Dan is the former Vice-President of the Magic Kingdom, Walt Disney World, Florida.
He attended Boston University, graduating in 1991, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.

Upon graduation from Boston University in 1991, Dan moved to Florida and worked as a parking attendant at Disney’s Epcot Center. Subsequently, he joined the Disneyland Paris Management Trainee Program as part of the opening team and moved to France in 1992.

After spending 5 years in France, Dan relocated to Florida and held a variety of executive roles at the Walt Disney World Resort, both in the theme parks and resort hotels. His last 9 years with the company, he was successively Vice President of Epcot, Vice president of Disney’s Hollywood Studios and eventually Vice President of the Magic Kingdom where he led 12,000 cast members and entertained over 20 million guests annually.

After a fulfilling and exciting 26-year career with the Walt Disney Company, in 2018, Dan and his wife Valerie made the decision to set out on a new venture and start their own consulting and speaking business, speaking on culture, leadership, and customer service around the world.

In December 2023, Dan was named CEO of Torrens University with campuses in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Blue Mountains, Australia, Auckland, New Zealand, and Suzhou, China.

Tom Boasberg serves as superintendent of 4,100-student Singapore American School, starting July 2019. SAS is one of the world’s largest, most diverse, and academically innovative international schools. 

At SAS, Tom has focused on student wellness and academic growth, expanding teacher leadership opportunities, redeveloping the school campus, and strengthening the school’s work around diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Prior to joining SAS, he taught educational leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Tom served for 10 years as superintendent of the 94,000-student Denver Public Schools (DPS), stepping down in October 2018. As superintendent, Boasberg led dramatic improvements in opportunities and outcomes for Denver’s students. A comprehensive recent study by the University of Colorado noted the changes that Boasberg led were “among the most comprehensive in American history, and they were also among the most effective in size, scale and duration.”

During his decade in leadership, the district's graduation rate increased by 28 percentage points, the number of students of color graduating high school and going to college more than doubled, and the district's dropout rate dropped by half.  Denver developed the nation's largest teacher leadership initiative, opened more than 80 new district-run and charter schools, and was recognized for the strong collaboration among its district-run and charter schools. The Denver Public Schools were the focus of a Harvard Business School case study on innovation in education.

Before joining DPS, Tom served in Hong Kong and Denver as global head for corporate development for Level 3 Communications and also served as legal advisor to the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, DC. He began his career as a secondary school teacher at a low-income school in Hong Kong’s New Territories and worked as a legislative aide in the Hong Kong legislature.

Tom graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in History from Yale College and with Distinction from Stanford Law School. At Yale, he was awarded a Harry S. Truman Scholarship.

Professor Lily Kong has been President of Singapore Management University (SMU) since 2019.  She is the fifth President and the first Singaporean to lead the 24-year old university. She is also the first Singaporean woman to serve as President of a university in Singapore. She was previously Provost of SMU (2015-2018).

Before joining SMU, she was a faculty member at the National University of Singapore’s Department of Geography for nearly 25 years. She also held various senior management roles at the National University of Singapore, including Vice Provost (Education), Vice Provost (Academic Personnel), Vice President (University and Global Relations), Dean (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), Dean (University Scholars Programme), and Director (Asia Research Institute).

An award-winning researcher and teacher, Professor Kong has received five international fellowship awards including the Commonwealth Fellowship Award and the Fulbright Fellowship Award. She has also won the Robert Stoddard Award from the Association of American Geographers for her contributions to the study of religion. Professor Kong was conferred the Public Administration Medal (Silver) in 2006 and Public Service Star (Bintang Bakti Masyarakat) award in 2020 as part of Singapore’s National Day Awards.  She was recognised in Forbes Asia’s Power Businesswomen list (2020), Forbes inaugural 50 over 50 (Asia 2022) and Tatler’s Asia’s Most Influential (2022). Professor Kong was inducted into the Singapore Women’s Hall of Fame in 2022. 

Professor Kong is widely known for her research on urban transformations, and social and cultural change in Asian cities. In particular, she has published a large body of work on inter-communal religions and social cohesion, national identity, cultural policy and cultural industries, creative cities and creative economy, urban heritage and conservation, smart cities, migration and education. She is on a dozen editorial boards of international journals in her field and is frequently invited as keynote speaker to conferences in her domain.  In a global study by Stanford University (2020), Professor Kong was identified as among the world’s top 1% of scientists in the field of Geography.

Professor Tan Tai Yong is the President of the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS). Before he joined SUSS, he was President, Yale-NUS College. Prior to this, Professor Tan held various academic and leadership appointments in the National University of Singapore (NUS).  He serves on numerous boards of various organisations. These include the National Library Board, the National Heritage Board, the National Collection Advisory Panel, the Founders’ Memorial Committee, the Institute of South Asian Studies. Professor Tan is also the Institute of Policy Studies' sixth S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore.