 Micki M. Chen | Micki M. Chen, Vice President, Associate General Counsel-Network and Technology, Verizon, Arlington, VA. Micki Chen has served as lead attorney for Verizon Long Distance since July 2000, and previously counseled Verizon's business units that sell to small businesses and the Federal government. From 1993 to 1996, she was Senior Assistant General Counsel and Special Counsel to the General Counsel for the U.S. General Services Administration. During her tenure with the government she earned the Vice President's "Hammer Award" and the "Commendable Service Award". Early in her legal career Micki worked as a litigation associate for Morrison and Foerster and as a Federal district court clerk to Judge Royce C. Lamberth in Washington, D.C. Prior to entering Harvard Law School she spent one year working at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Micki is a board member for the Medicare Rights Center. She graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in History and Science from Harvard University, and a J.D. in 1990 cum laude from Harvard Law School where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She and her family make their home in Washington, DC. Micki is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. |
 Gary B. Cohen | Gary B. Cohen, Managing Partner, CO2 Partners LLC, Minneapolis, MN. In 1987, Gary and his partner, Rick Diamond, founded ACI Telecentrics with only $2,000 each. From that humble beginning they successfully grew the company from 2 to 2,200 employees in 11 locations and became the 25th largest teleservices company in the country with $30 million+ in business. Gary left his post as President of ACI in January 2005 to start CO2 Partners, an executive coaching firm. Gary previously worked in state government as an intern for Senator Jim Ramstad, and is active in other business and community interests, having served as a Director for the Minnesota Zoo Foundation Board and the Alzheimer's Association of Minnesota. He has served on the boards for the American Teleservices Association and the Richfield Bank & Trust. He currently serves on the boards of Outward Bound National and IC System, Inc. and is a member of the American-Israeli Policy Advisory Committee. Gary has received the CitiBusiness "40 Under 40" award and was a finalist for the Ernst & Young "Entrepreneur of the Year" Award. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Minnesota and has completed the OPM Program at Harvard Business School. Gary is currently serving as Co-President of the Harvard Alumni Business Club of Minnesota. He and his wife and two girls live in Minneapolis. Gary is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. |
 Arne Duncan | Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education, U.S. Department of Education, Washington DC. Arne was appointed Secretary of Education by President Barack Obama in 2009. Previously from 2001-2008, Arne served as Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Public Schools where he was Deputy Chief of Staff for the CEO. In 1992, he returned to Chicago (after graduating from Harvard) to direct the Ariel Education Initiative, which creates outstanding educational opportunities for inner-city children on Chicago's South Side. In 1998 he joined Chicago Public Schools. Arne currently serves on the boards of the Ariel Education Initiative, Chicago Cares, The Children’s Center, the Golden Apple Foundation, the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, Jobs for America’s Graduates, Junior Achievement, the Dean’s Advisory Board of the Kellogg School of Management, the National Association of Basketball Coaches’ Foundation, Renaissance Schools Fund, Scholarship Chicago and the South Side YMCA. He also serves on the Board of Overseers for Harvard College and the Visiting Committees for Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education and the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration. In 2003, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Lake Forest College, and in 2006, the City Club of Chicago named him Citizen of the Year. He was also a fellow in the Leadership Greater Chicago's class of 1995. Arne is former co-captain of Harvard's basketball team and was named a first team Academic All American. From 1987-1991, he played professional basketball in Australia, where he also worked with children who were wards of the state. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard university in 1987, majoring in Sociology. Arne and his family live in Washington DC. He is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. |
 Rosemary Jordano | Rosemary Jordano Shore, Founder and Chairman Emerita, ChildrenFirst, Inc., Boston, MA. Rosemary Jordano founded and ran ChildrenFirst, Inc., one of the nation's first and largest network of backup child-care centers from its inception in 1992 until 2004, when she stepped down from her position as CEO and Chairman. During her tenure, ChildrenFirst, Inc. grew to serve more than 250 corporate clients in ten top metropolitan markets across the U.S. and Canada. In addition, Roe participated in the Presidential Summit for America's Future and the White House Conference on Child Care and her company was included in the Secretary of Labor's "Working Women Count" Honor Roll. She is a recipient of The Boston Jaycees' "1998 Top Ten Outstanding Young Leaders" award, the "Pinnacle Award" for achievement in business from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, the Stanford Graduate School of Business' "Business Leadership Award", and the 1997-98 "Leading Women Award" from the Patriot's Trail Girl Scout Council. She serves on the Regis College board of trustees, the Dana-Farber leadership council, the Woman's Health Leadership Forum at Brigham & Woman's Hospital, and the Wellesley College Business Leadership Council. Roe graduated magna cum laude with a bachelors degree in Economics and Psychology from Wellesley College in 1984. She holds a M.Sc. in Developmental Psychology from Oxford University, and received an MBA from Stanford University in 1989. She and her husband Billy Shore, who heads the Share our Strength organization, make their home in Boston, MA. Rosemary is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. |
 Stace D. Lindsay | Stace D. Lindsay, President, Fusion Vision Partners, Cambridge, MA. Stace Lindsay is the president of Fusion Venture Partners, a firm he started in order to bring together: People of great vision that inspire change, engender trust and are moved deeply to make a difference; Insights that have the power to improve our quality of life, protect that which is in danger or to fix that which is broken in our world; Capital that can be deployed with foresight, patience and commitment to finding ways to be leveraged for economic and social good. He has been a strategic advisor to senior business, government and non-profit leaders throughout the world, having held senior positions at both Monitor Company and the OTF Group, where he worked closely with Michael Porter to adapt his work to emerging markets. He also has significant start-up, turnaround and operating experience with companies, having been CEO of New England Portable Storage and VP Business Development for Merrimack Pharmaceuticals. He has also been a Managing Partner in the Latin American focused venture capital firm, Explorador.net. Stace is the co-founder the Central American Leadership Initiative, part of the Aspen Institute’s Global Leadership Network where he is also a Senior Moderator. Stace has served on the Executive Committee of the Aspen Network For Development Entrepreneurs as well as the Board of Directors of TechnoServe, a non-profit organization dedicated to building competitive businesses in rural Africa and Latin America. He has also been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Business School as well as the University of Adolpho Ibanez Business School in Chile. He is the co-author of Plowing the Sea: Nurturing the Hidden Sources of Growth in the Developing World. He is also author of "Culture, Strategy and Prosperity" in Culture Matters. Stace is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and earned his degrees in International Relations from Georgetown University and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He and his family make their home in Cambridge, MA. |
 Ted W. Love | Ted W. Love, M.D., Executive Vice President, Research & Development, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., South San Francisco, CA. Ted W. Love, M.D. joined Onyx in January 2010 as Executive Vice President and Head of Research and Development. In January 2011 he assumed responsibility for technical operations. Prior to joining Onyx, Ted was President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Nuvelo, which he joined in 2001. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Development at Theravance, Inc. Earlier in his career; Ted spent six years at Genentech, Inc. in a number of senior management positions in Medical Affairs and Product Development. As Vice President of Product Development and Regulatory Affairs at Genentech, he oversaw all drugs in development including Herceptin, Rituxan, and TNKase. He also served as Chairman of Genentech’s Product Development Committee. Ted earned his undergraduate degree in molecular biology from Haverford College and his medical degree at Yale Medical School. He completed his residency and fellowship training in internal medicine and cardiology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he later served on the faculty. Ted currently serves on the Board of Directors of Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., Affymax, Inc., Santarus, Inc., ARCA biopharma, Inc., and on the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Independent Citizens’ Oversight Committee. He is a member of the 2002 Class of Henry Crown Fellows and the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute. |
