President

Scion Executive Search has been engaged to conduct the search for President of Summit Prep, a premier private tutoring and education services company serving students through in-person centers in Short Hills and Bernardsville, New Jersey, as well as online. This is a distinctive opportunity for an accomplished operator and growth leader to guide a healthy, founder-built company into its next stage while protecting the educational quality, integrity, and personalized experience at the heart of its reputation. ABOUT SUMMIT PREP Summit Prep empowers students to succeed in life through highly personalized tutoring, test preparation, and academic support. The company is best known for its private SAT and ACT preparation and for a student experience that combines rigorous instruction, customized curriculum, and unusually deep tutor development. Its full-time career tutors complete more than 160 hours of SAT and ACT training, and students achieve average gains of 210 points on the SAT and six points on the ACT. Families experience Summit Prep through two Northern New Jersey centers and a growing online platform. The company has earned hundreds of five-star Google reviews and is New Jersey's highest-rated tutoring company. Its standing has been built deliberately, through strong student outcomes, trusted relationships, responsive service, and an unwavering commitment to placing people and quality ahead of short-term profit. Summit Prep enters this leadership transition from a position of strength. Revenue has grown every year for more than a decade with no debt since inception. The business has also broadened its sources of demand and built meaningful visibility in AI-driven search, strengthening its foundation for continued organic growth. The next chapter is about converting that momentum into a more durable enterprise. Summit Prep now seeks a President who can assume full responsibility for day-to-day performance, strengthen the team and operating infrastructure, and build the growth capabilities needed to expand the company's reach without compromising what makes it exceptional. POSITION OVERVIEW Reporting to co-founder and Chief Executive Officer David Blobaum, the President will serve as Summit Prep's senior operating leader and own the daily management, performance, and continued development of the business. The President will lead the administrative team and broader organization, translate priorities into clear plans and accountability, strengthen the customer and employee experience, and create the systems and leadership capacity required for Summit Prep to operate beyond its founder. This role brings together operational leadership and disciplined growth. The President will improve workflows, decision-making, talent practices, and performance visibility while building business development capabilities and deepening relationships with families, schools, counselors, and other referral partners. Geographic or digital expansion is not prescribed. The successful leader will evaluate opportunities thoughtfully and pursue those that fit Summit Prep's quality standards, economics, and prudent approach to growth. The President will join with broad authority and a genuine opportunity to progress into the Chief Executive Officer role as performance, trust, and organizational readiness are established. Candidates should therefore bring the judgment, presence, and enterprise perspective to lead at the CEO level, together with the humility to learn a specialized business, respect the strengths of the existing team, and manage a thoughtful founder transition. The position is based at Summit Prep's headquarters in Short Hills, New Jersey, and requires an on-site presence and occasional travel. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Enterprise Leadership and Operations Assume full ownership of Summit Prep's day-to-day performance, ensuring that priorities, decisions, and accountability are clear across the organization. Strengthen operating systems, workflows, communications, and technology so the company can grow without relying on informal knowledge or constant founder involvement. Build a practical management rhythm using relevant operating, financial, sales, service, and staffing metrics to identify issues early and improve decision-making. Lead the coordination of in-person and online operations across Summit Prep's Short Hills and Bernardsville centers, maintaining consistent service and educational standards. Evaluate and implement technology and responsible AI applications that improve client intake, communication, scheduling, follow-up, knowledge capture, and administrative efficiency. People Leadership and Organizational Capacity Lead, support, and develop the core administrative team while establishing clear expectations, decision rights, accountability, and opportunities for growth. Strengthen recruiting, onboarding, coaching, and retention for client service and administrative roles, reducing preventable turnover and workload pressure. Ensure the organization has appropriate staffing capacity and management support to respond, innovate, and grow without overextending the team. Set a high standard for communication, responsiveness, collaboration, integrity, and service while remaining accessible and willing to contribute where needed. Listen closely to the people who understand the business best, earning trust before making changes and pairing decisiveness with low ego and sound judgment. Growth and Business Development Develop and execute a thoughtful growth strategy grounded in Summit Prep's reputation, referral relationships, differentiated educational model, and financial discipline. Build a more systematic business development capability, including the talent, processes, expectations, and metrics required to generate sustainable growth. Cultivate relationships with private schools, college counseling firms, families, professional networks, and other high-value referral partners across the region. Evalua