Velveth Schmitz is Chair of the Roessler-Chadwick Foundation Board of Trustees. She and her husband Charles are the proud parents of two daughters, a seventh-grader who attends Chadwick, and a tenth-grader. Schmitz is an innovative entrepreneur and the Mayor of Rolling Hills Estates, where she previously served as a Councilwoman. Her versatile experience as a creative business owner, local government leader, fundraiser and C-suite manager has been inspired by a deep desire to find answers to difficult questions. She also has been an active volunteer with the City of Rolling Hills Estates and with her alma mater, the University of California at Berkeley, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. Schmitz can be reached at pv-rcf-board-chair@chadwickschool.org

Glen Payne and his wife, Caroline, are the proud parents of a Chadwick ninth-grader and fifth-grader. As a senior high-yield debt trader at Capital Group Companies, Payne is responsible for overseeing the trading, portfolio construction and risk management for $35 billion in dedicated and discretionary investments. Payne has served with the environmental nonprofit Tree People and on Chadwick’s Development Committee and Golf Committee. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in International Economics and Asian Studies from Trinity University. 

Armand Dawkins ('96) and his wife, Dr. Manju Dawkins, are the proud parents of a Chadwick kindergartner and fourth-grader. Dawkins is the CFO at Socialive, an enterprise video creation and live streaming platform, and he is the Managing Partner of Palatum Group, a strategic advisory and investment firm for food and beverage businesses and food-related social enterprises. He is also the co-founder of Achelon, an early stage health and wellness company based in Los Angeles. Dawkins formerly held several executive roles at J.P. Morgan’s investment banking and asset management divisions. Dawkins attended Chadwick from kindergarten through 12th grade. He went on to earn his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics-Philosophy from Columbia and his Master of Business Administration degree from Cornell. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Sustainable Economic Enterprises of Los Angeles (SEE-LA) whose mission is to build sustainable food systems and promote fresh food access to Los Angeles residents while supporting California small farms.

Saskia Subramanian and her husband Marc Linden are the proud parents of a Chadwick alumnus and a ninth-grader. Subramanian earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania, and her AB and MA degrees from Bryn Mawr College, where she is currently a trustee and the President of the College’s Alumnae Association.  She has been a research Sociologist in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA since 1996 and served as a lecturer in the UCLA Gender Studies Department for over a decade. The body of her work has been on women and children with chronic medical conditions, and her findings on the post-treatment symptoms of breast-cancer survivors — sponsored largely through grants from the Susan G. Komen Foundation — have been featured in academic journals, a NYU Press book, and her widely screened documentary film. She has served Chadwick previously in many roles, including as the President of the Chadwick Parents Association, head of the Friends of the Library, and the Director of Ways and Means for the CPA.

Christine Bucklin has a long track record of driving institutional performance as a board member, executive and consultant. Now retired, she previously held C-level positions with Sun Microsystems and Internet Brands, and served as a partner with McKinsey & Co. and a managing director with Gryphon Investors. She has served as a corporate director for two privately held companies and a publicly traded company.

She is married to Randy Bucklin, a professor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. They are the parents of three children, including a current Chadwick 12th-grader and a Chadwick alumna.

Bucklin holds an MBA from Stanford and an AB in mathematics from Dartmouth. She served on the Dartmouth Board of Trustees and currently sits on the Board of Advisors for the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth.

Ty Childress and his wife, Kristin, are the proud parents of a Chadwick 12th-grader and a Chadwick alumna (Chadwick ‘17 and Georgetown ‘21). Childress is a partner at Jones Day, an international law firm with more than 2,500 lawyers and 40 offices worldwide. As chair of the firm’s insurance recovery practice, he advises corporations facing high profile, significant liability exposures and has recovered billions in litigation against insurers relating to those losses. Childress earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown and his juris doctor from the University of Virginia. 

Jennifer Chou is a proud 1996 Chadwick School alumna. Following her years at Chadwick, Chou graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in English in 2000, a master’s degree in English in 2001 and a J.D. in 2005. Since 2008, she has served as an Assistant United States Attorney with the United States Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles, prosecuting violent crime. After clerking for the Honorable Barry G. Silverman on the Ninth Circuit United States Court of Appeals, she worked in Washington D.C. as a litigator with Latham & Watkins and as an attorney on Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 Presidential campaign.

