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Program
2012 Milken Institute Global Conference Program
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Cert no. XXX-XXX-XXXX
LOS ANGELES
APRIL 29-MAY 2, 2012
Executive Center
Whittier
Palm
Sunset
Dayton
Board Room
Canon
Oakhurst
El Camino
Brighton
Roxbury (Press Room)
Maple
WITH DIABETES.
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International Ballroom
International Terrace
International Gallery
Beverly Hills Collection
4 Beverly Hills Ballroom
5 Beverly Hills Ballroom Foyer
6 Beverly Hills Salon
7 Wilshire Ballroom
8 Santa Monica Suite
9 Rodeo Gallery
The Oasis
10 Global Conference Pavilion
11 Global Conference Bookstore
12 Associates Lounge
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Welcome to the 15th Annual Milken Institute Global Conference
Ask a typical young adult to identify his or her most valuable asset and you’ll hear answers like condos,
cars and other “stuff.” Ask the U.S. Federal Reserve about the country’s largest assets and you’ll hear about real
estate, deposits and financial instruments. These answers don’t just miss the mark; they aren’t even close.
Human capital is by far the world’s greatest asset. As Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker has
discussed at past Global Conferences, three-quarters of the wealth in any advanced economy can be found in
the knowledge, skills and experience of its people. When human capital is included, the U.S. balance sheet is
not $72 trillion as calculated by the Fed, but closer to $300 trillion.
Human capital is a central theme of this year’s Global Conference and the key to unlocking many of the
most significant challenges and opportunities we’ll discuss over the next few days. Human capital is also what
makes this event possible: 3,000 leaders from more than 50 nations will attend this year’s conference. That
includes more than 500 speakers – top business executives, policymakers, scientists, entrepreneurs, investors,
educators – who will participate in 140 panels across ten tracks: finance, industry, regions, health, education,
media, energy, government, philanthropy, and successful aging.
The questions our panels will address are wide-ranging, to say the least. How can we accelerate innovation
in the medical industry? What should the K-12 education model look like? When will housing recover? Is
political gridlock in Washington inevitable? How will the new global energy landscape change over the next
few years? What’s the future of capitalism? What’s the fairest way to approach tax reform?
But the Global Conference is about more than questions and discussion – it’s about solutions. You won’t see
canned speeches or dry dissertations. We showcase competing ideas and encourage lively debate. And we hope
you will engage directly with panelists and with fellow attendees in the same spirit.
It can be difficult to choose among panels when multiple sessions are scheduled for the same time. Not to
worry: Video of each session will be on our website, and on our mobile app, shortly after the discussion ends.
Thank you for joining us. We wish you a productive and stimulating experience.
Michael Milken
Chairman
Michael L. Klowden
President and CEO
Connect with a world of ideas
Access the insight and inspiration of Global Conference year-round
as a member of the Milken Institute Associates.
By joining the Associates, you’ll become part of a worldwide network
of thought leaders. Benefits of membership include invitations to
private briefings and events in cities around the globe.
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C O N F E R E N C E N OT E S
Name Badge Identification
Conference Bookstore
You are required to wear your Global Conference name badge
at all times during the conference for admittance to meals and
sessions. The conference badge is not transferable. There is a
$500 replacement fee for lost badges.
Please visit the conference bookstore, located in the Milken Institute
Global Conference Pavilion. You will find books by conference
panelists, as well as a host of business and financial books,
best-sellers and Milken Institute publications.
Program Changes
Bookstore Hours
There may be last-minute changes to the program. All changes will
Sunday 3:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Tuesday 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
be displayed on flat-panel screens located throughout the hotel.
Monday 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Session Seating
Cell Phones and Mobile Devices
Seating for sessions is filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Sessions – especially in the Executive Center – tend to fill quickly
and are monitored to ensure attendees have seats; there is no
standing room. Once a session is full, no one else will be admitted.
This includes meal sessions. Pre-selection 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. Many sessions are
simulcast in adjacent meeting rooms.
As a courtesy to our panelists and guests, please set cell phones
and mobile devices to silent mode during the conference.
Meal Seating
Tickets will be required for lunch sessions. Attendees should have
completed the Global Conference session selection tool to be
guaranteed meals.
Invitation-Only Sessions
A few sessions are by invitation only and require pre-registration.
These sessions are marked on the agenda.
Milken Institute Global Conference Pavilion
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-mail, watch news shows or just relax.
Exhibits
We invite you to visit the sponsor exhibits in the Executive Center.
Everyone who completed the online panel selection tool and
included their lunch attendance will receive tickets in the
conference registration packet at on-site registration. Those
tickets will indicate seating assignments in the International
Ballroom or the simulcasts in the Beverly Hills Ballroom or
Pavilion. Reserved seats in the International Ballroom are held
until 15 minutes after the published meal time. Seats that are
released will be filled from the General Admission line on a
first-come, first-served basis.
They will be on display throughout the conference.
Attendees should return tickets for meals they will not attend to
the on-site registration desk.
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 turned in to registration for claim.
Sessions and Slides Online
Milken Institute Associates Lounge
This private lounge, located next to the Global Conference Pavilion,
is an exclusive benefit for Milken Institute Associates and Young
Leaders Circle members. It provides a comfortable space where
Institute supporters can conduct private meetings and utilize
business center amenities.
Lost and Found
Recordings of individual sessions will be available for viewing online
Recycling Program
at www.milkeninstitute.org. Slides created specifically for the event
The Beverly Hilton operates a sophisticated recycling program.
For your convenience, we have placed additional recycling bins
throughout the hotel.
will also be available on the Institute’s website after the conference
concludes. These slides are available for conference registrants only.
ATTENTIO N : YOU MAY B E R ECORDED
The Global Conference is being videotaped and/or audio taped for broadcast over the air, on the Internet or otherwise. As a member of the audience, you
may be recorded. By attending this program, you grant permission to the Milken Institute to utilize your appearance, likeness and/or voice in connection with
any photographing, video/audio taping and/or rebroadcast of the program. If you have any questions, please direct them to any employee of the Institute.
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Conference Agenda
SATURDAY
P R I VA T E
8:30 am – 11:00 am
Accelerating Innovation in the Bioscience Revolution:
Lake Tahoe Retreat Advisory Committee Meeting
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Panelists
Margaret Anderson, Executive Director, FasterCures
Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Michael Idelchik, Vice President of Advanced Technologies, GE Global Research
Don Jones, Vice President, Global Strategy and Market Development, Qualcomm Life
Mark McClellan, Director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and Leonard D. Schaeffer
Chair in Health Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
Bernard Munos, Founder, InnoThink Center for Research in Biomedical Innovation
Jonathan Simons, President, CEO and David H. Koch Chair, Prostate Cancer Foundation
Moderators
Michael Milken, Chairman, Milken Institute
Chris Viehbacher, CEO, Sanofi
P R I VA T E
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Planning Committee for Celebration of Science Weekend
Private Residence
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
P R I VAT E
6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Global Gourmet Games Reception and Dinner
Montage Beverly Hills
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
5
SUNDAY
P R I VA T E
9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Family Program
Stardust
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Panelists
Jared Carney, Chief Strategy Officer, Milken Institute; Acting Director, Milken Institute Asia Center
Richard Ditizio, Executive Director, Program Development, Milken Institute
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University;
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution
Alexander Friedman, Chief Investment Officer, UBS AG
Timothy Lappen, Founder and Chairman, Family Office Group, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
Josef Stadler, Group Managing Director and Global Head of Ultra High Net Worth Business,
UBS Wealth Management
P R I VA T E
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch: This Time Is Different - Or Is It?
Kenneth Rogoff and Mike Milken on Prospects for Global Economic Recovery
Beverly Hills Ballroom
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Speaker
Kenneth Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Economics Department, Harvard University
Interviewer
P R I VAT E
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Black Capital Access Forum
Stardust
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Panelists
Kenneth Lombard, President, Capri Urban Investors LLC; Partner, Capri Capital Partners LLC
John Rogers Jr., Founder, Chairman and CEO, Ariel Investments
Kneeland Youngblood, Founding Partner, Pharos Capital Group
Moderator
Paul Irving, Senior Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, Milken Institute
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P R I VA T E
Global Capital Markets Advisory Council
Navigating the Year Ahead: Perspectives From Around the Globe
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Macro Investing: Listening to Global CEOs
Panelists
Eike Batista, Chairman and CEO, EBX Group
Vikram Pandit, CEO, Citigroup Inc.
Moderator
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm
U.S. Overview: Washington Insights
Panelists
Howard Berman, U.S. Congressman
Eric Cantor, U.S. Congressman and House Majority Leader
Dennis Cardoza, U.S. Congressman
Bob Corker, U.S. Senator
Patrick McHenry, U.S. Congressman
Moderator
Nicholas Sandler, Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners
3:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Global Conference Registration
Hilton Lobby
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Global Conference Welcome Reception
Pavilion
7
Sunday
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
MONDAY
6:00 am - 8:00 pm
Hilton Lobby
6:00 am - 8:30 am
Continental Breakfast
Beverly Hills Ballroom Foyer and Executive Center
P R I VA T E
6:30 am - 7:45 am
Capital Access and Job Creation: Women Driving Economic Growth
Stardust
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Introduction By
Panelists
Robin Brooks, Chairman and CEO, Brooks Food Group Inc.
Kirsten Gillibrand, U.S. Senator
Mellody Hobson, President, Ariel Investments
Lesa Mitchell, Vice President, Advancing Innovation, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Lorraine Spurge, CEO, Maplestone Capital Advisors LLC
Moderator
P R I VAT E
Mindy Silverstein, Managing Director, Marketing and Program Development, Milken Institute
A Conversation With David Krone,
Chief of Staff for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Speaker
David Krone, Chief of Staff, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
Interviewer
8
B R E A KO U T
Where Will Economic Growth Come From?
Panelists
Willem Buiter, Chief Economist, Citigroup
Terry Duffy, Executive Chairman, CME Group Inc.
Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer, PIMCO
Kevin Warsh, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, and former Member, Federal Reserve
Board of Governors
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Maria Bartiromo, Anchor, CNBC
Accelerating Innovation in the Medical Industry
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health
Margaret Hamburg, Commissioner, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Freda Lewis-Hall, Executive Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Pfizer, Inc.
Elias Zerhouni, President, Global Research & Development, Sanofi
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
9:30 am - 10:45 am
The Changing Winds in the Real Estate Market
Panelists
Jonathan Goldstein, Deputy Chief Executive, Heron International
William McMorrow, Chairman and CEO, Kennedy Wilson
David Simon, Chairman and CEO, Simon Property Group Inc.
Barry Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO, Starwood Capital Group
Sam Zell, Chairman, Equity Group Investments
Moderator
Lewis Feldman, Partner and Los Angeles Chair, Goodwin Procter LLP
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Monday
8:00 am - 9:15 am
B R E A KO U T
Continued
Tax Reform: What’s Fair Got to Do With It?
Panelists
Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Fellow, Milken Institute; Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities; former Chief Economist to Vice President Joe Biden
Steve Forbes, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Forbes Media
William Gale, Director, Retirement Security Project, Brookings Institution; Co-Director, Urban-Brookings
Tax Policy Center
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President, American Action Forum; former Director, Congressional Budget Office; former Chief Economist, Council of Economic Advisors
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Bradley Belt, Senior Managing Director, Milken Institute
Delivering K-12 Education System Reform:
Ensuring that American Students Remain Competitive
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
William Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education; Author, “The Book of Man: Readings on the Path
to Manhood”
James Guthrie, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Nevada
Tony Ressler, Founding Partner, Ares Management LLC; Co-Chairman, Alliance for College-Ready Public
Schools
Joanne Weiss, Chief of Staff to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
Moderator
Lowell Milken, Co-Founder, Knowledge Universe Education; Founder, TAP: The System for Teacher and
Student Advancement
B R E A KO U T
Monday
9:30 am - 10:45 am
Outlook for M&A
Panelists
Anthony Armstrong, Managing Director, Investment Banking, Credit Suisse
Maria Boyazny, Founder and CEO, MB Global Partners
James Casey, Co-Head of Global Debt Capital Markets, JP Morgan Securities LLC
Tilman Fertitta, Owner, Chairman and CEO, Landry’s Inc.
Raymond McGuire, Global Head, Corporate & Investment Banking, Citi
Moderator
Robert Harteveldt, Global Head of Leveraged Finance, Jefferies & Co. Inc.
10
B R E A KO U T
Continued
India: In the Eye of the Tiger Economy
Whittier
Panelists
Gaurav Dalmia, Founding Partner, GTI Capital Group
Sanjay Patel, Managing Partner, Head of International Private Equity,
Apollo Management International LLP
Ryan Pinto, CEO, Ryan International Group of Institutions
Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago
Booth School of Business
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Andrew Morse, Deputy Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal
Natural Advantage: Canadian-U.S. Energy Resources
Brighton
Panelists
Amir Adnani, President and CEO, Uranium Energy Corp.
Patrick Avery, President and CEO, Prospect Global Resources Inc.
Rick Grafton, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, Grafton Asset Management
Kevin Lynch, Vice Chairman, BMO Financial Group
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Conrad Kiechel, Director of Communications, Milken Institute
Water: Quenching the Planet’s Insatiable Thirst
Dayton
Panelists
David Beckman, Director of the Water Program and Senior Attorney,
Natural Resources Defense Council
Jay Famiglietti, Professor and Director, UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling,
University of California, Irvine
Susan Leal, Chief Strategy Officer and Senior Vice President, Water in the Americas, AECOM
Evan Lovell, Founding Partner, Virgin Green Fund
Marc Nathanson, Chairman, Falcon Waterfree Technologies
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Willow Bay, Special Correspondent, Bloomberg Television; Senior Editor, Huffington Post
Come Fly With Me: Inside the New Aerospace Industry
Maple
Panelists
Henri Courpron, CEO, International Lease Finance Corp.
David Hess, President, Pratt & Whitney
Dawne Hickton, Vice Chair, President and CEO, RTI International Metals
Nicole Piasecki, Vice President, Business Development & Strategic Integration,
Boeing Commercial Airplanes
Moderator
Stephen Rimmer, CEO, Guggenheim Aviation Partners; Senior Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners
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Monday
9:30 am - 10:45 am
B R E A KO U T
Continued
Your Health: On Your Phone and in the Cloud
Canon
Panelists
Kate Black, Staff Counsel, Health Privacy, Center for Democracy and Technology
John Dwyer, Chairman, Telcare Inc.
Frank Moss, Co-Founder, Bluefin Labs Inc.; former Director, Professor of the Practice, MIT Media Lab
Eric Topol, Director, Scripps Translational Science Institute; Chief Academic Officer, Scripps Health
Moderator
R O U N D TA B L E
Cecilia Arradaza, Director, Communications and Marketing, FasterCures
Silicon Valley Goes Global
Oakhurst
Panelists
Ron Conway, Angel Investor, SV Angel
Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings
Michael Moe, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer, GSV Capital
Moderator
Tony Perkins, CEO and Editor, AlwaysOn
B R E A KO U T
9:30 am - 10:15 am
A Conversation With Visionary Women Entrepreneurs
Pavilion
Panelists
Georgette Mosbacher, CEO and President, Borghese Inc. Worldwide
Linda Rottenberg, CEO and Co-Founder, Endeavor
Leila Velez, Co-Founder and CEO, Beleza Natural
Interviewer
AUTHOR
Angella Nazarian, Author, “Pioneers of the Possible: Celebrating Visionary Women of the World”
AUTHOR
Monday
9:30 am - 10:45 am
Book Signing
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Sylvia Nasar
“Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius”
Pavilion
Book Signing
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Angella Nazarian
“Pioneers of the Possible: 20 Visionary Women of the World”
Pavilion
12
B R E A KO U T
The Future of Capitalism
Panelists
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University; Senior Fellow,
Hoover Institution
Sylvia Nasar, John S. and James L. Knight Professor, Graduate School of Journalism,
Columbia University; Author, “Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius”
Ana Palacio, Member, Spanish Council of State; former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spain
Peter Passell, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Editor, The Milken Institute Review
Raghuram Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago
Moderator
James McCaughan, CEO, Principal Global Investors
B R E A KO U T
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Investing in Emerging Markets
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
Filippo Cipriani, Senior Trader, Brevan Howard Investment Products Ltd.
Nathan Sandler, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, ICE Canyon, LLC
Bart Turtelboom, Co-Head, Global Emerging Markets, GLG
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Mark Cutis, Chief Investment Officer, Special Situations, Abu Dhabi Investment Council
Encore: Will You Change the World in Your Second Act?
Panelists
Ron Cordes, Co-Founder, Cordes Foundation
Marc Freedman, CEO, Civic Ventures
Sherry Lansing, CEO, The Sherry Lansing Foundation; Founder, EnCorps Teachers Program
A. Barry Rand, CEO, AARP
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Frank Luntz: The Word Doctor Will See You Now
Whittier
Speaker
Frank Luntz, CEO, Luntz Global; Contributor, Fox News
13
Monday
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
B R E A KO U T
Continued
Trends in World Trade
Brighton
Panelists
Mario Mesquita, President, Brevan Howard Assessoria De Negocios Ltda; former Deputy Governor,
Economic Policy, Central Bank of Brazil
Eyal Ofer, Chairman, Global Holdings Inc.; Chairman, Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd.
James Prentice, Vice Chairman, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
Nerijus Udrenas, Chief Adviser to the President, Lithuania
John Veroneau, Partner, Covington & Burling LLP; former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
Moderator
Komal Sri-Kumar, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Group Managing Director and Chief Global Strategist,
B R E A KO U T
TCW Group Inc.
A Matter of Degrees: How Higher Education Drives Economic
Development
Dayton
Panelists
Gregory Cappelli, Co-CEO, Apollo Group; Chairman, Apollo Global
Emily Stover DeRocco, former President, The Manufacturing Institute; former U.S. Assistant Secretary
of Labor for Employment and Training
Michelle Kydd Lee, Executive Director, CAA Foundation
Kerry Sullivan, President, Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Moderator
Ross DeVol, Chief Research Officer, Milken Institute
B R E A KO U T
Monday
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Next-Generation Philanthropists and Social Entrepreneurs
Maple
Panelists
Eric Dawson, Co-Founder and President, Peace First
Abigail Falik, Founder and CEO, Global Citizen Year
Ben Goldhirsh, Co-Founder and CEO, Good
Kimbal Musk, Co-Founder, The Kitchen Community
Kirsten Tobey, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer, Revolution Foods
Moderator
Shawn Amos, Founder and Managing Partner, Amos Content Group
14
B R E A KO U T
Continued
Is the Fund of Hedge Funds Business Model in Need of Repair?
Canon
Panelists
Paulo Baia, Global Head of Research, Nexar Capital Group
Charles Clarvit, CEO, Vinci Partners International
David Saunders, Co-Founder, K2 Advisors
Jeffrey Tarrant, CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Protege Partners
Mark Yusko, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, Morgan Creek Capital Management
Moderator
R O U N D TA B L E
Damien Loveday, Global Head of Hedge Fund Research, Towers Watson
Financial Innovations for Early-Stage Drug Development
Oakhurst
Panelists
Aya Jakobovits, President and CEO, Kite Pharma; Venture Partner, Orbimed Partners
Andrew Lo, Harris & Harris Group Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Bernard Munos, Founder, InnoThink Center for Research in Biomedical Innovation
Kathryn Smith, Managing Director, Fast Forward LLC
Chris Varma, President and CEO, Blueprint Medicines
Moderator
Melissa Stevens, Deputy Executive Director, FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating
Medical Solutions
P R I VA T E
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Private Lunch
Innovations to Watch in K-12 Education
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Panelists
John Deasy, Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District
Anthony Miller, Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Department of Education
Moderator
Lowell Milken, Co-Founder, Knowledge Universe Education; Founder, TAP: The System for Teacher and
Student Advancement
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Monday
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
GENERAL
Lunch Panel
Global Overview: Shifting Fortunes
Panelists
Xi-Qing Gao, Vice Chairman and President, China Investment Corp.
Scott Minerd, Chief Investment Officer, Guggenheim Partners
Barry Sternlicht, Chairman and CEO, Starwood Capital Group
Moderator
Michael Klowden, President and CEO, Milken Institute
B R E A KO U T
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Global Capital Access: Who Will Finance the Future?
Panelists
Pierre Beaudoin, President and CEO, Bombardier Inc.
Gary Becker, Nobel Laureate; Professor of Economics and Sociology, University of Chicago
Dino Patti Djalal, Indonesian Ambassador to the United States
Seth Merrin, Founder and CEO, Liquidnet
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Monday
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
The Commodities Boom
Panelists
Joshua Harris, Senior Managing Director, Apollo Global Management LLC; Managing Partner and
Co-Founder, Apollo Management LP
Dambisa Moyo, Author and Economist
Jayson Myers, President and CEO, Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters
Moderator
Francesco Guerrera, Editor, Money & Investing, Wall Street Journal
16
B R E A KO U T
Continued
Understanding the Post-Recession Consumer
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
John Danhakl, Managing Partner, Leonard Green & Partners, LP
Joe Fortunato, President and CEO, GNC
Peter Lowy, CEO, Westfield Group
Georgette Mosbacher, CEO and President, Borghese Inc. Worldwide
Andrew Puzder, CEO, CKE Restaurants
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Dottie Mattison, Senior Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners
Jobs for America
Panelists
John Engler, President, Business Roundtable; former Governor, State of Michigan
Richard Fisher, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Javier Palomarez, President and CEO, U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
Rafael Pastor, Chairman and CEO, Vistage International Inc.
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Zachary Karabell, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; President, River Twice Research
Addressing the Challenges of Pension Deficits and
Retirement Insecurity
Whittier
Panelists
Scott Henderson, Vice President and Treasurer, The Kroger Co.
Christine Marcks, President, Prudential Retirement
William McDonough, Executive Vice President, United Food and Commercial Workers
International Union
Ranji Nagaswami, Chief Investment Advisor, New York Mayor’s Office of Pensions and Investments
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
What’s Next for Russia?
Brighton
Panelists
Kirill Dmitriev, CEO, Russian Direct Investment Fund
Esther Dyson, Chairman, EDventure Holdings
Andrey Yakunin, Co-Founding Partner, VIY Management LLP
Ksenia Yudaeva, Director, Center for Macroeconomic Research, Sberbank
Moderator
Jeffrey Gedmin, President and CEO, Legatum Institute
17
Monday
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
B R E A KO U T
Continued
Transformative Technologies in Emerging Markets
Dayton
Panelists
John Birkhold, Partner, Origin Asset Management
Alan Boyce, Co-Founder and Director, Adecoagro
Neil Eckert, CEO, Aggregated Micro Power Ltd.
Mel Spigelman, President and CEO, TB Alliance
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Margaret Anderson, Executive Director, FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions
Weight of the World: Strategies to Fight
the Global Obesity Epidemic
Maple
Panelists
Kent Bradley, Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Safeway Inc.
Francine Kaufman, Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Global Medical, Clinical and Health
Affairs, Medtronic Diabetes
David Kirchhoff, President and CEO, Weight Watchers International Inc.
Tomas Philipson, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Daniel Levin Professor of Public Policy Studies,
Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago
James Pope, Vice President and Chief Science Officer, Healthways Inc.
Moderator
Sharon Begley, Senior Health & Science Correspondent, Reuters
B R E A KO U T
Monday
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
What the Voters Really Want: Behind the Polling Numbers
Canon
Panelists
Celinda Lake, President, Lake Research Partners
Frank Luntz, CEO, Luntz Global; Contributor, Fox News
Moderator
Skip Rimer, Executive Director, Programs and Communications, Milken Institute
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P R I VA T E
Investing for Impact in U.S. Communities
PRIVATE
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BY INVITATION ONLY
Panelists
Lisa Davis, Program Officer, Metropolitan Opportunity, Ford Foundation
Jonathan Greenblatt, Director, White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation
David Wood, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Director, Initiative for
Responsible Investment, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Moderator
AUTHOR
Book Signing
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Walter Isaacson
“Steve Jobs”
Pavilion
B R E A KO U T
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The View From Global Institutional Investors
Panelists
Joseph Dear, Chief Investment Officer, California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS)
Kirill Dmitriev, CEO, Russian Direct Investment Fund
Xi-Qing Gao, Vice Chairman and President, China Investment Corp.
Mark Wiseman, Executive Vice President, Investments, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Moderator
Steve LeBlanc, Senior Managing Director of External Private Markets, Teacher Retirement System
B R E A KO U T
of Texas
A Conversation With Richard Haass and Walter Isaacson:
America’s Role in the World
Speaker
Richard Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
Interviewer
Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, Aspen Institute
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Monday
2:30 pm - 5:15 pm
B R E A KO U T
Continued
Leading Corporate Change
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
Pierre Beaudoin, President and CEO, Bombardier Inc.
Todd Boehly, President, Guggenheim Partners
Stephen J. Cloobeck, Chairman and CEO, Diamond Resorts International; Chairman, Brand USA
David Neeleman, Chairman, Founder and CEO, Azul Brazilian Airlines
Tom Wyatt, CEO, Knowledge Universe U.S.
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Mid-Market Private Equity
Panelists
James Gordon, Founder and Managing Partner, The Edgewater Funds
Hovey Kemp, Partner, Goodwin Procter
Brian Reynolds, Managing Partner, Chatham Capital
Ted Virtue, CEO, MidOcean Partners
Barry Volpert, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, Crestview Partners
Moderator
Adam Sokoloff, Global Head of Financial Sponsors Group, Jefferies & Co. Inc.
B R E A KO U T
Monday
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Getting to 100: Your How-To Guide
Whittier
Panelists
June Chan, Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Urology; Steven & Christine BurdSafeway Distinguished Professor, University of California, San Francisco
Luigi Fontana, Research Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Director, Longevity Research
Program, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine; Director, Division of Nutrition and
Aging, Italian National Institute of Health
David Heber, Professor of Medicine and Public Health, Director, UCLA Center for Human Nutrition,
David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
Gary Small, Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging and Professor of Psychiatry, UCLA; Director, UCLA
Longevity Center, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
Moderator
Howard Soule, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Chief Science Officer, Prostate Cancer Foundation
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B R E A KO U T
Continued
Brazil: Making Growth Sustainable
Brighton
Panelists
Everaldo Franca, Founder and CEO, PPS Portfolio Performance Ltd.
Simba Gill, CEO, moksha8
Mario Mesquita, President, Brevan Howard Assessoria De Negocios Ltda; former Deputy Governor,
Economic Policy, Central Bank of Brazil
Nathan Shor, Director, Galloway Capital
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Jan Boyer, Managing Director, SOFRA; former Executive Board Member, Inter-American Development Bank
Game-Changing Global Entrepreneurs
Dayton
Panelists
Nevzat Aydin, Co-Founder and CEO, Yemeksepeti.com
Mario Chady, CEO and Co-Founder, Grupo Trigo
Vinny Lingham, CEO of Gyft.com
Amr Shady, Founder and CEO, T.A. Telecom
Leila Velez, Co-Founder and CEO, Beleza Natural
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
The New Frontier of Credit:
How Technology Can Improve Access to Capital
Maple
Panelists
James Gutierrez, Founder, Progreso Financiero
Matt Harris, Managing Director, Bain Capital Ventures
Renaud Laplanche, CEO, Lending Club
Douglas Merrill, Founder and CEO, ZestCash
Chris Reilly, Senior Associate, TechPar Group
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Mitch Jacobs, Co-Chairman, 1 in 3 Leadership Council, Association for Enterprise Opportunity
The Technology Revolution in K-12 Education
Canon
Panelists
Frank Baxter, Chairman Emeritus, Jefferies & Co. Inc.; former U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay
Jerry Jones, Chief Legal Officer, Senior Vice President, Acxiom; Chairman, Arkansas Virtual Academy;
Co-Founder, uHireUS
Tom Luna, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Idaho
Doug Lynch, Vice Dean, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
Ronald Packard, Founder and CEO, K12 Inc.
Moderator
Thomas Boysen, Education Consultant
21
Monday
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
R O U N D TA B L E
Continued
Energy Savings and Green Communities
Oakhurst
Panelists
Brad Copithorne, Energy and Financial Policy Specialist, Environmental Defense Fund
Jim Davis, President, Chevron Energy Solutions
Ann Hand, CEO, Project Frog
Nancy Pfund, Managing Partner, DBL Investors
Darren Van’t Hof, Director of Renewable Energy Investments, US Bank
Moderator
P R I VA T E
Martha Amram, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; CEO and Founder, WattzOn
Real Estate Lightning Round
Stardust
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Panelists
Neil Bluhm, Managing Principal, Walton Street Capital
Jeff Greene, Investor and Philanthropist
Peter Lowy, CEO, Westfield Group
Larry Mizel, Chairman and CEO, MDC Holdings Inc.
