Shaping the - Milken Institute

April 27-29, 2009 

Beverly Hilton . Los Angeles 

Shaping the 

Future 

Program

Welcome to the 2009 Global Conference 

Welcome to your conference. 

Ideas submitted by many of you helped us plan the panels described in these pages. Inspired largely 

by concerns about dramatic changes in the economic landscape, your input has made this 12th annual 

Milken Institute Global Conference broader, deeper, more global and more topically relevant than ever. 

Economic recovery is a major theme of this year’s Conference — and so is government, especially in terms 

of its growing role as it intervenes to stem the crisis. The shift of power from Wall Street to Washington has 

a profound effect on policy, not only in finance but also energy, health care/medical research and education. 

The Global Conference will explore new ways for the private and public sectors to work together 

effectively in addressing economic and social issues. Various financial panels will discuss such matters as 

the democratization of capital markets, the cycles of financial history (and where we stand today in relation 

to previous recessions), the ongoing deleveraging of corporate balance sheets, the outlook for real estate, the 

health of credit markets, global banking, emerging markets, hedge funds and the future of capitalism. 

In addition to finance, 100 panels on seven other tracks will discuss energy security; philanthropy; 

leadership lessons from sports; longevity; education; health-care reform; the evolving roles of China 

and India; alternative energy and climate change; transformative technologies in education; alternative 

medicine; social networking; stem-cell research; the entertainment industry outlook; early childhood 

education; Israeli-Palestinian economic ties; and, of course, political issues during our annual Tuesday 

night debate. 

Important questions beg for more than discussion. They demand solutions — and finding them is the 

reason 500 thought leaders serving on 130 sessions, and 3,000 attendees from around the world have 

gathered for this unique event. We hope you make the most of it. 

Michael Milken Michael L. Klowden 

Chairman President and CEO

CONFERENCE NOTES 

Name Tag Identification 

You are required to wear your Global Conference name tag 

at all times during the conference for admittance to meals 

and sessions. Registration is not transferable. There is a $250 

replacement fee for lost badges. 

Program Changes 

There may be late changes to the program and panelists. 

All changes will be displayed on flat-panel screens located 

throughout the hotel. 

Session Seating 

All sessions are filled on a first-come basis. Sessions—especially 

those in the Executive Center—tend to fill quickly and are 

monitored to ensure all attendees have seats. Once a session is 

full, no one will be admitted. This includes meal sessions. Preselection 

of a session does not guarantee you entrance to that 

session. If a session is full, you may attend any other session 

where there is room. 

Meal Seating 

Tickets will be issued for lunches at this year’s Global 

Conference. Attendees must have completed the Global 

Conference session selection tool to be guaranteed meals and 

receive meal tickets. 

Attendees will receive meal tickets in their conference packets 

at on-site registration. Attendees with meal tickets will receive 

priority seating until 30 minutes after the published meal 

times. Seats that are released will be filled from the stand-by 

line on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Attendees should return tickets for meals they will not attend 

to the on-site registration desk. There is a $50 replacement fee 

for lost meal tickets. 

Cell Phones and Pagers 

As a courtesy to our panelist and guests, please be sure to set 

cell phones and pagers to silent mode during the conference. 

Invitation-Only Sessions 

A few sessions are invitation-only and require pre-registration. 

These sessions are marked on the agenda. 

breakfast 

continental breakfast service for conference guests 

general session 

a plenary panel held in the international ballroom 

simulcast room 

roundtable session 

a session designed to encourage group participation 

Conference Bookstore 

Please visit the conference bookstore, which is located in 

the Milken Institute Global Conference Pavilion sponsored 

by Newedge. You will find books by conference panelists, as 

well as a host of business and financial books, best-sellers and 

Milken Institute publications. 

Bookstore Hours 

Monday: 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. 

Tuesday: 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. 

Wednesday: 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 

Conference Sessions 

Video recordings of individual sessions will be available for 

viewing online at www.milkeninstitute.org. This year’s Global 

Conference Briefing Book will not be published. Instead the 

conference slides created specifically for the event will be 

available on the Institute’s website. 

Milken Institute Global Conference Pavilion 

sponsored by Newedge 

The Milken Institute Global Conference Pavilion, located next 

to the Executive Center, is open to all attendees. You’ll be able 

to connect to the Internet, check your e-mails, watch news 

shows or just relax. 

Exhibits 

We invite you to visit the sponsor exhibits in the Executive 

Center. They will be on display throughout the conference. 

Milken Institute Associates Lounge 

An exclusive benefit for Milken Institute Associates, the Lounge 

is located next to the Global Conference Pavilion. It provides 

a comfortable space where Institute supporters can conduct 

private meetings and utilize business center amenities. To 

become a Milken Institute Associate, please visit the booth in 

the Executive Center. 

Lost and Found 

Please place your business card in the slot provided in your 

conference bag to help identify the bag in case it is misplaced. 

Found items may be returned to registration for claim. 

private session 

invitation only—preregistration required 

breakout session 

one of several panels scheduled during the same time slot 

book signing 

author book signings 

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April 27–29, 2009, Los Angeles 

Conference Agenda 

Monday, April 27 

6:00 am - 7:30 pm ..........................................................................................................................................Hilton Lobby 

Global Conference Registration 

6:00 am - 9:00 am .................................................................... Beverly Hills Ballroom Foyer and Executive Center 

Continental Breakfast 

6:30 am – 8:30 am 

6:30 am - 8:30 am .................................................................................................................................................. Stardust 

Access to Capital: Fueling Economic Growth 

Women Financial Leaders Program 

private — by invitation only 

Panelists 

Diane Denish, Lieutenant Governor, State of New Mexico 

Nancy Kopp, Treasurer, State of Maryland 

Kathleen Lutito, President and Chief Investment Officer, Qwest Asset Management Company 

Catherine Lynch, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust 

Anne Walsh, Senior Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners 

Carmencita Whonder, Policy Director, Government Relations Group, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP 

Moderator 

Lorraine Spurge, Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners 

6:30 am – 7:45 am 

6:30 am - 7:45 am ................................................................................................................................... Oakhurst Room 

Solutions to the Increasing Cost of Financing College Education 

Panelist 

Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University 

Moderator 

Daniel Ebersole, Director, Georgia Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services 

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6:30 am - 7:45 am .......................................................................................................................................Whittier Room 

The Evolution of Islamic Finance 

Panelists 

Taha Abdul-Basser, Principal and Co-Founder, StraightWay Ethical Advisory LLC 

Umar Moghul, Partner, Murtha Cullina LLP 

Aamir Rehman, Head of Strategy, Fajr Capital Limited; Author, Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business 

in the Gulf States 

Moderator 

Shawn Baldwin, Chairman, Capital Management Group 

8:00 am – 9:15 am 

8:00 am - 9:15 am ....................................................................................................................... International Ballroom 

Financial Recovery: When and How? 

Panelists 

Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) 

Steve Forbes, Chairman and CEO, Forbes Inc.; Editor-in-Chief, Forbes 

Kenneth Griffin, Founder, President and CEO, Citadel Investment Group LLC 

John Micklethwait, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist 

Moderator 

Michael Klowden, President and CEO, Milken Institute 

8:00 am - 9:15 am .................................................................................................................................Wilshire Ballroom 

The Future of Health 

Panelists 

Susan Hockfield, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

John Lechleiter, Chairman, President and CEO, Eli Lilly and Company 

Henry Waxman, U.S. Congressman (D-California) 

Elias Zerhouni, Senior Fellow, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; 

former Director, National Institutes of Health 

Moderator 

Monday, April 27, 2009 

Greg Simon, President, FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions 

8:00 am - 9:15 am .................................................................................................................................... Oakhurst Room 

How U.S. States Can Benefit From the Build America Bond Program 

Panelists 

Robert McCord, Treasurer, State of Pennsylvania 

Scott Minerd, Managing Partner, Guggenheim Partners; CEO and Chief Investment Officer, Guggenheim Partners 

Asset Management Inc. 

Moderator 

Amy Resnick, Editor-in-Chief, The Bond Buyer 

8:00 am - 9:15 am ...........................................................................................................................International Gallery 

Doing Business in Russia: Overcoming Repeated Crises 

Speaker 

Alexander Kovaler, Vice President, Sales and Public Relations, Gallery Media 

Interviewer 

Michael Intriligator, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Professor of Economics, Political Science and Public Policy, 

University of California, Los Angeles 

9:30 am – 10:45 am 

9:30 am - 10:45 am ..................................................................................................................... International Ballroom 

U.S. Governors Address Challenges Facing Their States 

Panelists 

Jon Huntsman Jr., Governor of Utah (R) 

Edward Rendell, Governor of Pennsylvania (D) 

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California (R) 

Moderator 

Michael Milken, Chairman, Milken Institute 


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9:30 am - 10:45 am.......................................................................................................................Beverly Hills Ballroom 

Commercial Real Estate: Identifying the Opportunities 

Panelists 



Randy Mundt, President and Chief Investment Officer, Principal Real Estate Investors 

David E. Simon, Chairman and CEO, Simon Property Group Inc. 

Frits van Paasschen, President and CEO, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. 

Sam Zell, Chairman and President, Equity Group Investments LLC; Chairman and CEO, Tribune Company 

Moderator 

Lewis Feldman, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP 

9:30 am - 10:45 am ...............................................................................................................................Wilshire Ballroom 

Leadership Lessons from the World of Sports 

Panelists 

Billy Beane, Vice President and General Manager, Oakland Athletics 

Pete Carroll, Head Football Coach, University of Southern California 

Mike Krzyzewski, Head Coach, Men’s Basketball, Duke University 

Moderator 

Jim Gray, Sportscaster, NBC (Olympics), Showtime and Westwood One Radio 

9:30 am - 10:45 am .........................................................................................................................International Terrace 

Investing in Green Energy 

Panelists 

Jonathan Bloch, Senior Managing Director and Managing Partner, GKM Newport; Managing Partner, GKM Ventures 

Lynde Coit, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, Plasco Energy Group Inc. 

Robert Kleine, Treasurer, State of Michigan 

Jim McDermott, Managing Director, US Renewables Group 

Steve Westly, Managing Partner, The Westly Group 

Moderator 

Paul Deninger, Vice Chairman, Jefferies & Company Inc. 

9:30 am - 10:45 am .....................................................................................................................................Whittier Room 

The Forecast for Emerging Markets 

Panelists 

Hüseyin Erkan, Chairman and CEO, Istanbul Stock Exchange 

George Hoguet, Global Investment Strategist and Senior Portfolio Manager, State Street Global Advisors 

Vikas Kapoor, President and CEO, iQor Inc. 

Vasant Prabhu, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide 

Jean-Louis Scandella, Emerging Markets Fund Manager, Comgest Group 

Moderator 


Komal Sri-Kumar, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Managing Director and Chief Global Strategist, TCW Group Inc. 

9:30 am - 10:45 am ........................................................................................................................................Canon Room 

How Nonprofits Can Sustain Their Mission in a Down Economy 

Panelists 

Sherry Lansing, CEO, Sherry Lansing Foundation 

Michael Madnick, Deputy Director, External Relations, Global Health Policy and Advocacy, 

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

Carl Schramm, President and CEO, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation 

Jonathan Simons, President and CEO, Prostate Cancer Foundation 

John Walsh, Co-Founder, President and CEO, Alpha-1 Foundation 

Moderator 

Greg Simon, President, FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions 

9:30 am - 10:45 am .........................................................................................................................International Gallery 

Taking Control of Restructuring to Drive Successful Turnarounds 

Panelists 

Maria Boyazny, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, Siguler Guff & Company 

Frank Merola, Managing Director, Jefferies & Company Inc. 

John Rapisardi, Partner and Co-Chair of Financial Restructuring Department, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP 

Moderator 

Doug Teitelbaum, Managing Partner, Bay Harbour Management 

9:30 am - 10:45 am .................................................................................................................................. Oakhurst Room 

Institutional Endowments: Finding the Right Formula 

Panelists 

Peter Adamson, Chief Investment Officer, Broad Family Offices 

William Lee, Chief Investment Officer and Vice President, Pensions and Foundation Investments, Kaiser Permanente 

Tom O’Donnell, First Vice President, Alternative Investments Group, Newedge 

Mark Yusko, President and Chief Investment Officer, Morgan Creek Capital Management LLC 

Moderator 


James Williams, Vice President, Chief Investment Officer and Treasurer, The J. Paul Getty Trust 

9:30 am - 10:00 am ................................................................................................................................................. Pavilion 

Book Signing 

John Micklethwait, God Is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Will Change the World 

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10:00 am - 10:30 am .............................................................................................................................................. Pavilion 

Book Signing 

Joshua Ramo, The Age of the Unthinkable: Why the New World Disorder Constantly Surprises Us and 

What We Can Do About It 

11:00 am – 12:15 pm 

11:00 am - 12:15 pm ....................................................................................................................Beverly Hills Ballroom 

The New Relationship Between Government and Business 

Panelists 

Norman Brownstein, Founding Member and Chairman, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP 

John Ensign, U.S. Senator (R-Nevada) 

Thomas McLarty, President, McLarty Associates; former Chief of Staff, Clinton Administration 

Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and CEO, News Corporation 

Moderator 

Nancy McFadden, Senior Vice President, Public Affairs, PG&E Corporation 

11:00 am - 12:15 pm ............................................................................................................................Wilshire Ballroom 

Wellness in the Workplace: Obesity and Other Bottom-Line Issues 

Panelists 

Steven Burd, Chairman, President and CEO, Safeway Inc. 

Delos Cosgrove, President and CEO, Cleveland Clinic 

Mark Mastrov, Founder, 24 Hour Fitness 

Indra Nooyi, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo Inc. 

Moderator 

Andrew von Eschenbach, Former Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration 

11:00 am - 12:15 pm ......................................................................................................................International Terrace 

Perspectives on the Changing Landscape in Alternative Asset Management 

Panelists 

Timothy Barrett, Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer, San Bernardino County Employees’ 

Retirement Association 

Simon Ruddick, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Albourne Partners 

Anthony Scaramucci, Managing Partner, Skybridge Capital Group LLC 

Arthur Tully, Partner, Co-Leader of Global Hedge Fund Practice and Leader of Asset Management Practice, 

Ernst & Young LLP 

Moderator 


Robert Matza, Partner and President, GoldenTree Asset Management LP 

11:00 am - 12:15 pm ..................................................................................................................................Whittier Room 

Global Banking: Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Save? 

Panelists 

Alan Boyce, CEO, Absalon; President, Adecoagro 

Robert Kelly, Chairman and CEO, The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. 

Robert Litan, Vice President, Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation 

Bo Lundgren, Director General, Swedish National Debt Office; former Minister for Fiscal and Financial Affairs 

Moderator 

James Barth, Senior Finance Fellow, Milken Institute; Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance, Auburn University 

11:00 am - 12:15 pm ................................................................................................................................ Brighton Room 

Global M&A Opportunities in Education 

Panelists 

Douglas Becker, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Laureate Education Inc. 

Gregory Cappelli, Chairman, Apollo Global 

Brooke Coburn, Managing Director and Head of Carlyle Growth Partners, The Carlyle Group 

Ricardo Scavazza, Principal, Private Equity Division, Patria Investimentos 

Moderator 

Adam Nordin, Managing Director, Credit Suisse 

11:00 am - 12:15 pm ...................................................................................................................................Dayton Room 

Computing’s Next Playground 

Panelists 

Yair Landau, Former President, Sony Pictures Digital; former Vice Chairman, Sony Pictures Entertainment 

Greg Papadopoulos, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development, 

Sun Microsystems Inc. 

Stephen Pawlowski, Intel Senior Fellow; Chief Technology Officer, Digital Enterprise Group, and General 

Manager for Architecture and Planning, Intel Corp. 

Shane Robison, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer, HP 

Moderator 


Gordon Crovitz, Columnist and former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal 

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11:00 am - 12:15 pm ..................................................................................................................................... Maple Room 

The New University and Its Role in the Economy 

Panelists 

Richard Blum, Chairman, The Regents of the University of California 

Michael Crow, President, Arizona State University 

Susan Hockfield, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Luc Vinet, Rector, Université de Montréal 

Deborah Wince-Smith, President, Council on Competitiveness 

Moderator 

Steve Fireng, President and CEO, Embanet ULC 

11:00 am - 12:15 pm .....................................................................................................................................Canon Room 

The U.S.-China Relationship: The Uneasy Ties That Bind 

Panelists 

Victor Zhikai Gao, Executive Director, Beijing Private Equity Association; Secretary-General, 

China Private Equity Association 

Zachary Karabell, President, River Twice Research 

Joshua Cooper Ramo, Managing Director, Kissinger Associates; Author, The Age of the Unthinkable 

Rui Yang, Anchor, CCTV 

Moderator 

James McGregor, Chairman and CEO, JL McGregor & Company 

11:00 am - 12:15 pm ......................................................................................................................International Gallery 

Encore Careers and Volunteerism: Civic Engagement After Age 50 

Panelists 

Jennie Chin Hansen, President, AARP 

Sherry Lansing, CEO, Sherry Lansing Foundation 

11:00 am - 12:15 pm ......................................................................................................................................Board Room 

Patient Federation for Research 


Moderator 


Elias Zerhouni, Senior Fellow, Global Health Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; former Director, 

National Institutes of Health 

11:00 am - 12:15 pm ............................................................................................................................... Oakhurst Room 

Affordable Housing Roundtable 

Panelists 

Thomas Humphreys, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP 

Rick Jacobus, Partner, Burlington Associates in Community Development 

George McCarthy, Director, Urban Opportunity, Ford Foundation 

Debra Schwartz, Director, Program-Related Investments, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation 

Ellen Seidman, Executive Vice President, National Policy and Partnership Development, ShoreBank Corp.; 

Chair, Center for Financial Services Innovation; Senior Fellow, New America Foundation 

Mary Tingerthal, President, Capital Markets Companies, Housing Partnership Network 

Moderator 

Betsy Zeidman, Research Fellow and Director of the Center for Emerging Domestic Markets, Milken Institute 

11:00 am - 11:30 am .............................................................................................................................................. Pavilion 

Book Signing 

Mike Krzyzewski, The Gold Standard: Building a World-Class Team 

12:15 pm - 2:15 pm .................................................................................................................................................International Ballroom 

Lunch Panel: U.S. Overview: When Will Growth Resume? 

Introduction by 

Michael Klowden, President and CEO, Milken Institute 

Welcoming Remarks 

Antonio Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles 

Panelists 

Michael Boskin, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; T.M. Friedman Professor of Economics, Stanford University 

Douglas Elmendorf, Director, Congressional Budget Office 

Jim Goodnight, CEO, SAS 

Michael Miles, President and Chief Operating Officer, Staples Inc. 

Moderator 


General Session 12:15 pm – 2:15 pm 

Steve Forbes, Chairman and CEO, Forbes Inc.; Editor-in-Chief, Forbes 

This session is expected to be completely full. A simulcast of the panel will be broadcast in the Beverly Hills Ballroom and the Global Conference 

Pavilion. For those who do not have a ticket for the International Ballroom, a box lunch will be provided in the Beverly Hills Ballroom Foyer. 

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2:30 pm – 3:45 pm 

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm ........................................................................................................................Beverly Hills Ballroom 

Capital Structure Matters 

Panelists 

Dan Hesse, CEO, Sprint Nextel Corp. 

Marc Rowan, Founding Partner, Apollo Advisors LP 

Scott Sperling, Co-President, Thomas H. Lee (THL) Partners 

Randall Wooster, Co-Founder, Imperial Capital Group LLC; President, Imperial Capital LLC 

Moderator 


2:30 pm - 3:45 pm ................................................................................................................................Wilshire Ballroom 

Retail and the Changing Consumer: Where People Will Spend 

Panelists 

Max Azria, Chairman, CEO and Designer, BCBGMaxAzria Group Inc. 

Joe Fortunato, President and CEO, GNC Corp. 

Michael Miles, President and Chief Operating Officer, Staples Inc. 

Adrianne Shapira, Managing Director, Retail Analyst, Goldman, Sachs & Co 

David E. Simon, Chairman and CEO, Simon Property Group Inc. 

Moderator 

Todd Boehly, Managing Partner, Guggenheim Partners 

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm ..........................................................................................................................International Terrace 

Life After 80: Always Looking Forward 

Panelists 

Norman Lear, Producer 

Jim Pattison, Chairman and CEO, The Jim Pattison Group 

Carl Reiner, Actor, Director, Producer 

John Sperling, Founder and Executive Chairman, Apollo Group Inc. 

Deborah Szekely, Owner and Director, Rancho La Puerta and Golden Door 

Moderator 


Marty Kaplan, Research Professor, Associate Dean for Programs and Planning, and Director of the Norman Lear 

Center, USC’s Annenberg School for Communication 

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm ......................................................................................................................................Whittier Room 

High-Skills Immigration Can Help U.S. Economic Recovery 

Panelists 

John Lechleiter, Chairman, President and CEO, Eli Lilly and Company 

Richard LeFrak, Chairman, President and CEO, LeFrak Organization 

Gary Shilling, President, A. Gary Shilling & Co. 

Vivek Wadhwa, Senior Research Associate, Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School; 

Executive in Residence/Adjunct Professor, Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University 

Moderator 

Daniel Casse, President, G100 

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm .................................................................................................................................... Brighton Room 

Work Force Development: A Differentiator in Hiring and Retaining 

Panelists 

Peri Hansen, Senior Client Partner, Korn/Ferry International 

Russ Jackson, Senior Vice President of Human Resources, Safeway 

Carol Lindstrom, Vice Chairman, Deloitte LLP 

Ann Huang Miller, Chief Attorney Development Officer, Latham & Watkins LLP 

Brian Schipper, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Cisco Systems Inc. 

Moderator 

Felicia Thornton, CEO, Knowledge Universe Education U.S. 

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm .......................................................................................................................................Dayton Room 

Is It Time to Embrace Nuclear Energy? 

Panelists 

Lady Barbara Thomas Judge, Chairman, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority 

Amory Lovins, Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute 

David Scott, Executive Director, Economic Affairs, Executive Affairs Authority of Abu Dhabi 

Jeb Spaulding, Treasurer, State of Vermont 

Moderator 

Peter Passell, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Editor, The Milken Institute Review 

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm ......................................................................................................................................... Maple Room 

What Are the Real Economics of Quality Health Care? 

Panelists 

Juan Davila, Senior Vice President, Network Management, Blue Shield of California 

Paul McBride, Vice President, Health Care Management and Services, Wellpoint Inc. 

David Schmidt, CEO, SCAN Health Plan 

Moderator 


Richard Merkin, CEO and Founder, Heritage Provider Network; FasterCures Board Member 

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2:30 pm - 3:45 pm .........................................................................................................................................Canon Room 

Moving From Aid to Investment: New Models for Supporting 

International Development 

Panelists 

Alice Albright, Executive Vice President and Chief Investment and Financial Officer, GAVI Alliance 

Gargee Ghosh, Senior Program Officer for Public Policy, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

Dambisa Moyo, Author, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa 

Jan Walliser, Sector Manager, Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, Africa Region, World Bank 

Moderator 


2:30 pm - 3:45 pm ................................................................................................................................... Oakhurst Room 

Preserving the Past to Build the Future: Antiquities as an Economic 

Development Resource for Emerging Nations 

Panelists 

Larry Coben, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Tremisis Energy; Archaeologist, University of Pennsylvania 

Brent Lane, Director, UNC Center for Competitive Economies (C3E), Kenan-Flagler Business School, 

University of North Carolina 

Jerry Podany, Senior Conservator, Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum 

Charles Stanish, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, 

Los Angeles 

Hakan Tekin, Consul General of Turkey in Los Angeles 

Moderator 

Glenn Yago, Director of Capital Studies, Milken Institute 

2:30 pm - 3:45 pm ..........................................................................................................................................Board Room 

Melanoma Research Alliance – Seeking a Cure for Skin Cancer 


2:30 pm - 3:45 pm ..........................................................................................................................International Gallery 

CEO Conversation: Ray Irani on Energy and the Middle East 


Speaker 

Ray Irani, Chairman and CEO, Occidental Petroleum Corp. 

Moderator 


Joel Kurtzman, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Executive Director, SAVE 

4:00 pm – 5:15 pm 

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm ...................................................................................................................... International Ballroom 

The Current Restructuring Cycle: Meltdown or Metamorphosis? 

Panelists 

Paul Aronzon, Co-Practice Group Leader, Financial Restructuring Group, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP 

Lisa Donahue, Co-Head, Turnaround and Restructuring Practice, AlixPartners 

Carl Goldsmith, Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager, Beach Point Capital Management 

David Hollander, Partner, Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC 

John Rapisardi, Partner and Co-Chair of Financial Restructuring Department, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP 

Moderator 

Michael Henkin, Managing Director, Co-Head of Recapitalization & Restructuring, Jefferies & Company Inc. 


Infrastructure Projects as Economic Stimulus 

Panelists 

Douglas Elmendorf, Director, Congressional Budget Office 

Thomas Kinton, Jr., CEO and Executive Director, Massachusetts Port Authority 

Martin Koffel, Chairman and CEO, URS Corp. 

Nancy Kopp, Treasurer, State of Maryland 

Norman Y. Mineta, Senior Advisor, Credit-Suisse; former U.S. Secretary of Transportation 

Moderator 

Kevin Klowden, Managing Economist, Milken Institute 


Living Longer and Better Through Science, Nutrition and Lifestyle Choices 

Panelists 

Scott Berns, Co-Founder, Progeria Research Foundation Inc.; Senior Vice President of Chapter Programs, 

March of Dimes 

Pinchas Cohen, Pediatric Endocrinology Specialist, UCLA Children’s Health Center 

Luigi Fontana, Research Assistant Professor of Medicine and Associate Director of the Longevity Research 

Program, Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine 

Moderator 


Howard Soule, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Executive Vice President and Chief Science Officer, 

Prostate Cancer Foundation 

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Eyes Still on the Prize: African-American Civil Rights in the Age of Obama 

Panelists 

Myrlie Evers-Williams, Chairman Emeritus, NAACP; Founder, Medgar Evers Institute 

Wade Henderson, President and CEO, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights 

Benjamin Jealous, President and CEO, NAACP 

Joseph Phillips, Actor and Author 

Moderator 

Beverly Daniel Tatum, President, Spelman College 


Infusing Technology into Education for Economic Competitiveness 

Panelists 

Anita Givens, Acting Associate Commissioner, Standards and Programs, Texas Education Agency 

L. Michael Golden, Corporate Vice President, Education, Microsoft Corp. 

Glenn Kleiman, Executive Director, Friday Institute for Educational Innovation; 

Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, North Carolina State University 

Keith Krueger, CEO, Consortium on School Networking 

Bette Manchester, Executive Director, Maine International Center for Digital Learning; 

former Director of Special Projects, Maine Learning Technology Initiative 

Moderator 

Jim Goodnight, CEO, SAS 


Reinventing Asia’s Growth Miracle 

Panelists 

William Meaney, CEO, The Zuellig Group 

Keng Yong Ong, Director, Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 

National University of Singapore; former Secretary-General, ASEAN 

Frank Sixt, Executive Director and Group Finance Director, Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. 

Huiyao (Henry) Wang, Vice Chairman, China Western Returned Scholars Association 

Moderator 


Mary Kissel, Editorial Page Editor, Wall Street Journal Asia 


Measuring Today’s Terrorist Threat 

Panelists 

Philip Coyle, Senior Advisor, Center for Defense Information 



Alvin Toffler, Author; Futurist; Principal, Toffler & Associates 

Moderator 

Peter Katona, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, 

Los Angeles 


Philanthropists in the New Economy 

Panelists 

Jamie McCourt, CEO, Los Angeles Dodgers 

Deborah Doyle McWhinney, CEO and President, Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation 

Moderator 

Timothy Lappen, Founder and Chairman, Family Office Group, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP 


Convertible Securities in Today’s Market 

Panelists 

Jason Lee, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. 

Michael O’Grady, Managing Director of Investment Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch 

Michael Rosen, Principal and Chief Investment Officer, Angeles Investment Advisors LLC 

Christopher Zafiriou, Senior Investment Analyst, Glenmede Trust Company N.A. 

Moderator 

John Calamos Sr., Chairman, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, Calamos Asset Management 

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm .................................................................................................................................................. Pavilion 

Book Signing 

Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa 

5:30 pm – 6:45 pm 


Private Meeting - FasterCures’ Philanthropy Advisory Service 



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Embanet Reception: A Discussion With Innovative University Leaders 


5:30 pm - 6:45 pm ................................................................................................................................................. Stardust 

Reception for Speakers and Sponsors 


5:30 pm - 6:45 pm ................................................................................................................................................. Poolside 

Principal Global Investors Reception 


5:30 pm - 6:45 pm ......................................................................................................... Executive Center and Pavilion 

General Reception 


7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ..................................................................................................................................................... International Ballroom 

Dinner Panel: Athletes for Hope: Sports Philanthropy 

Panelists 

Andre Agassi, Tennis Champion; Founder, Andre Agassi Charitable Foundation 

Mia Hamm, Olympic Gold Medalist and World Cup Champion, U.S. Women’s Soccer Team; 

Founder, Mia Hamm Foundation 

Tony Hawk, Professional Skateboarder; Founder, Tony Hawk Foundation 

Robert Shafir, CEO, Asset Management and Americas Region, Credit Suisse 

Annika Sorenstam, Professional Golfer; Winner of 72 LPGA Tournaments 

Moderator 

Chris Waddell, Champion Skier; Paralympic Gold Medalist 

9:00 pm – 10:30 pm 


9:00 pm - 10:30 pm .............................................................................................................................Wilshire Ballroom 

Late Night: Duke University and U.S. Olympic Coach Mike Krzyzewski 

on Building Winning Teams 

Sponsored by Newedge 

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 

6:00 am - 8:30 pm ..........................................................................................................................................Hilton Lobby 


6:00 am - 9:00 am .................................................................... Beverly Hills Ballroom Foyer and Executive Center 


6:30 am – 7:45 am 


Private Versus Publicly Held Financial Institutions: Which Are Best Positioned? 

Panelists 

David Kuplic, Chief Investment Officer, Securian Financial 

Mark Lipson, Managing Director and Senior Resident Officer, Bessemer Trust 

David Marks, Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, CUNA Mutual Group 

James Weishan, Chief Investment Officer and Senior Vice President, Investments, Sentry Insurance 

Moderator 

Sarah Coxe Lange, Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners Asset Management 

6:30 am - 7:45 am ........................................................................................................................................Dayton Room 

YPO Breakfast 


6:30 am - 7:45 am ...........................................................................................................................................Board Room 

FasterCures Board Meeting 



The Changing Landscape of Infrastructure Financing 


Moderator 

Lewis Feldman, Partner, Goodwin Procter LLP 


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8:00 am – 9:15 am 


The Future of Hedge Funds: Transparent and Liquid 

Panelists 

Jason Cummins, Head of Economic Research, Brevan Howard Asset Management 

Joseph Dear, Chief Investment Officer, California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) 

Orin Kramer, General Partner, Boston Provident LP; Chairman, New Jersey State Investment Council 

Marc Lasry, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Avenue Capital Group 

Stephen Nesbitt, CEO, Cliffwater LLC 

Moderator 

Steven Drobny, Co-Founder and Partner, Drobny Global Advisors 

8:00 am - 9:15 am .........................................................................................................................Beverly Hills Ballroom 

CEO Conversation: Past, Present and Future of Las Vegas With Steve Wynn 


Richard Byrne, CEO, Deutsche Bank Securities; Co-Head, Global Capital Markets, Deutsche Bank 

Speaker 

Steve Wynn, Chairman and CEO, Wynn Resorts 


On the Wealth of Nations: Creating Prosperity in a Turbulent World 

Panelists 

David Davis, Member of British Parliament 

Michael Gerson, Roger Hertog Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Columnist, The Washington Post 

Robert Mosbacher Jr., Former President and CEO, Overseas Private Investment Corp. 


Moderator 

Ryan Streeter, Senior Fellow, Legatum Institute 


SAVE Roundtable: New Energy Initiatives 

Panelists 

G. Chris Andersen, Founder and Partner, G.C. Andersen Partners LLC 

Lee Bailey, Managing Partner, US Renewables Group 

Boris Klebensberger, Manager, Operative Business, and Chief Operating Officer, SolarWorld AG 


Joseph Pettus, Senior Vice President, Fuel & Energy, Safeway Inc. 

Richard Pietrafesa, Managing Director, Destiny USA 

Moderator 




Health Information Technology: Building Infrastructure for Faster Cures 

Panelists 

Margaret Anderson, Chief Operating Officer, FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions 

David Levy, Global Healthcare Sector Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers 

Stephen Lieber, President and CEO, Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) 

Frank Moss, Director, The Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

Yitzhak Peterburg, Senior Visiting Fellow, Milken Institute; former CEO, Clalit Health Services; 

former President and CEO, Cellcom Israel Ltd. 

Moderator 

George Blumenthal, President and CEO, Park Avenue Medical Data Systems 

8:00 am - 9:15 am ...........................................................................................................................................Board Room 

Milken Institute California Center Advisory Council Meeting 


9:30 am – 10:45 am 

9:30 am - 10:45 am .......................................................................................................................Beverly Hills Ballroom 

The Next Generation of Venture Capital: Hot Ideas From Sand Hill Road 

Panelists 

Alec Ellison, Co-Head of Investment Banking; Chairman, Technology, Media and Telecom Group, 

Jefferies & Company Inc. 

Steve Jurvetson, Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson 

Eric McAfee, Chairman, McAfee Capital 

Ford Tamer, Operating Partner, Khosla Ventures 

Moderator 

Kara Swisher, Co-Executive Editor, All Things Digital 


Credit Markets 

Panelists 

David Malpass, President, Encima Global LLC 

Stephen Nesbitt, CEO, Cliffwater LLC 

Steven Tananbaum, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, GoldenTree Asset Management LP 

James Walker, Managing Partner, Fir Tree Partners 

Moderator 



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Jump-Starting the Housing Market 

Panelists 

Donald Brownstein, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, Structured Portfolio Management 

Ross DeVol, Director of Regional Economics and the Center for Health Economics, Milken Institute 

Steven Mnuchin, Chairman and Co-CEO, Dune Capital Management LP; Chairman and CEO, 

OneWest Bank Group LLC 

Richard Smith, President and CEO, Realogy Corp. 

Moderator 

Brian Sullivan, Anchor, Fox Business Network 


Building a World Without Hunger 

Panelists 

Dan Glickman, Chairman and CEO, Motion Picture Association of America; former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture 

William Meaney, CEO, The Zuellig Group 

Rajiv Shah, Director of Agricultural Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme 

Jerry Steiner, Executive Vice President, Sustainability and Corporate Affairs, Monsanto Company 

Moderator 

Terence Smith, Journalist; former Correspondent, “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” 

9:30 am - 10:45 am ................................................................................................................................... Brighton Room 

El Mundo Nuevo: Why the United States and Latin America Need Each Other 

Panelists 

Frank Baxter, Former U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay; Chairman Emeritus, Jefferies & Company Inc. 

Jeffrey Davidow, President, Institute of the Americas 

Bruno Ferrari, CEO, ProMexico 

Moderator 


Thomas McLarty, President, McLarty Associates; former Chief of Staff, Clinton Administration 

9:30 am - 10:45 am ......................................................................................................................................Dayton Room 

Energy Efficiency: Tightening Our Energy Belts 

Panelists 

Martha Amram, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; CEO, HomeZ Inc. 

David Arfin, Vice President, Customer Finance, SolarCity 

James Davis, President, Chevron Energy Solutions 

Bill Phillips, Director, Merchandising, THD At Home Services, Inc., Home Depot 

Mark Pougnet, Chief Financial Officer, Tendril Networks Inc. 

Moderator 

Nancy Pfund, Managing Partner, DBL Investors 

9:30 am - 10:45 am ........................................................................................................................................ Maple Room 

Emerging Domestic Markets: Financing Community Development in Troubled Times 

Panelists 

Douglas Bystry, President and CEO, Clearinghouse CDFI 

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins, CEO, Green For All 

George McCarthy, Director, Urban Opportunity, Ford Foundation 

David Sand, Chief Investment Officer, Access Capital Strategies 

Ellen Seidman, Executive Vice President, National Policy and Partnership Development, ShoreBank Corp.; 

Chair, Center for Financial Services Innovation; Senior Fellow, New America Foundation 

Moderator 



The Post-Secondary Education Market: Is Online Education Coming of Age? 

Panelists 

Charles Edelstein, CEO, Apollo Group Inc. 

Steve Fireng, President and CEO, Embanet ULC 

Mernoy Harrison Jr., Vice President and Executive Vice Provost, Arizona State University Online 

and Extended Education 

Murat Tarimcilar, Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Associate Professor of Decision Sciences, 

George Washington University 

Moderator 

Susan Wolford, Managing Director and Group Head, Business Services and Media, BMO Capital Markets Corp. 


A Conversation With Lado Gurgenidze, Former Prime Minister of Georgia 

Speaker 

Lado Gurgenidze, Former Prime Minister, Georgia 

Interviewer 




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Innovative Funding for Sustainable Fisheries and Oceans 

Panelists 

David Crane, Special Advisor to the Governor of California for Jobs and Economic Growth 

David Festa, Vice President, West Coast, Environmental Defense Fund 

Jerry Schubel, President and CEO, Aquarium of the Pacific 

Jason Winship, Managing Principal, Sea Change Management LLC 

Moderator 

Larry Band, Consultant, Environmental Defense Fund 

11:00 am – 12:15 pm 


Private Equity: Where Risk Meets Opportunity 

Panelists 

Leon Black, Founding Partner, Apollo Management LP 

Jim Davidson, Co-Founder and Chairman, Silver Lake 

Thomas Lee, President and CEO, Thomas H. Lee Capital LLC 

Ted Virtue, CEO, MidOcean Partners 

Moderator 

Duncan Goldie-Morrison, Chief Executive Officer of Calyon Americas 


Entrepreneurship = Recovery: A Formula for Long-Term Economic Growth 

Panelists 

James Cain, U.S. Ambassador to Denmark (Ret.); Chairman, Cain Global Partners LLC 

Thomas Donohue, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce 

Kris Gopalakrishnan, CEO and Managing Director, Infosys Technologies Ltd. 

William Saito, Director, Venture Support Center, Japan National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and 

Technology (AIST) 


Moderator 

Frank Luntz, President, The Word Doctors.com 



The Stimulus Bill and Education: How Can the Money Be Spent Wisely? 

Panelists 

William Bennett, Former U.S. Secretary of Education; Author, America: The Last Best Hope 

Roland Fryer Jr., CEO, The Education Innovation Laboratory, Harvard University 

Kevin Johnson, Mayor, City of Sacramento 

Barry O’Callaghan, Chief Executive Officer, Education Media Publishing Group 

Caprice Young, CEO, KC Distance Learning 

Moderator 

Lowell Milken, Chairman and Co-Founder, Milken Family Foundation; Co-Founder, Knowledge Universe 

Education; Founder, Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) 


What We’ve Learned From the Credit Crisis 

Panelists 

Alexander Friedman, Chief Financial Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

James Gellert, President and CEO, Rapid Ratings International 

Bruce Kasman, Chief U.S. Economist, JPMorgan Chase 

James McCaughan, CEO, Principal Global Investors LLC 

Gary Shilling, President, A. Gary Shilling & Co. 

Moderator 

Charles Van Vleet, Director, Portfolio Investments, United Technologies Corp. 


Reinvestment from Washington, Recovery in California 

Panelists 

Dale Bonner, Secretary, Business, Transportation & Housing Agency, State of California 

Richard Hartnack, Vice Chairman, U.S. Bancorp 

Kevin Klowden, Managing Economist, Milken Institute 

Bill Lockyer, Treasurer, State of California 

Moderator 

Tom Unterman, Managing Partner, Rustic Canyon Partners 


The State of Stem Cell Research 

Panelists 

R. Alta Charo, Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, Madison 

John McNeish, Executive Director, Pfizer Regenerative Medicine 

Brock Reeve, Executive Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute 

Alan Trounson, President, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine 

Moderator 



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Climate Change: Next Stop, Copenhagen 

Panelists 

Neil Eckert, CEO, Climate Exchange PLC 

Ivan Gold, Senior Counsel, Perkins Coie LLP 

Robert Hahn, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Regulatory and Market Studies, American Enterprise Institute 

for Public Policy Research 

Ian Shugart, Deputy Minister of the Environment, Canada 

Moderator 



Next-Generation Internet Innovations: Changing the Way We Live and 

Do Business 

Panelists 

Peter Neupert, Corporate Vice President, Health Solutions Group, Microsoft Corp. 

Jim Safka, CEO, Ask.com 

Michael Soenen, Former Chairman, CEO and President, FTD Group Inc. 

Mike Zapolin, Co-Founder, Internet Real Estate Group, Music.com and InsuranceQuotes.com 

Moderator 

Andrew Miller, Co-Founder and President, Internet Real Estate Group LLC and InternetRealEstate.com 

11:00 am - 12:15 pm ......................................................................................................................International Gallery 

The X Prize Model: Driving Innovation in Health Care 

Panelists 

Samuel Nussbaum, Executive Vice President, Clinical Health Policy, and Chief Medical Officer, WellPoint Inc. 

Bill Tauzin, President and CEO, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America 

Moderator 

Peter Diamandis, Chairman and CEO, X PRIZE Foundation 


CEO Conversation: Steve Cloobeck on the Value of Providing Excellent Service 

in Difficult Economic Times 

Speaker 


Stephen Cloobeck, Chairman and CEO, Diamond Resorts International 


12:15 pm - 2:15 pm...................................................................................................... International Ballroom 

Lunch Panel: A Discussion With Nobel Laureates in Economics: 

Whither Capitalism? 

Panelists 

Gary Becker, Nobel Laureate, 1992; University Professor of Economics and Sociology, University of Chicago 

Roger Myerson, Nobel Laureate, 2007; Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in Economics, 

University of Chicago 

Myron Scholes, Nobel Laureate, 1997; Chairman, Platinum Grove Asset Management 

Moderator 




2:30 pm – 3:45 pm 


Can Global Finance Survive Nationalization, Regulation and Reform? 

Panelists 

James Robinson III, General Partner, RRE Ventures 

Leon Wagner, Chairman, GoldenTree Asset Management 

Peter Weinberg, Partner, Perella Weinberg Partners 

Meredith Whitney, Founder, Meredith Whitney Advisory Group LLC 

Moderator 

Paul Calello, CEO, Investment Bank, Credit Suisse 


The Global Battle for Commodities 

Panelists 

Mark Cutis, Chief Investment Officer, Special Situations, Abu Dhabi Investment Council 

Josh Eastright, Product Manager, Energy and Commodities Markets, Bloomberg LP 

Mari Kooi, CEO and Founder, Wolf Asset Management International LLC 

Mark McLornan, Founding Partner, Agro Terra Ltd. 

Neal Shear, Managing Partner, Apollo Commodities Partners 

Moderator 

Bill Marcus, Head of Sales, Americas, Newedge 


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A Conversation With Lynda Resnick: Demystifying the Creative Process 


Gordon Crovitz, Columnist and former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal 

Speaker 

Lynda Resnick, Co-Chairman, Roll International Corp. 


Responsible Investing: Making Informed Investment Decisions 

Panelists 

Harold Bradley, Chief Investment Officer, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation 

Sean Harrigan, President, Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension Commission 

Barbara Krumsiek, President, CEO and Chair, Calvert Group Ltd. 

David Marchick, Managing Director and Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, The Carlyle Group 

Moderator 



Investing in Iraq 

Panelists 

Zeki Fattah, Senior Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister, Kurdistan Regional Government 

Charles Ries, Senior Fellow, Rand Corporation; former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq for Economic Transition Initiatives 

John Sullivan, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher; former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce 

Moderator 

Stephen DeAngelis, Founder, President and CEO, Enterra Solutions LLC 


Global Health: New Business Models 

Panelists 

Larry Brilliant, President, Skoll Urgent Threats Fund; Philanthropic Advisor to Jeff Skoll and Google 

Michael Madnick, Deputy Director, External Relations, Global Health Policy and Advocacy, 


Myrtle Potter, President and CEO, Myrtle Potter & Company LLC 

Kari Stoever, Managing Director, Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute 

Moderator 


Seth Berkley, President and CEO, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative 


India’s Human Capital: Educating the World’s Largest Population of Children 

Panelists 

Pramod Maheshwari, Founder and CEO, Career Point 

Grace Pinto, Managing Director, Ryan International Group of Institutions 

Anand Sudarshan, Managing Director and CEO, Manipal Education 

Jeremy Williams, Chief Academic Officer, Knowledge Universe Education 

Moderator 

Dilip Thakore, Publisher and Editor, Education World 


Developing, Selecting and Training the Next Generation of Leaders 

Panelists 

Jeffrey Cohn, New York Practice Leader, Spencer Stuart 

Robert Damon, President, North America, Korn/Ferry International 

John Haley, President and CEO, Watson Wyatt Worldwide 

Ilene Lang, President and CEO, Catalyst Inc. 

Moderator 


4:00 pm – 5:15 pm 

4:00 pm - 5:15 pm ...................................................................................................................... International Ballroom 

Institutional Investors: It’s a Whole New World 

Panelists 

Christopher Ailman, Chief Investment Officer, California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) 

Harold Bradley, Chief Investment Officer, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation 

Joseph Dear, Chief Investment Officer, California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) 

Catherine Lynch, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust 



Moderator 

Liam Kennedy, Editor, Investment & Pensions Europe 


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Alternative Medicine Joins the Mainstream 

Panelists 

Deepak Chopra, Co-Founder and President, Alliance for a New Humanity 

William Nelson, Marion I. Knott Director and Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine; 

Director, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center 

Dean Ornish, Founder and President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute; Clinical Professor of Medicine, 

University of California, San Francisco 

Moderator 



A Conversation With Vinod Khosla: The Shift to Renewable Energy Requires 

“Innovation Capitalism” 

Speaker 

Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures 

Interviewer 

Dennis Kneale, Media and Technology Editor, CNBC 


Transformative Technologies in K-12 Education 

Panelists 

Bruce Friend, Director, SAS Curriculum Pathways 

Greg Gunn, Chief Scientist and Co-Founder, Wireless Generation Inc. 

Ronald Packard, Chairman and Founder, K12 Inc. 

Caprice Young, CEO, KC Distance Learning 

Moderator 


Michael Horn, Executive Director, Education, Innosight Institute 


The End of Export-Driven Development: Searching for China’s Next Growth Engine 

Panelists 

Timothy Dattels, Partner, TPG Capital 

Lawrence Ho, Chairman and CEO, Melco International Development Ltd.; Co-Chairman and CEO, Melco Crown 

Entertainment Ltd. 

David Tao, Vice Chairman, Beijing Municipal Overseas Returned Chinese Federation 

Perry Wong, Senior Managing Economist, Milken Institute 

Moderator 

James McGregor, Chairman and CEO, JL McGregor & Company 


Global Aid Workers: Heroes on the Front Lines 

Panelists 

Nancy Aossey, President and CEO, International Medical Corps 

Larry Brilliant, President, Skoll Urgent Threats Fund; Philanthropic Advisor to Jeff Skoll and Google 

Caryl Stern, President, U.S. Fund for UNICEF 

Thomas Tighe, President and CEO, Direct Relief International 

Moderator 

Cinny Kennard, Senior Fellow, USC Annenberg School for Communication’s Center on Communication 

Leadership and Policy 


Dispelling Myths: The Real Role of Women in the Middle East 

Panelists 

Nadereh Chamlou, Senior Advisor to the Chief Economist, Middle East and North Africa Region, World Bank 

Neveen El Tahri, Chairperson, Delta Holdings for Capital Investments, Egypt 

Guity Nashat, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution 

Moderator 


Laurie Brand, Director and Professor, School of International Relations, University of Southern California 

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Focusing on the Balance Sheet: A New Approach to Family Wealth Management 

Panelists 

J. Scott Magrane Jr., Managing Director, Coady Diemar Partners LLC 

Rick Moreno, Managing Director, BlackRock 

Moderator 

S. Alexander Haverstick II, Founder, CEO and Managing Partner, Boxwood Strategic Advisors 

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm .................................................................................................................................................. Pavilion 

Book Signing 

Lynda Resnick, Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business 

5:00 pm – 6:45 pm 

5:00 pm - 6:45 pm ..................................................................................... Reception on International Terrace Patio 

Program in International Terrace 

Milken Institute Young Leaders 


Speaker 

Vinod Khosla, Founder, Khosla Ventures 

Interviewer 

Brian Sullivan, Anchor, Fox Business Network 

5:30 pm – 6:45 pm 


Canada Reception 


5:30 pm - 6:45 pm ................................................................................................................................................. Stardust 

Reception for Speakers and Sponsors 


5:30 pm - 6:45 pm ................................................................................................................................................. Poolside 

Jefferies Reception 



5:30 pm - 6:45 pm ......................................................................................................... Executive Center and Pavilion 

General Reception 

5:30 pm - 6:00 pm .................................................................................................................................................. Pavilion 

Book Signing 

Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams 

5:30 pm - 6:00 pm .................................................................................................................................................. Pavilion 

Book Signing 

Dean Ornish, The Spectrum: A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better, Live Longer, Lose Weight, 

and Gain Health 


7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ..................................................................................................................................................... International Ballroom 

Dinner Panel: A Political Discussion 

Panelists 

Harold Ford Jr., Chairman, Democratic Leadership Council; Visiting Professor of Public Policy, 

Vanderbilt University 

Ed Gillespie, Former Chairman, Republican National Committee (RNC); former Counselor to 

President George W. Bush 

Moderator 


9:00 pm – 10:00 pm 

9:00 pm - 10:00 pm ............................................................................................................................................... Pavilion 

Late Night: What’s So Funny? An Illustrated Talk by John Landis 

Sponsored by Newedge 



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Wednesday, April 29, 2009 

6:00 am - 4:00 pm ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................Hilton Lobby 


6:00 am - 9:00 am ..............................................................................................................Beverly Hills Ballroom Foyer and Executive Center 


6:30 am – 7:45 am 


New Energy in Canada 

Panelists 

David Abel, Chairman and Managing Director, VerdeXchange Institute 

Lynde Coit, Executive Vice President, Corporate Development, Plasco Energy Group Inc. 

Ian Shugart, Deputy Minister of the Environment, Canada 

Moderator 

David Fransen, Consul General, Canadian Consulate General in Los Angeles 

6:30 am - 7:45 am ..................................................................................................................................... Brighton Room 

Principal Group Breakfast 


Speaker 


6:30 am - 7:45 am ........................................................................................................................................Dayton Room 

Wall Street Without Walls Breakfast 


6:30 am - 7:45 am ......................................................................................................................................... Maple Room 

From Carbon to Silicon: Transforming Natural Resource-Dependent Countries to 

Knowledge-Based Economies 

Speaker 

Afgan Isayev, Executive Director, Azerbaijan Investment Company, Republic of Azerbaijan 


6:30 am - 7:45 am ..........................................................................................................................................Canon Room 

Current Opportunities in the Credit Markets 


6:30 am - 7:45 am .................................................................................................................................................. Stardust 

Vistage Breakfast 



8:00 am – 9:15 am 


Reading the Financial Tea Leaves: Indicators to Watch 

Panelists 

Todd Boehly, Managing Partner, Guggenheim Partners 

Rebecca Patterson, Managing Director and Global Head of Foreign Exchange and Commodities, J.P. Morgan 

Wealth Management 

David Solomon, Managing Director and Co-Head of Investment Banking Division, Goldman, Sachs & Co. 

Meredith Whitney, Founder, Meredith Whitney Advisory Group LLC 

Moderator 

Christopher Ailman, Chief Investment Officer, California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS) 


Social Networking in the Political World 

Panelists 

Jason Calacanis, Founder and CEO, Mahalo.com 

Mindy Finn, Co-Founder, Engage; former Director of eStrategy, Romney Presidential Campaign 

Scott Goodstein, Founder, Revolution Messaging; former External Online Director, Obama for America 

Andrew Rasiej, Social Entrepreneur; Futurist; Founder, Personal Democracy Forum 

Moderator 

Marcia Stepanek, Founding Editor-in-Chief and President, News and Information, Contribute Media 

8:00 am - 9:15 am ...........................................................................................................................International Terrace 

Alternative Public Education Systems: Delivering a High-Quality K-12 Education 

in the 21st Century 

Panelists 

Steve Barr, Founder and Chairman, Green Dot Public Schools 

Christopher Cerf, Deputy Chancellor, Strategy and Innovation, New York City Department of Education 

Eva Moskowitz, Founder and CEO, Success Charter Network 

Paul Pastorek, State Superintendent of Education, Louisiana Department of Education 

Richard Riordan, Former Mayor, City of Los Angeles 

Moderator 


Eli Broad, Founder, The Broad Foundation; Founder-Chairman, KB Home and SunAmerica 

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Power to the People: Rebuilding the Electrical Grid for the 21st Century 

Panelists 

Tom Casey, CEO, Current Group LLC 

Roger Conway, Director, Office of Energy Policy and New Uses, Office of the Chief Economist, USDA 

Arnold Leitner, CEO and President, SkyFuel Inc. 