 James P. McCarter | James P. McCarter, M.D., Ph.D., Divergence Site Lead, Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO. Jim McCarter is an expert in the application of genomics to parasitic disease, and has led both industry and academic initiatives to reduce diseases of humans, animals, and plants caused by nematode worms. He founded Divergence in 1998 to apply new genomics technology to the discovery of effective, safe, and ecologically sound strategies for parasite control. Jim was president, chief scientific officer, and chairman of Divergence until it was acquired by Monsanto Company in 2011. He is currently serving as site lead for Monsanto's Divergence site. Jim is also an Instructor in Genetics at Washington University School of Medicine's Genome Center (GC) in St. Louis, continuing work he initiated in 1998 as the Merck Fellow of the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. At the GC, Jim led the world's largest effort devoted to the sequencing of genes from parasitic nematodes, generating over a half-million gene sequences from 32 species with funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. He is a co-author of over 50 scientific papers and reviews. Jim completed his medical and doctoral training at Washington University, receiving the Victor Hamburger Prize in developmental biology. While a medical student, he founded the Young Scientist Program, a collaboration between the University and the St. Louis City Public Schools for the improvement of science education in disadvantaged communities. In 1989, he graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University receiving the Cannon Award in biology. Jim is the recipient of the 2003 Innovation Award from the Academy of Science of St. Louis and on behalf of Divergence Inc., accepted the 2004 Danforth Plant Science Center Distinguished Service Award. Jim serves on Washington University's National Research Advisory Council and in 2008 joined the board of the Academy of Science of St. Louis. He and his wife and two sons live in St. Louis, MO. Jim is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. |
 Jamie F. Metzl | Jamie F. Metzl, Partner, Cranemere LLC, New York, NY. Jamie Metzl is a Partner of the global investment company Cranemere LLC and a Senior Fellow of the Asia Society. Metzl previously served as the Executive Vice President of the Asia Society, Deputy Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senior Coordinator for International Public Information at the Department of State, and Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs on the National Security Council, and as a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia. A regular commentator in the national and international media, Metzl’s syndicated columns and other writing on Asian affairs, genetics, virtual reality, and other topics has appeared in publications around the world. He is the author of a book on human rights in Southeast Asia and the 2004 novel The Depths of the Sea, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a founder and Co-Chair of the bipartisan national security organization Partnership for a Secure America, a member of the board of the Jewish refugee agency HIAS, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former White House Fellow and Aspen Institute Crown Fellow. He holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University, a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School, and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. He has completed ten ironman triathlons, thirty marathons, and two ultramarathons. He is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. |
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| Russ Pillar, Senior Advisor, The Raine Group and Managing Director, The 5850 Group, Santa Monica, CA. Russ Pillar has spent more than two decades leading a number of consumer-branded businesses to lasting success. His particular expertise lies in building teams that leverage digital and traditional media to build strong community- and commerce-based "passion point" enterprises. He is a Senior Advisor of The Raine Group and also a principal of The 5850 Group, an investor in consumer-branded media-based businesses. He has served as President of the Los Angeles Marathon, an acquisition he initiated and an asset he managed for Frank McCourt, the owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. From January 2000 until February 2006 he was Viacom and CBS's chief digital media strategy and execution executive, serving in a variety of positions including Senior Advisor, Viacom, Inc.; President, Viacom Digital Media Group; and President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Internet Group. He also has served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Richard Branson's Virgin Entertainment Group, online service provider Prodigy Internet, and telecom solutions provider Precision Systems. Russ graduated Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude from Brown University, where he played on the school's championship rugby team. He's been a member of Young Presidents' Organization and the Council on Foreign Relations, was a Trustee of The Nature Conservancy of Idaho, and has served on the Boards of Directors of more than a dozen publicly-traded media and entertainment companies. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Playboy Enterprises, the Los Angeles Marathon, and the non-profit organization Heal the Bay. The Brown Alumni Monthly named him one of the 100 alumni who had the greatest impact on the 20th century. Russ is a member of the 2002 Class of Henry Crown Fellows of the Aspen Institute. |
