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Joyce Montgomery
Summit Public Schools Chief Financial Officer
A passion for public education and impressive finance, forecasting and resourcing skills has brought Ms. Montgomery to the Summit public school’s team. Ms. Montgomery has over 8 years in the charter school finance industry and over 20 years in education finance. Prior to joining Summit, Ms. Montgomery spent 2.5 years at the Charter School Development Center (CSDC) working with Eric Premack as the Education Finance Policy Specialist. During her tenure at CSDC Ms. Montgomery managed and lead the Charter School Business Officer Training Program, a program dedicated to training individuals to serve as Chief Business Officers. In addition to leading and managing the CBO program, Ms. Montgomery helped scores of charter school by providing in depth reviews of their programs, interceding and supporting and defending charters during the chartering, appeal and revocation processes, assisting with developing policies and providing executive search functions for charter schools recruiting Chief Financial Officers. Prior to CSDC Ms. Montgomery was the first CFO of Leadership Public Schools, a well-established CMO network located in the San Francisco East Bay Area. Ms. Montgomery developed and still moderates a bay-area centric group of Charter School Business Officers who meet on a regular basis to discuss challenges, problems and develop best practices. Prior positions had Ms. Montgomery serving as CFO in the private school sector managing the finances, operations, and facilities for the Howard School in Atlanta, Georgia and Crystal Springs Uplands School in Hillsborough CA. Ms. Montgomery has an M.B.A in Finance receiving the Dean’s award (Sigma Beta Delta induction, Who’s Who of American Colleges and Universities) from Notre Dame de Namur’s University, B.A from CSU Long Beach (Magna Cum Laude) and an A.A. from Skyline Community College (with Highest Honors) In addition to her education, finance and operations background, she also has senior management experience in advertising, technology and banking. Ms. Montgomery is active in many community organizations and served as the Chair of the Finance Commission for the City of Belmont.