David Palmer, President and Chief Financial Officer, Diamond Resorts International
Michael Rosenfeld, Founder and CEO, Woodridge Capital Partners, LLC
Sam Zell, Chairman, Equity Group Investments
Moderator
AUTHOR
Book Signing
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Frank Luntz
“Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business From Ordinary to Extraordinary”
Pavilion
5:15 pm - 6:00 pm
GENERAL
Monday
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A Conversation With George Lucas
Speaker
George Lucas, Director and Producer; Founder and Chairman, Lucasfilm
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Milken Institute Israel Center Reception
P R I VAT E
P R I VAT E
P R I VAT E
The Green Teaist
Babson Capital Reception
Poolside East
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Beach Point Capital Reception
Poolside West
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Credit Suisse Reception
International Terrace Patio
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
General Reception
P R I VAT E
Pavilion
Reception for Speakers and Sponsors
Stardust
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
23
Monday
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
GENERAL
Dinner Panel
Mike Milken Interviews Eike Batista and T. Boone Pickens
Speakers
T. Boone Pickens, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist; Founder, BP Capital
Interviewer
P R I VA T E
Impact Investing Dinner
PRIVATE
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BY INVITATION ONLY
Moderator
9:15 pm - 10:30 pm
L AT E N I G H T
Monday
7:15 pm - 9:00 pm
Late Night: The Music and Talent of Lionel Richie, David Foster
and Friends
Speakers/Performers
David Foster, Producer and Songwriter; Chairman, Verve Music Group
Lionel Richie, Founder, The Lionel Richie Foundation; Entertainer, Composer, Producer
and Humanitarian
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TUESDAY
6:00 am - 8:00 pm
Hilton Lobby
6:00 am - 8:30 am
R O U N D TA B L E
6:30 am - 7:45 am
Development Finance
Oakhurst
Panelists
Carl Kaplan, Managing Director, Koret Israel Economic Development Funds
John Morton, Vice President, Office of Investment Policy, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Stewart Paperin, Executive Vice President, Open Society Institute; President, Soros Economic
Development Fund
Roger Stein, Managing Director, Research and Academic Relations, Moody’s
Andrew Taylor, Executive Vice President, Grand Challenges Canada
Moderator
Steven Zecher, Project Director, Regional Development and Project Finance,
P R I VAT E
Milken Institute Israel Center
Milken Institute Associates Breakfast
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Speaker
Francis Collins, Director, National Institutes of Health
25
P R I VA T E
Continued
Developing the Chinese High-Yield Market
Maple
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Panelists
Tong (Cindy) Li, Senior Economist, Milken Institute
Charles Y.S. Liu, Chairman and Founder, Hao Capital; Senior Fellow, Peking University Center on China
and Global Affairs
Moderator
P R I VA T E
Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets:
A Conversation With House Majority Leader Eric Cantor
PRIVATE
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BY INVITATION ONLY
Speaker
Eric Cantor, U.S. Congressman and House Majority Leader
Interviewer
8:00 am - 9:15 am
B R E A KO U T
Tuesday
6:30 am - 7:45 am
U.S. Overview: Is the Recovery Sustainable?
Panelists
Richard Daley, Former Mayor of Chicago and Of Counsel, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Gary Loveman, Chairman, President and CEO, Caesars Entertainment Corp.
John Rogers Jr., Founder, Chairman and CEO, Ariel Investments
Eric Spiegel, President and CEO, Siemens Corp.
John Williams, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Moderator
26
B R E A KO U T
Continued
The Changing Shape of Global Finance
Panelists
Richard Baker, President and CEO, Managed Funds Association
Evan Bayh, Senior Advisor, Apollo Global Management; former U.S. Senator
Joshua Friedman, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Canyon Partners, LLC
Bennett Goodman, Senior Founding Member, GSO Capital Partners
Tom Joyce, Chairman and CEO, Knight Capital Group, Inc.
Carey Lathrop, Managing Director and Head of Global Credit Markets, Citi
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Timothy O’Hara, Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Securities, Credit Suisse
Getting From Care to Cure
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
Steve Hemsley, CEO, UnitedHealth Group
Michael Leavitt, Founder and Chairman, Leavitt Partners; former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human
Services; former Governor of Utah
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Richard Merkin, CEO and Founder, Heritage Provider Network; Board Member, FasterCures
East and Southeast Asia: In Pursuit of Growth
Panelists
Husodo Angkosubroto, Chairman, PT. Gunung Sewu Kencana
Steven Green, Chairman, Greenstreet Partners; former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore
Yoshito Hori, President and Dean, Globis University; Managing Partner, Globis Capital Partners
Triphon Phumiwasama, Visiting Fellow, Milken Institute; Director, Foreign Investment and External
Fund Management, Thai Government Pension Fund
B R E A KO U T
Jonathan Slone, Chairman and CEO, CLSA Ltd.
Challenges and Opportunities in Public-Private Partnerships
Whittier
Panelists
Darlene Miller, President and CEO, Permac Industries
Steven Rattner, Chairman, Willett Advisors; former Counselor and Lead Auto Advisor
to the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Jon Schnur, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder, America Achieves
Laurette Stiles, Vice President, Strategic Resources, State Farm
George Zimmer, Founder and Executive Chairman, Men’s Wearhouse
Moderator
Chas Edelstein, Co-CEO, Apollo Group Inc.
27
Tuesday
8:00 am - 9:15 am
P R I VA T E
Continued
Domestic Access to Capital
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Speaker
Mitch Jacobs, Co-Chairman, 1 in 3 Leadership Council, Association for Enterprise Opportunity
B R E A KO U T
9:30 am - 10:45 am
Private Equity
Panelists
Leon Black, Founding Partner, Apollo Management, LP
David Bonderman, Founding Partner, TPG Capital
Jonathan Nelson, CEO and Founder, Providence Equity Partners
Jonathan Sokoloff, Managing Partner, Leonard Green & Partners
Scott Sperling, Co-President, Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P.
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Maria Bartiromo, Anchor, CNBC
Fixer-Upper: Repairing the U.S. Housing Market
Panelists
Henry Cisneros, Executive Chairman, City View; former Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development; former San Antonio Mayor
Robert Hart, President, KW Multifamily Management Group, Kennedy Wilson
Lewis Ranieri, Chairman, Ranieri Partners Management LLC; Founder, Hyperion Private Equity Funds
Phillip Swagel, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Professor, University of Maryland School of Public Policy
Moderator
Rick Newman, Chief Business Correspondent, U.S. News & World Report
B R E A KO U T
Tuesday
8:00 am - 9:15 am
Dear Washington, Please Make Government Work Again.
Sincerely, America
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
Stephen J. Cloobeck, Chairman and CEO, Diamond Resorts International; Chairman, Brand USA
Richard Daley, Former Mayor of Chicago and Of Counsel, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Harold Ford Jr., Former Congressman; Managing Director, Morgan Stanley; Professor, NYU Wagner
School of Public Policy
Anthony Scaramucci, Managing Partner, SkyBridge Capital
Moderator
Stephanie Ruhle, Correspondent, Bloomberg Television
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B R E A KO U T
Continued
Twist and Shout: The Limits of U.S. Monetary Policy
Panelists
Charles Evans, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Dennis Lockhart, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Cliff Noreen, President, Babson Capital Management
David Zervos, Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist, Jefferies & Co. Inc.
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Steve Liesman, Senior Economics Reporter, CNBC
Crowded Planet: Readying for 10 Billion People
Whittier
Panelists
Bonin Bough, Vice President, Global Digital and Consumer Engagement, Kraft Foods
Peter Diamandis, Chairman and CEO, X PRIZE Foundation
Edgard Habib, Chief Economist, Chevron
Myron Scholes, Nobel Laureate, 1997; Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, Stanford Graduate
School of Business
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Peter Passell, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Editor, The Milken Institute Review
Community Development: Investing in the 99 Percent
Brighton
Panelists
John Belluomini, Founder and CEO, Center for the Greater Good
Sean Greene, Associate Administrator for Investment and Special Advisor for Innovation,
Small Business Administration
Fred Mendez, Senior Vice President, Rabobank, N.A.
Tracy Palandjian, CEO and Co-Founder, Social Finance Inc.
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Lisa Davis, Program Officer, Metropolitan Opportunity, Ford Foundation
Investing in Africa
Dayton
Panelists
Gad Cohen, Partner, eleQtra Ltd.; Manager, InfraCo Africa
Hurley Doddy, Founding Partner and Co-CEO, Emerging Capital Partners
Kodwo Mills, Founder and CEO, Invictus Africa Group
Moderator
Mark Chiaviello, Director, Corporate and Investment Banking, Standard Bank
29
Tuesday
9:30 am - 10:45 am
B R E A KO U T
Continued
Powering a Thousand Points of Light:
The Future of Distributed Energy
Maple
Panelists
Jonathan Art, Portfolio Manager, Federated Kaufmann Fund
Bill Green, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets
David Crane, President and CEO, NRG Energy
Lynn Jurich, President, Sunrun
Nancy Pfund, Managing Partner, DBL Investors
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Raymond Wood, Head, Global Alternative Energy, Credit Suisse
Managing Talent and Building a Unified Workforce
Canon
Panelists
Sabrina Ellis, Vice President, Human Resources, George Washington University
Carol Evans, President, Working Mother Media
David Ford, Vice President, Human Resources-North America, Sanofi
Stedman Graham, Chairman and CEO, S. Graham & Associates
John Paul Macdonald, Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Public Affairs, Bombardier Inc.
Moderator
R O U N D TA B L E
Fran Durekas, Founder and Chief Development Officer, CCLC
Jet New: David Neeleman’s Blueprint for Building a Brazilian Business
Oakhurst
Speaker
David Neeleman, Chairman, Founder and CEO, Azul Brazilian Airlines
Interviewer
Skip Rimer, Executive Director, Programs and Communications, Milken Institute
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
B R E A KO U T
Tuesday
9:30 am - 10:45 am
Evolving Media: Will Content, Distribution
or New Platforms Dominate?
Panelists
Chase Carey, Deputy Chairman, President and Chief Operating Officer, News Corp.
Charlie Ergen, Chairman and Co-Founder, Dish Network
Robert Pittman, CEO, Clear Channel Communications; Founder, MTV
Moderator
30
B R E A KO U T
Continued
Is It Time to Invest in Europe?
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
Wolfgang Alkier, Founder and Managing Director, Absolute Return Consulting GmbH
Francesca Carega, Co-Head, Absolute Return and Buyouts, Wellcome Trust
Bernard Connolly, CEO, Connolly Insight LP
Hugh Hendry, Chief Investment Officer and Co-Founder, Eclectica Asset Management
James Zelter, Managing Partner, Apollo Capital Management; CEO, Apollo Investment Corp.
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Liam Kennedy, Editor, Investments & Pensions Europe
VC Views
Panelists
Fred Craves, Managing Director and Founder, Bay City Capital
Bruce Evans, Managing Director and Chairman, Summit Partners
Deven Parekh, Managing Director, Insight Venture Partners
Ray Rothrock, Partner, Venrock; Chairman, National Venture Capital Association
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Alec Ellison, Vice Chairman, Jefferies; Chairman, Technology Investment Banking
The New Paradigm of War
Whittier
Panelists
Philipp Bleek, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Policy and Management,
Monterey Institute of International Studies; Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Wesley Clark, Chairman and CEO, Wesley K. Clark & Associates; Army General (ret.)
and former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO
Jack Keane, Venture Partner, SCP Partners; General (Ret.) and former Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
James Rubin, Counselor of Competitiveness and International Affairs to Governor Andrew Cuomo
Feeding the World: Time for a New Green Revolution
Brighton
Panelists
Bill Cordingley, Managing Director and Head of Food and Agribusiness Research
and Advisory-The Americas, Rabobank International
Richard Kottmeyer, Global Agriculture and Food Production Leader, IBM Global Services
David Morgan, President, Syngenta Seeds, Inc.; Region Director - North America, Syngenta
Iris Yedidia, Group Leader, Agricultural Microbiology and Biotechnology,
Agricultural Research Organization, Israeli Ministry of Agriculture
Moderator
Carole Brookins, Managing Director, Public Capital Advisors, LLC
31
Tuesday
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
B R E A KO U T
Continued
Impact Investing: Managing Risk for Long-Term Returns
Dayton
Panelists
Audrey Choi, Head, Global Sustainable Finance, Morgan Stanley
Sir Ronald Cohen, Chairman, Big Society Capital and The Portland Trust
Ron Cordes, Co-Founder, Cordes Foundation
Luther Ragin Jr., CEO, Global Impact Investing Network
Bobby Turner, Chairman and CEO, Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, and Partner, Canyon Partners, LLC
Moderator
Betsy Zeidman, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Executive Fellow, USC Center for Communication
B R E A KO U T
Technology Management
The New Rules of Innovation and Corporate Ingenuity:
Adapting to a Changing World
Maple
Panelists
Karen Austin, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, PG&E
Aneesh Chopra, Senior Advisor, The Advisory Board Company; former Assistant to the President
and U.S. Chief Technology Officer
Mary Cullinane, Executive Vice President, Corporate and Social Responsibility,
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Monika Fahlbusch, Senior Vice President, Global Employee Success, Salesforce.com
Dennis Urbaniak, Vice President, U.S. Diabetes, Sanofi
Moderator
John Seely Brown, Visiting Scholar and Advisor to the Provost, University of Southern California;
Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge
B R E A KO U T
Tuesday
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
E-commerce: Emerging Trends and Business Models
Canon
Panelists
Josh Berman, Founder and CEO, BeachMint
Doug Mack, CEO, One Kings Lane
Jamie Nordstrom, President, Nordstrom Direct
Jean-Francois Van Kerckhove, Head of Corporate Strategy, eBay Inc.
Moderator
Peter Comisar, Vice Chairman, Investment Banking, Guggenheim Partners
32
R O U N D TA B L E
Continued
Managing Disasters: Readiness, Then Response
Oakhurst
Panelists
Edmund Cain, Vice President, Grant Programs, Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Denis O’Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Nancy Roman, Director of Public Policy, Communications and Private Partnerships,
U.N. World Food Programme
James Lee Witt, Chairman and Founder, Witt Associates; former Director, Federal Emergency
Management Agency
Moderator
P R I VA T E
Sarah Burd-Sharps, Co-Director, Measure of America
Tax Changes Ahead: What Should Keep You Awake at Night?
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Panelists
Jeff DeBoer, Founding President and CEO, The Real Estate Roundtable
Victor Fleischer, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School
Steve Judge, President and CEO, Private Equity Growth Capital Council
Donald Rocap, Partner, Tax Group, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Laurence Tosi, Chief Financial Officer, Blackstone
Moderator
AUTHOR
Norman Brownstein, Founding Member and Chairman, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP
Book Signing
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Rick Newman
“Rebounders: How Winners Pivot from Setback to Success”
Pavilion
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Tuesday
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
GENERAL
Lunch Panel
What’s Happened to the American Dream?
Panelists
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University; Senior Fellow,
Hoover Institution
Jeff Greene, Investor and Philanthropist
Charles Murray, W.H. Brady Scholar, American Enterprise Institute; Author, “Coming Apart:
The State of White America”
Moderator
Harold Ford Jr., Former Congressman; Managing Director, Morgan Stanley; Professor, NYU Wagner
P R I VA T E
12:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Milken Institute Center for Financial Markets:
A Conversation With Senator Max Baucus
Stardust
PRIVATE
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BY INVITATION ONLY
Speaker
Max Baucus, U.S. Senator and Chairman, Senate Finance Committee
Interviewer
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
B R E A KO U T
Tuesday
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
The U.S.-China Power Balance
Panelists
James Chanos, President and Founder, Kynikos Associates
Nina Hachigian, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Charles Y.S. Liu, Chairman and Founder, Hao Capital; Senior Fellow, Peking University Center on China
and Global Affairs
Minxin Pei, Professor of Government and Director, Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies,
Claremont McKenna College
Moderator
Zachary Karabell, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; President, River Twice Research
34
B R E A KO U T
Continued
What Is Web 3.0?
Panelists
Bonin Bough, Vice President, Global Digital and Consumer Engagement, Kraft Foods
Neil Kataria, Co-Founder and President, newBrandAnalytics
Brad Keywell, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Lightbank; Co-Founder and Director, Groupon
John Ruffolo, CEO, OMERS Ventures
Mike Zapolin, Co-Founder, SocialExtract
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Andrew Miller, Entrepreneur and Founder, Football Nation, LLC
The New Global Energy Landscape
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
Richard Kauffman, Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Energy
Alex Pourbaix, President, Energy and Oil Pipelines, TransCanada Corp.
Brian Schweitzer, Governor, State of Montana
Rhonda Zygocki, Executive Vice President, Policy and Planning, Chevron
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Brian Sullivan, Anchor, CNBC
The Art of Collecting: Los Angeles and the Global Art Market
Panelists
Eli Broad, Founder, The Broad Foundations; Founder, KB Home and SunAmerica
Jeffrey Deitch, Director, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Michael Govan, CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Ann Philbin, Director, The Hammer Museum
Lynda Resnick, Vice Chairman, Roll Global
Moderator
James Cuno, President and CEO, J. Paul Getty Trust
35
Tuesday
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
B R E A KO U T
Continued
Diversifying Portfolio Risk Through Asset Allocation
Whittier
Panelists
Craig Dandurand, Portfolio Manager, Absolute Return Strategies, California Public Employees’
Retirement System
Halvard Kvaale, Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Advisory Services, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
Lisa Shalett, Chief Investment Officer, Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, and Head of
Investment Management and Guidance, Merrill Lynch
Eric Siegel, Managing Director and Head of Alternative Solutions and Asset Allocation Products,
Citi Private Bank
Nathan Sonnenberg, Chief Investment Officer, Fortigent
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Doug Mangini, Head of Intermediary Distribution, Guggenheim Partners
Joining Forces in the Fight Against Global Poverty
Brighton
Panelists
Gad Cohen, Partner, eleQtra Ltd.; Manager, InfraCo Africa
John Morton, Vice President, Office of Investment Policy, Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Kathy Rock, Chief Risk Officer and Chief Financial Officer, Calvert Foundation
Nancy Roman, Director of Public Policy, Communications and Private Partnerships,
U.N. World Food Programme
Moderator
Jeffrey Gedmin, President and CEO, Legatum Institute
B R E A KO U T
Tuesday
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Cancer Prevention: What Will It Take?
Dayton
Panelists
Stephen Gruber, Director, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center;
H. Leslie Hoffman and Elaine S. Hoffman Chair in Cancer Research
Sherry Lansing, CEO, The Sherry Lansing Foundation; Founder, EnCorps Teachers Program
Sancy Leachman, Director, Melanoma and Cutaneous Oncology, Huntsman Cancer Institute
J. Leonard Lichtenfeld, Deputy Chief Medical Officer, American Cancer Society
Moderator
Wendy Selig, President and CEO, Melanoma Research Alliance
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B R E A KO U T
Continued
Early Childhood Education: Jump-Start to Literacy
Maple
Panelists
Bob Casey, U.S. Senator
John Engler, President, Business Roundtable; former Governor, State of Michigan
Adrian Haugabrook, Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Success,
and Chief Diversity Officer, Wheelock College
Ralph Smith, Senior Vice President, Annie E. Casey Foundation; Managing Director, Campaign for
Grade-Level Reading
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Elanna Yalow, CEO, Knowledge Universe Early Learning Programs
Deficit Reduction and Economic Growth:
Are They Mutually Exclusive Goals?
Canon
Panelists
Jared Bernstein, Economic Policy Fellow, Milken Institute; Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy
Priorities; former Chief Economist to Vice President Joe Biden
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President, American Action Forum; former Director, Congressional Budget
Office; former Chief Economist, Council of Economic Advisors
Edward Lazear, Professor, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution;
former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors
Moderator
P R I VA T E
Gillian Tett, U.S. Managing Editor, Financial Times
The Future of Equity Investing
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Speakers
John Calamos Sr., CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Calamos Investments
Clifton Robbins, Founder and CEO, Blue Harbour Group
B R E A KO U T
2:30 pm - 3:15 pm
A Conversation With Visionary Women Philanthropists
Pavilion
Panelists
Nancy Aossey, President and CEO, International Medical Corps
Abigail Falik, Founder and CEO, Global Citizen Year
Jill Iscol, President, IF Hummingbird Foundation
Interviewer
Angella Nazarian, Author, “Pioneers of the Possible: Celebrating Visionary Women of the World”
37
Tuesday
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
AUTHOR
AUTHOR
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
James Rickards
“Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis”
Pavilion
Book Signing
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Angella Nazarian
“Pioneers of the Possible: 20 Visionary Women of the World”
Pavilion
B R E A KO U T
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Credit Markets
Panelists
Tom Finke, Chairman and CEO, Babson Capital
Joshua Friedman, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Canyon Partners, LLC
Marc Rowan, Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director, Apollo Global Management LLC
Steven Tananbaum, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer, GoldenTree Asset Management
David Warren, Chief Investment Officer, Brevan Howard Credit Catalysts Fund
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Tuesday
Book Signing
Why Wait for Washington?
How States Can Create Jobs and Economic Growth
Panelists
Mitch Daniels, Governor, State of Indiana
Gray Davis, Former Governor of California; Of Counsel, Loeb & Loeb LLP
Tony Hsieh, CEO, Zappos.com
Robert Litan, Vice President for Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Moderator
Paul Kedrosky, Contributing Editor, Bloomberg; Partner, Omensetter Capital and SK Ventures
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Continued
Transformational Philanthropy
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
Laura Arnold, Co-Chair, Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Denis O’Brien, Chairman, Digicel
Julie Sunderland, Senior Program Investment Officer, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Phyllis Washington, Chairwoman, Dennis & Phyllis Washington Foundation
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Richard Ditizio, Executive Director, Program Development, Milken Institute
Natural Gas
Panelists
Ralph Eads, Chairman, Energy Investment Banking, Jefferies & Co. Inc.
Rick Grafton, CEO and Chief Investment Officer, Grafton Asset Management
Shaia Hosseinzadeh, Principal, WL Ross & Co. LLC
Alex Szewczyk, Analyst, BP Capital
Moderator
Joel Kurtzman, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Center for Accelerating Energy Solutions,
B R E A KO U T
Milken Institute
Easy Money: Consequences of the Global Liquidity Glut
Whittier
Panelists
Andrew Busch, Global Currency and Public Policy Strategist, BMO Capital Markets
Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and
Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
James Rickards, Author, “Currency Wars”; Partner, JAC Capital
Benn Steil, Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations;
Founding Editor, International Finance
Moderator
Komal Sri-Kumar, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Group Managing Director and
B R E A KO U T
Chief Global Strategist, TCW Group Inc.
Pakistan: Can Civil Society Create a Stable, Prosperous Future?
Brighton
Panelists
Tahir Andrabi, Professor of Economics, Pomona College; Director of Social Policy,
Center for Economic Research, Pakistan
Ishrat Husain, Dean and Director, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
Ahsan Jamil, CEO, The Aman Foundation
Frederic Sicre, Partner, Abraaj Capital
Moderator
James Glassman, Founding Executive Director, George W. Bush Institute
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Tuesday
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
B R E A KO U T
Continued
International Education Investment Opportunities
Dayton
Panelists
George Hoskins, Founder and President, Hope Education
Peter Maslen, CEO, Knowledge Universe
Peter Wilde, Managing Director, Providence Equity Partners
Moderator
Susan Wolford, Managing Director and Group Head, Business and Educational Services,
B R E A KO U T
BMO Capital Markets Corp.
Global Banking Regulation
Maple
Panelists
Madelyn Antoncic, Vice President and Treasurer, The World Bank Group
Chris Brummer, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO, Women’s World Banking
Bo Lundgren, Director General, Swedish National Debt Office
Michael Taylor, Member of the Secretariat, Financial Stability Board, Bank of International Settlements
Moderator
James Barth, Senior Finance Fellow, Milken Institute; Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance,
B R E A KO U T
Auburn University
Eco-Innovation for Global Sustainable Growth: The Israel Model
Canon
Panelists
Doron Gal, CEO, Kaiima
Eugene Kandel, Head of the National Economic Council, Israeli Prime Minister’s Office
Glen Schwaber, Partner, Israel Cleantech Ventures
Iris Yedidia, Group Leader, Agricultural Microbiology and Biotechnology, Agricultural Research
Organization, Israeli Ministry of Agriculture
Moderator
Alma Gadot-Perez, Director General, Milken Institute Israel Center
AUTHOR
Tuesday
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
FOREWORD BY MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
Book Signing
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Eli Broad
“The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking”
Pavilion
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General Reception
P R I VAT E
P R I VAT E
P R I VAT E
P R I VAT E
Pavilion
Reception for Speakers and Sponsors
Stardust
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Calamos Investments Reception
Poolside East
PRIVATE —
BY INVITATION ONLY
Jefferies Reception
Poolside West
PRIVATE — BY
INVITATION ONLY
Canada Reception
Maple
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
P R I VAT E
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle Reception
Private Residence
PRIVATE — BY INVITATION
ONLY
Speaker
T. Boone Pickens, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist; Founder, BP Capital
Interviewer
Brian Sullivan, Anchor, CNBC
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Tuesday
5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
GENERAL
Dinner Panel
The Defining Issues Facing America
Panelists
Evan Bayh, Senior Advisor, Apollo Global Management; former U.S. Senator
Bob Casey, U.S. Senator
Mitch Daniels, Governor, State of Indiana
Moderator
Jessica Yellin, Chief White House Correspondent, CNN
NIGHT
9:30 pm - 10:30 pm
L AT E
Tuesday
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Late Night
Willshire Ballroom
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WEDNESDAY
6:00 am - 4:00 pm
Hilton Lobby
6:00 am - 8:30 am
P R I VAT E
Center for Accelerating Energy Solutions:
Breakfast Hosted by the Milken Institute
P R I VAT E
Vistage International Breakfast
P R I VAT E
6:30 am - 7:45 am
Stardust
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
PRIVATE — BY INVITATION
ONLY
Milken Institute Fellows Network Breakfast
Oakhurst
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
B R E A KO U T
8:00 am - 9:15 am
Reading the Tea Leaves
Panelists
John Calamos Sr., CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Calamos Investments
Peter Gunning, Global Chief Investment Officer, Russell Investments
John Rutledge, Chief Investment Strategist, Safanad SA
Moderator
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B R E A KO U T
Continued
The Changing Face of the Middle East
Panelists
Zika Abzuk, Senior Manager, Cisco
Abdulla Mohammed Al Awar, CEO, Dubai International Financial Centre Authority
Abdul Malek Al Jaber, Founder and Chairman, MENA Apps
Chemi Peres, Managing General Partner and Co-Founder, Pitango Venture Capital
Mohamed Seif-Elnasr, Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner, Safanad SA
Moderator
Ghanem Nuseibeh, Founder, Cornerstone Global Associates; Senior Visiting Fellow,
B R E A KO U T
King’s College, London
Innovation Super Nation
Panelists
Marco Annunziata, Chief Economist, GE
Conor Lenihan, Vice President for Key Partners, Skolkovo Foundation
Penny Low, Founder and President, Social Innovation Park Ltd.; Member of Parliament, Singapore
Margaret Spellings, President and CEO, Margaret Spellings and Co.; President, Forum for Policy
Innovation, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; former Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
Moderator
Derek Thompson, Senior Editor, Business, The Atlantic
B R E A KO U T
Wednesday
8:00 am - 9:15 am
Biofuels
Maple
Panelists
Lynde Coit, Senior Advisor to the President and CEO, Plasco Energy Group
Chris Groobey, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Richard Kauffman, Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Energy
Jim Matheson, General Partner, Flagship Ventures
Moderator
Joel Kurtzman, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Center for Accelerating
Energy Solutions; Milken Institute
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B R E A KO U T
Alternative Investments: Where Do the Next Great Returns Lie?
Panelists
Mark Attanasio, Managing Partner, Crescent Capital Group; Chairman and Principal Owner,
Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club
Marc Lasry, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Avenue Capital Group
Clifton Robbins, Founder and CEO, Blue Harbour Group
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Steven Drobny, Partner, Drobny Global Asset Management
Things That Will Change the World — and Blow Your Mind
Panelists
Joel Burdick, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor of Bioengineering,
California Institute of Technology
Nathan Michael, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied
Mechanics, University of Pennsylvania
Jay Schnitzer, Director, Defense Sciences Office, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Moderator
Richard Sandler, Executive Vice President, Milken Family Foundation; Partner, Law Offices of
B R E A KO U T
Maron & Sandler
Global Risk
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
Shaukat Aziz, Former Prime Minister, Pakistan
Wesley Clark, Chairman and CEO, Wesley K. Clark & Associates; Army General (ret.)
and former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO
Julie Cohen, National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats, National Intelligence Council
David Scott, Executive Director, Economic and Energy Affairs, Executive Affairs Authority, Abu Dhabi
Moderator
Joel Kurtzman, Senior Fellow and Executive Director, Center for Accelerating
Energy Solutions, Milken Institute
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Wednesday
9:30 am - 10:45 am
B R E A KO U T
Continued
The Future of Cities
Panelists
Henry Cisneros, Executive Chairman, City View; former Secretary,
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; former San Antonio Mayor
Ann Cramer, Director, IBM Americas
Shaun Donovan, Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
A C Wharton Jr., Mayor of Memphis
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Justin Fox, Editorial Director, Harvard Business Review Group
Investment Opportunities in Health Care —
Whatever the Supreme Court Decides
Whittier
Panelists
Bob Kocher, Partner, Venrock
Paul Kusserow, Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer, Humana
Nandini Tandon, Board Member, C21 BioVentures
Kneeland Youngblood, Founding Partner, Pharos Capital Group
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Aaron Task, Host, Daily Ticker, Yahoo Finance
The Chef’s Table: An Insider’s Look at the Business of Fine Dining
Brighton
Panelists
Elizabeth Blau, CEO, Elizabeth Blau & Associates
Mark Levy, Co-Founder and Vice Chairman, Levy Restaurants
Moderator
Barbara Fairchild, Editor, Real Eats; former Editor-In-Chief, Bon Appetit
B R E A KO U T
Wednesday
9:30 am - 10:45 am
Better Than Real Life: How Virtual Worlds Are Changing the Movies
Dayton
Panelists
Rob Bredow, Chief Technology Officer and Visual Effects Supervisor, Sony Pictures Imageworks
Kelly Port, Visual Effects Supervisor, Digital Domain
Jim Rygiel, Visual Effects Supervisor
Scott Squires, Visual Effects Supervisor, Commercial Director and Software Designer
Moderator
Kevin Klowden, Director, California Center, and Managing Economist, Milken Institute
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B R E A KO U T
Continued
Colleges and Universities: Doing More With Less
Maple
Panelists
Andrew Benton, President, Pepperdine University
Stephen Friedman, President, Pace University
Maria Klawe, President, Harvey Mudd College
Steven Knapp, President, George Washington University
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Steve Fireng, President and CEO, EmbanetCompass
Opportunities in Bank Recapitalization
Canon
Panelists
Jason Brady, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, Thornburg Investment Management
Yuri Garbuzov, Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager, PIMCO
L. Phillip Jacoby, Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer, Spectrum Asset Management, Inc.
Jacob Rothman, Managing Director, Beach Point Capital Management
Moderator
P R I VAT E
Tom Corcoran, President, Imperial Capital
Milken Institute Israel Center Meeting
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
B R E A KO U T
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
One-on-One With Nouriel Roubini: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Speaker
Nouriel Roubini, Chairman and Co-Founder, Roubini Global Economics; Professor of Economics and
International Business, Stern School of Business, New York University
Interviewer
B R E A KO U T
Inside the Front Office: A Look at the Business of Sports
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
Earvin (Magic) Johnson, Chairman and CEO, Magic Johnson Enterprises; NBA Hall of Famer; future
Co-Owner, Los Angeles Dodgers
Timothy Leiweke, President and CEO, AEG
Moderator
Jim Gray, Sportscaster, Showtime, Sacramento Kings and Westwood One Radio
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Wednesday
9:30 am - 10:45 am
B R E A KO U T
Continued
A Conversation With AT&T’s Randall Stephenson
Speaker
Randall Stephenson, Chairman and CEO, AT&T Inc.