Alan Salzman, CEO and Managing Partner, VantagePoint Venture Partners 

Ron Stoltz, Manager, National Energy Innovation Initiatives Project, Sandia National Laboratories 

Moderator 


8:00 am - 9:15 am ................................................................................................................................... Oakhurst Room 

Scaling Up Risk Capital to Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in 

Emerging Markets 

Panelists 

Matthew Gamser, Principal, Advisory Services, East Asia and Pacific Department, International Finance Corp. 

John Lyman, Program Manager, Google.org 

Sucharita Mukherjee, Senior Vice President, IFMR Trust; CEO, IFMR Capital 

Wayne Silby, Co-Chairman, Calvert Foundation; Founding Chair, Calvert Social Funds 

John Simon, Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development 

Peter Tropper, Principal Fund Specialist, Private Equity Department, International Finance Corp. 

Hubertus van der Vaart, Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF) 

Troy Wiseman, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, TriLinc Global 

Moderator 


8:00 am - 9:15 am ...........................................................................................................................International Gallery 

Milken Institute Israel Center Advisory Board Meeting 



9:30 am – 10:45 am 

9:30 am - 10:45 am .......................................................................................................................Beverly Hills Ballroom 

Oil and Energy Security 

Panelists 

Robert Hahn, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Regulatory and Market Studies, American Enterprise Institute 

for Public Policy Research 

Mikkal Herberg, BP Foundation Senior Research Fellow for International Energy, Pacific Council on 

International Policy 


Scott Nyquist, Director and Leader of Energy Practice, McKinsey & Company 

Moderator 



Marketing 3.0: Reaching Consumers and Getting Them to Buy 

Panelists 

Stephen Cloobeck, Chairman and CEO, Diamond Resorts International 

Michelle Gass, Executive Vice President, Marketing and Category, Starbucks 


Moderator 

Keith Ferrazzi, CEO, Ferrazzi Greenlight 


Health-Care Reform: Once More Into the Breach 

Panelists 

Mike McCallister, President and CEO, Humana Inc. 

Marian Mulkey, Senior Program Officer, California Healthcare Foundation 

Samuel Nussbaum, Executive Vice President, Clinical Health Policy, and Chief Medical Officer, WellPoint Inc. 

Chris Singer, Executive Vice President and President International, Pharmaceutical Research and 

Manufacturers of America 

Kenneth Thorpe, Executive Director, Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease; Robert W. Woodruff Professor and 

Chair of the Department of Health Policy & Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University 

Moderator 



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What’s the Grand Old Party to Do? The Future of the Conservative Movement 

Panelists 

Andrew Breitbart, Publisher, Breitbart.com and Big Hollywood; Columnist, Washington Times 

Jonah Goldberg, Columnist, The Los Angeles Times 

Amy Holmes, Political Analyst; former Senior Speechwriter for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist 

Kathryn Lopez, Editor, National Review Online 

Byron York, Chief Political Correspondent, Washington Examiner 

Moderator 


9:30 am - 10:45 am ................................................................................................................................... Brighton Room 

Financial Literacy: An Issue of American Competitiveness 

Panelists 

Sean Cleary, Chairman, Strategic Concepts (Pty) Ltd. 

Richard Hartnack, Vice Chairman, U.S. Bancorp 

Charlie Rahilly, President and CEO, Premiere Radio Networks 

David S. Simon, Executive Vice President, Citigroup Inc. 

Beverly Daniel Tatum, President, Spelman College 

Moderator 

John Bryant, Founder, Chairman and CEO, Operation HOPE; Vice Chairman, U.S. President’s Advisory Council on 

Financial Literacy 

9:30 am - 10:45 am ......................................................................................................................................Dayton Room 

Ensuring the World’s Water Supply 

Panelists 

Joseph Boystak, President and CEO, Brightwaters Capital LLC 

Yoram Cohen, Director, Water Technology Research Center; Professor, Henry Samueli School of Engineering and 

Applied Science, University of California, Los Angeles 

Paul Pelosi Jr., President, San Francisco Commission on the Environment 

Tom Soto, Managing Partner, Craton Equity Partners 

Susan Weil, Partner, Lamont Financial Services Corp. 

Moderator 


Roy Doumani, Founder, California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles 

9:30 am - 10:45 am ........................................................................................................................................ Maple Room 

Fostering Change in Africa: Transforming a Continent Through Innovative 

Business and Philanthropy 

Panelists 

Rod MacAlister, Managing Director, Africa Middle Market Fund 

Nazeem Martin, Managing Director and CEO, Business Partners Ltd. and Business Partners International 

Aleem Walji, Head of Global Development Initiatives, Google.org 

Greg Wyler, Founder and CEO, O3b Networks Ltd. 

Moderator 

John Simon, Visiting Fellow, Center for Global Development 


The Business of Social Networking 

Panelists 

Gina Bianchini, CEO and Co-Founder, Ning Inc. 

Barry Libert, Chairman and CEO, Mzinga 

Paul Pluschkell, CEO and Co-Founder, SpigIt 

Moderator 

Paul Kedrosky, Senior Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation 


Reviving Israeli-Palestinian Economic Cooperation 

Panelists 

Amir Dajani, Deputy Managing Director, Bayti Real Estate Investment Company 

Jacob Dayan, Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles 

Saed Nashef, General Partner, Middle East Venture Capital Fund 

James Prince, President, Founder, The Democracy Council 

Zvi Schreiber, Founder and CEO, Global Hosted Operating SysTem (G.ho.st) 

Moderator 


David Pollock, Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns & Co. Inc.; Chairman, Milken Institute Israel Center 

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Rx for Failing Schools: High Test, High Tech 

Panelists 

Judy Burton, President and CEO, Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools 

Marlene Canter, Member, Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education 

Christina Cleugh, Education Consultant; Former Online and In-Classroom Teacher and Trainer 

Carlos Garcia, Superintendent, San Francisco Unified School District 

Donald Knezek, CEO, International Society for Technology in Education 

James Konantz, Regional Vice President, K12 Inc. 

Moderator 

Thomas Boysen, Chief Learning Officer, GlobalScholar 

11:00 am – 12:15 pm 


The Role of Finance in Strengthening the Economy 

Panelists 

Lewis Ranieri, Chairman and CEO, Ranieri & Co. Inc.; Chairman, Hyperion Partners; founder, Hyperion Private 

Equity Funds 

Richard Sandor, Chairman and CEO, Chicago Climate Exchange Inc.; Senior Fellow, Milken Institute 

Moderator 



Global Risk 

Panelists 

Asim Hussain, Adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Petroleum and Natural Resources 

Jami Miscik, Vice Chairman and President, Kissinger Associates 

Karen Monaghan, National Intelligence Officer for Economics and Global Issues, National Intelligence Council 

Jean-Louis Scandella, Emerging Markets Fund Manager, Comgest Group 

Moderator 




The Mobile Web 

Panelists 

Len Lauer, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Qualcomm Inc. 

Mary McDowell, Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer, Nokia 

Greg Skibiski, CEO and Co-Founder, Sense Networks 

Moderator 

Steve Ellis, Worldwide Managing Director, Bain & Company 


The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets Roundtable 

Panelists 

James Barth, Senior Finance Fellow, Milken Institute; Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance, Auburn University 

Alan Boyce, CEO, Absalon; President, Adecoagro 

Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, 

University of California, Berkeley 


Moderator 

Rick Newman, Chief Business Correspondent, U.S. News & World Report 


CEO Conversation: Outlook for India With Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan 

Speaker 


Interviewer 

Komal Sri-Kumar, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Managing Director and Chief Global Strategist, TCW Group Inc. 


Early Childhood Education at a Crossroads 

Panelists 

Fran Durekas, Founder and Chief Development Officer, Children’s Creative Learning Centers Inc. 

Ken Jaffe, President and Executive Director, International Child Resource Institute 

Eric Karolak, Executive Director, Early Care and Education Consortium 

Roger Neugebauer, President, World Forum Foundation 

Moderator 


Dennis Vicars, Executive Director, Professional Association for Childhood Education Alternative Payment Program 

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You are What You Wear: A Conversation With Deborah Nadoolman Landis, 

Hollywood Costume Designer of Indiana Jones and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” 

The author will sign books in this room immediately following the session. 

Speaker 

Deborah Nadoolman Landis, Hollywood Costume Designer of Indiana Jones, “Thriller” and More 

Interviewer 

Robert Rosen, Dean, School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California, Los Angeles 


An Interactive Discussion About Social Networking 

Moderator 

Barry Libert, Chairman and CEO, Mzinga 


PACE Finance: Innovative Funding to Accelerate the Retrofitting of 

America’s Buildings for Energy Independence 

Panelists 

Erik Caldwell, Energy Policy Advisor, Office of the Mayor of San Diego 

Stephen Compagni Portis, Chairman and CEO, Renewable Funding LLC 

Thomas Gackstetter, Director of Energy Efficiency Programs, Los Angeles Department of Water & Power 

Craig Hill, Principal, Northcross, Hill & Ach Inc. 


Dan Probst, Chairman, Energy and Sustainability Services, Jones Lang LaSalle 

Moderator 

Jeffrey Tannenbaum, Founder and President, Fir Tree Partners 

12:15 pm - 2:15 pm .................................................................................................................................................International Ballroom 

Lunch Panel: Global Overview 

Panelists 

Gary Becker, Nobel Laureate, 1992; University Professor of Economics and Sociology, University of Chicago 


Karen Monaghan, National Intelligence Officer for Economics and Global Issues, National Intelligence Council 

Keng Yong Ong, Director, Institute of Policy Studies, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University 

of Singapore; former Secretary-General, ASEAN 

Moderator 



Robert Hormats, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs (International); Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. 



12:15 pm - 12:45 pm .............................................................................................................................................. Pavilion 

Book Signing 

Barry Libert, Barack, Inc.: Winning Business Lessons of the Obama Campaign 

2:30 pm – 3:45 pm 


TARP: A Look at What Happened From Inside the Treasury Department 

Panelists 

Kevin Fromer, Former Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury 

David Nason, Former Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions, U.S. Department of the Treasury 

Phillip Swagel, Former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury 

Moderator 

Rick Newman, Chief Business Correspondent, U.S. News & World Report 


Reverse Oil Shock in the Middle East 

Panelists 

Naser Abdul Mohsin Al-Marri, Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, Noor Financial Investment Company 

Peter Barker-Homek, CEO, Abu Dhabi National Energy Company (TAQA) 

Neveen El Tahri, Chairperson, Delta Holdings for Capital Investments, Egypt 

Jason Peers, Group Chief Executive, Jasper Capital Ltd.; Chairman, Middle East Association GCC Region 

David Scott, Executive Director, Economic Affairs, Executive Affairs Authority of Abu Dhabi 

Moderator 

Jerrold Green, President and CEO, Pacific Council on International Policy 


CEO: How Will It Stop Being a Dirty Word? 

Panelists 

Marshall Goldsmith, Executive Coach, Speaker, Author 

Oren Harari, Author; Professor of Management, University of San Francisco 

Sir Ken Robinson, Author, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything 

Moderator 

Rafael Pastor, Chairman and CEO, Vistage International 


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Market Solutions to Global Climate Change 

Panelists 

Gregory Arnold, Managing Partner, CE2 Capital Partners 

Gray Davis, Former Governor, State of California; Of Counsel, Loeb & Loeb LLP 

Chris Hunter, Vice President, Climate Change Capital 

Joseph Pettus, Senior Vice President, Fuel & Energy, Safeway Inc. 

Richard Sandor, Chairman and CEO, Chicago Climate Exchange Inc.; Senior Fellow, Milken Institute 

Moderator 

Bob Moon, Senior Business Correspondent, “Marketplace” 


Politics, Economics and Culture: The Language of America 

Speaker 


2:30 pm - 3:45 pm ................................................................................................................................................Oakhurst 

Financing Israel’s Future 

Panelists 

Yadin Antebi, Acting Commissioner of Capital Markets, Insurance and Savings, Ministry of Finance, State of Israel 

Zvi Chalamish, Consul and Chief Fiscal Officer for the Western Hemisphere, Israel Economic Mission, 

Ministry of Finance 

Stanley Gold, President, Shamrock Holdings Inc. 

Carl Kaplan, Managing Director, Koret Israel Economic Development Funds 

Scott Tobin, General Partner, Battery Ventures 

Moderator 

Yossie Hollander, Chairman, Israeli Institute for Economic Planning 


A Conversation With Sumner Redstone: If You Could Live Forever, What Would 

Life Be Like? 

Speaker 

Sumner Redstone, Executive Chairman, Viacom Inc. 


4:00 pm – 5:15 pm 


Outlook for the Entertainment Industry 

Panelists 

Peter Chernin, President and Chief Operating Officer, News Corporation 

Brian Grazer, Producer and Partner, Imagine Entertainment 

Jon Miller, Chairman and CEO, Digital Media Group, News Corporation 

Leslie Moonves, President and CEO, CBS Corp. 

Moderator 

Dennis Kneale, Media and Technology Editor, CNBC 


Sustaining Sustainability 

Panelists 

Steve Howard, CEO, The Climate Group 

Mike Italiano, President and CEO, Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS); Founder, Capital Markets 

Partnership 

Audra Jones, Americas Director, International Business Leaders Forum 

Matt Kistler, Senior Vice President, Sustainability, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. 

Sharon Nunes, Vice President, Strategic Growth Initiatives, Big Green Innovations, IBM Systems & Technology Group 

Moderator 

Robert Bucklin, Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Banking Officer , North America, 

Rabobank International 


Innovation Out of Necessity: Incubating Solutions in Israel 

Panelists 

Dorit Inbar, Director General, New Foundation of Cinema & TV 

Erel Margalit, Founder and Managing Partner, Jerusalem Venture Partners 

Ron Maron, Director, Business Development, Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development 

Isabel Maxwell, Director and Chair of the Social Entrepreneur Fellowship Program, Israel Venture Network 

Yitzhak Peterburg, Senior Visiting Fellow, Milken Institute; former CEO, Clalit Health Services; former President 

and CEO, Cellcom Israel Ltd. 

Moderator 


5:30 pm - 6:30 pm ................................................................................................................................................. Poolside 

Closing Reception 


KC Distance Learning Reception 



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Taha Abdul-Basser is Principal and Co-Founder of StraightWay Ethical Advisory LLC, a sharia compliance 

consulting group, founded and operated by financial ethicists, that offers ethical advisory services to the shariacompliant 

financial services sector. Abdul-Basser is a consultant, researcher and translator in the field of Islamic ethics 

and law. The lead researcher and contributor to the “Sharia Database,” the Harvard Islamic Finance Information Program’s 

electronic database on Islamic financial ethics and jurisprudence, Abdul-Basser is also chaplain of the Harvard Islamic 

Society and has taught at Harvard University and Boston University. He was educated at Harvard University and the 

Spectra Institute of Language Studies in Yemen. 

David Abel is Chairman and Managing Director of the VerdeXchange Institute, an environmental think tank and 

publisher that informs innovators wishing to employ and deploy green technology. Abel is also president and CEO of ABL 

Inc., a California-based public policy consulting firm. It publishes The Planning Report, which focuses on land-use issues 

in Southern California, verdeXchange news and the Metro Investment Report, which covers infrastructure. Abel chairs a 

number of civic organizations, including the Los Angeles County Economic Develop Corporation’s Green Economy Task 

Force, New Schools Better Neighborhoods and the University of Southern California’s Masters in Public Policy Advisory 

Board. He is also on the board of USC’s Bedrosian Center on Governance and the Public Enterprise and the Trust for Public 

Land California, among others. He is a lecturer on regionalism at the University of California, San Diego. 

Peter Adamson is the Chief Investment Officer of the Eli Broad Family Office, an organization he joined in 2001. 

In this role, he manages the multibillion-dollar investment portfolios of the Broad family and the Broad Foundations. 

From 1995 to 2001, Adamson was an investment adviser to members of the Bass family in Fort Worth, Texas, where 

he evaluated and managed direct investments for various family entities. From 1988 to 1994, he was with the 

management consulting firm McKinsey & Company Inc., where he developed and implemented strategy and operating 

improvements for companies in a variety of industry sectors. Adamson received a bachelor’s degree in economics from 

Occidental College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. 

Andre Agassi began his professional tennis career in 1986 at age 16. His performance on the court earned him 

60 career men’s singles titles, including eight Grand Slam singles championships. Agassi is the only male player in the 

world to win all four Grand Slam titles and an Olympic gold medal. In 1994 he established the Andre Agassi Foundation, 

which is dedicated to transforming U.S. public education for underserved youth. The foundation drives reform by 

engaging in practice, policy and partnerships that provide quality education and enrichment opportunities. The 

centerpiece of its mission is the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy, a model K-12 charter school located in the 

most socioeconomically disadvantaged community of Las Vegas. Agassi Prep will celebrate its first graduating class in 

June 2009. 

Christopher Ailman is Chief Investment Officer of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS), the 

second-largest pension fund in the nation. He joined CalSTRS in 2000, after managing the Washington State Investment 

Board and serving as chief investment officer of the Sacramento County Employees’ Retirement System. In 2006 he 

became the first Anglo to receive the Distinguished Service Award for the advancement of Latinos in business from the 

New America Alliance. He was also named the 2000 CIO of the Year by the Institute for Fiduciary Education and received 

the 2003 Richard L. Stoddard Award for outstanding contributions to the investment of public funds. Ailman received a 

bachelor’s degree in business economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

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Alice Albright is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial and Investment Officer of the GAVI Alliance, a publicprivate 

partnership dedicated to improving health in 72 of the world’s poorest countries by providing life-saving vaccines 

and strengthening health systems. Throughout her tenure at GAVI, Albright has focused on innovative financing 

solutions such as the International Finance Facility for Immunization, a capital markets-based funding mechanism 

launched in 2006 that will raise approximately $4 billion for immunization over the next 10 years. Albright has co-chaired 

the Center for Global Development’s study “Making Markets for Vaccines,” an early effort to define the parameters of 

the Advance Market Commitment program. She has held executive positions at The Carlyle Group, J.P. Morgan, Bankers 

Trust’s Latin American Merchant Bank and Citicorp. Albright graduated from Williams College and received a master’s 

degree in international finance from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University 

Naser Abdul Mohsin Al-Marri is Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of the Noor Financial Investment 

Company, based in Kuwait. Before assuming his current position in 2005, he spent 14 years with the Kuwait Investment 

Authority as director of its Loans Department and as acting director of its Direct Investment Department. He also 

served as a member of the government financing team that organized loan financing from the U.S. government for the 

rebuilding of Kuwait after the Gulf War. He previously spent two years in the United Kingdom working as an associate in 

the Corporate Finance, Merchant Banking and Emerging Markets division of Bankers Trust. He has served as a director 

of numerous international businesses and is the vice chairman of Meezan Bank, the largest Islamic investment bank in 

Pakistan. Al-Marri is a graduate of the University of Kuwait. 

Martha Amram, a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute, is CEO of HomeZ Inc., which provides homeowners with 

advice and services for saving energy and water. As a consultant, she has worked with Fortune 500 companies and 

startups on the value of R&D projects, managing the R&D pipeline, valuation of joint ventures and more. She has 

served as the interim CEO of Vocomo Software and as chief economist of PLX Systems. Amram co-founded Glaze 

Creek Partners, a consulting firm, which she sold to Navigant Corporation in 1999. At Navigant, she led the real options 

practice area. She has also prepared expert testimony on valuation and risk while a vice president at Analysis Group 

Inc. and served as an assistant professor at Boston University. Amram is a graduate of the University of Washington and 

received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

G. Chris Andersen is the Founder of G.C. Andersen Partners LLC, a boutique merchant and investment bank 

based in New York. Previously he served as vice chairman of Paine Webber and head of the Investment Banking 

Group at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Andersen is vice chair of the Milken Institute’s SAVE alternative energy and energy 

independence initiative. He is also the lead director of Terex Corp., the third-largest construction company in the world, 

and serves on the International Advisory Council of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in 

Beijing and on the Rand Corp.’s Asia Pacific Policy Advisory Board. He is the founder of the Cleantech Venture Challenge 

at his alma mater, the University of Colorado. Andersen received an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at 

Northwestern University. 

Margaret Anderson is Chief Operating Officer of FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions, an 

initiative of the Milken Institute committed to accelerating the medical research process for new treatments and cures 

for diseases. Anderson previously spent five years with the Academy for Educational Development (AED), as deputy 

director and a team leader for the Center on AIDS and Community Health. She assisted in the management of a 

70-person domestic and international staff, and had responsibility for financial and budget oversight, team projects 

and strategic planning. She has also served as program director for the Society for Women’s Health Research, a healthscience 

analyst at the American Public Health Association and an analyst and project director at the Congressional 

Office of Technology Assessment. Anderson received a master’s degree in science, technology and public policy from 

George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. 

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Yadin Antebi is Commissioner of Capital Markets, Insurance and Savings at Israel’s Ministry of Finance. Before 

assuming this position, he served as deputy commissioner, overseeing strategic planning and implementation of 

recommendations made by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Capital Market Structural Reforms. He specializes in 

regulation of the private health-insurance market, reform of private nursing insurance and regulation of insurance 

sold by mortgage banks. He also led reform of Israel’s mandatory car insurance. Antebi holds a bachelor’s degree in 

economics and accounting and an M.B.A. in finance and accounting from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

Nancy Aossey is President and CEO of International Medical Corps (IMC), a non-governmental organization 

dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering by delivering medical relief, health-care training and development 

programs that build self-reliance. After becoming CEO shortly after IMC’s founding in the mid-1980s, Aossey 

established the organization as a leader in medical crisis response and recovery, launching humanitarian activities in 

Afghanistan, Pakistan, Rwanda, Somalia, southern Sudan, Angola, Mozambique, Cambodia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Thailand, 

Honduras and Nicaragua. Her efforts have transformed IMC into one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations, 

providing more than $120 million in disaster response and recovery programs annually. Today IMC’s 3,500 staff and 

volunteers work in the world’s most challenging places, including low-income, fragile and post-conflict regions like 

Darfur, northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Chechnya, Ethiopia and Iraq. 

David Arfin is Vice President of Customer Finance for SolarCity. He is the creator of the firm’s SolarLease, a first-of-itskind 

financing option that allows homeowners to pay less for solar power than they currently pay for electricity. Prior to 

joining SolarCity, Arfin was the founder of FirstEnergyFinance.com, co-founder and CEO of GlooLabs Inc. (later acquired 

by Cisco Systems), co-founder of Flywheel Communications and founder and CEO of CLE Group (later acquired by 

Practicing Law Institute). Before he began launching companies, he was a lobbyist for the Association of American 

Universities, a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs in Los Angeles and an intern in the Israeli Knesset. Arfin received a bachelor’s 

degree from the University of California, Los Angeles; a master’s degree from Claremont Graduate University; and an 

M.B.A. from Stanford University. 

Gregory Arnold is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CE2 Capital Partners, a U.S.-based investment manager 

focused on the growing environmental commodities markets. He is also President of CE2 Carbon Capital, a company 

dedicated to building a portfolio of carbon offsets and other assets focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in 

North America. Arnold began his career as an investment banker with Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co. At 

Goldman Sachs, he focused on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions for energy and power companies. Over 

his career, Arnold has had a number of senior dealmaking roles in large corporations and growth companies, including as 

President of Passlogix, Inc., a security software company he co-founded. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University 

of California, San Diego, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is on the boards of the UC San Diego Dean’s 

Council in Physical Sciences and Passlogix, Inc.; he is also a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. 

Paul Aronzon is the Co-Practice Group Leader of the Financial Restructuring Group and a partner in the Los 

Angeles Office of the global law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He has more than three decades of 

experience in restructuring and corporate reorganization, representing debtors and creditors in reorganization 

cases, including exchange and tender offers, consent solicitations and rights offerings, as well as prepackaged and 

prearranged reorganizations. Aronzon has also represented private equity funds, hedge funds and others acquiring 

control positions in financially distressed companies. He advises on corporate governance and fiduciary duty in the 

restructuring context, and his engagements have spanned a broad range of industries. Aronzon graduated from 

California State University, Northridge, and received his law degree from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles. 

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Max Azria is Chairman, CEO and Designer of BCBGMaxAzria Group Inc., which he founded in 1989. Redefining the 

designer apparel category by offering innovative, high-quality clothing at contemporary price points, Azria named the 

company for the phrase bon chic, bon genre, Parisian slang meaning “good style, good attitude.” The brand combines 

European sophistication and American spirit. In 1996, Azria began to expand his product categories and launched 

a global branding corporation. Today, BCBGMaxAzria Group designs, develops, produces and markets collections 

of women’s ready-to-wear and accessories, and select categories for men. The group encompasses a portfolio of 21 

brands, including BCBG Max Azria, Max Azria, Max Azria Atelier, Hervé Léger by Max Azria, BCBGirls and BCBGeneration, 

among others, and a retail and wholesale network of more than 1,000 boutiques and 13,500 points of sale worldwide. 

Lee Bailey is Managing Partner of US Renewables Group, which was formed with the participation of Rustic Canyon 

Partners, a venture capital fund where Bailey was a partner and continues to serve as an advisory partner on energy 

technology opportunities. He is chairman of SolarReserve and also serves on the boards of Pentadyne (where he is 

also an investor), Transonic Combustion, USRG Geothermal, USRG Biodiesel Group and USRG. Previously Bailey was 

the founding CEO of the Rural Health Care Corp. and founding director of the U.S. Israel Fund. He has also served as 

the White House Director of International Science and Technology Commercialization initiatives for Russia, Egypt, 

Jordan, Israel and South Africa. Bailey received a bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University, a master’s degree from 

Northwestern University and a law degree from Washington University School of Law. 

Shawn Baldwin is Chairman of Capital Management Group (CMG), a firm that provides advisory and investment 

banking services to institutions. Since 2002 the company has participated in 75 capital market transactions worth more 

than $68 billion. Baldwin is a frequent guest on Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, NBC and CBS. He has been featured in The 

Economist, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune and Money magazines, and was named one of 40 leading investment bankers 

under 40 by Investment Dealers’ Digest. Prior to CMG, Baldwin was chief operating officer of a registered investment 

advisory firm and worked for American Express and U.S. Bank. He also has the distinction of being the second African- 

American member of the Chicago Stock Exchange. Baldwin has a bachelor’s degree from Antioch University and a 

master’s degree in financial strategy from the University of Oxford. 

Larry Band is a consultant to the Environmental Defense Fund, focusing on its Ocean Enterprise initiative. He 

previously worked at Lehman Brothers in a number of different roles. He spent 17 years as an investment banker 

advising corporations on a wide variety of strategic and financing transactions, focusing primarily on firms in the 

telecommunications, technology and industrial sectors. His experience also included management responsibility for 

the global telecommunications banking practice and the global technology mergers and acquisition practice. Band 

also served as a senior member of Lehman’s human capital management team as global head of recruiting, with 

responsibility for talent management for junior professionals across the firm. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, he 

worked as a management consultant for Bain & Company and as a policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute. 

He received bachelor’s degrees from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

Peter Barker-Homek is CEO of TAQA, the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company. He is driving the firm’s global 

growth agenda in upstream oil and gas, pipelines, gas storage, LNG (liquefied natural gas) regasification systems 

and power generation. Barker-Homek has more than 27 years of experience and has been involved in more than 

$30 billion of energy-related transactions. He joined TAQA from BP PLC, where he was a senior advisor in the Mergers and 

Acquisitions division, leading and advising on upstream, midstream, downstream, chemicals, mining and renewable 

transactions. He has held positions with BG International as director of worldwide downstream gas distribution 

development, and with Pacific Enterprises as vice president of development for Eastern Europe and Latin America. 

Previously, he worked with Merrill Lynch in its Capital Markets Group. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Polytechnic 

University of New York and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. 

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Steve Barr is Founder, Chairman and former CEO of Green Dot Public Schools, which he founded in 1999 to develop 

charter schools in Los Angeles. The first school opened in fall 2000; most recently, Green Dot restructured one Watts high 

school into eight small charter schools in 2008. Barr also serves on the Advisory Commission on Charter Schools for the 

California Board of Education. He has held a number of leadership positions in political and social service organizations. 

In 1990, he co-founded Rock the Vote and led the successful effort to pass the Motor Voter Bill, signed into law in 1994. 

Barr hosted President Clinton’s National Service Inaugural event, which led to the creation of AmeriCorps, and oversaw 

an AmeriCorps after-school project in South Central and East Los Angeles. Barr, also a writer, is politically active, having 

served several presidential campaigns and acted as a finance chair for the Democratic Party. 

Timothy Barrett is Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of the San Bernardino County Employees’ 

Retirement Association (SBCERA). He was recently elected vice president of the State Association of County Retirement 

Systems. Under his direction, SBCERA was named Mid-Sized Public Plan of the Year for 2007 by Money Management 

Letter. Barrett was formerly SBCERA’s investment manager and began his career there as a project manager, splitting time 

between technology and investment work. He serves on the European Strategic Partners Advisory Board of Standard 

Life Investments and the Lehman Brothers Secondary Opportunity Fund, and is a board member of The Children’s Fund. 

A member of the CFA Institute and a charter holder of the CFA designation, Barrett earned a bachelor’s degree from the 

University of Montana and a master’s degree in financial and tax planning from San Diego State University. 

James Barth is the Senior Finance Fellow at the Milken Institute and the Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance at 

Auburn University. His research focuses on financial institutions and capital markets, with an emphasis on regulatory 

issues. He recently led an international team advising the People’s Bank of China on banking reform. Barth previously 

served as chief economist of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and later of the Office of Thrift Supervision. He has 

been a professor at George Washington University, associate director of the economics program at the National Science 

Foundation and the Shaw Foundation Professor of Banking and Finance at Nanyang Technological University. Barth is 

the author of multiple books, including The Great Savings and Loan Debacle and Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels 

Govern; his latest, published this spring, is The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets. Barth received a Ph.D. 

from Ohio State University. 

Frank Baxter served as U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay from November 2006 to January 2009. He is also Chairman 

Emeritus at Jefferies & Company Inc., a global investment bank specializing in small and midcap companies. After a 

decade with Jefferies, Baxter moved to London in 1984 to start and act as managing director of Jefferies International. 

In 1987 he became CEO of Jefferies and started the Investment Technology Group, now a major electronic institutional 

brokerage. A former director of the NASD, he chaired the committee that led to the spin-off of NASDAQ and 

subsequently served on the board of NASDAQ as a member of the Executive Committee. He is also a former director 

of the Securities Industry Association. His numerous civic activities include serving as chairman of After-School All 

Stars and of the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools. Baxter received a bachelor’s degree from the University of 

California, Berkeley. 

Billy Beane is Vice President and General Manager of the Oakland Athletics. During his tenure, the A’s have compiled 

a 976-804 record over the last 11 seasons, winning four AL West titles and securing one AL Wild Card spot. Under Beane, 

the A’s have adopted an organizational philosophy that stresses plate discipline and pitchers who command the 

strike zone. Beane’s executive talents and baseball philosophy were the subject of Michael Lewis’s best-selling book 

Moneyball; as a result, Beane is regularly asked to address top companies on his management approach of identifying 

and using undervalued assets to create and sustain a competitive edge. He originally joined the A’s front office staff 

in 1990 as a major league advance scout. Beane played six major league seasons with the Mets, Twins, Tigers and A’s, 

ultimately serving as a utility player on the A’s 1989 world championship team. 

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Douglas Becker is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Laureate Education Inc., a global operator of international 

universities. The company provides a university experience for traditional and working-adult students through 

its international network of accredited universities spanning 20 countries and enrolling nearly 500,000 students 

worldwide. Becker previously served as the CEO of Sylvan Learning Systems, which he built into the largest tutoring 

company in North America with more than 1,000 centers. Becker demonstrates his commitment to community as 

chairman of the International Youth Foundation, a global charity focusing on youth employment, education and civic 

engagement, and as the founding chairman of Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore. He is also a director of 

Constellation Energy Group Inc., a Fortune-100 leading energy firm in the United States. 

Gary Becker, recipient of the 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, is the University Professor of 

Economics and Sociology at the University of Chicago. He is also a professor at the university’s Booth School of Business 

and the Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institute. He was awarded the Presidential Medal 

of Freedom in 2007, the National Medal of Science in 2000, the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic 

Association in 1967 and many other awards. The author of numerous books and professional articles, Becker was a 

featured monthly columnist for BusinessWeek for almost 20 years. He is recognized for his expertise in human capital, 

economic incentives, economics of the family, and economic analysis of crime, discrimination and population. Becker 

taught at Columbia University for 12 years before returning to the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D. 

William Bennett is a former U.S. Secretary of Education and the current Washington Fellow at the Claremont 

Institute in Claremont, Calif. He also hosts the weekday radio program “Morning in America,” has written for leading 

newspapers and magazines, and provides political commentary on CNN. An advocate of education reform, Bennett 

served as President Reagan’s secretary of education and chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and 

President George H.W. Bush’s “drug czar.” He has written and edited numerous books, including two volumes of America: 

The Last Best Hope and The American Patriot’s Almanac. Bennett has taught at Boston University, the University of Texas 

and Harvard; he also founded and served as the first chairman of K12 Inc., an online education company. He received a 

bachelor’s degree from Williams College, a Ph.D. from the University of Texas and a J.D. from Harvard University. 

Seth Berkley is President, CEO and Founder of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a not-for-profit 

organization dedicated to ensuring the development of safe and accessible HIV vaccines worldwide. IAVI is currently 

operational in 24 countries. Berkley is a medical doctor specializing in infectious disease epidemiology and international 

health. Prior to founding IAVI in 1996, he was an officer of the Health Sciences Division at The Rockefeller Foundation. He 

has worked for the Center for Infectious Diseases of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the Massachusetts Department 

of Public Health and the Carter Center, where he was assigned as an epidemiologist to the Ministry of Health in Uganda 

to help develop its national AIDS control programs. Berkley is an adjunct professor at Columbia and Brown universities 

and has authored more than 85 publications. He received undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University 

and trained in internal medicine at Harvard University. 

Scott Berns is a Co-Founder of The Progeria Research Foundation Inc. and chairs its board of directors. He has worked 

at the March of Dimes national office since 2001 and is currently Senior Vice President of Chapter Programs. He also 

serves on the executive committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Perinatal Pediatrics. In 2001, Berns 

completed a one-year White House Fellowship as a special assistant to the U.S. secretary of transportation. He is a pediatric 

emergency physician and was medical director of pediatric trauma at Hasbro Children’s Hospital for seven years. Berns 

received a bachelor’s degree and an M.D. from Boston University, and an M.P.H. from the Harvard University School of 

Public Health. He is a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. 

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Gina Bianchini is CEO and Co-Founder of Palo Alto–based Ning, a service that enables anyone to create a personal 

social network around any theme or purpose. Prior to co-founding Ning (with Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen) 

in 2004, she was co-founder and president of Harmonic Communications, which was acquired by the Japanese 

advertising agency Dentsu. She has also held positions at CKS Group and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Bianchini holds a 

bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and an M.B.A from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

Leon Black is a Founding Partner of Apollo Advisors LP. He founded Apollo Advisors and Lion Advisors LP in 1990 

to manage investment capital on behalf of a group of institutional investors, focusing on corporate restructuring, 

leveraged buyouts and taking minority positions in growth-oriented companies. Black also co-founded Apollo Real 

Estate Advisors LP. He previously worked at Drexel Burnham Lambert as managing director, head of the Mergers and 

Acquisitions Group and co-head of the Corporate Finance Department. He is a trustee of Dartmouth College, the 

Museum of Modern Art, Mt. Sinai Hospital and the Asia Society. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, 

the National Advisory Board of JPMorgan Chase and the board of FasterCures. Black received a bachelor’s degree from 

Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

Jonathan Bloch is Senior Managing Director and Managing Partner of GKM Newport, a private equity fund-offunds 

and advisory firm that he co-founded. Currently GKM Newport has investments and committed capital in more 

than 55 private equity funds and co-investments representing approximately $1 billion. He also manages a late-stage 

venture capital fund. Bloch leads investments in expansion-stage technology funds and direct investments located in 

the United States. A significant area of the firm’s focus is on clean-tech investing; GKM Newport has committed capital 

to approximately 12 clean-tech funds that have investments in more than 90 portfolio companies. Previously, Bloch 

was a managing director at Gerard Klauer and Mattison; prior to that, he was managing director of the Technology 

Group at Chanin Capital Partners. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. 

from the University of San Diego School of Law. 

Richard Blum is Chairman of The Regents of the University of California. He is also chairman of Blum Capital Partners 

LP, a private equity firm he founded in 1975. Blum currently serves as chairman of the board of CB Richard Ellis and is on 

the board of three portfolio companies: Fairmont Raffles Holdings International Ltd., Current Media LLC and Myer Pty 

Ltd. (Australia). He is also co-chairman for Asia with TPG Capital and co-founder of Newbridge Capital (now part of TPG 

Capital). Blum is the founder and chairman of the American Himalayan Foundation and honorary consul to Mongolia 

and Nepal. In 2006 he funded the Blum Center for Developing Economies at the University of California, Berkeley. He 

is also a trustee and member of the Executive Committee of The Carter Center, founded by former President Jimmy 

Carter. Blum received a bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley. 

George Blumenthal is President and CEO of Park Avenue Medical Data Systems. Over the past 30 years, he has 

been involved in communications technologies and financing medical-device and health information technology 

companies. He was founder and chairman of Cellular Communications Inc. and founder and chairman of International 

CableTel (now Virgin Media), the only cable television company servicing all of the United Kingdom. In 1994 he 

founded TeraMed to develop devices for repairing aortic aneurysms; the company was later acquired by Johnson & 

Johnson. During the past three years, Blumenthal has worked to create a suite of electronic health-care record-keeping 

products known as eHealthMadeEasy. Its underlying IT platform facilitates 25 million outpatient visits annually in Israel 

for approximately 40 percent of that country’s population. Blumenthal is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild and 

has appeared in nine movies, including “Wall Street,” “Traffic,” “The Perfect Murder” and “The Flamingo Kid.” 

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Todd Boehly is Managing Partner at Guggenheim Partners LLC. He joined the firm in 2001 to manage and build its 

leveraged credit investing activities; he has grown the leveraged credit assets under management from $3 billion to 

approximately $14 billion. In addition, he spearheaded the firm’s activities in the middle-market direct lending arena, 

where Guggenheim has originated more than $7 billion of proprietary investment opportunities. Boehly is currently 

chairman of the firm’s Credit Committee and is a member of its Management Committee and Merchant Banking 

Investment Committee. Before joining Guggenheim, he was a vice president at J.H. Whitney & Co., where he developed 

the firm’s leveraged loan investing program and co-founded the Shelter Rock Capital Corp., established by Whitney for 

its CDO restructuring and takeover activities. He previously worked in the Leveraged Finance Group at Credit Suisse 

First Boston. Boehly received a bachelor’s degree from the College of William & Mary. 

Dale Bonner is Secretary of the California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency (BT&H), a position to which 

he was appointed by the governor in 2007. He oversees more than 44,500 employees and budget of $12 billion. The 

agency’s portfolio addresses transportation issues, public safety, affordable housing, international trade, financial 

services, tourism and managed health care. As the lead state agency for economic development, BT&H strives to 

enhance California’s role in the global economy. Bonner most recently served as a partner in the law firm Epstein Becker 

& Green from 2002 to 2007. From 1999 to 2002, he was counsel to the law firm Hogan & Hartson. He served as deputy 

secretary and general counsel for BT&H from 1996 to 1998. Bonner received a bachelor’s degree from the University of 

Southern California and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. 

Michael Boskin is the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at 

Stanford University. He is also a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1989 to 1993, 

he served as chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers; in that role he originated NAFTA, introduced 

emissions trading into the Clean Air Act, helped resolve the Third World Debt and S&L financial crises and placed 

controls on government spending. He chaired the Commission on the Consumer Price Index, whose report has 

transformed the way government statistical agencies around the world measure inflation, GDP and productivity. An 

adviser to governments and businesses, he also serves on several corporate and philanthropic boards. Boskin received 

bachelor’s and master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Maria Boyazny is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Siguler Guff & Company, a New York-based private 

equity firm with assets under management of more than $7.5 billion. She oversees Siguler Guff’s flagship Distressed 

Opportunities Fund, which has assets under management of more than $4 billion and is one of the largest institutional 

fund-of-funds focused on distressed and turnaround investing around the world. Boyazny designs fund strategy, 

identifies investments and negotiates terms and conditions. She is a member of Siguler Guff’s Investment Committee 

and serves on the advisory boards of many firms investing in restructuring and distressed situations in the United 

States, Asia and Europe. Prior to joining the firm in 1997, Boyazny was a member of the Investment Banking Division 

of Smith Barney Inc. Boyazny graduated with a degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of 

Pennsylvania and received an M.B.A. from Columbia University. 

Alan Boyce is CEO of Absalon, a joint venture between George Soros and the Danish financial system that is assisting 

in the organization of a standardized mortgage-backed securities market in Mexico. He is also president of Adecoagro, 

a food and renewable energy–producing company that owns and operates highly productive land throughout 

Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, and a consultant for Soros Fund Management, where he works to implement the Danish 

mortgage system in the United States. Boyce was formerly the director of special situations at Soros Fund Management, 

where he managed a portfolio of assets of the Quantum Fund and had principal operational responsibilities for the 

bulk of the fund’s investments in South America. Before joining Soros Fund Management, Boyce served as managing 

director in charge of fixed-income arbitrage with Bankers Trust. He previously worked for the Federal Reserve Board in 

Washington, D.C. 

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Thomas Boysen is Chief Learning Officer for GlobalScholar. He began teaching in a remote boarding school in 

Kenya and later served as a school superintendent for 20 years in Washington State, New York and California, eventually 

becoming San Diego County’s superintendent of schools. As the first Kentucky commissioner of education, Boysen led 

the implementation of the landmark Kentucky Education Reform Act. After leaving Kentucky, he has served as senior 

vice president of the Milken Family Foundation, chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Unified School District and 

senior vice president of K12 Inc, a learning systems company. Boysen has served on numerous national boards and 

commissions and speaks and writes on school reform matters. He received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University 

and a Ph.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. 

Joseph Boystak is President and CEO of Brightwaters Capital LLC, a Los Angeles–based venture capital firm 

specializing in life sciences, nanotechnology and clean technology, with a particular emphasis on funding and 

commercializing academic research from colleges and universities. He is currently co-founder and chairman of 

WaterStyle Holdings Inc., a spin-out from the University of California, Los Angeles, in water technology; of NanoPacific 

Holdings Inc., a spin-out from UCLA in nanotechnology; of Bruin Biometrics Inc., a spin-out from UCLA in medical 

devices; and a board member of Exosome Diagnostics Inc., a spin-out from Harvard University in diagnostics. Boystak 

serves on the Health Advisory Board at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received a bachelor’s 

degree from Boston University and a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 

Harold Bradley is Chief Investment Officer of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where he leads a team 

overseeing a $1.4 billion globally diversified, multi-asset-class portfolio. He currently serves on the NYSE Pension 

Managers Advisory Committee. Bradley began his career as marketing officer for the Kansas City Board of Trade, 

where he helped launch the world’s first stock index futures contract. He has served as a member of the Investment 

Company Institute Task Force on Market Structure and was appointed by SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt to the Federal 

Advisory Committee on Market Data. He also served on the Institutional Traders Advisory Committee of the NYSE, the 

NASDAQ Quality of Markets Committee and on the executive committee overseeing the development of the Financial 

Information Exchange (FIX) protocol. Bradley graduated from Marquette University and has completed the Harvard 

Kennedy School program on investment decisions and behavioral finance. 

Laurie Brand is Director of the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, where 

she also a Professor. She previously directed the Center for International Studies at USC from 1997 to 2000. In 2004 she 

served as president of the Middle East Studies Association. A four-time Fulbright scholar to the Middle East and North 

Africa, and presently a Carnegie scholar, she focuses on the role of Arab nationalism and Islam in the construction 

of national narratives. She has conducted field research in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria and 

Lebanon. Brand is the author of Citizens Abroad: States and Emigration in the Middle East and North Africa; Women, the 

State and Political Liberalization; Jordan’s Inter-Arab Relations; and Palestinians in the Arab World. She has a bachelor’s 

degree in French from Georgetown University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University. 

Andrew Breitbart runs the news portals Breitbart.com and Breitbart.tv. His latest endeavor, “Big Hollywood,” is 

a group blog on Hollywood and politics, written from a center/right perspective, on Breitbart.com. His column of the 

same name appears weekly in The Washington Times. Breitbart co-wrote Hollywood, Interrupted, the best-selling attack 

on celebrity culture. He was also a primary developer of The Huffington Post. 

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Larry Brilliant is the President of Skoll Urgent Threats Fund and Philanthropic Advisor to Jeff Skoll and Google, 

interacting with foundations, nonprofits, universities and governmental agencies to solve global challenges. As an M.D., 

Brilliant helped to lead the successful World Health Organization smallpox eradication program in India and South Asia. 

He also founded the Seva Foundation, which works in dozens of countries. Brilliant chairs the National Biosurveillance 

Advisory Subcommittee and was elected to the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2008, Time magazine named him one 

of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was a professor of international health and epidemiology at the 

University of Michigan for ten years and has authored two books and dozens of scientific articles on infectious diseases, 

blindness and international health policy. Brilliant received a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and an 

M.D. from the Wayne State University School of Medicine. 

Eli Broad is the Founder of The Broad Foundations, which seek to advance entrepreneurship for the public good 

in education, science and the arts. In the course of his 50-year career, Broad built two Fortune 500 companies from 

the ground up, serving as Founder-Chairman of KB Home (formerly the Kaufman and Broad Corp.) and SunAmerica. 

Through the Broad Education Foundation, he aims to improve urban public education through better governance, 

management, labor relations and competition. The Broad Art Foundation operates a lending library of contemporary 

art to museums and university galleries worldwide. The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation funded the Broad Institute 

for biomedical research in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. A regent 

of the Smithsonian Institution and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Broad received the Carnegie 

Medal of Philanthropy in 2007. 

Donald Brownstein is CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Structured Portfolio Management (SPM), a 

leading fixed-income hedge fund with special focus in mortgage-backed securities. Before creating SPM in 1997, 

Brownstein founded and managed CDC Servicing Inc., a specialized investment subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts 

et Consignations. From 1988 to 1993, he worked in portfolio management at Franklin Savings Association, a leader 

in the development of quantitative methods for managing mortgage-backed securities. Between 1969 and 1989, he 

served as a professor in the philosophy departments of the University of Kansas and the University of Texas. Brownstein 

received a bachelor’s degree from Queen’s College in New York City and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of 

Minnesota. He was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. 

Norman Brownstein is a Founding Member and Chairman of the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck 

LLP. Nationally recognized for his experience in real estate law, commercial transactions and public policy advocacy, 

he has helped dozens of major organizations and corporations (including AT&T, Apollo Private Equity, the Private 

Equity Council, Ares Private Equity, Genworth Financial, Johnson & Johnson, Toshiba Corp., Western Union, Comcast, 

Intelsat, Global Crossing and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association) develop and execute legislative 

and regulatory strategies. In 2009 he led the successful effort to include the cancellation of indebtedness income tax 

deferral in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The National Law Journal has named Brownstein among the 

“100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.” He was also named one of the “Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America” 

in the 2009 listing of the nation’s top attorneys. 

John Bryant is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE and Vice Chairman of the U.S. President’s Advisory 

Council on Financial Literacy. An empowerment leader for the underserved, Bryant started Operation HOPE in 1992 

with one employee and an annual budget of $65,000 and turned it into a multimillion-dollar concern encompassing 

400 private-sector partners, 1,500 nonprofit organizations and schools, 100 government partners in 68 major U.S. cities 

and five provinces in South Africa. Operation HOPE focuses on financial literacy. Bryant’s work to eradicate poverty has 

garnered him more than 400 awards and citations, including Oprah Winfrey’s Use Your Life award. He is recognized as 

an author and national community leader who has been cited by four past U.S. presidents for his work to improve lowwealth 

communities across America. 

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Robert Bucklin is Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Banking Officer for the U.S. and Canadian 

operations of Rabobank International, a global financial services leader specializing in food and agribusiness. Bucklin 

has 35 years of banking experience, including executive positions at First Chicago and First City Texas Bank Group. He 

joined Rabobank in 1993 as senior vice president and manager of the Dallas office and moved to New York in 1994 to 

assume the role of chief corporate banking officer. He serves on the board of directors and executive committee of 

Global Green USA and, since 1999, has helped guide the organization’s success in advancing smart climate solutions for 

communities and green building. Bucklin holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from 

Harvard Business School. 

Steven Burd is Chairman, President and CEO of Safeway Inc., one of the largest food and drug retailers in North 

America. During his 17 years as CEO, Safeway shareholder returns have outpaced 92 percent of the S&P 500. Recognized 

as one of the best-managed retail food companies, Safeway has reversed escalating health-care costs by implementing 

a plan that pays for preventive care and rewards healthy behavior, giving employees higher-quality care while reducing 

out-of-pocket costs. In 2007 Burd joined other corporate leaders to form the Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform; 

this alliance of more than 60 companies advocates for health-care reform that advances market-based solutions, 

universal access, incentives for preventive care and greater cost transparency. Since 2001 Safeway has raised more than 

$100 million to fund some of the most promising cancer research. Burd received a master’s degree in economics from 

the University of Wisconsin. 

Judy Burton is President and CEO of the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, a nonprofit charter-management 

organization focused on providing grade 9-12 and grade 6-8 public charter schools that outperform neighboring 

schools and prepare students for success in four-year colleges. Alliance schools serve high-poverty, overcrowded and 

historically low-performing school communities in Los Angeles. In the past five years, the Alliance has launched 16 

charter schools that are among the top-achieving schools in Los Angeles Unified School District. The group has also 

raised $90 million in public and private grants for facilities, and school and corporate operations. Of the 11 LAUSD 

secondary schools named California Distinguished Schools in March 2009, four are Alliance high schools. Burton is a 

former LAUSD local district superintendent and has led numerous district-wide reform efforts. She received a bachelor’s 

degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master’s degree from California Lutheran College. 

Richard Byrne is CEO of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. He is also co-head of Global Capital Markets at Deutsche 

Bank, which includes underwriting and syndication of all equities, investment-grade and high-yield bonds and loans, 

worldwide. He also oversees leveraged finance and financial sponsor coverage globally and is a member of the 

firm’s Global Banking Executive Committee and Global Markets Executive Committee. He previously served as head 

of Global Capital Markets for the Americas. Before joining Deutsche Bank, he was co-head of the Global Leveraged 

Finance Group and head of Global Credit Research at Merrill Lynch. He also was a perennially top-ranked credit analyst 

in numerous categories, most notably in the gaming, lodging and leisure sector. Byrne holds a bachelor’s degree from 

the State University of New York at Binghamton and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at 

Northwestern University. 

Douglas Bystry is President and CEO of Clearinghouse CDFI, a for-profit community development financial 

institution. He created Clearinghouse CDFI in 1995 in an effort to bring capital to low-income and distressed areas of 

California. Clearinghouse CDFI provides direct loans for affordable housing, community development and other unmet 

credit needs, and holds more than $250 million in combined assets and a loan portfolio of more than $60 million. It has 

received allocations of $258 million under the New Markets Tax Credit Program. Bystry has been providing financial 

services to low-income communities for the past 22 years. Previously, he was executive director of Santa Ana (Calif.) 

Neighborhood Housing Services Inc., providing rehabilitation loans and revitalization programs in the Artesia-Pilar area 

of Santa Ana. He also served on the National Advisory Board for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp., the La Habra 

(Calif.) City Council and the Orange County Housing Commission. 

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James Cain, the former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, is Chairman of Cain Global Partners LLC, which he founded 

to encourage and assist foreign companies that wish to invest in the United States. Cain has also joined the corporate 

department at the Kilpatrick Stockton law firm and will divide his time among the firm’s offices in Washington, New 

York and Raleigh, N.C. Cain worked at Kilpatrick Stockton for 15 years before serving as president and chief operating 

officer of the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team and its parent company, Gale Force Holdings from 2000 to 2002. He then 

re-joined the firm before becoming ambassador in 2005 under the Bush administration. Cain received his bachelor’s 

and law degrees from Wake Forest University. 

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Mahalo.com, a human-powered search engine. Prior to Mahalo.com’s 

launch in 2007, he was an “entrepreneur in action” at Sequoia Capital. Also in 2007, Calacanis partnered with Michael 

Arrington of TechCrunch to launch the TechCrunch40 conference, showcasing 40 of the world’s most promising startups 

before an elite Silicon Valley audience; the event continued and grew in 2008. Calacanis co-founded and served as CEO 

of Weblogs Inc., a network of popular blogs that was sold to AOL in 2005. Upon joining AOL, he was appointed senior 

vice president and named general manager of AOL’s Netscape. Before forming Weblogs, Calacanis was the founder of 

Rising Tide Studios, which sold its flagship publication to Dow Jones. As a leading thinker in the startup space, Calacanis 

frequently delivers keynotes at major tech conferences and is featured and quoted in national news outlets. 

