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C. Board Director Biographies
Tyler Beck was the valedictorian of the first graduating class (2009) of highly touted Urban Prep Academies
in Chicago, IL, which has sent 100% of its first two graduating classes to college. Tyler was born and raised
in Chicago. While at Urban Prep, he studied abroad at Cambridge University. Tyler is also a Posse Scholar
who decided to take a year of from school to transfer from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut to
Madison with the goal of getting into broadcast journalism at UW-Madison. He is currently enrolled in the
transfer program at Madison College after missing the deadline to enroll in UW-Madison this fall.
Tyler has appeared on numerous television and radio shows, including MSNBC, CNN and Good Morning
America, discussing the benefits of Urban Prep and single-gendered education. He has also been the subject
of several national news articles on Urban Prep and his success.
Dave Boyer is the CEO of MCD, Inc., of Madison, Wisconsin. MCD provides creative graphic arts products
and print finishing services including products for the direct mail, packaging, POP, office, and book and
magazine publishing markets. The company was originally founded in 1974 and is now one of the largest
independent print finishing companies in the United States.
Prior to purchasing MCD, Dave was the President and CEO of Placon Corporation, which designs, develops,
and manufactures plastic packaging and packaging systems. Prior to joining Placon, Dave was employed by
ITW in Chicago, where he held positions in product design, sales and marketing, and in manufacturing
management. His education background includes a B.S. in Engineering from the University of Illinois and an
MBA from Northwestern University.
Dave currently serves as Board Chair of Meriter Hospital, President of the Board of Sustain Dane, and is a
Board member of Thrive, Johnson Bank Madison, and the Workforce Development Board of South Central
Wisconsin
David Cagigal is a seasoned executive with over 25 years experience in information technology management
and is the Chief Information Technology Officer at Alliant Energy since 2004. Alliant Energy is a $3.4B
company servicing more than 1.4M electric and gas customers in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota. Mr.
Cagigal is responsible for Application Delivery and computing and network infrastructures enterprise-wide.
Prior to Alliant Energy, Mr. Cagigal served as Director of lnformation Services with DeVry. Prior to DeVry,
Mr. Cagigal was the Director, Information Application Services for DePaul University, worked at Maytag in
various IT capacities, and many years with Amoco Corporation in a number of senior IT management roles.
Mr. Cagigal is serving as a mentor and is on the Advisory Board for UW – Operations and Technology
Management MBA program as well as Vice President of the DePaul University Alumni Board and the
Leadership Council for the College of Computing and Digital Media at DePaul University. He holds a
Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration from DePaul University.
Rosa Frazier is an immigration attorney, teaching humanitarian relief based Immigration Law and
supervising students with representation of victims of violence seeking self-petition with the Economic
Justice Institute at the University of Wisconsin School of Law. Rosa Frazier graduated from Boston
University with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. Upon graduation, she worked as a child protective social
worker for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. After moving to Maine, she worked as a Foster Home
Developer seeking qualified foster parents for mentally ill children. Rosa attended law school at the
University of Maine School of Law. She clerked with The Court of Claims and The Attorney General’s
Office of New York. Before moving to Madison, Rosa worked as Program Director for the Stand and Deliver
Mentoring Program in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
At the University of Wisconsin, Rosa’s focus is to develop outreach and advocacy for immigrant victims of
domestic violence with local domestic abuse intervention agencies, the Wisconsin Coalition Against
Domestic Violence, and the Community Immigration Law Center to provide outreach and services. She is
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