Interviewer
B R E A KO U T
Justin Fox, Editorial Director, Harvard Business Review Group
The Longevity Economy:
An Aging Population Creates Worldwide Market Opportunity
Whittier
Panelists
Doug Busch, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Intel-GE Care Innovations
Joseph Coughlin, Director, Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab
Ken Dychtwald, President and CEO, Age Wave
Jody Holtzman, Senior Vice President, Thought Leadership, AARP
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Still Made in the USA
Brighton
Panelists
Gerald Johnson, Manufacturing Manager, General Motors Corp.
Kellie Johnson, President, Ace Clearwater Enterprises
Perry Wong, Director of Research, Milken Institute
Moderator
Frank Mottek, Business News Anchor, CBS KNX 1070 Los Angeles
B R E A KO U T
Wednesday
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Cybersecurity: When Hackers Attack
Dayton
Panelists
Michael Chertoff, Chairman, The Chertoff Group; former Secretary,
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Shawn Henry, President, CrowdStrike Services; former Executive Assistant Director, FBI
Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer, F-Secure
Daniel McGahn, President and CEO, AMSC
Moderator
Marc Goodman, Founder, Future Crimes Institute; Global Security Advisor and Chair for Policy,
Law & Ethics, Singularity University
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B R E A KO U T
Continued
The Great Call of China:
How to Succeed in the World’s Largest Market
Canon
Panelists
DeDe Nickerson, Head of Production and Chief Strategist for the Greater China Region,
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Jonathan Slone, Chairman and CEO, CLSA Ltd.
Steven Udvar-Hazy, Chairman and CEO, Air Lease Corp.
Moderator
R O U N D TA B L E
Economic Development: Heating Up the Arctic
Oakhurst
Panelists
Scott Borgerson, Managing Director, CargoMetrics; former Visiting Fellow for Ocean Governance,
Council on Foreign Relations
Robert Gillam, Chief Investment Officer, McKinley Capital Management, LLC
Alice Rogoff, Publisher, Alaska Dispatch; Founder, Arctic Imperative Summit
Mead Treadwell, Lieutenant Governor, State of Alaska
Ksenia Yudaeva, Director, Center for Macroeconomic Research, Sberbank
Moderator
AUTHOR
AUTHOR
Book Signing
11:00 am - 11:30 am
Henry Cisneros
“Independent for Life: Homes and Neighborhoods for an Aging America”
Pavilion
Book Signing
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Richard Sandor
“Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation”
GOOD
D E R I VAT I V E S
A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation
Pavilion
RICHARD L. SANDOR
FOREWORD BY RONALD COASE
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Wednesday
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
GENERAL
Lunch Panel
Europe at a Crossroads
Panelists
Jason Cummins, Chief U.S. Economist and Head of Research, Brevan Howard Inc.
Raymond McDaniel Jr., Chairman and CEO, Moody’s Corp.
Nouriel Roubini, Chairman and Co-Founder, Roubini Global Economics; Professor of Economics and
International Business, Stern School of Business, New York University
Josef Stadler, Group Managing Director and Global Head of Ultra High Net Worth Business,
UBS Wealth Management
Moderator
Christopher Ailman, Chief Investment Officer, California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS)
B R E A KO U T
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
The Future of Financial Innovation
Panelists
Richard Sandor, Senior Fellow, Milken Institute; Chairman and CEO, Environmental Financial Products
Myron Scholes, Nobel Laureate, 1997; Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, Stanford Graduate
School of Business
Elad Shraga, Global Head of Credit Solutions Group, Deutsche Bank
Moderator
Glenn Yago, Senior Director, Israel Center; Senior Research Fellow; and Founder,
Financial Innovations Labs, Milken Institute
B R E A KO U T
Wednesday
12:15 pm - 2:15 pm
Keeping the World Moving: Logistics and Infrastructure
in the Global Economy
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
Otavio Lazcano, CEO and Head of Investor Relations, LLX Logistics
Eyal Ofer, Chairman, Global Holdings Inc.; Chairman, Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd.
Steven Udvar-Hazy, Chairman and CEO, Air Lease Corp.
Gerry Wang, CEO, Co-Chairman and Co-Founder, Seaspan Corp.
Moderator
John Gapper, Associate Editor and Chief Business Commentator, Financial Times
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B R E A KO U T
Continued
Virtual Money and Virtual Goods in the Real Economy
Panelists
Christopher Barnard, President and Co-Founder, Points.com
Brock Pierce, Managing Director, Clearstone Global Gaming Fund
Matt Smith, CEO, IMI Exchange
Ian Swanson, Vice President of Enterprise Growth, American Express
David Wallerstein, Senior Executive Vice President, Tencent
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Ken Rutkowski, CEO and Founder, METal International
The Human Genome: A User’s Guide
Whittier
Panelists
Gwen Darien, Director, The Pathways Project; Board Member, Education Network to Advance Cancer
Clinical Trials (ENACCT)
George Fisher, Associate Professor of Medical Oncology and Director of Cancer Clinical Trials,
Stanford University
Caroline Lieber, Director, Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics, Sarah Lawrence College
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Margaret Anderson, Executive Director, FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions
Recovery Through Exports:
Restoring California’s Competitive Position
Canon
Panelists
Mark Bernstein, Senior Vice President, MWW Group; Senior Advisor, OnGreen.com
Nanette Bouchard, Vice President, Program Management, Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS)
John Chiang, California State Controller
Perry DeLuca, Industry Head and Team Leader for Wine, Food & Beverage Group, Wells Fargo
Kevin Klowden, Director, California Center, and Managing Economist, Milken Institute
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Judy Olian, Dean and John E. Anderson Chair in Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management
International Impact Investing Challenge: Honoring the Winners
Oakhurst
Panelists
Kelcie Abraham, Ph.D. Student, Stanford University
Himani Phadke, M.A., International Policy Studies–Energy and Environment, Stanford University
Jonathan Strahl, M.A., International Policy Studies-Energy and Environment, Stanford University
Moderator
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Wednesday
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
B R E A KO U T
The Entertainment Industry: A Billion Ideas in Search of an Audience
Panelists
Chase Carey, Deputy Chairman, President and Chief Operating Officer, News Corp.
Jon Feltheimer, CEO, Lionsgate
Mel Karmazin, CEO, Sirius XM Radio Inc.
Robert Kotick, President and CEO, Activision Blizzard
Moderator
B R E A KO U T
Alan Schwartz, Executive Chairman, Guggenheim Partners
The Israeli Paradox: Accelerating Growth/Overcoming Inequality
Wilshire Ballroom
Panelists
Abby Joseph Cohen, Senior Investment Strategist and President, Global Markets Institute,
Goldman Sachs
Eugene Kandel, Head of the National Economic Council, Israeli Prime Minister’s Office
Aaron Mankovski, Chairman, Israel Advanced Technology Industries (IATI); Managing General Partner,
Pitango Venture Capital
Yair Seroussi, Chairman, Bank Hapoalim
Moderator
Glenn Yago, Senior Director, Israel Center; Senior Research Fellow; and Founder, Financial Innovations
Labs, Milken Institute
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
P R I VAT E
Wednesday
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Milken Institute California Center:
A Conversation With Governor Jerry Brown
Stardust
PRIVATE
—
BY INVITATION ONLY
Panelists
Jerry Brown, Governor, State of California
Lynda Resnick, Vice Chairman, Roll Global
Russ Yarrow, General Manager, Corporate Affairs, Chevron
5:15 pm - 6:15 pm
Closing Reception
Poolside West
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PA N E L I STS
Zika Abzuk is a senior manager at Cisco, leading the company’s social investment commitments in Israel, the
Palestinian territories and sub-Saharan Africa. Her most exciting recent projects include management of a $10 million
investment commitment in five African countries and a $10 million investment commitment in the Palestinian territories. In
2010, Cisco received the Award for Corporate Excellence from the U.S. State Department for her team’s work in the region.
Abzuk initiated the Cisco Networking Academy Program in Israel and the territories. She also initiated and managed the
MYTecC program, Neta program and various other initiatives in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Amir Adnani is the founder, president and CEO of Uranium Energy Corp. Adnani also serves as a media spokesman
for the uranium industry. He has been featured recently in media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg
TV, CNBC, BNN, Forbes, Reuters, and the Globe and Mail. He frequently speaks at major industry gatherings including
the recent World Nuclear Fuel Conference and the Mineral Exploration Roundup. Casey Research lists Adnani as one of
the top 10 leading mining industry entrepreneurs and executives. In addition, Adnani is co-founder and chairman of Brazil
Resources Inc., a public company that is exploring and developing projects in the emerging gold districts in Brazil. A
veteran entrepreneur, he earlier built a communications firm serving public companies in the natural resources sector. He
holds a B.S. from the University of British Columbia.
Christopher Ailman is the chief investment officer of the $145 billion California State Teachers’ Retirement System
(CalSTRS). As CIO, Ailman leads a team of seven directors. He joined CalSTRS in 2000. He has over 25 years of institutional
investment management experience. He is a governor of International Corporate Governance, a member of the board
of the Pacific Pension Institute and the co-chairman of the Milken Institute’s Global Capital Markets Committee. In 2000,
Ailman received the CIO of the Year - IFE Leadership Award from the Institute for Fiduciary Education. In 2003, his state
CIO peers awarded him the Richard Stoddard Award for service in the investment of public pensions. Before joining
CalSTRS, Ailman was the CIO for the $65 billion Washington State Investment Board, the Sacramento County Employees’
Retirement System and the County of Sacramento. Ailman has a bachelor’s degree in business economics from the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
Abdulla Mohammed Al Awar is CEO of the Dubai International Financial Centre Authority. He guides DIFC’s
overall strategy, provides thought leadership to the senior management team and publicly represents the authority. Al
Awar also oversees the development of process and systems, management of financial and human resources, nurturing
of high-level client relationships, and the development and delivery of key strategic messages. Before assuming the role
of CEO, he served as managing director of the DIFC. He launched his career in 2001 as a regional sales manager on the
founding team of the knowledge and information cluster that grew into Dubai Knowledge Village and Internet City. Al Awar
sits on the boards of Borse Dubai and Dubai Executive Jets Ltd., and has been a member of the H.H. Sheikh Mohammed Bin
Rashid Program for Leadership Development since 2005. He holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of
Colorado at Boulder.
Abdul Malek Al Jaber is founder and chairman of MENA Apps, the first company to introduce an Arabic application
programming interface in the Middle East-North Africa region. A telecommunications and financial industry veteran and
angel investor, he is also chairman of the Middle East Payment Services. In 2010 and 2011, he ranked No. 62 and No. 69,
respectively, on Global Telecoms Business’ “Power 100” list. Al Jaber is the former chief operating officer of Zain Group
and former CEO of Zain Jordan, where he led the deployment of the region’s first and fastest nationwide HSPA+ network
and the first mobile wallet. Prior to Zain, he was CEO and vice chairman of the Paltel Group. He is also a founder of Al
Rafah Bank, the region’s first micro-finance bank, and a trustee of Aal El Beit University. Al Jaber is a member of the Arab
Business Council, World Economic Forum, Arab Technology Forum and Young Presidents’ Organization, among others. He
holds a Ph.D. in business administration, an M.B.A., and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering.
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PA N E L I STS
Shawn Amos is founder and managing partner of Amos Content Group, a digital creative agency helping businesses
and brands of all types find, express and sustain their online voice through the creation of social media strategies, original
editorial and video content, and curation. With clients including Fox Broadcasting, MTV Networks, Loeb & Loeb, Liberty
Hill Foundation and K-Swiss, the group’s content is seen by more than 30 million people monthly. Prior to forming Amos
Content Group, he was a senior executive and recording artist in the music industry as well as executive director of the
Quincy Jones Listen Up Foundation. Amos is the son of Wally Amos, founder of the Famous Amos brand, and the first
African-American talent agent for the William Morris Agency. He sits on the Board of Trustees for the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame and Museum and the Los Angeles Board of Governors of the Recording Academy.
Martha Amram is the CEO and founder of WattzOn, which offers consumers online tools for personal energy
management (www.wattzon.com). She is also a senior fellow of the Milken Institute, where she has worked on financial
innovations for the biotech and clean-tech sectors in the U.S. and Israel. Previously, Amram was CEO of Vocomo Software,
a voice software company; chief economist of PLX Systems, a patent and copyright software company; and co-founder of
Glaze Creek Partners, a consulting firm she sold to Navigant Consulting. She is the co-author of two books published by
the Harvard Business School Press, “Value Sweep” and “Real Options,” and a third book published by McGraw-Hill. Amram
is a frequent speaker on residential energy-efficiency and business strategy. She holds a Ph.D. in applied economics from
the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Margaret Anderson is executive director of FasterCures/The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions, a Milken
Institute center that works to speed up the timeline for new medicines to go from discovery to patients. In 2011, the
Clinical Research Forum recognized her with an award for leadership in public advocacy. Anderson is the president of
the Alliance for a Stronger FDA and a board member of the Council for American Medical Innovation and the Coalition
for the Advancement of Medical Research. She is also co-chair of the Council on Data and Research and a member of the
Institute of Medicine’s Forum on Drug Discovery, Development and Translation. Previously Anderson was at the Academy
for Educational Development, the Society for Women’s Health Research, the American Public Health Association and the
Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and a
master’s in science, technology and public policy from George Washington University.
Tahir Andrabi is professor of economics at Pomona College and director of social policy at the Center for Economic
Research, Pakistan (CERP), which he co-founded. He has been a visiting scholar at MIT, a research associate at the London
School of Economics and a consultant for the World Bank. He was a member of the tax and macroeconomic committees of
the economic advisory board of the government of Pakistan from 1999 to 2000. He has published extensively in economics
and education journals, and he teaches classes in economic development, game theory, international economics and
empirical microeconomics. In 2007, his work on religious education in Pakistan received the George Bereday Award from
the Comparative and International Education Society. He also co-founded a website to help coordinate relief after the
October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. Andrabi is a graduate of Swarthmore College and holds a Ph.D. in economics from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Husodo Angkosubroto is chairman of PT. Gunung Sewu Kencana (GSK), an Indonesia-based investment and
management group of unconsolidated companies with three core businesses: agribusiness, property development and
life insurance. Its agribusiness portfolio includes the world’s third-largest pineapple producer, a banana plantation, tapioca
starch production operations and cattle feedlots. The property development portfolio focuses on high-quality office,
commercial and residential rental properties. Sequislife, a life insurance company, ranks among the top five largest in
Indonesia. Angkosubroto played a pivotal role in developing GSK into a leading company in Indonesia when he joined the
group in 1977 after earning his B.S. from the University of Southern California.
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Marco Annunziata is the chief economist and executive director of global market insight at General Electric Co.,
responsible for global economic, financial and market analysis to support GE’s business strategy. The author of “The
Economics of the Financial Crisis,” Annunziata is a member of the European Central Bank’s Shadow Council and the
European Council of Economists. Before joining GE in 2011, he was chief economist at UniCredit and chief economist for
Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Deutsche Bank in London. Prior to Deutsche Bank, he spent six years at
the International Monetary Fund, splitting his time between emerging markets and the euro zone. At the IMF, Annunziata
was involved in regular consultations with the Italian government, the Bank of Italy, the European Central Bank and the
European Commission, and took part in loan negotiations in several European and Latin American emerging economies.
He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University and a B.A. from the University of Bologna.
Madelyn Antoncic is vice president and treasurer of the World Bank. She is responsible for managing more than
$130 billion in assets for the bank, its pension and other official-sector investors. Other roles include financing the bank
in international and domestic bond and derivatives markets, developing financing and hedging products for developingcountry clients and building capacity for bank member countries. Antoncic gained experience in banking and finance
as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York followed by 12 years at Goldman Sachs - more than seven of
them trading structured mortgage products - and a two-year stint at Barclay’s Capital. Later, she held several positions at
Lehman Brothers including chief risk officer. In 2007, she was asked to turn her focus to external issues and became active
in the regulatory and policy debate with particular emphasis on systemic risk issues. She holds a Ph.D. in economics and
finance from New York University.
Nancy Aossey is president and CEO of International Medical Corps, a humanitarian organization dedicated to saving
lives and relieving suffering through health-care training programs that build self-reliance. Aossey joined International
Medical Corps shortly after its founding in 1984 and helped launch its early activities in Afghanistan, Angola, Somalia,
Bosnia, Rwanda and Kosovo. Aossey has since transformed it into one of the largest, most effective relief organizations,
delivering more than $1.2 billion of assistance, health services and training to tens of millions of people in more than 65
countries. Today, International Medical Corps’ 4,500 staff and thousands of volunteers work in the world’s most challenging
places, including Darfur, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Haiti, Syria, Libya and South Sudan. Aossey has
testified numerous times before Congress and frequently briefed the White House on humanitarian issues. She received a
B.A., M.B.A. and honorary doctorate from the University of Northern Iowa.
Anthony Armstrong is a managing director in the Investment Banking Division of Credit Suisse. He is co-head of
Americas Mergers & Acquisitions. Armstrong rejoined Credit Suisse in 2011 after a two-year assignment as head of M&A
for Qatar Holding, the sovereign wealth fund of the state of Qatar. Prior to that, he served as head of M&A for Middle East/
North Africa. He was also previously head of M&A Western Region United States for Credit Suisse. Armstrong first joined
Credit Suisse when the firm acquired Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Prior to that, Armstrong worked for Bowles Hollowell
Conner & Co. Armstrong has advised companies on mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, strategic stakes, and
hostile transactions. Clients include a number of the world’s largest sovereign wealth funds, multinational corporations and
leading private equity firms. Armstrong received an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and a B.S.
in accounting from Colorado State University.
Laura Arnold is co-chair of the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF). The foundation’s core objective is to
produce substantial, widespread and lasting reforms that will maximize opportunities and minimize injustice in our society.
To do this, LJAF identifies challenges and addresses their root causes through innovative multi-disciplinary solutions.
LJAF’s areas of focus include criminal justice, government accountability initiatives, obesity and education. Arnold is an
adjunct professor of management at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, where she is also
a trustee. She is also a member of the national board of directors of Teach For America and the Innocence Project, and a
trustee of Baylor College of Medicine and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Arnold has a J.D. from the Yale Law School,
an M.Phil in European studies from the University of Cambridge and a B.A. in government from Harvard College.
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Cecilia Arradaza is FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions’ director of communications and
marketing. She develops and executes a robust portfolio of communications and marketing strategies designed to advance
the organization’s goals. Previously, she worked at Chandler Chicco Agency (CCA), a health public relations firm, where she
managed public relations and public affairs programs for pharmaceutical, foundation and nonprofit clients. Before joining
CCA, Arradaza managed the issues advocacy and coalition building at Hyde Park Communications, a specialty public
affairs agency; handled media relations and public awareness efforts at the American Psychiatric Association; and was
part of the health and international public affairs practices at Powell Tate, a public affairs firm. She received her bachelor’s
degree in health science from George Washington University at Mount Vernon College.
Jonathan Art is a portfolio manager with the Federated Kaufmann Fund, where he is responsible for the fund’s
investments in the technology, communications and renewable energy industries. Previously, he was with S Squared
Technology, a technology-oriented hedge fund in New York. Art began his career with the Gartner Group, where he
provided investment research and managed the firm’s consulting activities for the private equity industry. His last position
was vice president of corporate development. Art has been an active investor in the public and private technology markets
for over 30 years. He has a B.E.S. from Johns Hopkins University and an M.S. from the Sloan School at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, where he was a Sloan Fellow.
Mark Attanasio is the co-founder and managing partner of Crescent Capital Group LP, and chairman and principal
owner of the Milwaukee Brewers. Crescent Capital is an employee-owned alternative credit asset management firm
with approximately $10 billion in assets under management. Prior to founding Crescent Capital in 2011, he was group
managing director of the Leveraged Finance Group at The TCW Group Inc., as well as a board member. He holds positions
on several not-for-profit boards including Heal the Bay, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The United Way
of Milwaukee, The Greater Milwaukee Committee, The West Coast Advisory Board of Columbia University School of Law,
and Harvard-Westlake School. In addition, Attanasio has served on the President’s Leadership Council at Brown University
for more than a decade and is a member of Major League Baseball’s Money Management and Finance Committees.
He received an A.B. from Brown University and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
Karen Austin is senior vice president of information technology and chief information officer for Pacific Gas
and Electric Co., where she leads the evaluation and support of mission-critical systems and develops the company’s
technology strategy, infrastructure and architecture. Prior to PG&E, Austin held several executive-level positions at Kmart
Corp. and Sears Holdings Corp. At both, she was responsible for systems governing store operations, merchandising,
supply chain and finance. At Kmart, she served as divisional vice president of supply chain applications, vice president of IT
applications, vice president for applications development, chief information officer and interim chief marketing officer. At
Sears, her roles included president of consumer electronics, senior vice president and chief information officer. She has also
held various IT technology positions for The Timken Co. and Central Mutual Insurance Company in Ohio. Austin received a
bachelor’s degree in computer science from Tri-State University in Indiana.
Patrick Avery is president and CEO of Prospect Global Resources Inc. with 25 years of experience in all phases
of industrial businesses. He spent 15 years in petroleum refining and pipeline/terminal operations at ARCO and Santa
Fe Pacific Pipelines. He was a senior vice president at J.R. Simplot, leading the mining and manufacturing of nitrogen,
phosphate and other industrial chemicals at over 20 facilities. Avery was also president of Intrepid Potash, where he led
all aspects of mining, manufacturing, logistics and sales. In his numerous senior management roles, Avery has led sales,
marketing and supply-chain efforts and strategic planning functions in petroleum, mining, fertilizer, specialty chemicals
and construction/project management. He has also built and operated many mines, processing plants and infrastructure
projects. Avery has served on several business and nonprofit boards. He completed undergraduate and graduate work in
sciences and civil engineering and has an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.
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Nevzat Aydın is co-founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, an online food ordering portal based in Turkey. Aydin, who
founded Yemeksepeti in 2000, was selected as an “Endeavor Entrepreneur” by the nonprofit organization Endeavor, which
assists high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Aydın was one of 150 entrepreneurs invited to the Presidential
Summit on Entrepreneurship hosted by President Obama in 2010. The same year he was named Turkey’s “Most Successful
Young Entrepreneur” by CNBC-e Business magazine. A founding member of the Galata Business Angels, Aydın recently
was a speaker at the DLD12 (Digital, Life, Design) conference. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of GQ Turkey,
a board member of the Trabzonspor SK professional football club, an attendee of the Champions League 2012 and a
dragon on the popular reality TV show “Dragons’ Den.” Born in Istanbul, Aydın studied computer engineering at Bogazici
University and after graduation pursued an M.B.A. at the University of San Francisco.
Shaukat Aziz is the former prime minister of Pakistan. Serving from 2004 to 2007, he became the nation’s first prime
minister to complete a full term in office. During his tenure, Pakistan saw high economic growth, increased per capita income,
a reduction in poverty, a surge in investments, and improved debt levels and economic indicators. Before serving as prime
minister, he spent five years as finance minister and was named the 2001 “Finance Minister of the Year” by Euromoney
and The Bankers magazine. Before entering government, Aziz held several positions in his 30 years at Citi, including
chief executive of its global wealth management business and executive vice president. A member of several boards and
advisory boards for commercial and nonprofit organizations, he speaks frequently on such topics as structural reforms,
diplomacy, geopolitics and security. Aziz graduated from Gordon College, Rawalpindi, and received his M.B.A. from the
Institute of Business Administration, then at the University of Karachi.
Paulo Baia is the head of global research for Nexar Capital Group. A partner, he has been with the firm since its
inception. Prior to joining Nexar, Baia was the head of research of the Societe Generale Asset Management (SGAM) fund
of hedge funds program based in New York and a managing director of SGAM. Before joining SGAM in 2003, Baia spent
five years at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, where he worked in Latin American capital markets origination and served
as a co-head of the New Business Group. He joined Dresdner New York in 1998 as the head of the emerging markets
proprietary trading desk. From 1995 to 1997, Baia headed the Brazil fixed income and equities trading desk at Donaldson,
Lufkin & Jenrette. Prior to DLJ, Baia spent seven years at Bankers Trust Co., first heading the Brazil desk and later the Latin
American fixed-income and equity trading team. Baia has a degree in finance from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in
Brazil and a master’s degree from Columbia University.
Richard Baker is president and CEO of the Managed Funds Association, a role he assumed in 2008. A lifelong public
servant until joining MFA, he represented Louisiana’s 6th District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Baker was a member
of the House Financial Services Committee and chairman of the Subcommittee on Capital Markets for 12 years. He is widely
recognized as an expert on securities, insurance and housing finance. Baker also held a leadership position on the House
Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and served as a member of the Committee on Veteran’s Affairs. At age 23,
Baker was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives and served for 15 years. During that time, he was chairman of
the House Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.
Christopher Barnard is president and a director of Points International Ltd., which he co-founded in 2000.
Points.com’s solutions enable the management and monetization of loyalty currencies, including frequent flyer miles,
hotel points, retailer rewards and credit card points, for more than 50 leading programs worldwide. He is responsible for
corporate strategy, product development, corporate development and financing activities, and investor relations. He has
also held additional interim operating positions, including chief financial officer and vice president of product development
and marketing. In 1998 he co-founded Canada’s first Internet business incubator, Exclamation International, from which
Points.com was created. Bernard holds an M.B.A.
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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 has
led an international team advising the People’s Bank of China on banking reform and has traveled to China, India and Russia
to lecture on various financial issues for the State Department. Barth previously was 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 Rise and
Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets” and “Guardians of Finance.” He received a Ph.D. from Ohio State University.
Maria Bartiromo is anchor of CNBC’s “Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo” and anchor and managing editor of the
syndicated “Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo.” In 1995, Bartiromo became the first journalist to report live
from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on a daily basis. She has received numerous awards, including Emmys for
her “Bailout Talks Collapse” and “Inside the Mind of Google” programs as well as a Gracie Award for “Greenspan: Power,
Money & the American Dream.” In 2009, the Financial Times named her one of the “50 Faces That Shaped the Decade.”
She was also the first female journalist inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. Bartiromo is the author of several books and
a monthly column in USA Today. She sits on the boards of New York University, the New York City Ballet and the Young
Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A graduate of New
York University, Bartiromo served as an adjunct professor at NYU’s Stern School of Business in 2010 and 2011.
Eike Batista is a Brazilian businessman with interests in petroleum, logistics, energy, mining, shipbuilding and various
other industries. He is chairman and CEO of the EBX Group, which encompasses five companies listed on the Bovespa’s
Novo Mercado (New Market), a segment with the highest standards of corporate governance. The companies, all of which
he took public between 2004 and 2010, are OGX (oil and gas), MPX (energy), LLX (logistics), MMX (mining) and OSX
(offshore industry). Between 1980 and 2000, Batista created US$20 billion in value through the installation and operation
of eight gold mines in Brazil and Canada and a silver mine in Chile. Since 2000, EBX has operated three iron ore mines in
Brazil. Batista’s EBX Group has invested US$15.5 billion in Brazil in 2011-2012, generating 20,000 jobs in the construction
and operation of its enterprises. Over the next 10 years, US$50 billion will be invested in the country.
Max Baucus is a U.S. senator from Montana and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. First elected to the Senate
in 1978, he is the longest-serving senator from Montana, and the fifth longest-serving U.S. senator in office. As the chairman
of the Senate Finance Committee, Baucus has played an influential role in the debate over health-care reform in the United
States. He is also chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation, a member of the Senate Agriculture Committee and Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee, and chairman of the Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
He is the vice chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation. Before his election to the Senate, Baucus was a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1978. He served in the Montana House of Representatives from 1973 to 1974.
He received a B.A. in economics and a law degree from Stanford University.
Frank Baxter is chairman emeritus at Jefferies & Co. Inc., a global investment bank focusing on mid-cap companies.
He served as U.S. ambassador to Uruguay from 2006 to 2009. Baxter was CEO of Jefferies from 1987 until he retired
in 2001. He is co-chairman of the Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, a charter management organization with 20
middle and high schools; chairman of Fremont College, a career college; and board member of the University of California,
Berkeley Foundation. A former director of the NASD, he chaired the committee that led to the spinoff of the 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. The recipient of several awards and a member of numerous civic organizations, Baxter
received a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Willow Bay is a special correspondent for Bloomberg Television and a senior editor at the Huffington Post. She
regularly interviews business leaders, including Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, economist Nouriel
Roubini and Kenneth Feinberg, administrator of BP’s $20 billion compensation fund. Prior to joining the Huffington Post,
Bay was an executive producer and host of Lifetime Television’s “Spotlight 25,” a multi-platform research initiative and
television special. Prior to that, Bay served as an anchor and freelance reporter for NBC News and MSNBC. She also held
a variety of high-profile anchoring and business reporting roles at CNN. She has also worked at ABC and NBC, including
co-host of “NBA Inside Stuff.” Bay wrote her first book, “Talking to Your Kids in Tough Times: How to Answer Your Child’s
Questions about the World We Live In,” in 2003. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in literature
and received a master’s degree from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Evan Bayh is a senior advisor at Apollo Global Management and a partner at McGuireWoods LLC. He served two terms
in the U.S. Senate, from 1999 through 2011, representing the state of Indiana. There he served on six committees: Banking,
Housing and Urban Affairs, where he chaired the Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance; Armed Services,
where he chaired the Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support; Energy and Natural Resources; the Select
Committee on Intelligence; Small Business and Entrepreneurship; and the Special Committee on Aging. Before running for
the Senate, Bayh was elected in 1988 to the first of two terms as governor of Indiana. After clerking for a federal court judge
and entering private law practice in Indianapolis, he was elected Indiana’s secretary of state in 1986. Bayh graduated with a
degree in business economics from Indiana University in 1978 and received his law degree from the University of Virginia.
