Tom Stader
Executive Director / Founding Director

Tom Stader, Founder and Director, launched The Library Project in 2006. Through his travels and time spent living in Southeast Asia and China, Tom became aware of the range of cultural diversity throughout the region. What affected him the most was the lack of quality education for all children. The Library Project is his way of giving those children left behind the opportunity for a quality education.

Tom Stader has worked throughout the USA, China, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. Tom graduated from Northern Arizona University's School of Communications in 1996.

Scott Glassmeyer
Board Member

Scott Glassmeyer currently resides in Bangkok, Thailand where he has lived for the past 4 1/2 years. After graduating from Colorado College in 1991, he lived in Connecticut, Wyoming, and California. While living stateside, Scott worked in several different fields ranging from retail sales and account management, to internet and software sales. Over the years, his passion for travel has taken him to many countries throughout the world. Since settling in Bangkok, Thailand in 2001, Scott has worked as a teacher, in magazine ad sales, and business brokering before focusing his skills and experience on various academic and cultural exchange programs.

Ryan Holliday
Board Member

Ryan Holliday is President of Colorganics Inc, a natural cosmetic company based in San Francisco, California that supports fair trade, organic farming and socially responsible investing. www.colorganics.net

Nicholas Ingleton
Board Member

Nicholas Ingleton has been in Asia since 1958 and currently resides in Tokyo. He was previously managing director of Time Inc.'s book publishing businesses in Asia from 1968 to 1981, and chairman and later a director of Time Life Educational Systems Inc., Time Inc,'s corporate training business in Japan. Since 1986 he has been president at various times of a number of the Tuttle publishing and distribution businesses. He is also a director of Aston Holdings (Overseas) Limited in Hong Kong and Aston Associates Limited in Beijing.

Kevin Kruse
Board Member

Kevin Kruse is the founder and President of AXIOM Professional Health Learning, a medical education company based in Pennsylvania. Kevin is also the author of Technology-based Training: The Art and Science of Design, Development and Delivery.

Philip McCrea
Board Member

Philip McCrea is the CEO of ClearPoint Learning, a media-based education company servicing the healthcare marketplace with offices in New York, London and Pune, India. He has founded several other technology and education companies. Philip brings expertise in building organizations as well as a passion for children’s education. He lives in Ridgewood, NJ.

Philip Mercurio
Board Member

Phil Mercurio is an Environmental Chemist currently living in Adelaide, Australia. Phil graduated from Northern Arizona University in 1998 with his Bachelor of Science degree. He has since completed an additional BS Honors degree at James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland, Australia and is working on an MS at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. His academic and professional career has focused on contamination in the marine environment and he has done research on heavy metals, petroleum hydrocarbons, PCB’s, and pesticides. Phil’s last job at Mote Marine Laboratory sent him to Arctic Alaska to work with subsistence hunters on human health risks due to possible pollution in whales, seals, and other wildlife.

Scott Perkins
Board Member

With over 10 years of Internet-related operations experience, Scott oversees design, development and management of all of Connectify’s services. Prior to Connectify, Scott developed data warehouse, product procurement and fulfillment systems at pdqVET, Inc. to better serve e-commerce needs within several thousand veterinarian hospitals. As the Director of Operations, Scott was responsible for all internal and external systems. Prior to pdqVET, Scott served as Operations Manager for NBC Internet, formerly Xoom.com. As an early member of the Xoom team, Scott was directly responsible for large portions of Xoom and NBCi operations, providing internal service solutions supporting over 400 employees. Scott was also responsible for negotiating, implementing and managing several critical outsourced relationships. Scott holds degrees in Entrepreneurial Studies and Information Systems Management from Babson College in Wellesley, MA.

Jenny Wang
China Country Director

Jenny Wang is manages everything that goes into providing a library to an elementary school. She manages all regional research, conducts Pre and Post Assessments, schedules and implements all library deliveries. Jenny also manages all Chinese Government run partner NGOs and the local school boards.

Belinda Yu
Library Assistant

Belinda is our Library Project Manager's assistant. Belinda focuses much of her time on researching tiny regions of China in search of the next best place to benefit from book donations. She focuses on answering questions such as: the regional GDP, economic situation, political situation, educational situation, and what plans the Central Government has for each area.

Alice Stader
Communications Associate

Alice Stader is a research technician currently residing in San Francisco, California. She works as a research assistant at UCSF Medical School, Department of Anesthesiology. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 2001 with a BA in Anthropology and continued on with a MA in Anthropology at Florida Atlantic University in 2005.