Leadership

Bige Doruk, CEO and Founder

Ms. Doruk is a highly experienced professional with core competencies that span strategic business development, management consulting, product development and engineering. As a senior manager at McKinsey & Company and associate partner at Helios Consulting, she focused on developing new business strategies for a wide cross section of Fortune 500 companies. She was formerly the CEO of Gaia Power Technologies, which was sold in 2008 to an investor and prior to that ran her own consulting business. Bige holds an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M Energy Center and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Bige's passion for education comes from her parents who have dedicated their lives to educating young children. Bige started Bright Kids NYC to create a more professional tutoring service for young children that focused on creating the right materials and processes and training teachers to create results for young children.

Peter Kiok, Director of Education

Peter joined Bright Kids after fifteen years as a classroom teacher, having taught at every level from  Kindergarten to Fourth Grade.  Eleven of those years were spent in New York City’s independent schools, including Trinity, All Souls, Browning and St. David’s.  In addition, for four years, Peter was a head teacher and Grade Level Leader at The Ambrit-Rome International School in Rome, Italy.  He has a Master’s degree in Elementary Education from Bank Street College and has taken continuing education classes in ESL learning and Educational Administration.  He also speaks Italian!