President, CSTA

Robb Cutler is the president of Tutor Crossing, Inc., a small start-up company which helps enhance the private tutoring process for students, tutors, parents, and schools.

Prior to his second venture in the entrepreneurial world, he was an educator at The Harker School, where he taught Advanced Placement Computer Science and Advanced Topics in Computer Science, and served in several administrative roles including class dean, chair of the computer science department, and assistant head of school. Before moving to California, Cutler served as director of technology at an independent boarding school in New Hampshire and as a software engineer and manager in the fields of digital mapping and medical instrumentation. He owned and operated a software consulting firm for more than ten years, and started, grew and sold a rural internet service provider in New England.

Cutler has served as an AP Reader in Computer Science. He is a founding member of ACM's Steering Committee for the Computer Science Teachers Organization, and is a member of the ACM Java Task Force and the ACM Education Council. He is a co-author of The Princeton Review's Cracking the AP Computer Science Exam and on the advisory board for Computer Science Unplugged. Deeply interested in the issues of gender equity in computer science, ethics and technology, and innovative ways to teach computer science in the classroom, he is passionate about the computer science education in K-12.

Cutler earned a B.A. in Computer Science and a B.A. in German from Dartmouth College and has studied at the graduate level in both computer science and business. Cutler completed his secondary school education at Hawken School and participated in the Ross Mathematics Program for Gifted High School Students.

Executive Director, CSTA

Chris Stephenson is the executive director of ACM's Computer Science Teachers Association. She joined ACM after 16 years at the University of Toronto's Computer Systems Research Institute and the University of Waterloo's Mathematics and Computing Department, where she designed instructional resources and professional development for high school educators. She is former president of Holt Software, an educational publishing company focusing computer science.

Since 2000, Stephenson has served as chair of the annual Computer Science and Information Technology Symposia and as chair of the review committee for computer science for the National Educational Computing Conference. She is the former chair of the International Society for Technology in Education's Computer Science special interest group and of the ACM K-12 Task Force. She is also a former president of the Association for Computer Studies Educators and of the Educational Computing Organization of Ontario, Canada. She has produced numerous research publications in the field of computer science education and adaptive technology, and has written several high school textbooks.

Stephenson earned a B.A. in English Literature, a B.J. (Journalism) from Carleton University, an M.Ed. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education with a specialty in Computer Applications, Measurement, and Evaluation. She is currently enrolled in the doctoral program for Teaching Leadership at Oregon State University's College of Education.