Amy Rosen
President & CEO

Amy Rosen is the President & CEO of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), a global non-profit that provides a highly experiential and academic program that inspires young people from low-income communities to succeed in school and in life by seizing educational opportunities and starting their own businesses. NFTE has active programs in 21 states and 10 other countries.

Amy is a nationally recognized expert in comprehensive urban school-system-reform strategies, and has worked to close the achievement gap by providing all young people with high quality educational opportunities.  Her success in leading large organizations through transformational change has been widely acknowledged.

Before joining NFTE, Amy was a founding partner of Public Private Strategy Group (PPSG), a management consulting and financial advisory firm where she successfully developed the firm’s Education Practice. She has served as an advisor to many urban Mayors and worked closely with both Mayor Cory Booker of Newark and Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City, designing and implementing the restructuring of their systems. 

Amy previously served as COO for New Visions, a large non-profit committed to systemic reform of New York Public Schools, where she reengineered operations and created a new business model for the organization. She is on the faculty of Columbia Business School where she teaches a class on Education Leadership and was a 2004 Fellow at the Broad Urban Superintendents Academy.

In addition to her experience in education, Amy has spent 20 successful years as a leader in the field of transportation, where she helped to change the way public agencies conduct business while advocating for national investment in transportation infrastructure.  Her work in this field has included managing New Jersey’s state transportation department and tenure as Senior VP of Lockheed Martin, where she helped to build a subsidiary that provided transportation services to state and local governments.  She has earned a national reputation as a change agent in this field and was a two-term Presidential Appointee to the Amtrak Board of Directors.  She has lectured and received much public recognition for her work, including induction into the New Jersey Transit Hall of Fame, as well as being named Board member of the Year by the American Public Transportation Association.

Amy is currently Chairman of the Board of TEAM SCHOOLS, a group of highly successful KIPP charter schools in Newark.  She previously served on the Board of SEEDS, a nonprofit organization that identifies and provides high-achieving, low-income students with academic enrichment opportunities, and on the Board of the Yogi Berra Museum and Learning Center.

Amy completed an Executive Management Program at Harvard Business School, and received her B.A. in political studies from Pitzer College. She was a 2004 Fellow at the Broad Urban Superintendents Academy.