Aulston G. Taylor

Aulston Taylor is a strategic, passionate, and captivating servant leader. Aulston’s journey has been filled with calculated risk-taking opportunities that have spanned corporate and philanthropic ventures. Each experience, brimming with promise and growth-potential, his career has propelled the partnership
executive to not only challenge himself to acquire new skills along the way, but to pay it forward and empower the next generation of leaders while setting new record highs of revenue generation.

As President and CEO of St. Augustine High School, Aulston is responsible for ensuring that the school fulfills its mission of providing a quality, well-rounded education to young men in the traditions of the Catholic Church. In his role, he supervises an eighty-person faculty and staff and manages an $8.4 million
budget.

Prior to joining St. Augustine, Aulston spent 17 years in New York City as a corporate sales and business development executive in the Advertising & Sponsorship arena with ESPN and BET Networks. During his decade long tenure with BET Networks, the 2018 New Business Sales Executive of the Year cultivated,
managed, and generated nearly half-a-billion dollars in ad revenue across multiple BET owned platforms.

Aulston is a believer in the business of education and preserving history. As a preservationist and purveyor
of the arts in the city of New Orleans, Aulston serves on the Executive Board of Preservation Resource
Center (PRC) and the New Orleans African American Museum (NOAAM). True to his character, Aulston
also serves as a board member with the Dream A Dream Foundation based in Chicago, created to uplift
and actualize the potential of young people who may not have the resources to achieve their goals. At his
employer – St. Augustine High School, since 2012, Aulston has supported students and families hailing
from financially challenged households annually with funds established out of the Aulston G. Taylor
Endowment Fund.

Aulston is a 2003 graduate of Texas Southern University earning a B.A. in Business Administration and a
2016 graduate of NYU earning a M.S. in Integrated Marketing with a concentration in Brand Management.
Courses at NYU included but were not limited to: Advanced Integrated Marketing, Finance for Marketing
Decisions, Statistical Measurements, Analysis & Research, Database Management & Modeling, The C-Suite
Perspective: Leadership & International Marketing to name a few.

Lasana Cambrice

As a seasoned Educator with polished business acumen, Lasana Cambrice is well-versed in managing processes, driving operational efficiencies, and most importantly, delivering results in student achievement. As a former administrator at both the secondary and post-secondary level, Lasana has served students and their families for over 20 years.

Mr. Cambrice began his academic career as a Biology Teacher at St. Augustine High School before being promoted to Assistant Principal for Student Affairs. After a three-year stint at J.P. Morgan Chase, Mr. Cambrice returned to the educational arena at Xavier University. Lasana served Xavier for over seven years, first as Director of Campus Activities, then Executive Associate for Academic Affairs, and finally, Executive Director of the Career Advancement Center. During his Xavier tenure, Mr. Cambrice was awarded a $1.25M grant from the UNCF Career Pathways Initiative and a contributing member of a team awarded a $25M National Institute of Health Project Pathways grant.

Before returning to St. Augustine, he served as Chief Operating Officer for New Beginning Schools Foundation. As an operations leader, Mr. Cambrice managed third-party vendors, coordinated transportation logistics, as well as led teams responsible for district-level services such as risk management, technology, and human resources. Over his tenure he reduced energy costs and led
transportation initiatives that diverted over $350,000 in once designated non-academic expenses back
into the classroom. Ultimately, these professional experiences prepared him to return home to St. Augustine High School as Chief of Staff & Vice President for Operations.

As a leader, Lasana is an effective communicator, student-centric, highly engaged, data-driven, collaborative, innovative, results-driven, and flexible. He strives to promote excellence through his daily work and holds high expectations of students and staff. Lasana is inspired and highly motivated by the opportunity to create, evaluate, and improve systems that advance education and ensure college and career success for Purple Knights.

As a native of the Gretna Greens Community, Lasana earned both a Bachelor of Science in Biology
and a Master of Business Administration from the University of New Orleans. He credits his
capacity to foster meaningful relationships with students to the unwavering support and steady
guidance his upbringing provided. Lasana is a proud member of the St. Augustine High School
Class of 1993.