[4] He received his undergraduate degree in English literature from the City College of New York and MBA from the Harvard Business School.
[5] Posman[6] has worked and lived overseas, including five years in the Peace Corps as a volunteer teacher in Tunisia and as a staff member in Sri Lanka.
He has been in charge of vast operations as Deputy Chancellor of the New York City School System and been involved in the most shoestring entrepreneurial ventures.
[7] Several years ago Posman[8] helped develop entrepreneurial opportunities and support structures for populations in New York City that would not otherwise become involved in small business.
Posman also wrote the foreword for Muhammad Yunus' biography," Grameen Social Business Model: A Manifesto for Proletariat Revolution",[9][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] written by Rashidul Bari.