Frank Riggs, President and CEO

Frank Riggs is President and CEO of CSDC and an ex officio, non-voting member of its Board of Directors. He joined the CSDC Board in January 2000 and, from September 2000 through February 2002, served as CSDC's first Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining CSDC he was Vice President of Government Relations for Educate, Inc.

Frank has substantial private-sector business experience in real estate development, finance, and education, and a record of public service having represented California's First Congressional District for three terms (from 1991-92 and 1995-98), in the 102nd and 104th & 105th Congresses.

While in Congress, Frank sat on the House Appropriations, Banking and Financial Services, and the Education and the Workforce Committees. From 1996-98, he chaired the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families, where he authored the Charter Schools Expansion Act of 1998, and sponsored legislation to improve programs covering special education, vocational and technical education, literacy, teacher training, and bilingual instruction.

Frank is a U.S. Army veteran, former California police officer, and a summa cum laude graduate of Golden Gate University in San Francisco where he received the Associates Award as the outstanding graduate of the baccalaureate program in the College of Business and Public Administration.