Pierre Beaudoin is president and CEO of Bombardier Inc., the largest supplier of rail equipment, systems and
services, and the third-largest manufacturer of civil aircraft in the world. Named to his current position in 2008, Beaudoin
joined Bombardier in 1985 to help organize the Marine Products Division. Later he was named vice president of product
development for the Sea-Doo/Ski-Doo Division, and then executive vice president and president. In 1996 he was appointed
president and chief operating officer of Bombardier Recreational Products. He later served as president of Bombardier
Business Aircraft, and then assumed the post of president and chief operating officer of Bombardier Aerospace. In 2004, in
addition to his duties as president and COO of Bombardier Aerospace, Beaudoin was appointed executive vice president
of Bombardier Inc., a member of the Office of the President and a member of the board. Beaudoin studied business
administration at Brebeuf College in Montreal and industrial relations at McGill University.
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 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,
National Medal of Science in 2000, 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 now writes a weekly blog with Judge Richard Posner. Becker 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. He has honorary degrees from Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and many other universities.
David Beckman is the director of the national Water Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Working
from each of the NRDC’s U.S. offices, the Water Program seeks to ensure safe and sufficient water for people and
ecosystems in the United States. The program’s strategic focus areas include water scarcity, clean water solutions such as
green infrastructure, and the intersection of water and climate issues. Beckman is a graduate of the University of California,
Berkeley, and Harvard Law School. He practiced at Heller Ehrman White and McAuliffe in San Francisco for three years
before joining the NRDC.
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Sharon Begley is the senior health and science correspondent at Reuters. She was previously the science editor and
science columnist at Newsweek, and the science columnist at The Wall Street Journal. She is the co-author (with Richard
J. Davidson) of the 2012 book “The Emotional Life of Your Brain,” and the author of the 2007 book “Train Your Mind,
Change Your Brain.” She is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including an honorary degree from the University
of North Carolina for communicating science to the public and the Public Understanding of Science Award from the San
Francisco Exploratorium. She has spoken before many audiences on the topics of science writing, neuroplasticity and
science literacy, including at Yale University (her alma mater), the Society for Neuroscience, the American Association for
the Advancement of Science and the National Academy of Sciences.
John Belluomini is founder and CEO of the Center for the Greater Good. After 18 successful years in finance and
technology, Belluomini envisioned creating a stable environment for the working poor and others suffering from the effects
of poverty in the U.S. To achieve this goal, he created the CGG to innovate new ways to fund community development while
creating a platform of stability for individuals and families. Bridging the gaps in funding for services provided in low-income
communities, the Center for the Greater Good has revolutionized the funding of community development that provides a
measurable positive impact on society. Socially responsible, financially viable and able to break the binds of poverty in our
communities, CGG’s funding speaks to America’s need to build stronger communities by working with the people who live
in them and funding the services necessary for personal growth.
Bradley Belt is senior managing director of the Milken Institute, heading its Washington office. He is a co-founder of
Palisades Capital Management LLC, a restructuring advisory and investment firm that focuses on pensions, insurance and
financial services. Previously, he was the CEO of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., a federally chartered corporation that
insures the defined-benefit plans of private employers, overseeing a $60 billion investment portfolio. Belt has extensive
experience in executive management, operations, finance and policy development in the private, public and nonprofit
sectors. He has held senior staff positions at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Senate and serves on
several corporate and nonprofit boards. Belt was named one of SmartMoney’s “Power 30” in finance and one of Workforce
magazine’s “10 Most Forward-Thinking Leaders in Workforce Management.” He received a J.D. from Georgetown University
and a B.S. from the University of Nebraska.
William Bennett is one of America’s most familiar voices on cultural, political and education issues. He was secretary
of education in the Reagan administration as well as the nation’s first drug czar under the first President Bush. An awardwinning professor, he taught at Boston University, the University of Texas and Harvard University. Bennett is the author of
24 books, the most recent being the New York Times best-seller “The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood.”
Bennett is a frequent guest on CNN and the host of “Morning In America,” the seventh largest nationally syndicated radio
show. He is also a co-founder of K12 Inc., an online education company. Bennett holds a bachelor’s degree from Williams
College, a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas and a law degree from Harvard University. He is the recipient of
more than 30 honorary degrees.
Andrew Benton is the president of Pepperdine University, a position he has held since 2000. Benton has served in
higher education for 38 years, 28 of those years at Pepperdine. He is an attorney by training, but virtually all of his career
has been spent working on behalf of young people. He teaches regularly and will offer his class Jurisprudence and Judicial
Process once again this fall. He is the former chair of the American Council on Education and a current board member of
the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities. He also serves on the Commission on Attainment, a
task force charged with preparing a response to President Obama’s Higher Education 2020 plan.
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Howard Berman is a U.S. congressman from California. Berman, elected to the House of Representatives in 1982,
is the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. As chairman, he negotiated a five-year, $50 billion
reauthorization of global HIV/AIDS programs, authored legislation removing Nelson Mandela and other members of
the African National Congress from the U.S. terrorism list, and passed a bill to strengthen U.S. assistance to Israel. Also
a member of the Judiciary Committee, Berman is well-known for his ability to form bipartisan coalitions. Together
with Rep. Henry Hyde, he wrote a law authorizing embargoes on nations that support terrorism. With Republican Sen.
Chuck Grassley, Berman wrote amendments to the False Claims Act, saving taxpayers over $30 billion. Berman began
his career in public service as a VISTA volunteer after graduating with a degree from the University of California, Los
Angeles, Law School.
Josh Berman is the founder and CEO of BeachMint, a next-generation social commerce company based in Santa
Monica. BeachMint operates four direct-to-consumer sites (JewelMint, StyleMint, BeautyMint and ShoeMint) that offer
exclusive products, designed and curated by a celebrity and style expert, through a subscription shopping model. In
addition to being a founder of MySpace.com, Berman served as the company’s chief operating officer from 2003 to 2007.
He went on to run Slingshot Labs, News Corp.’s Internet incubator. Prior to MySpace, he co-founded and managed the
successful Internet/e-commerce companies ResponseBase and Xdrive Technologies. Before his tech career, Berman was a
management consultant with Pricewaterhouse Coopers. He is on the board of U.S. Auto Parts and is an active member of
the Young Presidents’ Organization-Los Angeles. Berman holds an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California and a
B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jared Bernstein is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and the economic policy fellow at the
Milken Institute. From 2009 to 2011, he was chief economist and economic advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, executive
director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama’s economic team. His
expertise includes economic and fiscal policies, income inequality and mobility, employment and earnings trends, and
financial and housing markets. Previously Bernstein was senior economist and director of the Living Standards Program
at the Economic Policy Institute and deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. He is the author of several
books, including “Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed?” and nine editions of “The State of Working America.” Bernstein
has published extensively in leading academic and media outlets. He is a commentator for CNBC and MSNBC and hosts
jaredbernsteinblog.com. Bernstein holds a Ph.D. in social welfare from Columbia University.
John Birkhold is a partner and portfolio manager with Origin Asset Management, a London-based global equity fund
manager. He was previously a managing director at Credit Suisse HOLT, producer of a leading corporate performance and
valuation system that is currently utilized by over 400 asset management firms worldwide. At HOLT, he held a variety of
senior roles over a 16-year career including as the leader of non-U.S. business (London) for seven years, founding partner
of the Asia Pacific franchise (Sydney) and portfolio consultant (Chicago). Prior to joining HOLT, Birkhold was an investment
analyst for the Ameritech Pension Fund in Chicago. He started his career as a systems analyst with Titan Systems, a
Virginia-based defense contractor. Birkhold holds a B.S. and M.E. in systems engineering from the University of Virginia and
an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Chicago.
Kate Black serves as health privacy counsel at the Center for Democracy and Policy’s San Francisco office. While
in law school, she clerked for the Honorable John J. O’Sullivan in the Southern District of Florida, the ACLU’s National
Prison Project and the Department of Homeland Security as well as volunteering for the D.C. Health Insurance Counseling
Project. She also worked for the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy and the President’s Council of
Advisors on Science and Technology. While there, Black authored portions of the “Realizing the Full Potential of Health
Information Technology to Improve Healthcare for Americans: The Path Forward” report to the president and developed
implementation strategies for policies including Texts for Baby, nanotechnology initiatives, STEM education and tobacco
trade agreements. Black earned a B.S. in health sciences from Florida International University and a law degree from
George Washington University, where she focused on health law and policy.
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Leon Black is chairman and CEO of Apollo Global Management, LLC, and a managing partner of Apollo Management,
L.P., which he founded in 1990 to manage investment capital on behalf of a group of institutional investors. The firm had
$70 billion in assets under management as of March 31, 2011. From 1977 to 1990, Black worked at Drexel Burnham Lambert
Inc., where he served as managing director, head of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group and co-head of the Corporate
Finance Department. He serves on the boards of Apollo Global Management, Sirius XM Radio Inc., The New York City
Partnership and the general partner of AP Alternative Assets. Black is a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art, Mount Sinai
Hospital, Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Asia Society. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and
sits on the boards of FasterCures and the Port Authority Task Force. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he holds an M.B.A.
from Harvard Business School.
Elizabeth Blau is the founder and chairman of Blau & Associates, a Las Vegas restaurant development company she
started in 2003. She and her husband, Kim Canteenwalla, launched Society Cafe at Encore in late 2008. Blau’s longstanding
friendship with celebrity chef Kerry Simon resulted in their fifth collaboration when they opened Simon Restaurant &
Lounge at Palms Place in 2008 with partner George Maloof. Blau began her career with famed restaurateur Sirio Maccioni.
When Maccioni expanded the Le Cirque brand to Las Vegas, Blau’s work on the project caught the attention of Steve
Wynn, then CEO of Mirage Resorts. As vice president of restaurant development for Mirage Resorts, Blau persuaded a
group of award-winning chefs to join the company and the burgeoning Las Vegas dining scene. In 2004, Wynn recruited
Blau to join Wynn Las Vegas as executive vice president of restaurant development and marketing. Blau appeared as a
judge on Food Network’s “Iron Chef America” and was featured on the Travel Channel and the “Martha Stewart Show.”
Philipp Bleek is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of International Policy and Management at the Monterey
Institute of International Studies and a fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. His research and
teaching focus on the causes, consequences and amelioration of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons proliferation.
During the 2012-13 academic year, he will serve as senior advisor to the assistant secretary of defense for Nuclear,
Chemical and Biological Defense Programs under a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. Bleek
has held fellowships at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Center for Strategic
and International Studies and the Center for a New American Security. He has taught at Georgetown University and in the
Department of Defense Senior Leader Development Program.
Todd Boehly is the president of Guggenheim Partners. Since joining the firm in 2001, he has grown the leveraged credit
assets under management from about $3 billion to approximately $26 billion today. He spearheaded the firm’s initiative into
the middle market direct lending arena, where Guggenheim has originated more than $7 billion of proprietary investment
opportunities. Boehly is chairman of the firm’s Credit Committee and a member of the Management Committee and the
Merchant Banking Investment Committee. Previously he was a vice president at J.H. Whitney & Co., where he developed
the firm’s leveraged loan investing program and was responsible for its special situation portfolio. In addition, Boehly cofounded Shelter Rock Capital Corp., which was established by Whitney for its CDO restructuring and takeover activities.
Prior to Whitney, he worked in the Leveraged Finance Group at Credit Suisse First Boston. Boehly holds a bachelor’s
degree from the College of William & Mary and spent a year abroad at the London School of Economics.
David Bonderman is a founding partner of TPG, which makes significant investments in operating companies
through acquisitions and restructurings across a broad range of industries in the United States, Europe and Asia. TPG and
its affiliates have more than $48 billion in equity capital under management. Portfolio companies controlled by TPG, which
include PETCO, Harrah’s Entertainment, Neiman Marcus and Univision, have combined revenues of over $100 billion and
operate in more than 100 countries. Prior to forming TPG in 1992, Bonderman was chief operating officer of the Robert M.
Bass Group Inc. in Fort Worth; he was also a partner in the law firm Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. Bonderman serves
on the boards of The Wilderness Society, the Grand Canyon Trust, and the American Himalayan Foundation. He received a
bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the
Harvard Law Review and a Sheldon fellow.
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Scott Borgerson is a co-founder and managing director of CargoMetrics. Previously, he was an Arctic and oceans
policy expert at the Council on Foreign Relations. A former Coast Guard officer, he served as a ship navigator, a patrol boat
captain and the founding director of the Coast Guard Academy’s Institute for Leadership. He has also taught as an assistant
professor at the Coast Guard Academy and as a senior research scholar at Columbia University. His op-eds and articles
have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Atlantic Monthly and Foreign Affairs, among other publications.
He has testified before Congress and appeared on a number of radio and television broadcasts speaking on a range of
investment, foreign policy and national security topics. Borgerson is a senior fellow and board member at the Institute for
Global Maritime Studies. He earned a B.S. from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from the
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Nanette Bouchard is the vice president of program management for Boeing Defense, Space & Security. She leads
an organization that assists program managers throughout a program lifecycle, and oversees program management best
practices, processes and tools, planning, Lean+ integration and talent management. She is the Boeing Southern California
regional executive supporting state and local government activities as well as Boeing’s Global Corporate Citizenship efforts.
Bouchard has also served as vice president and general manager of Boeing’s Command, Control and Communications
Networks; vice president of Engineering & Mission Assurance; and leader of the Development Process Excellence Initiative.
She has also held management positions on such programs as the International Space Station.
Bonin Bough is vice president of global digital and consumer engagement at Kraft Foods. He oversees Kraft’s digital
communications, establishes new partnerships with online platforms, manages internal capabilities and develops strategies
across the firm’s product portfolio. Bough has been recognized as one of the hottest rising stars in business; he is one of
Fortune’s 2011 “40 Under 40,” Fast Company’s 2011 “100 Most Creative People in Business” and Ebony’s “Power 100.” Prior
to joining Kraft Foods, Bough spent three and a half years at PepsiCo, where he oversaw companywide digital strategy and
the implementation of social media tools across PepsiCo’s portfolio of food and beverage brands. He was instrumental in
integrating digital media into PepsiCo’s overall brand vision and growth strategy, helping to make it one of Fast Company’s
“Most Innovative Companies” in 2011.
Maria Boyazny is the founder and CEO of MB Global Partners, a multi-manager platform focused on special situations
and distressed securities markets. Prior to launching MB Global, Boyazny was a managing director and portfolio manager
at Siguler Guff & Co., a New York-based private equity firm. She oversaw its flagship Distressed Opportunities Funds I, II,
III and IV from inception in 2000 to assets of $4.5 billion over 10 years. Boyazny is the author of several publications, a
frequent conference speaker and media commentator. She is active in researching theoretical issues and their application
to successful strategies for distressed and turnaround investing in various markets. Previously Boyazny was a member of
the Investment Banking Division of Smith Barney Inc. She received a degree in economics with a minor in mathematics
from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She earned her M.B.A. from Columbia University.
Alan Boyce is co-founder and director of Adecoagro, a food and renewable energy-producing company that owns
and operates highly productive land throughout Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. He is also CEO of Absalon, where he
works to implement the beneficial aspects of the Danish mortgage system in Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Peru,
Mexico and other countries. Boyce is co-founder and director of Agrica Ltd., the largest rice grower and miller in Tanzania.
Agria continues to develop sustainable agribusiness in Africa, currently focusing on South Sudan. Boyce recently started
Westlands Solar Farms, a California renewable energy company, and Materra LLC, a California agricultural production
company. Previously Boyce served as director of special situations at Soros Fund Management and as managing director
of fixed-income arbitrage at Bankers Trust. He holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. in economics from
Pomona College.
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Jan Boyer is managing director of SOFRA and a former executive board member representing the U.S. at the InterAmerican Development Bank. Boyer invests in emerging and developed economies and has been founder and chief
executive of private equity funds at Softbank, FleetBoston and Salomon. At Lehman Brothers, he worked on principal
investing, M&A, debt and equity financing and government advisory transactions in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Latin America
and Africa. In the public sector, Boyer represented the United States on the executive boards of the Multilateral Investment
Fund and the Inter-American Investment Corp.; and was senior advisor to the president serving at the Overseas Private
Investment Corp. He is currently advising institutional and family investors on alternative asset investing and the emerging
markets. Boyer has been involved in direct investments, LP commitments to funds and strategic advisory relationships.
Fluent in five languages, Boyer holds degrees from Stanford University and Harvard University.
Thomas Boysen is an education consultant who has served with distinction as a teacher and administrator in the
schools of five states. He began teaching in a remote boarding school in Kenya. Later he served as a school superintendent
for 20 years in Washington State, New York and California, culminating in his work as San Diego County superintendent
of schools. As the first Kentucky commissioner of education, Boysen led the implementation of the landmark Kentucky
Education Reform Act. After leaving Kentucky, Boysen has served as senior vice president of the Milken Family Foundation,
chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Unified School District, chief schools officer of K12 Inc. and chief learning officer
of GlobalScholar, a learning systems company.
Kent Bradley is senior vice president and chief medical officer of Safeway Inc. Since joining Safeway in 2011, he has led
the company’s health-care initiatives, including employee and consumer wellness programs. Bradley came to Safeway from
the U.S. Army, where his assignments included duty in Iraq in 2003 as deputy commander of the 30th Medical Brigade,
which consisted of nearly 2,500 personnel, four hospitals, and air and ground ambulance units, and chief medical officer/
executive director of TRICARE Europe. Earlier, Bradley led health teams supporting humanitarian and peacekeeping efforts
in Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Panama, Thailand and Rwanda. After retiring from the military in 2008, Bradley became
a partner with Martin, Blanck & Associates, a health services consulting firm, and earned his M.B.A. at the University of
Denver. He received his undergraduate degree from West Point, a master of public health from the University of Minnesota
and a medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences.
Jason Brady is a managing director and head of taxable fixed income for Thornburg Investment Management. He is
co-portfolio manager of the Thornburg Investment Income Builder Fund, the Thornburg Strategic Income Fund and the
Thornburg Limited Term Income Fund, as well as portfolio manager of the Thornburg Limited Term U.S. Government Fund.
Prior to joining Thornburg, Brady was a portfolio manager with Fortis Investments in Boston, and has held various positions
at Fidelity Investments and Lehman Brothers. He holds a B.A. in environmental biology and English from Dartmouth
College and an M.B.A. from Northwestern’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He also serves as treasurer for the
School for Advanced Research.
Rob Bredow is chief technology officer and visual effects supervisor at Sony Pictures Imageworks. Bredow created
Imageworks’ open-source initiative, most recently releasing Alembic, Open Color I/O and Open Shading Language. He
has been instrumental in the advancement of Imageworks’ lighting and rendering pipeline and is recognized for his ability
to mesh visual effects, animation and innovative technology into a seamless whole. Applications like Katana, the look
development and lighting package, and Arnold, an advanced global illumination renderer, have seen growing commercial
adoption under Bredow’s leadership. Previously he was VFX supervisor for the films “Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs”
and “Surf’s Up,” which was nominated for an Academy Award and won two Annie Awards for its effects. Bredow was
involved in creating many of the complex visual effects featured in “The Polar Express,” Oscar-nominated “Stuart Little,”
“Stuart Little 2” and “Cast Away.” Other credits include “Godzilla” and “Independence Day.”
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Eli Broad is the founder of The Broad Foundations. In the course of his more than 50-year career, he built two
Fortune 500 companies - KB Home and SunAmerica Inc. - from the ground up. Today he is focused on philanthropy
aimed at advancing entrepreneurship for the public good in education, science and the arts. The Eli and Edythe Broad
Foundation works to improve urban K-12 public education through better governance, management, labor relations and
competition. It is also dedicated to advancing innovative scientific and biomedical research. The Broad Art Foundation
holds contemporary artworks that have been loaned more than 7,100 times to some 475 museums and galleries. A fellow
of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Broad is a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy and the David
Rockefeller Award from the Museum of Modern Art.
Carole Brookins is managing director at Public Capital Advisors. The U.S. executive director to the World Bank
from 2001 to 2005, she now serves on the North American agribusiness advisory board of Rabobank International, the
Center for Financial Stability’s advisory board, and the board of trustees of the nonprofit GVEP International (Global Village
Energy Partnership). A counselor of the International Agribusiness Management Association, Brookins was awarded the
Merite Agricole medal by the French government and honored as 2003’s “Woman of the Year” by the Organization of
Women in International Trade. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bretton Woods Committee. In
2008-2009, Brookins served as a member of the Prince of Wales’ Rainforests Project advisory council. She founded and
served as CEO of World Perspectives, a Washington, D.C., consulting firm, from 1980 to 2001. Previously she worked as a
municipal bond underwriter, in commodities with the Chicago Board of Trade, and as a vice president of E.F. Hutton.
Jerry Brown was elected governor of California in 2010. He previously held that office for two terms, from 1975 to
1983. During his political career, he has also served as California’s attorney general, mayor of Oakland and California
secretary of state. He has also been a three-time Democratic candidate for president; his 1992 campaign was noteworthy
for its innovative grassroots strategies and advocacy of campaign finance reform. During the 1980s, Brown led
delegations to China and the Soviet Union, spent six months in Japan studying Japanese culture and Buddhist practice,
worked with Mother Teresa in India and traveled to Bangladesh as a CARE goodwill ambassador during the floods of
1988. He founded the Oakland School for the Arts and the Oakland Military Institute, both of which serve students from
the sixth through twelfth grades. Brown received a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a
J.D. from Yale Law School.
John Seely Brown is a visiting scholar and advisor to the provost at the University of Southern California and also
the independent co-chair of the Deloitte Center for the Edge. He was previously the chief scientist of Xerox Corp. and cofounder of the Institute for Research on Learning. His research interests include arc-of-life learning, youth culture, digital
media and institutional innovation. Brown is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National
Academy of Education, a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and a MacArthur Foundation trustee.
He serves on numerous boards of directors, including Amazon, Corning and Varian Medical Systems. Brown has published
more than 100 papers in scientific journals and is co-author of “The Social Life of Information,” “The Only Sustainable
Edge,” “The Power of Pull” and “The New Culture of Learning.”
Norman Brownstein is a founding member and chairman of Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck. He has extensive
experience in public policy advocacy, which spans the economic spectrum, extending to telecommunications, financial
services, agriculture, tax and health-care interests. Norman has helped dozens of major organizations successfully develop
and execute legislative and regulatory strategies, including AT&T, Ares Management, Caesars Entertainment, Toshiba
Corp., National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Comcast, Federal Express, Warner Music Group and Ultimate
Fighting Championship. Brownstein is involved in many activities on behalf of the University of Colorado and the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee, where he is vice president. He is a trustee of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. The National
Law Journal named Brownstein one of the “100 Most Influential Lawyers” in America. In 2008, he was awarded the Mizel
Museum’s Community Cultural Enrichment Award and the University Medal from the University of Colorado.
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Chris Brummer is a senior fellow at the Milken Institute’s Center for Financial Market Understanding and a professor
of law at Georgetown University. An expert in international financial regulation, he lectures widely on securities and
banking supervision. Brummer has taught at the University of Basel, the University of Heidelberg and the London School
of Economics. Before coming to Georgetown, he was an assistant professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law School. He
also practiced law in the New York and London offices of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. In 2008, Brummer was the Securities
and Exchange Commission’s first academic fellow, and worked in the Office of International Affairs. His research has
appeared in many of the country’s most prestigious journals, and he periodically serves as an expert on Nasdaq hearings
panels on de-listings. Brummer holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a Ph.D. in Germanic studies from the University
of Chicago.
Willem Buiter joined Citi in 2010 as chief economist. Previously he was professor of political economy at the London
School of Economics. A widely published author on economic affairs in books, professional journals and the press, Buiter
was chief economist for the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development between 2000 and 2005. He has been a
consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European
Commission and many central banks and finance ministries. Buiter has held a number of academic positions, including
Cassel Professor of Money and Banking at the London School of Economics, professorships in economics at Yale University,
and professor of international macroeconomics at Cambridge University. Buiter has a B.A. from Cambridge and a Ph.D. in
economics from Yale. He has been a member of the British Academy since 1998 and was awarded the CBE in 2000 for
service to economics.
Joel Burdick is a professor of mechanical engineering and professor of bioengineering at the California Institute of
Technology, where he has worked since 1988. He is the recipient of the NSF Presidential Young Investigator award, the
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award and the Feynman fellowship. He was a finalist for the best paper award
for the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in 1993, 1999, 2000 and 2005. Burdick was appointed
an IEEE Robotics Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2003 and received the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award in
2011. Burdick’s research interests lie mainly in the areas of robotics, mechanical systems and bioengineering. His current
research interests include rehabilitation of spinal cord injuries, multi-fingered robotic grasping and sensor-based robot
motion planning. He received his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering from Duke University and M.S. and
Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University.
Sarah Burd-Sharps is co-director of the American Human Development Project at Measure of America, which she
founded in 2007 after a two-decade career with the United Nations. As co-director of Measure of America, a project
of the Social Science Research Council funded primarily by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, she has co-authored two
volumes of “The Measure of America” series as well as state-level human development reports for California, Louisiana and
Mississippi. Previously she was deputy director of the United Nations Development Program’s Human Development Report
Office, where she worked on international reports involving globalization, environmental issues and human rights, and on
national human development reports on every continent. In the year leading up to the 1995 Beijing Women’s Conference,
Burd-Sharps headed the United Nations Development Fund for Women’s China office and supported the nascent NGO
movement there. She holds a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University.
Andrew Busch is the global currency and public policy strategist for BMO Capital Markets. Based in Chicago, he
is an expert on world financial markets and how these markets are affected by political events. Busch’s focus on public
policy is of growing importance as the role of government has become more intertwined with the markets and private
sector. Busch often appears on financial news outlets, including CNBC, CBC and BNN, where he is a regular contributor.
He appears every Friday on CNBC’s “Money in Motion: Currency Trading” and publishes a daily newsletter, Busch Update.
Busch consults regularly with staff from the White House, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Congress on economic
and market issues. In 2011, Busch was asked to testify to Congress on the effectiveness of the 2009 stimulus package. In
1990, Busch joined BMO’s Foreign Exchange Group in Chicago. Before that, he traded at Northern Trust Co. He received a
B.A. in economics from Ohio Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
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Doug Busch is the senior vice president and chief operating officer of Intel-GE Care Innovations, a new company from
General Electric and Intel dedicated to creating technology-based solutions for health care, senior living and education.
Busch’s responsibilities include product development, product and service roadmaps, manufacturing, operations, supplychain management and customer support, as well as internal operations. Busch has more than 30 years of experience
leading technical, operational and customer support functions, including as Intel’s chief information officer. Busch joined
Intel in 1987 and held a variety of leadership positions in manufacturing, logistics, strategic planning, biomedical research
and health IT advocacy. He was appointed an Intel vice president in 1999 and elected corporate vice president in 2000.
Before joining Intel, he led research and product development programs at Battelle Memorial Institute. Busch received his
bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Ohio State University.
Edmund Cain is vice president for grant programs at the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, overseeing all domestic and
international grant programming. Earlier, Cain served five years as director of the Carter Center’s Global Development
Initiative, which facilitated development in Albania, Guyana, Mali and Mozambique. Cain advised former President Carter
on global development and participated in election-monitoring missions. During his 30-year tenure with the United
Nations, Cain worked in Malaysia, Myanmar and Afghanistan, and served as U.N. resident coordinator in Turkey and Egypt.
He was the first director of the U.N. Development Programme’s (UNDP) Emergency Response Division. In that capacity he
oversaw the formulation of UNDP’s disaster response policy and led missions to Somalia, Rwanda and Sri Lanka. A fellow
at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, Cain holds a master’s degree in public affairs from the University of Oregon
and a bachelor’s degree in political science and international affairs from the University of Delaware.
John Calamos Sr. is chairman, CEO and co-chief investment officer of Calamos Asset Management. Founded in 1977
as an institutional convertible bond manager, Calamos Investments has grown into a diversified asset management firm
with major institutional and individual clients around the world. A pioneer in the use of convertible security investment
strategies to help manage risk, Calamos is the recipient of the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for
the financial services sector, Lake Michigan area. A frequent speaker at investment seminars and conferences, he is often
quoted in the financial press and appears regularly on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Reuters Insider and Fox Business Channel.
Calamos is the author of two books about convertible securities and a regular contributor to many investment industry
publications. A former Air Force major and combat pilot in Vietnam, he holds an undergraduate degree in economics and
an M.B.A. in finance from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
Eric Cantor is the majority leader in the U.S. House of Representatives and has been Virginia’s 7th District congressman
since 2001. Elected majority leader in the wake of the 2010 midterm elections, Cantor was previously the Republican Whip.
Named one of The Weekly Standard’s “Young Guns of the House GOP,” he is a co-author of the New York Times best-seller
“Young Guns: A New Generation of Conservative Leaders.” His commentary on the economy, health care and foreign
policy has been featured in many major publications. A proponent of strong national defense, Cantor formerly chaired the
Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. He has worked to lower taxes, eliminate excessive
regulation and encourage entrepreneurship, and authored the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, which made it easier
for families to save for health-care needs through health savings accounts. Cantor holds a bachelor’s degree from George
Washington University, a J.D. from William & Mary and a master’s degree from Columbia University.
Gregory Cappelli serves as co-CEO and director of the Apollo Group, as well as chairman of Apollo Global.
Previously, he held the roles of executive vice president of global strategy and assistant to the executive chairman. Before
joining Apollo Group, Cappelli spent 10 years as a research analyst for Credit Suisse, where he served as managing director
and senior research analyst and founded the Credit Suisse Global Services Team. Prior to Credit Suisse, Cappelli was vice
president and senior research analyst at ABN AMRO. He serves on the board of Everybody Wins!, one of the nation’s
leading programs promoting literacy for thousands of elementary school students. Cappelli holds a B.A. in economics from
Indiana University and an M.B.A. from the Brennan School of Business at Dominican University, where he is now a member
of the Board of Trustees.