John Calamos Sr. is Chairman, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of the firm he founded in 1977 and took public as 

Calamos Asset Management in 2004. A pioneer in investment strategies and techniques to help manage risk, Calamos 

has established a reputation for preserving capital and building wealth for clients over the long term. He is a frequent 

speaker at investment seminars and conferences, has taught graduate-level courses on finance and investments, and 

has written two books (Investing in Convertible Securities: Your Complete Guide to the Risks and Rewards and Convertible 

Securities: The Latest Instruments, Portfolio Strategies, and Valuation Analysis). He is often quoted as an authority on riskmanaged 

investment strategies in Barron’s, Fortune, Forbes, Pensions & Investments, Financial World, Nation’s Business and 

The Wall Street Journal and regularly appears on CNBC and Bloomberg. 

Erik Caldwell is Policy Advisor for San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders, providing strategy and policy advice on issues 

related to clean technology, energy and the environment. Caldwell also serves as the mayor’s representative to the City 

Council’s Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee. Caldwell previously served as chief deputy to Michelle 

Steel, a member of the California State Board of Equalization, advising her on state sales and property tax issues. He 

has also served as legislative assistant to San Diego County Supervisor Greg Cox, focusing on fiscal, environmental and 

public safety issues and on state and federal legislation. He is a veteran of many local, state and federal campaigns, 

most recently acting as campaign manager for Rep. Brian Bilbray’s successful 2006 campaign. Caldwell has a bachelor’s 

degree in political science from California State University, San Marcos. 

Paul Calello is CEO of the Global Investment Bank of Credit Suisse. He is also a member of the executive boards 

of Credit Suisse and Credit Suisse Group. Previously, Calello was CEO for all of Credit Suisse’s operations in the Asia- 

Pacific region. He has held management positions with Credit Suisse in Tokyo, London, Hong Kong and New York. 

Calello joined the bank in 1990 as a founding member of the former financial derivatives subsidiary of Credit Suisse 

First Boston. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Foreign Policy Association, and serves on the 

Columbia Business School Board of Overseers, the Board of Directors of the New York Philharmonic, and as a Trustee 

of the Credit Suisse Foundation. Calello received a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University and an M.B.A. from 

Columbia Business School. 

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Marlene Canter has been an elected member of the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education 

since 2001. She also served as board president from 2005 to 2007. Canter currently chairs the board’s Charters and 

Innovation Committee, a new committee she conceived to help drive school and district transformation. It supports 

the district’s efforts to create innovative partnerships, provide oversight for charter schools and facilitate reforms. She 

received the Government Leadership Award from the League of Women Voters in 2008, and in 2006, the Los Angeles 

Business Journal named her Woman Executive of the Year for her leadership of the board. Canter began her career as a 

special education teacher and went on to co-found and run a successful teacher training company for three decades 

before running for office. 

Gregory Cappelli is Chairman of Apollo Global. Before joining Apollo, he spent 10 years as a research analyst 

for Credit Suisse, where he most recently served as managing director and senior research analyst and founded the 

Credit Suisse Global Services Team. He was previously a vice president and senior research analyst at ABN AMRO. He 

received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Indiana University and an M.B.A. from the Brennan School of Business 

at Dominican University. 

Pete Carroll is the Head Football Coach at the University of Southern California. With a record of 88-15 (tied for 

the most wins since 1900 by a Division I coach in his first eight seasons), Carroll has returned the USC Trojan football 

program to national prominence. His teams have produced two national championships, an unprecedented seven 

consecutive Pac-10 titles and seven consecutive BCS bowl appearances, an NCAA record. Carroll has produced three 

Heisman Trophy winners in a four-year span, as well as 33 All-American first-teamers and 42 NFL draft picks. His football 

experience includes seasons with the New England Patriots, the New York Jets and the San Francisco 49ers. In 2003, 

he helped develop A Better LA, which works to reduce gang violence. Carroll received a bachelor’s degree in business 

administration, as well as a master’s degree in physical education, from the University of the Pacific. 

Tom Casey is a board member and CEO of Current Group LLC, the leading provider of Smart Grid solutions to increase 

the efficiency and reliability of the electric grid while reducing the environmental impact of electric usage. Current’s Smart 

Grid solution combines advanced sensing, high-speed communications, analytical software and services to provide 

utilities location-specific, real-time actionable data. He previously served as the CEO of several telecommunications 

companies. Casey also was co-head of Merrill Lynch’s Global Communications Investment Banking Group, co-head of 

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP telecommunications and media group and a partner at Mintz Levin Cohn 

Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC. Casey was the assistant to the FCC chairman and deputy chief and acting chief of the FCC 

Common Carrier Bureau. Casey is on the board of One Communications Corp. and is board chairman of Pacific Crossing 

Limited. He has a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a J.D. from George Washington University Law School. 

Daniel Casse is President of G100, a private group of 100 of the world’s leading CEOs, who meet twice a year to 

exchange ideas on business and corporate governance. Jack Welch and Larry Bossidy are the group’s regular discussion 

leaders. For more than a dozen years, Casse has also been a senior director of the White House Writers Group, where he 

has advised chief executives and corporate leaders on communication strategy, public policy and thought leadership. 

A former managing editor of The Public Interest magazine in New York, he has frequently written on politics and policy 

in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and other national publications. 

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Christopher Cerf is Deputy Chancellor for Strategy and Innovation with the New York City Department of Education, 

with responsibility for organizational strategy, external relations, innovation and R&D. He also oversees labor relations 

and matters pertaining to recruiting, supporting, developing and evaluating nearly 80,000 teachers and 1,450 principals. 

Previously he was a partner in the Public Private Strategy Group, which advises school districts pursuing reform strategies. 

While there, he served for a year as New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein’s chief adviser on transformation. Cerf 

served for eight years as the president and chief operating officer of Edison Schools Inc., the nation’s largest privatesector 

manager of public schools. He earlier served as associate counsel to President Bill Clinton and as a partner in two 

Washington, D.C., law firms. Cerf is a graduate of Amherst College and Columbia Law School. 

Zvi Chalamish is Israel’s Consul and Chief Fiscal Officer for the Western Hemisphere in the Israel Economic Mission, 

part of the Ministry of Finance. He is responsible for raising foreign currency for the State of Israel in international markets 

through bond and loan guarantee offerings. He also oversees the State of Israel Bonds (Development Corporation 

of Israel) activities and fundraising initiatives worldwide. As Chief Fiscal Officer, he is the key liaison to the American 

investment banking community and financial institutions. Prior to his diplomatic appointment in the United States, he 

served for five years as the deputy accountant general for Israel’s Ministry of Finance. Chalamish received a bachelor’s 

degree and an M.B.A. in finance and accounting from Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

Nadereh Chamlou is Senior Advisor to the Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa Region of the 

World Bank. In her 28 years with the World Bank, she has worked in technical and managerial positions across the 

organization in such areas as economic management, private and financial sector development, infrastructure and 

environment, corporate governance and the knowledge economy. Her experience also extends to Latin America, 

East Asia and Pacific, and Eastern Europe. She co-authored a World Bank flagship report, “Corporate Governance: A 

Framework for Implementation,” in 1999, and was co-founder of the World Bank/OECD-sponsored Global Corporate 

Governance Forum, which she headed from 1998 to 2000. She was the principal author of “Gender and Development in 

the Middle East and North Africa Region–Women in the Public Sphere” in 2003, and of “The Environment for Women’s 

Entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa Region” in 2008. 

R. Alta Charo is the Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law and Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She 

is on the faculty of the Law School and the Medical School’s Department of Medical History and Bioethics. Charo, who 

has served on numerous boards and commissions related to bioethics and stem cells, worked on the Obama-Biden 

Transition Project as a member of the Health and Human Services review team. She teaches health law, bioethics and 

biotechnology law, food and drug law, medical ethics, reproductive rights, torts and legislative drafting. She has been 

a visiting professor at law and medical schools in Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Cuba, France, Germany and New 

Zealand. Charo serves on the Alan Guttmacher Institute board, the Foundation for Genetic Medicine board, an advisory 

committee for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and the program board of amFAR, the Foundation for 

AIDS Research. 

Peter Chernin is President and Chief Operating Officer of News Corporation, and Chairman and CEO of The 

Fox Group. At Fox, Chernin has overseen diversified global operations spanning five continents, including film and 

television programming; television, satellite and cable broadcasting; newspapers, magazines and books; and 

digital broadcasting. He previously headed Twentieth Century Fox Filmed Entertainment and, prior to that, the Fox 

Entertainment Group of the Fox Broadcasting Company. He oversaw Fox’s tremendous growth in sports, cable and 

general entertainment programming and distribution in the United States and internationally. Chernin joined Fox from 

Lorimar Film Entertainment, where he was president and chief operating officer. He is also Chairman of Malaria No 

More, an organization that works to provide life-saving mosquito nets and other critical interventions to families in 

Africa. Chernin received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. 

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Deepak Chopra is a leading authority in the field of mind-body medicine. Through the creation of The Chopra 

Center for Wellbeing, he established a formal vehicle for promoting the integration of Western medicine with natural 

healing traditions. A regular presence on PBS, he has written more than 50 books, with more than 20 million copies sold 

worldwide. Esquire magazine named him one of the top 10 motivational speakers in the United States. He is a founding 

director and president of the Alliance for a New Humanity, an organization devoted to social justice, economic freedom, 

ecological balance and conflict resolution. Chopra joined The Gallup Organization as a senior scientist in 2005, and also 

serves as an adjunct professor at Kellogg School of Management. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians 

and a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. 

Sean Cleary is Chairman of Strategic Concepts (Pty) Ltd. He also serves as managing director of the Centre for 

Advanced Governance and chairs the Advisory Board of Abraaj Capital. Cleary lectures on global corporate strategy 

at business schools in South Africa, Europe and the United States, and on the strategic challenges of globalization and 

conflict resolution at a number of defense colleges and universities. He is the founder of the Future World Foundation, 

a strategic adviser to the World Economic Forum and a faculty member of the Parmenides Foundation for the Study 

of Thinking. He chairs the Global Advisory Board of Operation Hope and serves on the boards of the International 

Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and LEAD International. 

Christina Cleugh is an Education Consultant specializing in online learning. She analyzes online educational 

products for their effectiveness and marketability, and consults on online course design and development. She has 

designed online courses for both educational and professional development purposes, as well as provided instruction 

and training via online platforms. Prior to becoming an educational consultant, Cleugh was the assistant chief learning 

officer for GlobalScholar, an education technology company. She has also worked for K12 Inc. and California Virtual 

Academies as a professional development trainer and educator. Cleugh previously was a lecturer for California 

State University, Long Beach, and an educator in the brick-and-mortar setting. She received a bachelor’s degree and 

teaching credential from California State University, Fullerton; a master’s degree from Pepperdine University; and an 

administrative credential from California State University, Long Beach. 

Stephen Cloobeck is Chairman and CEO of Diamond Resorts International, a company with nearly 150 branded 

and affiliated resorts and more than 23,000 guest beds in 21 countries. The company operates in destinations 

throughout the continental United States and Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Australia and 

South Africa. Cloobeck has more than 25 years of experience in development, construction, management, operations, 

marketing and sales of real estate properties. His holdings include vacation ownership resorts, hotels, retail shopping 

centers and office and apartment buildings. In April 2007 Cloobeck acquired the publicly traded Sunterra Corp. and 

transformed it into a privately held operating entity. Cloobeck is widely recognized as one of the most innovative and 

successful entrepreneurs in the global vacation ownership industry. 

Larry Coben is an archaeologist affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania. He is chairman of the Archaeological 

Institute of America’s Site Preservation Task Force, and co-edited the book Archaeology of Performance: Theater, 

Power and Community. Coben is also the founder, chairman and CEO of Tremisis Energy Corporation, a company 

that purchases and invests businesses in the energy and environmental sectors. He is a director of NRG Energy, an 

electricity-generation company, and SAESA, a Chilean utility, and was a director of Prisma Energy, the post-bankruptcy 

filing successor company to Enron that held its international assets. He served as co-chairman of Sen. Joe Lieberman’s 

2004 National Energy Policy Committee and was co-author of his energy policy, and was on the steering committee of 

Cleantech for President Obama. He received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School 

and a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. 

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Brooke Coburn is the Managing Director and Head of Carlyle Growth Partners, the U.S. growth capital arm of the 

Carlyle Group. Based in Washington, D.C., he leads Carlyle’s small-cap buyout practice focusing on investments in the 

education, technology, telecommunications, media and business services sectors. Prior to joining Carlyle, he was with 

Salomon Brothers Inc., where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and capital-raising assignments in the media 

and communications group. He serves on the boards of Apollo Global, Wall Street Institute, Catapult Learning, Rhythm 

NewMedia, RevShare and Gemcom Software. Coburn received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. 

Pinchas Cohen is a Professor and Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology at UCLA Children’s Health Center. He is also 

associate director of the UCSD-UCLA Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center. Cohen has published more than 250 

papers focusing on cancer, aging and longevity, growth, diabetes and the emerging science of mitochondrial peptides. 

His work, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health and private foundations, has been recognized by the 

American Diabetes Association, the Eli Lilly Foundation and the Prostate Cancer Foundation; he recently received the 

American Pediatric Society Best Science Award. He is an associate editor of Pediatric Research and several other journals, 

and serves as an executive officer of the Growth Hormone Research Society and the Endocrine Society Steering 

Committee. Cohen graduated with highest honors from the Technion Medical School in Israel and trained at Stanford 

University before joining the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Yoram Cohen is the Director of the Water Technology Research Center and a Professor at the Henry Samueli School 

of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also director of the Center for 

Environmental Risk Reduction and a founding member of the UCLA/NSF Center for the Environmental Implications 

of Nanotechnology. He is an adjunct professor at Ben-Gurion University and a member of the International Advisory 

Committee to the Stephen and Nancy Grand Water Research Institute at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology). 

Cohen has published more than 150 papers and book chapters on water technology, separation processes, transport 

phenomena, polymer science and environmental engineering, in addition to three environmental volumes, and 

developed multiple patented technologies. Cohen received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering 

from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware. 

Jeffrey Cohn is a consultant for Spencer Stuart Inc., specializing in leadership assessment and succession planning. 

He helps clients to understand the strengths and limitations of their overall bench and how to best leverage and deploy 

that talent. He has worked with Fortune 500 clients, private equity companies, universities and nonprofits. He has also 

customized executive development workshops for clients including the CEO Leadership Institute, now part of Yale 

University. Cohn has served as principal with the Law & Economics Consulting Group in San Francisco and as a fellow at 

Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy and finance. His work in leadership development, succession planning 

and strategic management has been widely published, including articles in Harvard Business Review and The Economist 

Intelligence Unit. Cohn received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. in applied 

corporate finance from Tulane University. 

Lynde Coit is Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at Plasco Energy Group Inc., a company with 

a proprietary technology that converts post-recycled municipal solid waste into clean engine-grade fuel gas that is 

currently being demonstrated at a commercial-scale facility in Ottawa. Over 99 percent of the residual waste is diverted 

from landfill, eliminating methane emissions and contamination from leachate. The fuel gas is used in high-efficiency 

engines to generate green power with exhaust emissions below the most stringent world standards. Prior to joining 

Plasco, Coit was senior vice president and general counsel of Covanta Energy Corp., a global developer and operator 

of large-scale waste-to-energy facilities. He was a former partner at Nixon Peabody LLP, representing investors in nonfossil-fuel 

power projects, and worked for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Coit holds a bachelor’s degree 

from the University of Rochester and a J.D. from Cornell Law School. 

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Stephen Compagni Portis is Chairman and CEO of Renewable Funding LLC, an investment firm pioneering 

the emerging field of clean energy municipal financing. A serial entrepreneur and a prolific financier, Compagni 

Portis has originated buyouts of operating companies and has launched ventures in investment banking, enterprise 

software and aircraft leasing. He has closed more than 50 equity and debt transactions and is an angel investor in 

numerous early-stage companies. Compagni Portis has served as chairman or CEO at Vx Capital Partners, Leveraged 

Equity Management, Kettle Restaurants and Yellow Giant Corp. He is a Renewable Energy Finance Scholar at the 

University of California, Berkeley, and sits on the boards of Quantal International Inc., the Creative Growth Art Center 

and the Alameda County Community Food Bank. Compagni Portis has a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Cornell 

University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. 

Roger Conway is Director of the Office of Energy Policy and New Uses in the Office of the Chief Economist at the 

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). He has served as USDA representative for such activities as the Department 

of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Energy Strategy, the DOE Oil and Gas Initiative and the White House Bioenergy Initiative. 

Published in numerous journals including the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and the Journal of Business 

and Economic Statistics, Conway writes about global warming, international trade, commodity policy, agricultural 

investment and macroeconomic policy. He was previously a public policy leader for USDA’s Economic Research Service, 

for which the USDA gave him the Distinguished Service Award in biofuel activities. Conway has a bachelor’s degree 

from The George Washington University, a master’s degree from George Mason University and a Ph.D. in economics 

from The George Washington University. 

Delos Cosgrove is President and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, where he presides over a $4.6 billion health-care 

system comprising the Cleveland Clinic, nine community hospitals, 14 family health and ambulatory surgery centers, 

Cleveland Clinic Florida, Cleveland Clinic Toronto and the developing Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. His leadership has 

emphasized patient care and patient experience, including the reorganization of clinical services into patient-centered, 

organ and disease-based institutes. In 2008, Cosgrove oversaw the completion of more than 4 million square feet of 

new construction and improvements at Cleveland Clinic, including new homes for the Heart & Vascular Institute and 

Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute. Cosgrove received a bachelor’s degree from Williams College and a medical 

degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He completed his clinical training at Massachusetts General 

Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital and Brook General Hospital in London. 

Philip Coyle is Senior Advisor at the Center for Defense Information, a division of the World Security Institute, a 

Washington, D.C.-based national security study center. He is a recognized expert on military research, development and 

testing; on operational military matters; and on national security policies. Currently he serves on the National Academy 

of Sciences Standing Committee on Biodefense at the U.S. Department of Defense. He also has served on several other 

committees on nuclear, chemical or biological defense matters, including studies of biological agent detection and 

identification systems for the U.S. Army. Coyle served on the 2005 Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission; 

prior to that, he was assistant secretary of defense. For 33 years, Coyle worked at the Lawrence Livermore National 

Laboratory on nuclear weapons and other high-technology programs. 

David Crane is Special Advisor to the Governor of California for Jobs and Economic Growth. Before joining the 

Schwarzenegger administration, Crane was a partner for 25 years with a financial advisory firm that grew from one 

office with five employees when he joined in 1979 to a multinational enterprise with hundreds of employees by the 

time he retired in 2003. Crane also sits on the boards of the California Economic Development Commission and the 

California High Speed Rail Authority. 

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L. Gordon Crovitz is a Columnist and the former Publisher of The Wall Street Journal. He was also executive vice 

president of Dow Jones & Company. In his 25-year career at Dow Jones, he was a columnist, magazine publisher 

and founder of Factiva. Under his leadership, “The Wall Street Journal Online” grew to more than 1 million paying 

subscribers, making it the largest subscription news site on the Web. He led numerous acquisitions, including those 

of MarketWatch.com, Private Equity Analyst and VentureOne. Crovitz serves on the boards of ProQuest and Blurb, and 

is an adviser to several technology and media companies in California and New York. He received a bachelor’s degree 

from the University of Chicago and law degrees from the University of Oxford and Yale Law School. 

Michael Crow is President of Arizona State University (ASU), where he is guiding the transformation of ASU into a 

leading public metropolitan research university that combines academic excellence with demographic inclusiveness 

for maximum societal impact. During Crow’s tenure, ASU has established major interdisciplinary research initiatives, 

such as the Biodesign Institute, the Global Institute of Sustainability and many new interdisciplinary schools. It has 

also witnessed an unprecedented expansion in research infrastructure and expenditures. Prior to joining ASU, Crow 

was executive vice provost of Columbia University, where he oversaw Columbia’s research enterprise and technology 

transfer operations. A fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a member of the Council on Foreign 

Relations, he has written books and articles analyzing research organizations and science and technology policy. Crow 

received a Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. 

Jason Cummins is Head of Economic Research at Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP, a position he has held 

since 2004. Before joining Brevan Howard, Cummins was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board, where he 

led the macro forecasting team. He started his career as an assistant professor of economics at New York University. 

Cummins holds a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in economics and political 

science from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. 

Mark Cutis is Chief Investment Officer, Special Situations, for the Abu Dhabi Investment Council. He previously 

worked in Tokyo with Shinsei Bank as chief investment officer of bank portfolios, and as CEO of Japan for HVB, the 

Munich-headquartered German Bank (now Unicredito). Cutis’s core expertise is proprietary trading, ALM and asset 

allocation. His experience is both in direct hands-on management of risk and risk takers, as well as allocating to external 

managers in alternatives, and he has worked on both the buy side and the sell side. Cutis received a bachelor’s degree 

in economics from Emory University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He 

speaks French and Greek, has a working knowledge of German, and is currently studying Japanese and Spanish. 

Amir Dajani is Deputy Managing Director of Bayti Real Estate Investment Company, where he oversees the Rawabi 

project, the first Palestinian planned community. Dajani directs all technical and business development operations of 

the Rawabi project and oversees and coordinates donor community participation. Prior to joining Bayti, he worked in 

the Private Enterprise Office of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) West Bank and Gaza Mission in 

Tel Aviv. In this capacity, he oversaw the design, implementation and monitoring of multimillion-dollar institutions and 

capacity-building programs, along with trade facilitation and loan guarantee programs. Dajani formerly worked on a 

European Commission-funded program as the small- and medium-size enterprise (SME) technical assistance specialist in 

Jerusalem, gaining extensive experience in private-sector sustainable growth and sustainability. He received a bachelor’s 

degree from Trinity College (Dublin) and a master’s degree from Sheffield Hallam University in the United Kingdom. 

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Robert Damon is President, North America, for executive search consultant Korn/Ferry International. He has 

worked in the executive and management recruiting field for more than 25 years. His expertise extends to specialty 

practice areas, including retail and consumer products, restaurants, hospitality, sports and entertainment. Damon has 

had successful CEO placements in many Fortune 100 companies. He spends a significant amount of time recruiting 

leadership talent for private equity-backed companies. Damon has held high-level posts at two other executive search 

firms before joining Korn/Ferry. Earlier in his career, Damon was a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, and he began 

his career with a series of management positions at Arcata Corp. Damon serves on the board of the Special Operations 

Military Fund and the Advisory Board for UST Global, an IT outsourcing services company. He earned his bachelor’s and 

master’s degrees in industrial management from Purdue University. 

Timothy Dattels is a Partner at TPG Capital. Prior to joining TPG, he was a partner at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he 

was head of investment banking for all Asian countries outside Japan. Dattels is a director of Sing Tao News Corporation 

Ltd.; Shangri-La Asia Ltd., one of Asia’s leading hotel brands; and Parkway Holdings, the largest private hospital provider 

in Southeast Asia. He is on the dean’s advisory board of the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, 

and is a founder and member of the Asia-Pacific Council of The Nature Conservancy. Dattels received an M.B.A. from 


Jeffrey Davidow is President of the Institute of the Americas, based on the campus of the University of California, 

San Diego. The Institute promotes dialogue between governments and businesses throughout the Western 

Hemisphere aimed at improving policies regarding investment, trade, regulation and social services. Davidow served 

in the U.S. State Department for 34 years, eventually retiring as one of America’s highest-ranking diplomats. During his 

foreign service career, he served as ambassador to Venezuela (1993–1996), assistant secretary of state (1996–1998) and 

ambassador to Mexico (1998–2002). He later became a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of 

Government and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies. Davidow received a bachelor’s degree from 

the University of Massachusetts and a master’s degree from the University of Minnesota; he also did postgraduate work 

in India on a Fulbright travel grant and holds an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University of Massachusetts. 

Jim Davidson is Co-Founder and Chairman of Silver Lake, a global private investment firm. He has extensive 

merger, acquisition and financing experience in the technology sector. From 1997 to 1998, Davidson was head of the 

Technology Investment Banking business at Hambrecht & Quist (now part of JPMorgan Chase), and from 1996 to 1997, 

he was head of that firm’s Systems and Semiconductor Investment Banking business. Davidson headed or co-headed 

the firm’s Mergers and Acquisitions business from 1990 to 1996. He serves on the boards of Flextronics International 

Ltd. and Avago Technologies Ltd. as well as a number of nonprofit organizations. Previously he was a director of Seagate 

Technology and Network General Corp. Davidson holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska and a J.D. 

from the University of Michigan. 

David Davis is a Member of the British Parliament, representing Haltemprice and Howden since 1997. He was 

previously MP for Boothferry from 1987 until 1997. Davis has written numerous articles and two books (How to Turn 

Round a Company and The BBC Viewers’ Guide to Parliament). He has served as parliamentary secretary at the Office 

of Public Service and Science, minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, chairman of the House of 

Commons Public Accounts Committee, chairman of the Conservative Party and shadow secretary of state for the Office 

of the Deputy Prime Minister. From 2003 to 2008, Davis was the shadow home secretary. He received a bachelor’s 

degree in molecular and computer science from Warwick University and an M.B.A. from London Business School; he 

also completed the advanced management program at Harvard Business School. 

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Gray Davis, the 37th Governor of California, is Of Counsel at Loeb & Loeb LLP. While governor, Davis signed legislation 

to strengthen California’s K-12 education system, increase accountability in schools and expand access to higher 

education with a record number of scholarships and college loans. These reforms led to improvement in achievement 

scores for six consecutive years. He presided over an expansion in the state’s economy, during which California moved 

from the seventh- to the fifth-largest economy in the world. Davis made record investments in California’s infrastructure, 

created four Centers for Science and Innovation on University of California campuses and expanded the California 

Healthy Families program to provide health insurance for an additional 1 million children. While governor, he provided 

more than $2.5 billion for job training, employee recruitment, tuition assistance and job-placement services. Davis 

received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a law degree from Columbia University Law School. 

James Davis is President of Chevron Energy Solutions (CES). Since 2000 he has built CES into one of the world’s 

leading energy efficiency and renewable energy services companies, and the largest developer of solar power solutions 

for education facilities in North America. Named a Top 50 firm by Fast Company magazine in 2009, CES has developed 

hundreds of environmentally friendly projects that are now saving institutions and businesses more than $1 billion in 

energy costs. Earlier in his career, Davis was senior vice president of integrated solutions for PG&E Energy Services. The 

success of that business led to its purchase by Chevron in 2000, creating CES. He also served as senior vice president of 

marketing and sales at Duke/Louis Dreyfus, and managed global account teams for two natural gas marketing firms. 

Davis received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Ohio State University. 

Jacob Dayan is the Consul General of Israel in Los Angeles, serving as Israel’s senior representative in the 

southwestern United States. Before assuming this post, he was selected to prepare a strategic plan on the feasibility 

of opening negotiations with Syria. Previously he served as chief of staff to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of 

Foreign Affairs Tzipi Livni and former Minister of Foreign Affairs Silvan Shalom. In this position he was involved in policy 

formation and implementation. Earlier, as policy adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dayan was responsible for 

the minister’s work in U.S., Asian, East European and Middle Eastern affairs. He served in the role of political counselor 

at the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. He has also held the post of deputy chief at the Israeli embassy in Athens. 

Dayan has a bachelor’s degree in classics and history from Tel Aviv University. 

Stephen DeAngelis is Founder, President and CEO of Enterra Solutions LLC, which specializes in advanced 

enterprise management systems that help clients proactively mitigate strategic risk, further competitive advantage and 

optimize performance. A privately funded company headquartered in Yardley, Pennsylvania, with operations in Reston, 

Virginia, and an office in Kurdistan, Enterra serves a range of enterprises representing industries and governments 

worldwide. In addition to his corporate responsibilities, DeAngelis is a visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, 

a visiting scientist at Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute and a senior fellow and adjunct professor at the 

United States Merchant Marine Academy. In 2008 DeAngelis joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Iraq Initiative as its 

co-chair; he is also co-chair of its Kurdistan Region of Iraq Investment Task Force. 

Joseph Dear is Chief Investment Officer of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), where 

he oversees all asset classes in which CalPERS invests. Dear also directs the CalPERS Investment Office strategic 

plan, which includes tactical asset allocation, risk management, business development, budget authority and new 

investment programs. Prior to joining CalPERS in 2009, Dear served as executive director of the Washington State 

Investment Board, where he was responsible for more than $67.6 billion within 38 funds comprising defined benefit 

and defined contribution retirement, deferred compensation, workers’ compensation, and permanent and other trust 

funds. He previously served as chief of staff for Washington State Gov. Gary Locke and assistant secretary of labor at the 

Occupational Safety and Health Administration under President Clinton. Presently he chairs the Council of Institutional 

Investors. Dear received a bachelor’s degree from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. 

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Paul Deninger is Vice Chairman of Jefferies & Company Inc. Previously he was chairman and CEO of Broadview, 

the specialist technology investment banking firm, where he remained until its acquisition by Jefferies in 2003. With 

more than 20 years of experience advising companies in the technology market and more recently the clean-tech 

market, Deninger has advised on more than 125 mergers and acquisitions and numerous IPOs. Presently he sits on 

the investment committee of London-based Kennet Partners and the executive committee of TechNet; he is also cochairman 

of TechNet New England. A member of the World Economic Forum since 1996, he serves on the boards of 

the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Big Brothers of Massachusetts Bay and Boston’s MATCH Charter Public High School. 

Deninger received a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

Diane Denish is Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico. A successful small-business owner and native of a rural 

community, Denish is committed to fostering entrepreneurship and economic development throughout the state. 

She has championed increased micro-lending opportunities for small businesses, expanding the role of the state 

Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) and turning it into a $40 million economic engine lending capital to 

thousands of small enterprises. Denish has also fostered strong pathways between education and the state’s emerging 

industries, such as renewable energy and film, believing that an educated and nimble work force is key to attracting 

the companies that will fuel the economic recovery. This conviction led her to champion a fully aligned, pre-K through 

college education system that is focused on closing the achievement gap and meeting the economic demands of the 

21st century. 

Ross DeVol is Director of Regional Economics and the Center for Health Economics at the Milken Institute. He 

oversees research on comparative regional growth performance, technology and its impact on regional and national 

economies, and health-related topics. He was the principal author of An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of 

Chronic Disease, which brought to light the economic losses associated with preventable illnesses and estimated 

the avoidable costs if a serious effort were made to improve Americans’ health. He also authored America’s High-Tech 

Economy: Growth, Development and Risks for Metropolitan Areas and created the Best-Performing Cities Index, an annual 

ranking of U.S. metropolitan areas that shows where jobs are being created. Other recent work involves the study of 

biotechnology and life-science clusters and their impact on regional economies. DeVol was previously senior vice 

president of Global Insight Inc. 

Peter Diamandis is Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, which awarded the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE 

for private spaceflight. The foundation is now developing awards in such fields as genomics, automotive research, 

education, medicine and energy. Diamandis is also chairman and CEO of the Zero Gravity Corp., developing private, 

parabolic flight utilizing a Boeing 727-200 aircraft. He is a co-founder of Space Adventures, which brokered the launches 

of four private citizens to the International Space Station, and co-founder of the International Space University in 

Strasbourg, France. He is the winner of the 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award for Innovation, the 2006 Heinlein Award and the 

2006 Lindbergh Award. His mission is to open the space frontier for humanity. Diamandis received a bachelor’s degree 

in molecular genetics and a graduate degree in aerospace engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 

he also received an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. 

Lisa Donahue is Co-Head of the Turnaround and Restructuring Practice of AlixPartners, where she specializes 

in financial and operational reorganizations. Previously she was the chief restructuring officer of SemGroup LP. With 

extensive experience in cash management and cost reduction, situational analysis and debt restructuring for both 

domestic and international organizations, Donahue has been successful as both an interim executive and financial 

adviser. She has held chief executive positions at Calpine Corp., New World Pasta and Exide Technologies, and is a 

member of the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation and the Association for Corporate 

Growth. She sits on the New York Advisory Board for the American Bankruptcy Institute. Donahue holds a degree in 

finance and accounting from Florida State University. 

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Thomas Donohue is President and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world’s largest business federation, 

which represents 3 million companies, associations, state and local chambers and U.S. chambers of commerce abroad. 

Since assuming his position in 1997, Donohue has built the Chamber into a lobbying and political force. Under his 

leadership, the organization has worked to support, fund and elect pro-business candidates in congressional races, 

and has created a new Institute for Legal Reform. Donohue previously served for 13 years as the president and CEO of 

the American Trucking Associations, the national organization of the trucking industry. Donohue received a bachelor’s 

degree from St. John’s University and an M.B.A. from Adelphi University. 

Roy Doumani is a Founder of the California NanoSystems Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. 

He also co-chairs the Zhejiang California International NanoSystems Institute in China and teaches “The Business of 

Science” at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. With a background in international finance and banking, Doumani 

is vice chairman of the first joint venture bank in China, Xiamen International Bank. He was chairman of First Interstate 

Bank of Hawaii; director of HonFed Bank; and chairman of World Trade Bank of Los Angeles. Doumani has served on 

a number of advisory boards, including Rand’s Center for Asia Pacific Policy, the Pacific Pension Institute advisory 

board and the Norton Simon Museum. He has established endowed chairs at UCLA in bioengineering and urological 

oncology. He has a bachelor’s degree in business and finance from UCLA and a law degree from the University of 

Southern California. 

Steven Drobny is Co-Founder and Partner of Drobny Global Advisors, a macroeconomic research advisory firm. He 

is the author of Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in the Global Markets (2006), which offers 

a comprehensive look at the global macro approach to investing. He previously worked for Deutsche Bank in various 

roles, most recently in the London-based hedge fund group and in the derivatives and trading groups in London, 

Zurich and Singapore. Drobny received a bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University and a master’s degree from the 

London School of Economics. 

Fran Durekas is Founder and Chief Development Officer of Children’s Creative Learning Centers Inc. (CCLC), a 

leading provider of employer-sponsored early childhood education and care. In this capacity, she provides executive 

leadership for new center openings, long-term strategy development and client relations. Durekas brings to her 

position more than 20 years’ experience in early childhood education and care. She is an active member of the National 

Association for the Education of Young Children and a board member of both the California Polytechnic State University’s 

Child Development Department and the Eco-Healthy Child Care Advisory Committee. She is involved in planning and 

public speaking for the World Forum on Early Care and Education and the Alliance for Work/Life Professionals. Durekas 

holds a degree in human development from the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo and has been 

certified through Boston College’s Work/Life Program. 

Josh Eastright is Global Product Manager for Energy and Commodities Markets at Bloomberg LP in New York. 

He is responsible for developing Bloomberg’s products and overall business strategy and execution within these two 

markets. He has designed some of the most popular analytic tools for the commodities markets on The Bloomberg 

Professional service, which is used by thousands of market professionals daily. A 10-year veteran of Bloomberg, 

Eastright is also a regular contributor to Bloomberg Markets magazine. He is a member of the CFA Institute and the New 

York Society of Securities Analysts, where he sits on the Sustainable Investing Committee. He also serves as a trustee of 

the Camphill Resident’s Trust, which invests and manages funds deposited by individuals or families for the benefit of 

individuals who have special needs. Eastright is a graduate of Amherst College, where he majored in political science. 

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Daniel Ebersole is Director of the Georgia Office of Treasury and Fiscal Services, which manages two AAA-rated 

local government investment pools totaling $11 billion. He administers Georgia and Tennessee’s college savings plans, 

called the Path2College 529 Plan, with $650 million in assets. Ebersole serves on Georgia’s State Financing & Investment 

Commission, the State Properties Commission, the Building Authority and the Sheriffs’ Retirement Fund. He also chairs 

the investment committees of the $55 billion Teachers and Employees’ Retirement Systems. Ebersole was president 

of both the National Association of State Treasurers and the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and 

Treasurers. He chairs the executive board of the College Savings Plans Network and led the successful effort to make 

permanent the federal tax exemption for college savings plans. 

Neil Eckert is CEO of Climate Exchange PLC, which owns the European Climate Exchange (ECX) and the Chicago 

Climate Exchange (CCX). ECX, in a joint venture with the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), trades EU ETS futures and 

currently handles more than 80 percent of EU volume. CCX is the only U.S.-based legally binding, voluntary exchange 

trading carbon permits and sulphur futures. Eckert is also chairman of Trading Emissions PLC, one of the world’s leading 

funds investing in emission reduction permits. Until 2005 he served as chief executive of Brit Insurance Holdings PLC, 

a U.K. and international insurance and reinsurance company that Eckert founded in 1995 as an investment trust listed 

on the London Stock Exchange. He continued to serve Brit as a nonexecutive director until May 2008. Eckert is also 

chairman of Design Technology & Innovation Ltd., a patenting and intellectual property company. 

Charles “Chas” Edelstein is Director and CEO of the Apollo Group Inc. Before assuming this role in 2008, he 

spent more than 20 years with Credit Suisse, most recently serving as a managing director and heading the Global 

Services Group within the Investment Banking Division, as well as the Chicago investment banking office. Prior to 

Credit Suisse, he was an auditor and management consultant at Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers). 

Edelstein received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where 

he graduated as a Baker Scholar. 

Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political 

Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also research associate of the National Bureau of Economic 

Research in Cambridge, and a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London. In 1997-1998, 

he was a senior policy advisor at the International Monetary Fund. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts 

and Sciences and the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials. He has held Guggenheim 

and Fulbright fellowships and has been a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the 

Institute for Advanced Study. Eichengreen has published widely on international monetary and financial systems. He 

received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and three master’s degrees and a Ph.D. from 

Yale University. 

Mohamed El-Erian is CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer of the global investment firm PIMCO. He previously 

served as president and CEO of Harvard Management Company Inc. and as a faculty member of Harvard Business 

School. He spent 15 years at the International Monetary Fund before moving to the private sector, serving as managing 

director at Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in London. He is currently a board member of Cambridge in America 

and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and he chairs Microsoft’s Investment Advisory Committee. A 

frequent contributor to the Financial Times and Newsweek, he is the author of a recent best-seller, When Markets Collide: 

Investment Strategies for the Age of Global Economic Change. El-Erian received a bachelor’s degree from the University of 

Cambridge, and master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Oxford. 

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Steve Ellis is the Worldwide Managing Director of Bain & Company, responsible for overseeing all aspects of the 

firm’s strategy and operations across 39 offices in 26 countries. During his 15-year tenure at Bain, he has advised leading 

multinational companies in a wide range of industries on issues such as corporate strategy, sales and marketing, 

operational improvement, acquisition valuation, merger integration and complexity reduction. He also specializes in 

tackling leadership issues that are essential to compete in a rapidly changing global business environment. Before 

joining Bain, he ran a Silicon Valley strategy consulting firm he co-founded in 1989 and served as a principal at 

Knowledge Edge Inc. Ellis has authored several articles on business strategy, and is a member of the Advisory Council of 

the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Ellis received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, 

and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins is CEO of Green for All, a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green 

economy that can lift people out of poverty. She has recently transitioned from her role as executive officer of the 

South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council. Named by San Jose Magazine as one of the 100 most powerful people in Silicon 

Valley and one of “40 to watch under 40” by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal, she has distinguished herself 

as a leader in the Silicon Valley and has been featured in numerous magazines and newspapers. Ellis-Lamkins is an 

alumna of the American Leadership Forum; has served on the boards of the Progressive Technology Project, The New 

World Foundation and the Women’s Fund of Silicon Valley; and serves on San Jose’s General Plan Task Force and Coyote 

Valley’s Specific Plan Task Force and Central Labor Council Advisory Committee. 

Alec Ellison is Co-Head of Investment Banking at Jefferies & Company Inc., where he is also Chairman of the firm’s 

Technology, Media and Telecom Group. He joined Jefferies in 2003, when the firm acquired Broadview International, of 

which he was president. With more than 20 years of experience in technology investment banking, Ellison has completed 

more than 150 transactions. He has particular expertise in enterprise software mergers and acquisitions, with a focus on 

vertical applications companies. Prior to joining the firm, he worked in the Technology Group at Morgan Stanley. Ellison 

holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

Douglas Elmendorf is Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). Before he came to the CBO, Elmendorf 

was a senior fellow in the economic studies program at the Brookings Institution. As the Edward M. Bernstein Scholar, 

he served as co-editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and the director of the Hamilton Project, an initiative 

to promote broadly shared economic growth. Elmendorf previously was an assistant professor at Harvard University, 

a principal analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, a senior economist at the White House’s Council of Economic 

Advisors, a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department and an assistant director of 

the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board. He received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton 

University, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation 

graduate fellow. 

Neveen El Tahri is Chairperson for Delta Holding for Financial Investments and is the Egypt country representative 

for the Royal Bank of Scotland (previously ABN AMRO Bank Egypt). She serves on the boards of several firms, including 

Banque Misr, Telecom Egypt, Egyptian Railway Projects & Transport Company, Egypt Information Dissemination 

Company and the General Authority for Investments (GAFI). El Tahri previously was chairperson and founder of Delta 

Securities Egypt, Delta Rasmala Securities, Delta Rasmala Asset Management and Delta Rasmala Capital Investments. In 

2008 El Tahri was named in a Financial Times special report as one of the leading businesswoman in the Arab world. She 

received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Cairo University. 

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John Ensign is a U.S. Senator (R-Nevada). In 2008 he became chairman of the GOP Policy Committee, which 

coordinates Republican legislative efforts in the Senate. On assuming this position, he became the highest-ranking 

Republican senator in Nevada’s history. Sen. Ensign has been responsible for such legislation as the Education High 

Growth Grant amendment, the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act and the Ensign-Reid Clark County 

Lands Bill. He has led the fight to build a veterans hospital in southern Nevada, which is expected to be completed in 

2011. He serves on multiple Senate committees: Budget; Commerce, Science and Transportation; Finance; Homeland 

Security and Governmental Affairs; and Rules and Administration. He is a ranking member of the Subcommittee on 

Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness of the Commerce Committee. Ensign earned a bachelor’s degree from 

Oregon State University and a doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Colorado State University. 

Hüseyin Erkan is Chairman and CEO of Istanbul Stock Exchange. He has also established the Federation of 

Euro-Asian Stock Exchanges and is chairman of the World Federation of Exchanges Working Committee. Erkan has 

served on the board of the Turkish-Japanese Business Counsel; was co-director of projects with the Organisation for 

Economic Co-Operation and Development; and has represented ISE at the International Organisation of Securities 

Commissioners. He implemented a cooperation project for the securities markets in the Balkans for the South East 

European Cooperative Initiative and initiated a project for the cooperation of securities markets of the Islamic countries 

in the Organisation of Islamic Conference. Prior to his ISE role, Erkan was the chief adviser for Konya Sugar Company and 

the general manager of Ticaret Securities. Erkan has a bachelor’s degree in economics from New York University Stern 

Business School and an M.B.A. in international business and finance. 

Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of civil-rights activist Medgar Evers, is Founder of the Medgar Evers Institute and 

Chairman Emeritus of the NAACP. The institute, which she began in 1998, links business, government and communities to 

further human rights and equality. As chair of the NAACP from 1995 to 1998, she is credited with restoring its reputation 

as the nation’s premier civil rights group. Her husband, a state field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi, was shot to 

death in 1963, and through her efforts, his killer was convicted more than 30 years after the crime. In 1987, Evers-Williams 

was the first African-American woman appointed to the Los Angeles Board of Public Works. She ran for Congress in 1970 

and went on to become the first black woman to head the Southern California Democratic Women’s Division. She is an 

author and speaker who continues to make appearances on behalf of the NAACP. 

Zeki Fattah is Senior Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government. He is a 

consultant specializing in Middle Eastern economies and economic development issues. In 2003 he served as director 

of the Economic Analysis Program and the Globalization Program in the United Nations Development Programme 

(UNDP), based in Beirut. From 1996 to 2002, Fattah was director of the UNDP in the Middle East after serving as 

director of the U.N. Industrial Development Organization from 1977 to 1995. He taught a graduate course in economic 

development at the American University of Beirut from 1998 to 2003. Fattah holds a Ph.D. in economics from the 

University of Oxford. 

Lewis Feldman is a Partner with Goodwin Procter LLP, where his practice includes real estate, affordable 

housing and community development, corporate and securities finance, public finance, REITs and real estate capital 

markets. He is chair of the firm’s Los Angeles office, a member of its National Executive Committee and head of its 

Public/Private Development Practice. Feldman has handled more than $75 billion in debt and equity financings 

for apartments, master-planned communities, industrial facilities, urban entertainment centers, malls, hospitals, 

brownfield remediation efforts, transportation projects and public infrastructure. He received a bachelor’s degree from 

the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a J.D. from the University of California, Davis, where he was executive editor 

of the Law Review. 

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Bruno Ferrari was appointed CEO of ProMexico by Mexican President Felipe Calderon in 2007. Prior to his 

appointment, he headed the Unit for Economic Relations and International Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign 

Affairs in Mexico. For the past 15 years, Ferrari has focused on global agribusiness. He was president and CEO of Seminis 

Inc., a portfolio investment company of Fox Paine and Company, and held executive positions at Grupo Pulsar, one of 

the largest corporations in Mexico. He has taught post-graduate courses in administration, finance, human resources 

and competitiveness at Harvard University, Stanford University, the University of Michigan, The Wharton School 

of Business and INSEAD. He holds a master’s degree from the Laternance University in Rome, a law degree from the 

Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City, and a Ph.D. in law from the Roman Academic Center of the Holy Cross in Rome. 

Keith Ferrazzi is CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight, which offers strategic research, training and consulting services. He 

was previously chief marketing officer at Starwood Hotels, where he oversaw marketing activities for global brands 

including Sheraton, Westin, The Luxury Collection, St. Regis, and W Hotels. Ferrazzi also served as chief marketing 

officer for Deloitte Consulting, a leading global management consulting firm, where he developed and managed 

the industry’s first globally integrated marketing organization. He is the author of Never Eat Alone, a New York Times 

bestseller on how to create an extensive network to achieve personal and professional success. His latest book, due 

out this spring, is Who’s Got Your Back, which focuses on forming deeper bonds with key people who can act as career 

counselors and advisors to provide candid feedback and accountability. 

David Festa is a Vice President of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), overseeing its West Coast operations. He 

recently served on the Obama transition team for the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he worked during the Clinton 

administration as director of policy and strategic planning. There he led agency efforts to end overfishing, help Central 

America rebuild after Hurricane Mitch, promote electronic commerce and strengthen National Marine Sanctuaries. 

Festa joined EDF in 2003 as director of the Oceans Program, which focuses on fishery management issues. He chairs the 

Conservation Committee of the SeaChange Investment Fund, a private equity fund that aims to expand the sustainable 

seafood market. He also is on the board of the California League of Conservation Voters. Festa hold a bachelor’s degree 

from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. 

Mindy Finn is Co-Founder of Engage, a political media firm based in Washington, D.C. She served as director of 

eStrategy for Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign. In that role, she was profiled by The Washington Post and 

included in Glamour magazine’s series on 10 powerhouses under age 40 with top presidential campaign positions. In 

2007 Finn was selected by Campaigns & Elections as a “Rising Star” in American politics. She has appeared on “Hardball,” 

“The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” NPR and many local stations to speak about the intersection of the Internet and 

politics. She recently co-founded Rebuild the Party, an organization to breathe new life into the Republican Party by 

updating policy, message and tactics. 

Stephen Fireng is the President and CEO of Embanet ULC, an integrated, full-service provider of online program 

design and development, including marketing, enrollment and technology support services. He has guided Embanet to 

a leading role in online education; the firm partners with prestigious colleges and universities across North America to 

develop, grow and maintain their online program offerings. Before joining Embanet, Fireng served as group president 

of the University/Online and International Academy of Design and Technology (IADT) Divisions at Career Education 

Corp. (CECO), one of the largest post-secondary education companies in the world. During his long tenure with the 

company, he grew CECO’s Online Division from 3,000 to 32,000 students in five years, spearheaded the implementation 

of the company’s highly successful admissions recruitment structure, and led the development and successful rollout 

of CECO’s second and third online education platforms. 

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Luigi Fontana is a Research Associate Professor of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is also 

Associate Director of the Longevity Research Program. He also directs the Division of Nutrition and Aging at the Italian 

National Institute of Health in Rome. Fontana’s research focuses on the potential role of diet and exercise in retarding 

the aging process. He is investigating the effects of calorie restriction, plant-based diets and endurance exercise on 

outcomes such as cardiovascular risk factors and function, inflammation, immune function, glucose tolerance, bone 

metabolism and quality of life. He is also studying the endocrine role of abdominal fat storage as a mediator of insulin 

resistance and accelerated aging. Fontana received an M.D. from Verona University Medical School, where he completed 

his internship and residency in internal medicine. He also received a Ph.D. from the University of Padua Medical School. 

Steve Forbes is Chairman and CEO of Forbes Inc., and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine. Under his leadership, 

the company has launched numerous publications and businesses, including ForbesLife, ForbesLife Executive Woman, 

Forbes Asia, and foreign-language editions of the magazine. Forbes also publishes the Gilder Technology Report and 

investment newsletters. Forbes.com, launched in 2006, now attracts more than 20 million unique monthly visitors. 

Other company divisions include Forbes Conference Group; Forbes Investors Advisory Institute; and Investopedia. 

com, an online portal for investor education. The company recently acquired RealClearPolitics.com and Clipmarks. A 

candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000, Forbes serves on the boards of The Ronald 

Reagan Presidential Foundation & Library, The Heritage Foundation, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and 

Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy. Forbes received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University. 

Harold Ford Jr. is Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council and a Visiting Professor of Public Policy at 

Vanderbilt University. He also serves as a news analyst for NBC and MSNBC. Ford previously served Tennessee as a 

member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 10 years, with assignments on the education, financial services and 

budget committees. He is currently a member of the Pentagon’s Transformation Advisory Group, an overseer on the 

board at the International Rescue Committee and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Ford is a graduate of 

the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan Law School. 

Joe Fortunato is President and CEO of GNC Corp., a specialty retailer of nutritional supplements. Fortunato joined 

GNC in 1990 and has held the offices of senior executive vice president, chief operating officer, executive vice president 

of retail operations and store development, senior vice president of store development and operations, vice president 

of financial operations and director of financial operations. Before joining GNC, he was the controller of Motor Coils 

Manufacturing Co. in Pennsylvania and later president of Fortunato & Associates Financial Consulting Group. 

David Fransen is Consul General of the Canadian Consulate in Los Angeles. Before his appointment, he was 

executive director of the Institute for Quantum Computing and an associate vice president at the University of Waterloo. 

At Health Canada, the government department that oversees the nation’s health care, he was director general of the 

Centre for Healthy Human Development from 2000 to 2002. He previously held numerous titles at Industry Canada. 

In 1988 he joined the Privy Council Office, an agency that advises on public policy, as an officer for the Intelligence 

Advisory Committee, later becoming senior officer for environmental policy. Fransen holds a bachelor’s degree in 

theology from Canadian Mennonite Bible College, bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Waterloo and 

a doctorate from the University of Toronto. 

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Alexander Friedman is Chief Financial Officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, overseeing finance, financial 

planning and analysis, strategic planning, impact planning and improvement, and a number of special initiatives. 

Before joining the foundation in 2007, Friedman worked as an investment banker with Lazard Ltd., the international 

investment bank. Prior to that, he led corporate development at Medarex Inc., a publicly held biotechnology company. 

He also served as a White House fellow and as an assistant to the secretary of defense for special projects in the Clinton 

administration. Friedman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the finance committee of the 

Seattle Art Museum’s board of directors and is a board member of several other national nonprofits. He received a 

bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a J.D. from Columbia Law 

School. 

Bruce Friend is Director of SAS Curriculum Pathways. Part of SAS’s Education Practice, this award-winning education 

resource provides online lessons and engaging tools and activities at no cost to U.S. educators. Friend has spent the 

past decade working in the field of online learning. He is a national pioneer in helping to establish the country’s 

first statewide online program and has been the chief administrator of two state virtual schools. In 2003 the United 

States Distance Learning Association honored him with the “Most Outstanding Achievement in Distance Education” 

award. Prior to joining SAS, Friend was vice president of the North American Council for Online Learning, a nonprofit 

organization that provides support to students, parents and online learning programs. He earned a bachelor’s degree 

from the University of Pittsburgh and a master’s of education from the University of Central Florida. 

Kevin Fromer is the former Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs at U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that 

position, which he held for more than three years, he was responsible for managing Treasury’s interests before Congress. 

Fromer assumed a lead role in helping develop and negotiate a number of major policy and legislative issues involving 

financial services, tax policy, trade and terrorist financing, including the recent Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 

(TARP), housing GSE regulatory reforms, foreign investment review reforms and the 2008 economic stimulus package. 

