PACE Board of Directors

Arthur Ramsay
President | president@pace-nsc.org
Arthur Ramsay (he/him) was elected President of PACE in July 2025, after joining PACE in January 2024 and serving as Vice President of Tournament Direction in 2024-25. He played quizbowl for four years as a high school student, and staffed over one hundred tournaments since then. He has directed nearly a dozen National Championship tournaments. Arthur is a graduate of SUNY Empire State College and enjoys reading and casual trivia in his free time. Since 2011, Arthur has volunteered as a head counselor at a summer camp for children and young adults with special needs.

Michael Borecki
Treasurer | treasurer@pace-nsc.org
Michael has been a member of PACE since 2018. Prior to his election as Treasurer, he served as VP of Outreach and spent 3 years on the Outreach and Programs committees. Michael started the quizbowl team at Bowdoin College and was an early leader of the team at Darien High School. Michael has directed tournaments and head-edited question sets aimed at many different levels of high school teams, and is excited to return to his efforts to make the activity accessible to a broader audience. He can occasionally be found liveblogging the NSC.

Hazel Singh
Secretary | secretary@pace-nsc.org
Hazel Singh (she/her) joined PACE in 2026 and has been involved in quizbowl since 2023, when she played her first tournament. She loves staffing quizbowl tournaments and, most weekends, can be found behind a buzzer set, reading questions to teams. Outside of quizbowl, Hazel enjoys watching movies, trying to write, and spending time with friends. She’s looking forward to serving on the board this year, and supporting the 2027 NSC!

Samir Sarma
Director of Communications | communications@pace-nsc.org
Samir Sarma (he/him) has been involved in quizbowl since 2018 and has been a PACE member since 2023. He played for Eden Prairie High School and Georgia Tech, and he is currently in grad school at UC-Berkeley. For the past two years, he has been a key part of the NSC’s livestream production team, and he looks forward to continuing work on NSC livestreaming and continuing PACE’s fun social media content.

Casey Bindas
Vice President of Event Management | event.management@pace-nsc.org
Casey Bindas has been a member of PACE since 2018 and has been VP of Event Management since 2023. He previously served as the VP of Tournament Direction in 2021. He played quizbowl at Canton High School in Michigan, the University of Central Florida, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Michigan Technological University. He currently lives in Michigan where he continues to staff high school and college quizbowl tournaments.

Anna Csiki-Fejer
Vice President of Tournament Direction | td@pace-nsc.org
Anna Csiki-Fejer (she/her) joined PACE in 2023 and has been involved in quizbowl since 2020. Prior to being elected tournament director in 2025, she has served as a Women in Quizbowl panelist, set proofreader, and control room staff for past NSCs. Anna is looking forward to a great 2027 NSC!

Reilly Melville
Vice President of Outreach | outreach@pace-nsc.org
Reilly Melville joined PACE in 2025 and served as the protest coordinator at the 2025 and 2026 NSCs. He was introduced to quiz bowl in 2018 and played for Chaska High School and Purdue University; at Purdue, he was team president for two years and directed 24 tournaments. As VP of Outreach, Reilly is excited to promote quality quiz bowl across all regions and draw the best NSC field possible! Outside of quiz bowl, he is a data engineer in Minnesota and enjoys running, reading about history, and playing strategy games.

Michael Bentley
Vice President of Technology | technology@pace-nsc.org
Michael Bentley joined PACE in 2008. He has formerly served as PACE’s President, Treasurer, and VP of Editing. He has also worked on technology projects with PACE including an online tournament guide, a USB buzzer system, and the QEMS2 question management system. Michael is based in Seattle and continues to play and write open tournaments.