 Joshua Cooper Ramo | Joshua Ramo, Vice Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Washington, DC. Joshua Ramo joined Kissinger Associates as a Managing Director in 2006, becoming the youngest partner in the history of the firm. He was promoted to Vice Chairman in November 2011. In this role, he advises some of the largest corporations in the world and governments at the ministerial level and above. He previously worked for the John Thornton Group at Goldman Sachs handling the advisory and banking business with a particular focus on China. Prior to that, he was at TIME Magazine, starting as the youngest-ever Senior Editor and later as Foreign Editor and Assistant Managing Editor. Among his nearly two-dozen TIME cover stories were the 1997 Man of the Year Profile of Andy Grove and an award winning profile of Kofi Annan. Prior to joining Time, Joshua served as President and CEO of Time Warner's AthenaNow, where he led a team that produced digital journalism products, tools and technologies. He spent two years at Newsweek covering science and technology and led the team that put Newsweek online. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, and is an advisory board member of the Leaders Project and co-founder of the US-China Young Leaders Forum. During a 2001 sabbatical, he worked in South African AIDS hospices. Joshua also holds two U.S. national point-to-point air speed records and is an avid aerobatics pilot, about which he wrote the book No Visible Horizon . Joshua graduated from the University of Chicago in 1992 with a degree in Latin American Studies and holds a Masters in economics from NYU. He is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. |
| Joanna Rees, Founder and Managing Partner, Venture Strategy Partners ("VSP"), San Francisco, CA. Joanna Rees is a senior advisor, investor and board member of several private companies and non-profit organizations. Joanna was a candidate for Mayor of San Francisco in November 2011, and was the founder of VSP Capital, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage companies combining technical innovation with market development. Joanna has served on the board of more than 25 venture-backed start-up companies across a broad range of industries. She also served on the Board of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the Coppola Companies (Francis Ford Coppola), and as Chairman of the USA for Madrid-based FON, the world’s largest Wi-Fi community. Joanna has significant experience in finance and investment banking including positions at BA Securities and a boutique merchant bank, Vrolyk & Co. She worked in private placements and mergers & acquisitions focused on retail, restaurant and branded consumer companies. She also brings deep expertise in marketing and strategy, and has held several senior marketing management positions with Groupe Danone, a $20+ billion global consumer products firm, with her last position as head of New Product Development. Joanna began her career at DMB&B, working with clients such as General Foods, RJR Nabisco, Brown Forman, Digital Equipment Corp, and Texaco. The World Economic Forum selected Joanna as a Year 2000 Global Leader for Tomorrow (GLT) for individuals who hold positions "of considerable power, influence and responsibility," and are "global in terms of their accomplishments and potential." The Aspen Institute selected Joanna for its 2002 Class of Henry Crown Fellows, a program designed to develop the next generation of community-spirited business leaders, and the National Association of Women Business Owners named her "The 2000 Entrepreneur of the Year Rising Star". She is frequently featured in the national press (Forbes, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN, CNNfn, Business Week, etc.) as a speaker at industry conferences, and serves as a spokesperson for the NVCA. Joanna is active in the non-profit community. She serves on the board of New Schools Venture Fund whose mission is to improve public K-12 education by supporting education entrepreneurs, and on the Global Board of Endeavor supporting “high-impact” entrepreneurs in developing economies. She previously chaired the board of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), and has extensive experience with many other non-profits and education organizations including the Junior League, the March of Dimes, the V-Foundation, various private schools, the Annual Fund board at Duke University and the Duke basketball Legacy Fund. She earned her MBA from Columbia University (beta gamma sigma) and a BS from Duke University where she was a member of the varsity gymnastics team. She lives in San Francisco with her husband, John Hamm and has two children, Arthur (23) and Taylor (19). |