Fromer served for 20 years in senior congressional policy and management staff positions, including budget and 

appropriations policy adviser to House Speaker Dennis Hastert and oversight staff member for the House Appropriations 

Committee. He is now a private consultant. Fromer received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia. 

Roland Fryer Jr. is CEO of the Education Innovation Laboratory at Harvard University, where he is also a professor 

of economics. As a former junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, one of academia’s most prestigious research 

posts, he has come to be known as an unapologetic analyst of racial inequality who uses theoretical and empirical 

tools to squeeze truths from the data, wherever that may lead. He also holds a faculty research associate position at 

the National Bureau of Economic Research and has published papers on the racial achievement gap, the causes and 

consequences of distinctively black names, affirmative action, the impact of the crack cocaine epidemic and “acting 

white.” Fortune named him a “rising star” and he was featured in Esquire’s annual “Genius Issue.” Fryer has been profiled 

in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and AOL’s Black Voices. 

Thomas Gackstetter is Director of Energy Efficiency Programs at the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power. 

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Matthew Gamser is the Principal for Advisory Services at the International Finance Corp., the private-sector 

arm of the World Bank Group. He focuses on private sector–driven economic development and poverty reduction, 

promoting growth in the most impoverished countries of the East Asia-Pacific region. He has worked with commercial 

banks and non-bank financial institutions to build profitable financial services for micro- and small enterprises, and to 

extend access to financial services in general. Gamser has worked for governments and private businesses around the 

world to create an improved policy and regulatory environment for private-sector growth and poverty reduction. He 

has also assisted large corporations in improving their contributions to local economic development, and has edited 

and authored several books and numerous journal articles. Gamser received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from 

Harvard University, along with a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex (UK). 

Victor Zhikai Gao is Executive Director of the Beijing Private Equity Association. He was recently elected as 

the first Secretary-General of the China Private Equity Association, the principal self-governing body for the private 

equity industry in China. He has extensive working experience in investment banking and corporate management, 

including positions with Morgan Stanley and its joint venture, China International Capital Corporation. He also served 

in a variety of senior management positions with the Chinese National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC). He has served 

with the Chinese Foreign Service in Beijing and at the United Nations, and was an English interpreter for the late Deng 

Xiaoping. In 1999 and 2000, he was the China policy advisor with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. 

Gao received a bachelor’s degree from Soochow University (Taiwan), a master’s degree from Yale University and a J.D. 

from Yale Law School. 

Carlos Garcia is Superintendent of the San Francisco Unified School District. Prior to his appointment, he served 

for two years as vice president of national urban markets for the McGraw-Hill Education Group. He has been a K-12 

educator for 30 years and has a reputation of being a catalyst for change. Before joining the private sector, Garcia served 

for five years as superintendent of the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, which averaged opening a new school 

every month. Before accepting the appointment in Las Vegas, he worked as a teacher, principal and superintendent in 

several California school districts. Garcia received a bachelor’s degree in political science from Claremont Men’s College, 

a master’s degree in education from Claremont Graduate School and credentials in educational administration from 

California State University, Fullerton. 

Michelle Gass is Executive Vice President of Marketing and Category for Starbucks, leading the company’s global 

marketing and category-management functions. She leads the beverage, food, coffee and merchandise categories, 

the pipeline of innovation, and the overall brand, creative and marketing initiatives. Prior to this role, she served in 

a special assignment for Starbucks, leading its global strategy function, and worked with the senior team to drive 

the “Transformation Agenda” that is now the company’s strategic blueprint. Outside of Starbucks, Gass serves on the 

board of directors for Ann Taylor. She previously worked with Procter & Gamble for six years in marketing and product 

development. Gass received a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and an 

M.B.A. from the University of Washington. 

James Gellert is Chairman, President and CEO of Rapid Ratings International, a ratings, research and analytics firm 

providing ratings of companies’ financial health for portfolio and risk managers, as well as counterparty risk managers. 

Gellert previously ran Howland Securities LLC, a boutique investment banking firm focusing on financial technology 

and independent research businesses. He was also CEO of a number of small technology companies. He was a capital 

markets banker for Deutsche Bank (where he was Head of the Yankee Origination Group); at UBS Securities; and 

Barclays de Zoete Wedd (now Barclays Capital). Gellert arranged financings for corporations, banks and sovereign 

clients from Europe and Australasia in the global, SEC-registered, 144A and traditional private-placement markets. He 

is also a member of various for-profit and nonprofit boards and corporate advisory boards. Gellert received a bachelor’s 

degree from Connecticut College and attended Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. 

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Michael Gerson is the Roger Hertog Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His work focuses on issues 

of global health and development, religion and foreign policy, and the democracy agenda. He is also a columnist 

syndicated with The Washington Post, a contributor to Newsweek and the author of Heroic Conservatism, published by 

HarperOne. Before joining the council in 2006, Gerson was a top aide to President George W. Bush as assistant to the 

president for policy and strategic planning. He was a key administration advocate for the President’s Emergency Plan 

for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI), the fight against global sex trafficking, and for funding 

for women’s justice and empowerment issues. Prior to that appointment, he served in the White House as deputy 

assistant to the president, director of presidential speechwriting and other advisory roles. 

Gargee Ghosh is a Senior Program Officer for Public Policy at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. She works on 

the foundation’s engagement in innovative financing for development, partnering to create new funding mechanisms 

and mobilize new sources of funds. She has been involved in establishing GAVI’s International Finance Facility for 

Immunization, designing the advance market commitment concept, supporting the pilot of a global fund debt 

conversion initiative and launching a double-bottom line private equity fund to invest in health care for the poor in 

Africa. Gargee was previously a manager with McKinsey & Company in New York and London, and was one of the first 

employees of the Center for Global Development’s Global Health Policy Research Network. She received a bachelor’s 

degree from the University of Victoria (Canada), a master’s degree in economics from the University of Oxford and a 

master’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. 

Edward Gillespie was Chairman of the Republican National Committee during the 2004 election cycle, re-electing 

a Republican president while retaining majorities in the House and Senate. He also served in the White House as 

Counselor to President George W. Bush. His previous political work on behalf of Bush ranged from managing the 2000 

convention program to serving as spokesman during the Florida recount. In 2005, Gillespie led the confirmation efforts 

for Chief Justice John Roberts and advised Justice Samuel Alito during his confirmation. He was In 2002 he was general 

strategist for Elizabeth Dole’s Senate campaign in North Carolina, and more recently, he chaired the Republican Party of 

Virginia. He previously served for over a decade as a top aide to former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX), and was 

a principal drafter of the 1994 “Contract with America.” Gillespie is a graduate of the Catholic University of America. 

Anita Givens is Acting Associate Commissioner for Standards and Programs at the Texas Education Agency. She 

continues to also serve as deputy associate commissioner for standards and alignment. Givens oversees a number of 

policy development areas, including curriculum, textbooks and educational technology for Texas schools. She has led 

educational technology efforts in Texas for more than 16 years, providing leadership for the ongoing implementation 

of the State Board of Education’s Long-Range Plan for Technology 2006–2020. Givens chaired the State Educational 

Technology Directors Association (SETDA) for three years, and served on the Executive Oversight Committee of the 

Hurricane Education Leadership Project (HELP) and as an education advisor to the Partnership for 21st Century Skills. 

A former teacher, Givens received a bachelor’s degree from Houston Baptist University and a master’s degree from the 

University of Houston–Clear Lake. 

Dan Glickman is Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), representing the U.S. 

filmed entertainment industry to governments around the world. Under his leadership, the MPAA has made important 

strides in the industry’s fight against piracy, forged important partnerships in the technology community and 

established new consumer outreach. Glickman came to the MPAA following a long career of public service. He led the 

Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and served as secretary of the Department 

of Agriculture under President Bill Clinton, leading the agency through a period of modernization and placing new 

emphasis on nutrition, food safety, natural resources, civil rights and export policies, while ensuring an effective safety 

net for America’s farmer and ranchers. Glickman also served 18 years in the House of Representatives, where he was 

involved in farm legislation, general aviation policy and intellectual property protection. 

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Ivan Gold is Senior Counsel at Perkins Coie LLP, a 700-lawyer firm with offices in 14 American cities and China. From 

2004 to 2009, he led the firm’s Energy Industry Service Team. He is an energy lawyer, energy project developer and 

regulator. He was previously deputy public utility commissioner of Oregon and acting head of the Civil Aeronautics 

Board Enforcement and Consumer Protection Bureaus. His clients have included investor-owned utilities, independent 

power producers, and industrial power users and their investors. As a private developer he has developed wind, 

biomass, hydro and gas-fired electric generation in the United States and Latin America. He advises clients and speaks 

on state, regional, national and international climate change issues, and is program vice chair of the International 

Energy and Resources Transactions Committee. 

Stanley Gold is President and CEO of Shamrock Holdings Inc., a diversified investment company wholly owned 

by the Roy E. Disney family. Through its affiliate, Shamrock Capital Advisors Inc., it manages in excess of $2 billion in 

five investment funds for institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. Prior to joining Shamrock, Gold was 

a managing partner of Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown Inc., a Los Angeles law firm. Currently a director of iPass Inc., Gold 

has been the president of Shamrock Broadcasting Inc., and chaired Central Soya Company Inc., Enterra Corp., Koor 

Industries Ltd., and Tadiran Communications Ltd. He is chairman of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and 

a member of the University of Southern California’s Law Center Board of Councilors and its Keck School of Medicine 

Board of Overseers. Gold received his J.D. from the Gould School of Law at USC. 

Jonah Goldberg is a Columnist for The Los Angeles Times. His column is carried by the Chicago Tribune, New York 

Post, Dallas Morning News and scores of other papers. He was the founding editor of National Review Online and is 

currently editor-at-large of NRO. His first book, Liberal Fascism, was a No. 1 New York Times and Amazon best-seller and 

was selected as the No. 1 history book of 2008 by Amazon readers. He is a member of the Board of Contributors to USA 

Today and previously served as a columnist for The Times of London, Brill’s Content and American Enterprise. His writing 

has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, Commentary, The New Yorker, 

Food and Wine and numerous other publications. He is a Fox News contributor. 

L. Michael Golden is Corporate Vice President of the Education Products Group at Microsoft Corp. He previously 

served as deputy secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Education’s Office of Information and Educational 

Technology; helping to create connected classrooms, one-to-one computing environments and robust training for 

teachers and administrators. Golden has also served as senior vice president of marketing and strategic planning 

at Pearson School, a leader in educational publishing, assessment, information and services. Earlier in his career, he 

provided consulting in business development, strategic planning, marketing and corporate finance to education, 

media and consumer products companies; his accomplishments included serving as strategic counsel to a $12 billion 

media company expanding into educational technology. Golden received a bachelor’s degree from Williams College, 

an M.B.A. from Harvard and a doctorate in education from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. 

Duncan Goldie-Morrison is CEO of Calyon Americas, encompassing all of Calyon’s commercial and investment 

banking activities in the United States, Canada and Latin America. He was previously a partner in a private equity and 

hedge fund business, non-executive director of Primus Guaranty and senior non-executive director of ICAP PLC, the 

largest inter-dealer broker. From 1993 to 2003, Goldie-Morrison held a number of positions at Bank of America (and 

its predecessor, NationsBank), culminating in his role as managing director and head of the Global Markets Group, 

Asia and Latin America. He was previously deputy chief manager of interest rate swaps and capital markets at Westpac 

Banking Corp. and a senior director of swaps and syndicate at NatWest Markets in London. In 2003 he was elected to 

the Risk Hall of Fame for his contributions to the field of risk management. Goldie-Morrison was educated at Wellington 

College in Berkshire, England. 

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Carl Goldsmith is Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager for Beach Point Capital Management. He has more 

than 17 years’ experience managing high-yield bonds, bank loans and distressed debt portfolios, and working on 

corporate restructurings. Prior to founding Beach Point, Goldsmith was the senior investment officer at Post Advisory 

Group. During his 15-year tenure, the firm grew from under $100 million in assets to more than $10 billion. While there, 

he was responsible for co-running the alternative high-yield business of Post Advisory and co-managing the Total 

Return, Distressed Debt, Bank Loan and other alternative high-yield platforms. In the early 1990s, Goldsmith worked 

in the Bankruptcy Support and Valuation departments at Price Waterhouse, where he advised debtors and creditors in 

bankruptcy restructurings. Goldsmith received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s 

Wharton School of Business and a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. 

Marshall Goldsmith is an Executive Coach, Speaker and Author. His 2007 book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You 

There, was a Wall Street Journal number one best-selling business book that also received the Harold Longman Best 

Business Book award. His latest book is Succession: Are You Ready?, part of the Memo to the CEO series from Harvard 

Business Press. As an executive adviser, Goldsmith has worked with more than 100 CEOs and their management teams. 

He has been recognized as one of the world’s top executive educators and coaches by the American Management 

Association, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Forbes, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal. 

Jim Goodnight is CEO of SAS, which he co-founded in 1976. A worldwide leader in business analytics, SAS has 

more than 11,000 employees in 54 countries. In 2008 the company recorded its 33rd consecutive year of growth 

and profitability, with revenue of $2.26 billion. In 2004 Harvard Business School named Goodnight one of the “20th 

Century’s Great American Business Leaders,” citing his impact on the way people live, work and interact. He has a Ph.D. 

in statistics and speaks internationally on leadership, education and innovation. 

Scott Goodstein, the Founder of Revolution Messaging LLC, was External Online Director for Obama for America 

and developed the campaign’s social networking platforms. His pioneering work included running the first political 

campaign to launch niche-based social networks like BlackPlanet, Eons, MiGente, AsianAve and Disaboom. He built the 

campaign’s lifestyle marketing strategy and developed the “street team” materials used in battleground states. Goodstein 

also created and implemented Obama Mobile, an advanced communication strategy that included text messaging, 

downloads, interactive voice response communication, a mobile website (WAP), and even an iPhone application. Prior 

to the Obama campaign, Goodstein worked for the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee and the Democratic 

Congressional Campaign Committee; he has also managed more than a dozen political campaigns. Goodstein loves 

mixing music, culture and politics. He was the co-founder of Punkvoter.com and Rock Against Bush efforts in 2004. 

Kris Gopalakrishnan is CEO and Managing Director of Infosys Technologies Ltd. He co-founded the firm, 

which is a global leader in consulting, IT services and business process management, and previously served as its 

chief operating officer and president. Gopalakrishnan is currently chairman of the Indian Institute of Information 

Technology and Management (IIITM), Kerala, and vice chairman of the Board for Information Technology Education 

Standards (BITES). He also chairs the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII’s) Apex Governing Council on Services 

and is vice chairman of the Southern Regional Council. He started his career with Patni Computer Systems in Mumbai 

as a software engineer. Gopalakrishnan received master’s degrees in physics and computer science from the Indian 

Institute of Technology Madras. 

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Jim Gray has been a network television and national cable sportscaster since 1983. He is currently with Showtime, 

Westwood One Radio, The Golf Channel and NBC’s Olympic coverage. His career highlights include live TV or radio 

broadcasts of nine Olympic Games, 20 NFL Super Bowls, nine World Series, 19 NBA Finals, 12 NCAA Final Fours, 19 

Master’s tournaments and hundreds of championship boxing matches. He has reported on literally thousands of games 

and events in his career, as well as hosting a number of high-profile prime time specials. He has won numerous awards, 

including 11 national Emmys for journalism and reporting. Gray has been named by USA Today as Sports Reporter of 

the Year 12 times, and was named one of the 50 Greatest All-Time Sportscasters by historian David Halberstam. He 

has conducted thousands of interviews, including sessions with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and every U.S. 

president since Nixon. 

Brian Grazer is an Academy Award-winning producer who has been making movies and television programs 

for more than 25 years. His movies have generated more than $13 billion in worldwide theatrical, music and video 

grosses. As both a writer and producer, he has been personally nominated for four Academy Awards, and in 2002 he 

won the Best Picture Oscar for “A Beautiful Mind.” His other film credits include “Frost/Nixon”, “American Gangster”, 

“The Da Vinci Code”, “Inside Man”, “8 Mile”, “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”, “Liar Liar”, “Apollo 13”, “Backdraft” 

and “Parenthood”. Grazer’s television productions include “24,” “Arrested Development,” “Lie to Me” and “Friday Night 

Lights.” He is currently in post-production on “Angels & Demons”, starring Tom Hanks and directed by longtime business 

partner and friend Ron Howard. Grazer and Howard began collaborating in 1985; in 1986, the two founded Imagine 

Entertainment, which they continue to run together as chairmen. 

Jerrold Green is President and CEO of the Los Angeles–based Pacific Council on International Policy. He is also a 

research professor of communications, business and international relations at the University of Southern California. He 

was previously senior advisor for Middle East/South Asia and director of the Middle East Development Council at the 

Rand Corporation. From 2004 to 2006, he served as a partner and executive vice president for international operations 

at Best Associates in Dallas. He has lived and worked in Egypt (where he was a Fulbright Fellow), Iran and Israel. His 

career began with stints as a faculty member at the University of Michigan and later the University of Arizona. Green 

received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, as well as a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from 

the University of Chicago. 

Kenneth Griffin is Founder, President and CEO of Citadel Investment Group LLC. A diverse financial institution, the 

Citadel franchise includes a global asset-management business and a robust capital markets platform. It operates in 

the world’s major financial centers, including Chicago, London, New York, Hong Kong and San Francisco. Griffin actively 

supports educational causes that drive community improvement. He is a director of the Chicago Public Education 

Fund and a member of the boards of trustees for the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Contemporary Art. 

Additionally, Griffin is a member of the World Economic Forum, the Economic Club of Chicago and the Advisory Council 

for Chicago 2016, which is working to bring the 2016 Olympics to the city. Griffin received a bachelor’s degree from 

Harvard College. 

Greg Gunn is Chief Scientist and Co-Founder of Wireless Generation Inc., a technology company that supports 

pre-K-12 educators in improving teaching and learning. Gunn focuses on how new applications of student growth data 

can improve instructional and managerial decisions across school systems, and on leveraging large bodies of such data 

to develop new insights into student learning. Prior to joining Wireless Generation, Gunn worked at InterDimensions, 

Clique.com and The Carlyle Group. He also has extensive experience teaching mathematics and computer science 

to students of all ages, including working for the Champion International’s Middle School Partnership, where he 

developed new technology-assisted teaching methods for sixth-grade mathematics. Gunn received his bachelor’s 

degree in physics from the University of Chicago, attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received an 

M.B.A. and master’s degree in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

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Lado Gurgenidze is the former Prime Minister of Georgia. A Georgian and British citizen, Gurgenidze is a career 

banker who has worked at investment banks in Eastern Europe and London. In 2004 he returned to his native Georgia to 

serve as executive chairman of the Bank of Georgia. During his tenure, the bank’s total assets and net income grew 760 

percent and 1,563 percent, respectively, and its market share grew from 18 percent to 34 percent. In 2007, Gurgenidze 

agreed to serve as prime minister of Georgia, leading the nation’s economy through the final phase of market reforms. 

In the aftermath of the 2008 Georgia-Russian conflict over South Ossetia, he helped to stabilize the financial sector. 

Gurgenidze also led the first-ever international equity and debt capital markets issues by Bank of Georgia and the 

government. He graduated from the Tbilisi State University and Middlebury College, and received an M.B.A. from 

Emory University. 

Robert Hahn is a Senior Fellow and Executive Director of Regulatory and Market Studies at the American Enterprise 

Institute for Public Policy Research, where he examines cutting-edge issues in law and economics, regulation and 

antitrust. He is also a senior visiting fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of 

Oxford. Previously he worked for the Council of Economic Advisers, where he helped design the innovative marketbased 

approach for reducing acid rain. Hahn has also served on the faculties of Harvard University and Carnegie Mellon 

University. The author of several books, he frequently contributes to leading scholarly journals and general-interest 

periodicals, and has served as a consultant to governments and business on a variety of issues involving regulation, 

competition and privitization. Hahn is co-founder of the Community Preparatory School, an inner-city middle school in 

Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities for disadvantaged youth. 

John Haley is President, CEO and Chairman of Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a global human resources and financial 

management consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. He joined Watson Wyatt in 1977 and became the 

consulting actuary to several of Watson Wyatt’s largest clients. He was named to the board of directors in 1992 and 

named CEO in 1998. Haley is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries, a fellow of the Conference of Consulting Actuaries 

and a trustee of the Actuarial Foundation. Haley serves on the board of the U.S.-China Business Council, Maximus 

and Hudson Highland Group Inc. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Rutgers College, and received a 

fellowship for graduate studies in mathematics at Yale University. 

. Mia Hamm was the world’s most outstanding female soccer player. During a spectacular career she scored 158 

goals in international competition, more than any other player in history. A forward and midfielder for the U.S. Women’s 

National Team, she played in four World Cups and three Olympic Games, and was instrumental in helping the U.S. team 

win the 1991 and 1999 World Cup and the 1996 and 2004 Olympic gold medals. She was FIFA’s Women’s World Player of 

the year in 2001 and 2002, and the U.S. Soccer Federation Female Athlete of the Year five years in a row (1994-1998). At 

the University of North Carolina, she led the Tar Heels to four NCAA championships. In 1997 she created the Mia Hamm 

Foundation to raise funds for bone marrow research. She was inspired by her brother Garrett, who died in 1997 from 

complications of aplastic anemia, a bone marrow disease. 

Jennie Chin Hansen is President of AARP. She is also a senior fellow at the Center for the Health Professions of 

the University of California, San Francisco. In 2005 she retired as executive director of On Lok Inc., a nonprofit family of 

organizations providing primary and long-term care through community-based services in San Francisco. On Lok was 

the prototype for the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), which was signed into federal legislation in 

1997, making the program available nationwide. Hansen serves as a commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory 

Commission; she is also a board member of the National Academy of Social Insurance, the Scan Foundation and the 

Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program. She received a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and a 

master’s degree in nursing from the University of California, San Francisco. 

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Peri Hansen is a Senior Client Partner in the Los Angeles office of Korn/Ferry International. She is a member of the 

firm’s Global Consumer Market, the Human Resource Center of Expertise and the Legal Specialist Group. Since joining 

Korn/Ferry in 1998, Hansen has recruited senior-level executives with a focus on general management, marketing, 

finance and human resources positions. She has worked with Fortune 500 and Global 1000 corporations and private 

equity-backed companies in sectors such as packaged goods, luxury goods, health and beauty, e-commerce, consumer 

technology, restaurants, and educational products and services. An attorney herself, Hansen previously worked for 

a national legal search firm. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a J.D. from Pepperdine 

University. Hansen is active in the Stanford Alumni Association and Stanford Professional Women of Los Angeles, and 

she also supports the Los Angeles Chapter of Teach for America. 

Oren Harari is a best-selling Author and a Professor of Management at the University of San Francisco. As a leading 

management consultant, he brings more than 20 years of professional experience to the public speaking forum. The 

Financial Times has cited Harari as one of the “Top 40 Business and Management Minds in the World” and featured 

him in the fall 2001 book Business Minds. Harari’s most recent book is Break from the Pack: How to Compete in a Copycat 

Economy. His 2002 book, The Leadership Secrets of Colin Powell, reached the best-seller lists of The New York Times, 

BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal. In this book, Harari applies 16 principles of leadership to corporate and 

government arenas and demonstrates what transformational leaders do to take their organizations to new heights. In 

2003, Harari wrote the follow-up corporate handbook, The Powell Principles. 

Sean Harrigan is President of the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension Commission, which oversees a fund valued 

at more than $11 billion. He is past president of the California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS). During 

his five-year tenure as CalPERS’ president and investment committee vice chair, the $166 billion fund consistently 

performed in the top quartile of comparable funds and was considered the gold standard for investment policies. He 

also currently serves as the vice chair of the Global Reporting Initiative, which produces the world’s de facto standard in 

sustainability reporting guidelines. After a 30-year career in the retail industry, Harrigan retired in 2006 as the executive 

director of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Union, Western States Council, and as the international 

vice president of the UFCW International Union. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Whitman College in 

Washington State. 

Mernoy Harrison is Vice President and Executive Vice Provost for Arizona State University Online and Extended 

Education. He previously served as vice president and executive vice provost for the ASU-Downtown Phoenix campus; 

executive vice president for administration and finance at Arizona State University; and vice provost for administrative 

services at the ASU-Tempe Campus. Prior to his initial appointment at ASU-Tempe, he was the vice president for 

administration at California State University, Sacramento, and comptroller at North Carolina Central University, where 

he taught and also served as the assistant to the vice chancellor for academic. Harrison is currently a member of the 

board of directors of the University Continuing Education Association and the Editorial Review Board of Planning for 

Higher Education. He received both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in business 

administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Richard Hartnack is a Vice Chairman of U.S. Bancorp, the country’s sixth-largest commercial bank. As head of 

consumer and small-business banking, he is responsible for more than 2,500 branch offices and almost 30,000 

employees serving more than 8 million clients. Hartnack joined U.S. Bancorp in 2005 from Union Bank of California, 

where he had served as vice chairman and head of community banking since 1991. Prior to that, he was executive vice 

president of community banking at First Chicago Bank & Trust and was in charge of corporate banking at First Interstate 

Bank of Oregon, where he began his banking career in 1971. Hartnack earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from 

the University of California, Los Angeles, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He also is a graduate of the Strategic 

Marketing Management program at Harvard Business School. 

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Alec Haverstick is Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Boxwood Strategic Advisors LLC. Haverstick, who 

began his career as a trusts and estates attorney in New York City, has been a managing director at Kidder Peabody 

& Co., Prudential Securities Inc., Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank. At Deutsche Bank, he led the development of 

risk mitigation, liability management and liquidity provision techniques for wealthy entrepreneurs. Before forming 

Boxwood, Haverstick was president of Morgan Stanley Trust Company. Haverstick is a graduate of Yale College and 

Columbia Law School. He has served as a trustee of St. Paul’s School, The Pingry School and The Shakespeare Theater 

of New Jersey and as a member of the Board of Regents of Georgetown University. He is actively involved in the Yale 

University Art Gallery and Yale’s capital campaign. 

Tony Hawk is perhaps the most recognized action-sports figure in the world. He is also president of Tony Hawk Inc., 

a worldwide leader in video games, merchandising, events, endorsements, and film and digital media. He regularly 

appears on television and in films, and hosts a weekly show on the SiriusXM satellite radio network. By age 12 Hawk 

was sponsored by Dogtown Skateboards; by age 16 he was widely considered the best skateboarder in the world. He 

retired from competitive skateboarding at age 31. With the creation of the Tony Hawk Foundation, he has been helping 

others experience the same excitement he did as a young skateboarder, building the self-confidence that drove his 

success. The Tony Hawk Foundation has given away more than $2.8 million to fund 427 public skate-park projects in 

low-income areas throughout the United States. 

Wade Henderson is President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR). He is also counselor 

to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education and the Joseph L. Rauh Jr., Professor of Public Interest Law 

at the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia. Henderson is a member of the 

FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion, which aims to expand access to banking services for underserved 

populations. He also leads an effort to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation to revive the right of workers 

to organize unions. Before joining LCCR, he was the Washington bureau director of the NAACP, associate director of 

the Washington national office of the American Civil Liberties Union and executive director of the Council on Legal 

Education Opportunity. Henderson is a graduate of Howard University and the Rutgers University School of Law. 

Michael Henkin is Managing Director and Co-Head of the Recapitalization & Restructuring Group at Jefferies 

& Company Inc. Henkin has more than 11 years of investment banking experience, encompassing restructurings, 

financings, mergers and acquisitions, and general financial advisory services. He has significant expertise in restructuring 

advisory with distressed companies, representing companies, creditors and other stakeholders in a wide range of 

situations and industries. Henkin also has extensive experience in the communications, media and technology industries, 

with seven years of operating experience at News Corporation, Loral Space & Communications and NextEngine, and 

significant transaction experience working with a variety of terrestrial, wireless, satellite and broadband communications 

companies. Henkin received a bachelor’s degree in economics and business from the University of California, Los 

Angeles, and an M.B.A. and Global Management Certificate from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

Mikkal Herberg is the BP Foundation Senior Research Fellow for International Energy at the Pacific Council on 

International Policy. He also teaches at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of 

California, San Diego, and serves as research director on Asian energy security at The National Bureau of Asian Research. 

Previously he spent 20 years in the oil industry with ARCO, where from 1997 to 2000 he was director for global 

energy and economics, responsible for worldwide energy, economic and political analysis. He also headed country 

risk management and held other senior positions, including director of portfolio risk management and director for 

emerging markets. He writes and speaks internationally on Asian and global energy issues. Herberg has testified before 

the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and the 

California Energy Commission. 

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Dan Hesse is President and CEO of Sprint Nextel Corp. He was previously the chairman and CEO of Embarq Corp., 

as well as president, CEO and chairman of Terabeam Corp. During a 23-year career at AT&T, he served as president and 

CEO of AT&T Wireless Services (America’s largest wireless carrier at that time), led the Online Services Group, and served 

as president and CEO of AT&T Network Systems International. In 2008, Hesse was chosen the “most influential person 

in mobile technology” by Laptop magazine. He has previously been named “Person of the Year” by RCR magazine and 

“Executive of the Year” by Wireless Business & Technology magazine. Hesse serves on the board of directors of Clearwire 

Corp. and on the national board of governors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America. 

Craig Hill is Principal at Northcross, Hill & Ach Inc. He began his professional career as a financial analyst the 

Sacramento Municipal Utility District, evaluating the financial and economic feasibility of the Rancho Seco Nuclear 

Power Plant in the mid-1980s. Hill also worked in California’s Office of Energy Assessments to develop financing 

programs for upgrading the energy efficiency of state facilities. Hill has worked as a financial adviser to California public 

agencies for more than 20 years on such projects as amusement parks, community facilities, infrastructure and masterplanned 

developments. His work includes debt issuance of every type, including the new energy bonds. He now serves 

as financial adviser to more than 50 public agencies throughout California. Hill is currently working with the city of 

Berkeley and the city and county of San Francisco to develop their solar financing programs. 

Lawrence Ho is the Chairman and CEO of Melco International Development Ltd., a dynamic, new-generation Asian 

conglomerate focused on leisure and entertainment. He is also a Co-Chairman and CEO of Melco Crown Entertainment 

Ltd., a NASDAQ-listed company that owns one of just six gaming concessions and subconcessions in Macau. Upholding 

the highest standards of corporate governance, Melco won the Corporate Governance Asia Recognition Award for the 

third consecutive year in 2008, and was named one of Hong Kong’s Best-Managed Companies by FinanceAsia magazine 

for the second year. Ho was named the “Best CEO” and “Director of the Year 2005” by Institutional Investor and the Hong 

Kong Institute of Directors, respectively. He was also elected as one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Persons” in 2006. 

Susan Hockfield has been President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2004. Under her 

leadership, MIT has built on its traditional strengths in science, engineering, architecture, management and economics 

to advance the frontiers of energy research and pioneer crucial advances at the intersection of the life sciences, the 

physical sciences and engineering. The first life scientist to lead MIT, she is also a professor of neuroscience in MIT’s 

Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Previously she was provost at Yale University, where she had taught since 

1985; she also served as dean of Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A member of the American Academy of 

Arts and Sciences, she is a director of the General Electric Company and the World Economic Forum Foundation; a 

trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and an overseer of the 

Boston Symphony Orchestra. 

George Hoguet is a Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager and Global Investment Strategist specializing in 

emerging markets at State Street Global Advisors. From 1981 to 1985, Hoguet served at the U.S. Treasury Department, 

first as U.S. alternate executive director to the World Bank and subsequently as principal deputy assistant secretary of 

the Treasury for international affairs. He has served as president of the Boston Economic Club, a member of the Council 

on Foreign Relations and as a committee or board member of the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations, the Boston 

Society of Security Analysts, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Middle East Institute. He has 

been published in Emerging Markets Review, the Financial Times and many other industry and academic journals. He is 

an accredited speaker for the CFA Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard 

Business School. 

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David Hollander is a Partner at Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC in Santa Monica, California. He is responsible 

for structuring the firm’s private placements and managing special situations and restructurings. Prior to joining 

Tennenbaum in 2002, he spent 16 years as an attorney with O’Melveny & Myers LLP. While at O’Melveny, Hollander 

specialized in leveraged finance, insolvency, and mergers and acquisitions, and represented debtors and creditors in 

numerous multi-billion dollar transactions. He has also represented boards of directors and has served on creditor 

committees. Hollander received a bachelor’s degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a 

J.D. from Stanford Law School. 

Yossie Hollander is Chairman of the Israeli Institute for Economic Planning and has been involved in advancing 

free market laws and policies in Israel. Recently he founded the Our Energy Policy Foundation, an open-source expert 

discussion of U.S. energy policy under the watchful eye of the public. A successful serial entrepreneur and philanthropist, 

Hollander has 40 years of experience in the software industry and is among the pioneers of the Israeli software industry. 

He founded New Dimension Software Ltd., served as chairman and CEO of the firm and took it public in 1992. The 

company was sold to BMC Software in 1999. In 1990, Hollander founded Jacada. Hollander now serves on the executive 

board and the management committee of the Weizmann Institute of Science, where he launched a renewable energy 

initiative. He is also on the Board of Councilors of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. 

Amy Holmes is a Political Analyst who covered both the 2006 and 2008 political seasons for CNN. She previously 

served as a Senior Speechwriter for former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. Prior to joining Sen. Frist’s staff, Holmes 

worked with the Corporation for National and Community Service, the agency with oversight of AmeriCorps. She 

began her career with the nonprofit Independent Women’s Forum, where she oversaw economic projects and 

launched its campus outreach. Holmes began appearing on television as a Fox News political analyst and USA Today 

guest contributor. In 2000 she joined MSNBC for its presidential election coverage and in 2002 hosted “Lead Story” on 

BET. More recently she guest-hosted ABC’s “The View” and appeared as a special correspondent for HBO’s “Real Time 

with Bill Maher.” Her political commentary has appeared in numerous national publications. Holmes holds a bachelor’s 

degree from Princeton University. 

Robert Hormats is Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International and Managing Director of Goldman, Sachs & 

Co. Before joining Goldman Sachs in 1982, Hormats was assistant secretary of state for economic and business affairs; 

ambassador and deputy U.S. trade representative; and senior deputy assistant secretary for economic and business 

affairs at the State Department. At the National Security Council, he was senior economic adviser to a series of national 

security advisors: Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski. He serves on boards at Tufts University and 

Harvard, the Irvington Institute for Immunological Research, Engelhard Hanovia Inc., The Economic Club of New York 

and Freedom House. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton 

University. An author, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a master’s degree and doctorate in 

international economics from the Fletcher School. 

Michael Horn is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Education for the Innosight Institute, a nonprofit think 

tank. He is the coauthor of Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns, which 

BusinessWeek named as one of the 10 best books on innovation in 2008. Disrupting Class uses the theories of disruptive 

innovation to identify the root causes of schools’ struggles and suggests a path forward to customizing education for 

every child in the way he or she learns. Horn has been featured as a speaker at many education conferences, including 

the Virtual School Symposium and the Microsoft School of the Future Summit. He received a bachelor’s degree from 

Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

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Steve Howard is the Founder and CEO of The Climate Group and a leading authority on climate change and the 

low-carbon economy. At The Climate Group, Howard has established a powerful international coalition of business and 

government leaders committed to advancing climate change solutions. He is also advising Tony Blair’s recent climate 

initiative, “Breaking the Climate Deadlock,” to accelerate the political momentum required for international agreement 

on a global climate deal in 2009. Before co-founding The Climate Group in 2003, Howard worked on a variety of social 

and environmental issues from within business, NGO and U.N. settings. He is a judge on the Virgin Earth Challenge, a 

World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council member and an expert on HRH Prince Charles’ Rainforest Project. His 

leadership has been recognized by both Scientific American and Time magazines. 

Thomas Humphreys is a Partner in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster LLP, where he heads the Federal 

Tax Practice Group and co-chairs the Tax Department. Humphreys has extensive experience with the tax aspects of 

capital market transactions, financial instruments, real estate investment trusts, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, 

mutual funds, mergers and acquisitions, and international transactions. He is an adjunct professor of law at New 

York University, a member of the faculty of the European Tax College in Brussels, and the author of Limited Liability 

Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships. Humphreys received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, 

Los Angeles; a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law; and an LL.M. in taxation from New York 

University School of Law. He is a member of the bars of California and New York. 

Chris Hunter is a Vice President of Climate Change Capital, where he leads the carbon finance team in originating and 

commercializing investments across North America. Before joining CCC, Hunter was a senior associate at GreenOrder 

in New York, where he was lead adviser to clients on energy and carbon issues. Hunter spent nine years at Johnson & 

Johnson, where he was responsible for creating, communicating and implementing energy-management and carbonreduction 

strategies worldwide. A recognized leader in the carbon markets, Hunter was a contributing author of the 

World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development Greenhouse Gas Protocol in 1998, 

as well as a founding member of the Green Power Market Development Group. He has briefed EU commissioners and 

Congress regarding climate change policy. Hunter holds a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University and a joint M.B.A. 

from Columbia and London Business Schools. 

Jon Huntsman Jr. is the Governor of Utah. Since assuming office in 2005, Huntsman has enacted record tax cuts 

while directing historic funding to education — and has presided over one of the hottest economies in the state’s 

history. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the National Governors Association and was elected 

chairman of the Western Governors Association in June 2008. His public service career began as a White House staff 

assistant to President Ronald Reagan and has included senior appointments in the Commerce Department and the 

State Department, as well as service as deputy U.S. trade representative. He has twice been unanimously confirmed by 

the Senate as a U.S. ambassador and speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese. Huntsman received a bachelor’s degree from the 

University of Pennsylvania. 

Asim Hussain is Adviser to the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Petroleum and Natural Resources. He is also chairman 

of the National Reconstruction Bureau and a member of Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee of Cabinet 

and its National Economic Council, as well as cabinet committees on privatization, investment, energy and regulatory 

bodies. An orthopedic surgeon by training, he has served as chancellor of Ziauddin Medical University in Karachi and 

president of the Pakistan Association of Private Medical and Dental Institutions. He was educated in Pakistan, Austria 

and the United States. 

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Dorit Inbar is General Manager of Israel’s New Foundation for Cinema & Television. She is also vice chairperson and a 

member of the Executive Committee of the Israel Broadcasting Authority. She sits on the board of directors of the Israeli 

Opera and of the Israel Electricity Company. Inbar was previously the CEO of the Tel-Ad Jerusalem Studios Ltd. (2004) 

and chairperson of the Council for Cable TV and Satellite broadcasting, the Israeli regulatory bodies of commercial and 

multi-channel television (2000). She represented Israel in the European Platform of Broadcasting Regulatory Authorities 

and in the Mediterranean Broadcasting Regulatory Authorities Association. Inbar is a lecturer at the Tel Aviv University 

Faculty of Laws, as well as in the Department of Communication within the Faculty of Social Science. 

Michael Intriligator is a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute and Professor of Economics, Political Science and 

Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. His recent work has concerned health-care reform, nuclear 

proliferation, global security and terrorism. Intriligator has authored or edited more than 200 articles and scholarly 

texts, including his seminal book, Mathematical Optimization and Economic Theory. He is a fellow of the Econometric 

Society and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the 

Russian Academy of Sciences. He was the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship at Yale University. From 1982 

to 1992, he directed the UCLA Center for International and Strategic Affairs, predecessor of the Burkle Center for 

International Relations. Intriligator received his Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Ray Irani is Chairman and CEO of Occidental Petroleum Corp. He joined the company in 1983 as chairman and CEO 

of Occidental Chemical Corp. Irani has numerous affiliations, including director of the American Petroleum Institute 

and member of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemists, the Council on Foreign Relations, 

the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Committee on United States-China Relations, the National 

Petroleum Council and the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council. He is a trustee of the University of Southern California 

(USC), a vice chair of the board of the American University of Beirut, serves on the advisory board of Rand’s Center for 

Middle East Public Policy and is a member of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. Author of the book Particle Size, Irani 

holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the American University of Beirut and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from USC. 

Afgan Isayev is the Executive Director of the Azerbaijan Investment Company of the Republic of Azerbaijan. He was 

previously deputy chairman and head of the risk and law departments at the Bank of Baku. His banking career started 

at American Express, where he focused on Central and Western Europe, risk management and portfolio analysis. He has 

also worked as a strategic management consultant to the technical support program at Rutgers University. He received 

a bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A. from Rutgers. 

Mike Italiano is President and CEO of the Market Transformation to Sustainability (MTS) and the Capital Markets 

Partnership. He founded these organizations, along with the U.S. Green Building Council, the Risk-Based Corrective 

Action (RBCA) Leadership Council and the American Society of Testing & Materials (ASTM) Committee E50 on 

Environmental Assessment. His more than 35 years of environmental experience include serving as a senior analyst 

in the White House Science Office and as assistant to the director of the National Commission on Water Quality. He 

co-originated the RBCA standard adopted by the EPA, which has saved billions of dollars in waste site response while 

protecting public health and the environment. Italiano received a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University, a 

master’s degree from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and a J.D. from 

George Mason University. 

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Russ Jackson is Senior Vice President of Human Resources at Safeway Inc., a major food retailer with total sales of 

$44.1 billion in 2008. He is responsible for employee relations, compensation, benefits, training, talent management, 

leadership development, recruiting, health and wellness, and diversity inclusion programs. Before joining Safeway, 

Jackson was at Pacific Gas and Electric Corp., where he served as senior vice president of human resources. He received 

a bachelor’s degree from San Jose State University, an M.B.A. from St. Mary’s College, a master’s degree in human 

resources and organizational development from the University of San Francisco and a certificate in human resources 

management from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Rick Jacobus manages NCB Capital Impact’s Shared Equity Homeownership Initiative, a national effort funded by the 

Ford Foundation to promote housing tenure options between traditional homeownership and renting. He is also a partner 

in Burlington Associates in Community Development and a visiting fellow at the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy. Jacobus 

is an expert in affordable homeownership and the community land trust model. His recent publications include Affordable 

by Choice, Trends in California Inclusionary Housing Programs, published by the Nonprofit Housing Association of Northern 

California; Delivering on the Promise of Inclusionary Housing: Best Practices in Administration and Monitoring, published by 

PolicyLink; and Shared Equity, Transformative Wealth, published by the Center for Housing Policy. He was previously director 

of Neighborhood Economic Development for the East Bay Asian Local Development Corp. Jacobus received a bachelor’s 

degree from Oberlin College and a master’s degree in city planning from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Ken Jaffe is President and Executive Director of the International Child Resource Institute (ICRI), which he founded in 

1981. A nonprofit organization, ICRI is committed to improving the lives of children and families throughout the world. 

Jaffe oversees eight ICRI offices in the United States as well as offices in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nepal, Malaysia, 

India, Norway and Sweden. He is the author of numerous articles on international child care, child advocacy, child 

health and children’s rights issues. For nine years, Jaffe chaired the California Governor’s Advisory Committee on 

Child Development. He has been involved in the planning, development and implementation of more than 200 early 

childhood programs in 35 countries and advised numerous governments on child-care development, health and childabuse-prevention 

policies and worked with more than 100 companies on the development of work-related child-care 

programs and family-friendly business policies and practices. 

Benjamin Jealous is President and CEO of the NAACP. He has previously served as president of the Rosenberg 

Foundation; director of the U.S. Human Rights Program at Amnesty International; and executive director of the 

National Newspaper Publishers Association, a federation of black community newspapers. While a student at Columbia 

University, he worked in Harlem as a community organizer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and led campus 

movements for homeless rights, environmental justice, full-need financial aid and need-blind admissions. When these 

protests led to his suspension, he headed off to work as a field organizer in Mississippi. He remained there to become 

an investigative reporter for the Jackson Advocate, where he later served as managing editor. Jealous later completed 

his bachelor’s degree at Columbia University and received a master’s degree from the University of Oxford, where he 

was a Rhodes Scholar. 

Kevin Johnson is the Mayor of Sacramento. In May 2000, he retired from the National Basketball Association after 

12 seasons with the Phoenix Suns. He returned to his hometown of Sacramento to serve as the CEO of St. HOPE, a 

nonprofit community development corporation he founded in 1989 to revitalize inner-city communities through 

public education, economic development, civic leadership and arts enrichment. The organization currently operates 

St. HOPE Public Schools, a system serving more than 1,500 students from pre-K through grade 12. St. HOPE has 

dramatically improved the community of Oak Park through its holistic community development approach, creating 

new businesses, jobs and a cultural center. Johnson has been inducted into the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of 

Fame and the Pac-10 Hall of Fame. 

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Audra Jones is the Americas Director for the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF), where she facilitates 

business engagement on a broad range of social, economic and environmental issues. Before joining IBLF, she was 

the senior director for partnership at the United Nations Foundation, focusing on climate change, women’s health and 

eco-tourism. Jones was previously a representative at the Inter-American Foundation, where she linked corporations 

with Latin American communities as part of their social investment and supply chains. Her private-sector experience 

includes her role as a vice president at Citibank’s Latin American Investment Products Division and overseeing the 

privatization valuation for a national utility in Peru for Louis Berger International. Jones started her career at the U.S 

Agency for International Development on a global agribusiness program. She received a bachelor’s degree from the 

University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. in international affairs from Columbia University. 

Lady Barbara Thomas Judge is Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), Chairman 

of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and Deputy Chairman of Friends Provident. 

She has had a wide-ranging international career as a senior executive in both the private and public sectors. Lady 

Judge served as the first female executive director of Samuel Montagu & Co. and of News International, the main British 

subsidiary of News Corporation. In 1980 she became the youngest commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange 

Commission; prior to that, she was a partner in the New York law firm of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler. Lady 

Judge has written extensively on corporate governance, international accounting standards and nuclear power. She 

received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from New York University. 

Steve Jurvetson is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, a leading venture capital firm with affiliate 

offices around the world and an emphasis on energy and clean tech investment. Jurvetson was the founding venturecapital 

investor in Hotmail, Interwoven and Kana. He also led the firm’s investments in Tradex and Cyras, and in 

pioneering companies in synthetic biology and molecular electronics. Previously he was an R&D engineer at HP, where 

seven of his communications chip designs were fabricated. His prior technical experience also includes programming, 

materials science research and computer design at HP, the Center for Materials Research and Mostek. Jurvetson serves 

as co-chair of the NanoBusiness Alliance and president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. He received 

bachelor’s and master’s degrees, as well as an M.B.A., from Stanford University. 

Carl Kaplan is the Founding and Managing Director of Koret Israel Economic Development Funds, the privatesector 

small business and micro-enterprise loan program in Israel that has facilitated more than $200 million of 

financing to more than 7,000 businesses. Kaplan previously spent ten years with Arba Finance Company Ltd., a Tel 

Aviv-based investment banker, and was a Claridge Israel Inc. consultant. Prior to moving to Israel, Kaplan was a partner 

in Goldklang, Silvers & Co. Inc., a private Wall Street investment and merchant banking firm specializing in U.S.-Israeli 

corporate, capital, marketing and joint-venture relationships. His professional experience includes legal practice in 

Washington, D.C.; he has also been executive director of the Greater Lansing Legal Aid Society and policy director of the 

Michigan Public Utility Commission, and held senior positions at the U.S. Department of Energy. Kaplan earned his J.D. 

at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. 

Marty Kaplan holds the Norman Lear Chair in Entertainment, Media and Society at the University of Southern 

California’s Annenberg School for Communication, where he was associate dean for ten years. He is the founding 

director of the school’s Norman Lear Center, whose mission is to study and shape the impact of entertainment on 

society. Kaplan was Vice President Walter Mondale’s chief speechwriter and was deputy campaign manager of 

Mondale’s presidential bid. He worked for 12 years at Walt Disney Studios, where he was first a feature films vice 

president and then a screenwriter/producer. His movie credits include “The Distinguished Gentleman,” starring Eddie 

Murphy, and the film adaptation of Michael Frayn’s “Noises Off.” He received a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology 

from Harvard College, where he was president of The Harvard Lampoon, and was a Marshall Scholar at the University of 

Cambridge. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in modern thought and literature. 

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Vikas Kapoor is President and CEO of iQor, a global provider of call centers and other business process outsourcing 

services. Before joining iQor, Kapoor was president and CEO of Delano Technology Corp., a customer relationship 

management software company. He previously was president and CEO of Walker Digital, an incubator of Internet 

businesses, including priceline.com, and he co-founded Mitchell Madison Group, a management consulting firm. Kapoor 

speaks frequently about innovation, globalization, private equity and turnaround management at various conferences. 

Kapoor is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Young Presidents’ Organization and Philippine President 

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s International Board of Advisors. Kapoor also serves on the boards of The Metropolitan Opera, 

Cooper Union and the Rubin Museum of Art. He received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, a master’s degree 

in philosophy from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar. 

Zachary Karabell is President of River Twice Research, where he analyzes economic and political trends. He is 

also a senior advisor for Business for Social Responsibility, which develops sustainable business strategies. Previously, 

he was executive vice president, head of marketing and chief economist at Fred Alger Management in New York; 

president of Fred Alger and Company; and portfolio manager of the award-winning China-U.S. Growth Fund. He was 

executive vice president of Alger’s Spectra Funds, which launched the $30 million Spectra Green Fund, linking profit 

and sustainability. Educated at Columbia, Oxford and Harvard (where he received his doctorate), he is the author of 

several books, including the upcoming Superfusion: How China and America Became One Economy and Why the World’s 

Prosperity Depends on It. He sits on the board of the World Policy Institute and the New America Foundation and is a 

member of the Council on Foreign Relations. 

Eric Karolak is Executive Director of the Early Care and Education Consortium (ECEC), a nonprofit alliance of 

America’s leading providers of quality early learning programs. Its members operate more than 7,600 licensed centers 

caring for and educating nearly 800,000 children daily across the country. From 2001 to 2006, Karolak led the National 

Child Care Information Center, the largest federal clearinghouse and state technical assistance center focused on child 

care and early education for low-income families. He has worked closely with states in developing the technical aspects 

of child-care assistance programs, quality rating systems and partnerships across early childhood programs. Karolak 

has also directed state policy research and fiscal analysis in the areas of child welfare, child care and public housing, 

and has experience as an analyst, researcher and program administrator in human services and education programs. 

Karolak received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. 

Bruce Kasman is Chief U.S. Economist and Global Head of Economic Research for JPMorgan Chase & Co. He is 

responsible for the firm’s worldwide economic and policy views and directs JPMorgan’s flagship Global Data Watch and 

World Financial Markets publications. Kasman joined the firm in 1994 and became head of European economic research 

from 1996 to 1999. He was previously senior international economist at Morgan Stanley. Kasman started his career 

at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in the International Research Department. He has a Ph.D. in economics from 

Columbia University. 

Peter Katona is Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of 

California, Los Angeles. The current president of the nonprofit Center of Medical Multimedia Education and Technology, 

he has worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as corporate medical director for Apria Healthcare. 

He has appointments at Louisiana State University’s National Center for Biomedical Research and Training, and at the 

Los Angeles County Emergency Management Services Agency. He is co-founder and president of Biological Threat 

Mitigation, a bioterrorism-preparedness consulting firm. Katona is a member of the Hospital Association of Southern 

California and EMS Agency’s Hospital Preparedness Program, the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Bioemergency 

Workgroup, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Homeland Security Advisory Council, the Pacific Council and 

the FDA’s Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee. He is an author and editor. 

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Paul Kedrosky is a Senior Fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, specializing in 

entrepreneurship, innovation and capital markets. He is also a venture partner with Ventures West, focusing on consumer 

technologies, media, semiconductors and life sciences. Previously, he was executive director of the William J. von Liebig 

Center, which helps commercialize technologies from the University of California, San Diego. He founded the technology 

equity research practice at HSBC James Capel and in 1999 financed and launched one of the first hosted blogging 

services, GrokSoup. An analyst for CNBC, columnist for TheStreet.com’s RealMoney site and editor of the blog “Infectious 

Greed,” he also serves on the board of Marqui Corp. and Dabble DB. Kedrosky has a bachelor’s degree in engineering 

from Carleton University, an M.B.A. from Queen’s University and a doctorate from the University of Western Ontario. 

Robert Kelly is Chairman and CEO of The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. The company is a worldwide leader in 

asset management and securities servicing, operating in 34 countries and serving institutions and high-net-worth 

individuals in more than 100 markets. Kelly is a member of the Federal Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Board 

and sits on the board of directors of the Financial Services Roundtable, where he is vice chairman of the Roundtable’s 

CEO Regulatory Restructuring Advisory Council. Kelly previously served as chairman, president and CEO of Mellon 

Financial after five years as chief financial officer of Wachovia. He was named a top 10 bank CEO in 2006 and 2007 by 

U.S. Banker magazine and one of America’s best CFOs by the readers of Institutional Investor magazine in 2004, 2005 

and 2006. 

