Ted Fujimoto
Mr. Fujimoto, the vice president of services and products for the California Charter Schools Association, oversees the development of services and products for member schools. Mr. Fujimoto is an experienced problem-solver, out-of-the-box thinker, strategist and professional entrepreneur. He founded and operated a management and technology consulting practice for eleven years serving a range of customers that included AirTouch Communications, Bank One, Chandon Estates, California Chamber of Commerce, GM, IBM, New York Times, and Remy Martin.
As a community business leader, Mr. Fujimoto helped to design and found the highly regarded Napa New Technology High School and the New Technology Foundation that is building 24 New Technology High Schools around the country. He has also managed Carnegie Foundation grants for education reform initiatives in the Sacramento region. Additionally, Ted co-founded two for-profit companies that received $15 million in venture capital funding.
Mr. Fujimoto has helped develop business strategies for many education organizations including BAYCES, Big Picture, New Technology Foundation, College-Ready Public Schools and Linking Education & Economic Development - representing more than $30 million in funding.
He has served on the California Education Technology Advisory Committee and received the 2002 Center for Digital Government "In the Arena" award for education leadership in transforming vision to reality. In Converge Magazine’s “1999 Year in Review”, Mr. Fujimoto was named one of “Education’s Dreamers, Leaders and Innovators.”
Mr. Fujimoto holds a bachelor’s degree from Pacific Union College.