Ganon Evans
Vice President of Editing | editing@pace-nsc.org
Ganon Evans (he/him) has been a PACE member since 2022 and has been playing quizbowl since he was in high school in 2014. Ganon is a native of Missouri and currently works out of the Kansas City area where he works in public policy. Ganon is the current President of ACF, a Misconduct Form Representative, can be regularly see volunteering for events through the Missouri Quizbowl Alliance. He is excited to produced another fun, high quality, NSC set for 2027, having previously served as Vice President of Editing from 2022-24 and as an editor in 2025 and 2026.
PACE Members
| Name | Date Joined | Affiliation | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aidan Leahy | 2023 – July | University of Georgia | GA |
| Alexander Thomas | 2026 – July | Georgia Tech | GA |
| Anna Csiki-Fejer | 2023 – July | Saint Louis University | MO |
| Antonio Jimenez | 2021 – January | University of Pennsylvania | PA |
| Anuja Kumbhardare | 2026 – July | University of Pittsburgh | PA |
| Arjun Nageswaran | 2022 – January | Harvard University | IL |
| Arthur Ramsay | 2024 – January | SUNY Empire State College | NY |
| Ashish Kumbhardare | 2023 – July | Rowan University | NJ |
| Ben Chapman | 2023 – July | University of Toronto | ON |
| Ben Kirk | 2022 – July | Ithaca High School | NY |
| Ben Weiner | 2021 – July | University of Minnesota | MN |
| Bern McCauley | 2024 – July | Great Valley High School | PA |
| Bing Bingham | 2020 – July | Wright State University | OH |
| Brian Lu | 2026 – January | Rutgers University | NJ |
| Britney Castleman | 2025 – January | St. Mark High School | ON |
| Bryanna Shao | 2024 – January | Vanderbilt University | MN |
| Casey Bindas | 2018 – July | Michigan Technological University | GA |
| Catherine Qian | 2020 – July | University of Pennsylvania | VA |
| Chloe Levine | 2018 – July | Harvard University | NY |
| Colin McNamara | 2011 – July | Boise State University | ID |
| David Bass | 2023 – January | University of Virginia | VA |
| Ellen Rispoli | 2026 – July | Indiana University | IN |
| Felix Wang | 2023 – July | University of Missouri | MO |
| Forrest Weintraub | 2025 – July | Columbia University | NY |
| Ganon Evans | 2022 – July | University of Iowa | MO |
| Geoffrey Wu | 2023 – July | Columbia University | NY |
| Giifti Benti | 2023 – July | SIUE | IL |
| Hari Parameswaran | 2022 – January | Georgia Institute of Technology | GA |
| Harry White | 2019 – July | Virginia Polytechnic Institute | VA |
| Hazel Singh | 2026 – July | New York University | NY |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | 2026 – July | New York University | NY |
| Jeremy Cummings | 2024 – July | Washington University in St. Louis | MO |
| Joanna Xiao | 2026 – July | Georgia Tech | GA |
| Joel Miles | 2025 – July | University of Minnesota | MN |
| Joseph Krol | 2022 – July | University of Cambridge | UK |
| Joy An | 2024 – July | Harvard University | MA |
| Katherine Lei | 2021 – January | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | MA |
| Kiran Rachamallu | 2023 – July | William & Mary University | VA |
| Lalit Maharjan | 2025 – January | Purdue University | IN |
| Laura B. Gray | 2025 – January | Richton High School | MS |
| Lauren Onel | 2021 – January | University of Chicago | IL |
| Mia McGill | 2021 – July | Irondale High School | MN |
| Michael Bentley | 2008 – June | University of Washington | WA |
| Michael Borecki | 2018 – July | Bowdoin College | ME |
| Naveed Chowdhury | 2019 – July | University of Maryland | GA |
| Noah Sheidlower | 2026 – July | Columbia University | NY |
| Olin Bose | 2026 – January | Columbia University | NY |
| Rachel Ezrielev | 2025 – July | Georgetown University | DC |
| Ramapriya Rangaraju | 2019 – July | University of Louisville | KY |
| Reilly Melville | 2025 – July | Purdue University | IN |
| Rohan Kher | 2025 – January | Brown University | RI |
| Ryan Ritter | 2023 – January | James Madison | VA |
| Sadie Britton | 2020 – January | College of William and Mary | VA |
| Samir Sarma | 2023 – July | Georgia Institute of Technology | GA |
| Samuel Macchi | 2026 – July | Vassar College | MA |
| Sophia Madrazo | 2026 – July | Purdue University | IN |
| Tejas Santanam | 2019 – July | Georgia Institute of Technology | GA |
| Tracy Mirkin | 2019 – July | University of Florida | FL |
| Victor Pavao | 2024 – July | University of Massachusetts Amherst | MA |
| Victor Prieto | 2015 – June | Penn State University | NY |
| Vikram Narasimhan | 2026 – July | Stanford University | IL |
| Will Grossman | 2021 – January | University of Florida | FL |
| William Schneider | 2026 – July | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | MA |
| Yaj Jhajhria | 2025 – July | University of Washington | WA |
| Zac Bennett | 2022 – July | University of Oklahoma | OK |
PACE Members Emeriti
| Name | Date Joined | Affiliation | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aaron Rosenberg | 2008 – June | University of Illinois | VA |
| Aidan Mehigan | 2012 – July | Columbia University | NJ |
| Alejandro Lopez-Lago | 2020 – January | University of Washington | WA |
| Andrew Wang | 2016 – July | University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | IL |
| Ankit Aggarwal | 2016 – July | University of California, Berkeley | CA |
| Athena Kern | 2016 – January | Washington University in St. Louis | KY |
| Chris Ray | 2007 – June | The Ohio State University | MD |
| Cody Voight | 2014 – June | Virginia Commonwealth University | VA |
| Dylan Minarik | 2017 – June | Northwestern University | WI |
| Joe Nutter | 2014 – January | Michigan State University | GA |
| Jonathan Pinyan | 2012 – July | Bergen County Academies | NJ |
| Marianna Zhang | 2014 – June | Stanford University | CA |
| Michael Hundley | 2012 – July | Virginia Polytechnic Institute | VA |
| Michael Sorice | 2008 – June | University of Illinois Rantoul Township High School | IL |
| Ophir Lifshitz | 2017 – February | University of Maryland | MD |
| Ryan Rosenberg | 2014 – January | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | CA |
| Sam Luongo | 2010 – July | Virginia Commonwealth University | VA |
| Tejas Raje | 2019 – February | Cornell University | IL |
Click here for a list of former Boards of Directors and members.