Cinny Kennard is a Senior Fellow at the University of Southern California Annenberg Center on Communication 

Leadership and Policy, where she is working to launch a Center of Women in Communication Leadership. She was 

previously the managing director and editor of National Public Radio’s West Coast Production Center. Winner of the 

Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University award for coverage of the Persian Gulf War, she spent several years as a CBS News 

television correspondent. In that role she reported on the uprising in Moscow, the ongoing conflict in Northern Ireland 

and the former Yugoslavia. Kennard has co-authored “Characteristics of War Coverage by Female Correspondents,” 

which was published in the book Media and Conflict in the Twenty-First Century. She co-founded and serves on the 

board of The Carole Kneeland Project for Responsible Journalism and the USC Health and Journalism project. She is a 

graduate of Northeastern University. 

Liam Kennedy is Editor of Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE) magazine, the leading European institutional 

investment journal. He has 10 years’ experience as a financial journalist and editor, specializing in the field of institutional 

investment and pension funds. He has met, interviewed and profiled countless senior executives at European pension 

plans, asset-management companies and consultancies. Prior to joining IPE in February 2007, Kennedy spent nearly 

seven years at the Financial Times Group in London, where he worked as a specialist editor and writer in the Financial 

Times Business division and launched four specialist European pension and investment publications. He received a 

master’s degree in German language and literature from the University of Glasgow. 

Vinod Khosla is the Founder of Khosla Ventures, which focuses on traditional venture capital technology 

investments, clean technology ventures and social ventures, such as affordable housing and microfinance. He was 

a co-founder of Daisy Systems, which created the first computer-aided design system for electrical engineers, and 

went on to become the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, where he pioneered open systems and commercial 

RISC processors. In 1986, Khosla joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), which had funded Sun. He received a 

bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, a master’s degree in 

biomedical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

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Thomas Kinton Jr., is CEO and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), the public 

authority that operates Boston Logan International Airport; Hanscom Field; Worcester Regional Airport; the Tobin 

Memorial Bridge; the public cruise, cargo and container terminals of the Port of Boston; and waterfront development 

in Boston. Culminating a 32-year career at Massport with his appointment as CEO in 2002, Kinton has maintained the 

authority’s standing as a national leader in transportation security while implementing customer service improvements. 

As the “Gateway to New England,” Massport, under Kinton’s leadership, has expanded air and sea service. Its facilities 

directly provide more than 18,000 jobs and generate nearly $9 billion a year in economic activity. Serving as Massport’s 

aviation director from 1993 to 2002, Kinton was nationally recognized for instituting Logan’s Family Assistance Program 

for Aviation Disasters. He received a bachelor’s degree and an honorary doctorate from Merrimack College. 

Mary Kissel is Editorial Page Editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia, based in Hong Kong. Her journalism career began 

at the Journal as an intern reporting from Paris, Brussels and Washington, D.C. She joined the Journal in Hong Kong in 

2004 to write the “Heard in Asia” column, the paper’s premier commentary on the financial markets. Her work has also 

been published in the Far Eastern Economic Review, The Australian and the South China Morning Post. A regular guest 

on U.S. radio and TV, Kissel is a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute and an Edwards Media Fellow at Stanford 

University’s Hoover Institution. She began her career at Goldman Sachs as a fixed-income research and capital markets 

specialist in New York and London. Kissel received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a master’s degree 

from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. 

Matt Kistler is the Senior Vice President of Sustainability for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Kistler integrates sustainability 

into Wal-Mart’s global business strategy, engaging the company’s 61,000 suppliers and the more than 2 million store 

associates in this goal. Before joining Wal-Mart, Kistler worked at Sam’s Club as senior vice president of marketing, 

research and insights; vice president of product and packaging innovation; and vice president of product development, 

private brands, packaging and quality testing. He previously held management positions at General Foods, Oscar 

Mayer and Kraft Foods. Kistler has a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Michigan State University and an M.B.A. from 

Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. 

Boris Klebensberger is Manager of Operative Business and Chief Operating Officer of SolarWorld AG. The 

company is involved at all levels of the solar value chain and combines all activities of the solar industry from silicon as 

the raw material to turn-key solar power system. SolarWorld AG is represented in all the world’s solar growth markets. 

Glenn Kleiman is Executive Director of the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, based at North Carolina 

State University, where he is also a Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in the 

College of Education. A cognitive psychologist by background, he focuses on basic and applied research, curriculum 

development, software development, professional development for teachers and administrators, and policy analysis. 

Before joining N.C. State in 2007, he was vice president and senior research scientist at the Education Development 

Center Inc. in Massachusetts, where he most recently directed the Center for Online Professional Education. He was 

on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education from 1995 to 2007, and has also taught at the University 

of Illinois, the University of Toronto and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. He received a Ph.D. from 

Stanford University. 

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Robert Kleine has served as Michigan’s State Treasurer since 2006, overseeing the collection, investment and 

disbursement of all state monies. In addition, he is responsible for administering major tax laws, safeguarding the 

state’s credit standing and distributing revenue-sharing monies to local units of government. Kleine recently worked 

as a private economic consultant. He also served as vice president and senior economist at Public Sector Consultants 

for 15 years and director of Michigan’s Office of Revenue and Tax Analysis for 10 years. He was also a senior fellow at the 

Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations and an adjunct professor at Michigan State University, teaching 

public finance. A graduate of Western Maryland College (now McDaniel College), Kleine holds a master’s degree from 

Michigan State University. 

Kevin Klowden is Managing Economist of the California Center and is part of the Regional Economics group 

at the Milken Institute. His research, including the recent California’s Highway Infrastructure: Traffic’s Looming Costs, 

focuses on the role of transportation infrastructure in regional competitiveness. Klowden has also analyzed technology 

and media; he authored The Writers’ Strike of 2007–2008: The Economic Impact of Digital Distribution, examining the 

issues surrounding the Hollywood writers’ strike and the costs of that work stoppage to the California economy. He 

coordinated the Institute’s Los Angeles Economy Project, seeking public policy and private-sector solutions to regional 

challenges. He also served on the editorial board of Millennium, the international affairs journal of the London School 

of Economics, where he earned a master’s degree in the politics of world economy. Klowden also earned a master’s in 

economic geography from the University of Chicago. 

Michael Klowden is President and CEO of the Milken Institute. During his tenure, the Institute has increased its 

global outreach and expanded its research into the life-sciences industry and global risk. He has overseen the creation 

of FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions and the Institute’s transition from a private foundation to a 

publicly supported charitable organization. Klowden joined the Institute in 2001 from the investment firm Jefferies & 

Co. Inc., where he served as vice chairman, president and chief operating officer. Previously, he was a senior partner at 

the international law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and a partner in the law firm Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp. Klowden 

received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. 

Dennis Kneale is the Media and Technology Editor for CNBC. He joined the network in 2007, after spending nine 

years at Forbes, where he had been managing editor since 2000. At Forbes he oversaw some of the most dramatic 

business stories of the new decade: the Internet boom, bust and rebuild; corporate scandals and investor fallout; the 

backlash against the drug industry amid recalls and soaring costs; the rise of Google; the capitalist revolution igniting 

China’s economy; and the travails of Martha Stewart. Prior to joining Forbes, Kneale put in 16 years at The Wall Street 

Journal; in his last job as a senior editor there, he directed much of the paper’s coverage of new AIDS treatments, which 

won a Pulitzer Prize in 1997. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida, where he has been honored 

as a distinguished alumnus. 

Donald Knezek is CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). He also co-chairs the 

Educational Technology Advisory Committee to the Texas State Board of Education. He recently served as director of 

The National Center for Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technology (NCPT3) and co-director of the National 

Educational Technology Standards (NETS) Project, both important ISTE initiatives. His 28 years as an educator 

include leadership in K-12 classroom, district office, university, regional service center, and national and international 

organization settings. He has also directed multi-state projects for the U.S. Department of Education. Knezek is 

committed to universal education and advocates for professional development in context. He consults for education 

ministries around the world. 

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Martin Koffel is Chairman and CEO of URS Corp. He has led URS since 1989. During his tenure, URS has grown 

from a firm with $100 million in revenue and 900 employees to a global engineering and construction company 

with approximately $9.8 billion in revenue and 50,000 employees in 30-plus countries. The company offers services 

in four market sectors: power, infrastructure, federal, and industrial and commercial. URS designs and builds every 

type of power-generating facility, including nuclear plants. For infrastructure, URS provides comprehensive services 

for surface, air and rail transportation networks, water/wastewater facilities and public buildings. Its work for the 

federal government includes a variety of services in support of the Defense Department, including development and 

modernization of weapons systems, maintenance of military vehicles and equipment, design of military facilities and 

operation of military installations. Koffel received an M.B.A. from Stanford University. 

James Konantz is Senior Vice President, Western Region, of K12 Inc., where he supervises instructional programs 

and school accountability for K12 Virtual Academies in the Western United States. Konantz has also served as head of 

schools for the California Virtual Academies, growing enrollment to more than 9,000 students. He has been active in 

public policy development in California relating to online schooling and has directed his work to benefit all charter 

schools serving students in an online environment. Before joining K12 in 2003, Konantz was assistant superintendent 

of schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. He has more than 40 years of experience in public education, 

including teacher development, leadership in special education, Title 1 planning and implementation, instructional 

technology, development of small learning communities, counselor training and secondary school improvement. 

Konantz served for two years as a consultant to Japan’s Ministry of Science, Technology and Education. 

Mari Kooi is the CEO and Founder of Wolf Asset Management International LLC. Kooi spent 18 years at Cargill 

Inc., working as a trader, trading manager and president of Cargill Asset Management. In 1984, Kooi became one of 

the founding investment managers of Cargill’s in-house hedge fund, later spun out as the Black River Fund. She also 

developed a number of innovative investment products as president of Cargill Asset Management. Kooi founded 

and presides over the New Mexico Financial Services Task Force. Several art organizations have benefited from Kooi’s 

governance, including the Minnesota Museum of American Art, which twice named her Trustee of the Year. She is active 

in Site Santa Fe and The Santa Fe Institute. Kooi is the author of the “Sopa Piranha,” a quarterly market commentary and 

has published widely on hedge fund investing. She holds a master’s degree in finance from the University of Minnesota. 

Nancy Kopp is the State Treasurer of Maryland. In addition to managing the Office of State Treasurer, she is the 

state’s chief representative in dealing with financial rating agencies and investment banking firms. She also sits on 

the Board of Public Works with the governor and the comptroller of the state, and chairs the boards of trustees of 

the State Retirement and Pension Systems, the Capital Debt Affordability Committee, the Commission on State Debt 

and the College Savings Plans of Maryland. She is also a member of the Maryland Supplemental Retirement Board. 

Kopp previously served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates for 27 years. She holds a bachelor’s degree 

from Wellesley College and a master’s degree in government from the University of Chicago; she has also received four 

honorary doctorates. 

Alexander Kovaler is Vice President of Sales and Public Relations with Gallery Media, the second-largest outof-home 

advertising operator in Russia and the 11th largest in the world. Previously, Alex grew AT&T’s business in 

the Soviet Union as Managing Director and the company’s first-ever expatriate executive assigned to that market. 

He was in place before, during and after the collapse of the Soviet Union and built subsequent relationships with 

communications ministries in various republics post-collapse. Alex then joined RC Cola, building a greenfield operation 

into the “New Brand of the Year” in 1998 and developing markets in Kosovo, Croatia, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. He 

built RC into the top brand in Tajikistan, second in Ukraine and among the top three in several other nations. He earned 

his MBA at Boston University. 

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Orin Kramer has managed Boston Provident Partners, a financial services hedge fund, since 1992. He is also 

Chairman of the New Jersey State Investment Council, the oversight board for the state’s public pension system, and 

serves on Pennsylvania’s Financial Asset Management Commission. Kramer is a member of the board of the Alliance 

for Climate Protection and has served as a director of three financial firms: Ariel (current), Tempest Re and Golden State 

Bancorp. He has taught at Columbia Law School and written two books on insurance issues. He has served as executive 

director of three state commissions involving financial industry issues (in New York and California); was associate 

director of the White House domestic policy staff for financial industry issues; and co-chaired President Clinton’s 

financial services transition team. Kramer graduated from Yale College and Columbia Law School. 

Keith Krueger is CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a U.S. nonprofit organization that serves 

as the voice of K-12 technology leaders, especially school district officials who make strategic use of technology to 

improve teaching and learning. In 2008 he was honored by eSchool News as one of “Ten Who Have Made a Difference” 

in education technology over the past decade. He serves on the advisory boards for eSchool News, Scholastic 

Administr@tor magazine and the Friday Institute at North Carolina State University; he is also a past board member 

for the Organizations Concerned About Rural Education’s National Committee on Technology in Education & Training. 

Krueger has served on joint EU-U.S., United Nations and G8 information and communications panel, and has organized 

senior-level U.S. delegations to visit Australia, Asia and Europe to examine best practices in educational technology. 

Barbara Krumsiek is President, CEO and Chair of the Calvert Group Ltd., an investment management firm 

headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, that manages $12 billion in assets including equity, bond and money market 

portfolios. She also serves as director and chair of Acacia Life Insurance Company. Krumsiek serves on the boards of 

PEPCO Holdings Inc., the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation (as vice chair), the Economic Club of Washington, 

D.C., and the Federal City Council. She previously chaired the Greater Washington Board of Trade. In June 2008 the 

Washington Business Journal honored her with the CEO Leadership Award in the large company category, and in 

2007 Washingtonian magazine included her among the “150 Most Influential People in Washington, D.C” and among 

“Washington, D.C.’s 100 Most Powerful Women” in 2006. 

Mike Krzyzewski has been the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Duke University for 29 seasons, after serving as 

head coach at his alma mater, the United States Military Academy, for five years. He has tallied 833 career victories to 

rank fourth all-time in NCAA Division I history. The Blue Devils have won three national championships (1991, 1992, 

2001) under “Coach K.” He has been named National Coach of the Year in eight seasons, while leading Duke to 25 NCAA 

Tournament appearances and 10 Final Four trips. Krzyzewski is the winningest coach in NCAA Tournament history, 

with 71 victories. He has also experienced success at the highest level on the international scene, leading the U.S. Men’s 

Senior National Team to capture the gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Krzyzewski has been honored as 

the USA Basketball National Coach of the Year three times in his career. 

David Kuplic is the Chief Investment Officer of Securian Financial Group, where he oversees $23 billion in investment 

assets under management. Securian is one of the most highly rated life insurance and asset-management groups in 

the United States. Kuplic is also executive vice president of Advantus Capital Management, an asset-management firm 

that manages more than $16 billion for institutional clients and is an affiliate of Securian. He is responsible for insurance 

portfolio management and the investment research, trading, finance and operations, and legal and compliance areas 

of Advantus. Since starting in the investment industry in 1984, Kuplic has specialized in fixed-income investment 

management, developing deep expertise in fixed-income money management. His experience includes mutual fund 

and life insurance company portfolio management, research oversight and investment analysis. 

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Joel Kurtzman is a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute and Executive Director of SAVE (the Strategic Action Volunteer 

Effort). Previously he was global lead partner for thought leadership and innovation at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He 

has also served as executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, a member of the editorial board of Harvard Business 

School Publishing, a business editor and columnist at The New York Times and founding editor of Strategy+Business. 

Kurtzman began his career as an international economist at the United Nations, where he was deputy director of the 

U.N.’s Project on the Future. While at the U.N., he participated in negotiations between India and Union Carbide over the 

Bhopal disaster. For these efforts, he was awarded India’s Indira Gandhi Prize. Kurtzman is the author of 20 books and 

hundreds of articles. He received a master’s degree from the University of Houston and was the recipient of a Moody 

Foundation Fellowship. 

Yair Landau is the former President of Sony Pictures Digital and the former Vice Chairman of Sony Pictures 

Entertainment. Under his direction, Sony Pictures Imageworks developed into a leading, state-of-the-art digital 

animation and visual effects company, creating computer-generated imaging (CGI) for motion pictures. During the 

past several years, Landau grew Sony Online Entertainment into a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online 

games, with a subscriber base of more than 750,000 active accounts. At Sony Pictures Digital, he drove the company’s 

expansion into the digital marketplace via Sonypictures.com and the creation of mobile games and personalization 

products, casual games and video. Landau is currently a venture partner at Jerusalem Venture Partners. He uses his 

expertise in the digital content and gaming industries to guide the portfolio companies he is currently advising, which 

include Double Fusion, Animation Lab, iContaqt and Infinite Memories. 

Deborah Landis is a costume designer whose Hollywood credits include “Animal House,” “The Blues Brothers,” 

“Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video, “Trading Places” and “Coming to America,” for 

which she received an Academy Award nomination. Her costume for Indiana Jones is on permanent display at the 

Smithsonian Institution. She is the author of three books: Screencraft: Costume Design, 50 Costumes/50 Designers: 

Concept to Character and Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume. She served two terms as president of the Costume 

Designers Guild. Landis is the David C. Copley Professor of Costume Design at the School of Theater, Film and Television 

at the University of California, Los Angeles, and lectures at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic 

Arts and the American Film Institute. She received a Ph.D. from the Royal College of Art. 

John Landis is an acclaimed filmmaker, with such classics as “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “The Blues 

Brothers,” “Trading Places,” “Kentucky Fried Movie,” “Three Amigos” and “Coming to America” among his long list of 

directing credits. Though known for his comedies, Landis also wrote and directed the 1981 horror classic “An American 

Werewolf in London.” Two years later, he raised the bar for music videos with the revolutionary “Michael Jackson’s 

Thriller.” Landis collaborated again with Jackson in 1991 on “Black or White.” After producing and directing more than 

800 hours of television, including shows like HBO’s “Dream On” and Disney’s “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” he has recently 

turned his talents to documentaries, including “Slasher,” which follows the exploits of a used-car salesman, and the 

Emmy-winning “Mr. Warmth, The Don Rickles Project.” Landis will be directing “Burke and Hare” for Ealing Studios in 

Edinburgh and London this summer. 

Brent Lane is Director of the University of North Carolina Center for Competitive Economies and an Adjunct 

Professor at the university’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Before he joined UNC in 2004, his professional life bridged 

the worlds of venture capital, R&D commercialization and entrepreneurial development. At UNC he draws on scholarly 

business research to design capital market solutions to global challenges. He has pioneered research techniques to 

identify global growth firms and design investment strategies capitalizing on emergent industry opportunities. Lane 

is currently working with several international organizations on sustainable business development strategies that 

preserve sensitive natural and cultural World Heritage sites while enhancing their value to regional economies and 

benefiting local peoples. He holds bachelor’s degrees in both physical and social sciences and master’s degrees in 

science policy and business administration. 

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Ilene Lang is President of Catalyst, a research and advisory organization working to build inclusive workplaces and 

expand opportunities for women and business. Lang has expertise on the advancement of women in corporations and 

professional firms; corporate boards and governance; workforce demographic trends; the business case for women’s 

career development; innovative strategies for retaining and advancing women; and work-life effectiveness. She was 

the founding CEO of AltaVista Internet Software Inc. and senior vice president of the Desktop Business Group at Lotus 

Development Corp. Lang serves on the board of Art Technology Group Inc. and on the National Nominating Committee 

of the Girl Scouts of the USA. She was named to the Global Agenda Council on the gender gap at the World Economic 

Forum, and has served on numerous other boards. Lang received a bachelor’s degree from Radcliffe College and an 

M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

Sarah Coxe Lange is Managing Director of New Business Development at Guggenheim Partners Asset 

Management Inc., focusing on the insurance and fund-of-funds markets. Lange previously was a managing director at 

TCW, responsible for insurance client development and relationship management across the United States. In 20 years 

on the buy side of the insurance industry, Lange has held a variety of senior roles, including executive vice president 

and head of portfolio management for AEGON USA Investment Management LLC, chief investment officer of Provident 

Mutual Life Insurance Company and president of Market Street Investment Management. She is a past president of the 

Financial Analysts of Philadelphia and has been active in various investment committees of the American Council of 

Life Insurance. A chartered financial analyst (CFA), Lange received a bachelor’s degree from Dickinson College and an 

M.B.A. from Baruch College, City University of New York. 

Sherry Lansing is CEO of The Sherry Lansing Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research 

and public education. Among its initiatives is PrimeTime LAUSD, a partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School 

District that engages retirees through targeted volunteerism. She is also a founder of the Stand Up To Cancer initiative, 

which funds multi-institutional cancer research “dream teams.” In addition, Lansing is a Regent of the University of 

California. During nearly 30 years in the motion picture business, Lansing was involved in the production, marketing 

and distribution of more than 200 films, including Academy Award winners “Forrest Gump”, “Braveheart” and “Titanic”, 

the highest-grossing movie of all time. In 1984 she became the first woman to head a major film studio when she was 

appointed president of 20th Century Fox. In 1992 she was named chairman and CEO of Paramount Pictures. 

Timothy Lappen is Founder and Chairman of the Family Office Group at the law firm of Jeffer, Mangels, Butler 

& Marmaro LLP. Serving as outside general counsel to high-net-worth individuals, their families and their businesses, 

Lappen emphasizes family office matters and general business, corporate and real estate law. He is a member of the 

firm’s corporate and real estate departments, and belongs to its Global Hospitality and Commercial Finance groups. 

Recognized by Worth magazine as one of the “Top 100 Attorneys” in the United States, Lappen is active in numerous 

civic activities. He currently serves as advisory board chairman of the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank and president of 

the Center for Childhood. He is also past president of the UCLA Law School Trustees and the Santa Monica Protective 

Association. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from the University of 

California, Los Angeles. 

Marc Lasry is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of Avenue Capital Group. He is also co-founder of Amroc Investments 

LLC. Distressed investing has been the focus of his career for more than 22 years. Prior to operating Amroc as an 

independent entity, Lasry managed capital for Amroc Investments LP, which was affiliated with Acadia Partners LP. 

Lasry was previously co-director of the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Department at Cowen & Company 

and director of the Private Debt Department at Smith Vasiliou Management Company. He also clerked for the Hon. 

Edward Ryan, former chief bankruptcy judge of the Southern District of New York. Lasry received a bachelor’s degree 

from Clark University and a J.D. from New York Law School. 

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Len Lauer is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Qualcomm Inc. He is responsible for Qualcomm’s 

businesses focused on mobile content and services, and emerging display technologies. Before joining Qualcomm 

in 2006, Lauer was president and chief operating officer of Sprint, directing the company’s operations to deliver 

converged media and communication services. Lauer joined Sprint in 1998 and held several leadership positions, 

including president of Sprint PCS, president of Sprint’s Consumer Services Group, president of Sprint Business and 

president of the Global Markets Group, where he directed product development, marketing and sales, network 

operations, technology planning and information technology. He was previously president and CEO of Bell Atlantic– 

New Jersey, and spent more than 10 years with IBM, holding management positions in marketing and sales. Lauer 

received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego. 

Norman Lear has enjoyed a long career in television and film, and as a political and social activist and philanthropist. 

Known as the creator of Archie Bunker and “All in the Family,” Lear has many television and motion picture credits and, 

in 1999, received the National Medal of Arts. He has been inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, received 

four Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award, as well as awards from the International Platform Association, the Writers 

Guild of America and many other professional and civic organizations. Lear founded several nonprofit organizations, 

including People for the American Way, the Norman Lear Center at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, 

the Environmental Media Association, and the Business Enterprise Trust. Lear also created “Declare Yourself,” a national 

nonpartisan, nonprofit program to energize and empower a new movement of young voters. 

John Lechleiter is Chairman, President and CEO of Eli Lilly and Company. He joined Lilly in 1979 as an organic 

chemist, and has held leadership positions in virtually all components of the pharmaceuticals business, from R&D 

and product development to regulatory affairs, manufacturing, and sales and marketing. Lechleiter is a member of 

the American Chemical Society, the Business Roundtable and The Business Council; he also serves on the Executive 

Committee of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the Board of Trustees of Xavier 

University and advisory councils at Harvard Business School and the Harvard School of Public Health. Lechleiter received 

a bachelor’s degree from Xavier University; he later studied organic chemistry as a National Science Foundation Fellow 

at Harvard University, where he received his master’s and doctorate degrees. He also holds an honorary doctorate of 

business administration from Marian College (Indianapolis). 

Jason Lee is a Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he manages convertible and equity derivative 

origination for financial institutions, health care and consumer/retail. Over his ten years leading that effort, he has led 

many of the firm’s most complicated financing and risk-management transactions for corporate clients. In 1999, he was 

the firm’s representative at BrokerTec Global, a consortium of Treasury bond dealers, and spearheaded the creation of 

the first inter-dealer electronic futures exchange and clearinghouse. Lee serves as chairman of the board of Safe Space, 

a New York-based family services nonprofit organization serving approximately 20,000 families. He is a graduate of the 


Thomas Lee is President of Thomas H. Lee Capital and has been involved in the management of private equity 

investments since 1974, currently through Lee Equity Partners. Since 1999 he has also directed a series of hedge fund 

investments through Blue Star LLC. From 1966 through 1974, Lee was with First National Bank of Boston, where he 

directed the bank’s high-technology lending group from 1968 to 1974 and became a vice president in 1973. Lee has 

served as a director of numerous public and private corporations, including General Nutrition Companies, Playtex 

Products, Snapple Beverage Corp. and Wyndham International. In addition, he is a member of the JP Morgan National 

Advisory Board. He is currently a trustee of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Museum of Modern Art, NYU 

Medical Center and other civic organizations. Lee received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College. 

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William Lee is Chief Investment Officer and Vice President of Pensions and Foundation Investments at Kaiser 

Permanente. He has served as chair of Kaiser Permanente’s Investment Committee since 2005. Lee oversees 

approximately $30 billion in defined contribution, pension and foundation assets. He previously managed interest rate 

and foreign exchange risk for Bank of America’s global proprietary desks in the 1980s, then left for nine years to work 

as a police detective. In 1994 he returned to Bank of America, where he helped to develop equity risk models before 

becoming senior vice president and chief investment officer for Bank of America’s retirement plans. Lee managed 

the Levi Strauss Foundation and Red Tab Foundation assets, as well as the Levi Strauss domestic and international 

retirement plans. He is a chartered financial analyst. 

Richard LeFrak is Chairman, President and CEO of the LeFrak Organization, which he joined in 1968. The LeFrak 

Organization is a diversified, privately held firm active in major residential and commercial real estate development, oil 

and gas exploration, and financial investments. LeFrak is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific and iconic real 

estate developers of all time. In addition to building hundreds of distinctive residential buildings (containing tens of 

thousands of apartments) throughout the New York metropolitan region, the company’s real estate holdings include 

millions of square feet of class A office, retail and mixed-use developments from Manhattan to Los Angeles. Currently 

LeFrak is directing the development of the Newport in Jersey City; this mixed-use, master-planning community on the 

Hudson River waterfront will encompass thousands of apartments and millions of square feet of office park, retail, hotel 

and community facilities. 

Arnold Leitner is CEO and President of SkyFuel Inc. An expert on solar power and the U.S. energy markets, he is the 

author of a 2002 study for the U.S. Department of Energy titled “Fuel from the Sky: Solar Power’s Potential for Western 

Energy Supply,” which assessed the applications of solar energy in the American Southwest. Prior to starting SkyFuel, 

Leitner was a senior consultant at Platts Consulting on North American power markets and the economics of gas-fired 

power plants. As adviser to the Department of Energy and the Western Governors’ Association, he has helped to spur 

renewed interest in concentrating solar power. He chairs the American Solar Energy Society Solar Electric Division and 

is a member of the CEO Council of the American Council on Renewable Energy. Leitner has an M.B.A. from Columbia 

University and a Ph.D. in superconductor physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. 

David Levy is the Leader of the Global Healthcare Sector of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he identifies 

opportunities to forge global alliances and develops new business and delivery models. He also directs 

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Health Industries strategy, leads the New York Metro Health Industries practice and expanded 

the firm’s Digital Health Community. He has driven many of the firm’s largest-scale initiatives, including its work with 

the Louisiana Recovery Authority after Hurricane Katrina to develop a blueprint for Louisiana’s health system. Before 

joining PricewaterhouseCoopers, Levy had more than 25 years of experience as a practicing primary care physician, 

epidemiologist, occupational health and quality consultant, and successful health-care executive. He earned his 

master’s degree and medical degree from McGill University, and served his residency at the University of Massachusetts 

Medical School and Montréal General Hospital. He is a fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine. 

Barry Libert is the Chairman and CEO of Mzinga. With more than 26 years of executive and company leadership 

experience, Libert strives to further the awareness of social media’s capacity for helping enterprises meet business 

needs and remain competitive in a rapidly changing world. As founder and CEO of Shared Insights, one of Mzinga’s 

predecessors, Libert was one of the first to recognize and promote the value of communities and Web 2.0 technologies. 

He is the co-author of several books, including We Are Smarter Than Me, in which the power of Web 2.0 technologies and 

the Wiki-based contributions of more than 4,000 people illustrated how businesses could profit from the wisdom of 

crowds. Libert has been published in numerous business magazines and has appeared on several television networks. 

He graduated from Tufts University and holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University. 

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Stephen Lieber is President and CEO of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), 

which he has established as a global leader on issues such as electronic health records, interoperability, technology 

standards, certification and IT adoption. He is one of the founders of the Certification Commission for HIT and the 

Health Information Technology Standards Panel, two federally funded initiatives leading the U.S. interoperability 

effort. Lieber has held senior management positions with the Emergency Nurses Association, the American Hospital 

Association and the Illinois Hospital Association. He also has served as senior budget analyst for the Illinois Bureau of 

the Budget. Lieber holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arkansas and a master’s degree from the School of 

Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. 

Carol Lindstrom is Vice Chairman of Deloitte LLP, leading strategic relationship management. She was a member 

of the Deloitte & Touche Board of Directors for six years and has served on the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (DTT) Global 

Board of Directors since 2003. Lindstrom has held many management and client leadership positions during her 

Deloitte career, including managing director of global strategic relationship clients in the United States; managing 

director of Deloitte’s e-business unit, dc.com; managing director of the Americas technology practice; managing 

director of the San Francisco and Orange County practices; and lead client service partner for Visa and other clients. 

She joined the firm in 1995 after having served as a partner at Andersen Consulting for many years. She received a 

bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. 

Mark Lipson is Managing Director and Senior Resident Officer in the Los Angeles office of Bessemer Trust, a 

privately-owned wealth management and investment advisory firm that focuses exclusively on high-net-worth 

families and their foundations and endowments. He oversees the firm’s client relationships in Southern California, 

Arizona, Nevada and Colorado. Before joining Bessemer in 2007, Lipson was regional CEO for US Trust, a subsidiary of 

Charles Schwab, responsible for its wealth management practice in California. From 1993 to 2000, he was chairman and 

CEO of Northstar Investment Management, an investment advisory firm he founded in Greenwich, Connecticut. He is a 

board member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Sports Council, the Southern California Committee for 

the Olympic Games and LA’s BEST after-school programs. Lipson received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in 

statistics from the University of Delaware. 

Robert Litan is the Vice President for Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and a Senior 

Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution (where he was previously vice president and director of 

economic studies). Litan has authored or co-authored 25 books and more than 200 articles on government policies 

affecting financial institutions, regulatory and legal issues, international trade and the economy in general. His 

latest book is Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity. Litan’s work in the federal 

government includes serving as associate director of the Office of Management and Budget and as deputy assistant 

attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Litan received a bachelor’s degree from the 

Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in 

economics from Yale University. 

Bill Lockyer was elected California State Treasurer in 2006. His priorities are to invest taxpayer funds prudently, 

ensure accountability and oversight on publicly funded infrastructure projects and to help put California back on sound 

fiscal footing. From 1999 to 2006, Lockyer served as state attorney general, creating the nation’s most sophisticated DNA 

forensic crime laboratory. He also cracked down on Medi-Cal fraud, securing hundreds of millions of dollars in courtordered 

restitution and penalties; established the Megan’s Law website; and recovered billions of dollars for defrauded 

energy ratepayers, consumers and taxpayers. He previously served for 25 years in the California Legislature, ending his 

career there with a stint as Senate president pro tempore. In that position, he crafted agreements to balance the state 

budget and reform government programs. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Lockyer received a law 

degree from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law. 

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Kathryn Lopez is the Editor of National Review Online, the conservative daily webzine, and is a weekly syndicated 

columnist for the Media Enterprise Association through United Media. Lopez has also written and edited for the 

National Review print edition. Her work has appeared in the The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post and Stars and 

Stripes, among other publications. Lopez is a frequent guest on radio and television programs, from PBS and CNN to 

Vatican Radio. In 2002 she and National Review Online were awarded the Center for Military Readiness Spotlight Award 

for national defense coverage. In 2003 she was named a “Remarkable Pro-Life Woman” by Feminists for Life for her 

“Culture of Life” reporting and commentary. She has also worked at the Heritage Foundation. Lopez is a graduate of the 

Catholic University of America. 

Amory Lovins is Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, an independent, 

nonprofit think tank. Lovins advises governments and major firms worldwide on advanced energy and resource 

efficiency, and has led the technical redesign of more than $30 billion worth of facilities in dozens of sectors to achieve 

large energy savings at typically lower capital costs. In 2007, he was named one of Time magazine’s “Heroes of the 

Environment.” A Harvard and Oxford dropout and former Oxford don, he is a MacArthur Fellow and the recipient of 

10 honorary doctorates and numerous awards. Lovins, the author of 29 books and hundreds of papers, is chairman 

emeritus of Fiberforge, a composites engineering firm. 

Bo Lundgren is Director General of the Swedish National Debt Office, a position he has held since 2004. A member 

of Sweden’s Parliament for 28 years, he also served as Minister for Fiscal and Financial Affairs from 1991 to 1994. In 

that role he was responsible for handling the deep crisis in the Swedish financial sector that followed a speculative 

bubble in the late 1980s. He was also responsible for tax reforms, including abolishing the turnover tax on stock trading, 

the wealth tax and double taxation of dividends and capital gains. After serving in government, Lundgren became 

economic spokesman for and later leader of the Moderate Party, Sweden’s main center-right party. The author of a 1998 

book on the crisis in the Swedish financial sector, he has served on the board of the Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden’s central 

bank). He received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Lund University. 

Frank Luntz is President of The Word Doctors.com. Named one of the four “Top Research Minds” by BusinessWeek, 

he has conducted more than 2,000 surveys and focus groups for corporate and public affairs clients in more than two 

dozen countries over the past decade. Luntz has provided communication and language guidance for numerous 

Fortune 100 companies. He has been a guest on virtually every talk show on American television; during the 2008 

presidential campaign, he was the “focus group czar” for Fox News. He has written op-ed pieces for The Wall Street 

Journal, The New York Times and The Washington Post, plus the 2006 book Words That Work: It’s Not What You Say, 

It’s What People Hear. Luntz received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from the 

University of Oxford. 

Kathy Lutito is President and Chief Investment Officer of Qwest Asset Management Company (QAM), a subsidiary 

of Qwest Communications International Inc. QAM is a registered investment advisor responsible for the investment 

management of all assets in the Qwest employee benefit trusts and plans, including asset/liability modeling, 

investment strategy determination and manager selection. Qwest plan assets totaled approximately $11 billion at the 

end of December 2008. Investment programs cover major asset classes, from cash equivalents to alternative assets, and 

include active as well as passive strategies. Lutito’s staff has direct portfolio management responsibility for U.S. public 

equity and fixed-income portfolios. Lutito holds the chartered financial analyst designation and has a master’s degree 

in finance. 

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John Lyman is a Program Manager at Google.org. Prior to joining Google, he worked as an analyst at Mintz Levin, a 

law firm/lobbying group, and as a researcher on economic and development issues at the Center for American Progress, 

a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C. From 2005 to 2007, Lyman served as the deputy topic coordinator for 

poverty alleviation at the Clinton Global Initiative, President Clinton’s annual conference geared toward engaging the 

private sector in the world’s most challenging problems. Lyman received a bachelor’s degree in government from 

Georgetown University and a master’s degree in public policy from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Catherine Lynch is CEO and Chief Investment Officer at the National Railroad Retirement Investment Trust, which 

was created by Congress in 2001 to invest approximately $21 billion in railroad retirement assets in a diversified portfolio. 

Lynch joined the trust in 2003 as senior investment officer and was appointed CEO/CIO in 2008. She was previously 

associate vice president for treasury management at George Washington University, where she was responsible for 

its $650 million endowment. Prior to that, Lynch served as assistant treasurer of the Episcopal Church of America in 

New York, brought in as part of a new financial management team to overhaul financial operations and oversee $325 

million in endowment and charitable trust assets. Lynch holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Yale University. 

A chartered financial analyst, she serves on the administrative committee of the Institute for Quantitative Research in 

Finance and is chair of its audit committee. 

Rod MacAlister is Managing Director of the Africa Middle Market Fund (AAMF), a new private fund targeting 

investments in medium-sized businesses in East Africa. He leads AMMF in its goal to be an “impact investment” fund, 

seeking high returns in wealth creation and development impact. It targets investors who prefer investment over 

charity as a tool for reducing poverty, and investment recipients who prefer the market and accountability over donor 

aid. MacAlister previously served as president of the United States African Development Foundation, an independent 

government agency, where he oversaw a $47 million portfolio of small and medium-size enterprises in 16 countries. 

For 25 years prior to that, he worked for ConocoPhillips, where he led multiple negotiations in Angola, Congo, Nigeria, 

Libya, Syria and Iran; was involved in many social investments in Africa; served as country manager in Congo; and 

headed the Washington, D.C., office. 

Michael Madnick is the Deputy Director for External Relations in Global Health Policy and Advocacy at the Bill 

& Melinda Gates Foundation. In this role, he is responsible for furthering the foundation’s major global health policy 

objectives by working with key governmental agencies, multilateral organizations and other strategic partners. 

Prior to joining the foundation, Madnick served as senior vice president at the United Nations Foundation, where he 

institutionalized an organization-wide partnership approach to generate financial and other support for U.N. causes. He 

also served as executive director of the Eastern and European divisions for the global fundraiser CCS. He is an attorney 

and previously served as liaison to the executive office and chief compliance officer of Ruesch International. Madnick 

received a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Albany and a law degree from Pace University. 

J. Scott Magrane Jr. is Managing Director of Coady Diemar Partners LLC, a boutique investment bank that provides 

strategic financial advice and private capital placement services to companies, management teams, investors, boards of 

directors and public agencies. The firm has offices in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. Prior to co-founding 

Coady Diemar, Magrane spent 15 years with Goldman Sachs & Co. in the Natural Resources Merger and Strategic 

Advisory Group, with responsibility for corporate finance and strategic advisory activities, particularly related to power 

companies. He started the firm’s energy technology effort. He previously spent 10 years at Blyth Eastman Paine Webber 

in the Project and Specialty Finance Group. He is an advisory director of Infinia Corporation and Enertech Capital. 

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Pramod Maheshwari is CEO of Career Point, which focuses on test preparation, K-12, postsecondary education 

and professional training. He founded the firm at age 21, implementing simple yet effective teaching methodologies 

to enhance the analytical and problem-solving skills of students preparing for their college entrance exams. He also 

played a key role as Career Point moved well beyond its roots in test preparation to serve students of all ages through 

a wide array of programs. Maheshwari is currently heading the new Education Initiative division of Career Point; its 

mission is to implement efficient and cost-effective education delivery solutions to large student populations. He 

received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi. 

David Malpass is President of Encima Global, an economic research and consulting firm serving institutional 

investors and corporate clients. Formerly the chief economist at Bear Stearns, he co-authors the “Current Events” 

column in Forbes magazine, and his opinion pieces appear regularly in The Wall Street Journal. He sits on the boards 

of the Economic Club of New York, the Council of the Americas and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. 

Economic appointments held by Malpass during the Reagan and Bush administrations include deputy assistant 

Treasury secretary for developing nations, deputy assistant secretary of state, Republican staff director of Congress’s 

Joint Economic Committee and senior analyst for taxes and trade at the Senate Budget Committee. Malpass received 

a bachelor’s degree in physics from Colorado College and an M.B.A. from the University of Denver. He studied 

international economics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. 

Bette Manchester is Executive Director of the Maine International Center for Digital Learning (MICDL), a nonprofit 

center that supports the equity and access of one-to-one computing as it supports 21st-century learning. Before 

joining MICDL, she was director of special projects at the Maine Department of Education. For seven years, she led the 

Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI), the one-to-one laptop project for all Maine students in grades 7-8, for 31 

high schools and for all educators teaching grades 7-12. Her responsibility for strategic design and implementation of 

the MLTI included oversight and strategic planning for all educational technology programs within the Department of 

Education. Manchester was previously a principal at elementary, middle and high school levels and a director of special 

education. She has won numerous honors for her work in education, including the Milken Educator Award; she was 

also named National Distinguished Principal of the Year. 

David Marchick is Managing Director and Global Head of Regulatory Affairs for The Carlyle Group, where 

he coordinates the firm’s policy and regulatory issues on a global basis and supports Carlyle’s funds and portfolio 

companies. An expert on foreign investment, Marchick has advised on a number of significant recent foreign 

acquisitions of U.S. companies. He served for seven years in the Clinton administration, including posts at the White 

House, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Departments of State and Commerce. During that time, 

he helped coordinate efforts to secure passage of NAFTA and create the World Trade Organization. Marchick coauthored 

the book U.S. National Security and Foreign Direct Investment, has written articles in major business and trade 

publications and frequently testifies before Congress. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, 

San Diego, and a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School. 

Bill Marcus is Head of Sales for the Americas for Newedge, where he also manages a variety of global client- and 

sales-related activities. Newedge was formed as a joint venture between Calyon Financial and Fimat in 2008 and has 

become one of the world’s top three futures commission merchants. A 24-year futures industry veteran, Marcus began 

working for the firm in 2000, joining Calyon Financial as an institutional client manager and becoming sales manager of 

the Chicago office in 2003. Shortly thereafter, he was named head of business development in North America. Before 

joining Calyon Financial, Marcus worked at several top-tier futures firms in senior-level sales positions. He is a member 

of the Milken Institute California Center Advisory Council and serves on the boards of the School of the Art Institute of 

Chicago and the Gene Siskel Film Center. 

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Erel Margalit is the Founder and Managing Partner of Jerusalem Venture Partners (JVP). Fifteen years ago, he set the 

tone for Israeli venture capital investing by creating a model that combined a hands-on management approach with 

international market creation strategies. Under his leadership, JVP helped build technology companies that are now 

global enterprises. In addition to helping orchestrate the $4.8 billion sale of Chromatis to Lucent Technologies in 2000, 

Margalit led 15 exits with such companies as Netro, Precise, Fundtech, ViryaNet, MagniFire, Native Networks, Cogent and 

Allot Communications. He now focuses on media technologies, combining projects in animation and gaming, and also 

invests in more traditional industries. In 2002, Margalit founded JVP Community, a nonprofit organization dedicated to 

building a better Jerusalem through The Lab, a center of performing arts, and the Community Empowerment Program, 

which works to narrow educational and social gaps in Jerusalem schools. 

David Marks is Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for CUNA Mutual Group in Madison, Wisc. 

He is also the president and chief investment officer for Members Capital Advisors in Madison. CUNA Mutual Group 

is the largest company in the world whose exclusive customers are credit unions. It sells property and casualty as 

well as life insurance products to credit unions and their members, and offers investment services in a broad range of 

fixed-income, equity and alternative assets. Marks received a bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A. from the University of 

Connecticut. He holds the chartered financial analyst (CFA) designation and chairs the investment committees for five 

national and local foundations. 

Ron Maron is Director of Business Development for the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development 

(BIRD) Foundation, a position he has held since 2006. He was previously managing director of Tel Aviv University’s 

Research Institute for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and from 1996 to 2001, he served as deputy R&D director 

of Taro Research Institute. He also has years of experience in the manufacturing and development of medical devices, 

clinical trials management and medical research. He was educated at Hebrew University, including Ph.D. studies in its 

Faculty of Medicine, and later held postdoctoral fellowships in the neurobiology department at the Stanford University 

School of Medicine. 

Nazeem Martin is Managing Director and CEO of Business Partners Ltd. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Business 

Partners International. Business Partners is a leading South African investment company providing customized and 

integrated risk (private equity) finance, technical assistance and property-management solutions for small and mediumsize 

enterprises in South Africa, Madagascar and Kenya. Business Partners International is expanding this model to sub- 

Saharan Africa. The firm concludes more than 700 risk finance deals a year. Martin has held numerous directorships 

and was formerly deputy director-general at the National Department of Public Works in the Mandela government. 

Martin has a bachelor’s degree and post-graduate higher diploma in education from the University of Cape Town, a 

master’s degree in urban planning from Hunter College (N.Y.) and has completed the Advanced Management Program 

at Harvard Business School. 

Mark Mastrov is Chairman of New Evolution Fitness Company LLC. He is the founder of 24 Hour Fitness Worldwide 

Inc., which he started in 1983 with a single facility in San Leandro, California. From there, he built a fitness empire 

of more than 420 clubs located in 16 U.S. states and Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore, 

with revenues in excess of $1.5 billion. He is also the founder of Planet Fitness Russia, Energy Fitness Chile, Mrs. Sporty 

Germany, YogaWorks USA, California Wow Thailand and many other health and fitness businesses throughout the 

world. In 2005, Mastrov sold 24 Hour Fitness Worldwide for $1.68 billion, remaining as chairman. He left the company in 

January 2008 to pursue new interests for people of all fitness levels and abilities around the world. 

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Dorothy Mattison is Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Apparel strategic business unit for 

Walmart Stores U.S. She is responsible for overall apparel strategy, assortment strategy, brand strategy, privatelabel 

product development and sourcing for multiple merchandise categories. She is also the lead of the Textiles 

Sustainability Network within Walmart. She was previously senior vice president and general merchandise manager 

with responsibility for product development. Before joining the Wal-Mart Stores U.S. team, she was vice president and 

chief merchant of Walmart.com. Before joining Walmart, Mattison was vice president of adult accessories and local 

merchandising strategy for Gap Brand U.S. Her leadership work in the community is focused on the advancement of 

women. She is a participating member of the National Association of Female Executives Roundtable, volunteers her 

time at Dress for Success and is the development chair of the Board of Trustees for the San Francisco School. 

Robert Matza is Partner and President of GoldenTree Asset Management LP, an investment advisory firm with more 

than $10 billion under management. He was previously president and chief operating officer of Neuberger Berman Inc., 

leading the team that successfully completed the IPO of Neuberger Berman in 1999 and later negotiating its merger 

with Lehman Brothers. Matza’s previous experience includes 16 years with Lehman Brothers and its predecessor 

companies, as well as positions with Travelers Group and Citigroup. He is a member of the advisory board of Moelis 

& Company Holdings LLC and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board and the board of the Center for Institutional 

Investment Management at the University at Albany’s School of Business. A certified public accountant, Matza received 

a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Albany and an M.B.A. from New York University. 

Isabel Maxwell is a Director of the Israel Venture Network. She has also chaired its flagship Social Entrepreneur 

Fellowship Program for the past six years. Maxwell is a technology pioneer of the World Economic Forum, president 

emerita of Commtouch Software and co-founder of Magellan On-Line Guide, the early search engine portal that she 

sold to Excite in 1996. Maxwell has divided her time over the last 12 years between Silicon Valley, Israel and now Los 

Angeles. She has 15 years of TV and film production experience and is a founder and longtime member of the board of 

BAFTA-LA (the British Academy of Film & TV Arts–L.A.). She advised Grameen America for Muhammad Yunus’s Grameen 

Trust from 2007 to 2009 and is a member of the Board of Governors of the Peres Center for Peace, director of the 

American Friends of Rabin and director emerita of Israel21c. 

Eric McAfee is Chairman of McAfee Capital, a growth equity investment fund. He is also CEO of AE Biofuels Inc. An 

entrepreneur, venture capitalist and philanthropist, he has founded and funded companies in renewable energy, oil 

and gas, networking and software. McAfee is also a managing director at the merchant bank Cagan McAfee Capital 

Partners. During the past 10 years, he has invested in more than 20 companies through Berg McAfee Companies. 

McAfee co-founded NetStream, which built one of the first phone networks in the world using digital rather than 

analog switches. He previously co-founded the PC-card manufacturer New Media Corporation. He is also a founder of 

McAfee Farms and co-founder of Organic Pastures Dairy Company, the largest raw milk dairy in the United States. He 

holds a degree from Fresno State University Business School. 

Paul McBride is Vice President of Health Care Management and Services for Wellpoint Inc./Anthem Blue Cross 

& Blue Shield, a position he has held since 2006. McBride leads all aspects of provider engagement in Southern 

California, which covers the largest concentration of members and providers for the nation’s largest health insurance 

and management company. He also leads provider contract operations in all 14 of WellPoint’s Anthem Blue Cross & 

Blue Shield states. He has been with WellPoint for six years and is very involved with both domestic and international 

ventures for WellPoint. Previously, McBride spent more than six years at Cigna HealthCare (previously Healthsource) in 

New Hampshire, Maine and North Carolina and served four years as an officer in the Marine Corps. He earned a master’s 

degree in public health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

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Mike McCallister is President and CEO of Humana Inc., a leader in the health benefits industry. As CEO, he has 

empowered both employers and consumers to choose, finance and use their health benefits through innovative 

products, processes and technology that deliver lower costs and the highest health plan experience. McCallister has 

an extensive history with Humana, having joined the company in 1974. Beyond Humana, he sits on the board of the 

Business Roundtable and is immediate past chairman of the organization’s Health and Retirement Task Force. He is 

also a board member of America’s Health Insurance Plans, the health benefits industry’s primary trade association. 

McCallister has a bachelor’s degree from Louisiana Tech University and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University. 

George McCarthy is Director of Urban Opportunity at the Ford Foundation. His unit seeks to provide low-income 

people with better access to jobs and opportunities by supporting regional planning efforts, transportation investments 

and housing development policies that alleviate poverty and reduce its concentration in metropolitan areas. McCarthy 

previously administered a program that focused on using homeownership to build assets for low-income families and 

their communities. Before joining Ford, McCarthy worked as a senior research associate at the Center for Urban and 

Regional Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been an assistant professor at Bard College 

and a resident scholar at the Jerome Levy Economics Institute, among other affiliations. McCarthy received a bachelor’s 

degree from the University of Montana, a master’s degree from Duke University and a Ph. D. in economics from the 

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

James McCaughan is CEO of Principal Global Investors LLC. He is also president of global asset management for 

the Principal Financial Group, overseeing investment activities across asset classes and market regions, with primary 

responsibility for the strategic development of Principal’s asset-management business globally. He has three decades 

of experience in the investment management industry. Before joining Principal Global Investors in 2002, McCaughan 

served as CEO of the Americas division of Credit Suisse Asset Management in New York. He was previously president 

and chief operating officer of Oppenheimer Capital in New York. He also has extensive experience with Phillips & Drew/ 

UBS Asset Management in London, Zurich and New York. A fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, he holds degrees in 

mathematics from the University of Cambridge. 

Robert McCord is the Pennsylvania Treasurer, a post to which he was elected in November 2008. Between 1998 

and 2007, he founded the Eastern Technology Fund and served as co-founder and managing director of Pennsylvania 

Early Stage Partners, a family of venture funds that invested in life science and information technology firms. From 

1996 through 2007, he led the Eastern Technology Council, a trade association serving innovative companies. He 

previously worked as a senior executive at Safeguard Scientifics, one of the first venture incubators of its kind, where 

he helped Safeguard earn an annual return on capital of more than 50 percent per year. He also spent nearly a decade 

working on Capitol Hill, specializing in budget and technology issues. McCord also served as the CEO of the bipartisan 

Congressional Institute for the Future. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Harvard University and an 

M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. 

Jamie McCourt is CEO of the Los Angeles Dodgers. She joined the Dodgers as vice chairman in 2004 and was 

named president of the club in 2005. An attorney of 30 years who also earned an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute 

of Technology, McCourt is a visiting professor at the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, 

Los Angeles. She is the highest-ranking woman in Major League Baseball and serves on the MLB Enterprises Board of 

Directors. A conscience-driven business leader, McCourt focuses the Dodgers’ community efforts on recreation, health, 

the environment and her particular passion, education. 

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James McDermott is Managing Director of US Renewables Group (USRG), based in Los Angeles. Prior to joining 

USRG, McDermott started his career as a public power banker with Credit Suisse First Boston’s Municipal Finance Group 

in New York City; there he structured, refinanced and issued more than $3 billion in corporate, general obligation, 

revenue-backed, industrial development and tax-anticipation bonds. McDermott has also worked in private equity 

(with Allen & Company Inc. and Prudential’s Private Capital Group) and as an entrepreneur (founding several software 

startups, including Stamps.com Inc.). His other investments and board seats include Fulcrum BioEnergy LLC, Solar 

Reserve, Spoke Software Inc., Archive Inc. (sold to Cyclone Commerce), Practice Technologies Inc. and Simple Star 

Software. McDermott received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Colorado College and an M.B.A. from the 

Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles. 

