Michael Koffler

Michael C. Koffler (b. November 16, 1955, Brooklyn, New York), Koffler was raised in Flushing, Queens, New York, and presently resides in Manhattan. He is founder and CEO of MetSchools Inc., the New York City-based education service provider, which is the largest privately held, for-profit company of its kind. The company operates funded and private pay mainstream and special education schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. The company serves over 2,500 children and employs 530, while consistently growing, with plans to expand the Aaron School to include the Aaron Academy bringing the school to twelfth grade, and adding a High School to the Claremont Prep School in Manhattan's Financial District. Both of those efforts will be ready for students by September 2009. Koffler is active on a variety of boards and has endowed the Michael C. Koffler Professorship in autism at Pace University. This is the first university endowment in autism in America. MetSchools' Rebecca School for Autism in Manhattan is the largest day program dedicated to autism worldwide, and the only freestanding Educational Facility of this magnitude using the DIR Model created and supported by Stanley Greenspan.

Koffler has served as Chairman of Young President's Organization Metro New York Chapter. He is married, and has two sons who are currently working at MetSchools, adding to the continuity of the family legacy, in Operations and in Development of the Broad Street Ballroom, the historically restored Grand Ballroom at the Claremont School Site.

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