Marco Petruzzi is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Green Dot Public Schools. Prior to joining Green Dot in January 2007, Petruzzi founded r3 school solutions, an organization that provided management and administrative services to charter management organizations. Prior to founding r3 school solutions, he was a Vice President at Bain & Co., a global management consulting firm. Petruzzi has fifteen years of consulting experience working with top management of major international groups in corporate and product-market strategy, channel management, pricing strategy, commercial organization, operations, R&D management and supply chain management assignments, in the USA, South America, and Europe. Prior to joining Bain & Company, Petruzzi also worked at McKinsey & Co. and for Enichem Americas, a petrochemical trading company based in New York. Petruzzi earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering at Columbia University, where he also earned an M.B.A. He is also the Venice chapter president of LAPU (Los Angeles Parents Union) and served on Green Dot's Board of Directors from 2002 until 2006.