Michael has served as Chief Executive Officer and as a Director of Digital Realty Trust since its IPO in October 2004. Michael has over 25 years of experience in real estate portfolio management and investment. He co-founded DLR’s predecessor private equity fund, GI Partners, in 2001, and prior to GI Partners, he held senior portfolio management and investment positions at CB Richard Ellis Investors, UBS Asset Management, Karsten Realty Advisors and Trammell Crow Company.  Besides Mid-Peninsula, Michael is a Trustee at his alma mater, University School, in Hunting Valley, Ohio. He received an AB degree, magna cum laude in Anthropology from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Charlie Golden

Charlie Golden received his high school degree from St. Joseph's Seminary in Cupertino and went on to graduate from Cal-State University with a Master's in educational psychology. He began his career working as a school psychologist for the Palo Alto School District. It was here Charlie met and worked closely with Phil Bliss, one of Mid-Peninsula's founders, as they attempted to find viable alternatives for youngsters with unique learning styles. Charlie transitioned to the business world and worked as a Human Resources executive for 25+ years, finishing his career at Genentech.

Richard Hof has been in education for over 35 years. He has an MS in School Management and Administration from Pepperdine University and a BA from UC Santa Cruz. He holds a K-9 Life Time teaching credential. His experience includes teaching kindergarten through sixth grade, and administrating at several independent schools. Richard also served for seven years as Assistant Head of School for Saint Andrew's School in Saratoga, California. During the 2007-08 school year, Richard was the interim Director of Admissions and Development for Mid-Peninsula High School. Richard was the Head of School at Beacon Day School in Oakland and currently serves as the General Studies Principal at the Emek Hebrew Academy in Sherman Oaks.

Kirk Law

Kirk was raised in Roanoke, VA and is an engineering graduate from Purdue University (West Lafayette Indiana) with a BSEE and MSEE. He has been working in the field of engineering for more than 25 yrs. working for a range of innovative companies including RCA's David Sarnoff Research Center (Princeton, NJ) receiving several patents in the area Digital TV technology and also for Silicon Graphics or SGI (Mountain View, Ca.) in the areas of Digital Media, 3D Graphics workstations, and high performance servers.

He is also a member of the Sigma Pi Phi fraternity, where he has served as the local chapter president, chaired the Social Action Committee, and served as a regional officer. He is a member of the National Society of Black Engineers, Eta Kappa Nu (Purdue EE Honor Society), and the Executive Leadership Council national organization. As well as serving on the Purdue University College of Engineering's industry Engineering Advisory Council.

Kirk is the proud parent of a 2009 Mid-Peninsula graduate who was well prepared by Mid-Pen to continue his higher education and NCAA Division III basketball exploits at Whittier College in Southern California. Mid-Pen has positively affected his son's life in the most beneficial of ways, infusing him with confidence and a desire to achieve.

Anne Lynde

Larry O'Rourke

Larry O'Rourke has practiced law for over thirty years with the intellectual property firm of Finnegan, Henderson. Thirteen years ago he returned to his native California with his wife, Joy, to open his firm's office in Palo Alto. He is a graduate of Stanford University with a bachelors degree in EE and an MBA from Stanford Business School. Subsequently he enrolled at George Washington Law School, graduating with a JD, and began a career in law. He has been active in community programs on both coasts slanted toward young people, including the All Together Now (ATN) program in Pittsburgh, PA, and the ZEST program in Washington DC, serving as board chair for both. In the Bay Area he has most recently been involved with the Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) group. His interest in Mid-Pen High School began when his daughter, Alina, entered Mid-Pen in the ninth grade and has continued since she graduated in 2008.

Tim Reichert is a retired educator who spent thirty-eight years with the Fremont Unified School District as a teacher, department head, and administrator. From 1986-2003, he served as principal of Hopkins Junior High School which, during that time, earned four California Distinguished School awards and was named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U. S. Department of Education. Raised in the Chicago area, Tim graduated from Williams College and subsequently received an MA in education from Stanford University. 

Jackie Schmidt-Posner

Jackie Schmidt-Posner is an educator who has worked in administrative, teaching and advising roles with students at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, Santa Clara University and, for 20 years, at the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University, where she is currently a senior advisor. Her passion is empowering individual students to develop their unique talents and gifts and to nurture a commitment to using these for the common good. She holds a PhD in Administration and Policy Analysis (Stanford University) and an MA in Student Development (Ohio State University). Her own public service activities include serving eight years (two terms) as an elected trustee of the Los Gatos-Saratoga Joint Union High School District, where she developed an interest in, and appreciation for, "alternative" education for high school students. She looks forward to continuing to advocate for widening the range of educational options for young people by serving as a trustee of Mid-Peninsula High School.

Cammie Vail

Douglas C. Thompson, Head of School

Doug is in his 10th year as Head of School of Mid-Peninsula High School. Doug earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from UCSB and his Master of Arts degree and his PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA.

Doug feels most strongly that education cannot just be a race to accumulate factual knowledge. He believes a thoughtful and ethical approach to education must take into account the fact that students learn differently, and that society as a whole benefits when these differences are respected and when all students are given a genuine and legitimate opportunity to learn.

What first drew Doug to Mid-Peninsula was the building itself. He first toured the building by himself on a Saturday, and was struck by its openness and warmth. Later, when Doug returned to meet with students, he saw how these qualities were manifested in them. Mid-Peninsula students are unusually thoughtful and kind and he wanted to work at a school where these qualities are so evident.

Doug was raised in Brazil. He is bilingual in Portuguese and English, and tries very hard to keep up a connection with Brazilian language and culture. To that end, he plays soccer every weekend and is an avid singer and player of Bossa Nova music.