JONATHAN HAGE
PRESIDENT & CEO, CHARTER SCHOOLS USA, FORT LAUDERDALE
Charter Schools USA operates 92 schools for 75,000 students and employs 10,000. The company had the first nationally accredited charter system and was the first to operate municipal charters and charter schools in the workplace. Hage founded the company in 1997 and opened its first school in 1998.
| EDUCATION | University of Colorado (BA), Georgetown University (MA) |
| SOMETHING SURPRISING | I’ve been taking race car driving lessons! |
| ALTERNATE CAREER? | International business and trade |
| PHILANTHROPIC PASSION | We support a school in Haiti to ensure students have a great education in both Creole and English at no cost to them. |
| FAVORITE VACATION | We took our kids and both sets of grandparents on a Christmas cruise in December 2019. |