Personal Message From CEO

My name is Robert Ellis, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pegasus Schools, Inc.

I began working with youth in 1985 and toward opening a home of my own for abused children in 1989. I founded Pegasus in 1990 as a Residential Treatment Center for the care of abused and neglected boys. My motivation stemmed from having lived through an extremely physically and sexually abusive childhood in the seventies. I experienced the blind eye society cast on the victims of abuse during that era.

Mine was one of the more fortunate cases. I was adopted by a family in Lockhart, Texas. Although I was forced to wait until the day I turned 18 to be officially adopted and have my last name changed, I had lived with the Ellis family for a long period prior to adoption.

After graduating Lockhart High School, I went to work for Demolition Contractor Weldon Johnston who was not only my mentor for seven years, but the closest thing to a father I have ever known. He taught me the nuances of business and more about human nature and behavior than I would ever learn in a subsequent 3½ year stint at the University of Texas at Austin pursuing a degree in education and psychology. [Read More]