Comparative Religion and a Ph.D. in History of American Religion from Fordham University, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. Before coming to NYU, President Sexton served as Law Clerk to Chief Justice Warren Burger of the United States Supreme Court, and to Judges David Bazelon and Harold Leventhal of the United States Court of Appeals.

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