The Aquifer Team

Chair, Board of Directors

Blake Darcy has spent most of his career on Wall Street. He founded the online brokerage firm DLJDirect in 1987 and led the firm as its CEO from 1987 through 2001. During this time, he launched online brokerage joint ventures in Japan and in Hong Kong, while also launching a stand-alone online firm in the UK. In the late 1990’s, Mr. Darcy formed a technology firm, iNautix, to provide Internet solutions to other financial services firms. As part of this venture, he formed an offshore facility in India, which now has over 4,000 employees. He took DLJDirect public in 1999 as one of the largest internet IPOs in NYSE history.

In 2008, Mr. Darcy co-founded an online money management firm, Formula Investing, with value investor Joel Greenblatt. Formula Investing created a series of mutual funds and investment strategies for individuals and institutions. The firm is now known as Gotham Asset Management and manages billions in assets through private investment vehicles and institutional class mutual funds.

Mr. Darcy graduated cum laude from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY with a degree in Government. He currently serves on six boards, including Aquifer. He is on the board of three start-up firms: Quantopian, a Boston-based crowd sourced hedge fund; CarNow, a Hanover, NH-based firm developing innovative chat solutions for the automotive industry; and Trading Ticket, a NYC-based financial services technology firm. He also serves as treasurer and board member to the Upper Valley Humane Society, and recently joined the board of Crossroads Academy in Lyme, NH. Mr. Darcy lives in the Upper Valley with his wife and three children.

Bruce Z. Morgenstern, MD

Board Member

Bruce Z. Morgenstern, MD is Senior Executive Dean for Clinical Affairs at the Roseman University College of Medicine. He received his MD degree from Jefferson Medical College (now the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University) in Philadelphia. He trained in General Pediatrics at the Long Island Jewish – Hillside Medical Center in New Hyde Park, NY and did a Pediatric Nephrology at the St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. After serving in the US Air Force at Keesler Medical Center in Biloxi, MS, he practiced for 15 years at the Mayo Clinic and then for another decade at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, where he grew a 4 person staff into a 45 person program, devoted to the care of children with hypertension, kidney disease, on dialysis, or kidney transplant, which was ranked #17 in the US News best programs ranking in 2015, having been unranked in 2012.

Bruce has also been involved in medical student education for more than 25 years. He has served as president of COMSEP, the association of Pediatric medical school educators, and is the immediate past president of the Alliance for Clinical Education, the organization of medical school clerkship director organizations from Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Ob/Gyn, Neurology, Psychiatry, Surgery and Emergency Medicine. He is the editor-in-chief of the Guidebook for Clerkship Directors, reviewed in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) as a “must have” book for medical educators. He has also been the local lead for CME at both the Mayo Clinic in Rochester and Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

Prior to his move to Nevada in 2015, he served on the boards of the Phoenix Children’s Hospital, the Ronald McDonald House in Rochester, MN and Phoenix, AZ, and the National Kidney Foundation of Arizona. Bruce and his wife have an adult daughter, arguably more adult than he is. He enjoys hiking and travel.

Stephan Lawe

Treasurer, Board Member

Stephen Lawe is the CEO of RSG, a consulting firm that develops transformative methods and ideas to solve complex problems. With over 30 years of experience, he focuses on developing state-of-the-art tools to inform policy makers and Fortune 500 business leaders. Stephen is a nationally recognized advisor in infrastructure finance, transportation energy demand, climate change and equitable allocation of billions of federal dollars for low-income housing. In addition to his CEO role at RSG, Stephen has taught policy courses at Vermont Law School. Stephen received his BA from St. Lawrence University, his MA in Systems Thinking and Resource Policy Management from Dartmouth College, and an MSEL Environmental Law from Vermont Law School. He enjoys spending time in the wilderness and instilling a love of the outdoors in others.

Susan Jameson, LPD, PA-C

Board Member

Dr. Jameson is the Associate Dean for PA Education at the Stanford University School of Medicine. She has been in PA education for the past ten years and has practiced clinically as a PA for 28 years.

Jamie Fairclough, PhD, MPH, MS

Board Member

Dr. Jamie Fairclough is an artificial intelligence (AI) research scientist, machine learning educator, and AI systems engineer whose work focuses on developing intelligent systems for healthcare, biomedical imaging, and health professions education. Her research integrates machine learning, computer vision, AI systems engineering, and quantum-inspired computational methods to address complex problems in clinical decision support, medical imaging, educational assessment, and healthcare innovation.