Mary McDowell is Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer of Nokia, leading its Corporate 

Development Office. She is responsible for optimizing Nokia’s strategic capabilities and growth potential and managing 

key operational functions. To enable Nokia’s future, she oversees Corporate Strategy, Nokia Research Center and 

Corporate Business Development. She also oversees Nokia IT, Nokia Solutions Portfolio Management, and Compatibility 

and Industry Collaboration, which are focused on managing operational elements of the integrated company. She has 

been a member of the Nokia Group Executive Board since 2004. A 17-year veteran of Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, 

she is widely respected as an industry innovator. Before joining Nokia, Mary served for five years as senior vice president 

and general manager of industry-standard servers at HP and Compaq, a multibillion-dollar business and the world’s 

largest server franchise. McDowell holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Illinois. 

Nancy McFadden is Senior Vice President of Public Affairs for PG&E Corp. She is responsible for managing the 

company’s federal, state and local government relations, as well as its philanthropic and community initiatives, while 

helping guide its efforts to be a national environmental leader. Before joining PG&E, McFadden spent nearly two 

decades as a key legal, policy and political strategist in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, most recently as senior 

advisor and deputy chief of staff to Gov. Gray Davis. McFadden served for eight years in the Clinton administration 

as deputy chief of staff to Vice President Al Gore and general counsel for the U.S. Department of Transportation. She 

has been appointed to serve on the California Medical Assistance Commission, the agency that negotiates Medi-Cal 

contracts with hospitals and health plans. She has a bachelor’s degree from San Jose State University and a J.D. from the 

University of Virginia. 

James McGregor is chairman of JL McGregor & Company, an independent research and consulting firm focused 

on China. He is author of One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing Business in China, a best-seller 

published by Simon & Schuster. Previously McGregor was CEO of Dow Jones & Company in China, bureau chief for 

The Wall Street Journal in China and Taiwan, and the China managing director for GIV Venture Partners, a $140 million 

venture capital fund specializing in technology investments in China and India. In 1996, McGregor served as chairman 

of the American Chamber of Commerce in China, and was a governor of that organization for a decade. He is a member 

of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the International Council of the Asia Society, and serves on a 

variety of China-related advisory boards. He has lived in Beijing since 1990. 

Thomas “Mack” McLarty III is President of McLarty Associates, an international strategic advisory firm. He is 

also chairman of the McLarty Companies, a fourth-generation family transportation business, and senior advisor to 

The Carlyle Group and the law firm Covington & Burling LLP. During the Clinton administration, McLarty served as 

White House chief of staff, counselor to the president, special envoy for the Americas and member of the National 

Economic Council. Previously, he was chairman of Arkla, a Fortune 500 natural gas company. He is active on the boards 

of a number of corporate and nonprofit institutions, including the Council of the Americas. He is also senior counselor 

to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a senior international fellow at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and 

a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. McLarty graduated from the University of Arkansas. 

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Mark McLornan is the Founding Partner and Chairman of Agro Terra Ltd. Established in 2005, Agro Terra is a foodproducing 

company that owns and farms land in Argentina. McLornan has traveled extensively, evaluating agricultural 

operations in Uruguay, Brazil, Angola, Ukraine, Russia, Australia and the United States. Previously, he was a senior 

portfolio manager at the London Diversified Hedge Fund, overseeing investments on a global macro basis. He began 

his investment career at JPMorgan Chase as a proprietary trader in the Fixed Income Division in London. McLornan 

received a bachelor’s degree in banking and finance from Loughborough University. 

John McNeish is Executive Director of Regenerative Medicine in Pfizer’s Global Research and Development unit 

in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In this role he builds on his research interests in stem-cell-based regenerative medicine 

targets and therapeutics. He has co-authored numerous articles and book chapters on the use of genetically modified 

mice and stem cells. McNeish serves on the editorial board of Regenerative Medicine and holds an adjunct faculty 

position at Connecticut College. In 2007, he was the recipient of the W.E. Upjohn award, Pfizer’s highest award, for 

his research in novel applications of stem cells in drug discovery. Prior to joining Pfizer in 1992, he did postdoctoral 

research focusing on stem-cell technology with the Nobel laureate Oliver Smithies at the University of North Carolina. 

McNeish received his Ph.D. in developmental biology from the University of Cincinnati, where he applied transgenic 

technologies to the identification of critical mammalian developmental pathways. 

Deborah Doyle McWhinney is CEO and President of the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation. She 

previously worked at Charles Schwab & Company Inc. as president of Schwab Institutional. She also served on the firm’s 

management committee, the Charles Schwab Bank board and the Charles Schwab Foundation board, and was chair of 

the Global Risk Committee. McWhinney spent 17 years at Bank of America, where she worked in the corporate and retail 

divisions. In 2002, she received a presidential appointment to the Securities Investor Protection Corporation board. She 

serves on the board of Focus Financial, as a trustee for the California Institute of Technology, and as an advisor to the 

Teen Program and the University of California, San Francisco. McWhinney is a past chair of the University of Montana 

Foundation’s board of trustees. She is a graduate of the University of Montana and the Pacific Coast Banking School. 

William Meaney is CEO of The Zuellig Group, a diversified pan-Asian group based in Hong Kong and focused on 

pharmaceutical distribution and manufacturing, animal feed manufacturing, agricultural and construction machinery, 

and real estate. Prior to joining Zuellig, Meaney worked in a number of turnaround situations, including roles as the 

chief commercial officer at Swiss International Airlines in Zurich; executive vice president at South African Airways in 

Johannesburg; and the CEO of South African Vaccine Producers, a parastatal pharmaceutical manufacturer based in 

Johannesburg. He was previously a strategic consultant with Strategic Planning Associates (now part of Oliver Wyman) 

based in London and in Geneva, where he worked in a variety of industries. Meaney also serves on the board of Moksha8, 

a private pharmaceutical company controlled by TPG. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from 

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (in Troy, NY) and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University. 

Richard Merkin is CEO and Founder of the Heritage Provider Network, with decades of experience in managing 

clinically focused, administrative services organizations in health-care delivery and physician network development. 

Merkin pioneered the development of medical networks, many of which have been recognized for their performance 

and service to the community. He received the Marquis Award for health care from the Southern California Foundation 

for Health, Education, and Research, and he is active on the advisory board for the chairman of the Assembly 

Subcommittee on Health, the Healthcare Delivery Council, the Society for Physicians in Administration, and the 

American College of Physician Executives. Merkin earned his M.D. at the University of Miami School of Medicine. 

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Frank Merola is a Managing Director with Jefferies & Co. Inc., working in the Recapitalization & Restructuring Group 

of the firm’s Investment Banking Division. He has more than 20 years of experience in business reorganization and 

bankruptcy as an attorney with Stutman, Treister & Glatt, a Los Angeles law firm. As a restructuring lawyer, Merola 

has advised debtors, creditors, acquirers and equity holders in both Chapter 11 and out-of-court restructurings 

across a range of industries; he also has a sub-specialty advising parties in casino restructurings and bankruptcies. In 

2007, Merola was co-recipient of the Large Company Transaction of the Year Award by the Turnaround Management 

Association. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law. 

John Micklethwait is Editor-in-Chief of The Economist. He has appeared on radio and television around the world 

and has written five books with fellow Economist journalist Adrian Wooldridge. These include The Witch Doctors; A 

Future Perfect: The Challenge and Hidden Promise of Globalisation; The Company: A Short History of a Revolutionary Idea; 

The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America; and God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World, 

due to be published by Penguin Press in 2009. Micklethwait started his career as a banker at Chase Manhattan, later 

moving to The Economist as a finance correspondent in 1987. From there he set up the bureau in Los Angeles, ran 

the New York bureau and edited the business and United States sections for the weekly magazine, which now has a 

circulation of about 1.4 million. Micklethwait studied history at the University of Oxford’s Magdalen College. 

Michael Miles is President and Chief Operating Officer of Staples Inc. He joined the company in 2003 as chief 

operating officer and assumed his current role in early 2006. Before joining Staples, Miles was chief operating officer 

of the Pizza Hut division of Yum! Brands. His Pizza Hut career began at PepsiCo in 1993, when he led strategic planning 

for the company’s restaurant divisions. He previously worked at Bain and Company, a Boston-based management 

consulting firm. He sits on the board of directors of Western Union, serving on its Governance Committee. Miles 

received a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

Businessman, philanthropist and education reform pioneer Lowell Milken is Founder of the Teacher Advancement 

Program (TAP) and Chairman/Co-Founder of the Milken Family Foundation. In 1985, Lowell conceived the Milken 

Educator Awards, the nation’s leading teacher recognition program, to acknowledge outstanding educators and 

encourage young people to teach. Recognizing that sufficient numbers of talented teachers would never result from 

current education practices, Lowell launched TAP in 1999 as a comprehensive system to create powerful, sustained 

opportunities for career advancement, professional growth, teacher accountability and performance pay. Thanks to 

measurable student achievement gains and TAP’s ability to restructure teaching as a highly rewarding career choice, 

TAP now impacts over 6,200 teachers and 72,000 students. Demand continues, particularly in challenging urban 

environments such as Chicago and New Orleans. In business, Lowell chairs London-based Heron International, a 

worldwide force in property development, and Knowledge Universe Education Inc., a leader in early childhood 

education and K-12 programs and services. Lowell graduated summa cum laude from UC Berkeley, receiving the 

School of Business Administration’s Most Outstanding Student Award, and earned a law degree at UCLA. 

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Fortune magazine called Mike Milken “The Man Who Changed Medicine” for his three decades of accelerating 

progress against all life-threatening diseases. Building on work begun in the 1970s, he co-founded the Milken 

Family Foundation in 1982 to support medical research and education. He also heads FasterCures and the Prostate 

Cancer Foundation; and is a board member of the Melanoma Research Alliance. His philanthropic career paralleled 

a financial career that helped democratize modern capital markets, creating millions of jobs. Mike is an investor in 

many companies that help build human capital, including enterprises operating early childhood education centers. He 

graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at Berkeley, and earned his MBA from the University of 

Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He and his wife Lori, who celebrate their 41st anniversary this year, have three children 

and three grandchildren. See www.mikemilken.com. 

Andrew Miller is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Chocolate.com LLC and Co-Founder and Co-Managing 

Partner of Internet Real Estate Group LLC. He has co-founded or been involved with numerous Internet businesses. 

He previously started his own direct-marketing company, Marketvision Direct Inc., which he sold in 2000; there he 

pioneered revenue-enhanced programming, combining television with direct-response sales, web promotion and 

multimedia sponsorships. Miller has also created a number of television programs. He began his career at Drexel 

Burnham Lambert before joining Bear Stearns and then Smith Barney as vice president of investments. Miller teaches 

at the Boston University School of Communications and is actively involved with The Greg and Scott Miller Glycogen 

Storage Disease Fund, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, Grassroots.org, Boston’s Children’s Hospital and other civic 

causes. He received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School. 

Ann Huang Miller is the Chief Attorney Development Officer at Latham & Watkins LLP. She received her bachelor’s 

degree from the University of California, Davis, and her J.D. from Cornell University. 

Jon Miller was recently named Chairman and CEO of the Digital Media Group and Chief Digital Officer of News 

Corporation. He is a founding partner of Velocity Interactive Group, an investment firm focusing on digital media and 

the consumer Internet. Prior to forming Velocity, Miller was chairman and CEO of AOL. He has also served as CEO and 

president of USA Information and Services (now IACI and Expedia). He was previously managing director of Nickelodeon 

International, a unit of Viacom’s MTV Networks. From 1987 to 1993, Miller was vice president of programming and cogeneral 

manager of NBA Entertainment. He is a member of the boards of the American Film Institute and Idearc Media 

(spun out of Verizon Communications) and a trustee of Emerson College and WNYC Public Radio in New York. He is also 

an angel investor in Internet startups in the areas of digital content, search and online advertising. 

Scott Minerd is a Managing Partner of Guggenheim Partners and the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of 

Guggenheim Partners Asset Management, where he oversees approximately $30 billion in client assets. Previously 

he worked at Credit Suisse, overseeing fixed-income credit trading. Prior to that, he was a London-based managing 

director for Morgan Stanley, covering Europe and Asia. Early in his career, Minerd made significant contributions to the 

development and use of derivative securities in the global capital markets. During the 1993 European exchange rate 

crisis, he orchestrated the restructuring of Italy’s Eurobond debt. He began his career as a CPA with Price Waterhouse. 

He is a regular guest on Fox Business News, Bloomberg Television and CNBC. Minerd received a bachelor’s degree from 

the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and has completed graduate work at both the Wharton School 

and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. 

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Norman Y. Mineta is a Senior Adviser to Credit-Suisse and a former U.S. Secretary of Transportation. He is currently 

vice chairman of Hill & Knowlton, providing strategic advice to clients on business and political issues. During his tenure 

with the Department of Transportation, he guided the creation of the Transportation Security Administration. He 

previously served in the Clinton administration as U.S. secretary of commerce. For almost 30 years, Mineta represented 

San Jose, California, first on the City Council, then as mayor and from 1975 to 1995 as a member of Congress. Mineta 

chaired the House Transportation and Public Works Committee from 1992 to 1994. He also served as a vice president of 

Lockheed Martin, overseeing the first successful implementation of the EZ-Pass system in New York State. A recipient of 

the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mineta is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. 

Jami Miscik is Vice Chairman and President of Kissinger Associates. She previously served as global head of 

sovereign risk at Lehman Brothers from 2005 to 2008. Miscik had a distinguished 20-year career in intelligence, 

ultimately serving as the Central Intelligence Agency’s Deputy Director for Intelligence from 2002 to 2005. She also 

served as director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council from 1995 to 1996. Miscik is the recipient 

of the Director of Central Intelligence’s Director’s Medal, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the Defense Intelligence 

Agency Director’s Medal and has twice received the Intelligence Commendation Medal. She serves on the boards of 

the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Ditchley Foundation and the United Nations Association of the United 

States of America (UNA-USA), and recently co-headed the Obama transition team for the intelligence community. She 

received a bachelor’s degree from Pepperdine University and a master’s degree from the University of Denver. 

Steven Mnuchin is Chairman and CEO of OneWest Bank Group LLC, a thrift-holding company formed to acquire 

the business and assets of IndyMac Federal Bank from the FDIC. OneWest, a regional bank with 33 retail branches in 

Southern California, has approximately $6.4 billion in deposits and total assets of $16 billion. Mnuchin is also chairman 

and co-CEO of Dune Capital Management LP, a private investment management firm. Before joining Dune, Mnuchin 

spent 17 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was a partner and also served as executive vice president, chief information 

officer and member of the Management Committee. A trustee of Riverdale Country School in New York, he serves on 

the boards of the Whitney Museum of American Art and New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He is also a board member of 

Sears Holding Corp. and chairman of its Corporate Governance Committee. 

Umar Moghul is a Partner at Murtha Cullina LLP, where he co-chairs the Islamic Finance and Investments Group. His 

legal expertise is in banking, finance and private equity, and he represents conventional and Islamic financial institutions, 

joint ventures and family offices in cutting-edge financial transactions, including private equity investments and 

leverages. Moghul’s practice also includes the establishment of real estate investment funds, one-off financing, novel 

Islamic warehouse financing and the design of Islamic residential and commercial mortgage products. He has published 

several articles pertaining to Islamic law and finance, and teaches Islamic law at the University of Connecticut School of 

Law. Moghul earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. at Temple University. 

Karen Monaghan is the National Intelligence Officer for Economics and Global Issues for the National Intelligence 

Council. She is serving her second tour on the council, having previously served as acting national intelligence officer 

for economics and global issues and deputy national intelligence officer. Monaghan joined the CIA in 1985 and held a 

variety of managerial and analytic positions that included responsibility for global economic and energy issues as well 

as developments in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. From 2004 to 2006, she served as deputy chief of the Economic 

Security Group in the Directorate of Intelligence. Monaghan was a visiting intelligence fellow at the Council on Foreign 

Relations from 2006 to 2007. She received a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College and a master’s degree in international 

relations from St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. 

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Bob Moon is Senior Business Correspondent in Los Angeles for “Marketplace” on NPR, a job he accepted in 2006. 

Before signing on in Los Angeles, he served five years as the program’s New York bureau chief starting just months 

before 9/11. From 1980 to 2000, Moon was a national correspondent for The Associated Press. He covered the Reagan 

White House and returned for brief periods during the first Bush and Clinton administrations. He was on the air when 

the space shuttle Challenger exploded, and he was assigned to cover the Branch Davidian standoff in Waco, Texas, and 

the aftermath of the Columbine High School shootings. Moon also reported on global economic summits in Rome, 

Venice and Tokyo and a Middle East peace summit in Madrid. 

Leslie Moonves has been President and CEO of CBS Corp. since its inception in 2006, overseeing the business 

operations of one of the world’s largest media companies. Moonves previously was co-president and co-chief operating 

officer of Viacom Inc. and chairman of CBS, and served as president and CEO of CBS Television. Under Moonves, CBS 

went from last place to first in the ratings on the strength of such programs as “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Survivor,” 

“Two and a Half Men,” “Without a Trace,” “Cold Case,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “The King of Queens” and “The Amazing 

Race.” He joined CBS from Warner Bros. Television, where as president he oversaw a division that for nine years supplied 

the greatest number of programs to network television. A graduate of Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, Moonves 

acted in stage and television productions before producing plays on Broadway and in Los Angeles. 

Rick Moreno is a Managing Director of BlackRock, a global provider of investment management, risk management 

and advisory services to institutional and retail clients. He is a member of the Wealth Management Group, where he 

develops and maintains relationships with private clients, family offices and private client intermediaries. Before joining 

BlackRock in 2002, he worked at Goldman Sachs in the Private Wealth Management Division. As director of the Client 

Research and Strategy group, he advised high-net-worth individuals, foundations and endowments on their assetallocation 

strategies. His group conducted numerous studies on single-stock risk management, sustainable spending 

policies and after-tax portfolio optimization. From 1983 to 1999, he was at Salomon Brothers, most recently as a director 

in the Fixed Income Research department. Moreno earned a bachelor’s degree from Santa Clara University. 

Robert Mosbacher Jr. is the former President and CEO of the Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC). He held 

this position from 2005 to early 2009, overseeing OPIC’s efforts to support private capital investment in emerging 

markets around the world. From 1986 to 2005, he was president and CEO of the Houston-based Mosbacher Energy 

Company, an independent oil and gas exploration and production company. He was also vice chairman of Mosbacher 

Power Group, an independent electric power developer, which was launched in 1995 and sold in 2003. He is founder 

and former co-chairman of Rebuilding Together Houston (formerly PSI HomeSavers), which organizes volunteers to 

repair homes for low-income elderly or disabled Houstonians. Earlier in his career, he was appointed by President 

Reagan to three successive Presidential Task Forces on Private Sector Initiatives. Mosbacher received a bachelor’s 

degree from Georgetown University and a law degree from Southern Methodist University. 

Eva Moskowitz is the Founder and CEO of Success Charter Network, which runs four charter schools in Harlem. 

In 2006, Moskowitz founded Harlem Success Academy, hailed by New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein as “one 

of the best charter schools in the country” and cited by Mayor Michael Bloomberg for its “amazing performance.” She 

opened three more charter schools in 2008 and plans to open 40 over the next decade. A former New York City council 

member and chair of the council’s education committee, Moskowitz remains a forceful advocate for education but has 

returned to her roots in teaching to implement all she learned while visiting hundreds of New York City’s 1,300 public 

and charter schools. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in American 

history at Johns Hopkins University. 

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Frank Moss is Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, which aims to develop a 

globally connected digital society that makes people smarter, healthier and more creative. He is on the board of 

Infinity Pharmaceuticals Inc., an early-stage cancer-drug discovery company he co-founded in 2001. In his 30 years in 

technology, Moss led Tivoli Systems Inc.; co-founded several companies, including Stellar Computer Inc. and Bowstreet 

Inc.; held various positions at IBM’s Yorktown Heights (NY) Research Center; and served in executive management at 

Apollo Computer Inc. and Lotus Development Corp. His career began at IBM’s scientific center in Haifa, Israel, where 

he also taught at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Moss is on the board of Princeton University and the 

engineering school’s Leadership Council. He received a bachelor’s degree in aerospace and mechanical sciences from 

Princeton and a master’s degree and doctorate in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT. 

Dambisa Moyo is the Author of Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa, which 

argues for new ways to finance African development, including trade, microfinance and accessing the capital markets. 

Born in Zambia, Moyo worked at the World Bank in Washington, then joined Goldman Sachs & Co. for eight years. She 

is a member of Cambridge University’s Centre for International Business and Management and of the Royal Institute of 

International Affairs. She is a patron for Absolute Return for Kids, a hedge fund-supported children’s charity, and serves 

on the board of the Lundin for Africa Foundation, which supports microfinance initiatives. A second book, How the 

West Was Lost, is forthcoming. Moyo holds a bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A. from the American University, as well as a 

master’s degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford. 

Sucharita Mukherjee is the Senior Vice President of IFMR Trust and the CEO of IFMR Capital, whose mission is to 

provide efficient and reliable access to capital for institutions that cater to rural, low-income households in communities 

worldwide. Her work includes developing innovative asset-backed financing structures in such areas as intellectual 

property and health-care receivables. Previously she led the origination and structuring effort in credit derivatives and 

structured corporate financing at Morgan Stanley in London. As part of the credit derivatives team at Deutsche Bank in 

London, she structured credit-derivatives-linked repackaged investments for financial institutions. 

Marian Mulkey is Senior Program Officer of the California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF), overseeing its Market and 

Policy Monitor program, which promotes greater transparency and accountability in California’s health-care system. Mulkey 

leads CHCF’s portfolio of work to inform the design of coverage expansion policy proposals and to communicate their 

potential impact. She has managed numerous projects to analyze health insurance market trends related to cost, complexity 

and consumer affordability. She is an authority on California’s uninsured population and on the regulatory environment 

surrounding state and local efforts to expand access to care and coverage. Prior to joining CHCF, Mulkey worked as an 

independent health policy consultant and at Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, where her responsibilities included pricing, 

utilization data reporting and policy development. Mulkey received a bachelor’s degree in biology and economics from 

Reed College and master’s degrees in public policy and public health from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Randall Mundt is President and Chief Investment Officer of Principal Real Estate Investors, the asset management 

arm of the Principal Financial Group, which he joined in 1983. He develops and executes client investment strategies 

across all real estate quadrants, including investment pricing, performance and policy. He also leads new product and 

fund design, the firm’s dedicated real estate research group and the real estate equity portfolio management group. 

Mundt is a member of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate, the National Council of Real Estate Investment 

Fiduciaries, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers, the Real Estate Roundtable, the Pension 

Real Estate Association and the University of Iowa’s Henry B. Tippie College of Business Financial Advisory Council. He 

received a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Iowa. 

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Rupert Murdoch is Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, one of the world’s largest diversified media 

companies. Its global operations include the creation and distribution of media products and services in the United 

States, Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America. In 1954, Murdoch took control of News Limited, an Australian-based 

public corporation with majority interest in the No. 2 daily newspaper in Adelaide, South Australia. Since then, he has 

overseen the expansion of News Corporation as it has become the world’s leading publisher of English-language 

newspapers; a premier provider of filmed entertainment; the top U.S. television network; the foremost group of local 

U.S. television stations; the creator of some of cable’s fastest-growing channels; a book publisher; and pioneer in direct 

broadcast satellite television and next-generation Internet properties. Murdoch has been awarded the Companion of 

the Order of Australia (A.C.) for services to the media and to newspaper publishing, in particular. 

Roger Myerson, the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, 

shared the 2007 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his contribution to the foundations of mechanism 

design theory. Myerson taught for 25 years at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University before 

moving to the University of Chicago in 2001. He is the author of two books (Game Theory and Probability Models 

for Economic Decisions), and has published many professional articles on game theory, information economics and 

economic analysis of political institutions. His work has been influential in economics and political science. He is a 

fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served as its Midwest vice president. He was elected 

president of the Econometric Society in 2008. Myerson received a Ph.D. from Harvard University. 

Guity Nashat is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and Professor Emerita of Middle 

Eastern history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Born in Baghdad, she lived in Iraq, Iran and Egypt before coming 

to the United States; her scholarly and published work has covered different aspects of history and society in the Middle 

East. Nashat has co-authored Women in the Middle East and North America, Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800 and 

Women in Iran: 1800 to the Present. She is a member of the advisory board of the World Committee on Women in the Middle 

East and the visiting board of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago. She received a bachelor’s degree from 

Barnard College, a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. 

Saed Nashef is a General Partner in the Middle East Venture Capital Fund, which is being established to make 

investments primarily in export-oriented, high-growth Palestinian high-tech companies and startups. Nashef founded 

and currently co-manages Equiom, a software consultancy and project outsourcing firm with operations in Washington, 

Colorado and the West Bank. Prior to founding Equiom, he worked closely with the founders of Fidesic, a venturebacked 

Internet startup in the e-payments space, where he led the delivery of key service infrastructure. Before that, he 

spent six years at Microsoft in various software engineering and leadership roles in the development organization. 

David Nason served until recently as Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. 

As a principal policy adviser to former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Nason helped develop Treasury’s response to 

stresses in the financial markets, including the Capital Purchase Program and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and led 

development of Treasury’s “Blueprint for a Modernized Financial Regulatory Structure.” For his work during the credit crisis, 

Nason received the Alexander Hamilton Award, Treasury’s highest honor. He is now a managing director at the Promontory 

Financial Group LLC, where he advises clients on improving corporate governance, strengthening risk and financial controls, 

evaluating potential combinations and meeting regulatory requirements. Before joining the Treasury Department, he 

served as counsel to a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Nason received a bachelor’s degree in 

finance from the American University and a law degree from the university’s Washington College of Law. 

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William Nelson is the Marion I. Knott Professor of Oncology and Director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive 

Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins. He is also a professor of urology, pharmacology, medicine, pathology and radiation 

oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in environmental health 

sciences at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Nelson has focused his academic 

career on the discovery and development of new approaches to prostate cancer prevention and treatment, ranging 

from changes in diet and nutrition to new types of drugs. A recognized expert in translational cancer research (the 

process by which laboratory discoveries are transformed into clinical innovations), he co-chaired the National Cancer 

Institute Translational Research Working Group, which reported its findings on how to re-engineer cancer treatment 

development to the National Cancer Advisory Board in June 2007. 

Stephen Nesbitt is CEO of Cliffwater LLC, an investment consulting firm specializing in alternative investments, 

including hedge funds, private equity and real assets. Cliffwater clients include endowments, foundations and pension 

plans with more than $15 billion in alternative assets. Before forming Cliffwater in 2004, Nesbitt was a senior managing 

director at Wilshire Associates, where he founded and managed the consulting, hedge fund and private equity groups 

from 1990 to 2004. He began his career at Wells Fargo Investment Advisors as a portfolio manager within the index 

fund group. Nesbitt’s articles have appeared in The Financial Analysts Journal, The Journal of Portfolio Management, 

The Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and other periodicals. He received an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at The 


Roger Neugebauer is President of World Forum Foundation, an organization he founded to bring together early 

childhood practitioners from around the world to address issues in delivering quality services in diverse settings. The 

2009 World Forum drew more than 600 delegates from 79 countries. In recent years, its scope has evolved dramatically 

with the emergence of working groups on AIDS and young children, peace-building with young children, nature 

education for young children, men in early childhood education, meeting the needs of the world’s orphans and global 

leadership. Since 1978 he has published Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders Magazine, a management magazine 

for directors of early childhood programs around the world. Neugebauer has presented keynote addresses at more 

than 200 conferences in 48 states and six nations. In 1997, he was honored by Working Mother magazine as one of “25 

Champions of Working Parents.” 

Peter Neupert is Corporate Vice President for the Health Solutions Group at Microsoft Corp. He is responsible 

for developing and driving the company’s global product and services strategy for health, focusing on software 

innovations that will facilitate a data-centered approach to health care with an emphasis on prevention and wellness. 

Before rejoining Microsoft in 2005, Neupert served as president and CEO (and later chairman) of Drugstore.com, 

leading it to become a top online retailer and an information site for health, wellness and beauty. Neupert served in 

various capacities at Microsoft from 1987 to 1998, including a stint as vice president of news and publishing for the 

interactive media group with responsibility for MSNBC. He served on the President’s Information Technology Advisory 

Committee from 2003 to 2005, co-chairing the Health Information Technology subcommittee. Neupert received a 

bachelor’s degree from Colorado College and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. 

Rick Newman is Chief Business Correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, where he has been covering most 

aspects of the recent financial meltdown. He is also a frequent commentator on MSNBC, CNN and Fox Business. Before 

moving to New York to cover business in 2001, Newman spent several years in Washington, where he served as the 

magazine’s Pentagon correspondent and earned the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National 

Defense. He has co-authored two books: Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9-11 and Bury Us Upside 

Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail. 

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Indra Nooyi is Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo Inc., which operates in nearly 200 countries and employs more 

than 198,000 people worldwide. Its principal businesses include Frito-Lay snacks, Pepsi-Cola beverages, Gatorade 

sports drinks, Tropicana juices and Quaker foods. Nooyi is the chief architect of PepsiCo’s sustainable growth strategy, 

Performance with Purpose, which is focused on offering responsible nourishment, minimizing environmental impact 

and creating a culture that attracts, develops and retains talented people. Before joining PepsiCo in 1994, Nooyi held 

senior positions with Asea Brown Boveri, Motorola and the Boston Consulting Group. She is a board member of the 

International Rescue Committee, Catalyst and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and currently chairs the U.S.-India 

Business Council. Nooyi received a bachelor’s degree from Madras Christian College, an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute 

of Management Calcutta, and a master’s degree in public and private management from Yale University. 

Adam Nordin is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse, based in Chicago. He serves as global co-head of the firm’s 

leading Business Services practice and oversees global coverage in the Education Services, Information Services 

and Professional Services verticals. Nordin brings extensive financial advisory and legal experience in a variety of 

investment banking products, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged finance, IPOs, public and private equity 

placements, and equity-linked securities. His practice experience also includes significant emerging markets and crossborder 

transactions for sector leaders in Latin America, China, India and Europe. Nordin received both his bachelor’s 

degree and a master’s degree from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He received a J.D. from the 

University of Michigan Law School and is a certified public accountant. 

Sharon Nunes is Vice President of Strategic Growth Initiatives for Big Green Innovations at IBM Systems & 

Technology Group, where she directs the development of carbon- and water-management solutions as well as 

technology innovations for IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative. In 2009 she was a Women’s History Month Honoree for being 

one of the “Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet” and in June 2009 will be inducted into the WITI (Women in 

Technology International) Hall of Fame. Nunes received two awards for her mentoring of technical women: IBM’s 2004 

Fran Allen Mentoring Award and NAFE’s 2006 Women of Excellence national award. She was a National Academy of 

Engineering Frontiers of Engineering fellow in 2000 and a member of the National Academy of Engineering “Engineer 

of 2020” advisory board. Nunes received her Ph.D. in materials science from the University of Connecticut. 

Samuel Nussbaum is Executive Vice President, Clinical Health Policy, and Chief Medical Officer at WellPoint Inc. 

He oversees corporate medical policy, clinical pharmacy programs, and health information technology, among other 

duties. Nussbaum also has responsibility for HealthCore, WellPoint’s clinical outcomes research subsidiary. A member 

of the National Quality Forum Board, he received the 2004 Physician Executive Award of Excellence from the American 

College of Physician Executives and Modern Physician magazine. Nussbaum is professor of clinical medicine at 

Washington University School of Medicine and serves as adjunct professor at the Olin School of Business, Washington 

University. Previously, he was executive vice president, medical affairs and system integration, of the BJC Health System 

and president of its medical group. Nussbaum earned his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. His 

research has led to new therapies to treat skeletal disorders and new technologies to measure hormones in blood. 

Scott Nyquist is a Director and Leader of the Energy Practice at McKinsey & Company, where he has worked since 

1984. He now co-leads McKinsey’s global energy and materials sector and is a leader in McKinsey’s Climate Change 

Special Initiative. Nyquist has extensive experience in helping private- and public-sector energy and materials clients 

develop and implement strategies to significantly improve their performance. He has led work on energy efficiency, 

wind and solar power, carbon capture and storage, and natural gas, and co-authored McKinsey’s recent report Reducing 

U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost? He also co-authored Averting the Next Oil Crisis: The Demand 

Challenge, based on a joint research effort by McKinsey’s global energy and materials sector and the McKinsey Global 

Institute. Nyquist has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from 


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Barry O’Callaghan is Chief Executive Officer of Education Media Publishing Group. 

Tom O’Donnell is First Vice President of the Alternative Investments Group at Newedge, a global multi-asset 

brokerage with a leading position in the execution and clearing of listed derivative products. His primary focus is 

educating institutional investors about alternative investments, with specific emphasis on managed futures, global 

macro, and currency- and commodity-based hedge fund strategies. Before joining Newedge, O’Donnell was managing 

director of marketing and client services at Chesapeake Capital Corp., focusing on institutional investors. Prior to 

Chesapeake, he was program director with the Virginia Retirement System, one of the largest public pension funds in 

the nation, where he was heavily involved in the strategic investment policies and asset allocation decisions. O’Donnell 

received a bachelor’s degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech). 

Michael O’Grady is a Managing Director in Investment Banking and Head of the Depository Institutions Group 

at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. O’Grady has more than 16 years of investment banking experience, advising clients 

on numerous financings, mergers and acquisitions and other strategic advisory transactions. He joined Merrill Lynch 

in 1992 as an associate in the corporate finance group and was promoted to managing director in 2000. In addition 

to expertise in banks, he also covers insurance companies, asset managers, exchanges and other financial services 

companies. In 2008, O’Grady also headed the firm’s Structured Finance & Investments group primarily managing the 

reduction of this portfolio of asset-based loans and investments. He started his professional career as an auditor with 

Price Waterhouse. O’Grady received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. 

from Harvard Business School. 

Keng Yong Ong is Director of the Institute of Policy Studies at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the 

National University of Singapore. He is also ambassador-at-large in the Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs and 

Singapore’s non-resident ambassador to Iran. In 2008, Ong was a visiting research fellow at the Centre on Contemporary 

Central Asia and the Caucasus in the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Previously he was secretarygeneral 

of ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and has had a multifaceted diplomatic career. From 

1998 to 2002, Ong served as press secretary to the prime minister of Singapore. He has held senior appointments in the 

Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, and the People’s Association in Singapore. Ong graduated from 

the former University of Singapore and earned a master’s degree from Georgetown University. 

Dean Ornish is Founder and President of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, Calif., where he 

holds the Safeway Chair. He is also a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. For 

three decades, Ornish has directed clinical research demonstrating that comprehensive lifestyle changes may begin 

to reverse even severe coronary heart disease, without drugs or surgery. Ornish also directed the first randomized, 

controlled trial demonstrating that comprehensive lifestyle changes may stop or reverse the progression of prostate 

cancer. He is the author of six best-selling books, including Dr. Dean Ornish’s Program for Reversing Heart Disease; Eat 

More, Weigh Less; and The Spectrum. His research has been published in numerous journals and featured on “NOVA,” as 

well as the PBS series “Healing and the Mind.” Ornish received his medical training from the Baylor College of Medicine, 

Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. 

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Ronald Packard is Founder and CEO of K12 Inc. He was previously vice president of Knowledge Universe and 

CEO of Knowledge Schools, which provides high-quality childhood education in community- and employer-sponsored 

centers, and invests in, incubates and operates several charter school companies. Before that, Packard worked for 

McKinsey & Company, as well as for Goldman Sachs in mergers and acquisitions. A chartered financial analyst, he 

currently serves on the educational advisory committee of the Department of Defense. Packard received a bachelor’s 

degree in economics and mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from the 

University of Chicago. 

Greg Papadopoulos is Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Development at 

Sun Microsystems Inc., directing the company’s approximately $2 billion R&D portfolio with an eye toward innovation, 

simplicity and open development models. With more than 20 years’ experience in the high-tech industry, he is responsible 

for managing Sun’s technology decisions and architecture. His team leads Sun Labs, global engineering architecture 

and advanced development programs. Before joining Sun in 1994, Papadopoulos was senior architect and director of 

product strategy for Thinking Machines, where he led the design of the CM6 massively parallel supercomputer. He was 

previously an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a development engineer at 

Hewlett-Packard and Honeywell, where he designed flight control systems for Boeing jetliners. He received a bachelor’s 

degree from the University of California, San Diego, as well as a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from MIT. 

Peter Passell is a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute and Editor of The Milken Institute Review, the Institute’s 

economic quarterly. Passell joined the Institute after eight years as economics columnist for the news department 

of The New York Times. He previously served on The New York Times editorial board and was an assistant professor at 

Columbia University’s Graduate Department of Economics. Passell has written for both technical and non-technical 

publications, including The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Nation, The American Economic Review and the 

Journal of Political Economy, among others. His most recent book, Where to Put Your Money Now (Pocket Books), was 

published in 2009. His research interests include international finance and trade, climate change, economic history and 

the economics of crime. Passell received a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University. 

Rafael Pastor is Chairman and CEO of Vistage International, the world’s largest for-profit CEO membership 

organization, dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of its nearly 15,000 members in 15 countries. The companies 

headed by Vistage members represent approximately $300 billion in revenues and 3 million employees. Pastor was 

previously co-founder of the investment banking firm Sonenshine Pastor & Co., and its private equity affiliate, SP Capital. 

Prior to that, he held several senior executive positions at global media companies. He was CEO and president of Hoyts 

Cinemas Corp.; president of USA Networks International; executive vice president, international, of News Corporation 

and Fox Television International; and president of CBS/Fox Video International. Pastor started as an attorney, first at the 

firm of Hawkins, Delafield & Wood and then as associate general counsel at CBS Inc. Pastor received a bachelor’s degree 

from Columbia University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. 

Paul Pastorek is State Superintendent of Education in the Louisiana Department of Education. He previously 

served as chair of the state’s Recovery School District Advisory Committee and as president of the Board of Elementary 

and Secondary Education. He also served on the state Board of Education, including several terms as board president. 

During his tenure, Louisiana was noted as having the best-rated statewide accountability program in the country. In 

2004, Pastorek formed the nonprofit foundation Next Horizon to create a think tank for developing strategies to take 

Louisiana to the next level of success. An attorney, Pastorek has been associated with the law firm Adams and Reese 

for more than 27 years, except for a two-year hiatus in 2002, when President George W. Bush appointed him as general 

counsel to NASA. For his service, he received NASA’s Exceptional Achievement and Distinguished Service medals. 

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Rebecca Patterson is a Managing Director and Global Head of Foreign Exchange and Commodities for J.P. 

Morgan Wealth Management. She deals with a range of currency and commodities issues and tracks commodities 

trends. With a team based in New York, Geneva, Hong Kong and Singapore, she recommends strategies to help clients 

maximize their investment returns. Patterson was most recently senior global foreign exchange strategist for the firm’s 

Investment Bank. Prior to that, she ran the Asian foreign exchange research team. She began her J.P. Morgan career 

as a member of the Foreign Exchange and Precious Metals Strategy team. Previously, Patterson wrote for The Wall 

Street Journal and Dow Jones newswires. She has a master’s degree in international economics and politics from John 

Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, as well an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern 

School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida. 

Jim Pattison is the Chairman, CEO and sole owner of The Jim Pattison Group, which is Canada’s third-largest privately 

held company (in a recent survey by the Financial Post, it was ranked as Canada’s 48th-largest company). The firm has 

more than 31,000 employees, annual sales of $6.7 billion and operations in 431 locations. With investments in Canada, 

the United States, Mexico, Europe, Asia and Australia, The Jim Pattison Group is involved in a wide variety of industries, 

including food services, packaging, distribution, manufacturing, communications, entertainment, transportation and 

export services. Pattison is currently is currently a director of Canadian Forest Products (Canfor Corp.), BCE Inc., Bell 

Canada and Brookfield Asset Management, and serves as a trustee of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. 

Earlier this year, Pattison was appointed to the Canadian Government’s Economic Advisory Council by the Minister of 

Finance. He attended the University of British Columbia. 

Stephen Pawlowski is an Intel Senior Fellow. He is also Chief Technology Officer for the Digital Enterprise Group 

and General Manager for Architecture and Planning for Intel Corp. He joined Intel in 1982 and led the design of the first 

Multibus I Single Board Computer based on the 386 processor. He was a lead architect and designer for Intel’s early 

desktop PC and high-performance server products, and was co-architect for its first P6-based server chipsets. He helped 

define the system bus interfaces for Intel’s P6 family processors, the Pentium 4 processor and Itanium processor. He also 

created and led the research for Intel’s agile radio architecture for a future generation of wireless products. Palowski 

graduated from the Oregon Institute of Technology with bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering technology and 

computer systems engineering technology, and received a master’s degree in computer science and engineering from 

the Oregon Graduate Institute. 

Jason Peers is the Group Chief Executive of Jasper Capital Ltd. and Chairman of the Middle East Association in the 

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region. Currently he serves on the Middle East committee for International Financial 

Services London, is a member of the Saudi-British Joint Business Council and is the U.K. special representative for the 

Dubai and Northern Emirates financial services sector. Peers is also a fellow of the Securities & Investment Institute 

in the United Kingdom. Previously, as managing director of Barclays Bank, he helped establish the bank as a market 

leader in the Middle East. He had moved to Barclays from Saudi International Bank, a Saudi-controlled consortium 

bank managed by JPMorgan, where he was the head of corporate banking. He also spent 10 years at Lloyds Bank 

International. Peers is a graduate of London University. 

Paul Pelosi Jr. is President of the San Francisco Commission on the Environment, where he develops policies 

and programs in recycling, toxics reduction, environmental justice, energy efficiency, commute alternatives, climate 

change and urban forests. He has more than 15 years of experience in advising emerging and Fortune 500 companies 

on finance, infrastructure, sustainability and public policy. He is a co-founder of Natural Blue Resources, where he now 

serves as president and chief operating officer. Natural Blue excavates, purifies and distributes deep brackish water, 

providing safe and affordable drinking water in the Western United States. Pelosi advises NASA Ames Research Center, 

Sunforce Solution International Inc. and AirPatrol Corp. on a variety of infrastructure projects to promote sustainable 

development, recycling, security and strategies for solar energy deployment. As vice president of corporate strategy at 

InfoUsa, he identified and executed mergers, acquisitions and business partnerships. 

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Yitzhak Peterburg is a Milken Institute Visiting Fellow focusing on health information technology and knowledge 

transfer within large-scale, fragmented networks. He is also a professor in the School of Business Administration at Ben- 

Gurion University, Beer-Sheba, and a board member of the Israel National Institute of Health Policy and Health Services 

Research. He was previously president and CEO of Cellcom, a leading Israeli cellular company. As the director general 

of Clalit Health Services, a leading health-care provider in Israel that is considered to be the second-largest HMO in 

the world, he led the digitizing of Clalit services. Before joining Clalit, Peterburg was the director of Soroka University 

Medical Center, Beer-Sheba. He holds a doctorate in public health from Columbia University, a medical degree from 

Hadassah Medical School at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a master’s degree in information systems from the 

London School of Economics. 

Joseph Pettus is Senior Vice President for Fuel and Energy for Safeway Inc., where he is responsible for the 

management of all energy (electricity and natural gas) operations. Safeway is one of the top 10 corporate purchasers 

of renewable green energy in the nation, according to the U.S. EPA Green Energy Partnership. Pettus is also responsible 

for the operation of more than 400 Safeway fueling stations located throughout the United States and Canada. He 

has been actively involved with refinery operations, the NYMEX Futures market, international liquid petroleum gas 

shipping, and petroleum products storage terminal operations. In 1989 he formed his own corporation, Sun Valley 

Energy Inc., specializing in the distribution and wholesale marketing of petroleum products in the Western United 

States. Pettus graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with degrees in civil engineering and business 

administration. 

Nancy Pfund is a Managing Partner of DBL Investors, an investment firm focused on delivering strong financial 

returns together with positive social, environmental and economic impact. She currently sponsors or sits on the board 

of numerous private companies, including Tesla Motors, Pandora Corp., BrightSource Energy, SolarCity and eMeter. 

Pfund joined JPMorgan (then Hambrecht & Quist) in 1984 as a securities analyst and later joined its venture capital 

department as principal and then managing director. She is a member of the board of the California Clean Energy 

Fund and the Advisory Board of the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center. She is a founding officer and director of ABC2, 

a foundation aimed at accelerating a cure for brain cancer. Pfund received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree 

from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management. 

Bill Phillips is Director of Program Merchandising at The Home Depot for THD At Home Services Inc. Past positions 

include senior vice president of professional services at ImproveNet Inc.; vice president of sales, marketing and 

distribution at Price Pfister; and director of national accounts at Kwikset. Phillips received his bachelor’s degree in 

marketing and accounting from Northern Arizona University. 

Joseph Phillips is an Author and Actor, perhaps best known for the role of Lt. Martin Kendall (Denise Huxtable’s 

husband) on “The Cosby Show.” He was also a three-time NAACP Image Award Nominee for his work on “General Hospital.” 

For two seasons, he appeared on the CBS series “The District.” He also starred in the CBS series “Without a Trace” and in 

the Fox series “Vanished.” He has had guest-starring roles on “C.S.I.,” “Las Vegas” and “Jack and Bobby,” among many others. 

His film credits include starring roles in Strictly Business, Let’s Talk About Sex and Midnight Blue. His many theatrical credits 

include starring roles in the Broadway production of Six Degrees of Separation and the Kennedy Center productions of A 

Raisin in the Sun. He is the author of numerous essays and a syndicated column, “The Way I See It,” and provides frequent 

radio and TV commentary. His first book, He Talk Like a White Boy, was recently published. 

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Richard Pietrafesa is Managing Director at Destiny USA, a multibillion-dollar destination under construction on a 

150-acre reclaimed brownfield in Syracuse, New York. The first phase of Destiny USA has been built and will be operated 

completely free of fossil fuels. Prior to joining Destiny USA, Pietrafesa was president and CEO of The Pietrafesa Corp. 

and president of Polo Ralph Lauren. He served on the board of the Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability 

and co-authored the federal Green Bond legislation, creating $2 billion of tax-exempt bond capacity for large projects 

that produce a measurable positive impact on climate change. His prior awards include the U.S. Senate Medal for 

Productivity. Pietrafesa received a bachelor’s degree in economics and government from Harvard University. 

Grace Pinto is Managing Director of Ryan International Group of Institutions, India’s largest singly managed 

educational network. Inspired to create an India where every boy and girl attend school, she directs 110 educational 

institutions branded as Ryan International and Ryan Global Schools. These schools educate more than 200,000 students 

over 15 states of India, with a recent addition in the United Arab Emirates. Pinto provides overall strategic direction for 

the Ryan International Educational Group and an effective learning experience for students. To widen the scope of 

students for study throughout India and in the global arena, the Ryan Group has affiliations with the International 

Baccalaureate (IB), I.C.S.E., C.B.S.E., state boards and the University of Cambridge International Examinations. The 

students of Ryan Group of Institutions represent a cross-section of Indian society. 

Paul Pluschkell is CEO and Co-Founder of Spigit, a provider of enterprise social software. For more than 18 years, 

Pluschkell has founded and led successful and profitable high-tech strategic organizations of both private and public 

companies. Before founding Spigit, Pluschkell was a senior executive at global media and telecommunication firms 

and CEO of high-tech financial markets. His first company, MXNet, merged with another firm and went public in 1999. 

Pluschkell’s background in content, networks and algorithmic trading is the genesis for the creation of Spigit. 

Jerry Podany is Senior Conservator of Antiquities for the J. Paul Getty Museum. From 1999 through 2003, he 

served as president of the American Institute for Conservation; he is currently president of the International Institute 

for Conservation. His field work includes the site of Terqa in Syria, an evaluation of damage to the Sphinx in Giza, the 

Agora in Athens, the Roman Forum of Trajan and the Laetoli Hominid Trackway Project in Tanzania. He is an adjunct 

professor at University of Southern California and lectures at Columbia University and the University of California, Los 

Angeles. Podany has developed a series of collaborative conferences on protecting collections from earthquakes in 

Turkey, Athens, Japan and Italy. He was recently awarded the Rutherford John Gettens Award, recognizing outstanding 

service to the profession, and the Engineering Research Institute’s Heritage Innovation Prize. 

David Pollock is a Senior Managing Director with Bear Stearns/JPMorgan in the Private Client Services Group. 

He also is Chairman of the Milken Institute Israel Center. Pollock has served on the executive committee of the Los 

Angeles County Economic Development Corporation and on the Board of Directors of the Brandeis-Bardin Institute, 

the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills. He also is an alumnus of the Wexner 

Heritage Foundation. Pollock, who was named an outstanding broker of the year by Money magazine, earned degrees 

in economics and history at the University of California, San Diego. 

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Myrtle Potter is President and CEO of Myrtle Potter & Company LLC, which advises public and private life science 

corporations and boards of directors. She was previously president and chief operating officer of Genentech Inc., where 

she produced record sales and earnings growth during each of the five years she led the company. Potter has also served 

as president of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s $4 billion, 3,500-person U.S. cardiovascular/metabolics business, and was vice 

president of an $800 million Merck business unit. While at Merck, she also launched the drug company Astra/Merck Inc., 

now known as AstraZeneca. In addition to owning and operating a private real estate development company, she is an 

advisor for the dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a member of the financial oversight committee of 

the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Foundation. Potter is a graduate of the University of Chicago. 

Mark Pougnet is Chief Financial Officer of Tendril Networks Inc. Prior to joining Tendril, Pougnet held executive 

financial positions at several companies in diverse technology industries, including Copan Systems, MPC Computers 

and Avaya. He has led multiple highly successful funding rounds and IPOs, and has developed lasting relationships 

with key members of the financial community. Pougnet is a certified public accountant; he holds a bachelor’s degree in 

commerce, as well as a master’s degree in accounting, from the University of Natal in South Africa. 

Vasant Prabhu is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide 

Inc., responsible for the accounting, tax, treasury, strategic planning, corporate development, risk management, investor 

relations and technology functions of the corporation. Prabhu has more than 20 years’ experience in corporate finance 

and management. Prior to joining Starwood in 2003, he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for 

Safeway Inc. He also served as president of the Information and Media Group for The McGraw Hill Companies, where he 

managed a $1 billion division; and senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer for Pepsi Cola International, 

responsible for the company’s operations in more than 100 countries. Prabhu holds an M.B.A. in marketing and finance 

from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay. 

James Prince is the President of the Democracy Council, a nonprofit organization that promotes democracy, 

human rights, good governance and economic opportunity in emerging countries. He was previously a director with 

PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Advisory Services. Prince served as a senior staff member for the House International 

Relations Committee and as a foreign policy adviser to the Clinton-Gore presidential campaign. He also worked in the 

Middle East Studies Department at the Council on Foreign Relations, and managed a grant sponsored by the National 

Endowment for Democracy to establish a public policy institute in northern Iraq. He has participated in missions in 

South Africa, Cambodia and Iraq. A frequent media commentator and author, Prince received a bachelor’s degree from 

the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master’s degree from The George Washington University. He also studied 

at the American University in Cairo. 

Dan Probst is Chairman of Energy and Sustainability Services at the global real estate services firm Jones Lang 

LaSalle. He was also the founding member of Jones Lang LaSalle’s Global Environmental Sustainability Board. He is 

responsible for developing and delivering products and services to help clients reduce energy costs and their real 

estate-related environmental footprint through innovative portfolio and occupancy strategies, workplace standards 

and operating practices. In his 28 years in commercial real estate, including 21 with Jones Lang LaSalle, Probst has 

played key roles in diverse areas of the business. Early in his career, he led the development of Jones Lang LaSalle’s 

Facility Management business and, while overseeing the firm’s Engineering and Operations group, launched its Energy 

Services and Mobile Engineering practices. Probst received a degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University 

and an M.B.A. from Indiana University. 

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Charlie Rahilly is the President of Premiere Radio Networks Inc., a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications that 

syndicates 90 radio programs and services to more than 5,000 radio affiliates, reaching more than 190 million listeners 

weekly. He oversees all aspects of company operations, directing and supervising all talk and music programming 

and services, featuring Rush Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Casey Kasem, Ryan Seacrest, Steve Harvey and other personalities. 

Before assuming his current position in 2007, he was executive vice president of operations at Clear Channel Radio, 

where he oversaw Central Region Radio Operations. Rahilly began his career in radio in 1987 as controller at KFAC-FM in 

Los Angeles; he moved on in 1990 to become an account executive at Clear Channel’s 102.7 KIIS-FM, taking on various 

management roles at the station and then within the company’s Los Angeles cluster. 

Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director at Kissinger Associates, based in Beijing and New York City. Ramo, a 

Mandarin speaker who has been called “one of China’s leading foreign-born scholars” by the World Economic Forum, 

advises some of the largest corporations and investors in the world. Prior to entering the advisory business, Ramo was 

an award-winning journalist and the youngest-ever foreign editor of Time magazine. His latest book, The Age of the 

Unthinkable, was published in 2009. 

