Gideon Stein is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and real estate developer. He is the vice chairman of the board of Success Charter Network, the high performing charter management organization in New York City and a founding board member of Future Is Now Schools, formerly Green Dot America, a national school transformation organization.

Education

Stein graduated with honors from Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University

Wesleyan University is a private liberal arts college founded in 1831 and located in Middletown, Connecticut. According to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Wesleyan is the only Baccalaureate College in the nation that emphasizes undergraduate instruction in the arts and...

 with a degree in Economics and History.

Career

Stein is a partner with Argyle Holdings LLC, a real estate development company of luxury residential properties in Northern Manhattan. Stein was formerly founder, chairman and CEO of Omnipod, Inc., the leading on-demand provider of real-time messaging to the enterprise market, until its successful sale in 2005 to MessageLabs

MessageLabs

Symantec.cloud, is a major provider of integrated messaging and web security services , with over 19,000 clients ranging from small business to the Fortune 500 located in more than 86 countries and the United Kingdom Parliament...

 Group, Ltd., one of the world’s largest private software companies (and now a division of Symantec

Symantec

Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software for computers. The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California, and is a Fortune 500 company and a member of the S&P 500 stock market index.-History:...

). Stein was a founding partner of MR Ventures, a private investment firm with a portfolio of companies concentrated in media, commerce and software. Stein also served on the board of directors of the Real Silk Investment Company, a publicly traded regulated investment company, until its sale to Lord Abbett

Lord Abbett

Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC is an independent, privately held U.S. investment management firm that offers a broad array of equity and fixed-income strategies to individual and institutional investors...

 Affiliated Funds.

Philanthropy

Stein is the vice chairman of the board of Success Charter Network as well serving as chairman of NYC Common Communities and the Tapestry Project, both focused on improving educational opportunities for underserved children in New York City. He serves on the board of directors of Green Dot America now called Future Is Now Schools, a nationally focused school transformation organization founded and run by Steve Barr (founder of Green Dot Public Schools

Green Dot Public Schools

Green Dot is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Downtown Los Angeles which operates ten public schools in Greater Los Angeles.Green Dot is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Downtown Los Angeles which operates ten public schools in Greater Los Angeles.Green Dot is a nonprofit...

 and the turn around expert behind Locke High School

Locke High School

Alain Leroy Locke High School is a Title 1 co-educational charter high school located in Los Angeles, California, United States, and is part of the Los Angeles Unified School District/Green Dot Public Schools. It is named after Alain LeRoy Locke....

 in the Watts section of Los Angeles), the Moriah Fund, a private foundation, as well as the International Council and Investment Committee of the New Israel Fund

New Israel Fund

The New Israel Fund is a U.S. based non-profit organization established in 1979, and describes its objective as social justice and equality for all Israelis.-Ideology:...

.