Board of Directors

Ted Phillips is a CPA specializing in tax services. He has over 20 years of experience working with individuals, trusts, estates and small businesses. He earned his undergrad degrees in accounting and finance from Indiana University, and his Masters in Taxation from American University. Ted and his wife, Carrie, reside in the Del Ray section of Alexandria with their sons, Brandon and Benjamin.

Ilona Birenbaum is a leadership and organizational consultant/leadership coach with over 25 years of experience and a diverse organizational development background. She is an adjunct professor and coach with American University’s School of Public Affairs’ Key Executive Leadership Program. Her specialties include leadership coaching, facilitation, change management, leadership assessment and development, action learning, performance management, training, strategic planning, and conflict resolution.

Jim is a Director at Clearsight Advisors. Jim has over 15 years of experience in leadership roles at various investment banking, private equity and operating enterprises throughout his career. Most recently he was a senior member of the investment banking team at Outcome Capital. Jim has been involved in many M&A and capital raising transactions in his career with a variety of key strategic acquirers and private equity investors. Jim originally hails from upstate New York, where he spent the long dark winters cultivating his love of baseball, history, and fond dreams of moving southward. He and his lovely wife are happily married with four children, who keep him looking old but feeling young. Jim has an MBA with Honors from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Commerce from the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.

Ambreen Rizvi, CCTS (Corporate Certified Trust Specialist) has over 18 years of experience in risk management, operations and program management, and regulatory relations in financial services including Fannie Mae and Capital One. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations from Mount Holyoke College, and a Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate from Georgetown University. Ambreen is fluent in English, French and Urdu. She joined the NHH board on July 1, 2018, and is a proud Rotarian/ President-Elect Nominee of her local Rotary club.

Craig Spraggins is the Instructional Technology Coordinator (ITC) at Washington-Liberty and is a long-tenured employee of Arlington County Public Schools. Researching and developing a variety of meaningful ways to integrate technology and impart this knowledge to teachers is Craig's daily charge. Mr. Spraggins coaches teachers on their use of technology integration as a means to solve instructional problems experienced in the classroom. Craig is a member of the Virginia Society of Technology in Education (VSTE) and the International Society for Education in Technology (ISTE) where he is very involved in the continued evolution of making the use of technology meaningful in the lives of all our students.