AIA|LA Breakfast Reception w/ Marco Petruzzi - Green Dot Public Schools

The AIA|LA Political Outreach Committee presents...
"VISION 2020: Leading Los Angeles into the Future"
the eighth annual AIA|LA Breakfast Series
Marco Petruzzi - President and Chief Executive Officer
Green Dot Public Schools
Friday, March 25 (8:00 - 9:30am)
Koning Eizenberg Architecture
1454 25th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404

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Ticket Prices:
$15 for AIA members
$30 for non-members

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Marco Petruzzi - President and Chief Executive Officer

Marco Petruzzi is the Chief Executive Officer of Green Dot Public Schools. He originally joined Green Dot as President and Chief Operating Officer in January 2007, and was promoted to CEO in October 2008, succeeding Green Dot Founder Steve Barr. During Marco's tenure, Green Dot won Los Angeles Unified's School Board approval to turnaround Locke High School in Watts and began operating it in fall 2008, re-structuring it into eight smaller, college-prep schools. Green Dot also established itself as a leading agent of reform, creating a world-class school and instructional leadership model as well as an efficient central office to support the schools in many areas including accounting, human resources, knowledge management, information technology, and real estate development. The Locke Transformation Project is the realization of Marco's work on Green Dot's Board of Directors, where he served from 2002 until 2006, in which he led a pro bono Bain & Company consulting project to develop a model for the transformation of overcrowded, under-performing urban public schools.

Prior to joining Green Dot, Marco founded r3 school solutions, an organization that provided management and administrative services to charter management organizations. Prior to founding r3 school solutions, he was a Partner at Bain & Company, a global management consulting firm. Marco has fifteen years of consulting experience working with top management of major international groups in corporate and product-market strategy, channel management, pricing strategy, commercial organization, operations, R&D management and supply chain management assignments, in the USA, South America, and Europe. Prior to joining Bain & Company, Marco also worked at McKinsey & Co. and for Enichem Americas, a petrochemical trading company based in New York. Marco earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering at Columbia University, where he also earned an M.B.A. He has extensive international experience, having lived in six different countries, and is fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. Marco, an active community member, is married and has two children, both attending public schools. He is also the Venice chapter president of the Parent Revolution, a parent advocacy organization he helped found.

"VISION 2020: Leading Los Angeles into the Future"
the eighth annual AIA|LA Breakfast Series

"Vision 2020" is a forum where distinguished business and civic leaders will share their ideas for how Los Angeles can attain an economically competitive future.

Invited speakers will include:

• Ronald O. Nichols - General Manager, LADWP - March 4 (Confirmed)
• Marco Petruzzi - President and CEO, Green Dot Public Schools - March 25 (Confirmed)
• Mark Tarczynski - Executive Vice President, Colliers International - April 15 (invited)
• Ted Tanner, AIA - Executive Vice President , AEG Real Estate - April 29 (confirmed)
• John Deasy - Superintendent, LAUSD - May 29 (Confirmed)
• Russell Goldsmith - Chairman of the Board and CEO, City National Bank - June 10 (invited)
• Hon. Karen Bass - U.S. Representative, District #33 - July 29 (invited)
• Hon. Kevin DeLeon - California State Senator, District #22 - August 26 (invited)
• Hon. Eric Garcetti - Council President of City of Los Angeles - Sept. 23 (invited)
• Hon. Jerry Brown - Governor, State of California - October 28 (invited)
• Roelof van Ark - CEO, California High Speed Rail Authority - November 18 (invited)
• Martha Welborne, FAIA - Executive Director, Countywide Planning - METRO - tbd (invited)
• Robert Hertzberg - Founder and Director, G24 Innovations - tba

For more information on the 2011 AIA|LA Breakfast Series, please contact:

Will Wright
Director, Government & Public Affairs
AIA Los Angeles
tel: (213) 639-0777
email: Will Wright

Last Updated: March 2, 2011