Lewis Ranieri is Chairman and CEO of Ranieri & Co. Inc. He is also chairman of Hyperion Partners, prime originator 

and founder of the Hyperion private equity funds, and a principal partner and founder of the Selene Residential 

Mortgage Opportunity Fund. He is also founder and chairman of Ranieri Partners LLC and Ranieri Partners Management 

LLC, investment management companies focused on financial service opportunities. Prior to forming Hyperion in 

1988, he was vice chairman of Salomon Brothers. Generally considered to be the “father” of the securitized mortgage 

market, Ranieri helped develop the capital markets as a source of funding for housing and commercial real estate. 

He has served on the National Association of Home Builders Mortgage Roundtable since 1989. In 2004 BusinessWeek 

named him one of “the greatest innovators of the past 75 years”; in 2005 he received the Distinguished Industry Service 

Award from the American Securitization Forum. 

John Rapisardi is a Partner and Co-Chair of the Financial Restructuring Department at Cadwalader, Wickersham 

& Taft LLP, a leading financial services law firm. He has more than 25 years of domestic and international restructuring 

experience, representing debtors, creditors and investors across a variety of industries. He currently is lead counsel to 

the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry. He was recognized as one of the nation’s leading restructuring lawyers 

by Chambers USA, and included in “Best Lawyers in America.” Rapisardi is a bankruptcy columnist for The New York Law 

Journal and co-author of a treatise on Chinese bankruptcy code. Rapisardi received a bachelor’s degree from Fordham 

University, an LL.M. from New York University and a J.D. from Pace University. He clerked two years for the then-chief 

bankruptcy judge of the Southern District of New York. 

Andrew Rasiej is a Social Entrepreneur, Futurist and Founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, an annual 

conference and website addressing the intersection of politics and technology. He is also the co-founder of 

techPresident.com, an award-winning blog that covers how the Obama administration is using the Internet and how 

technology is empowering new levels of citizen engagement. He has advised political leaders on the use of Internet 

since 1999. In 2004 he served as chairman of the Howard Dean Technology Advisory Committee. He is also the founder 

of MOUSE.org, co-founder of Mideastwire.com and serves as senior technology advisor to the Sunlight Foundation. 

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Sumner Redstone is Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp., positions to which 

he was elected in 2006 following the creation of two separate, publicly traded companies from the former Viacom Inc. 

He was CEO of the former Viacom Inc. from 1996 to 2005 and chairman of the former Viacom Inc. since 1986. He has 

also been chairman, CEO and president of National Amusements Inc. Redstone was the first chairman of the National 

Association of Theatre Owners and is currently a board member. He served in the Military Intelligence Division during 

World War II. While a university student, he joined a group working to break Japan’s military and diplomatic codes; he 

subsequently received two division commendations and the Army Commendation Award. Redstone graduated from 

Harvard University and holds an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. 

Brock Reeve is Executive Director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI). In partnership with the faculty directors, 

he has overall responsibility for the operations and strategy of the Institute, whose mission is to use stem cells, both 

as tools and as therapies, to understand and treat the root causes of leading degenerative diseases. HSCI is comprised 

of the schools of Harvard University and all its affiliated hospitals and research institutions; it currently has 65 principal 

faculty and more than 100 affiliated faculty. HSCI invests in scientific research in three main areas: seed grants, core 

facilities and large-scale disease programs. It also has programs to address ethics and public policy issues, provide lab 

experiences for undergraduates and educate high school science teachers, science journalists and the public at large. 

Reeve is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School. 

Aamir Rehman is the Head of Strategy for Fajr Capital Ltd., a principal investment firm focused on attractive Muslim 

markets. He is also the author of Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States. Rehman was formerly 

the global head of strategy for HSBC Amanah, a worldwide business unit of the HSBC Group, serving more than 300,000 

customers in major markets of the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the United States. Previously a consultant with the 

Boston Consulting Group, he has advised clients in multiple industries regarding a wide range of strategic issues. 

Since 2008 he has been an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based nonpartisan research 

organization. Rehman received a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies and an M.B.A. from 

Harvard University. 

Carl Reiner is an icon of the entertainment industry. He was the co-star of “Your Show of Shows”; creator of “The 

Dick Van Dyke Show”; the interviewer of “The 2000 Year Old Man”; and director of “The Jerk,” “All of Me” and “Oh, God!” 

to name just a few of his credits. A writer, actor, director, producer and comedian, Reiner has accumulated 12 Emmys in 

a lifetime in show business and was elected to the Emmy Award Hall of Fame. He won a Grammy for the spoken word 

“The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000.” Among recent acting roles, he reprised Saul Bloom in “Ocean’s Thirteen” and 

appeared on the season finale of the television show “House.” Reiner’s first book, the autobiographical Enter Laughing, 

was published in 1958 and turned into a Broadway play. His next book, Just Desserts, will be published in July 2009. 

Edward Rendell is Governor of Pennsylvania, having begun a second term of office in January 2007. As governor, 

Rendell serves as chief executive of the nation’s sixth-most-populous state and oversees a $28.3 billion budget. His 

strategic investments have energized Pennsylvania’s economy, revitalized communities, improved education, protected 

the environment and expanded access to health care to all children and affordable prescription drugs for older adults. 

From 1992 through 1999, Rendell served as mayor of Philadelphia. Before serving as mayor, he was elected district 

attorney of Philadelphia for two terms, from 1978 through 1985. He has always been active in the community through 

a variety of memberships on boards and teaches government and politics courses at the University of Pennsylvania. An 

Army veteran, Rendell is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Villanova Law School. 

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Amy Resnick is the first female Editor-in-Chief of The Bond Buyer in New York. Since her appointment in 2000, she 

has set the paper’s editorial direction and led redesigns of The Bond Buyer and its website. She joined the paper in 1995 

as a reporter and became its managing editor before being named to the top editorial post. In 2006-2007, she spent a 

year as a Knight Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, studying politics, taxation and 

infrastructure finance. She has been quoted by national news outlets; appeared on CNN, CNBC and C-SPAN; and spoken 

at numerous conferences. She has written about municipal finance and political issues in state and local government 

for publications in New York, Massachusetts and Virginia. Resnick holds a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a 

master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. 

Lynda Resnick is Vice Chairman of Roll International. Dubbed the “POM Queen,” she is behind the marketing 

success of POM Wonderful, the wildly popular 100% pomegranate juice that created an entirely new product category 

out of a fickle and obscure fruit. Resnick and her husband, Stewart, also own Teleflora (the world’s largest floral-bywire 

company), FIJI Water (the leading imported bottled water brand in the United States), Paramount Farms and 

Paramount Citrus Companies. Resnick is vice chairman of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees. 

She serves on the executive boards of The Aspen Institute, UCLA Medical Sciences, the Prostate Cancer Foundation 

and the Milken Family Foundation, and is a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Resnick reveals her secrets for 

creating memorable brands and pioneering fresh approaches to launch and promote them in her best-selling book, 

Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business. 

Charles Ries recently joined the Rand Corporation as a Senior Fellow in February 2009. He previously served as 

Coordinator for Economic Transition at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, where he was responsible for overseeing assistance 

and economic policy initiatives. Ries was U.S. ambassador to Greece from 2004 to 2007. As principal deputy assistant 

secretary of state for European affairs from 2000 to 2004, he oversaw diplomatic and economic relations between the 

United States and the European Union. Ries has held diplomatic assignments in London, Brussels (at the U.S. Mission to 

the European Union), Ankara and Santo Domingo. He formerly served as deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for 

North American affairs and was a member of the NAFTA negotiating team. At State Department headquarters, Ries has 

worked on international energy and G-7/G-8 Summits, among other issues. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees 

from Johns Hopkins University. 

Richard Riordan is former two-term Mayor of Los Angeles. He served as L.A. mayor from 1993 to 2001, then 

as California’s secretary of education from 2003 to 2005. He also co-founded the private equity firm Riordan, Caps & 

Carbone, which eventually merged with Bingham McCutchen. Currently, Riordan is of counsel in Bingham McCutchen’s 

Los Angeles office. A longtime advocate of education reform, the Riordan Foundation has distributed 21,700 computers 

to 2,100 schools in 40 states and enabled the purchase of 128,000 books for classroom libraries. Riordan’s Recreational 

Reading Mini-Grant Program has also donated $1.5 million to classroom libraries. He launched Read to Me, a citywide 

program that encourages L.A. parents to read to young children. He also co-founded a scholars and a fellows program 

at the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles. Riordan graduated from Princeton University and 

the University of Michigan Law School. 

Sir Ken Robinson is an author, speaker and internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, 

innovation and human resources. The 2008 recipient of the George Peabody Medal, Robinson most recently wrote 

the best-seller The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. Robinson has worked with governments in 

Europe, Asia and the United States. In 1998 he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for 

the British government. All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education (The Robinson Report) was published to wide 

acclaim in 1999. He was the central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of 

the peace process in Northern Ireland, using a blueprint for change known as “Unlocking Creativity.” He was also one of 

four international advisers to the Singapore government for its strategy to become the creative hub of Southeast Asia. 

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James Robinson III is a General Partner of RRE Ventures, an information technology venture firm that he cofounded. 

He served as chairman and CEO of American Express Company from 1977 to 1993. Prior to American Express, 

he was a general partner with White Weld & Company, and assistant to the chairman and president of Morgan Guaranty 

Trust Company. Robinson was also chairman of the Executive Committee of First Data Corporation and non-executive 

chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb from 2005 to 2008. He is a director of the Coca-Cola Company, an advisor to Novell, 

honorary chairman of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution. 

He served as co-chairman of the Business Roundtable and as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy 

and Negotiations. Robinson holds a bachelor’s degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and an 

M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

Shane Robison is Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at HP, where he is responsible for shaping the firm’s 

overall corporate strategy and technology agenda, and for overseeing corporate marketing. He steers the company’s 

$3.6 billion research and development investment and fosters the company’s global technical community. Robison 

also leads the company’s strategy and corporate development efforts, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, 

intellectual property licensing, venture capital community and partnerships. He was one of four principal architects of 

HP’s merger with Compaq Computer Corp. In 2004 InfoWorld declared Robison one of the world’s 25 most influential 

chief technology officers. He previously held senior management positions with Compaq, AT&T Labs, Cadence Design 

Systems and Apple Computer. Robison received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the 

University of Utah. 

Michael Rosen is Principal and Chief Investment Officer for Angeles Investment Advisors LLC. A 25-year investment 

industry veteran, he was a partner at Asset Strategy Consulting from 1997 to 2001. He was previously director of 

investments with Wellpoint’s Blue Cross of California, overseeing a portfolio of more than $3 billion. Rosen spent eight 

years with First Interstate Bank Ltd. as a bond and currency trader and then chief market strategist. He started his career 

as a derivatives trader with Barclays Bank PLC in New York and in London. Rosen was an adjunct professor of finance 

at Pepperdine University and at Loyola Marymount University. He has a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a 

master’s degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts/Harvard). He is president of the Los Angeles 

Chamber Orchestra and a trustee of Kehillat Israel and Village School. 

Robert Rosen is Dean of the School of Theater, Film and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles. As 

an educator, critic and preservationist, Rosen has been a leader in the field of film and television, including positions 

as co-founder (with Martin Scorsese) of the Film Foundation, executive board member of the International Federation 

of Film Archives and membership on numerous community and professional boards. He has been an invited lecturer 

in more than 20 nations around the world on criticism, historical memory and media preservation and has published 

broadly in the field. He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including Officer of Arts and Letters from the 

French government; the Career Achievement Award of the International Documentary Association; the Educational 

Achievement Award of the Caucus of Television Producers, Writers and Directors; and the Directors Guild of America’s 

John Houston Award for contributions to artists’ rights. 

Marc Rowan is a Founding Partner of Apollo Management LP, a private investment firm that manages a series 

of institutional funds focused on complex equity investments, leveraged buyouts and corporate reorganizations. He 

currently serves on the board of directors of AAA, an Apollo-sponsored multibillion-dollar alternative investment 

manager; Harrah’s Entertainment, a leading hotel-and-casino company; and Norwegian Cruise Lines, a premium cruise 

line with itineraries worldwide. He also serves on the boards of AP Investment Europe Ltd., BHR Holdings GP Ltd. and 

Apollo Principal Holdings IV GP, Ltd. Prior to joining Apollo, Rowan was a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions 

department of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., with responsibilities in high-yield financing, transaction idea generation 

and merger structure negotiation. Rowan graduated from The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business 

with a bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A. in finance. 

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Simon Ruddick is Managing Director of Albourne Partners Ltd., a U.K.-based global hedge fund advisory firm 

that he co-founded in 1994. Albourne’s more than 150 clients have over $200 billion invested in hedge funds. Village. 

albourne.com, the not-for-profit website that offers a knowledge economy for the alternative investment and private 

equity community, has more than 65,000 residents; its success has led Ruddick to be named twice among Institutional 

Investor’s Top 40 Online Entrepreneurs. In 2006 Albourne received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International 

Trade, and hosted Hedgestock, featuring a performance by The Who, to raise money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. 

Ruddick is a trustee of the Hedge Funds Standard Board. His appearances on CNBC have included hosting its “Squawk 

Box” program. 

Jim Safka is CEO of Ask.com, overseeing the company’s global operations. He is also CEO of Primal Ventures, a newventure 

entity firm that identifies, seeds and incubates business opportunities for Ask.com’s parent company, IAC. 

Safka previously served as CEO of Match.com, also an IAC property. Prior to serving at Match.com, he was vice president 

and general manager of e-commerce at AT&T Wireless. Before that he spent five years at E-Trade Financial Corp., most 

recently as vice president of marketing. Safka started his technology marketing career at Intuit as a product manager for 

Quicken Financial Planner and Quicken.com. He also held brand and product management positions at Alberto-Culver, 

Inc., Warner Bros. Inc. and Paramount Pictures. Safka received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of 

Southern California and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. 

William Saito is Director of the Venture Support Center of the Japan National Institute of Advanced Industrial 

Science and Technology (AIST), where he works to help develop a new generation of entrepreneurs and ventures. 

Named Entrepreneur of the Year in 1998 by Ernst & Young, NASDAQ and USA Today, he is a technologist who is as 

comfortable in the boardroom as he is in the lab. An encryption, authentication and biometric technology expert, 

he made his first company, I/O Software Inc., a global leader in security software development. After it was acquired 

in 2004, he moved to Tokyo and started InTecur, a consultancy that helps companies identify and market innovative 

technologies. He devised the world’s first biometric authentication system with Sony, and subsequently licensed the 

programming interface to Microsoft and more than 140 other companies. An author and public speaker, Saito has 

earned numerous industry accolades and congressional recognition. 

Alan Salzman is CEO and Managing Partner of VantagePoint Venture Partners. He has been a senior or managing 

partner of a dozen venture funds since 1988, with responsibilities for close to $5 billion of committed capital, amassing 

experience working with and funding more than 250 companies. He co-founded VantagePoint in 1996 and oversees all 

aspects of venture fund management, including organization and investor relations, development and implementation 

of overall investment strategy, and oversight of investment, divestment and management decisions regarding portfolio 

companies. He currently advises BP on renewable energy policies and investments as one of two outside members of 

the BP Alternative Energy Advisory Board. Salzman is a graduate of the London School of Economics, the University of 

Toronto, Stanford Law School and the University of Brussels. He also held a faculty appointment for more than a decade 

as an adjunct professor at Stanford Law School. 

David Sand is Chief Investment Officer of Access Capital Strategies (ACS), a division of Voyageur Asset Management. 

ACS has managed the Community Investment Fund since 1998 and is a leader in the field of mission-related investing 

for banks, pension funds, foundations and individuals. Access Capital became a part of Voyageur, the U.S. asset 

management operation for the Royal Bank of Canada, in 2008. Sand serves on the boards of the Social Investment 

Forum, the Enterprise Foundation of New York and Wall Street Without Walls. Prior to co-founding Access Capital, he 

co-founded Commonwealth Capital Partners Inc. and Commonwealth Capital Strategies Inc. of Cambridge and New 

York. The latter was a consulting and investment banking firm that specialized in housing, enterprise development, 

job training and the environment. He received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a master’s degree in 

public administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. 

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Richard Sandor, a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute, is Chairman, CEO and Founder of the Chicago Climate 

Exchange, the world’s first and North America’s only voluntary, legally binding integrated greenhouse gas emissions 

reduction, registry and trading system. He is also chairman of Climate Exchange plc, which owns the Chicago Climate 

Exchange and the European Climate Exchange. In 2007 Time magazine honored him as a “Hero of the Environment.” 

Sandor is a research professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a member 

of the International Advisory Council of Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. In the early 1970s he 

served as vice president and chief economist of the Chicago Board of Trade, where he became known as the principal 

architect of the interest-rate futures market. Sandor earned a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Minnesota. 

Jean-Louis Scandella is an Emerging Markets Fund Manager for the Comgest Group. Based in Paris, he manages 

various global emerging markets equity portfolios with a special focus on Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He started 

his career in Frankfurt as a sell-side analyst of German and Eastern European equities. He later founded and managed 

Société Générale Emerging Markets in London, where he realized various IPOs and private placements in Central and 

Eastern Europe, as well as in Russia. Scandella graduated from the Institut des Sciences Politiques in Paris and holds a 

master’s degree in German literature and a postgraduate degree in economic history. 

Anthony Scaramucci is the Founder and Managing Partner of SkyBridge Capital LLC. Focused on partnering with 

emerging managers, the fund now has nine managers and $1.4 billion in assets. Scaramucci was a partner and founder 

of Oscar Capital Management LLC, where he oversaw compliance and research for four hedge funds and separately 

managed accounts with over $1 billion in assets. In 2001, Oscar Capital was sold to Neuberger Berman. As managing 

director of Neuberger Berman/Lehman Brothers from 2003 to 2005, Scaramucci served on the investment committee 

of Neuberger’s Premier Portfolio and worked on the Neuberger Berman/Lehman integration team. Previously he was a 

vice president in Goldman Sach’s Equities Division. He is on the Board of Overseers for the School of Arts and Sciences at 

Tufts University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in economics. Scaramucci holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School. 

Ricardo Scavazza is Principal in the Private Equity Division at Pátria Investments, a position he has held since 

2005. He is responsible for new business efforts in the Private Equity Division and has been chief operating officer of 

Anhanguera Educacional, a private for-profit education institution in Brazil, since 2005. Scavazza joined Patrimônio in 

1999, working on new investment initiatives and heading the private equity efforts for the portfolio companies. He has 

previously served at both Diagnósticos da América S.A. and at Anhanguera as chief financial officer. Scavazza holds 

degrees in business administration from the University of Texas, Austin, and from Fundação Getulio Vargas in Brazil. 

Brian Schipper is Senior Vice President of Human Resources for Cisco Systems Inc. With more than 25 years of 

experience, he leads the HR team in support of more than 66,000 global employees and serves on several of the firm’s 

key strategic boards and councils. Cisco was recently ranked sixth in Fortune magazine’s “Best Companies to Work For” 

list. Prior to joining Cisco in 2006, Schipper led the human resources function for the platforms and services division 

of Microsoft Corp.; he previously led their compensation and benefits, systems and solutions, and employee relations 

teams. Schipper has also held senior human resources positions at Andor Capital Management LLC, DoubleClick, 

PepsiCo and Compaq Computer Corp. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Hope College and an M.B.A. from Michigan 

State University. 

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David Schmidt is CEO of SCAN Health Plan, which he joined in 2002. He brings more than 30 years of executive 

management experience to the position, including executive posts with Care America/Blue Shield Health Plan, FHP 

Healthcare and Medicheck. Since joining SCAN in 2002, Schmidt has restructured management, implemented a stateof-the-art 

information technology system and significantly increased membership. He has also taken an active role 

in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento to bring new initiatives and programs to SCAN members. Schmidt sits on the 

board of the California Association of Health Plans. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and an M.B.A. from the 

University of California, Los Angeles. 

Myron Scholes, a 1997 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, is Chairman of Platinum Grove 

Asset Management LP, a fund specializing in providing liquidity services to the global wholesale capital markets. He 

is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he 

taught from 1983 to 1996, and was a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution from 1987 to 1996. Scholes is 

known for his work in options pricing, capital markets and the financial services industry. He is co-creator of the Black- 

Scholes options pricing model, which was recognized by the Nobel committee. He has been the Edward Eagle Brown 

Professor of Finance in the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and director of its Center for Research in 

Security Prices. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. 

Carl Schramm is President and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. He has led the foundation to develop 

innovative programs aimed at transforming entrepreneurship education, the technology transfer process, the availability 

of seed capital for entrepreneurs and economic research. Schramm has also been instrumental in forming partnerships 

with governments and organizations around the world to stimulate entrepreneurship internationally. The author of 

Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism and The Entrepreneurial Imperative, he was appointed in 2007 to chair the Department 

of Commerce’s Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century committee. In 2009, he was appointed by Singapore’s prime 

minister to Singapore’s Research, Innovation, and Enterprise Council. Trained as an economist and lawyer, Schramm has 

founded and co-founded several health-care finance and information technology companies. He is a Batten Fellow at the 

University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. 

Zvi Schreiber is the Founder and CEO of G.ho.st (Global Hosted Operating SysTem), which has revolutionized 

personal computing by delivering an entire award-winning virtual computer (with desktop, files and applications) inside 

a Web page. G.ho.st is a unique joint Palestinian-Israeli startup that is helping to seed a Palestinian high-tech industry. 

Schreiber was the founder and CEO of Unicorn Solutions, which he sold to IBM. Prior to that, he was founder and CEO/chief 

technology officer of Tradeum Inc., which pioneered B2B e-commerce and was eventually acquired. He holds some 20 

patents and has spoken at major industry conferences. Schreiber holds a Ph.D. in theoretical computer science. 

Jerry Schubel is President and CEO of the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, California, where he also directs 

its Marine Conservation Research Institute and its Aquatic Forum. He has written extensively for scientific journals and 

general audiences and has been active in regional, national and international environmental affairs, particularly in the 

coastal ocean. He serves on the Coastal America Executive Committee, the Science Advisory Panel of the California 

Ocean Protection Council, the federal Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel and the NOAA Science Advisory 

Board. Schubel was the former president and CEO of the New England Aquarium, and was dean of the Marine Sciences 

Research Center of Stony Brook University. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Alma College (Michigan), a master’s 

degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. 

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Debra Schwartz is Director of Program-Related Investments (PRIs) for the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur 

Foundation. Under her leadership, the foundation has tripled its commitment to PRIs (below-market loans and investments 

made for charitable purposes), allocating $300 million to this innovative form of philanthropy. Schwartz administers a 

self-financing PRI portfolio that supports organizations and special-purpose financing vehicles dedicated to advancing 

community development and affordable housing. Before joining MacArthur, Schwartz was chief financial officer for a child 

welfare agency in Chicago and a public finance investment banker at John Nuveen & Company. She also served on the 

Treasury Department’s Community Development Advisory Board and was a founding member of the national PRI Makers 

Network steering committee. A lecturer in public policy at the University of Chicago, Schwartz received a bachelor’s degree 

from Yale University and a master’s degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. 

Arnold Schwarzenegger is the Governor of California. During his first term, he reinvigorated California’s 

economy and created a better environment for business. In his second term he signed landmark legislation to reduce 

the state’s greenhouse-gas emissions and invested in rebuilding California’s critical infrastructure with his Strategic 

Growth Plan. In 1990 he was called to chair the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports; he traveled to all 

50 states and recognized the overwhelming need for after-school programs, a cause he has continued to champion 

through the years. Born in Austria, Schwarzenegger became the youngest person ever to win the Mr. Universe title. 

After coming to the United States, he won 12 more bodybuilding titles before turning his focus to acting, eventually 

becoming one of Hollywood’s biggest box-office draws. He and his wife, Maria Shriver, are actively involved in charitable 

causes, including the Special Olympics. 

David Scott is the Executive Director of Economic Affairs for the Executive Affairs Authority of Abu Dhabi. In that 

role he provides strategic economic policy advice to the chairman of Abu Dhabi’s Executive Council. Scott has also 

helped organize and lead an interagency working group that analyzes future energy demand and develops strategies 

to meet that demand. Scott has a keen policy perspective that was honed during his prior work as regional vice 

president for Occidental Petroleum Corp. and his service at the White House as the National Security Council’s director 

for the Arabian Peninsula and North Africa. He is also a veteran U.S. Foreign Service Officer of the U.S. Army. Scott is a 

graduate of Brigham Young University and a former graduate fellow with the Center for Arabic Studies at the American 

University of Cairo. 

Ellen Seidman is Executive Vice President of National Policy and Partnership Development at ShoreBank Corp., 

a leading community development and environmental banking corporation. She also chairs the Center for Financial 

Services Innovation and is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. Seidman was previously senior counsel to 

the Democratic staff of the Financial Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. She has also worked as 

director of the U.S Treasury Department’s Office of Thrift Supervision, as a director of the Federal Deposit Insurance 

Corporation and as chairman of the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation. Seidman served as special assistant 

for economic policy to President Clinton and has held senior positions at Fannie Mae, the U.S. Treasury Department 

and the U.S. Department of Transportation. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Radcliffe College, a law degree from 

Georgetown University Law Center and an M.B.A. from George Washington University. 

Robert Shafir is the CEO of the Asset Management business and of the Americas Region for Credit Suisse, based 

in New York. He is a member of the executive boards of Credit Suisse and Credit Suisse Group, and chairs the Americas 

CEO Management Committee. As CEO of the Asset Management business, Shafir is responsible for the bank’s assetmanagement 

operations globally; his mandate in the Americas includes working various Credit Suisse divisions to 

realize the benefits of the firm’s integrated strategy in the Americas. Shafir joined Credit Suisse from Lehman Brothers, 

where he worked for 17 years, having served as head of equities and a member of the Executive Committee. He also 

held other senior roles and played a key role in building Lehman’s equities business into a global, institutionally focused 

franchise. Shafir received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Lafayette College and an M.B.A. from Columbia 

Business School. 

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Rajiv Shah is Director of Agricultural Development in the Global Development Program of The Bill & Melinda Gates 

Foundation, where he leads efforts to reduce extreme poverty and hunger in the developing world. He previously 

served as the foundation’s director of strategic opportunities and as its senior economist. He helped to develop the 

foundation’s global health strategy and its $1.5 billion vaccine fund, which has been referred to by Bill and Melinda 

Gates as their best investment. Shah has served as a health-care policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore’s 2000 

presidential campaign and on Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell’s Transition Committee on Health. A graduate of the 

University of Michigan and the London School of Economics, Shah earned an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania 

Medical School and a master’s degree in health economics from the university’s Wharton School. 

Adrianne Shapira is Managing Director and Retail Analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. 

Neal Shear is Managing Partner of Apollo Commodities Partners. He was hired from Morgan Stanley to spearhead 

Apollo’s recently established global commodities practice. For 25 years, Shear had built a track record at Morgan Stanley 

of record revenues, most recently as global head of fixed income and equity trading and co-head of sales and trading. 

In addition, he helped to lead the firm into emerging markets through purchasing banks in China and Russia and 

significantly increased market share and profit margins. He founded Morgan Stanley’s commodities business, for which 

Shear and his team were among the original traders in the then-new areas of oil, natural gas, power and agriculture. 

Shear began his career in 1978 with Citibank, followed by a stint with J. Aron & Company. He received a bachelor’s 

degree from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. from Cornell University. 

Josette Sheeran is Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme. She previously served as 

undersecretary for economic, energy and agricultural affairs at the U.S. Department of State, and as deputy U.S. trade 

representative; in the latter role, she focused on economic diplomacy to help developing nations advance toward 

self-sufficiency and prosperity. Sheeran has also been managing director of Starpoint Solutions, a leading Wall Street 

technology firm, and as president and CEO of Empower America, a Washington, D.C., think tank. In addition, she has 

served as managing editor of a major U.S. newspaper, served twice as a Pulitzer Prize juror and received the Press Award 

for Journalistic Achievement by the National Order of Women Legislators. Sheeran has served on the Washington 

advisory board of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the Washington boards of the Urban League and the United 

Negro College Fund. 

Gary Shilling is President of A. Gary Shilling & Company Inc., an economic consulting and investment advisory 

firm that also publishes Insight, a monthly report of economic forecasts and investment strategy. The author of several 

books, Shilling has been a Forbes magazine columnist since 1983 and appears regularly on radio and television business 

shows. Institutional Investor magazine has twice ranked him as Wall Street’s top economist. He has served on the staffs 

of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and the Bank of America. Before establishing his own firm in 1978, Shilling 

was senior vice president and chief economist of White, Weld & Co. Earlier he set up the Economics Department at 

Merrill Lynch at age 29, and served as the firm’s first chief economist. Shilling received a bachelor’s degree from Amherst 

College and a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. 

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Ian Shugart is Canada’s Deputy Minister of the Environment. Before joining Environment Canada, he held several 

assignments in the health sector, including senior assistant deputy minister for the Health Policy Branch, visiting 

assistant deputy minister for the Health Protection Branch and executive director of the former Medical Research 

Council (now CIHR). Shugart has also chaired the Global Health Security Action Group and the Health Task Force of Asia- 

Pacific Economic Cooperation, as well as serving on the board of the World Health Organization. Before focusing on 

health issues, he was assistant secretary to the Cabinet for Social Policy and Programs in the Federal Provincial Relations 

Office of the Privy Council Office. He held senior advisory roles to the minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, the 

minister of National Health and Welfare and leader of the opposition. Shugart is a graduate of Trinity College at the 

University of Toronto. 

Wayne Silby is Co-Chairman of the Calvert Foundation, which supports proactive social enterprise intermediaries. 

Silby is also Founding Chair of the $10 billion Calvert Social Funds, where he chairs the private equity committee that 

makes direct investments into innovative companies with social impact. He spends significant time in China, where he 

chairs Syntao (Beijing), a preeminent company promoting corporate social responsibility in China. He also chairs the 

Grameen Foundation’s China Advisory Council. Silby co-founded the Social Venture Network, along with other groups 

that focus on giving finance a more human face. He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s 

Wharton School and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. 

David E. Simon is Chairman and CEO of Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group Inc. The largest publicly traded 

U.S. real estate company, specializing in regional malls, outlet centers, community/lifestyle centers and international 

properties, the firm currently owns or has an interest in approximately 380 properties in North America, Europe and 

Asia. Simon joined the firm in 1990 and led its nearly $1 billion initial public offering in 1993. Since becoming CEO 

in 1995, he has orchestrated more than $25 billion in strategic acquisitions. Simon was previously a vice president of 

Wasserstein Perella & Co., a Wall Street firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyouts. A member 

and former chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts board of governors, he has been 

inducted into the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Academy of Alumni Fellows. He received a bachelor’s 

degree from Indiana University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. 

David S. Simon is an Executive Vice President at Citigroup and a board member of Operation Hope, a nonprofit 

dedicated to financial literacy education. Simon leads the Customer Engagement organization for Citi Cards North 

America, a leading provider of private-label and branded MasterCard, Visa and American Express credit cards. He has 

held various positions in Citi Cards, including leading the end-to-end management of Citi’s Small Business Cards, the 

Office of the Chairman and CitiAnalytics. He previously headed Strategic Internet Alliances for Citigroup, forming key 

Internet and payment partnerships. He initially joined Citigroup in 1996 in the Retail Banking business as counsel. From 

1992 to 1996, Simon was counsel to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, evaluating bank mergers 

and acquisitions and electronic commerce matters. Simon graduated from the University of Michigan and Boston 

University School of Law. 

Greg Simon is President of FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions. He recently served with 

the Obama administration’s transition team reviewing the Department of Health and Human Services. From 1993 

to 1997, Simon was chief domestic policy advisor to Vice President Al Gore on economic, science and technology 

issues, overseeing programs of the National Institutes of Health, the National Cancer Institute, the Food and Drug 

Administration, the Human Genome Project and development of the regulatory framework for biotechnology 

products. From 1985 to 1991, he was staff director of the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee of the House 

Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Prior to joining FasterCures, he was CEO of Simon Strategies/Mindbeam, 

a consulting firm focusing on biotechnology, health care, technology and information technology. Simon received a 

J.D. from the University of Washington. 

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John Simon is a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Global Development, which he joined after serving in Addis Ababa, 

Ethiopia, as the U.S. representative to the African Union. Simon was previously executive vice president of the Overseas 

Private Investment Corp. and served at the White House as special assistant to the president and senior director for relief, 

stabilization and development on the National Security Council staff. He also served at the U.S. Agency for International 

Development as deputy assistant administrator for policy and program coordination. At the White House, Simon had 

responsibility for several new development initiatives, including the Millennium Challenge Account, the President’s 

Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the President’s Malaria Initiative. Earlier in his career, he worked at Harvard Pilgrim 

Health Care and for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He earned a bachelor’s degree at Princeton University and a 

master’s degree in public policy at Harvard University. 

Jonathan Simons is President, CEO and the David H. Koch Chair of the Prostate Cancer Foundation, a position 

he has held since 2007. An internationally recognized physician/scientist, he is also interim chief science officer of the 

Melanoma Research Alliance, which is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining PCF, Simons served as the Distinguished 

Service Professor of Hematology and Oncology at the Emory University School of Medicine. He is the founding director 

of Emory’s Whiship Cancer Institute and continues to hold a university position as professor of biomedical engineering. 

He also teaches biomedical and materials sciences engineering courses at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Simons 

received a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and an M.D. from the Johns Hopkins University School of 

Medicine. He completed his residency in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital at Harvard Medical 

School and his fellowship in medical oncology at Johns Hopkins. 

Chris Singer is Executive Vice President and President International of PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and 

Manufacturers of America. He has held positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Pfizer Inc. and GlaxoSmithKline. Singer also 

worked as a health policy analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, working on the participation 

and reimbursement of physicians and hospitals in Medicare and Medicaid. He was a professional staff member for 

the House Appropriations Committee and dealt with policy and budget oversight for the National Institutes of Health 

and the Food and Drug Administration, among others. He has served on numerous panels, including the Governor’s 

Task Force on Infant Mortality in North Carolina and the Children’s Hospital board in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He now 

serves on the board of the Integrated Benefits Institute in San Francisco. Singer has a master’s degree in public health 

administration and a bachelor’s degree in economics. 

Frank Sixt is Executive Director and Group Finance Director of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. This Hong Kong–based 

conglomerate has more than 200,000 employees in 54 countries and encompasses operations in container terminals, 

retailing, property development, telecommunications, energy and infrastructure. Sixt is also chairman of TOM 

Group Ltd. He is an executive director of Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd. and Hongkong Electric Holdings 

Ltd., and a director of Cheung Kong (Holdings) Ltd., Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Ltd., Hutchison 

Telecommunications International Ltd., Husky Energy Inc. and Partner Communications Company Ltd. He is a member 

of the Law Society of the Provinces of Quebec and Ontario, Canada. Sixt received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from 

McGill University and a civil law degree from the Université de Montreal. 

Greg Skibiski is Chairman and CEO of Sense Networks Inc. He is responsible for the company’s overall strategic 

vision in the financial and consumer services markets. Prior to co-founding Sense Networks, Skibiski served as principal 

architect of the Business Development group at BackWeb Technologies Ltd., a mobile infrastructure software company. 

He was the chief software architect for integrations with IBM, Microsoft and SAP, and was responsible for designing 

software solutions and leading the development teams that brought them to realization. Skibiski co-organizes the 

European Drobny Global Hedge Fund Conference; has been a frequent speaker at SAP’s SAPPHIRE world conferences; 

and has managed sales, partnership and implementation projects in 25 countries. Skibiski received a bachelor’s degree 

in civil engineering from Bucknell University and an M.B.A. from HEC Paris. 

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Richard Smith is President and CEO of Realogy Corp., a global provider of real estate and relocation services that 

offers real estate franchising, brokerage, relocation and title services. He oversees the Realogy Franchise Group, which 

consists of the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Coldwell Banker Commercial, 

ERA Real Estate and Sotheby’s International Realty real estate brands. Realogy’s other business units include Cartus, 

a global leader in corporate and government employee relocation; NRT LLC, the nation’s largest residential real estate 

brokerage company; and Title Resource Group (TRG), a prominent full-service title and settlement services company. 

From 1996 to 2006, Smith served as chairman and CEO of Cendant’s Real Estate Services Division; he guided its spinoff 

from Cendant to become Realogy Corp. in August 2006. Among other appointments, he is a member of the Policy 

Advisory Board for Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. 

Terence Smith is an award-winning journalist. Most recently he was a correspondent for “The NewsHour with 

Jim Lehrer.” He has worked in public television for more than a decade, and is a frequent guest host for “The Diane 

Rehm Show” on NPR. Smith spent 20 years with The New York Times, including eight years in the Middle East and 

Far East, covering four wars and the day-to-day lives of people in more than 40 countries. His coverage earned two 

Pulitzer nominations and numerous other awards. Smith also served as the paper’s assistant foreign editor and 

deputy metropolitan editor in New York, and as diplomatic correspondent and chief White House correspondent in 

Washington. In 1985 he joined CBS News, covering the Reagan White House and reporting for “CBS Sunday Morning.” 

He earned two Emmys for his work on “48 Hours,” and shared in the George Foster Peabody Award given to the staff of 

“CBS Sunday Morning.” 

Michael Soenen is the former Chairman, CEO and President of FTD Inc. During his tenure with FTD, he held various 

senior management positions, including president and CEO of FTD.com and vice president of marketing. Under his 

leadership the firm’s revenue more than quadrupled. He also led the company’s initial public offering in early 2005. 

Before joining FTD, Soenen worked for Salomon Brothers, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions. A director 

of several public companies, Soenen supports numerous philanthropic causes, including the Wounded Heroes 

Foundation. He received a bachelor’s degree from Kalamazoo College. 

David Solomon is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Investment Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & 

Co. Prior to this role, he was the global head of the Financing Group, which includes all capital markets and derivative 

products for corporate clients. Solomon is a member of the firm’s Management Committee, Capital Committee and 

Investment Banking Operating Committee. He joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 1999 after working in various 

capacities at Bear Stearns, Drexel Burnham, Salomon Brothers and Irving Trust Company. He is a member of the Board 

of Trustees of Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., where he earned a bachelor’s degree in political science. He also serves 

on the Leadership Council for the Robin Hood Foundation. 

Annika Sorenstam was the most dominant women’s golfer of all time. During her 15-year professional career, 

she rewrote the record books with 72 LPGA career wins, eight Rolex Player of the Year Awards and numerous honors. 

In 2003 she won the 2003 Patty Berg Award for contributions to women’s golf and was inducted into the World Golf 

Hall of Fame. Sorenstam stepped away from competitive golf in 2009 to focus on the ANNIKA brand of businesses, 

including a golf and fitness academy, a financial group, course design, a clothing line, a wine label and a fragrance. She 

is an ambassador for the USGA, and was named a Global Ambassador by the International Golf Federation in an effort 

to bring golf to the 2016 Olympics. She created the ANNIKA Foundation to teach children the importance of healthy, 

active lifestyles and to offer aspiring junior golfers opportunities to pursue their dreams. 

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Tom Soto is Managing Partner of Craton Equity Partners, which invests in clean technology. He recently served 

with President Obama’s transition team on the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In 1989 he founded P.S. 

Enterprises, an environmental regulatory and compliance firm. Soto has helped to introduce innovative technologies in 

the marketplace, from electric ground service equipment for airport operations to early fuel cells. He was appointed by 

President Clinton to the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission, which oversaw the environmental component 

of NAFTA. He is board secretary of the Mono Lake Committee, and was the longtime president of the Coalition for 

Clean Air. He is an active member of the Clean Tech Ventures Network, the Apollo Alliance, the NRDC’s Environmental 

Entrepreneurs (E2) and the New America Alliance. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles. 

Howard Soule is Executive Vice President and Chief Science Officer at the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) and 

a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute. He previously served as managing director of the Knowledge Universe Health 

and Wellness Group, an investment firm focused on companies in the areas of disease prevention and treatment. From 

1997 to 2004, he was executive vice president and chief science officer at PCF, responsible for coordinating scientific 

and clinical research funded by the foundation, whose goal is to promote new treatments and a cure for advanced 

prostate cancer. He was previously a senior R&D executive at Corvas International Inc., a public biotechnology company, 

where he focused on innovative treatments for cardiovascular diseases. In addition, he has considerable experience 

in the medical diagnostic and device industries. Soule received a Ph.D. from Baylor College of Medicine and was a 

postdoctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute. 

Jeb Spaulding was re-elected to a fourth term as Vermont State Treasurer in November 2008. In that office, he has 

emphasized improvement in treasury fundamentals and initiated a new focus on leveraging state assets to encourage 

responsible corporate citizenship and support for community and economic development. Recently he has also begun 

a financial literacy effort. Spaulding served in the Vermont State Senate from 1985 to 2000. During that period, he 

chaired several committees, including the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Joint Fiscal Committee, the Senate 

Education Committee and the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules. Spaulding was a founder and general manager 

of WNCS-FM in Montpelier and a partner in Precision Media Inc. He received a bachelor’s degree from Antioch College 

and a master’s degree from the University of Vermont. 

John Sperling is Founder and Executive Chairman of the Apollo Group Inc., whose subsidiaries include the nation’s 

largest private university, the University of Phoenix. He has been Arizona’s Entrepreneur of the Year and honored as one 

of eight top entrepreneurs by BusinessWeek magazine. Offering both campus and online degree programs for adults, 

the University of Phoenix has won numerous education and industry awards for innovation, quality assurance, and best 

practices. At various times from 1955 to 1971, Sperling was a member of the faculty at the University of Maryland, Ohio 

State University, Northern Illinois University and San Jose State University. Sperling received a bachelor’s degree from 

Reed College, a master’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in economic history from the 

University of Cambridge. 

Scott Sperling is Co-President of Thomas H. Lee (THL) Partners. He is also trustee and general partner of various THL 

equity funds. THL Partners is one of the nation’s leading buyout fund organizations, with more than $22 billion under 

management in its various funds. Its most recent fund is THL Partners Equity Fund VI, a $10 billion LBO fund. Sperling 

is currently a director of Hawkeye Holdings, Thermo Fisher Corp., Univision Communications Inc., Warner Music Group, 

Clear Channel Media and several private companies. He is also a member of the board of the Brigham and Women’s 

Hospital, the Citi Performing Arts Center and Harvard Business School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. He 

holds a bachelor’s degree from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

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Lorraine Spurge is a Managing Director of Guggenheim Partners. She joined the firm in September 2008, 

focusing on strategic business development, marketing and client services. She was previously a founder and CEO of 

Maple Stone Capital Advisors, where she created and implemented a business plan to fully develop an institutional 

presence. As a member of the Investment Committee, she evaluated securities prior to their inclusion in the portfolio. 

From 2001 to 2006, Spurge was a partner and managing director at Metropolitan West Financial and MW Post Advisory 

Group, where she helped to expand a $400 million asset manager into a firm with more than $8 billion of assets under 

management. As CEO of Knowledge Exchange and Spurge Ink, she led two companies focused on educating and 

empowering entrepreneurs. Prior to that, she managed the capital markets group for Drexel Burnham Lambert, raising 

more than $200 billion for large and small corporations. 

Komal Sri-Kumar, a Senior Fellow of the Milken Institute, is Managing Director and Chief Global Strategist of 

The TCW Group Inc. He has been with the investment management firm since its founding in 1991 and has chaired 

the firm’s Comprehensive Asset Allocation Committee since 1997. The firm manages specific client mandates of about 

$1.5 billion across global asset classes, including U.S. and foreign equities and fixed income, private equity, energy and 

real estate. Prior to joining TCW, Sri-Kumar was senior vice president at Drexel Burnham Lambert and executive vice 

president of DBL Americas, responsible for country risk analysis. Before Drexel, he was president of the Country Risk 

Consulting Service, which he founded to advise Big Eight accounting firms, and investment and commercial banks, 

on Latin American debt service capacity. Sri-Kumar holds a master’s degree from the Delhi School of Economics, and a 

master’s and Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University. 

Charles Stanish is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Cotsen Institute of 

Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. The author of several books, including Ancient Titicaca, Ritual 

and Pilgrimage in the Ancient Andes and Ancient Andean Political Economy, he specializes in studying the development 

of complex political and economic systems in the pre-modern world. Stanish has worked extensively in Peru, Bolivia 

and Chile, conducting archaeological research on the prehistoric societies of the region. His theoretical work focuses on 

the roles that trade, war and labor organization play in the evolution of human cooperation and complex societies. He 

seeks to develop sustainable development models to preserve our global cultural heritage through a combination of 

micro-lending, direct community grants and tourist infrastructure development. Trained at the University of Chicago, 

Stanish is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Jerry Steiner is Executive Vice President of Sustainability and Corporate Affairs at the Monsanto Company. Key 

among his responsibilities are forming public-private partnerships aimed at helping farmers around the world produce 

more food, while conserving valuable resources like water and energy. He also works closely with food companies on 

value-added business projects and leads Monsanto’s government, public and industry affairs teams globally. Steiner 

represents the company as a director of the Keystone Center and as a member of the International Food and Agricultural 

Trade Policy Group (IPC). A director of the Biotechnology Industry Organization, he is also a member of the CropLife 

International Biotech Strategy Council and the Council for Biotechnology Information. Steiner received a bachelor’s 

degree in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin and an M.B.A. from Washington University. 

Marcia Stepanek is Founding Editor-in-Chief and President of News and Information of Contribute Media. She 

is also the publisher of Cause Global, a new blog that covers social media and its use in social advocacy. Stepanek, 

who has covered the Internet’s influence on society since a 1995-1997 fellowship at Stanford University, also blogs on 

social media for the Stanford Social Innovation Review, Pop!Tech and JustMeans.com. She has been a journalist for 25 

years and has helped launch a number of magazines. Most recently, she was executive editor and co-founder of CIO 

Insight magazine and Technology Strategies editor at BusinessWeek; previously, she created Hearst Newspapers’ awardwinning 

national projects team and spearheaded technology coverage out of Hearst’s Washington Bureau. She has 

won a George Polk Award, a National Press Club Award and a John S. Knight Fellowship. Stepanek received a master’s 

degree in journalism from the University of Illinois. 

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Caryl Stern is President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF. Previously she was the organization’s chief operating 

officer and its acting president. Before joining UNICEF, Stern was chief operating officer and senior associate national 

director for the Anti-Defamation League. She is the co-author of Hate Hurts: How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice 

and Future Perfect: A Model for Professional Development, and a frequent contributor to magazines and journals. Stern 

has worked with the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Justice and participated in several White 

House initiatives. She served on the faculty of Manhattanville College’s Graduate School of Professional Studies, as dean 

of students at Polytechnic University in New York and as national chairperson of the National Association for Campus 

Activities. She chaired Brooklyn’s Unity Task Force and serves on the boards of the We Are Family Foundation and the 

Martin Luther King Memorial Project Foundation. 

Kari Stoever is Managing Director of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases at the Albert B. Sabin 

Vaccine Institute. In this role she manages a leading international partnership devoted to leveraging investments for 

controlling neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) around the world. She was formerly program director for the Institute’s 

Human Hookworm Vaccine Initiative. Stoever has also served as a facilitator and as the executive producer for the 

Clinton Global Initiative’s global health track. She is a board member of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at Georgetown 

University. Stoever earned a bachelor’s degree in clinical research administration from George Washington University, 

an executive master’s in leadership from Georgetown University and an R.N. designation from Delaware Technical & 

Community College. 

Ron Stoltz is a Manager at Sandia National Laboratories, where he helps lead the National Energy Innovation 

Initiatives program in its integration of energy security, climate and environmental stability, and economic development. 

Previously, Stoltz managed Sandia’s California Energy Liaison Office and the lab’s Center for Homeland Security 

state and local government assistance activities. From 1992 to 2000, as a government relations officer representing 

Sandia in Washington, D.C., he focused on international competitiveness and global technology development in the 

semiconductor industry. His early research work involved materials, manufacturing and failure analysis for the U.S. 

Department of Energy, and directing research for the Exxon Corporate Research Laboratory. Stoltz received a bachelor’s 

degree, master’s degree and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Ryan Streeter is a Senior Fellow at the London-based Legatum Institute. His research focuses on socioeconomic 

mobility, prosperity dynamics, private-sector solutions to public problems and the nature of civil society. Before joining 

the institute, he was vice president of Civic Enterprises, a public policy development firm in Washington, D.C., where 

he provided private-sector clients with research, analysis and public communication services. Streeter was previously 

special assistant for domestic policy to President George W. Bush, managing development policy on poverty, civil 

society, global health, housing, human services and health care. He has served in other national and local government 

positions and was for three years a fellow at Hudson Institute, where he is now an adjunct fellow. Streeter is the editor, 

co-author or author of four books and has published numerous articles. He holds a Ph.D. from Emory University. 

Anand Sudarshan is Managing Director and CEO of Manipal Education. With two universities and more than 30 

institutions in India and abroad, the education group offers both brick-and-mortar and distance learning, the latter 

involving satellite-based lectures and local coaching delivered through learning centers across India and the world. It 

now offers professional and skills-based education, covering the fields of banking and insurance, retail, infrastructure 

services, telecommunications, and media and entertainment. Manipal Education owns MeritTrac, India’s largest testing 

and assessment services company. Over the last three years, Sudarshan has successfully led the rapid transformation of 

Manipal Education into a major enterprise with a multi-country footprint. Prior to joining Manipal, Sudarshan was the 

president of Adea International and was CEO of Netkraft Private Ltd. 

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Brian Sullivan is an Anchor with Fox Business Network. He has been a business journalist for more than a decade. 

During that time he anchored and helped to launch three programs on Bloomberg Television, where he regularly 

conducted interviews with the world’s business and political leaders. His July 2007 special, “Subprime Shockwaves,” 

won the New York State CPA Society’s Excellence in Financial Journalism award and was nominated for the prestigious 

Loeb Award for its early reporting on the impact of subprime mortgages on the housing market and economy. Sullivan 

previously traded chemical commodities for the Mitsubishi International Corp. in New York. He received a bachelor’s 

degree from Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School; he 

also earned a certificate in journalism from New York University’s School of Continuing Education. 

John Sullivan is a Partner at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he co-chairs the International 

Trade Regulation and Compliance Practice Group. Until recently he served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department 

of Commerce. He was also appointed to the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corp. From 2005 to 

2007, Sullivan was general counsel of the Commerce Department. He was previously deputy general counsel of the U.S. 

Department of Defense, where he received the Secretary of Defense’s Medal for Exceptional Public Service. He became 

a partner at Mayer Brown after serving in 1992 as deputy general counsel of President George H.W. Bush’s re-election 

campaign and in 1991 as counselor to Assistant Attorney General J. Michael Luttig. Sullivan clerked for Supreme Court 

Justice David Souter. He received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a law degree from Columbia University 

School of Law. 

Phillip Swagel was Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Department of Treasury from December 2006 

until January 2009. His responsibilities included Treasury’s macro forecast and daily economic briefings; development 

of housing policies; the reverse auction process to purchase illiquid assets; and other policies including health care, 

pensions, Social Security, Medicare, insurance, energy, environment, patent reform, homeland security and financial 

markets. He served as a member of the TARP investment committee. Swagel was previously a resident scholar at the 

American Enterprise Institute, chief of staff and a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers 

and an economist at the Federal Reserve Board and the International Monetary Fund. He has taught at Northwestern 

University, and he currently teaches a course on macroeconomics and financial markets at the University of Chicago 

Booth School of Business. Swagel received a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. 

Kara Swisher is Co-Executive Producer of The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference, which she 

also co-hosts. This gathering is considered one of the leading conferences focused on the convergence of tech and 

media industries. She is also co-executive editor of a tech and media website, where her online-only version of the 

“BoomTown” column appears. Swisher worked in The Wall Street Journal’s San Francisco bureau and for many years 

wrote the “BoomTown” column, as well as features. She is the author of aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed 

the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web, and its sequel, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL 

Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future. Swisher received an undergraduate degree from Georgetown 

University’s School of Foreign Service and a graduate degree at Columbia University’s School of Journalism. 

Deborah Szekely is known as the founding “godmother” of the mind/body/fitness movement. In 1940 she and 

her late husband, Edmond Szekely, founded Rancho La Puerta in Baja California, Mexico. They later established one of 

the world’s premier spas, the Golden Door, in Escondido, California. Szekely founded the New Americans Museum last 

year in San Diego, and Eureka Communities, a national leadership training program for CEOs of nonprofit organizations, 

in 1991. From 1984 to 1990, she served as president of the Inter-American Foundation, an independent agency created 

by Congress to support self-help efforts of the poor throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2002 Presidents of 

San Diego Rotary named her “Mrs. San Diego.” She recently received the League of Women Voters Civic Award and was 

named Humanitarian of the Year by The National Conference for Community and Justice. 