Jamie serves as Director and Faculty of Engineering & Medicine at Dartmouth, and holds additional appointments at leading institutions, including MIT Catalyst Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Medicine at Roseman University College of Medicine, Postgraduate Faculty at Harvard Medical School, Machine Learning Instructor at Stanford University, and Biomedical Data Scientist and AI Research Engineer with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Her research emphasizes the design, implementation, and evaluation of AI-enabled systems, with particular interests in quantum-inspired machine learning, computer vision for medical imaging, trustworthy AI, and intelligent decision support systems. She is also actively engaged in advancing global AI education by developing graduate and executive curricula that bridge machine learning theory, systems engineering, and real-world healthcare applications.

Previously, Jamie served as Founding Professor and Associate Dean for Research, Assessment & Evaluation at Roseman University College of Medicine and as Assistant Dean for Assessment in the Lloyd L. Gregory School of Pharmacy at Palm Beach Atlantic University, establishing data systems and infrastructure that supported institutional effectiveness and innovation in academic medicine at both institutions.
Jamie earned her PhD in Human Sciences from Florida State University and completed postdoctoral training at Duke University Medical Center. She has pursued advanced graduate and postgraduate education in medical statistics, data science, AI and machine learning, deep learning, cloud computing, data engineering, and systems engineering through Stanford University, University of Texas at Austin, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Medical School, and other leading institutions.

Sarah Daniels

Board Member

Sarah Daniels is a technology entrepreneur, board director, and CEO advisor with more than 30 years of experience building and scaling innovative, mission-driven companies. Throughout her career, she has helped organizations drive growth through strategic leadership, product innovation, fundraising, go-to-market strategy, and mergers and acquisitions.

Sarah has extensive experience in education technology. She was the founding Vice President of Product, Marketing, and Sales at DreamBox Learning, where she helped build one of the leading adaptive math learning platforms serving millions of students. She also co-founded Blue Canoe, an AI-powered language learning company, and has held executive leadership roles across multiple high-growth technology organizations.

Today, Sarah serves as a CEO advisor and board member, partnering with organizations on strategy, leadership development, operational excellence, and sustainable growth. She previously served on the Board of Children's Therapy Center, including as Board Chair, and has advised numerous venture-backed technology companies.

Sarah holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business, a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Yale University, and a Certificate in French Civilization from the Sorbonne.

Leslie Fall, MD

Chief Executive Officer

Leslie Fall, MD is the Chief Executive Officer of Aquifer. Since the organization’s inception in 2006, Dr. Fall has been at the helm, working to advance Aquifer’s mission and innovate in health care education. Dr. Fall was the Principal Investigator on the federal grants that developed Aquifer Pediatrics, the first course produced and distributed by Aquifer and that served as the foundation for the organization.

Dr. Fall is also an Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and practiced pediatric hospital medicine for twenty years until assuming her leadership role full time at Aquifer in 2015. A Dartmouth medical school graduate herself, she has completed a medical education fellowship at Michigan State University and the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program for women. Dr. Fall is a former pediatric clerkship and residency program director, Associate Dean for Faculty Development, and an inaugural member of Geisel’s Academy of Master Educators. While at Dartmouth she served on the medical school’s appointments, promotion and tenure committee for four years, and as the chair in her final year on the committee.

Dr. Fall has been both locally and nationally involved in the continuum of medical student, resident and faculty education throughout her career, particularly through the lens of expertise development. More recently she has turned her attention to transforming the teaching and learning of basic sciences in health professions education. Her work has resulted in numerous invited national workshops, visiting professorships, awards and publications.

Dr. Fall lives in Hanover, NH with her husband and has three children. She is an avid reader who enjoys cooking, running, and gardening.

Curt Jaeger

Secretary, Ex Officio

Curt Jaeger joined Aquifer in 2025 and is responsible for all financial, human resources, and administrative operations.

Curt comes to Aquifer with a mission-driven nonprofit background and over a decade of experience guiding organizations through growth, transformation, and operational excellence. With a strong foundation in strategic operations, financial management, and people development, he is a champion of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) and has partnered with businesses across industries to clarify vision, align teams, and deliver sustainable results. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management from Schreiner University.

Curt resides in Texas with his wife and two children, and he enjoys exploring the outdoors and spending time with family, guided by his personal values of growth, integrity, and community.