i was looking into education/test prep/assessment programs/high IQ societies and found a few connections that stuck out.
McKinsey & Company came up again. David Coleman (dude in the photo, note that his hands are posed the same way BHO's hands are in his presidential portrait), the ninth president of the College Board, a not-for-profit corporation that is best known for designing the SAT exam and the Advanced Placement, who is frequently described in the media as "the architect" of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, was a consultant at McKinsey & Company where he did pro-bono work for school districts trying to improve performance.
The previous College Board president was William Gaston Caperton III, the 31st Governor of West Virginia and a member of the Democratic Party, who is now Vice Chairman for Leeds Equity Partners, a New York-based Private Equity firm focused solely on education.
Then there's Educational Testing Service (ETS). 25% of the work they do is contracted by the College Board. Robert S. Murley serves as the Chairman of ETS as well as Chairman of the Investment Banking of Credit Suisse Securities.