Board Bios

Deborah Buckley Hope – Board member since 2008
Deborah is President of Hope Associates an Integral Coaching/Leadership Development practice. She is a Founding Partner of the Charles Hope Companies, LLP, a real estate development company and consulting practice founded in 1997. She enjoyed 25 years in investments and finance establishing/managing Boston Institutional Equity Sales offices for some of the world’s largest investment banking companies including Managing Director/Senior Vice President of Gruntal & Co., PaineWebber, Barclays Bank, Credit Lyonnais and Everen Securities She currently serves on the Board of Overseers at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Corporate Board of Directors of the Merrimack Valley YMCA (Vice-Chair of Finance Committee) and the Board of Directors of the Andover School of Montessori (Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee, member Development Committee). Deborah is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and serves on the Program Committee. She graduated from Certification at Kellogg School of Management as well as Harvard University’s Executive Education Stonehill College and is a member of their Visiting Committee an advisory group for their Business Department; she holds an MBA from Boston College and has completed the Women’s Director Development – A New Path. She lives in North Andover with her husband Alan and two children who are lifelong students of ASM.  Rebecca is a graduate of ASM class of 2010 and attends Miss Hall’s School. Charlie has just entered Middle School.

Heather Liddell Lauten – Board member since 2005
Heather has served as Clerk, Chair of the Trustees Committee and President of the Board of Directors. She graduated from Brown University and University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She is Corporate Counsel for Whittier Health Network and was formerly with Riemer & Braunstein in Boston. Heather’s two sons attend ASM.

Reason for joining the Board: My elder son entered Children’s House in the autumn of 2003 and my fascination with ASM began immediately as I watched his development under the extraordinary tutelage of his teachers. I wanted to do my part as a member of the ASM community, and that led me to volunteering as a member of the Board of Directors. I have had the privilege, over the past few years, to work closely with this dedicated group of exceptional people in order to maintain the well-being of the School and advance its long-term vision and strength

Carolyn Kedersha - Board member since 2009
Carolyn has served on the Finance Committee since 2010. In 2010, Carolyn served as Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee. Commencing with the 2011-2012 school year, she shares the Co-Chair position on this committee. Carolyn graduated from George Washington University and Rutgers University. She is a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at The Boston Company, LLC. Carolyn's son graduated from ASM in 2010 and her daughter will graduate in 2017.

Reason for joining the Board: My son entered Upper EL in sixth grade and flourished in UE and Middle School. We certainly benefited from the close attention and engagement by the faculty and school and we appreciated the major strides our son was able to achieve in his time at ASM. Seeing the end result gave us the confidence to place our daughter in the Children’s House program and she has loved ASM ever since. ASM is built on the strength of its staff and teachers but it is also built of the strength of its families. Parent involvement was one of the key reasons we were attracted to ASM in the first place and I wanted to contribute to this strength.

Susan Kluver - Interim Head of School since 2011
From 1993-2005, Susan was Head of Fayerweather Street School in Cambridge, MA. In the intervening years since leaving Fayerweather Street School ,she has specialized in helping schools going through leadership transitions by serving as an Interim leader. Her most recent Interim position was as Dean of the School for Children at Bank Street College of Education in NYC.  Dr. Kluver began her career in education as an ESL teacher in the Cambridge Public Schools, Follow Through Program.  She holds a B.A. with honors from Simmons College and an Ed.M and Ed.D. from the Graduate School of Education, Harvard University.

John Rogers- Board member since 2011
John has worked on renewable energy and climate issues for two decades.  He is a senior energy analyst with the Union of Concerned Scientists, where he co-manages the organization's new energy-water initiative.  He serves as a director or advisor to several non-profit organizations promoting renewable energy in New England, across the country, and internationally.  Before joining UCS, John worked on a range of private and public clean energy initiatives, including as a co-founder of a rural clean energy development company, Soluz, Inc., and as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Honduras.  He serves on North Reading’s recycling and energy committees.  He earned an A.B. at Princeton University and a master's degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Reason for joining the Board: ASM has been an important and growing part of our lives since 2006, when our older boy started in Children’s House.  We are thrilled by the quality of education, the attention, and the academic “oomph” that our two boys get in Lower Elementary, just as they previously got in Children’s House.  We also love the ASM community and the diversity we get to be a part of.  I got involved with the Board to help ASM continue to serve the students, their families, and the broader community to the greatest extent possible.

Jennifer Silver - Board member since 2011
Jennifer Silver is a Partner and Vice President of Marketing and Investor Releations for CTPartners, the performance-driven executive search firm.  Jennifer has over 20 years of marketing and public relations experience in professional services firms. 

In her role at CTPartners, she is responsible for the overall global marketing strategy for the firm and its practice areas.   She has created strategic campaigns to raise the awareness of the brand and worked to expand the reputation of the various industry practices with extreme success.  

Formerly she served as the Director of Marketing and Public Relations for Heidrick & Struggles International, where she was responsible for developing and implementing their global strategic marketing campaign. 

Jennifer has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Simmons College in Boston, MA.  She is a member of PRSA and NIRI.   Her daughter attends ASM.

Ayikudy "Sri" Srikanth - Board member since 2010
Sri has been an entrepreneur and product executive at highly successful public and startup companies in the areas of networking, security and educational technology for the past 17 years. He has been part of the startup team at four technology companies and has served/serving on the board of three. He has extensive experience managing technology products and global engineering teams. Sri holds five technology patents, has written numerous articles in technology industry journals and is a published book
author.  He has a MSEE (Purdue University) and a MBA (Babson College).

Reason for joining the Board: To give back to the school that plays a pivotal role in shaping my children's future.

Salim Rodriguez Tabit – Board member since 2007
Sal has served as Clerk of the Board of Directors and Co-chair of the ASM Auction Committee. He holds a B.A from Carleton College and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. He is an attorney with Broadhurst Tabit LLP in Methuen.

Reason for joining the Board: To be more actively involved in the community that has helped to shape my young children.

Jane Triano – Board member since 2010