Ms. Cloitre is the Director of Parthenon’s Education Center of Excellence and a member of the firm’s management team.  She advises both corporate and public sector clients in the education industry, with a focus on engagements with state and district departments of education, foundations, school operators, and education nonprofits.  Ms. Cloitre specializes in strategy development and implementation, business planning, portfolio optimization, and education reform.  Within Parthenon, she helps oversee the firm’s Women in Business network and broader diversity initiatives.  Prior to joining Parthenon in 2002, Ms. Cloitre worked for Fidelity Investments in Boston and Deloitte & Touche’s International Assignment Services in Brussels, Belgium.  She holds an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a B.A., cum laude in Government and French from Dartmouth College.