Chou teaches trial advocacy at USC Gould School of Law and is a member of the Stanford Alumni Association’s Board of Directors in addition to the Board of Trustees for Chadwick School. Prior to attending law school, Chou taught seventh- and 11^th-grade English at Chadwick. She also founded the Chadwick Improvisors, aka “ChImps,” which has been going strong for more than 15 years and counting. Chou lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Joe Webb, and their two daughters.

Ian and his wife Laurie are the proud parents of Chadwick ninth- and seventh-grade daughters. Eddleston is the partner in charge of the Assurance Division at EY (Ernst & Young) Los Angeles, where he has experience leading global teams serving major clients in the media, hospitality, gaming and other sectors. His expertise focuses on navigating clients through complex acquisitions and other significant matters. He is also the Global Media and Entertainment Assurance leader at EY. Internally, Eddleston has served as a member of various partner advisory forums and the EY Americas Ethics Oversight Board. Current and past clients include: Live Nation, Netflix, Fox Entertainment, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Hulu, Universal Music, Vivendi Games, Hilton Hotels and Wynn Resorts. Eddleston began his career in the U.K., where he was born and educated at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School in Blackburn and holds a BSc. (Hons) degree in mathematics from Bristol University. He has been a member of the Board of Heal the Bay for several years.

Jared Felt and his wife Lisa Toy M.D. are the proud parents of a Chadwick 12th-grader. His 20 years of investment banking experience includes serving as a Managing Director at Credit Suisse and working at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Houlihan Lokey. He served as a member of the board of Reichhold Acquisitions Holdings and as the Strategic Planner and Head of International Business for Taiko Refractories in Japan. Felt is currently the President of Taiko USA. He earned his Master of Business Administration degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and received his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in economics, Summa Cum Laude, from Weber State University.

Pam Freer and her husband Randy are the parents of twin daughters who are Chadwick alumnae. Freer is the founder of Swiftwater Consultants, a Rolling Hills Estates marketing consulting firm. After graduating from Dartmouth College with an AB in Government and Policy Studies, Freer began her career in advertising as an account manager, working on major global accounts like General Mills, Kellogg’s, Maybelline, Gillette and Motorola Cellular Products before being tapped to run the International Ad Sales Marketing Team for Time Warner/Turner (TWT). Freer also was a Senior Vice President at CBS/Viacom in New York, where she launched and ran the integrated marketing department. She eventually traded corporate life to privately consult in education, luxury, athletic apparel and television program development. During her time at Chadwick School, Freer served as a board member and president of the Friends of the Library, as well as a long-time member of the Chadwick Parents Association Board. She also assisted with the launch of the Delphinus Fund for Financial Aid.

Patrice Harmon is a Dutch native, and she holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a focus on Hospitality Management from the Netherlands. She was part of the pre-opening team for Disneyland Paris and worked there for five years in various operational management positions in the resort division. Harmon later moved from Paris to Munich to pursue a career in hospitality technology with Micros Inc. This saw her traveling around the world, working with international hotel chains in Madrid and London among other key markets. Micros Inc. facilitated her move to California in 1999, and she has been a Manhattan Beach resident since.

Together with her husband, Mike, Harmon is a current Chadwick parent to an 11th- and seventh-grader and a Chadwick alumna. During her 11 years at Chadwick, she has served as a room parent, an FOL board member, a Heart of the Village board member, a CPA board member and a Global Opportunities coordinator, among other parent leadership roles.

Frederick T. "Ted" Hill is currently President of the Roessler-Chadwick Foundation Group, which operates both Chadwick School in Palos Verdes and Chadwick International School in Songdo, South Korea. Previously, he served for 18 years as headmaster at Chadwick School. Hill oversaw the founding and growth of Chadwick International School (CI) in South Korea. Established in 2010, CI educates 1,200 pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade students and boasts a 500,000-square-foot campus covering 17 acres. Hill led this expansion of Chadwick into East Asia and was instrumental in fulfilling founder Margaret Chadwick's vision to bring the successful Chadwick education model to another country.

Hill has more than 30 years of educational and administration experience in K-12 and higher education at esteemed institutions such as Williston-Northampton School, Graham-Eckes Palm Beach Academy, St. Margaret’s School, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Louisville Collegiate School. A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, Hill holds a master’s degree in education from Harvard University, a master’s degree in French language and literature from Middlebury College, and a bachelor’s degree in French and English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Hill and his wife, marine biology teacher and lacrosse coach Amy Hill, are the parents of two Chadwick School alumnae Katharine '11 and Emma '15.