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| Mara E. Rudman, Assistant Administrator for the Middle East, US Agency for International Development, Washington DC. Mara has years of experience in government and the private sector. She is currently serving as Assistant Administrator for the Middle East Bureau at the US Agency for International Development. Prior to USAID, Mara Rudman was a deputy envoy and chief of staff for the Office of the Special Envoy for Middle East Peace. She served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Executive Secretary to the National Security Council under President Obama from January through May 2009. From 2005-2009, she was the President of Quorum Strategies, LLC, an international strategic consulting firm, and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where she focused on national security issues and advised Middle East Progress. Earlier, she was counselor, Vice President, and General Counsel at The Cohen Group, and prior to that she directed Foreign Policy programs at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. From 1997-2001, she was Deputy National Security Advisor to President Clinton where she coordinated and directed activities within the National Security Council and among the various federal departments and agencies with defense and foreign policy responsibilities, and in that capacity, played a role on Middle East peace efforts. From 1993-1997, she worked as chief counsel to the House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Lee Hamilton. Prior to her committee positions, Mara was a litigation associate at Hogan & Hartson. Prior to her committee positions, Mara was an Associate at Hogan and Hartson, clerked for the Honorable Stanley Marcus, and worked as a Legislative Assistant to Congressman Gerry Studds. Mara serves on the board of advisors of the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College, and as a member of the Aspen Institute Middle East Strategy Group. She is also a frequent media commentator, appearing on CNN, FOX, BBC, NPR, and in print media. Mara received an A.B. from Dartmouth College summa cum laude and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. She is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. |
 Camille Samuels | Camille Samuels, Managing Director, Versant Ventures, San Francisco, CA. Camille Samuels specializes in early-stage biotechnology investing at Versant. Cami brings 14 years of venture capital and operating experience to her portfolio companies. She enjoys helping talented entrepreneurs build exceptional companies. Cami joined Versant in early 2000, shortly after its formation. Prior to Versant, she was responsible for business development at Tularik, Inc. (subsequently acquired by Amgen) where she in-licensed two of the company's clinical-stage products and led Tularik’s Technology Acquisition Group. Before Tularik, Cami worked in corporate development at Genzyme and Millennium Predictive Medicine, and was a management consultant to healthcare and biotech companies at LEK Consulting. Cami currently serves as a board member of the following companies: Achaogen, APT Pharmaceuticals, Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, Semprae Laboratories, and Transcept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (TSPT), a public company. Cami was previously a board member at NovaCardia (acquired by Merck) and ParAllele (acquired by Affymetrix). In addition, she served as a board observer at several companies, including Alexza (public), Fluidigm, Genomic Health (public) and Syrrx (acquired by Takeda). Cami earned her Bachelor's degree in Biology from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she graduated as a Baker Scholar. Cami is is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. |
 Aamir M. Sheikh | Aamir M. Sheikh, Ph.D., Former President, Barra, Inc., Berkeley, CA. Aamir Sheikh was instrumental in the development and leadership of Barra's enterprise risk management business, prior to the company's take-over by Morgan Stanley in June 2004. Under his leadership, Barra successfully integrated the acquisition of Redpoint Software and launched the first firm-wide risk management solution for the investment management community. In addition, Aamir has provided significant leadership to Barra's research practice since he joined the company in June 1994. His research initiatives include Barra's equity and derivatives risk models. Prior to joining Barra, Aamir was a Professor of Finance at Indiana University. His work on options has been widely published in academic finance publications. Aamir has a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of California, Berkeley. He received his A.B. summa cum laude from Columbia University in New York City, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He and his family live in Oakland, CA. Aamir is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. |
 Isaac O. Shongwe | Isaac O. Shongwe, Chief Executive Officer, Barloworld Logistics Africa (Pty) Ltd., Benmore, South Africa. A native of South Africa, Isaac Shongwe is the Chief Executive Officer of Barloworld Logistics Africa, and he also founded Letsema Holdings, a strategic management consulting firm. He is also founder and chairman of Letsema Investments, a blackempowerment investment company engaged in a range of ventures. Isaac sits on several boards including DNA Supply Chain Investment Co., Social Venture Investment Trust, the Maths Centre for Primary Teachers, and Wesleyan University. He has worked on National Industrial Strategy Formulation projects in South Africa and has been a special adviser to the Department of Trade & Industry. From 1988 to 1993, he worked for various companies owned by Barlow Rand Ltd., and was a management trainee for Riggs National Bank during his college days in the U.S. In 1988, Isaac was named a 21st Century Trust Fellow, in recognition of his potential as a future leader in his country, and in 1996 was named a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" by the World Economic Forum. Isaac graduated with honors from Wesleyan University in 1987, then received a degree in marketing from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a M. Phil in Management Studies from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. |