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Dennis Cardoza has represented California’s Central Valley (Stockton, Modesto and Merced) in the U.S. House of
Representatives since 2003. Now in his fifth term in Congress, Cardoza is a leader in the moderate Blue Dog coalition of
Democrats. A former small-business owner, he has secured hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding to create jobs
and grow the economy in the Central Valley. He serves on the Agriculture Committee, where he is the lead Democrat on the
Livestock, Dairy and Nutrition Subcommittee. From 2007 to 2010, Cardoza chaired the Subcommittee on Horticulture and
Organic Agriculture, where he was a leader in crafting the 2008 Farm Bill and worked to secure over $2 billion for specialty
crops. He also serves on the Foreign Affairs Committee and is a whip in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. A member of
the House Democratic leadership team for the four years that the party held the majority, Cardoza served as a senior whip
and a member of the Rules Committee.
Francesca Carega is co-head of the absolute return and buyouts team at the Wellcome Trust. At Wellcome since
2006, she is responsible for the private equity, multi-strategy and credit hedge fund portfolios. Carega also sources and
executes direct and fund investments in the energy, consumer and aging industries. From 2004 to 2006, she was based in
London and worked on the private equity fund of funds team at Merrill Lynch, where she was responsible for private equity,
venture capital fund and co-investments including secondary transactions. Previously, Carega worked with Rho Capital, a
family office based in New York across the fund investment platform. She started her career in institutional sales and equity
research in the telecom and energy sectors.
Chase Carey is deputy chairman, president and chief operating officer of News Corp., a position he has held since
mid-2009. He oversees diversified global operations, including the production and distribution of film and television
programming; television, satellite and cable broadcasting; newspaper and book publishing; and digital media. Carey also
sits on the company’s board of directors. He was previously the president and CEO of DirecTV Inc. and led the operations
and strategic direction of its companies, including DirecTV Inc. in the United States and DirecTV Latin America. Prior to
joining DirecTV, Carey was co-chief operating officer of News Corp. and chairman and CEO of the Fox Television Group. He
was instrumental in managing the company’s operations and strategy, focusing on its worldwide television business, which
encompasses the Fox network, Fox Television Stations, Fox’s cable programming group and the international satellite
operations. Carey is a graduate of Colgate University and Harvard Business School.
Jared Carney, the Milken Institute’s chief strategy officer and acting director of its new Asia Center, is responsible
for programs, partnerships and relationships with the Institute’s major constituents to further its goals of job creation,
advancing medical research and capital access. He has dramatically expanded the Institute’s funding base through
innovative program development and sponsorship of Global Conference. Carney has generated new research projects that
have been instrumental in building the Institute’s reputation as a trusted source of independent analysis and established
the Global Capital Markets Advisory Council, a group of investors with US$14 trillion in AUM who share ideas about market
and policy trends. With his colleagues he helped inaugurate the London Summit and Lake Tahoe Retreat. On June 1, Carney
begins a new endeavor as CEO of Lightdale, LLC, a strategic marketing and consulting firm. He will remain affiliated with
the Institute as a senior fellow and keep responsibility for the GCMAC and other initiatives.
Bob Casey is a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania. In 2006, Casey became the first Democrat from his state to be elected
to a full Senate term since 1962. Casey’s top priorities are to restore Pennsylvania’s economy and create jobs. He is a senior
member of the Foreign Relations Committee and chairman of the Joint Economic Committee. He led the fight to continue
the payroll tax cut and has focused on problems facing Pennsylvania manufacturing, especially unfair trade practices of
foreign countries. He has introduced legislation to spur growth in Pennsylvania’s life sciences industry and led the effort
to increase funding for the National Institutes of Health. Casey graduated from The College of the Holy Cross in 1982 and
spent the following year teaching fifth grade and coaching eighth-grade basketball in inner-city Philadelphia for the Jesuit
Volunteer Corps. He received his law degree from Catholic University in 1988 and entered the practice of law in Scranton.
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James Casey is a managing director and co-head of Global Debt Capital Markets at J.P. Morgan Securities LLC. He has
24 years of investment banking experience and has completed more than 500 debt transactions. His experience includes
capital raisings for acquisitions, refinancings and recapitalizations. Casey also has extensive experience with debt tenders
and debt restructurings. A CPA, he holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S.
from Bentley College.
Mario Chady is CEO and co-founder of Grupo Trigo. At age 17, Chady started his career in Brazil working in an
international trading company. At 22, he founded his first company, launching his career as an entrepreneur. In 1992, Chady
opened his first of a string of restaurants in Brazil. In 1999, Chady and founding partner Eduardo Ourivio opened the first
Spoleto’s restaurant, a fast-casual Italian brand, currently the largest Italian food chain in Brazil. Chady is the head of
Grupo Trigo, the holding company that manages all of Grupo Trigo’s brands: Spoleto (315 stores), Domino’s Pizza in Brazil
(69 stores) and Koni Store (45 stores) as well as two industrial plants. Grupo Trigo is one of the largest fast-casual/quickservice restaurant companies in Brazil and expects to reach US$320 million in gross revenues in 2012. Spoleto also has 20
locations in Mexico and two in Spain.
June Chan is an associate professor of epidemiology, biostatistics and urology at the University of California, San
Francisco, School of Medicine. Chan’s research focuses on how diet, exercise, hormones and genetics influence prostate
cancer. She hopes to identify modifiable lifestyle risk factors for prostate cancer, producing information that can be used
to enhance public health guidelines. She has worked in this area for more than 15 years and was awarded the Steven &
Christine Burd-Safeway Distinguished Professorship at UCSF in 2009 in recognition of her teaching, research and service
activities in the field of prostate cancer. Chan earned a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics in biology at Harvard
University in 1994. She was a Fulbright scholar in the Cancer Epidemiology Unit of Uppsala University in Sweden from 1994
to 1995. And she received a doctorate in epidemiology from Harvard in 1998.
James Chanos is the founder, president and managing partner of Kynikos Associates, a short-selling investment firm
that serves domestic and offshore clients through investment funds, partnerships, corporations and managed accounts.
Chanos opened Kynikos in 1985 after working at Paine Webber, Gilford Securities and Deutsche Bank. Barron’s dubbed
his short-sale of Enron shares “the market call of the decade.” Chanos is chairman of the Coalition of Private Investment
Companies. In that role, he has testified before Congress and provided comments on regulations proposed by the
Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom. At the Yale School of
Management, Chanos is a visiting lecturer in finance, teaching a class on the history of financial fraud. Chanos received his
bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Yale University.
Michael Chertoff is chairman of the Chertoff Group and was secretary of homeland security from 2005 to 2009.
Chertoff led efforts to protect the country from terrorists and transformed the Federal Emergency Management Agency
into an effective organization after Hurricane Katrina. At the Chertoff Group, he provides high-level strategic counsel
to corporate and government leaders on a broad range of security issues, from risk identification and prevention to
preparedness, response and recovery. Chertoff is also senior of counsel at Covington & Burling LLP and a member of
its White Collar Defense and Investigations practice group. Before the Department of Homeland Security, Chertoff was
a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. Earlier, during more than a decade as a federal prosecutor, he
investigated and prosecuted cases of political corruption, organized crime, corporate fraud and terrorism, including the
9/11 terrorist attacks. Chertoff is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
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John Chiang is the state controller of California. After taking office in 2007, he won election to a second term in 2010.
As controller during the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, Chiang managed the state’s cash to protect
payment obligations to schools and bondholders, earning positive recognitions from Standard & Poor’s and California
Municipal Bond Advisor. He has led efforts to reform the state’s public pension systems, helped local governments navigate
the recession, protected California’s natural resources, returned more than $2 billion in unclaimed property to the rightful
owners, and launched financial and tax assistance seminars for California’s working families, seniors, small businesses and
nonprofit organizations. Chiang graduated from the University of South Florida with a degree in finance. He received his
law degree from Georgetown University.
Mark Chiaviello is the director of corporate and investment banking at Standard Bank, Africa’s largest financial
institution. He is responsible for promoting foreign direct investment, trading relationships and donor flows from the
United States into Africa. Prior to joining Standard Bank in 2006, Chiaviello spent nine years at Deutsche Bank running the
South African equity business in America. In 2007, the United Nations Development Program appointed Chiaviello to the
Advisory Board for the Regional Programme for Africa. Chiaviello was elected to the board of The Corporate Council on
Africa in 2008. Chiaviello was a member of the U.S. Export-Import Bank’s Subadvisory Committee on Sub-Saharan Africa
in 2007 and 2008. In the 1980s, Chiaviello was a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana, where he worked with the Ministry
of Commerce and Industry. Chiaviello holds a B.S. from Manhattan College and an M.B.A. in international finance from
Columbia Business School.
Audrey Choi is managing director and head of Morgan Stanley Global Sustainable Finance. The Global Sustainable
Finance group harnesses the power and discipline of the capital markets to expand economic opportunity, promote
community development, advance impact investing and enhance environmental sustainability. Previously, Choi served
in the Clinton administration in senior policy positions at the White House, Commerce Department and the Federal
Communications Commission. In the White House, she was chief of staff of the Council of Economic Advisers, and domestic
policy advisor to the vice president. Prior to her government service, she was a bureau chief and foreign correspondent
for The Wall Street Journal. Choi serves on the boards of the Local Initiatives Support Corp., The Wildlife Conservation
Society, StoryCorps, Living Cities, and the Morgan Stanley Foundation. She also serves on the National Leadership Council
of Communities In Schools. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
Aneesh Chopra was the nation’s first chief technology officer, appointed by President Barack Obama. As an
assistant to the president, he designed the National Wireless Initiative, which opened data to transform health, energy
and education markets, convened tech leaders to develop consensus standards, and sponsored prizes, challenges and
competitions to tap into entrepreneurial problem solvers. Chopra previously served as Virginia’s secretary of technology
and has returned as a senior advisor with The Advisory Board Company, a global health-care research, consulting and
technology firm, where he previously served as managing director. Chopra was No. 39 on Modern Healthcare’s 2011 list of
the “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare” and was recognized in 2008 as one of Government Technology magazine’s
Top 25 “Doers, Dreamers, and Drivers.” Chopra earned his master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University in 1997
and his bachelor’s degree from The Johns Hopkins University in 1994.
Filippo Cipriani is a senior trader at Brevan Howard Investment Products Ltd. in the Geneva branch. Prior to joining
the firm in 2005 as a trader, Cipriani was managing director and head of the local market trading desk at Morgan Stanley.
He joined Morgan Stanley in 1995, trading rates, foreign exchange and credit. Cipriani received his master’s and bachelor’s
degrees in economics from the London School of Economics.
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Henry Cisneros is executive chairman of CityView, which works with urban builders to create homes priced for
average families. CityView is a partner in building more than 7,000 homes in 13 states. Formerly the secretary of Housing and
Urban Development under President Clinton, Cisneros was credited with initiating the revitalization of many of the nation’s
public housing developments and with formulating policies that helped achieve the nation’s highest homeownership rate.
Previously Cisneros was president and chief operating officer of Univision Communications, founder of Cisneros Asset
Management Company, and four-term mayor of San Antonio, among other roles. He is currently an officer of Habitat for
Humanity International and a member of the advisory boards of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Broad
Foundation. He is the author or editor of several books, including “Independent for Life: Homes and Neighborhoods for an
Aging America,” to be released in April 2012.
Wesley Clark, chairman and CEO of Wesley K. Clark & Associates, is a retired four-star Army general and former
Supreme Allied Commander of NATO. The author of three books, Clark serves as a member of the Clinton Global Initiative’s
Energy & Climate Change Advisory Board, and the American Council on Renewable Energy’s Advisory Board. One of his
first commands in his 38-year military career was an infantry company in Vietnam, where he was severely wounded; his
last was leading NATO forces to stop the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Clark is also chairman of investment bank Rodman
& Renshaw; co-chairman of Growth Energy; senior fellow at UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations; chairman
of Clean Terra, Inc.; director of the International Crisis Group; chairman of City Year Little Rock; as well as a member of
numerous corporate boards. His many awards include the Presidential Medal of Freedom, numerous military decorations
and two honorary knighthoods.
Charles Clarvit is CEO of Vinci Partners International, a Brazilian asset and wealth management firm. He is a former
managing director of BlackRock Alternative Advisors. At BAA, Clarvit held portfolio management responsibilities and
oversaw marketing strategy and client service for the fund of funds business. He joined BlackRock in 2007 after the
acquisition of the fund of funds business of Quellos Group LLC, where he oversaw the Quellos Client Group. From 1985 to
1998, Clarvit was a managing director with CIBC Oppenheimer & Co., responsible for alternative investment strategies and
private equity advisory services for U.S. pensions, endowments, offshore institutions and high-net-worth families. Clarvit
serves on the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees and is the inaugural chair of the Student Life Committee. A
member of the Center for Financial Economics Advisory Board, he earned a B.A. in social and behavioral sciences with a
concentration in economics and statistics from Johns Hopkins in 1978.
Stephen J. Cloobeck is chairman and CEO of Diamond Resorts International with more than 200 branded and
affiliated resorts and over 27,000 guest beds in 28 countries throughout the U.S, Canada, Mexico, Caribbean, Europe,
Asia, Australia and Africa. Offering simplicity, choice and comfort to more than 418,000 owners and members through
the branded hospitality service of approximately 5,000 team members worldwide, Cloobeck is widely recognized as one
of the most innovative and successful entrepreneurs in the global vacation ownership industry. Annually, nearly 1.4 million
owners, members and guests enjoy the company’s hospitality experience. Active in many community and philanthropic
organizations, Cloobeck was appointed by U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to serve on the government’s Brand USA
Inc., of which he is chairman. Brand USA promotes travel to the U.S. and communicates and improves the entry process so
that visitors want to return. He was featured on CBS’ “Undercover Boss” in 2012.
Abby Cohen is president of the Global Markets Institute and senior investment strategist at Goldman Sachs. She began
her career as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. Cohen’s outside activities focus on education
and public policy. She serves on the White House-appointed Innovation Advisory Board for economic competitiveness.
Cohen is also chair of the Jewish Theological Seminary. She serves as a presidential councillor at Cornell University and
on the boards of the Weill Cornell Medical College, the Brookings Institution and The Economic Club of New York. Cohen
is a former chair of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute and the recipient of its Distinguished Service Award. She
is an advisor to several investment committees, including Major League Baseball’s. A frequent guest lecturer at leading
universities and graduate schools, Cohen earned degrees in economics and holds three honorary doctorates. Her career is
the subject of a Harvard Business School case study and a BusinessWeek cover story.
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Gad Cohen is a partner of eleQtra Ltd. and manager of InfraCo Africa and the InfraCo Sub-Saharan Infrastructure Fund
(ISSIF). He has over 18 years of professional experience in the development and financing of infrastructure projects in the
power and transportation sectors. Prior to co-founding eleQtra, Cohen held a series of senior positions with ABB Equity
Ventures, the development and equity investment arm of ABB Ltd., including head of the Global Power Group, where he
was responsible for the development of and investments in power generation projects worldwide. Prior to joining ABB,
Cohen was an associate with the New York office of White & Case, specializing in project and equipment finance.
Julie Cohen is the national intelligence officer for transnational threats, a career CIA officer and a member of its
Senior Intelligence Service. She most recently completed a joint duty assignment as chair of the National SIGINT Analysis
and Production Subcommittee of the National SIGINT Committee. Previously she served as group chief for two different
groups in the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center in the Office of Terrorism Analysis and worked in the Office of the Inspector
General. She also led teams of analysts covering the transitioning states of the former Soviet Union and Central Europe,
European regional issues, and the Soviet military. Cohen received a master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and
Diplomacy at Tufts University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.
Sir Ronald Cohen is chairman of The Portland Trust, Bridges Ventures and Big Society Capital. He is also a director of
Social Finance USA. Cohen chaired the UK’s Social Investment Task Force (2000-2010) and its Commission on Unclaimed
Assets (2005-2007). He was co-founder and chairman of Apax Partners, now one of the world’s leading private equity
investment groups; founder-director and chairman of the British Venture Capital Association; and founder-director of the
European Venture Capital Association. He was also a founder and former vice chairman of Easdaq and former director
of Nasdaq Europe. In 2007, Cohen published “The Second Bounce of the Ball: Turning Risk into Opportunity.” A member
of the Harvard University Board of Overseers and several investment committees, he received a bachelor’s degree from
Oxford University, where he was president of the Oxford Union, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Lynde Coit is senior advisor to the president and CEO of Plasco Energy Group. Before his current role, he served as
Plasco’s executive vice president of corporate development during a period when Plasco raised more than $250 million of
equity. Plasco has developed an innovative proprietary technology that converts post-recycled municipal solid waste into
clean high-quality fuel gas, which has been demonstrated at a commercial-scale 135 tons per day at a facility in Ottawa,
Canada. Previously Coit was a senior vice president and general counsel for more than 12 years at the world’s leading
developer and operator of large-scale waste-to-energy facilities, Covanta Energy Corp. (then Ogden Projects Inc.) and
led its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Coit has been active in the renewable energy industry since
working at the National Renewable Energy Lab in the late 1970s. He holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester and a J.D.
from Cornell Law School.
Francis Collins is director of the National Institutes of Health, overseeing the work of the world’s largest supporter of
biomedical research. A physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes, he led the international
Human Genome Project, which culminated in April 2003 with the completion of a finished sequence of the human DNA
instruction book. He served as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH from 1993 to 2008.
Before coming to the NIH, Collins was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the University of Michigan. He is
an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, was awarded the Presidential Medal
of Freedom in 2007, and received the National Medal of Science in 2009.
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Peter Comisar is vice chairman and head of West Coast Investment Banking for Guggenheim Partners. He joined
Guggenheim in 2009 as vice chairman of the securities business and head of West Coast Investment Banking. Prior to
Guggenheim, Comisar spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs, where he held various senior positions in the Investment Banking
Division as a partner managing director. At Goldman Sachs, he focused predominantly on the consumer and retail industry
sectors. Comisar spent a decade in the firm’s corporate finance, capital markets and mergers & acquisitions groups in
New York and was a key member of the West Coast Investment Banking leadership after relocating to Los Angeles in
2000. With more than two decades of Wall Street experience, Comisar has advised a variety of domestic and international
clients with mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, spinoffs/split-offs, restructurings, recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts,
takeover defense, proxy contests and capital raising.
Bernard Connolly is the CEO of Connolly Insight LP, which is a co-founder of Hamiltonian Associates. A renowned
economist and commentator, Connolly previously spent 11 years as the global strategist for Banque AIG and AIG Trading,
a platform that established his independent analysis as a “must read” for leading market participants and policymakers.
Before joining AIG, Connolly worked with the European Commission in Brussels, leading the unit responsible for monetary
policy. In this role, he was a member of the Monetary Policy and Foreign Exchange Policy sub-committees of the Committee
of Central Bank Governors and of the OECD Group of High-Level Monetary Experts. Previously he worked in the Industrial
Trends and Forecasting Unit of the Confederation of British Industry. Connolly is the author of “The Rotten Heart of Europe:
The Dirty War for Europe’s Money,” which predicted many of the consequences of the European monetary union.
Ron Conway is an angel investor at SV Angel. During the past 15 years, Conway has invested in and worked closely
with hundreds of startups including Google, OpenTable, Facebook, Zappos, Groupon, and Twitter. He was also the
founder and managing partner of the Angel Investors LP funds. Conway was included in Vanity Fair’s 2010 list of the
“100 Most Influential People in the Information Age” and ranked No. 13 on Forbes’ 2011 list of the year’s top deal-makers.
Conway worked at National Semiconductor Corp. in marketing positions from 1973 to 1979. He founded Altos Computer
Systems in 1979 and took the company public in 1982. He was CEO of Personal Training Systems from 1991 to 1995.
Conway is a member of the UC San Francisco Medical Center Chancellor’s Advisory Board and is active in fundraising
for the Benioff Children’s Hospital, the Tiger Woods Foundation, the Black Eyed Peas Peapod Foundation, Teach for
America and Donors Choose.
Brad Copithorne is an energy and financial policy specialist in the Energy Program at the Environmental Defense
Fund’s San Francisco office. He has 20 years’ experience in investment banking at Salomon Brothers/Citi and Morgan
Stanley. Most recently, he worked in the Menlo Park office of Morgan Stanley covering the enterprise hardware and
technology supply-chain industries. At the EDF Copithorne is focused on creating markets to finance energy-efficiency
and renewable generation projects. Recently, he has been working to create a statewide on-bill repayment program in
California using third-party capital. Copithorne has a B.A.S. in industrial engineering and quantitative economics from
Stanford University and an M.S. in civil and environmental engineering from Stanford’s Atmosphere/Energy Program.
Tom Corcoran is president of Imperial Capital. He has more than 25 years of experience in the securities industry, 22
of which were with Lehman Brothers Inc. At Lehman Brothers, Corcoran was a managing director in charge of the firm’s
investment grade business. Prior to joining Imperial Capital, he was a managing director of the Fixed Income Group at CF
Global Trading LLC. Corcoran earned a B.A. from Harvard University.
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Ron Cordes is co-founder of the Cordes Foundation. A veteran of more than 30 years in the investment industry, Cordes
co-founded and then sold AssetMark Investment Services to Genworth Financial in 2006. He is currently co-chairman of
Genworth Financial Wealth Management with more than $24 billion of assets under management. Cordes is co-author of
“The Art of Investing & Portfolio Management” and was recognized as an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2005.
He speaks extensively on impact investing and achieving meaning and purpose in an “encore” career. Cordes is chairman of
the Executive Committee for ImpactAssets, a nonprofit financial services company formed in partnership with the Calvert
Foundation, and co-chairman of the Opportunity Collaboration, a global poverty business retreat. He is also a regent of
the University of the Pacific and chairman of the Advisory Board for its Global Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Cordes
holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
Bill Cordingley is managing director and head of Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory (FAR) for Rabobank
International in the Americas Region. In 2005, Cordingley joined Rabobank in Australia as the senior analyst for animal
proteins. He was promoted to head of FAR in Australia in 2006; in early 2009, he transferred to the U.S. to take up his
current position. He previously held roles in consulting, as a commodities trader and as manager of the livestock export
program with Meat and Livestock Australia. Cordingley was raised in southeastern Australia, where his family operated a
mixed crop and livestock enterprise and a meat-processing business. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a
degree in agricultural economics and holds an M.B.A. from Macquarie Graduate School of Management in Australia.
Bob Corker is a U.S. senator from Tennessee, elected in 2006. He is a member of the Banking, Housing, and Urban
Affairs Committee, the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Foreign Relations Committee, and is ranking
member of the Special Committee on Aging. Prior to his Senate post, Corker was mayor of Chattanooga, where he
attracted $2.1 billion of new investment to the city, transformed the waterfront, implemented merit bonus pay for teachers
and worked with law enforcement to cut violent crime in half. In 1994 he served two years as the Tennessee commissioner
of finance and administration, the state’s highest appointed office. After graduating from college, he started his own
construction company that eventually expanded into 18 states. In his late 20s, after a mission to Haiti, he led the creation of
Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, a nonprofit that has helped more than 10,000 families secure affordable housing.
Corker graduated from the University of Tennessee with a degree in industrial management.
Joseph Coughlin is director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AgeLab. His research and teaching seek to
identify how global aging, technology and consumer behavior drive innovations in business and government to improve
the quality of life of older adults and the people who care for them. He was named one of Fast Company’s “100 Most
Creative People in Business” and The Wall Street Journal’s “12 Pioneers Inventing the Future of Retirement.” Coughlin is a
fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and Switzerland’s World Demographics & Ageing Forum. He has served on
advisory boards for British Telecom, Daimler, Fidelity Investments, Healthways, Toyota, the OECD and the World Economic
Forum and on the White House Conference on Aging Advisory Committee. Prior to MIT, he was with EG&G, a Fortune 1000
science and technology company. Coughlin writes for the blog Disruptive Demographics. He holds a B.A., A.M. and Ph.D.
from the State University of New York at Oswego, Brown University and Boston University, respectively.
Henri Courpron is CEO of International Lease Finance Corp. He has strengthened ILFC’s financial position and
undertaken a broad strategic review of its capabilities and assets to increase customer and market responsiveness. Prior
to joining ILFC, he was president of the Aerospace Division and Regional Head for Europe, the Middle East and Africa
at Seabury Aviation & Aerospace. Courpron spent 20 years with Airbus, most recently as executive vice president of
procurement at Airbus headquarters in Toulouse, France. He also held other executive positions, including president
and CEO of Airbus Industrie, North America (ANA). While the company became Airbus North America, he led all sales,
marketing, contracts and communications efforts with the region’s customers. Courpron began his career with Aerospatiale
(currently EADS). He holds a master’s degree in computer science from ENSEEIHT in Toulouse, where he specialized in
artificial intelligence.
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Ann Cramer is IBM Corp.’s director of corporate citizenship and corporate affairs for the Americas. Her commitment to
and involvement with children and youth has been a lifelong journey. Her job with IBM allows her to continue her work with
the improvement of conditions for families. Cramer serves on a wide variety of boards, including as chair of the Atlanta
Partners for Education. She is on the Executive Committee of the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for Competitive Workforce
and the Conference Board’s Business and Education Council and Project GRAD board. She also serves on the boards of
the Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Public Broadcasting Atlanta and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. In 2009, Cramer
was the first to receive the Essence of Atlanta Award. She was recently honored with the Georgia Center for Non-Profits
2011 Revolution Legendary Philanthropist Award and named the Power Woman of the Year by Atlanta Woman magazine.
Cramer graduated from Salem College in Winston-Salem, N.C., with a degree in mathematics.
David Crane is president and CEO of NRG Energy, a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest U.S. power
generation and retail electricity businesses. NRG is the largest solar power developer in the nation; a partner in the first
privately funded charging infrastructure for electric vehicles; and owner of four wind farms in Texas and the largest
photovoltaic solar field in California. In total, NRG has more than 2,000 megawatts of solar projects under development or
construction across the Southwest. In 2010, Crane and NRG were recognized by the Clinton Global Initiative for funding a
project to expand the use of solar power in Haiti. Other clean energy initiatives include developing a biomass facility and a
commercial-scale carbon capture demonstration project at an NRG coal plant. Previously Crane was CEO of International
Power and held positions at Lehman Brothers and ABB Energy Ventures. He holds a B.A. from Princeton University’s
Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Jason Cummins is the chief U.S. economist and head of research of Brevan Howard Inc., an international hedge fund
management group with approximately $32 billion under management (as of July 2011). Cummins develops the firm’s
outlook for the economy, politics and markets. He also advises the traders on portfolio management and manages the
global research/strategy team. Cummins is also a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee, a governmentappointed panel of external experts that has served the country for almost half a century. Formerly, Cummins was senior
economist at the Federal Reserve Board, where he ran the macro forecasting team. Cummins began his career in 1995 as
an assistant professor of economics at New York University and also taught at Harvard University. Cummins earned a Ph.D.
in economics from Columbia University and graduated from Swarthmore College.
James Cuno is president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. He has held teaching positions at Vassar College,
UCLA, Dartmouth and Harvard. Cuno has served as director of UCLA’s Grunwald Center of the Graphic Arts (1986-1989),
Dartmouth’s Hood Museum of Art (1989-1991), Harvard University Art Museums (1991-2002); director and professor
of the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (2002-2004), and president and director of the Art Institute of
Chicago (2004-2011). He has lectured and written widely on museums and cultural and public policy. Since 2003, Cuno has
published three books with Princeton University Press. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cuno took
his bachelor’s degree in history from Willamette University in 1973, a master’s in art history from the University of Oregon in
1978, and master’s and doctoral degrees in fine arts (history of art) from Harvard University in 1981 and 1985, respectively.
Mark Cutis is chief investment officer for special situations at the Abu Dhabi Investment Council. He joined the
investment council in 2008. From 2004 until 2008, Cutis worked at Shinsei Bank as a chief investment officer. He also
worked with HVB, the Munich-headquartered German bank (now Unicredito), having been originally hired in the bank’s
New York branch as treasurer for the Americas, responsible for developing and directing HVB’s proprietary allocation
to alternative investments. Subsequently, he transferred to Tokyo as the CEO of HVB’s Japanese operations. His core
expertise is in proprietary trading, asset liability management and asset allocation. His experience includes both hands-on
management of risk and risk-takers, and allocating to external managers in alternatives. Cutis has experience on both the
buy and sell sides. He holds a B.A. in economics from Emory University and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania’s
Wharton School.
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Richard Daley, the former mayor of Chicago, is Of Counsel to Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, managing partner
of Tur Partners LLC, senior advisor to JPMorgan Chase and a distinguished senior fellow at the University of Chicago’s
Harris School of Public Policy Studies. Chicago’s longest-serving mayor, he spent 22 years in office. Daley improved public
schools and infrastructure, strengthened the economy, reduced crime, improved transportation, and made Chicago one of
America’s most environmentally friendly cities. Daley attracted cutting-edge businesses that have turned Chicago into a
prominent player in the global economy. He was a pioneer of public-private partnership models, including the privatization
of the Chicago Skyway, which allowed the city to improve its infrastructure and preserve social programs while other cities
were forced to make concessions. Daley continues to speak internationally on the issue of sustainable urban development
and to work with global leaders on building the cities of tomorrow.