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Ford Tamer is Operating Partner of Khosla Ventures, focusing on breakthroughs in mechanical and electrical 

efficiency, solar energy and information technology. Tamer has led the firm’s investments in EcoMotors, Kaai, PVT, 

Ramu, Soraa, Topanga and Firefly, and sits on the boards of numerous companies in which Khosla Ventures invests. He 

was previously senior vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Networking Group at Broadcom. Tamer 

co-founded and served as president and CEO of Agere Inc., a semiconductor manufacturer, until it was acquired by 

Lucent Microelectronics; he later became vice president of the Processing, Aggregation and Switching business unit 

at Lucent’s Agere Systems. Before founding Agere, he was part of the founding executive team at Dazel Corporation 

(acquired by Hewlett-Packard) and co-founder of MegaKnowledge (acquired by IntelliCorp). Tamer received a master’s 

degree and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Steven Tananbaum is the CEO, Chief Investment Officer and Founding Partner of GoldenTree Asset Management. 

Prior to forming GoldenTree, Tananbaum worked at MacKay Shields, joining the firm as an investment specialist in 

1989 and becoming head of its high-yield group in 1991. In 1997 he created the firm’s hedge fund area and became 

lead portfolio manager. The firm’s high-yield mutual funds were rated by Lipper in the top five percent of all highyield 

mutual funds during the period June 1, 1991, through December 31, 1999. He previously worked on high-yield 

transactions, and mergers and acquisitions, in the corporate finance department of Kidder, Peabody & Co. He serves as 

a trustee of Vassar College and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Tananbaum received a bachelor’s degree 

in economics from Vassar College and is a chartered financial analyst (CFA). 

Jeffrey Tannenbaum is President of Fir Tree Partners, a private global investment firm he founded in 1994. Before 

launching Fir Tree, he was an investment professional at Kohlberg & Co., a private equity firm. Tannenbaum has chaired 

and served on the board of numerous public and private companies. Through the Fir Tree Philanthropies (FTP), he has 

focused on national energy policy. FTP has sponsored a variety of global sustainability projects and operates a scientist 

in residence program. Through FTP, Tannenbaum chaired the nation’s first major bipartisan symposium on ending 

foreign oil dependence. Most recently, FTP hosted a planning retreat for President Obama’s senior campaign and 

transition team energy and environment advisers. Tannenbaum received a bachelor’s degree from Tulane University 

and a J.D.-M.B.A. degree from New York University. He also received a General Course Certificate from the London 

School of Economics and did postgraduate work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

David Tao is Vice Chairman of the Beijing Municipal Overseas Returned Chinese Federation. He is also chairman 

of the Beijing Overseas Returned Scholars Association and director of its Investment Advisory Center. Previously he 

worked for the Ministry of Aerospace in China. In addition to his broad public-sector management experience in China, 

Tao worked in Singapore for 10 years as CEO of Singapore Asia Cable TV Networks Ltd. and vice president for IPC, a 

Singapore-listed company. Tao was a research fellow at the National University of Singapore and an associate dean at 

the Economic and Management School of China’s Haerbin Engineering University, where Tao obtained his bachelor’s 

and master’s degrees. He received a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom. 

Murat Tarimcilar is Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Associate Professor of Decision Sciences at The 

George Washington University School of Business. Tarimcilar also holds an editorial position with INFORMS Transactions 

on Education. His areas of expertise include multi-criteria decision models, applications of operations research 

methods in different business settings, Bayesian decision analysis and production rate optimization. His consulting 

clients include BSA, the World Bank, Bose Corporation, the Department of Defense, the Turkish Finance Ministry, Oscar 

Meyer and the Venezuela Health Ministry. He was the founding partner and managing director of GST Associates, a 

process design and strategy consulting company. Tarimcilar received a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from 

Bogazici University in Turkey, a master’s degree in quantitative analysis/operations research and a Ph.D. in business 

administration and quantitative business analysis from Louisiana State University. 

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Beverly Daniel Tatum is the President of Spelman College. An accomplished administrator, Tatum is recognized 

as a scholar, teacher, race-relations expert and leader in higher education. A clinical psychologist by training, her 

research is focused on racial identity development and the impact of race in education. Her bestselling titles include 

Can We Talk about Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation and Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting 

Together in the Cafeteria? A Psychologist Explains the Development of Racial Identity. In 2005 Tatum was awarded the 

Brock International Prize in Education for her innovative leadership in the field. A member of the President’s Advisory 

Board for the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tatum also serves on the board of 

the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Institute for International Education and the Council of 

Independent Colleges. 

Billy Tauzin is President and CEO of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). Accepting 

the position in 2005, he took up two of the most important causes of his career: to help ensure that patients everywhere 

continue to have access to the miracles of medicine and to ensure that innovative biopharmaceutical research thrives, 

improving and saving lives. His public service career includes 13 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing 

the 3rd Congressional District of Louisiana. In the Louisiana State Legislature, he was chosen twice as one of Louisiana’s 

“Ten Best Legislators.” He was elected to the U.S. House in 1980 as a Democrat but switched parties in 1995. In an 

effort to promote a spirit of bipartisan cooperation on Capitol Hill, he co-founded and served as co-chairman of the 

Mainstream Conservative Alliance, better known as Republican “Blue Dogs.” 

Doug Teitelbaum is Managing Partner of Bay Harbour Management LC, an SEC-registered investment adviser 

focused on investing in securities of distressed companies and special-situation equities along with buying and 

repairing distressed companies. Teitelbaum started his career in the distressed securities markets in the 1980s. Notable 

investments for Bay Harbour include the restructuring of NextWave Telecom Inc. and the purchase, turnaround and sale 

of both Barneys New York Inc. and TelCove Inc., a telecommunications business (formerly Adelphia Business Solutions). 

Bay Harbour, together with partners Robert Earl and Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc., purchased the former 

Aladdin Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip, which reopened as the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino after a $250 

million redevelopment. He was the 2000 recipient of the American Jewish Committee’s Isaiah Award for community 

leadership and won Tony and Drama Desk awards as a producer of 2002 Best Musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” 

Hakan Tekin is the Consul General of Turkey in Los Angeles. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic 

of Turkey in 1990. Within the ministry, he has worked at the departments of culture, Central Asia, human rights, the 

Balkans and personnel. Tekin has served at the Turkish embassies in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, and Sofia, 

Bulgaria; attended the NATO Defense College Senior Course in Rome; and worked at the Permanent Mission of Turkey 

to the United Nations in New York. 

Dilip Thakore is the Bangalore-based Publisher and Editor of EducationWorld – The Human Development Magazine. 

India’s sole publication focusing exclusively on education news and analysis, EducationWorld has an estimated 

readership of 750,000 per month. In 1991 Thakore authored Succession Derby, a corporate novel, while working as the 

founder-director of Datamatics Direct, India’s first direct-mail marketing company. In 1978 he became the foundereditor 

of Business India, the nation’s first business newsmagazine; he was later the founder-editor of BusinessWorld. 

Both these business magazines are established market leaders and significantly influenced the liberalization and 

deregulation of the Indian economy. He has also served as editor of Debonair. An alumnus of the Inns of Court School of 

Law, London, he practiced as a barrister at the Bombay high court for five years before becoming a marketing manager 

at Rallis India Ltd. 

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Felicia Thornton is the CEO of Knowledge Universe Education (KUE) U.S. She oversees the strategic vision and 

operations for several of KUE’s business lines, including KinderCare Learning Centers, the nation’s leading private 

provider of early childhood education and care through 1,778 community-based centers; CCLC, a national child care 

provider for progressive employers; KLC School Partnerships, which provides on-site before- and after-school programs, 

summer camps and science programs; KCDL, which offers distance learning programs for middle school and high school 

students, including courses through Keystone National High School and Middle School, iQ Academy and Aventa; and KU 

Technologies, a global provider of technology solutions and services to business partners in the child care and education 

industry. Before joining KUE, Thornton held executive positions with Albertsons Inc. and Kroger. She received a bachelor’s 

degree in economics from Santa Clara University and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. 

Kenneth Thorpe is Executive Director of the Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, a national coalition of patients, 

providers, organizations, business and labor groups, and policy experts. He is also the Robert W. Woodruff Professor and 

Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University. 

In addition, Thorpe serves as executive director of the Institute for Advanced Policy Solutions/Center for Entitlement 

Reform and co-directs the Emory Center on Health Outcomes and Quality. Thorpe has authored or co-authored more 

than 85 articles, book chapters and books, and is a frequent presenter on issues of health-care financing, insurance and 

reform. He has advised governors and legislatures in many of the 50 states, as well as several presidential candidates. 

Thorpe received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree from Duke University and a 

Ph.D. from the Rand Graduate School. 

Thomas Tighe is President and CEO of Direct Relief International, a nonprofit humanitarian medical organization. 

Established in 1948 and funded with private support, it provides medical material assistance to local health programs 

worldwide and in the United States. Since Tighe’s arrival, the organization has made cash grants of more than $30 

million and furnished more than $1 billion of medicines, equipment and supplies in 88 countries and all 50 U.S. states. 

Direct Relief has been named one of America’s “Best 100 Charities” by Worth and is one of only two U.S. charities rated 

by Forbes as 100 percent efficient from 2001 through 2007. Tighe previously served as chief of staff and chief operating 

officer of the Peace Corps and as associate general counsel of the Peace Corps. Tighe received a bachelor’s degree from 

the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of Law. 

Mary Tingerthal is President of the Capital Markets Companies for the Housing Partnership Network. She 

coordinates the work of the Housing Partnership Fund, which provides acquisition and predevelopment financing; 

Housing Partnership Ventures, the network’s investment vehicle; and the Charter School Financing Partnership, a new 

conduit for charter school loans. Previously Tingerthal held senior management positions with the National Equity Fund, 

GMAC Residential Funding (now RESCAP), the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency and, most recently, the Community 

Reinvestment Fund, where she was instrumental in the development of the federal New Markets Tax Credits program. 

She serves on the boards of the National Housing Trust, the National Community Investment Fund and CommonBond 

Housing and was recently appointed to the Federal Reserve Consumer Advisory Council. Tingerthal holds a bachelor’s 

degree from the University of Minnesota and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

Scott Tobin is a General Partner with Battery Ventures, a firm he joined in 1997. His investments include Akamai 

Technologies; Anobit Technologies; @stake (acquired by Symantec); ITA Software, Kashya (acquired by EMC); the 

London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (acquired by Euronext); MetroPCS; ProfitLogic (acquired 

by Oracle); The Tennis Channel; and Ximian (acquired by Novell). Before joining Battery, Tobin spent time in investment 

banking at First Albany Corp. and was the director of corporate development at Future Vision, a venture-backed 

software company acquired by Softkey International. Tobin holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from 

Brandeis University. 

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Alvin Toffler is an Author and Futurist as well as Principal of the consulting firm Toffler & Associates. He has written 

more than a dozen books, including Future Shock and Third Wave. He has been a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage 

Foundation, a visiting professor at Cornell University, a faculty member at the New School for Social Research, a 

White House correspondent, an editor at Fortune magazine and a business consultant. He is a fellow of the American 

Association for the Advancement of Science and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Considered by many 

to be a master of future blueprints, Toffler wrote about the proliferation of computers, the advent of cable television, 

niche markets, the shift to work-at-home, corporate restructuring, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the shift to a 

global economy and dozens of other scenarios before they appeared in our nomenclature. 

Peter Tropper is a Principal Fund Specialist in the Private Equity Department of the International Finance Corp. 

(IFC), where he supervises the group’s global work on funds that focus on small- and medium-sized enterprises. Prior 

to 2001, he was the headquarters “anchor” for the decentralized supervision work of IFC’s South Asia Department. He 

previously served in IFC’s Latin America and Caribbean Department. Tropper was also the first head of IFC’s Emerging 

Markets Data Base unit, which has since been sold to Standard & Poor’s. He joined IFC after several years as deputy 

director of the Northeast-Midwest Institute, which was created to promote economic development in the Northeast 

and Midwest regions of the United States. Tropper holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, an M.B.A. from the 

University of Maryland and a master’s degree in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins University School of 

Advanced International Studies. 

Alan Trounson is President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in San Francisco. He was previously 

a professor of stem cell sciences and director of the Monash Immunology and Stem Cell Laboratories at Monash 

University in Melbourne, Australia, where he retains the title of emeritus professor. At Monash, Trounson founded 

the National Biotechnology Centre of Excellence, the “Australian Stem Cell Centre.” A fellow of the Royal College of 

Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and an honorary fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians 

and Gynaecologists, Trounson was awarded an honorary doctorate by the faculty of medicine at the University of 

Brussels. He has been a pioneer of human in vitro fertilization and associated reproductive technologies, the diagnosis 

of inherited genetic disease in pre-implantation embryos, the discovery and production of human embryonic stem 

cells and of their ability to be directed into neurones, prostate tissue and respiratory tissue. 

Arthur Tully is Co-Leader of the Global Hedge Fund Practice and Leader of the Asset Management Practice at 

Ernst & Young LLP, where he is a Partner. With 32 years of experience focused on the financial services industry, serving 

investment banks, broker-dealers and alternative investment funds, Tully has guided many funds from inception to 

maturity to becoming publicly listed companies. He is experienced with front, middle and back-office operations as 

well as regulatory, risk-management and compliance matters, and his clients are some of the world’s largest hedge 

funds and private equity funds. As a certified public accountant, he has served on the Managed Funds Association’s 

Accounting Advisory, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Investment Company and AICPA’s Stock 

Brokerage Committees. Tully is a member of Villanova University’s Accounting and Finance Advisory Board, is a frequent 

speaker at industry events and has written numerous articles. 

Tom Unterman is Managing Partner of Rustic Canyon Partners, which he founded in 1999, bringing a wealth of 

corporate experience to his role as managing partner. From 1992 though 1999, he was employed in several executive 

positions by The Times Mirror Company, most recently as its executive vice president and chief financial officer. Prior to 

joining Times Mirror, Unterman was a partner in the Los Angeles office of the law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP, which 

he joined after serving as a partner at the San Francisco-based law firm of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. He currently 

serves on the boards of the KCRW Foundation, The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Los Angeles Library 

Foundation and Heal the Bay. Unterman earned his bachelor’s degree at Princeton University and his law degree at the 

University of Chicago. 

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Bert van der Vaart is Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF). From 

1997 to 2007, he served as SEAF’s president and CEO. He has been involved with the establishment and supervision of 

each SEAF fund in Central Europe, sits on every SEAF fund’s Investment Committee and has been involved in managing 

each exit achieved by SEAF. Van der Vaart also advises and has acted as a principal for Discovery Global Citizens Fund. 

He was previously a partner and associate with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP and a management consultant with Bain 

& Company. Van der Vaart holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina (where he was a Morehead 

Scholar), a bachelor’s degree and an M.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford (where he was a Rhodes Scholar) 

and a J.D. from Yale Law School. 

Frits van Paasschen is President and CEO of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. He oversees all aspects of 

operations for Starwood, which includes more than 900 properties in 100 countries, and numerous distinctive brands, 

including St. Regis, W Hotels, Westin, Sheraton and Le Méridien. Prior to joining Starwood in 2007, van Paasschen was 

president and CEO of Coors Brewing Company. He previously spent seven years at Nike Inc. in various global executive 

positions, ultimately overseeing Nike’s business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Van Paasschen previously 

served as vice president of finance and planning at Disney Consumer Products, and as a management consultant with 

McKinsey & Company and the Boston Consulting Group. Van Paasschen received a bachelor’s degree from Amherst 

College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

Charles Van Vleet is Director of Portfolio Investments for United Technologies Corp., managing its defined benefit 

and defined contribution savings plans for both U.S. and non-U.S. employees. His investment oversight includes real 

estate, fixed income, private equity and derivative-overlay structures. Van Vleet has been with United Technologies 

since 2005. He previously managed portfolios in New York, London and Tokyo with Alliance Capital, Putnam and 

Warburg Pincus. He holds degrees in economics and political science from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Dennis Vicars is CEO of Human Services Management Corp. and Executive Director of the Professional Association 

for Childhood Education Alternative Payment Program. In his career, Vicars has served as a childcare corporate 

executive, preschool company founder and advocate on both the public and private side of early childhood education. 

He has been a speaker and workshop host for various organizations and is a featured writer in Child Care Exchange 

magazine. He has assisted and been a consultant on numerous early care and education advisory boards including 

blue ribbon commissions in Maryland, Virginia, Oregon, Washington and Arizona. Vicars participated in California’s 

Master Plan for early childhood education, and was recently chosen by Gov. Schwarzenegger to be his representative 

on the Early Learning Quality Improvement System Advisory Committee. He is also involved in Sacramento County’s 

Superintendent Preschool Committee and is president of Child Development Policy Institute. 

Antonio Villaraigosa is the Mayor of Los Angeles. Before being elected mayor, he won the 14th District Los 

Angeles City Council seat, where he championed such issues as resolving the MTA transit strike and protecting funding 

for the arts. In 2001 he was appointed as a distinguished fellow at both the University of Los Angeles, California, and 

the University of Southern California; in this role he co-authored After Sprawl, a policy blueprint for urban centers. 

In 1998 Villaraigosa was elected the first Assembly Speaker from Los Angeles in 25 years. While speaker, Villaraigosa 

oversaw passage of landmark state legislation, including the toughest assault weapons ban in the country. He received 

a bachelor’s degree in history at UCLA and is a graduate of the Peoples College of Law (Los Angeles). 

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Luc Vinet is Rector at the Université de Montréal, where he has realized a number of initiatives, such as the 

development of a new campus and science pavilion project, the creation of the School of Public Health and the founding 

of the International Forum of Public Universities. Vinet began his career as an MIT research associate, then joined the 

physics faculty at the Université de Montréal, Québec’s foremost teaching and research institution. A theoretical 

physicist, his research areas include gauge field theories, supersymmetry and quantum algebras, among others. At 

the Université de Montréal, Vinet also served as director of the Centre de recherches mathématiques and as president 

of RCM2, a network of centers of excellence in computing. He previously served as provost at McGill University. Vinet 

holds doctorates from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and the Université de Montréal, both in theoretical physics. 

Ted Virtue is CEO of MidOcean Partners, a midmarket private equity firm with offices in New York and London. The 

firm has more than $2.5 billion under management and has managed investments in more than 75 companies in Europe 

and the United States. Prior to founding MidOcean Partners, Virtue was CEO of DP Capital Partners, with oversight for 

Deutsche Bank’s $35 billion direct investment portfolio. He was also on the management board of Deutsche Bank AG. 

Prior to Deutsche Bank’s acquisition of Bankers Trust, Virtue was president of Bankers Trust Alex. Brown and head of 

Global Finance for Bankers Trust. He also acted as CEO of Bankers Trust Capital, the merchant banking arm of Bankers 

Trust. Previously, he was a senior vice president at Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he ran the High-Yield Commercial 

Paper division. Virtue is a graduate of Middlebury College. 

Andrew von Eschenbach has held two of the nation’s top health-care leadership roles: Director of the National 

Cancer Institute and Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. He is currently senior advisor to Greenleaf 

Health LLC. Before entering public service he was president-elect of the American Cancer Society and spent more 

than 25 years in numerous leadership and academic roles at the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in 

Houston, including professor and chairman of the Department of Urologic Oncology, executive vice president and 

chief academic officer. In 2006 Time magazine named him one of the “100 Most Influential People to Shape the World.” 

Von Eschenbach earned a bachelor’s degree from St. Joseph’s University and a medical degree from Georgetown 

University School of Medicine. He served as a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy Medical Corps. 

Vivek Wadhwa is an Executive in Residence/Adjunct Professor for the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke 

University and a Wertheim Fellow at the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. A technology entrepreneur 

and a columnist for BusinessWeek.com, he leads groundbreaking research into globalization and the state of U.S. 

competitiveness. Wadhwa was named a “Leader of Tomorrow” by Forbes.com, and his company, Relativity Technologies, 

was named as one of the 25 “coolest” companies in the world by Fortune magazine. Wadhwa received a bachelor’s 

degree in computing studies from the University of Canberra (Australia) and an M.B.A. from New York University. 

Leon Wagner is Chairman of GoldenTree Asset Management as well as a managing member and founding partner 

of the firm. He was co-head of High Yield Sales and Trading at CIBC World Markets from 1995 through 2000 and 

previously served at The Argosy Group until its acquisition by CIBC in 1995. At these institutions, Wagner’s primary 

responsibility was to direct all public and private placement marketing and structuring for high-yield issuance. At CIBC 

World Markets, Wagner was a member of the Investment Committee of Caravelle Advisors, the investment adviser of 

Caravelle Investment Fund LLC, a $1.3 billion collateralized bond fund. Earlier in his career, Wagner was a senior vice 

president in the High Yield Department of Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he participated in many of the firm’s most 

innovative financings. Wagner received a bachelor’s degree from Lafayette College and an M.B.A. from the University of 

Chicago Graduate School of Business. 

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Aleem Walji is a member of the Global Development Group at Google.org, with a focus on Eastern Africa. Walji has 

been involved with supporting the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises in Tanzania and Ghana, increasing 

their access to finance. He has also led efforts related to increasing transparency and accountability in governance in 

Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. Prior to joining Google, Walji was CEO of the Aga Khan Foundation in Syria. His particular 

interests lie in rural economic development, entrepreneurship and public-private partnerships. He is a graduate of 

Emory University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Near Eastern 

studies and anthropology and his master’s degree in international development and regional planning. 

James Walker is a Managing Partner at Fir Tree Partners, where he chairs the Risk Committee and is a member of 

the Investment Committee. Prior to joining Fir Tree, Walker co-founded and was managing partner of Black Diamond 

Capital Management LLC (BDCM), a privately held investment management firm focused on both performing and 

nonperforming secured debt. Walker is an industry veteran in the mortgage securitization and structured finance 

market, where he has pioneered numerous innovative securitization transactions for the specialty finance industry. 

He was a senior member of the Structured Finance Group at Kidder, Peabody & Company and began his career in 

structured finance at Bear Stearns & Company. Walker is a board member of numerous Washington-based policy 

organizations involved with Middle East diplomacy and public policy. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from 

Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. 

Jan Walliser is The World Bank’s Sector Manager for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management in Africa. 

He oversees staff tackling macroeconomic and poverty issues in Nigeria as well as in 10 countries in Central Africa. 

Previously, he advised World Bank senior management on issues related to development policy lending (budget 

support), aid effectiveness and conditionality. Before joining The World Bank, Walliser was an economist at the 

International Monetary Fund and a principal analyst for macroeconomic and fiscal policy at the U.S. Congressional 

Budget Office. He has been published in a range of professional economic journals on the intergenerational aspects of 

fiscal policy, tax reform, pension reform and aid predictability and effectiveness. He graduated from the University of 

Kiel in Germany and earned a Ph.D. in economics from Boston University. 

Anne Walsh is a Senior Managing Director of Guggenheim Partners. She joined Guggenheim Partners in 2007 with 

more than 20 years in the investment management industry, including as a money manager and a selector of money 

managers for insurers. Previously Walsh was senior vice president and chief investment officer at Reinsurance Group of 

America Inc., where she worked closely with Guggenheim Partners, which through its affiliates manages approximately 

$3 billion of fixed-income assets reinsured by RGA. Before joining RGA in 2000, Walsh served as vice president and senior 

investment consultant for Zurich Scudder Investments and worked for Lincoln Investment Management and American 

Bankers Insurance Group. Walsh received her bachelor’s degree and M.B.A. from Auburn University in Alabama and her 

J.D. from the University of Miami. She is a chartered financial analyst, a Fellow of the Life Management Institute and a 

member of the CFA Institute. 

John Walsh is Co-Founder, President and CEO of the Alpha-1 Foundation in Miami. Under his leadership, the 

organization has invested more than $35 million to support alpha-1 research and research-related projects, including 

grant awards to more than 70 academic institutions in North America and Europe. Walsh is also co-founder and president 

of AlphaNet Inc., a not-for-profit disease management services company providing comprehensive care for individuals 

with the rare genetic disorder alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency. AlphaNet provides services to 2,500 individuals with alpha-1 

in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and has spurred development of drugs for the treatment of alpha-1. 

In 2002, Walsh’s contribution to collaboration in orphan drug development was recognized by the Food and Drug 

Administration with the Commissioner’s Special Citation. Walsh has extensive background in business management and 

government relations, and regularly testifies before Congress and advisory groups as a patient advocate. 

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Huiyao (Henry) Wang is Vice Chairman of the China Western Returned Scholars Association (WRSA), the largest 

overseas returnees’ organization in China, with over 50,000 members. He is also director general of the WRSA Policy 

Advisory Committee and the Center for China and Globalization, both major think tanks in China. Additionally he 

serves as vice chairman of the China International Economic Cooperation Society, under the Ministry of Commerce 

of the People’s Republic of China. He has served as an adviser for many multinational corporations in China as well 

as for Chinese government ministries. Formerly, he worked as an official for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade 

and Economic Cooperation and was chief trade counselor for Québec Government at the Commission for Canada in 

Hong Kong. He was an adjunct professor at Guanghua Management School of Peking University and the Richard Ivey 

Business School of the University of Western Ontario. 

Henry Waxman is a U.S. Congressman representing California’s 30th District, which includes Beverly Hills and 

West Hollywood. In January 2009, he became chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Waxman has 

sponsored a long list of health bills that have been enacted into law, including the Ryan White CARE Act, the Nutrition 

Labeling and Education Act and the Breast and Cervical Cancer Mortality Prevention Act. A strong defender of the Social 

Security system, he co-authored legislation that abolished mandatory retirement for federal employees and raised the 

retirement age in the private sector from 65 to 70. Waxman introduced the first bill in Congress to stabilize the climate 

in 1992. Since then, he has continued his work to advance legislation to avoid global warming, most recently with the 

Safe Climate Act of 2007. He holds a J.D. from the UCLA School of Law. 

Susan Weil is a Partner at Lamont Financial Services Corp. Her experience is not only as a financial adviser but also 

as a bond and tax counsel to major issuers. She serves as liaison with counsel on all major tax issues and has been at 

the forefront of the development of disclosure documents under evolving industry standards. As a principal at Lamont 

since 1989, Weil has worked extensively with state governments. Since 1995, she has directed much of the Firm’s 

West and Midwest operations, including supervising advisory efforts with the California State Public Works Board, the 

California Council of Urban Water Agencies and the California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank (CIEDB). 

Weil has a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University, a J.D. from Boston College Law School and an LL.M. in taxation 

from the New York University School of Law. 

Peter Weinberg, with almost 30 years of experience in the investment banking industry, is a Partner in Perella 

Weinberg Partners. Weinberg’s previous positions include a number of senior management positions at Goldman, 

Sachs & Co.: He was elected a partner in 1992, founded the Financial Sponsors Group, headed Investment Banking 

Services, headed the Communications, Media and Telecom Group, co-headed the Global Investment Banking Division 

and, for the last six years of his career there, was CEO of Goldman Sachs International. Weinberg served on the firm’s 

Management Committee and headed the European Management Committee. He received a bachelor’s degree from 

Claremont McKenna College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. 

James Weishan is Chief Investment Officer and Senior Vice President of Investments at Sentry Insurance, one of 

the largest mutual insurance companies in the United States, with assets of more than $10.5 billion and a policyholder 

surplus of $3 billion. Weishan joined Sentry in 1999 after working in investments at GE Financial Assurance, First Colony 

Life Insurance and Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company. A member of the Institute of Chartered Financial 

Analysts, he holds a bachelor’s degree from Ripon College (Wisconsin) and an M.B.A. from Western Michigan University. 

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Steve Westly is a Managing Partner of The Westly Group, an invester in leading and up-and-coming cleantechnology 

companies. Before founding The Westly Group, he served a four-year term as controller and chief fiscal 

officer of the state of California, during which he spearheaded innovative tax programs that helped close the state’s 

budget deficit. He also led an effort to commit more than $1 billion to clean-technology investments. Before running 

for office, Westly helped guide the online auction company eBay through a period of rapid growth, serving as its senior 

vice president of marketing, business development, mergers and acquisitions and international. Westly began his 

career in Washington, D.C., where he worked on Capitol Hill and at the U.S. Department of Energy. He has published 

two books on alternative energy and utilities. Westly has a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s 

degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

Meredith Whitney is a veteran of Wall Street research. Followed for her macro and strategy research, she and 

her team also focus on a broad cross section of financials, including banks, brokers, independent commercial and 

consumer finance companies. In 2008, Whitney was named one of Fortune’s “Top 50 Most Powerful Women,” The Wall 

Street Journal’s “50 Women to Watch” and Smart Money’s “Power 30.” She was also ranked in Institutional Investor’s “All- 

American Research Team.” Whitney began her career as a research analyst as a research associate covering the oil and 

gas industry. She later joined the Institutional Investor-ranked Specialty Finance Group and helped write research from 

1995 through 1998. In 1998 she joined Wachovia (then First Union) to become the youngest analyst leading a financial 

institutions group on Wall Street. In 2006, Whitney was the first research analyst to be asked to present at the FDIC 

Annual Economic Round Table. 

Carmencita Whonder is Policy Director in the Government Relations Group in the Washington, D.C., office of 

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP. She provides strategic public policy advice to hedge fund, private equity, investment 

banking and other financial services clients. Additionally, she represents their interests before Congress and executive 

branch agencies. Whonder previously served as staff director for the Senate Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation 

and Community Development and as the principal adviser to Sen. Charles Schumer on the Senate Banking, Housing and 

Urban Affairs Committee. During the 109th Congress, she worked as minority staff director for the Senate Subcommittee 

on Economic Policy. Before that, she worked for the Gates Millennium Scholars Program/UNCF, where she co-designed 

the Leadership Development Program and funding strategies. In 2000 she worked in Geneva, Switzerland, at the World 

Intellectual Property Organization. Whonder holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Howard University. 

James Williams is Vice President, Chief Investment Officer and Treasurer of The J. Paul Getty Trust, a position he has 

held since 2002. He previously spent three years as president of Harbor Capital Advisors and president of the Harbor 

family of mutual funds. Before joining Harbor, he was manager in the Pension Asset Management department of Ford 

Motor Company. Williams holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. in 

finance from the University of Chicago. 

Jeremy Williams is Chief Academic Officer of Knowledge Universe Education. An award-winning professor with 

20 years of experience in higher education, Williams is a pioneer and specialist in online education, focusing on how 

authentic assessment can promote greater student engagement and deeper learning. He was previously the dean of 

corporate programs and director of research at U21Global, as well as a teaching fellow and M.B.A. director at Queensland 

University of Technology, Australia. Outside the field of education, Williams has expertise in economics and ecological 

sustainability, publishing in a number of academic journals and teaching graduate courses in sustainable development 

at business schools in France and Australia. He is a member of the International Society for Ecological Economics and 

The Australia Institute. Williams earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the United Kingdom and a Ph.D. in Australia. 

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Deborah Wince-Smith is President of the Council on Competitiveness, a business-labor-academia coalition that 

recommends actionable public policy solutions to make the U.S. more competitive in the global marketplace. She is also 

a board member of NASDAQ-OMX Inc. and a Senate-confirmed member of the oversight board of the Internal Revenue 

Service and the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy. She recently chaired 

the Secretary of Commerce’s Advisory Committee on Strengthening America’s Communities. She has served on four 

Cabinet-level advisory groups and on the University of Chicago’s Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory; 

she was a longstanding member of the University of California President’s Council on the National Laboratories. She 

began her career as a program director for the National Science Foundation. Wince-Smith earned a bachelor’s degree 

from Vassar College and a master’s degree from King’s College at the University of Cambridge. 

Jason Winship is Managing Principal of Sea Change Management LLC, which manages the Sea Change Investment 

Fund. Sea Change is a growth equity investor that facilitates greater market access to environmentally preferable 

seafood, while providing a compelling financial return to investors. Winship has extensive experience in early-stage 

private equity, corporate mergers and acquisitions, and investment banking. Prior to co-founding Sea Change, he 

worked on a number of market-based environmental engagements as a senior associate at California Environmental 

Associates and at Westbury Equity Partners, a New York-based growth equity fund. He has also developed and executed 

international merger-and-acquisition opportunities for AT&T Wireless Services Inc. Before joining AT&T Wireless, he was 

an investment banking analyst with Lehman Brothers, where he participated in a wide range of corporate financing 

and M&A transactions. Winship holds a bachelor’s degree from Rice University. 

Troy Wiseman is Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder of TriLinc Global, a leading financial company providing scalable 

SME capital and MSME solutions globally through retail investors who desire triple bottom line results. The cofounder 

of B.U.M. Equipment, a retail apparel company with operations in 19 countries, he subsequently founded The 

InvestLinc Group, which assisted and/or funded more than 100 U.S. and emerging-market SME companies during his 

14-year tenure. He also co-founded World Orphans, which has funded construction of more than 500 orphanages in 

45 developing countries. He has served as vice-chairman of Legatum, a Dubai-based international emerging-markets 

investment company; a board member of Waldo’s Dollar Mart, a 300-store retail chain in Mexico; and an advisory board 

member and entrepreneurial judge for the Olin Business School at Washington University in St Louis. In 2006, Wiseman 

was named one of “Ten Outstanding Young Americans” by the United States Junior Chamber. 

Susan Wolford is Managing Director and Head of the Business Services & Media Group at BMO Capital Markets 

Corp. She has been an investment banker for more than 20 years, leading a wide variety of financing and merger 

and acquisition transactions across numerous industry sectors. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets in 2001, Wolford 

worked at First Union, where she co-headed its Educational Services Group. She previously spent 11 years in the 

Investment Banking Department of Kidder, Peabody & Co., where she was a senior vice president and partner in the 

Media and Entertainment Group. Wolford received a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University and a master’s degree 

in international affairs from Columbia University. 

Perry Wong is a Senior Managing Economist in the Regional Economics group at the Milken Institute. He is an expert 

on regional economics, development and econometric forecasting. Wong designs, manages and performs research on 

labor and workforce issues, the relationship between technology and economic development, and trade and industry, 

with a focus on policy development and implementation in both leading and disadvantaged regions. His work extends 

to the international arena, where he is involved in regional economic development in southern China, Taiwan and 

elsewhere in Asia. Before joining the Institute, Wong was a senior economist and director of regional forecasting at 

Global Insight Inc. He received a master’s degree in economics from Temple University. 

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Randall Wooster is Co-Founder of the Imperial Capital Group LLC and Co-President of Imperial Capital LLC. 

The former is a financial services holding company based in Los Angeles that conducts its operations through two 

subsidiaries, Imperial Capital LLC, a full-service investment bank, and Imperial Asset Management LLC, an SEC-registered 

investment adviser. Wooster is responsible for managing Imperial’s overall business and oversees the firm’s sales and 

trading operations. Prior to founding Imperial Capital Group in 1997, he was a managing director at its predecessor 

firm, where he managed the sales and trading group. Wooster has been head trader for Canyon Partners Inc., a trader 

and analyst for RD Smith Company Inc. and a certified public accountant at Arthur Andersen & Co., where he began 

his career. Wooster received a bachelor’s degree in accounting and economics from New York University and an M.B.A. 

from Duke University. 

Greg Wyler is Founder and CEO of O3b Networks. He leads the scheduled deployment in 2010 of a new infrastructure 

to bridge the world’s digital divide with a low-orbit satellite system offering link speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second to 

telecom operators and Internet exchange points in emerging markets. With investment and operational support from 

some of the world’s largest communications and finance companies, O3b Networks’ mission is to provide fiber-quality 

bandwidth to locations constrained by geographic, commercial and economic barriers, enabling a communications 

backbone that can connect the networks of developed countries with “the other 3 billion people” — hence the name: 

O3b. After the successful sale of his own semiconductor-cooling company, Wyler focused on pioneering the first 

commercial 3G mobile and fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) networks in Africa; that experience illuminated the need for highspeed 

connectivity for developing markets thousands of miles away from the nearest fiber-optic networks. 

Steve Wynn is Chairman and CEO of Wynn Resorts. He was chairman, president and CEO of Mirage Resorts Inc. 

for 27 years, until its purchase by MGM in 2000. Wynn is widely credited with transforming Las Vegas into a worldrenowned 

resort destination, having developed such properties as the Bellagio, the Mirage, Treasure Island and the 

Golden Nugget. He chairs the advisory board of the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah; sits on the 

board of trustees of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.; and serves on the board of the 

George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. Wynn received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania 

and is the recipient of honorary doctorate degrees from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Sierra Nevada College. 

Glenn Yago is Director of Capital Studies at the Milken Institute and an authority on financial innovations, capital 

markets, emerging markets and environmental finance. He is a recipient of the 2002 Gleitsman Foundation Award of 

Achievement for social change. Yago was a professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and at the City 

University of New York Graduate Center, and has taught at Tel-Aviv University and the Interdisciplinary Center-Herzliya. 

Additionally, he directs the Koret–Milken Institute Fellows Program and is a visiting professor at the Hebrew University 

of Jerusalem’s Graduate School of Business. He is the author of five books, including Restructuring Regulation and 

Financial Institutions, Beyond Junk Bonds and Global Edge; he is also co-editor of the Milken Institute Series on Financial 

Innovation and Economic Growth. Yago received a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 

Rui Yang is Host and Managing Editor of “Dialogue,” a daily current affairs talk show on CCTV-9, an English-language 

24-hour news channel of China Central Television, China’s largest national TV network. Having interviewed many 

world leaders, from President Clinton to King Abdullah of Jordan, Yang enjoys international acclaim for his sharp and 

intelligent style and his ability to keep a balance in the free exchange of ideas on his show. He was honored as a model 

reporter in 1998 for his coverage of an anti-flooding campaign. He is the author of two books, including Highlights of 

Dialogue, a transcript of 20 past programs of “Dialogue.” Yang began his career at the World News Department of the 

National Radio Service in 1986. He received a bachelor’s degree from Shanghai International Studies University and a 

master’s degree in media and politics at Wales University. 

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Byron York is the chief political correspondent for the Washington Examiner. He covered nearly every aspect of 

the 2008 presidential campaign and transition, and now writes about the Obama administration. As White House 

correspondent for the National Review, York wrote extensively about the Bush administration and battles over the war 

on terrorism, national security and judicial nominations. He is the author of The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, which traces 

the new political movement created by activists like MoveOn.org, George Soros and the liberal blogosphere. His work 

has been published in the The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic Monthly. A contributor to Fox 

News, he has appeared on “Fox News Sunday,” “Meet the Press,” ABC’s “This Week,” “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,” “The 

Daily Show” and other television programs, and has contributed occasional commentaries to National Public Radio. 

Caprice Young is CEO of KC Distance Learning and Vice President of Business Development and Alliances for 

Knowledge Universe (KU). Prior to joining KU, she was president and CEO of the California Charter Schools Association. 

Under her leadership, the number of charter California schools grew by more than 300 and student enrollment 

grew by more than 100,000. Caprice has served as a member and president of the Los Angeles Unified School 

District Board of Education. She also serves on numerous boards, including the Governor’s Advisory Committee on 

Education Excellence, the Chime Institute and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Young is a recipient of 

the Coro Foundation Crystal Eagle Award for Achievement in Public Service. She received a bachelor’s degree from 

Yale University, a master’s degree from the University of Southern California and a doctorate of education from the 

University of California, Los Angeles. 

Mark Yusko is the President and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management. Prior to forming 

Morgan Creek, he was president, chief investment officer and founder of UNC Management Company, the endowment 

investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During his tenure there, from 1998 to 2004, he 

oversaw strategic and tactical asset-allocation recommendations to the investment fund board, investment manager 

selection, manager performance evaluation, spending policy management and performance reporting. Assets under 

management totaled $1.5 billion. Until 1998, Yusko was a senior investment director for the University of Notre Dame 

Investment Office, where he joined as the assistant investment officer in 1993. Yusko received a bachelor’s degree in 

biology and chemistry from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. in accounting and finance from the University 

of Chicago. 

Christopher Zafiriou is a Senior Investment Analyst at Glenmede Trust Company. Before joining Glenmede, he 

was an analyst and sector portfolio manager focused on real estate, financials and energy for the Radcliffe Group hedge 

fund. He was previously a financial analyst at Navigant Consulting Inc., where he performed analysis for a health-care 

consulting organization. Zafiriou began his career as a consultant with Acsys Inc. working at the Vanguard Group, where 

he managed a large mutual fund tax accounting project. A chartered financial analyst (CFA), he received a bachelor’s 

degree in philosophy from Haverford College and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University. 

Mike “Zappy” Zapolin is Co-Founder of Internet Real Estate Group LLC, as well as Music.com and InsuranceQuotes. 

com. The creator of a Harvard Business School elective course on e-business, he has spoken at Inc. magazine’s CEO 

Symposium and The Economist Branding Conference in Shanghai. He is responsible for such Internet brands as Beer. 

com, Computer.com, Debt.com, Creditcards.com, Diamond.com, Software.com, Sweepstakes.com, Phone.com, Podcast. 

com, SimpleDomains.com and InsuranceQuotes.com. Zapolin has fashioned direct-response campaigns for clients such 

as Time Warner, Diana Ross and VH1. With Deepak Chopra, he co-authored Ask the Kabala. Zapolin began his career 

at Drexel Burnham Lambert, later joining Bear Stearns. He has been featured on NBC’s “Today Show”; on ABC, CBS, 

CNBC and CNN; and in newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, 

BusinessWeek and Success. He is a graduate of the owner/president management program at Harvard Business School. 

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Betsy Zeidman is a Research Fellow and Director of the Center for Emerging Domestic Markets at the Milken 

Institute. Her research focuses on expanded capital access to emerging domestic markets, traditionally undervalued 

and undercapitalized entrepreneurs, enterprises and communities. She also manages the Institute’s work in such areas 

as mission-related investing, developmental finance and environmental finance. Prior to joining the Institute, Zeidman 

provided strategic management and marketing advisory services to clients in the public, private and nonprofit sectors, 

with a specialty in corporate responsibility and financial performance. Zeidman is a member of the board of directors 

of the Social Investment Forum and CARAT (California Resources and Training), and sits on the advisory board of Wall 

Street Without Walls. She received an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management. 

Sam Zell is Chairman and President of Equity Group Investments LLC, and Chairman and CEO of Tribune Company, 

publisher of The Chicago Tribune and The Los Angeles Times. In addition, Zell chairs five publicly traded companies: 

Equity Residential Properties Trust, Equity Lifestyle Properties, Capital Trust, Covanta Holding Corp. and Anixter. He is 

also chairman of Equity International, a private firm focused on international real estate investments. He endowed 

the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of 

Business, the Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and 

the Zell Center for Risk Research at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Zell received a bachelor’s 

degree and a J.D. from the University of Michigan. 

Elias Zerhouni, a Senior Fellow at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, was the Director of the National Institutes 

of Health from May 2002 to last October. He spearheaded a series of reforms at the NIH that led Congress to pass the 

NIH Reform Act of 2006. He is also a professor of radiology and bioengineering at Johns Hopkins University, where he 

served as executive vice dean of the School of Medicine and chair of the Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and 

Radiological Science before joining the NIH. Zerhouni’s imaging research has led to major advances in computerized 

axial tomography (CAT scans) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The author of 212 publications and the holder of 

eight patents, he has co-founded several companies. Zerhouni was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine of 

the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2000. 

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Monday, April 27 

9:30 - 10:00 AM 

John Micklethwait 

God Is Back: 

How the Global Rise of Faith 

Will Change the World 

Tuesday, April 28 

At the Global Conference Bookstore in the Pavilion 

4:00 - 4:30 PM 

Lynda Resnick 

Rubies in the Orchard: 

How to Uncover the Hidden 

Gems in Your Business 

Wednesday, April 29 

a u t h o r book signings 

10:00 - 10:30 AM 

Joshua Ramo 

The Age of the Unthinkable: 

Why the New World Disorder 

Constantly Surprises Us and 

What We Can Do About It 

11:00 - 11:30 AM 

Mike Krzyzewski 

The Gold Standard: 

Building a World-Class Team 

5:30 - 6:00 PM 

Deepak Chopra 

The Seven Spiritual 

Laws of Success: 

A Practical Guide to the 

Fulfillment of Your Dreams 

4:00 - 4:30 PM 

Dambisa Moyo 

Dead Aid: 

Why Aid Is Not Working 

and How There Is a Better 

Way for Africa 

12:15 - 12:45 PM 

Deborah Nadoolman Landis 

Dressed: 

A Century of Hollywood 

12:15 - 12:45 PM 

Costume Design 

Barry Libert 

Barack, Inc : 

Note: This book signing will 

Winning Business Lessons 

take place in the Maple Room 

of the Obama Campaign AT TENTION GLOBAL CONFERENCE AT TENDEES at the end of the session 

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5:30 - 6:00 PM 

Dean Ornish 

The Spectrum: 

A Scientifically Proven 

Program to Feel Better, 

Live Longer, Lose Weight, 

and Gain Health

g l o b a l c o n f e r e n c e s p o n s o r s 

We gratefully acknowledge the participation of the following organizations 

whose generous support helped make this conference possible. 

Please visit our sponsors’ exhibits in the Executive Center. 

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g o l d sponsors g o l d sponsors 

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s i l ve r sponsors s i l ve r sponsors 

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s i l ve r sponsors 

New Medicines. New Hope. 

b ro n z e sponsors 

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s p o n s o r s m e d i a sponsors 

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Aegon 

Allstate 

Angeleno Group 

Apex Foundation 

Apollo Group Inc. 

Apollo Management LP 

Automobile Club of Southern California 

Bank of America 

Robert Barth 

The Honorable Frank E. and Kathrine F. 

Baxter 

Bay Harbor 

Beach Point Capital 

BioAdvance 

Debra and Leon Black 

Bloomberg 

BMO Capital Markets 

BNP Paribas 

Bombardier 

Boxwood Strategic Advisors LLC 

Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP 

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company 

Robin and Elliott Broidy 

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP 

Calamos Investments 

California HealthCare Foundation 

California Manufacturers & Technology 

Association 

Canyon Partners 

Jennifer and Robert Chartoff 

Chevron 

Chicago Climate Exchange Inc. 

Children’s Creative Learning Centers Inc. 

City National Bank 

Climate Exchange PLC 

CLSA 

Paula Comstock, Ph.D. 

Credit Agricole Group/Calyon 

Credit Suisse 

Diamond Resorts International 

Drobny Global Advisors 

Neil D. Eckert 

Embanet Corporation 

European High Yield Association 

R. S. Evans 

s u p p o r t e r s 

We thank our supporters 

These individuals and organizations have made significant donations in the past year. 

Fir Tree Partners 

First London Securities 

Flexjet 

G100 


Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 

GKM Newport 

GlaxoSmithKline 

Global Scholar 

GNC Corp. 

GoldenTree Asset Management LP 

Goldhirsh Foundation 

Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund 

Goldman, Sachs & Co. 

Goodwin Procter LLP 

Google.org 

Government of Canada 

Greenstreet Partners 

Guggenheim Partners 

Todd Hamilton 

Nan and Reed Harman 

Dana and Yossie Hollander 

HSBC 

Imperial Capital LLC 

Internet Real Estate Group 

Istithmar World 

Jefferies & Company Inc. 

Jewish Community Foundation of Los 

Angeles 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 

Jurlique 

K12 Inc. 

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation 

KC Distance Learning 

KCPS & Company 

Sarano J. Kelley 

KinderCare 

Knowledge Universe Education 

Koret Foundation 

Latham & Watkins LLP 

Samuel J. & Ethel LeFrak Charitable 

Foundation Inc. 

Legatum 

Lenny Mendonca 

Richard N. Merkin, M.D. 

Dorothy Phillips Michaud 

Charitable Trust 

MidOcean Partners 

Lori and Michael Milken 

Morrison & Foerster LLP 

Mzinga 

Navigenics Inc. 

New Majority California 

Newedge Group 

News Corporation Ltd. 

Pew Charitable Trusts 

PG&E Corporation 

PhRMA 

Lynn and David Pollock 

Sandra & Lawrence Post 

Family Foundation 

Post Advisory Group 

Principal Global Investors LLC 

Professional Liability 

Underwriting Society 

Sumner M. Redstone Charitable 

Foundation 

Lynda and Stewart Resnick 

Science Foundation Arizona 

SGH Holdings Inc. 

Thomas Spiegel Family Foundation 

Spring Group 

Stark Investments 

Structured Portfolio Management 

TheMarkets.Com 

Tianjin Municipal People’s Government 

Troika Dialog 

Trust Company of the West 

U.S. Chamber of Commerce 

U.S. Department of Agriculture 

US Renewables Group 

Verizon Foundation 

Vistage International 

Skip Victor 

The Wall Street Journal 

WellPoint 

Young Presidents’ Organization 

Selim K. Zilkha 

We sincerely thank our anonymous donors who elect not to be recognized above, as well as 

the many other individuals whose engagement and financial support enable us to do our work. 

Michael L. Klowden 

President and CEO 

Ross DeVol 

Director 

Regional Economics 

Penny Angkinand 

Senior Research Analyst 

Armen Bedroussian 

Research Economist 

Anita Charuworn 


Anusuya Chatterjee 


Candice Flor Hynek 


Jill Manning 

Research Analyst 

Melissa Bauman 

Editor 

Jared Carney 

Director, Marketing and 

Program Development 

Alma Gadot-Perez 

Program Manager, 

Israel Center 

Kamyab Hashemi-Nejad 

Director of Finance 

o u r staff 

Study Directors 

Glenn Yago 

Director 

Capital Studies 

Research Staff 

Kevin Klowden 

Managing Economist 

In Kyu Kim 


Cindy Li 


Carol Lu 


Patricia Reiter 


Laura Segafredo 


Service Directors and Managers 

Jennifer Manfrè 

Associate Director of Communications 

Joe Meehan 

Manager, Database Administration 

Lisa Montessi 

Library Manager 

Katie O’Reilly 

Senior Development Associate 

Lisa Renaud 

Editor 

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Michael Milken 

Chairman 

Peter Passell 

Editor 

The Milken Institute Review 

Shelley Shen 

Research Intern 

Brian Vo 


Perry Wong 

Senior Managing Economist 

Benjamin Yeo 


Betsy Zeidman 

Director, Center for Emerging 

Domestic Markets 

Bryan Quinan 

Event Manager 

Skip Rimer 

Director, Programs 

and Communications 

Jeffrey Schatz 

Director of Administration 

Mindy Silverstein 

Director, 

Milken Institute Associates 

and Strategic Partnerships

Martha Amram 

CEO, HomeZ Inc. 

James Barth 

Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance, 

Auburn University 

Michael Bernick 

Special Counsel to 

Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold 

Woodrow W. Clark II 

Founder and Managing Director, 

Clark Strategic Partners; Lecturer, 

University of California, Riverside 

William H. Frey 

Research Professor 

Population Studies Center 

University of Michigan 

Stephen Goldsmith 

Daniel Paul Professor of Government 

Kennedy School of Government 

Harvard University 

Jie Gan 

Assistant Professor 

Department of Finance 

Hong Kong University of 

Science and Technology 

o u r staff 

Senior Fellows 

Martin Greenberger 

IBM Professor of Computers 

and Information Systems 

Anderson School of Management 

University of California, 

Los Angeles 

Michael Intriligator 

Professor, Economics, 

Political Science and Public Policy 

University of California, 

Los Angeles 

Joel Kurtzman 

Senior Advisor 

Knowledge Universe 

Kevin Murphy 

George J. Stigler Distinguished Service 

Professor of Economics 


Tomas J. Philipson 

Professor 

Public Policy and Economics 


Visiting Fellows 

Yair Orgler 

Former Chairman of the Board 

Tel-Aviv Stock Exchange 

Yitzhak Peterburg 

Former CEO 

Clalit Health Services and 

Cellcom Israel Ltd. 

Triphon Phumiwasana 

Director of External Fund 

Management, Thai Government 

Pension Fund 

Hilton Root 

Professor of Public Policy 

School of Public Policy 

George Mason University 

Richard Sandor 

Chairman and CEO 

Chicago Climate Exchange 

Howard Soule 

Executive Vice President 

and Chief Science Officer 

Prostate Cancer Foundation 

Komal Sri-Kumar 

Managing Director 

and Chief Global Strategist, 

TCW Group Inc. 

Robert Topel 

Isidore Brown and 

Gladys J. Brown Professor in 

Urban and Labor Economics 


Frank Song 

Founding Director, Centre for 

China Financial Research 

University of Hong Kong 

April Amoroso 

Executive Assistant 

Tracy Andreen 

Receptionist/Assistant 

Roubina Arakelian 

Executive Assistant to the President 

Melanie Bouer 


Darci Bryan 

Database Analyst 

Greg Simon 

President 

Margaret Anderson 

Chief Operating Officer 

Cecilia Arradaza 

Director of Communications 

Loren Becker 

Program Analyst 

Angelo Bouselli 

Communications Manager 

THE BAKER GROUP 

EvENT MaNaGEMENT COMPaNy 

Event Coordination 

o u r staff 

Daniel Carmy 

Intern 

Karen Giles 


Muriel Hauser 


Sarah Lowe 

Intern 

Caitlin MacLean 

Coordinator, 

Financial Innovations Labs 

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Staff 

Kate Blenner 

Program Analyst 

Erin Knievel 

Intern 

Joseph Ortega 


Kristin Schneeman 

Program Director 

Susan Semeleer 

Assistant Director of Communications 

We would like to thank the following companies for their service and support 

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CREaTIvE SERvICES 

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