Mr. Pierce recently retired as the President of Education Initiatives at Turner Impact Capital. Prior to the formation of Turner-Agassi, he was the founder and CEO of Pacific Charter School Development, a nonprofit developer of charter school campuses based in Los Angeles. Over the past two decades, he and his teams built almost 200 schools serving over 85,000 at-risk students and their families. He has been a leader in the charter school movement since 1997, following management roles with Citibank and PepsiCo. He holds an AB in Economics and Business from Lafayette College and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Citicorp’s Institute for Global Finance and the Broad Superintendents Academy. He is the parent of a child with autism.