Gaurav Dalmia is a co-founder of GTI Investment and a member of the Dalmia Group, one of the leading industrial
conglomerates in India. The Dalmia Group’s interests range from cement, industrial ceramics, engineering, sugar,
information technology and investments, with consolidated revenues of $950 million. Gaurav co-founded Infinity, an Indian
technology venture capital firm. He is an early investor in and member of the Investment Committee of India Value Fund,
a leading Indian private equity fund, which manages approximately $1.5 billion. He is also the founder and chairman of
Landmark Holdings, a real estate investment firm. He is co-sponsor of the Evolvence India Fund, an India-specific fund
of funds. He co-founded GTI, a long-term investment vehicle for India-focused investments. He was selected as a Global
Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 2000. Dalmia received an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
Craig Dandurand is portfolio manager at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System, overseeing the $5 billion
Absolute Return Strategies Program. In addition to setting policy and strategy and constructing the program’s portfolio,
Dandurand oversees the selection, monitoring and management of direct hedge fund investments and customized funds
of hedge funds. Prior to joining the ARS Program in 2005, he spent five years in CalPERS’ fixed-income unit specializing
in corporate credit research. Dandurand joined CalPERS in 2000 after spending three years practicing bankruptcy law,
first as a clerk to a U.S. bankruptcy judge and then in private practice. A CFA and CAIA charterholder, he is also a member
of the Investor Steering Committee of the Alternative Investment Management Association. Dandurand holds a B.S.
in mathematics from Harvey Mudd College and a J.D. from the University of California, Davis.
John Danhakl is a managing partner at Leonard Green & Partners, which he joined 1995. Previously Danhakl was a
managing director in the Los Angeles office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, which he joined in 1990. Prior to DLJ, Danhakl
was a vice president in corporate finance at Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1985 to 1990. Danhakl presently serves on
the boards of directors of Air Lease Corp., Animal Health Inc., Arden Group, HITS Inc., IMS Health, J.Crew Group, Leslie’s
Poolmart, The Neiman Marcus Group, Petco Animal Supplies and The Tire Rack Inc. He has previously served on the boards
of AsianMedia Group LLC, Big 5 Sporting Goods, Communications and Power Industries Inc., Diamond Triumph Auto
Glass, Liberty Group Publishing, MEMC Electronic Materials, Phoenix Scientific, Rite Aid Corp., Sagittarius Brands and VCA
Antech. Danhakl is a 1980 graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and received an M.B.A. in 1985 from Harvard
Business School.
Mitch Daniels is the Republican governor of Indiana and author of the current best-selling book, “Keeping the
Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans.” As governor, he led Indiana to its first balanced budget in eight years and
transformed a $700 million deficit into an annual surplus of $370 million. He also presided over record-breaking investment
and job growth, and earned Indiana, which now ranks near the top of every national ranking of business attractiveness, its
first AAA credit rating. His other accomplishments include lease of the Indiana Toll Road, the largest privatization of public
infrastructure in the United States to date; the creation of the Healthy Indiana Plan to provide health-care coverage to the
state’s uninsured adults; sweeping property tax reform in 2008 that resulted in the biggest tax cut in Indiana history; and
the most expansive education reforms in the country in 2011.
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Gwen Darien is director of The Pathways Project and a board member for the Education Network to Advance Cancer
Clinical Trials (ENACCT). As a cancer survivor, she brings a wealth of experience to The Pathways Project, an organization
that creates radically inclusive, accessible communities that put people at the center of health care. Previously Darien was
editor-in-chief of CR magazine, director of the American Association for Cancer Research Survivor and Patient Advocacy
Program, and the editor-in-chief of MAMM. Darien is chair of the NCI Director’s Consumer Liaison Group and a board
member of the Strategic Advisory Group of the Center for Patient Partnerships at the University of Wisconsin. She has
served on the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Health, Genetics and Society; the faculties of the AACR/ASCO Methods
in Clinical Cancer Research Workshop, Accelerating Anti-Cancer Agent Development and Validation Workshop; and the
advisory board of the Health Advocacy Program at Sarah Lawrence College.
Gray Davis, a former governor of California, is Of Counsel at Loeb & Loeb LLP. While governor from 1999 to 2003, he
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. Davis made record investments in infrastructure,
created four Centers for Science and Innovation on University of California campuses and expanded state health insurance
for an additional 1 million children. He provided more than $2.5 billion for job training, employee recruitment, tuition
assistance and job-placement services. Under Davis, California was one of the first states to authorize state funding for
stem-cell research and to pass laws to reduce global warming and greenhouse emissions. A former lieutenant governor,
state controller and assemblyman, Davis is the recipient of a Bronze Star for his military service in Vietnam. He holds a
bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a law degree from Columbia University.
Jim Davis is president of Chevron Energy Solutions (CES), which helps government, institutional, commercial and
industrial clients increase efficiency, reduce energy expenses and ensure power for critical operations. Under his leadership,
CES has grown by 20 percent annually and was named one of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies” by Fast Company
in 2009. He spearheaded Chevron’s $500,000 sponsorship of the UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center, leading to Chevron’s
$2.5 million endowment of the EEC chair in 2009. Prior to CES, Davis was senior vice president of Integrated Solutions for
PG&E Energy Services, which was purchased by Chevron in 2000 to create CES. Previously he was senior vice president
of marketing and sales at Duke/Louis Dreyfus. In 2004, he was the Northern California winner of the Ernst & Young
Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Social Responsibility. A board member of the Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy
Commercialization and of Telekenex, Davis holds a B.S. from Ohio State University.
Lisa Davis is a program officer in the Ford Foundation’s Metropolitan Opportunity initiative. Her work focuses on the
foundation’s investments in quality housing and on planning and land-use innovations. Davis joined the foundation in
2009. Earlier, she worked for more than a decade in nonprofit and private-sector organizations to improve housing and
economic conditions in low-income communities. She was vice president at the New Boston Fund, a real estate investment
management firm. There, Davis built a partnership of for-profits, nonprofits, financiers, public agencies and community
groups to secure entitlements for housing, developments and land purchases. Before joining the New Boston Fund, Davis
was director of development for the Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation and director of housing
and development for the Asian Community Development Corporation, both in Boston. Davis holds master’s degrees in real
estate development and city planning from MIT and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin.
Eric Dawson is the co-founder and president of Peace First, an organization he helped launch as an 18-year-old.
Peace First works on the twin challenges of youth violence and disengagement by preparing children with the skills to be
peacemakers. For close to two decades, Peace First has taught conflict resolution and civic engagement skills to young
people ages 3 to 14. The organization has taken its message to areas as diverse as New York; Los Angeles; Fairbanks,
Alaska; Colombia; and South Africa. Peace First recently began an ambitious growth plan in conjunction with the Peace
First Prize, modeled as a Nobel Peace Prize for young people. Dawson got his professional start directing a summer
camp in Boston’s public housing complexes and promoting disability awareness. A program evaluator at heart, Dawson
is particularly interested in the intersections of social change, social services and movement building. Dawson attended
Harvard College, where he earned an M.Ed and M.Div. He is an Ashoka, Echoing Green and PopTech fellow.
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Joseph Dear is chief investment officer of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. In addition to
overseeing all asset classes in which CalPERS invests, Dear is responsible for tactical asset allocation, risk management,
business development, budgeting, new investment programs, trading technology, staffing and back-office operations.
Before joining CalPERS, Dear was the executive director of the Washington State Investment Board, serving as CEO and
overseeing a staff of 73. He was responsible for more than $67.6 billion within 38 funds, composed of defined-benefit and
defined-contribution retirement, deferred compensation, workers’ compensation, permanent and other trust funds. He
previously served as chief of staff for Washington Gov. Gary Locke and assistant secretary of labor at the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration in the Clinton administration. Dear, who is chairman of the Council of Institutional
Investors, received a B.A. from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash.
John Deasy is superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. He oversees all educational and administrative
matters and develops operational procedures for the district. Prior to joining the district in 2010, Deasy was deputy director
of education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Earlier, he served as superintendent of the Prince George’s County,
Md., public schools, where he launched a pay-for-performance plan that was developed jointly with labor, making the
district a leader in efforts to reward teachers for gains in student achievement. Previously, he was superintendent of the
Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District in California and of the Coventry Public Schools in Rhode Island. He has
been a Broad fellow, an Annenberg fellow, a State Superintendent of the Year, a presenter at numerous state and national
conferences, and a consultant to school districts undertaking high school reform and district-wide improvement strategies.
Jeff DeBoer is the founding president and CEO of The Real Estate Roundtable, which represents the leadership of
large real estate companies and trade associations. DeBoer has served as president and CEO of The Real Estate Roundtable
since 1997; combined with his other roles, he has been at the forefront of most major real estate legislation over the past
30 years. DeBoer is chairman of the Real Estate Industry Information Sharing and Analysis Center and chairman of National
Real Estate Organizations. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C. A
frequent speaker on real estate and economic policy issues, he has appeared on Fox News, Bloomberg Television and
CNBC, and his editorials have been published in The Wall Street Journal and USA Today. DeBoer was one of GlobeSt.com’s
“10 Industry Newsmakers of the Decade.” A member of the Virginia Bar Association and the American Bar Association,
DeBoer holds a J.D. from Washington and Lee University and an undergraduate degree from Yankton College.
Jeffrey Deitch is the director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Prior to his role at MOCA, he was
a dealer in modern and contemporary art and an advisor to private and institutional art collectors for 35 years. Before
opening his own advisory firm, Deitch was a vice president of Citibank, where he developed and managed its art advisory
and art finance businesses. Previously, he was assistant director of the John Weber Gallery in New York and curator of the
De Cordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass. His most ambitious curatorial project was “Post Human” at the FAE Musee d’Art
Contemporain in Lausanne. His first major curatorial project at MOCA, “Art in the Streets,” had the highest attendance
in the museum’s history. Deitch co-authored a monograph on Keith Haring and wrote the introduction to “Jean Michel
Basquiat: 1981, the Studio of the Street” (2007). His commercial gallery Deitch Projects, opened in 1996, produced more
than 250 projects. A graduate of Wesleyan University, he holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Perry DeLuca is the industry head and team leader for the Wine, Food & Beverage Group at Wells Fargo, responsible
for lending and other banking services to middle-market industry companies with revenues over $25 million, with an
emphasis on Western states. DeLuca joins the group after 15 years in financial services. For the past decade, his clients
have included wineries, beverage companies, and the food and agricultural industry. Before joining Wells Fargo, DeLuca
was a director at Cleveland-based KeyBank’s Capital Markets division and the national head of wine and spirits and
beverage distribution. He also served at San Francisco investment banking firm WR Hambrecht + Co. and in middlemarket commercial banking at Washington, D.C.-based Riggs Bank. Previously DeLuca was press secretary and legislative
assistant for Rep. Pete Stark of California’s 13th District. An associate member of the California Wine Institute, DeLuca is a
graduate of the Haas Graduate School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Emily Stover DeRocco is the former president of the Manufacturing Institute, where she implemented strategies
for education reform and workforce development, innovation support and services, and research on behalf of U.S.
manufacturers. Under her leadership, the organization developed nationally portable, industry-recognized Manufacturing
Skills Certifications now influencing education reform efforts in 36 states. She also served as U.S. assistant secretary of labor
for employment and training, creating economic development initiatives in 39 regions. In that role, she also led presidential
initiatives to align education, economic development and workforce development investments, and to increase the capacity
of the nation’s community college systems. Previously DeRocco managed two nonprofits and worked at the Departments
of Energy and Interior, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and the Interstate Commerce Commission. A graduate
of Pennsylvania State University, she holds a J.D. from Georgetown Law Center.
Ross DeVol is chief research officer at the Milken Institute. He oversees research on international, national and
comparative regional growth performance, technology and its impact on regional and national economies, access to
capital and its role in economic growth and job creation, 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, known for its $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for private
space flight. He is also the executive chairman of Silicon Valley-based Singularity University. An pioneer in the commercial
space arena, he has founded and run many of the leading entrepreneurial companies in the sector. Diamandis is the cofounder and co-vice chairman of Space Adventures, the only company to have brokered the launches of private citizens
to the International Space Station. He is the author of “Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think,” which hit No. 1 on
Amazon and No. 2 on the New York Times best-seller list. He is the recipient of the Arthur C. Clarke Award for innovation,
the Lindbergh Award and the Neil Armstrong Award for Aerospace Achievement and Leadership. Diamandis holds an
undergraduate degree in molecular genetics and a graduate degree in aerospace engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
Richard Ditizio recently joined the Milken Institute as executive director of program development after a 25-year
career in banking. He most recently served as CEO of Citi Private Bank, an 1,100-employee unit of Citigroup. Prior to that,
Ditizio ran the North American UHNW practice for the bank, leading 24 offices across the U.S. and Canada. In these roles,
he counseled clients across a continuum of issues, including business succession, philanthropy and raising children amid
affluence. His work with UHNW families has been widely profiled in such media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Financial
Times, Lifestyles, CNBC and Reuters; he has been the featured speaker at engagements for the Jewish Funders Network,
Tiger 21 and others. A recipient of the NSFRE Corporate Executive award, Ditizio has been involved with numerous
nonprofit boards and charitable organizations throughout his career.
Dino Patti Djalal is Indonesia’s ambassador to the United States. Before he became ambassador in 2010, he was a
spokesman for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Djalal joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1987 and became
director for North American affairs in 2002. Early in his career, he was involved in the settlement of conflicts in Cambodia,
the Philippines, the South China Sea and East Timor as director general for political affairs. Djalal is the initiator of the
U.S.-Indonesia Security Dialogue, an annual bilateral consultation on security and defense that was conceived in 2001
and continues today. A frequent public speaker, he is the author of multiple books, including “The Can Do Leadership,” a
national best seller in Indonesia with some 1.7 million copies sold. He also organized the largest angklung musical ensemble
(5,192 people) in Washington, D.C., in 2011 for a Guinness record. A graduate of Carleton University, he holds a master’s from
Simon Fraser University and a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics.
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Kirill Dmitriev is CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. Before being asked by the Russian government to run
the fund, he was president of Icon Private Equity, a leading private equity fund with over $1 billion under management. Prior
to establishing Icon, he was co-managing partner and CEO of Delta Private Equity Partners, a leading private equity fund
in Russia with over $500 million under management. Dmitriev has completed a number of landmark investments and exits,
including the sale of DeltaBank to General Electric, DeltaCredit Bank to Societe Generale and CTC Media shares to Fidelity
Investments. Previously Dmitriev was deputy general director at IBS, a Russian IT services provider; an investment banker
at Goldman Sachs in New York; and a consultant at McKinsey & Co. A Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum
and past chairman of the Russian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association, he holds a B.A. from Stanford University
and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Hurley Doddy is a managing director, founding partner and co-CEO of Emerging Capital Partners (ECP). With six
funds and over $1.6 billion under management, ECP is a private equity manager focused exclusively on Africa. As CEO,
Doddy oversees the operations of Africa Funds I, II and III and is actively involved in the investment committees of the
Central Africa Growth Fund and the Moroccan Infrastructure Fund. Subsequent to joining the ECP team in 1999, Doddy
was an executive director at Sumitomo Finance International in London, where he managed the operations of an equity
risk arbitrage book, creating arbitrage and convergence strategies. Doddy began his finance career at Salomon Brothers
in 1984, serving over 14 years focused on government bond trading, hedge management, fixed-income derivatives, equity
derivatives and emerging markets trading. Doddy received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton University
and holds a chartered financial analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute.
Shaun Donovan is the U.S. secretary of housing and urban development. Since taking office, Donovan has launched
initiatives like Choice Neighborhoods, which will enable distressed communities to use mixed-use, mixed-finance tools to
improve neighborhoods around federally subsidized housing. HUD also joined the Sustainable Communities partnership
with the Department of Transportation and the EPA. Before his HUD appointment, Donovan was commissioner of the
New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Earlier, Donovan worked in the private sector on
financing affordable housing and was a visiting scholar at New York University. He was a consultant to the Millennial
Housing Commission on strategies for increasing the production of multifamily housing. He also researched and wrote
about housing policy at the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University and worked as an architect. Donovan
holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in public administration and architecture from Harvard.
Steven Drobny is the founder of Drobny Global Asset Management, a global macro asset management and
advisory firm that counts many of the world’s leading institutional investors as clients. Prior to starting Drobny Global
Asset Management, Drobny built Drobny Global Advisors, a global macro research and strategy firm, and Drobny Global
Conferences, an events company focused on global macro and commodity hedge funds. Drobny began his career at
Deutsche Bank’s hedge fund group in London, Singapore and Zurich. He is the author of “The Invisible Hands: Top Hedge
Fund Traders on Bubbles, Crashes, and Real Money” and “Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting
in the Global Markets.” Drobny holds a master’s degree from the London School of Economics & Political Science and a
bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University.
Terry Duffy is executive chairman of CME Group, where he has held several senior roles since joining CME in 1981. He
was also president of TDA Trading Inc. from 1981 to 2002. Duffy has served on CME’s executive, compensation, nominating,
strategic planning and regulatory oversight committees. In 2002 and 2003, respectively, he was appointed by President
Bush to the National Saver Summit on Retirement Savings and the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, which
administers the retirement savings plan for federal employees, with $190 billion under management. Duffy currently serves
on the boards or advisory boards of World Business Chicago, Saint Xavier University and The American Ireland Fund, and
is co-chair of the Mayo Clinic Greater Chicago Leadership Council. He also is vice chairman of the CME Group Foundation,
and a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, the Executives’ Club of Chicago and the President’s Circle of the Chicago
Council on Global Affairs, among others. Duffy attended the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
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Fran Durekas is the founder and chief development officer of CCLC. In that role, she coaches human resource
professionals regarding competitive family care benefits. She has more than 20 years of experience in early childhood
education and extensive knowledge of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified requirements
for green construction. Over the years, Durekas has participated in various roles with state and national child-care
organizations. She is a member of the National Association for the Education of Young Children and serves on the boards
of California Polytechnic State University’s Child Development Department and the Eco-Healthy Child Care Advisory
Committee. The Center for the Companies That Care gave her the Bonnie Dayan Memorial Award in 2011. Earlier, Durekas
was named Alumni of the Year at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where she earned a degree in human development. She has
been certified through the Boston College Work/Life Program.
John Dwyer is chairman of Telcare Inc., a leader in mobile medical devices. Dwyer has held C-level positions in six
emerging growth companies in various health-care technology fields including Active Health Management Inc., which
was acquired by Aetna in 2005, and CodeRyte, Inc., which was acquired by 3M in 2012. He has been a frequent speaker
on financing and regulatory issues of critical importance to emerging health technology companies at a variety of forums
including the BIO/CEO and AdvaMed annual conferences. Dwyer co-founded Us Against Alzheimer’s, a national political
advocacy organization, and the Alzheimer’s Action PAC, the first political action committee focused on the disease. He is
also on the Executive Council of Leaders Engaged against Alzheimer’s Disease (LEAD), a multidisciplinary group focused
on developing and executing a national strategic plan for addressing Alzheimer’s. A graduate of Marquette University and
Cornell Law School, Dwyer serves on the boards of a number of private and nonprofit organizations.
Ken Dychtwald is president and CEO of Age Wave, which guides Fortune 500 companies in product and service
development for mature adults. Considered one of America’s leading visionaries regarding the lifestyle, marketing, healthcare and workforce implications of the age wave, Dychtwald is a psychologist, gerontologist, documentary filmmaker and
entrepreneur. He is the best-selling author of 15 books on aging-related issues including “Bodymind,” “Age Wave,” “Age
Power,” “The Power Years” and “A New Purpose.” Dychtwald has served as a fellow of the World Economic Forum and is
the recipient of the ASA award for outstanding national leadership in the field of aging. His article in The Harvard Business
Review, “It’s Time to Retire Retirement,” earned the prestigious McKinsey Award. His explorations and innovative solutions
have catalyzed a broad spectrum of industry sectors. During his career, he has given presentations to over 2 million people.
He is regularly featured in leading media worldwide.
Esther Dyson is chairman of EDventure Holdings. She primarily invests in and nurtures startups focused on health care
and aerospace. She is an active board member for a variety of startups that include 23andMe, Airship Ventures, Evernote,
Meetup, NewspaperDirect and Voxiva (the company behind text4baby.org). Her past investments have included Medstory
(sold to Microsoft), Flickr and del.icio.us (sold to Yahoo), and Brightmail (sold to Symantec). Dyson also sits on the boards
of several nonprofits, including the Eurasia Foundation, the Sunlight Foundation, the Personal Genome Foundation, the
Commercial Spaceflight Federation and StopBadware.org. In 2008-2009, Dyson spent six months training as a backup
cosmonaut in Star City outside Moscow. She has a B.A. in economics from Harvard University and was founding chairman
of ICANN, serving from 1998 to 2000. In addition, she wrote the widely translated best-seller “Release 2.0: A Design for
Living in the Digital Age.”
Ralph Eads is vice chairman of Jefferies & Co., a U.S. investment bank, where he leads the firm’s global energy practice.
The firm has been at the forefront of financing the North American oil and gas boom, pioneering the joint venture model
and the entry by non-US companies into North America. Since 2007, Jefferies has completed 36 resource deals for an
aggregate of $110 billion. Eads previously worked at El Paso Corp.; Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette; and S.G. Warburg & Co. He
has served on the board of Duke University since 2009. He also sits on the board of the American Clean Skies Foundation,
a nonprofit organization that provides policy support on environmental and energy issues. He is chairman of Expectation
Graduation, a program aimed at keeping kids in school that was started by Houston Mayor Bill White. He recently served
as a trustee of St. George’s School in Newport, R.I., and has been active in the Nature Conservancy of Texas, the Houston
Ballet, The Kinkaid School Foundation and Small Steps Nurturing Center.
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Neil Eckert is CEO of Aggregated Micro Power Ltd., a business that specializes in developing and investing in smallscale alternative energy projects and technologies. He is also on the boards of Ebix Inc., an insurance-based software
company traded on Nasdaq, and Evofem Inc., an unlisted health-care company in the United States. Until 2010, he was chief
executive of Climate Exchange plc, an AIM-listed company that owned the European Climate Exchange and the Chicago
Climate Exchange. From 1995 until 2005, Eckert was chief executive of Brit Insurance Holdings plc, a UK and international
insurance and reinsurance company that he founded as an investment trust listed on the London Stock Exchange. Eckert
is also chairman of Design Technology & Innovation Ltd., a patenting and intellectual property company that focuses on
irrigating plants with salt- or brackish water.
Chas Edelstein is co-CEO of the Apollo Group Inc. Before joining the Apollo Group, 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 a 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 Eichengreen was
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. Eichengreen, who has held Guggenheim and
Fulbright fellowships, received the Schumpeter Prize in 2010 and was named one of Foreign Policy’s “100 Leading Global
Thinkers” in 2011. He is the author of several books, most recently “Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and
the Future of the International Monetary System.” He holds 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 PIMCO, with $1.4 trillion in assets under management.
Now in his second stint at PIMCO, he left in 2006-2007 to manage Harvard University’s endowment fund and teach.
He first joined PIMCO in 1999 from Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in London. Prior to that, he spent 15 years at the
International Monetary Fund. He sits on the boards of the National Bureau for Economic Research, Cambridge in America
and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and chairs Microsoft’s Investment Advisory Committee. He served
on the U.S. Treasury’s Advisory Committee and the boards of the Petersen Institute for International Economics and the
International Center for Research on Women. Thrice named one of Foreign Policy’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers,” he writes
about global economic and financial issues, including the best-seller “When Markets Collide.” He holds a bachelor’s degree
from the University of Cambridge, and master’s and doctorate degrees from the University of Oxford.
Sabrina Ellis serves as the vice president for human resources at the George Washington University in Washington,
D.C. As one of the largest employers in the District of Columbia, the university has nearly 11,000 employees including
faculty, researchers, administrators and support staff. Ellis is responsible for implementing strategies and initiatives for a
range of areas including talent acquisition, benefits and wellness programs, employee relations, training and employee
engagement, equal employment opportunity and information systems. Previously Ellis worked for the City College of
New York as chief human resources officer and served for nine years at New York University where she provided human
resources management and finance support to a number of operational areas. Ellis began her career as an information
systems analyst at Abbott Laboratories in Chicago. Ellis holds a bachelor’s degree in information systems and a master’s
degree in human resources management and business, both from New York University.
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Alec Ellison is a vice chairman of Jefferies & Co., Inc., and chairman of the Technology Investment Banking group.
Based in New York, he joined Jefferies in 2003 as part of the firm’s acquisition of Broadview International, where he was
named president in 2001 after joining Broadview in 1988. With more than 25 years of experience in technology investment
banking, Ellison has completed over 200 M&A and financing transactions. He has particular expertise in enterprise software
M&A transactions with a focus on vertical applications companies. Earlier in his career, he worked in the Technology
Investment Banking Group at Morgan Stanley. Ellison received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was a
George F. Baker Scholar, and a B.A. from Yale University.
John Engler is president of the Business Roundtable, an association of chief executive officers of U.S. corporations
with a combined workforce of more than 14 million employees and over $6 trillion in annual revenues. A former three-term
governor of Michigan, Engler assumed the leadership of Business Roundtable in January 2011 after six years as president
of the National Association of Manufacturers. Engler serves on the boards of Delta Airlines, Universal Forest Products, the
Wolf Trap Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. He is a past chairman of the National Governors’ Association.
He also sits on the recently created Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences at the American Academy of Arts
and Science. Engler graduated from Michigan State University with a bachelor of science in agricultural economics. Later,
he earned a law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich.
Charlie Ergen is chairman of Dish Network, which he co-founded in 1980 as EchoStar Communications Corp. Under
his vision and leadership, Dish Network was launched in 1996 and has become the fastest-growing direct-to-home satellite
television company in the U.S., currently serving more than 14.1 million customers. In 2008, EchoStar and Dish Network
split into two separate publicly traded companies, with Ergen as chairman of both. In 2007, Barron’s named Ergen one of
the “World’s Best CEOs”; he had previously been on the Forbes “Top Ten CEOs” list. Ergen was instrumental in fighting for
consumer rights with the passage of the 1999 Satellite Home Viewer Improvement Act, which gave American consumers
the right to watch local TV channels via satellite, and was a co-founder of the Satellite Broadcasting Communications
Association. He received a B.S. from the University of Tennessee and an M.B.A from the Babcock Graduate School of
Management at Wake Forest University.
Carol Evans is president of Working Mother Media and CEO of Diversity Best Practices, which are part of Bonnier
Corp. In 2006, Working Mother Media acquired Diversity Best Practices, a corporate membership organization supporting
diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Evans’ involvement with Working Mother magazine dates to 1978, when she
played a critical role in the launch of the publication. In 2001, Evans founded Working Mother Media by acquiring Working
Mother and the National Association for Female Executives. A winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Visionary Award, Evans
has appeared on CNN, ABC, CNBC, MSNBC and CBS, as well as “Oprah,” “Montel Williams” and PBS’ “To the Contrary.”
Her book, the award-winning “This Is How We Do It: The Working Mother’s Manifesto,” was published in 2006 by Penguin
Group. A graduate of Empire State College/SUNY, Evans serves as a national trustee for the March of Dimes.
Charles Evans is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and serves on the Federal Open
Market Committee, the Federal Reserve System’s monetary policy-making body. Evans oversees roughly 1,400 employees
who conduct economic research, supervise financial institutions and provide payment services to commercial banks and
the U.S. government. Before becoming president, Evans was director of research and senior vice president of the bank.
Prior to that, he was a vice president and senior economist. Evans has taught at the University of Chicago, University of
Michigan and University of South Carolina. His personal research, published in several journals, has focused on measuring
the effects of monetary policy on U.S. economic activity, inflation and financial market prices. Evans sits on the boards of
Chicago Metropolis 2020, the Metro Chicago Information Center and Rush University Medical Center. He holds a bachelor’s
degree from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in economics from Carnegie-Mellon University.
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Barbara Fairchild is the editor of the weekly iPad/tablet-only food magazine Real Eats and the former editor-inchief of Bon Appetit magazine. She also works as a freelance food and travel writer, public speaker, radio personality and
consultant. Her career with Bon Appetit spanned more than three decades, beginning as an editorial assistant in 1978.
She stepped down in January 2011 when the magazine moved to New York City. Fairchild was inducted into the James
Beard Foundation’s “Who’s Who in American Food and Beverage” in May 2000. She is the author of three successful Bon
Appetit cookbooks. She is a frequent guest on such networks and television shows as NBC’s “Today” and “Dateline,” CBS’s
“The Early Show,” CNN, MSNBC; Food Network’s “Iron Chef America,” “The Next Food Network Star” and “America’s Top
Restaurant,” and Fox’s “Kitchen Nightmares,” “Hell’s Kitchen” and “MasterChef,” all with Gordon Ramsay. Fairchild has also
been featured on numerous radio programs across the country.
Abigail Falik is the founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year, an award-winning social venture that sees the transition
to college as an extraordinary - and largely untapped - opportunity to unleash the potential of a new generation of global
leaders. Global Citizen Year recruits and trains a diverse corps of graduating seniors and supports them through a bridge
year of leadership training in emerging economies. Through world-class training and apprenticeships, Fellows are prepared
for success in a global economy. Falik leads the global team, setting organizational strategy, securing resources and building
cross-sector partnerships. Prior to founding Global Citizen Year, Falik spent 10 years as an educator and entrepreneur. Falik
has been featured at the Clinton Global Initiative and the Aspen Ideas Festival and in The New York Times. She has been
recognized as a Draper Richards Kaplan Entrepreneur and a Harvard Social Enterprise Fellow. Falik holds a B.A. and an
M.Ed. from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
James Famiglietti is a professor and founding director of the UC Center for Hydrologic Modeling at the University of
California, Irvine. He holds a joint faculty appointment in Earth System Science and in Civil and Environmental Engineering
at UCI. His research group uses satellite remote sensing to track water availability and groundwater depletion on land, and
has been working for many years towards improving hydrological prediction in regional and global weather and climate
models. Before joining the faculty at UCI in 2001, he was an assistant and associate professor at the University of Texas
at Austin, and was the founding associate director of the UT Environmental Science Institute. He leads the Community
Hydrologic Modeling Project effort in the United States to accelerate the development of hydrological models for
addressing international priorities related to water, food, economic, climate and global security. Famiglietti appears in the
upcoming documentary “Last Call at the Oasis,” directed by Jessica Yu.
