Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 21, 2001
STEVEN F. WILSON is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Advantage
Schools, Inc., the nation's largest charter school management company.
Before founding Advantage Schools in 1996, Mr. Wilson was Special
Assistant to the Governor and Director of Strategic Planning for the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Mr. Wilson was responsible for Governor
William Weld's 'reinventing government' initiatives, including the
administration's proposal to reorganize Massachusetts state government.
Prior to joining the Weld Administration, Mr. Wilson was the Executive
Co-Director of the Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research a Boston
think tank focused on state policy reforms. He is author of the book
Reinventing the Schools: A Radical Plan for Boston, a study of the
Boston public schools and an action plan for their reform. Mr. Wilson is
a graduate of Harvard College. Profile
Advantage Schools?
Mr. Wilson: The company was founded and incorporated in 1996, and we
opened our first two schools in
