Tom Wyatt is the chief executive officer of Knowledge Universe-United States, the nation's largest private provider of early childhood education and care and the parent company of the KinderCare, CCLC, Champions, Knowledge Beginnings, Cambridge Schools and The Grove School brands. Under Wyatt's leadership, these brands collectively provide early learning and school-age programs to nearly 175,000 children in more than sixteen hundred locations and more than four hundred programs around the country.

Neil Nicoll was hired as president and CEO of YMCA of the USA in May 2006 and is the thirteenth person to lead the YMCA movement in the United States. He joined Y-USA following fourteen years as president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Seattle. Nicoll previously was the president and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Worcester (Massachusetts) for twelve years.