Lewis Feldman, chair of Goodwin Procter’s Los Angeles office, is a partner in the firm’s Real Estate, REITs & Real
Estate Capital Markets Group. Over the past 28 years, Feldman has advised clients on more than $75 billion in debt
and equity transactions for apartments, residential communities, senior housing projects, industrial properties, urban
entertainment centers, education facilities, regional malls, medical facilities, resorts and hotels, military base reuse projects,
sports stadiums and public infrastructure. He is recognized by the Los Angeles Daily Journal as one of the “Top 100
Lawyers in California” and consistently ranks among America’s foremost real estate and public finance attorneys in U.S.
News & World Report’s “Best Lawyers in America” and in Chambers USA’s “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business.”
Feldman has numerous publications to his credit in law, real estate and public finance, along with television and radio
appearances on Bloomberg, CNBC, CBS and Fox.
Jon Feltheimer is CEO of Lionsgate. Under his leadership, Lionsgate has increased revenue from roughly $180 million
in 2000 to nearly $1.6 billion last year, and its market capitalization has multiplied 20 times over to nearly $2 billion. Recent
successes include “The Hunger Games,” which ranks as the third-largest opening weekend in North America, and the
critically acclaimed “Margin Call” and “Precious,” which won two Academy Awards. Lionsgate films have earned more
than 70 Oscar nominations and 16 wins under Feltheimer’s leadership. Its television business, which includes “Mad Men,”
“Weeds” and “Nurse Jackie,” has earned 93 Emmy nominations and 17 wins in the past five years. Previously Feltheimer
spent nine years at Sony Pictures Entertainment and eight years at New World Entertainment. He gave the National
Association of Television Program Executives keynote in 2009 and was MIPCOM’s “Personality of The Year” in 2010. He
holds a bachelor’s degree from Washington University, where he has endowed several scholarships.
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Niall Ferguson is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a senior fellow at the Hoover
Institution and a senior research fellow at Jesus College, University of Oxford. A commentator on politics and economics,
he is a columnist for Newsweek and contributing editor for Bloomberg TV as well as an advisor to architects Foster &
Partners, the hedge fund GLG Partners and merchant bank Kleinwort Benson. He sits on the boards of the American
Academy in Berlin, the Museum of American Finance and the New York Historical Society. He has published 12 books. In
2003 he wrote and presented a six-part history of the British Empire for Channel 4. The accompanying book, “Empire: The
Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power,” was a bestseller in Britain and the U.S. The
book “The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World” in 2008 was also an Emmy-winning PBS series. Ferguson’s
Chimerica Media recently released a documentary about Henry Kissinger, whose biography he is writing.
Thomas Finke is chairman and CEO of Babson Capital Management LLC, a global investment management firm
with more than $135 billion in assets under management and locations in Europe, Australia and Southeast Asia. A 23-year
veteran in the banking and investment industries, Finke joined Babson Capital in 2002 when the firm acquired First Union
Institutional Debt Management Inc., which Finke co-founded. As CEO, he has led several strategic initiatives, including the
buildout of the Global Business Development Group, the consolidation of the real estate finance group with Cornerstone
Real Estate Advisers and the acquisition of WoodCreek Capital Management. From 2008 to May 2011, Finke also served
as executive vice president and chief investment officer for the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. A member of the
founding board of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association, Finke holds an M.B.A. from Duke University’s Fuqua
School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia.
Stephen Fireng is president and CEO of EmbanetCompass, a pioneer in the online education industry. Fireng is
positioning the company to serve nonprofit universities looking to launch and grow online degree programs. Before
joining EmbanetCompass, Fireng was the group president of Career Education Corp.’s University and Art & Design Groups,
leading all of the online and brick-and-mortar campuses of the company’s American InterContinental University, Colorado
Technical University and International Academy of Design and Technology. Fireng managed a portfolio of almost $1 billion
in revenues and led the launches of Career Education’s online universities, growing enrollment from 3,000 to 32,000
students in five years. He is a graduate of Northern Arizona University and a frequent speaker on the topic of postsecondary
online education.
George Fisher is an associate professor of medical oncology at Stanford University and director of Stanford’s Cancer
Clinical Trials Office. He also leads the Gastrointestinal Oncology Research Program at Stanford Cancer Center. Fisher’s
research focuses on translational and clinical trials for gastrointestinal malignancies. His trials include novel targeted
agents in Phase I development as well as multimodality care of gastro-esophageal, pancreatic, colorectal, GI stromal and
neuroendocrine tumors. He is a member of the American Medical Association, the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group,
the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and Caring for Carcinoid Foundation. Fisher received an M.D. from Stanford and
a Ph.D. from the Stanford Graduate Program in Cancer Biology, including research projects in the Department of Chemistry
and the Division of Radiation Biology. He completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Stanford and an
oncology fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center.
Richard Fisher is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and chairman of the Conference of Federal
Reserve Bank Presidents. He is former vice chairman of Kissinger McLarty Associates. Fisher began his career in 1975 at
the private bank of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. In 1987, he created Fisher Capital Management and a separate fundsmanagement firm, Fisher Ewing Partners. He served as deputy U.S. trade representative with the rank of ambassador from
1997 to 2001. Fisher is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary fellow of the Hertford College
at Oxford University, and a member of Harvard University’s Board of Overseers. In 2006, Fisher received the Service to
Democracy Award and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Medal for Public Service from the American Assembly. In April 2009, he
was inducted into the Dallas Business Hall of Fame.
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Victor Fleischer is an associate professor of law at the University of Colorado Law School, where he has taught a
range of tax and transactional courses, including federal income tax, corporate tax, partnership tax, tax policy, venture
capital and private equity, and various seminars. He joined the faculty of the University of Colorado in 2006. He has also
taught at several other law schools, including University of California, Los Angeles, Georgetown University, University of
Illinois, Columbia University, and New York University. In January, he taught a short course on deals at UCLA. In 2007,
a draft version of his paper on carried interest helped prompt Congress to propose Section 710 of the tax code, which
would tax a portion of carried interest as ordinary income rather than a capital gain. The paper, “Two and Twenty: Taxing
Partnership Profits in Private Equity Funds,” was later published in the NYU Law Review.
Luigi Fontana is a research associate professor of medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, and the director
of the Division of Nutrition and Aging at the Italian National Institute of Health in Rome. An internationally recognized
scientist, author and expert in the fields of nutrition and healthy aging, he co-directs the Longevity Research Program at
Washington University in St. Louis. Fontana’s research focuses on the role of diet and exercise in preventing age-associated
chronic disease such as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, and on the promotion of healthy successful aging.
Fontana graduated from the Verona University Medical School, where he completed his internship and residency in internal
medicine. He also received a Ph.D. in metabolism from the University of Padua Medical School.
Steve Forbes is chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media. Under his leadership, the company has launched
numerous publications and businesses, including ForbesLife, ForbesLife Executive Woman, Forbes Asia and foreignlanguage editions of the magazine. It also publishes a number of investment newsletters. Forbes writes monthly editorials
for the magazine and Forbes.com, which attracts more than 25 million unique monthly visitors. The company is active in new
media, with Investopedia.com, an online portal for investor education, as well as RealClearPolitics.com, RealClearMarkets.
com and RealClearSports.com among its properties. 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. He is the author of several
books, most recently “How Capitalism Will Save Us.” Forbes holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University.
David Ford is vice president of human resources for North America at Sanofi. Sanofi employs approximately 20,000
people across the United States and Canada. Based in Sanofi’s New Jersey office since 2011, Ford joined the life sciences
industry in 2002 as Sanofi’s human resources director for the U.K. In 2004, he led the project for integrating Sanofi and
Aventis in the U.K. In 2005, he became vice president of human resources for global operations, based in Paris, where
his team supported the more than 45,000 people in Sanofi’s worldwide commercial activities. In 2010 Ford was charged
with leading HR development for Sanofi, building talent and leadership development platforms as part of the company’s
transformation initiative. Before joining Sanofi, he spent 13 years working for the New Zealand dairy industry, initially in New
Zealand but also in regional roles covering Latin America and Europe. Ford holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD in France.
Harold Ford Jr. is a managing director and senior client relationship manager across the Institutional Securities Group
at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He works with senior coverage officers
to broaden and deepen client relationships. Ford served five terms in the U.S. Congress representing the 9th district of
Tennessee. First elected in 1996, he sat on the House Financial Services, Budget and Education committees. Ford teaches
part-time at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service and is a frequent contributor to NBC News. He is a board member at
Lincoln Center, the Posse Foundation, Weill Cornell Medical College and America’s Promise. Ford is also an overseer at the
International Rescue Committee and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He earned a bachelor’s degree from
the University of Pennsylvania and a law degree from the University of Michigan.
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Joe Fortunato is president, CEO and a director of General Nutrition Centers Inc. He joined GNC in 1990 and has held
various senior positions, most recently executive vice president and chief operating officer from 2001 to 2005. Under
Fortunato’s leadership, GNC has had a successful five-year run and in 2011 completed an initial public offering that was
named IPO of the Year in the United States based on its performance. Fortunato has broad-based experience in marketing,
merchandising, store operations, domestic franchising and global business development, which includes either franchised
or company-owned operations in over 52 countries. Prior to joining GNC, Fortunato held senior roles in finance and
consulting. He received a B.S. in finance from Duquesne University in 1975.
David Foster is a 16-time Grammy award-winning producer and songwriter. He has worked with musical superstars
like Michael Buble, Seal, Michael Jackson, Celine Dion, Andrea Bocelli and Whitney Houston to name a few. The winner of a
Golden Globe and an Emmy, he is a three-time Oscar nominee. Foster’s philanthropic work was inspired by a 1986 visit to
see a friend’s daughter who was having an organ transplant. Seeing how difficult it was for the little girl to be so far from
her family and home, he asked her what she wanted more than anything. Her reply was, “I just want to see my sister.” Foster
realized that for the price of an airline ticket, he could make her dream come true - and his foundation was born. In Canada,
the David Foster Foundation provides funding for the nonmedical expenses of families whose children are undergoing lifesaving organ transplants. It also promotes organ donor awareness and education in the United States and Canada. Foster
has been instrumental in raising more than $14 million for the cause.
Justin Fox is editorial director of the Harvard Business Review Group and author of “The Myth of the Rational Market:
A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street,” a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller and New
York Times Notable Book. Before joining HBR Group in 2010, he wrote a weekly column for Time and created the Curious
Capitalist blog for Time.com. Previously, Fox spent more than a decade working as a writer and editor at Fortune magazine,
where he covered economics, finance and international business.
Everaldo Franca is CEO and founder of PPS Portfolio Performance Ltd., an investment consultancy. Before founding
PPS, he worked in the Brazilian financial industry and as chief financial officer in Brazil for ECOM Group, a soft commodities
multinational. Franca has been named Investment Consultant of the Year three times by Brazilian Pension Funds. He is a
frequent speaker at Brazilian and international events on pension and sovereign wealth funds. He has taught finance at
Mackenzie University and M.B.A. programs at the Fundacao Instituto de Administracao, where he still teaches. The coauthor of “Risk Management in Pension Funds” (2008) and “Business Finance in Less Developed Capital Markets” (1992),
Franca is also a director for the Sao Paulo State Handball Federation and a member of the Investments Committee for
Amigos da Poli, the endowment created to support the polytechnic school at Sao Paulo University. He holds an engineering
degree as well as a master’s degree and Ph.D. in finance from Sao Paulo University.
Marc Freedman is CEO and founder of Civic Ventures, a nonprofit organization leading the encore career movement.
He spearheaded the creation of Experience Corps, now one of America’s largest nonprofit national service programs
engaging people over age 55, and The Purpose Prize, awarded to social innovators in the second half of life. The New York
Times called him “the voice of aging baby boomers who are eschewing retirement for. . .meaningful and sustaining work
later in life.” He is the author of several books, most recently “The Big Shift: Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife.”
Recognized by Fast Company for three years in a row as one of the nation’s leading social entrepreneurs, he is a member
of the Innovators Network of The Japan Society. In addition, Civic Ventures and Freedman received the Skoll Award for
Social Entrepreneurship at Oxford University in 2010. A graduate of Swarthmore College, Freedman has an M.B.A. from
Yale University and was a visiting research fellow of Kings College, University of London.
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Alexander Friedman is the chief investment officer of UBS Wealth Management, overseeing investment policy
and strategy for about $900 billion in assets. Friedman is the former chief financial officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation and a member of the foundation’s management committee. Friedman also managed a private investment
vehicle, Asymmetry, served as a senior advisor to Lazard, the international investment bank, and sat on the supervisory
board of Actis, the global private equity firm. He served as a White House fellow in the Clinton administration and as an
assistant to the secretary of defense. Friedman is a member of the board of trustees of a number of nonprofit organizations.
He served as a judge of the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award and is a member of the
Council on Foreign Relations. Friedman is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar.
He holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University.
Joshua Friedman is co-founder, co-chairman and co-CEO of Canyon Partners, LLC, a global alternative asset
management firm with approximately $20 billion in assets under management. Canyon also invests in real estate through
Canyon Capital Realty Advisors and the Canyon Johnson Urban Fund, and in emerging market debt securities through ICE
Canyon LLC. Prior to forming Canyon, Friedman was director of capital markets for high-yield and private placements at
Drexel Burnham Lambert. Prior to his role at Drexel, he worked in mergers and acquisitions at Goldman Sachs. Friedman is
a director and trustee of a number of nonprofit and charitable organizations, and he received along with his wife the 2010
Visionary Award for their work with the Department of Neurosurgery at UCLA Hospital. Friedman holds a B.A. in physics
from Harvard College; an M.A. in politics and economics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar; a
J.D. from Harvard Law School; and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.
Stephen Friedman is president of Pace University and the former dean of the Pace University of Law. He is a
former senior partner for Capital Markets Policy and co-chair of the corporate department of Debevoise & Plimpton LLC.
Friedman has served as commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission, deputy assistant secretary of the
Treasury Department, and, successively, as executive vice president and general counsel of the Equitable Companies
Incorporated and the E.F. Hutton Group Inc. He was also a Supreme Court law clerk for Justice William Brennan. Friedman
is the editor of “An Affair with Freedom,” a collection of Justice Brennan’s opinions and speeches during his first 10 years
on the Supreme Court. Friedman holds an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at
Princeton University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
Alma Gadot-Perez is the director of the Milken Institute Israel Center in the U.S. and director general of its registered
nonprofit in Israel. From strategy to operations, she oversees the center’s activities, putting her research background,
training skills and government experience to work. After several international relocations, she founded Working Insight,
a social venture connecting talented Israelis to their new communities through professional development. In Israel, she
worked at the Israel Democracy Institute, focusing on research and managing its online presence. She coordinated the
national program for knowledge management and organizational learning in social services during her tenure at the
Strategic Planning Division of the Ministry of Social Affairs. Gadot-Perez earned an M.A. in public policy from the honors
program at the Federmann School of Government and Policy at The Hebrew University. Her upcoming book “Political
Analysis of Public Policy in Israel” is based her teaching there and at Ben Gurion University.
Doron Gal is CEO and co-founder of the Kaiima Group. Prior to being named CEO of Kaiima in 2007, Gal served as its
vice president of business development. Earlier, he was senior energy consultant at Epsilon Investment House. Previously
Gal was a lecturer on energy and geo-strategy at the Lauder School of Government at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya
in Israel, a senior research fellow (energy) for the Institute for Policy and Strategy, and a consultant to government agencies
and investment groups. Doron obtained his Ph.D. in geophysics from Stanford University.
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William Gale serves as the director of the Retirement Security Project and as the Arjay and Frances Miller Chair
in Federal Economic Policy in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. He is also co-director of
the Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of Brookings and the Urban Institute. His research focuses on tax policy, fiscal
policy, pensions and saving behavior. From 2006 to 2009, he served as vice president of Brookings and director of the
Economic Studies Program. Gale attended Duke University and the London School of Economics and received his Ph.D.
from Stanford University.
Xi-Qing Gao is vice chairman and president of the China Investment Corp. He was previously vice chairman of the
National Council for the Social Security Fund of China and vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission
(CSRC). Gao holds adjunct positions at the law schools of Tsinghua University, the University of International Business and
Economics and Duke University. Since 1986, he has served as either a member or the chairman of arbitration panels for
hundreds of international trade or investment disputes between Chinese and foreign companies, both under the CIETAC
and the Arbitration Institute of Stockholm Chamber of Commerce. As a co-founder of the Stock Exchange Executive
Council, he was instrumental in the founding of the CSRC and the establishment of the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock
Exchanges in the early 1990s. Gao received his B.A. equivalent and a master of laws from UIBE. He received a J.D. from
Duke University School of Law, which he attended as a Richard Nixon Scholar.
John Gapper is associate editor and chief business commentator of the Financial Times (FT). He writes a weekly
column for the comment page about business trends and strategy. He also contributes “leaders” and other articles. He
has worked for the Financial Times since 1987, covering labor relations, banking and the media. From 1991 to 1992, he was
a Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York. He is co-author, with Nicholas Denton, of “All That Glitters,”
an account of the collapse of Barings in 1995. Gapper studied U.S. education and training at the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania.
Yuri Garbuzov is an executive vice president and portfolio manager in PIMCO’s Newport Beach office, focusing on
structured credit products. He joined PIMCO in 1997, and has managed credit portfolios, including bank loans, convertibles
and structured bank paper, and developed quantitative analytics for PIMCO. Before joining PIMCO, he was with the Institute
of Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Harvard Project on Economic Reform in Moscow. A 15-year veteran
of the investment industry, Garbuzov holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a
master’s degree in physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
Jeffrey Gedmin is president and CEO of the Legatum Institute in London. Prior to joining Legatum in 2011, Gedmin
served as president and CEO of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from 2007 to 2011, where he oversaw the company’s
strategy and broadcast operations in 22 countries. Before that, he served for five years as director of the Aspen Institute
Berlin. Previously Gedmin was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and executive
director of the New Atlantic Initiative. His articles on foreign policy, media and public diplomacy have appeared in a range
of newspapers and magazines. He has also produced two major television documentaries for PBS. Gedmin has taught at
Gonzaga College High School and Georgetown University, where he holds a Ph.D. in German. In 2010 he was awarded an
honorary doctorate by the Tbilisi State University, Georgia.
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Simba Gill is CEO and president of moksha8, a leading Latin American pharmaceutical company focused on central
nervous system disorders. He has a long track record of identifying new technologies and geographies for high-growth
business opportunities. Moksha8 was founded in 2006 while Gill was an entrepreneur-in-residence at Texas Pacific Group
(TPG). At moksha8, he founded a biosimilar antibody company called fourteen22. Prior to joining TPG, Gill was president of
Maxygen, a pioneer in directed molecular evolution technologies for pharmaceutical, chemical and agricultural products.
Before joining Maxygen, he led corporate development in the world’s first stem cell company, Systemix. Previously he was
global marketing director at Boehringer Mannheim. Gill began his career at Celltech, focused on antibody research. Fluent
in five languages, he holds a Ph.D. from King’s College, London, and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.
Robert Gillam is chief investment officer and senior vice president of McKinley Capital Management, LLC. Responsible
for all investment functions, he guides quantitative research, portfolio management, trading, risk management and portfolio
operations functions. Prior to becoming CIO, he was a portfolio manager with a specialty in non-U.S. and global strategies.
Gillam serves on McKinley Capital’s board and Executive Management Committee. He is a member of the CFA Institute;
the Wharton Global Family Alliance, an academic-family business partnership established to enhance the marketplace
advantage and social wealth creation contributions of high-net-worth families; the investment committee of the Rasmuson
Foundation, a private foundation that supports Alaskan nonprofits; and a director of Borealis Holdings, LLC, a family office
that manages Gillam family assets. He holds a B.S. in economics with a concentration in international finance and strategic
management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Kirsten Gillibrand is a U.S. senator from New York. She helped lead the fight to repeal the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t
Tell” policy and steered legislation to provide health care for the 9/11 emergency personnel affected by toxins at Ground
Zero, leading Newsweek to name her one of “150 Women Who Shake the World.” The New York Times called the senator’s
commitment to promoting transparency in Congress a “quiet touch of revolution,” and the Sunlight Foundation, an
organization that advocates open government, calls Gillibrand a “pioneer” for her work. Gillibrand won another legislative
victory as co-sponsor of legislation that for the first time makes any insider trading by members of Congress, their staff and
federal employees clearly illegal. The Washington Post called the bill, “the most substantial debate on congressional ethics
in nearly five years.”
James Glassman is the founding executive director of the George W. Bush Institute. Previously Glassman served as
Bush’s undersecretary of state for public affairs and public diplomacy with the rank of ambassador and as chairman of the
Broadcasting Board of Governors. He was a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for 12 years and has held the
posts of president of the Atlantic Monthly, publisher of the New Republic, executive vice president of U.S. News and World
Report, and editor and co-owner of Roll Call. Glassman was chief financial columnist for The Washington Post and host of
“TechnoPolitics” on PBS and “Capital Gang Sunday” on CNN. He currently hosts “Ideas in Action” on PBS.
Benjamin Goldhirsh is a co-founder and the CEO of GOOD, an editorially led, member-driven community of people,
NGOs and corporations pushing our world forward. GOOD’s mission is to provide content that coalesces this community,
experiences that deepen the relationships within it, and utilities that empower it. Active in both regional and international
philanthropic endeavors, Goldhirsh is a director of The Goldhirsh Foundation, which supports dynamic social programs,
environmental initiatives, innovative medical research and leading cultural institutions. He serves on the board of Millennium
Promise, an organization guided by the U.N.’s Millennium Development goals to end extreme global poverty by 2025, as
well as the Los Angeles Board of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and the board of City Year Los
Angeles. Goldhirsh is a graduate of Brown University.
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Jonathan Goldstein is the deputy chief executive of Heron International, one of Europe’s largest property investment
and development companies. He is also chief executive of the Investment Club, Ronson Capital Partners. Prior to joining
Heron, Goldstein spent nine years as chief executive of the award-winning international law firm Olswang. At 32, he was the
youngest-ever managing partner of a leading London law firm. Goldstein serves as a trustee of various charities and is chair
of an educational think tank in the United Kingdom. He is also a non-executive director of M&C Saatchi PLC.
Bennett Goodman is a founder of GSO Capital Partners, senior managing director of the Blackstone Group and a
member of the Blackstone management committee. Since joining Blackstone in 2008, he has focused on the management
of GSO, which is Blackstone’s credit investment platform with more than $47 billion of assets under management, including
hedge funds, mezzanine vehicles, distressed funds and other investments. Before founding GSO in 2005, Goodman was
the founder and managing partner of the alternative capital division of Credit Suisse. He is a board member of the Film
Society of Lincoln Center, the Cancer Research Institute and the American Jewish Committee, as well as serving on the
investment committee of the Lafayette College endowment. Goodman received the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award
from Euromoney magazine for his achievements in the global capital markets, and the 2012 Money Manager of the Year
Award from Institutional Investor. He graduated from Lafayette College and Harvard Business School.
Marc Goodman is the founder of the Future Crimes Institute and global security advisor and chair for policy, law and
ethics at Singularity University. He is an expert on security threats such as cybercrime, cyberterrorism and information
warfare and has worked with Interpol, the United Nations, NATO, the Los Angeles Police Department and the U.S.
government. Goodman founded the Future Crimes Institute to educate others on the security implications of emerging
technologies. Singularity University is a NASA- and Google-sponsored educational venture. Goodman’s current areas of
research include the security implications of robotics, artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, virtual worlds, genomics,
ubiquitous computing and location-based services. Goodman has authored more than a dozen journal articles and 10 book
chapters on cybercrime and information security. He holds a master’s of public administration from Harvard and a master’s
of science in the management of information systems from the London School of Economics.
James Gordon is the founder and managing partner of Edgewater Growth Capital Partners. Prior to forming
Edgewater, he was president of Gordon Foods and Gordon’s Wholesale Inc. In 1982 he engineered a leveraged buyout of
his personal and family interests in the Gordon Cos., and in 1986 he sold the company to a European multinational. Prior to
forming EGCP I, Gordon was an active private equity investor, completing more 200 private equity transactions since 1982.
Gordon serves on the boards of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Museum
of Contemporary Art, the Northwestern Memorial Foundation, the Museum of Science and Industry of Chicago, Chicago
Cares, the Commercial Club and the Big Shoulders Fund. He has also served on the boards of Grinnell College, the John
F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Bankers Trust Co., Methodist Medical Centers, the Joffrey Ballet and the Des
Moines Art Center. Gordon received his B.A. from Northwestern University.
Michael Govan is CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Since
arriving at LACMA in 2006, he has overseen all activities of the museum, including an ambitious, multi-faceted building
program to expand, upgrade and unify the museum’s 20-acre campus. He has also overseen the installation of monumental
outdoor artworks around LACMA’s campus by Chris Burden, Robert Irwin and Michael Heizer. From 1994 until 2006, Govan
was president and director of New York City’s Dia Art Foundation, where he spearheaded the creation of the critically
acclaimed, 292,000-square-foot Dia: Beacon, a museum in New York’s Hudson Valley. Prior to Dia Art Foundation, Govan
served for six years as deputy director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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Rick Grafton is CEO and chief investment officer of Grafton Asset Management. He has more than 30 years of
investing experience and has completed more than $22 billion of energy investment transactions. Grafton previously held
positions as vice chairman of Canaccord Capital Corp. and managing director, global head of energy at CanaccordAdams,
a $1 billion leading independent Canadian-based financial services firm. Prior to joining CanaccordAdams, he was cofounder and managing director of FirstEnergy Capital, a top independent, energy-focused investment bank in Canada.
Prior to co-founding FirstEnergy, Grafton spent 10 years at Peters & Co. and six years at McLeod Young Weir. He has been
a founding shareholder and board member of many high-growth energy companies, including Northrock, Amber Energy
and Pacalta. Grafton holds a degree from the University of British Columbia.
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 the NBA Sacramento Kings. His career highlights include live TV or radio
broadcasts of nine Olympic Games, 21 NFL Super Bowls, nine World Series, 19 NBA Finals, 13 NCAA Final Fours, 20 Master’s
tournaments and hundreds of championship boxing matches. Gray has reported on literally thousands of games and
events in his career, and has hosted a number of high-profile prime-time specials. He has won numerous awards, including
11 national Emmys for journalism and reporting. He 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. Gray has conducted
thousands of interviews, including sessions with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and every U.S. president since Nixon.
Jeff Greene is president of Florida Sunshine Investments, USA. Greene obtained notoriety for being one of the first to
recognize the housing bubble in 2006; his shorting of subprime mortgage-backed bonds was the single most profitable
trade by an individual in Wall Street history. Greene’s real estate career began with the purchase of a three-unit building
in Somerville, Mass.; he acquired an additional 17 properties while at Harvard. By the late 1990s, he had purchased more
than 8,000 apartments. Greene expanded to commercial real estate and now has properties across the country. He is the
founder of the Jeff and Mei Sze Greene Foundation and a member of the Giving Pledge, an organization created by Warren
Buffet and Bill Gates whose members agree to donate more than half of their wealth to charity. A graduate of Johns
Hopkins University, he holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Sean Greene is the associate administrator for investment and special advisor for innovation at the U.S. Small Business
Administration (SBA). He is responsible for the Small Business Investment Company program, a growth capital program
with $16 billion of assets under management, and the Small Business Investment Research program, which provides over
$2 billion of R&D funding to small businesses each year. He leads the SBA’s efforts to stimulate high-growth entrepreneurship
and has been one of the leaders in the Startup America initiative. Greene brings 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur,
investor and business strategist to the SBA. He was founder and CEO of Away.com, an online travel company that he
sold to Orbitz. He was a co-founder of Rock Creek Ventures and LaunchBox Digital, a seed-stage investment firm in
Washington, D.C. Previously Greene was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. He holds a bachelor’s degree from
Princeton and an M.B.A. from Yale. He was a Fulbright scholar at the National University of Singapore.
Chris Groobey is a partner in the Washington, D.C., law office of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. His practice
focuses on project finance, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions in the energy and clean-technology industries.
He has particular expertise in syndicated loan and debt capital markets transactions; the development, financing, sale
and acquisition of domestic and international energy projects; and arranging capital for new and established energy
companies. Groobey has extensive experience with renewable energy technologies, including wind, solar, geothermal,
biomass and biogas power generation, and he is well-versed in new technologies such as fuel cells, wave power, clean water
and agricultural products. He has represented energy and clean-technology companies, private equity funds, investment
banks, commercial banks and multilateral agencies throughout the United States, Latin America and Asia.
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Stephen Gruber is director of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, a professor of medicine at the Keck
School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and the H. Leslie Hoffman and Elaine S. Hoffman Chair in
Cancer Research. A board-certified medical oncologist, cancer geneticist and epidemiologist, he focuses his research
efforts on genetic and environmental contributions to cancer. The recipient of many honors and awards, he is the author
of 158 peer-reviewed publications and serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals. Gruber has been
chair of the Colorectal Family Registries Advisory Panel for the National Cancer Institute since 2005 and chair of the
Cancer Genetics Education Committee of the American Society of Clinical Oncology for three years. A graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania, he holds a Ph.D. in epidemiology and an M.P.H. from Yale University and an M.D. from the
University of Pennsylvania Medical School.
Francesco Guerrera is the editor for the Money & Investing section of The Wall Street Journal, a position he has held
since May 2011. Guerrera oversees the Journal’s coverage of Wall Street, markets, investing and insurance. He also writes
the Current Account column, which appears in Money & Investing every Tuesday. Prior to joining the Journal, Guerrera was
the finance editor at the Financial Times (FT). He has extensive international experience, having worked in Asia and Europe.
He previously served as the U.S. business editor, Asia financial correspondent and Brussels correspondent for the FT. Prior
to that, Guerrera was a business correspondent and stock market editor for the Independent. He has been honored with
numerous awards, including a Foreign Press Association award, an Overseas Press Award, and a SABEW award for a video
series on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Guerrera graduated from City University in London.
Peter Gunning is the global chief investment officer for Russell Investments, where he directs Russell’s investment
management, implementation and research activities worldwide. Previously, Gunning was the chief investment officer for
the Asia-Pacific region. His responsibilities included oversight of investment research as well as management of Australian,
New Zealand, Japanese and Australasian equity and fixed-interest portfolios. He joined Russell’s Sydney office in 1996.
