tutors possess exceptional academic qualifications, extensive tutoring and real-world experience and vibrant, interesting personalities.  They are experts in their fields and possess a profound interest in education and working with young people. You will find them to be patient, courteous, intelligent, and above all, passionate about teaching you or your child.

And our unique Team concept means that tutors are encouraged to utilize the skills of other Team members if their students' needs and requirements change. 

So, let our Dream Team help you achieve your academic dreams!

                             Aristotle Teaching Alexander

Brian M. Rom
Founder, President and Team Leader
Teaching specialties: Math, English, ISEE test-prep.  Head pro bono tutoring program.
Brian is a successful software entrepreneur and Chairman Emeritus of  Investment Technologies, a financial software company.  He has also taught finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.  In 2007 he launched primarily to fill the need for an exclusive, results-oriented educational service to tutor Manhattan middle-school students in math.  That basic idea eventually blossomed into the broader teaching and mentoring programs that are now embodied in .

He is in-house math tutor at Manhattan's St. James School, where he works with more than a dozen middle-school students whose abilities range from underperformers to straight-A stars.  He holds MBA's  from  both the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and the University of Cape Town, South Africa, Business School, as well as a BS and MS in mathematics and computer science, with a minor in English Literature from  Natal University, South Africa.  Brian has developed a proprietary statistical method of scoring the ISEE practice tests that allows for an accurate mapping onto the "stanines" that are used to rank ISEE students.  tutors use this innovative methodology to track progress of students as they prepare for this test.

Brian is also parent of a New York City private-school student. 

Dorothy
Teaching Specialties: Latin, History, Writing, Study Skills.
Dorothy has been teaching middle and high school history and Latin in New York City for seven years, first at Friends Seminary and now Columbia Prep.  She graduated cum laude from Yale University with a BA in Classical Languages and Literature.  She also holds an MA in History from the University of London and an MA in Education and School Leadership from Teachers College, Columbia University. 

Jonathan
Teaching specialties: Math, Science.
Jon is currently a senior at Rutgers University, N.J. where he is majoring in physics with a math minor.  He has constantly been one of the top students in his classes and is currently carrying an 18-credit course load.  He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa national liberal arts honor society and the Alpha Epsilon Delta national pre-medical school honor society.  He has tutored many of his fellow students in physics and math.  Although he will tutor all levels,  high school students who are looking to truly excel in math and physics as well as ace the quantitative SAT and ACT standardized tests will find Jon to be the perfect teacher.  He is planning to attend medical school once he completes his studies at Rutgers.

Karin
Teaching specialties: English, Spanish.
Karin holds a BA, magna cum laude, in both Sociology and Spanish from Mount Holyoke College.  She also studied at Universidad de Complutense in Spain.  She currently works in New York City as a freelance Spanish/English translator.  Her teaching experience includes tutoring beginner through advanced Spanish at Mt. Holyoke College, teaching journalism and essay writing at the Bronx Institute of GEAR Up, and instructing students in the English as a Second Language program at Asociación Tepeyac.

Penka
Teaching specialties: Math, Science.
Penka earned her MS in mathematics from the prestigious Sofia University in her native Bulgaria where she was a brilliant student.  Her specialties include probability, general statistical techniques, algebra, trigonometry, calculus, geometry, MS Office and MS Windows.  She also holds a diploma in English as a Medium of Instruction from The College of St. Mark and St. John in England.  She has been a private tutor in New York City for the past two years, working with both middle- and high-school students.  Until recently, she was a middle-school math teacher at a New York City public school.  She has also taught math and Office Technology at the Interboro Business Institute in Manhattan.  Penka speaks English, Bulgarian, Russian and Spanish.