TEAM BIOGRAPHIES
Richard Beyer, CO-FOUNDER and managing Partner beyer@miles-howland.com
Rick Beyer co-founded Miles Howland Education Partners LLC in 2013. Rick has a unique combination of experience in higher education and business. A former college president and board governance chair, successful technology CEO and senior operating executive of a $1B public company, Rick has consistently been at the forefront of industry leading initiatives and has a successful history of leading organizations through change and growth.
Rick serves as Executive Chairman of Core Education and previously was Chief Executive Officer at Lumerit Education, (acquired by Pearson Education) both portfolio companies of MHEP.
A former Senior Fellow at Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges and a past member of the AGB board of directors, Rick was also the founding managing principal for AGB Institutional Strategies. He is trustee emeritus and former board chair at Olivet College and has served on the board at American University, Washington DC.
Having participated in the oversight or development of more than thirty merger, acquisition and affiliation transactions, Rick is a regularly-featured speaker on the topic of college mergers and affiliations, including work with the Higher Learning Commission (HLC), Middle-States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE), Northwest Accreditation Commission (NWCCU), New England Commission Higher Education (NECHE), Council of Independent Colleges (CIC), and Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU).
Rick served for more than eight years as an executive and then as a corporate officer at Trimble Navigation, a $1 billion public company (NASDAQ:TRMB). He served as CEO of TracerNET, a wireless sensor business which was acquired by Trimble. Rick also served as CEO of Lumerit Education that was acquired by Pearson. Earlier in his career, Rick was part of the senior management start-up team at QUALCOMM (NASDAQ:QCOM).
REID R. MILES, CO-FOUNDER and managing Partner miles@miles-howland.com
Reid Miles co-founded Miles Howland Education Partners LLC in 2013 and was the Founder of Miles Howland & Co. LLC in 2005. Mr. Miles has over 28 years of executive experience as a Founder, Managing Director or CEO of three private equity and alternative assets firms. Over the past 28 years Mr. Miles has served on 23 corporate boards and fund boards. Mr. Miles has board committee experience including audit, compensation, executive, finance and nominating committees.
Since 2005 Mr. Miles has been Chairman and CEO of Miles Howland & Co. LLC. From 2001 to 2005 Mr. Miles was a Partner and Managing Director at BV Group Ventures LLC, a global alternative assets investment firm. From 1995 to 2001 Mr. Miles was a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Blue Water Capital LLC, a venture capital firm. Mr. Miles started his career in the technology sector at IBM Corporation.
Mr. Miles graduated with honors from Claremont McKenna College, B.A., 1984.
Dr. Cornelius (Neil) M. Kerwin, Senior Advisor Miles Howland Education Partners LLC
Dr. Kerwin became American University’s 14th president in September 2007 and retired from that role in 2017. He led an institution of about 13,000 students, 1,300 teaching and administrative faculty, and 2,500 staff in the nation’s capital; oversees a $640 million operating budget and a nearly $600 million endowment.
Dr. Kerwin joined AU in 1975 and holds a faculty appointment in the School of Public Affairs, Department of Public Administration. He was dean of the School of Public Affairs from 1988 to 1997; provost from 1997 to 2005; and acting—then interim—president of American University from 2005 to 2007.
A nationally recognized specialist in public policy and the regulatory process, Dr. Kerwin is actively engaged in research and periodically teaches courses in administrative process, policy implementation, and American government. He founded AU’s Center for the Study of Rulemaking and is the author of Rulemaking: How Government Agencies Write Law and Make Policy (CQ Press). The fifth edition of Rulemaking will be released in early 2017. Dr. Kerwin is also the author of numerous scholarly articles and professional publications.
Dr. Kerwin is a Senior Fellow , Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB), a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration; a former president of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration; and founding chair of the Section on Public Law and Administration of the American Society for Public Administration. He received degrees from American University (BA), the University of Rhode Island (MA, political science), and Johns Hopkins University (PhD, political science).
Dr. Kerwin served as a member of the board of directors of the American Council on Education (ACE) from 2012 to 2015 and on the board of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) from February 2012 to February 2014. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Greater Washington Board of Trade; he is also a member of the DC Chamber of Commerce and the DC Government's Economic Strategy Advisory Committee. Dr. Kerwin chaired the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area Board of Trustees (2013 to 2015) and the Patriot League Council of Presidents (academic years 2013 to 2014 and 2014 to 2015).
Dr. Kerwin serves on the Board of ACE and was a member of the United States Senate/American Council on Education Commission on Regulation of Higher Education. Dr. Kerwin also serves on the International Advisory Committee of APCO International.