 Kimberly C. Smith | Kim Smith, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Bellwether Education Partners, San Francisco, CA. Kim Smith is co-founder and CEO of Bellwether Education Partners, a non-profit organization working to improve educational outcomes for low-income students. She is widely recognized as an innovative and entrepreneurial leader in education, and was featured in Newsweek’s report on the “Women of the 21st Century” as “the kind of woman who will shape America’s new century.” After serving as a founding team member at Teach For America, she went on to found and lead an AmeriCorps program for community-based leaders in education as well as a business start-up and worked in marketing for online learning. After completing her M.B.A. at Stanford University, she co-founded and led NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy firm focused on transforming public education, where she helped to create a new, bipartisan, cross-sector community of entrepreneurial change agents. Kim has helped to incubate numerous education and social change organizations and has served on a range of boards, which currently include those of NewSchools, Education Sector, and Giving Assets. She has authored a number of publications about the entrepreneurial education landscape, including “What Is Educational Entrepreneurship?” in Education Entrepreneurship: Realities, Challenges, Possibilities, “Social Purpose Capital Markets in K–12” in The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship: Possibilities for School Reform, “Creating Responsive Supply in Education” in More Than Just Schools: Rethinking the Demand for Educational Entrepreneurship and “Innovation in Education: Problems and Opportunities.” Kim is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. She is a 2002 Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. |
 Bernard Sucher | Bernard Sucher, Board Member, Aton Group, Moscow, Russia. Bernie is currently a Board Member of the Aton Group which oversees companies including Aton Capital, one of the largest investment banks in Russia. From February 2007 to July 2010, Bernie served as the managing director and head of Global Markets for Merrill Lynch in Russia. In this role, he had responsibility for building out the firm's local Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities as well as Equity sales and trading operations. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Bernie was chairman of Alfa Capital. Previously, he co-founded and served as managing director of Troika Dialog, one of the largest independent brokerage houses in Russia (from 1993-2002). In 2000, he and his business partner were honored by the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia as "Businessmen of the Year" for "significant contributions to business in Russia and commitment to the highest standards of business ethics." Trained as a retail broker by EF Hutton in the early 1980's, Bernie became an institutional broker and sales manager for Cresvale, a British dealer, and later took on similar responsibilities for Goldman Sachs. He has worked in New York, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Bernie has also enjoyed success as an entrepreneur and investor in a number of new businesses in Russia, including restaurant and club ventures and a specialty publishing company. He is also a partner in Jacobs Asset Management, a New York-based small-capital hedge fund. Bernie is a Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia and a member of the working group on Bush-Putin Russian-American Business Dialogue. He also serves as a member of the U.S. Russia Business Council and an advisor to the Center for Citizens Initiatives. Bernie holds a BA from the University of Michigan. He is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. |
 Matthew J. Wisk | Matthew J. Wisk, President, MyPoints, San Francisco, CA. Matt Wisk is the President of MyPoints in San Francisco, CA. Previously he had been the EVP and CMO of United Online, a leading provider of consumer internet subscription services since in August 2005. Before joining United Online, he was senior vice president and chief marketing officer at TiVo where he directed TiVo's global marketing efforts. Matt was previously chief marketing officer at Herbalife International, and prior to that he worked at Nokia for nine years, where he moved up through the marketing organization to become vice president, marketing, North and South America. At Nokia, Matt was a key executive in the marketing team that helped establish Nokia as a global leader in wireless communications equipment. Prior to Nokia, Matt held marketing positions for wireless companies, Metrocel Cellular Telephone (now part of AT&T Wireless), NEC, and GTE. In October 2000, Matt took top honors as BRANDWEEK's "Grand Marketer of the Year" at the Association of National Advertisers' 2000 Annual Conference. He received both his MBA and BA from Michigan State University. He is a member of the 2002 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. |
