Board Members
Hervé Bruckert
Member of the Finance Committee
Hervé Bruckert, a native of the Alsace region in France, son of educators, came to the United States in 1991. Hervé holds an EMBA from the University of San Francisco and has been working at UC Berkeley in Finance for the past 3 years as Divisional Finance Lead for the Division of Administration & Finance. Prior to this, Hervé worked in Financial Planning and Analysis at Johnson & Johnson as well as Kaiser Permanente, Chevron and Steelcase. Hervé is also an entrepreneur and co-owner of De Novo Wines LLC, a wine company based in Sonoma. While teaching students with challenges in his young age, Hervé realized how teaching changes people’s lives. He is honored to be a part of the Francophone Charter School of Oakland and looks forward to helping the school grow. As a bilingual parent, Hervé is particularly sensitive to the challenges and opportunities of raising biliterate multicultural children.
Annette Dennett
Chair of the Board, Member of the Governance Committee
Annette Dennett is the daughter of an educator father from Ivory Coast and a business graduate mother from France. Since graduating with her Masters in Developmental Psychology, with a focus in at-risk education, she has worked advocating for equal opportunity to solid education; something so simple, yet unfortunately, so challenging. A director for an educational community based non-profit in San Francisco, her organization, PACT, Inc. has placed nearly 65,000 students in college since 1963; the majority coming from under-served low income families. Although her work involves primarily high school, motherhood has offered the opportunity to become involved at the primary level. Her children, along with her niece and nephew, are all bilingual in French and English. They’ve gone through Les Petits Francophones immersion preschool, and are in the first cohort at Francophone Charter School of Oakland. Joining the school’s Board offers new opportunities to advocate for more families who may not otherwise have the opportunity to take advantage of bilingual education; a probable correlate to higher academic success. She is honored to have the opportunity to be part of a grassroots effort promoting Francophone education in the Bay!
David Phillips
Member of the Education Committee, Member of the Governance Committee
David Phillips is the Chief of Staff at Educate78, an Oakland-based nonprofit dedicated to ensuring all families across Oakland’s 78 square miles know their children will realize their full brilliance and potential at every public school in any neighborhood. Prior to joining Educate78, David served as an Associate Director at FSG, a nonprofit strategy consulting firm. During his 6 years at FSG, David advised a variety of organizations – nonprofits, school districts, philanthropies, collaborative initiatives, government, and businesses – to create effective strategies and organizational learning systems. Working side-by-side with his clients, David formed a perspective on what it takes to improve outcomes for youth: that adults must collaborate in ways that are deep, strategic, and in the best interest of kids. Earlier in his career, David worked as an Education Pioneer Fellow at the San Francisco Unified School District, and as an Associate Director of Data Analysis and Tools at CEB, a management think tank in Washington, D.C. David holds an MBA from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University (with concentrations in Social Entrepreneurship and Leadership & Ethics) and a BA in International Studies from Rhodes College.