Patrick is the Executive Director of SpringBoard USA Foundation, the only education nonprofit in the United States for the purpose of providing a boarding school education experience focused on young people trapped in dysfunctional homes, poverty, poor education options, parental absenteeism and precarious living environments. He boasts a long and successful career in independent school education having worked in boarding and day school leadership roles.

Patrick earned a Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in nonprofit management from the University of Dallas. He also holds a CFRE (Certified Fundraising Executive credential.) Patrick served as an independent school board member, adjunct faculty at Aquinas College, chamber of commerce education committee member, summer camp director and church volunteer. He also served as a fundraising consultant helping churches reach their capital campaign goals.

Thomas D. Sanders is the Chief Executive Officer of First Financial Services, LLC, a financial advisory firm that provides financial planning services and products in Arkansas and surrounding states. He also serves on the board of directors of Enterprise Investments, Inc. and Old Surety Life Insurance Company. Before founding his own firm in 1990 he served as Chief Marketing Officer of Lomas Life Group and as a senior officer for subsidiary companies Union Life Insurance Company, Jefferson National Life Insurance Company and Continental Life Insurance Company.

His community activities include the Subiaco Academy Board of Trustees and the Subiaco Alumni Association Board of Directors, the St. Edwards School Board, the Little Rock Chamber of Commerce Board, the Greater Little Rock YMCA Board and the Pathfinder Board.

Jay Bradford is an Arkansas businessman and former Arkansas government official. A longtime member of the Arkansas General Assembly, he capped a public career of over thirty years with a six-year stint as state commissioner of insurance. He served as president of the Independent Insurance Agents of Arkansas, and was founder and chairman of the First Arkansas Insurance Group. In 1982 he won election to the Arkansas Senate, where he served from 1983 to 2000. As a member of the Senate, he served as chair of the Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee, and he was also chosen as Senate president pro tempore. He then won election to the Arkansas House, where he served until 2007. During his tenure there, he served as chair of that body’s Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee, as well serving as speaker pro tempore, who presides in the absence of the speaker of the House.

In 2007, Bradford was appointed by Governor Mike Beebe to serve as director of the Division of Behavioral Health Services of the Arkansas Department of Human Services. He served in that role for two years until Beebe appointed him state commissioner of insurance. Bradford took office in January 2009 and served until January 2015.

Hans Broekman is the principal at Liverpool College, a 4-19, state funded, mixed ability, academy day and boarding school in the heart of Liverpool. He is a native of the Netherlands.

Hans attended high school in USA then gained his Master’s Degree with Honors in Classics from the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Following teaching positions in the UK, Hans returned to the USA where he served as a deputy headmaster at St. Anselm’s Abbey School in Washington, D.C., headmaster at Subiaco Academy in Subiaco, Arkansas and principal at Pope John Paul II High School in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

He was appointed the 17th Principal of Liverpool College in July 2007 and took up the appointment in June 2008. Since he arrived at the College, Hans has pursued an ambitious development program which has included major College-wide refurbishment and restructuring programs and the re-introduction of boarding at the school. In June 2012, Liverpool College announced that the Secretary of State for Education had accepted its submission to transition the College to Academy status (an academy is an independent school funded directly by central government). This followed a comprehensive and strategic review of the future options for the development of Liverpool College, led by Hans and the governing body.

Since conversion, the College has expanded its facilities and curriculum to cater to very substantial demand for places. Hans is committed to improving social mobility and life chances and creating a culture of learning in our city that ensures that every young person has the potential to excel regardless of their background or any disadvantage.