Earlier in his career, Gunning worked in the funds management arm of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, worked as
a financial markets economist and traded fixed-interest options on the floor of the Sydney Futures Exchange. Gunning is
a member of the Q-Group (Institute of Quantitative Research in Finance Inc.), an organization promoting the use of and
interest in quantitative techniques. He also serves on the board of directors for the North Shore Heart Research Foundation.
Gunning holds bachelor’s and master’s degree in economics from the University of Sydney.
James Guthrie is the superintendent of public instruction for Nevada. He also serves as a senior fellow at the George
W. Bush Institute in Dallas and professor of education policy and leadership at Southern Methodist University’s Annette
Caldwell Simmons School of Education and Human Development. Guthrie formerly was the Patricia and Rodes Hart
Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy, director of the Peabody Center for Education Policy, and chairman of the
Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Previously a professor
at the University of California, Berkeley, he holds a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University, undertook postdoctoral
study in public finance at Harvard, was a postdoctoral fellow at Oxford Brookes College in the U.K., and the Irving R. Melbo
Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California.
James Gutierrez is founder of Progreso Financiero, a micro-lender to the U.S. Hispanic community. Founded in
2005, Progreso has made over 275,000 loans through 85 locations in California and Texas with the goal of helping more
than 1 million families enter the financial mainstream. A member of the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory
Council, he helped draft a 2010 law designed to increase the availability of affordable small loans in California. A frequent
speaker at industry and government regulatory conferences, he serves on the boards of the Silicon Valley Leadership
Group and Association for Enterprise Opportunity, among others. A venture partner of Great Oaks Ventures and partner
of Insikt Ventures, he Gutierrez has invested in more than 20 companies. In 2009, he was invited to the White House as a
leading young entrepreneur, and in 2010 BusinessWeek named him one of America’s most promising social entrepreneurs.
Gutierrez holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. in economics from Yale University.
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Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, an independent, nonpartisan organization dedicated
to the study of American foreign policy. Until June 2003, Haass was director of policy planning for the U.S. Department of
State as well as U.S. coordinator for policy toward the future of Afghanistan and U.S. envoy to the Northern Ireland peace
process. He was also special assistant to President George H.W. Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian
affairs on the National Security Council from 1989 to 1993. Haass has written or edited 11 books on U.S. foreign policy,
including “War of Necessity, War of Choice: A Memoir of Two Iraq Wars,” and one book on management. He regularly
writes and speaks on global issues. A Rhodes scholar, he holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and master’s and doctorate
degrees from the University of Oxford. He has received honorary doctorates from Hamilton College, Franklin & Marshall
College, Georgetown University, Oberlin College and Central College.
Edgard Habib is the chief economist at Chevron Corp., appointed in 2000. In 1988, he joined Wharton Econometric
Forecasting Associates (WEFA) in Washington, D.C., as vice president for the Middle East and Africa and later senior vice
president and managing director for WEFA’s Washington operations, overseeing activities in Eurasia, Asia-Pacific, the
Middle East and Africa. In 1997, he joined the International Energy Agency of the OECD as manager of their Middle East and
Africa affairs. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the National Association of Business Economists,
the U.S. Association for Energy Economics, the Pacific Council on International Policy and the World Affairs Council. A
native of Lebanon, Habib graduated from the University of San Francisco with a bachelor’s degree in political science and
international finance. He earned an M.P.A. in development economics and public finance and a Ph.D. in economics from the
American University in Washington.
Nina Hachigian is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. She focuses on great power relationships,
the U.S.-China relationship, international institutions and U.S. foreign policy. She is the co-author of “The Next American
Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise” and author of “The Information Revolution in Asia.” She also serves
on the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board. Previously Hachigian was a senior political scientist at RAND Corp.
and director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy. Before RAND, she was an international affairs fellow at the Council
on Foreign Relations. From 1998 to 1999, Hachigian was on the staff of the National Security Council in the White House.
She has published numerous reports, book chapters, journal articles and op-ed pieces. A member of the Freeman Spogli
Institute for International Affairs board at Stanford University and the Council on Foreign Relations, Hachigian holds a B.S.
from Yale University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Margaret Hamburg is commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), where she has served since
May 2009. As FDA commissioner, she is advancing regulatory science, medical product innovation and globalization of the
agency, while overseeing the implementation of groundbreaking laws to curb the use of tobacco and enhance food safety.
She has undertaken major efforts to streamline and modernize the FDA’s regulatory pathways. Before joining the FDA,
Hamburg was vice president and senior scientist at the Nuclear Threat Initiative. In the 1990s, as New York City’s health
commissioner, she launched several major initiatives, including the nation’s first public health bioterrorism preparedness
program and an internationally recognized program to curtail the resurgence and spread of tuberculosis. President Clinton
later named her assistant secretary for planning and evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Hamburg earned her M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
Ann Hand is CEO of Project Frog, a manufacturer of smart building systems. She was recently ranked No. 32 in Fast
Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business” list. Before joining Project Frog in 2009, Hand was senior vice president
of global brand marketing and innovation for BP, where she was responsible for developing new ways for consumers
to engage with the BP brand and oversaw $300 million annually in marketing initiatives worldwide. Hand has also held
marketing, finance and operation positions at Mobil Oil and McDonald’s Corp. She is now is putting her marketing and
operational expertise to work at Project Frog, growing markets, developing products and increasing brand awareness
for its smart buildings. Her goal is to make the construction industry - the largest consumer of energy, natural resources
and landfill space - a great deal greener. Hand received a B.A. in economics from DePauw University and an M.B.A. from
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
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Joshua Harris is a senior managing director of Apollo Global Management and managing partner of Apollo
Management, which he co-founded in 1990. Prior to 1990, Harris was a member of the mergers and acquisitions
group of Drexel Burnham Lambert. In addition to his involvement in charitable and political organizations, he is the
managing partner of the Philadelphia 76ers and a member of the Corporate Affairs Committee of the Council on
Foreign Relations. Harris serves as chairman of the advisory board of the Department of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Medical Center, where he is also on the board of trustees. He is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s
Investors Advisory Committee on Financial Markets. Harris graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton
School of Business with a bachelor’s degree in economics and received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School,
where he graduated as a Baker and Loeb Scholar.
Matt Harris is co-founder and managing general partner of Village Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm focused
on media and financial services. Harris began his career at Bain Capital and went on to become the founding managing
director of Berkshires Capital Investors. He is a member of the New York City Seed Advisory Board and chairman of
the Williamstown Theatre Festival board. He was a founding board member and treasurer of Camp Starfish, a camp for
troubled and disadvantaged youth outside Boston. He also sits on numerous corporate boards, including BankSimple,
Bluetarp Financial, Consumer United, iSend, MetaMarkets, OnDeck Capital, TxVia and Vico Software. Harris will be joining
Bain Capital Ventures in September 2012 as a managing director. He will open Bain’s New York City office and will continue
to focus on financial services investing. Harris is a graduate of Williams College.
Robert Hart is president of the Kennedy Wilson Multifamily Management Group, the multifamily investment division of
Kennedy Wilson. He is responsible for the oversight of acquisitions, asset management and dispositions of all multifamily
assets in the U.S. and Japan. Since he joined Kennedy Wilson in 2000, the company has acquired more than 18,000
apartment units for redevelopment and repositioning, with a total transaction and development value of more than
$2.3 billion. Hart oversees a portfolio of 13,000 apartment units in the United States and Japan. Previously, Hart was a
senior vice president of portfolio management for Heitman Capital Management. Currently, he is chairman of Chrysalis,
a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting the homeless in finding jobs, and an associate of the Ziman Center for
Real Estate at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hart holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Worcester
Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and an M.B.A. from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
Robert Harteveldt is global head of leveraged finance and a member of the Executive Committee at Jefferies & Co.
Inc. In this role, Harteveldt manages Jefferies’ leveraged finance sales, trading, capital markets and origination businesses.
Prior to joining Jefferies in 2008, he spent approximately 24 years at Bear Stearns. At Bear, he was co-head of the High
Yield Bond Department and a member of the President’s Advisory Council and the Fixed Income Management Committee.
Prior to joining the High Yield Department in 1990, he spent six years in Bear’s M&A and Corporate Finance departments.
He received a B.A. in history from Dartmouth College in 1984.
Adrian Haugabrook is vice president for enrollment management and student success and chief diversity officer
at Wheelock College in Boston, Mass. He served as the college’s first executive director of the Aspire Institute, a policy,
practice and research center promoting the success of children, families and communities. An expert on education
and education policy, he has spoken extensively on education reform and alignment, higher education and the efficacy
of after-school programs in achieving educational outcomes. He served as vice president for local college access
programs at The Education Resources Institute and as executive director of public policy and alliances at Citizen Schools.
Haugabrook currently chairs the National AfterSchool Association, the leading voice of the after-school profession.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of West Georgia, a master’s degree from Georgia Southwestern
State University and a doctorate from the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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David Heber is a professor of medicine and public health at UCLA, chief of the Division of Clinical Nutrition, and
director of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. He is board certified in internal medicine, endocrinology and metabolism,
and clinical nutrition. Heber is the director of the Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists and past chairman of the
Education Committee and the Medical Nutrition Council of the American Society for Nutrition. He has written more than
200 peer-reviewed scientific articles and over 60 book chapters as well as two professional texts and four books for the
public. His main research interests are obesity treatment and nutrition for cancer prevention and treatment. Heber holds a
bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a Ph.D. in physiology from UCLA and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
Stephen Hemsley is president and CEO of UnitedHealth Group, a diversified health and well-being company
dedicated to helping people live healthier lives and making the health-care system work better for everyone. UnitedHealth
Group provides benefits and services that help to improve the affordability, accessibility, quality and convenience of health
care. Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group as senior executive vice president in 1997, Hemsley was managing partner in
strategy and planning and chief financial officer for Arthur Andersen LLP. Hemsley has served on numerous corporate and
nonprofit boards. His philanthropic interests focus on health care, education, and religious and social services, principally
in the Twin Cities area. He is a lay member on the board of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and a trustee of
the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn. Hemsley earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Fordham
University in 1974.
Hugh Hendry is chief investment officer and founder of London-based Eclectica Asset Management, leading the
investment thinking and research teams. Hendry has 20 years of investment experience with Scottish pension fund
manager Baillie Gifford & Co., Credit Suisse Asset Management and Odey Asset Management. As a partner at Odey,
Hendry managed a range of funds from $1 billion of long-only European mandates to the Eclectica Fund. He is a graduate
of the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.
Shawn Henry is the president of CrowdStrike Services and a retired executive assistant director of the FBI. Henry, who
served in three FBI field offices and at the bureau’s headquarters, is credited with boosting the FBI’s computer crime and
cybersecurity investigative capabilities. He oversaw computer crime investigations spanning the globe, including denialof-service attacks, bank and corporate breaches, and state-sponsored intrusions. He posted FBI cyberexperts in police
agencies around the world, including the Netherlands, Romania, Ukraine and Estonia. He has appeared on “60 Minutes,”
“CBS Evening News,” “Good Morning America,” “The Today Show,” “Dateline,” “Rock Center with Brian Williams” and
C-SPAN. He has been interviewed by Forbes, BusinessWeek, The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press and USA Today.
Henry earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Hofstra University and a master’s degree in criminal
justice administration from Virginia Commonwealth University.
David Hess is president of Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp. He is responsible for global
operations in the design, manufacture and service of aircraft engines, space propulsion systems and industrial power
systems. Pratt & Whitney makes engines for Airbus, Bombardier, Irkut Mitsubishi and the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
fighter. Hess joined Pratt & Whitney after four years as president of Hamilton Sundstrand, where he began his career. Hess
is chairman of the Aerospace Industries Association Board of Governors and a vice chairman of the New England chapter
of the American Cancer Society’s CEOs Against Cancer. He is on the board of the National World War II Museum and is
board vice chairman of The Discovery Center, founded by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Hess holds a bachelor’s
degree from Hamilton College and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute. He was awarded an MIT Sloan Fellowship in 1989 and earned a master’s degree in management in 1990.
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Dawne Hickton is vice chair, president and CEO of RTI International Metals Inc., a global supplier of advanced titanium
mill products, fabricated components and engineered systems for the aerospace, defense, energy and medical markets.
Prior to Hickton’s 25-plus years of diversified metals experience, she was an attorney at USX and professor of clinical law at
the University of Pittsburgh. Hickton is a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Pittsburgh Branch; a director of
FNB Corp.; an International Titanium Association officer and board member; and a member of the Executive Committee of
the Aerospace Industries Association. She serves on the advisory council of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s
Hillman Cancer Institute and is a University of Pittsburgh trustee. She graduated from the University of Rochester and
received her law degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
Mellody Hobson is president of Ariel Investments, a Chicago-based money management firm. She oversees all
operations outside of research and portfolio management. Hobson is a nationally recognized voice on financial literacy
and investor education. She is a regular contributor on “Good Morning America,” a frequent guest on ABC’s “World News
Tonight,” a weekly finance expert on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show” and a columnist for Black Enterprise. In 2009 she
was executive producer and host of “Unbroke: What You Need to Know about Money” on ABC. Hobson is a director of
DreamWorks Animation SKG, The Estee Lauder Companies, Starbucks and Groupon. A Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen
Institute, she is also actively involved with a variety of civic and professional institutions. Hobson is a member of the
Economic Club of Chicago, the Commercial Club of Chicago and the Young Presidents’ Organization. She joined Ariel in 1991
after receiving an A.B. from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Relations and Public Policy.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin is president of the American Action Forum, former director of the Congressional Budget
Office and former chief economist of the Council of Economic Advisors. He has a distinguished record as an academic,
strategist and policy advisor, including his recent role as a commissioner on the congressionally chartered Financial Crisis
Inquiry Commission. In 2007-2008 he was director of domestic and economic policy for Sen. John McCain’s presidential
campaign. Previously, Holtz-Eakin was director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, the Paul
A. Volcker Chair in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, and president of DHE Consulting, an
economic and policy consulting firm providing insight and research to a broad cross-section of clients. Holtz-Eakin serves
on the boards of the Tax Foundation, the National Economists Club and the Center for a Responsible Federal Budget, and
the Research Advisory Board of the Center for Economic Development.
Jody Holtzman is senior vice president in charge of the thought leadership group at AARP. His focus is to stimulate
innovation in the market that benefits people over age 50. Holtzman’s group develops partnerships with the venture capital
community and the consumer electronics and technology industries. Before joining AARP, he was managing director of
Strategy Dynamics Group, where he worked with executives to develop business strategies, understand market dynamics,
launch new products and services, and improve organizational performance. Earlier, he led the Market Intelligence Network
of PricewaterhouseCoopers. Holtzman is a frequent speaker on the opportunities and challenges presented by the
demographic wave. He has led workshops on competitive strategy and organizational performance, and his work has
been published in the Journal of Business Strategy, Competitive Intelligence magazine and the book “Making Cents Out of
Knowledge Management.” He has a graduate degree in international political economy from the University of Chicago.
Yoshito Hori is president and dean of Globis University, founding managing partner of Globis Capital Partners, and
chairman and CEO of parent company GLOBIS Group. Ranked among the top three business schools in Japan by the
Nikkei Industrial Newspaper, Globis also provides corporate education to more than 350 clients. Globis Capital Partners
manages the Globis Incubation Fund, Apax Globis Japan Fund and Globis Fund III, with assets exceeding $400 million.
Hori is the author of several books, including “Visionary Leaders Who Create and Innovate Society,” “Six Dimensions of
Life” and “Personal Mission Statement.” He also writes the Views from an Entrepreneur blog on the GLOBIS website. Hori
represents Japan on the board of the World Economic Forum’s New Asian Leaders, and sits on the boards of the Japan
Association of Corporate Executives and the Japan Private Equity Association. Prior to GLOBIS, he worked for Sumitomo
Corp. Hori received a B.S. in engineering from Kyoto University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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George Hoskins is the founder and president of Hope Education. Prior to founding Hope Education, he served
as senior vice president of a major children’s development organization for more than 18 years. He has developed and
overseen projects in more than 60 nations. Hoskins serves on several boards and is co-chair of the U.S.-India Business
Council’s K-12 education initiative as well as a member of the executive leadership team and board of directors of Ryan
International Group of Institutions. Hoskins is a strong advocate of lifelong learning and is pursuing his doctorate in
international mediation at Harvard Law School. He has been involved with production and distribution of several films. The
latest, “En Tus Manos,” set in the vicious slums of Colombia, tells the story of a conflicted youth who seeks membership in
a brutal gang with the hope of one day having the power to determine his own destiny. “En Tus Manos” is the winner of 17
major film festivals and was a nominee for the Oscar in the short film category.
Shaia Hosseinzadeh is a principal at WL Ross responsible for originating, structuring and executing private equity
transactions. He manages principal investments in various sectors, including natural resources. Hosseinzadeh has more
than 13 years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, capital raises, and private equity investments. He has led or
participated in more than 45 transactions with a combined aggregate value of over $35 billion. Prior to joining WL Ross, he
spent five years at Apollo Investment Management and six years at Credit Suisse in the Investment Banking Division and
the Leveraged Finance Group. Hosseinzadeh holds an M.Sc. in economics and philosophy and a B.Sc. in economics from
the London School of Economics.
Tony Hsieh is CEO of Zappos.com. In addition to his responsibilities at Zappos, Hsieh is leading the Downtown Project,
a group committed to transforming downtown Las Vegas into the most community-focused large city in the world. This
transformation includes the relocation of the Zappos.com offices from Henderson, Nev., to the former City Hall in downtown
Las Vegas. In 1999, at the age of 24, Hsieh sold LinkExchange, the company he co-founded, to Microsoft for $265 million.
He then joined Zappos as an advisor and investor, eventually becoming CEO. He helped Zappos grow from almost no sales
to more than $1 billion in gross merchandise sales annually, while simultaneously making Fortune magazine’s annual “Best
Companies to Work For” list. In November 2009, Zappos was acquired by Amazon.com in a deal valued at $1.2 billion on
the day of closing. Hsieh’s first book, “Delivering Happiness,” debuted at 1 No. on the New York Times best-seller list and
has remained on the list every week since June 2010.
Ishrat Husain is dean and director of the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi and former governor of the
State Bank of Pakistan. During six years as central bank governor, he implemented a major restructuring and steered
reforms of the banking sector. In recognition, he received the Hilal-e-Imtiaz award from the president of Pakistan. Other
honors include the title Central Bank Governor of the Year for Asia (The Banker) in 2005, and a Lifetime Achievement
Award (Asian Banker magazine) in 2006. The Economist Intelligence Unit has ranked Pakistan’s regulatory framework for
microfinance as No. 1 in the world. Previously Husain spent 20 years at the World Bank in roles including director of the
Poverty and Social Policy Department, chief economist for two regions, and resident representative in Nigeria. He holds a
master’s degree in development economics from William College and a Ph.D in economics from Boston University. He is a
graduate of the Executive Development Program sponsored by Harvard, Stanford and INSEAD.
Mikko Hypponen is chief research officer of F-Secure and an internationally recognized expert on technology
and computer security. He has done battle with the biggest virus outbreaks on the Internet, including Loveletter, Blaster,
Conficker and Stuxnet. Hypponen has assisted law enforcement agencies in the United States, Europe and Asia in solving
cybercrime cases. He has written about his work for Scientific American, The New York Times and CNN.com. PC World
magazine picked Hypponen as one of the 50 most important people on the Web, and Foreign Policy included him on its
list of “Top 100 Global Thinkers.” He has worked with F-Secure in Finland since 1991.
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Paul Irving is senior managing director, COO and a member of the board of the Milken Institute. Previously, he was an
advanced leadership fellow at Harvard University and chairman, CEO and managing partner of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips,
a national law and consulting firm. At the Institute, Irving leads strategic programs including the Best Cities for Successful
Aging initiative to address older Americans’ aspirations to remain vital, healthy and engaged in their communities. Now
in his own encore career, Irving intends for the initiative to broaden the national dialogue and drive policies, practices and
programs to improve seniors’ lives. He is a board member of East West Bancorp, Civic Ventures and Operation Hope,
and a senior advisor to Milestone Advisors, TrueSpark and Peace First. Irving is a graduate of New York University and
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, where he served as an adjunct professor and received the Board of Governors Award for
outstanding contributions to society and law.
Walter Isaacson is president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies
organization. A celebrated journalist, he was chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of Time before joining Aspen.
Isaacson is the author of several books, most recently the 2011 best-seller “Steve Jobs.” He is the chairman of Teach for
America, which recruits recent college graduates to teach in underserved communities. Until recently, he was chairman of
the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and similar broadcasts. He
is vice chair of Partners for a New Beginning, a public-private group tasked with forging ties between the United States
and the Muslim world. Isaacson is a board member of United Airlines and Tulane University and an overseer of Harvard
University. From 2005 to 2007, after Hurricane Katrina, he was vice chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. He is a
graduate of Harvard College and Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar.
Mary Ellen Iskenderian is president and CEO of Women’s World Banking, the world’s largest network of
microfinance institutions and banks. She leads the WWB global team, based in New York. Prior to her role at WWB,
Iskenderian spent 17 years at the International Finance Corp., the private-sector arm of the World Bank. Before that, she
worked at Lehman Brothers. Iskenderian serves as a board member at Kashf Microfinance Bank in Pakistan, an advisor to
the Clinton Global Initiative and a judge for the annual Financial Times Sustainable Banking Awards. She is a permanent
member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Iskenderian holds an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management and a B.S.
in international economics from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.
L. Phillip Jacoby is the executive director and chief investment officer of Spectrum Asset Management, Inc. Jacoby
joined Spectrum in 1995 and previously served as portfolio manager, managing director and senior portfolio manager.
Prior to joining Spectrum, Jacoby was a senior investment officer at USL Capital Corp. (a subsidiary of Ford Motor Corp.)
and co-manager of the preferred stock portfolio of its U.S. Corporate Financing Division for six years. Jacoby began his
career in 1981 with The Northern Trust Company, Chicago and then moved to Los Angeles to join E.F. Hutton & Co. as a vice
president and institutional salesman. Jacoby holds a B.S.B.A. in finance from the Boston University School of Management.
Aya Jakobovits is president and CEO of Kite Pharma and a venture partner with Orbimed Partners’ Israel team. Kite,
her fourth biotech startup, is developing therapies that manipulate the immune system to fight cancer. Prior to Kite, she
was head of research and development at Agensys, an affiliate of Astellas Pharmaceuticals. She led Agensys’ transition
from a small gene discovery lab into a fully integrated biotech company. Under her leadership, the company established
partnerships with major pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Before Agensys, Jakobovits served as principal scientist
at Abgenix, which was spun out of Cell Genesys, based on XenoMouse technology developed under her leadership. Amgen
acquired Abgenix for $2.2 billion. She received her Ph.D. in life sciences from the Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel, and
was a postdoctoral fellow at Genentech and the University of California, San Francisco. Jakobovits is an author of over 50
scientific publications and inventor on over 100 patents.
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Ahsan Jamil is CEO of The Aman Foundation, a Pakistan-based nonprofit founded in 2008 to focus on health care,
education and nutrition. Jamil is a founding trustee, with Arif and Fayeeza Naqvi. Prior to the Aman Foundation, he
founded Ecopack Ltd. in 1991. Ecopack, a PET bottle manufacturing business, became a market leader and the primary
supplier to both Pepsi and Coca-Cola in Pakistan. Jamil successfully took that company public. With a strong interest in
both education and health, he holds a diploma in counseling and addiction alleviation, and has counseled at the Karachi
Central Prison. He was also on the board of the British Overseas School. Currently he is on the board of AMANHEALTH,
AMANTECH and Teach for Pakistan, and is an advisory board member of Acumen Fund Pakistan and i-Care Foundation.
Earvin (Magic) Johnson is chairman and CEO of Magic Johnson Enterprises. An NBA legend and two-time
Hall of Famer, Johnson has successfully parlayed his skills and tenacity on the court into the business world, propelling
his company to the No. 1 urban brand in America. Magic Johnson Enterprises provides quality products and services
that focus primarily on ethnically diverse and underserved urban communities through strategic alliances, investments,
consulting and endorsements. The conglomerate is composed of multiple business entities and partnerships that include
Canyon Johnson, a $1 billion real estate fund; Yucaipa Johnson, a $500 million private equity fund, and ASPIRE, his newly
announced African-American television network. Johnson also serves as chairman and founder of the Magic Johnson
Foundation, where his unwavering commitment to transform urban America continues through HIV/AIDS awareness and
prevention programs, community empowerment centers, and the Taylor Michaels Scholarship Program.
Kellie Johnson is president of Ace Clearwater Enterprises, a family business she joined in 1985. Specializing in
complex formed and welded assemblies, the company, based in Torrance, Calif., has grown to nearly 200 employees with
2012 projected revenue at $32 million. Johnson is on the board of the National Association of Manufacturers, and is the
chair of NAM’s small and medium manufacturers group. She is also a trustee of the Manufacturing Institute. Johnson was
named the 2008 California Industry Person of The Year by the California Industrial and Technology Education Association.
She is involved the local school system, speaking about careers in manufacturing and encouraging educators to promote
manufacturing as a career path. Her company promotes internship programs, working with community colleges and
universities to expose young people to engineering and other manufacturing-related careers. Johnson graduated from the
University of Southern California in 1982 with a B.A. in international relations.
Jerry Jones is Acxiom Corp.’s chief legal officer and senior vice president and chairman of the Arkansas Virtual
Academy, an Internet-based statewide public school. He is also the co-founder of UhireUS, an organization dedicated to
persuading 1 million U.S. businesses to hire one unemployed person. At Acxiom, he is responsible for the legal, privacy and
security teams, leads the strategy and execution of mergers and alliances, and assists in other strategic initiatives. Jones
has led the Acxiom expansion efforts in Australia, China, Europe, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He
joined Acxiom as an officer in 1999 from the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Ark., where he represented a number of large
Arkansas-based companies including Tyson Foods and Wal-Mart. He has chaired fundraising events for the Clinton School
of Public Service and the Arkansas Heart Association. Jones holds a degree in public administration and a law degree from
the University of Arkansas.
Tom Joyce is chairman and CEO of the Knight Capital Group Inc. He has more than 30 years of experience in the
securities industry, including a variety of leadership roles in the global institutional equity business during 15 years at Merrill
Lynch & Co., where his last position was head of global equity e-commerce. Joyce is a board member of the Securities
Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and a former board member of Nasdaq. In addition, he currently
serves on the boards of the Special Olympics of Connecticut, the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation and the Ronald
McDonald House New York. Joyce received a B.A. in economics from Harvard College.
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Steve Judge is president and CEO of the Private Equity Growth Capital Council. Before joining the council in 2007,
Judge was senior vice president for government affairs and head of the Washington office of the Securities Industry
Association (SIA), now the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association. Judge directed SIA’s advocacy efforts for
the investment industry in federal, state and international affairs. He joined SIA in 1991 as vice president and lobbyist. Judge
also served as a member of several congressional committee staffs. From 1987 to 1991, he was deputy staff director of the
Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives. Judge came to Washington in
1978 with Congressman Bruce Vento, eventually becoming the congressman’s legislative director. He began his legislative
career in the Minnesota State Legislature as staff assistant with the Senate Committee on Education. Judge holds a B.S. in
government from St. John’s University in Minnesota.
Lynn Jurich, president of Sunrun, recognized that more people would switch to solar if it weren’t costly and complex.
She co-founded Sunrun to make simple and affordable solar a reality so people don’t have to choose between their
pocketbooks and the planet. She is responsible for operations nationwide, including sales, marketing, channel operations
and software development. Under her direction, Sunrun has become a leader in the solar power service market, providing
power in 10 states and coordinating a network of partners that employs more than 3,000 workers. A member of the Sierra
Club Foundation board, Jurich was named one of Fortune’s “Ten Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs” in 2009. She and
co-founder Ed Fenster received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 award in Northern California. Previously
at Summit Partners, Jurich completed investments with an aggregate market value of more than $900 million in the
financial services and technology sectors. She holds an M.B.A. and a B.S. from Stanford University.
Eugene Kandel is the head of Israel’s National Economic Council and has been an economic advisor to the prime
minister since 2009. A professor at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem since 1997, Kandel also taught at the University
of Rochester, the University of Chicago and Washington University. He is a member of the Center for the Study of
Rationality at The Hebrew University, a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy and Research in London and
a fellow of the European Corporate Governance Institute. Kandel’s primary area of expertise is financial markets and
financial intermediaries. His projects have included design of regulatory systems, evaluation of profitability of corporations,
development of optimal pricing policies, design of a rural health-care network (later implemented in Latin America), as well
as strategic and financial consulting. Kandel holds a B.A. and M.A. in economics from The Hebrew University, and an M.B.A.
and Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.
Carl Kaplan is the founder and managing director of Koret Israel Economic Development Funds (KIEDF). He developed
and manages KIEDF’s Small, Medium and Microfinance Business Loan Programs, which have facilitated financing of
$300 million to more than 10,5,00 borrowers in Israel. KIEDF was established in 1994 to demonstrate that deploying
philanthropy efficiently can stimulate economic expansion and employment. 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 developing U.S.Israel corporate, capital, marketing and joint-venture relationships. Previously he practiced law in Washington, D.C., and
worked as a consultant to Claridge Israel Inc. He also served as a VISTA attorney, executive director of the Greater Lansing
Legal Aid Society, director of policy at the Michigan Public Utility Commission, and he held senior positions at the U.S.
Department of Energy. Kaplan holds a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Zachary Karabell is president of River Twice Research, an economic research and consulting company, and River
Twice Capital Advisors, a money management firm. Previously, he was executive vice president, chief economist and head
of marketing at Fred Alger Management and president of broker-dealer Fred Alger & Co. Educated at Columbia, Oxford
and Harvard, where he received his Ph.D., Karabell has taught at several universities, including Harvard and Dartmouth,
and writes about economics, investing, history and international relations. He is the author of 11 books, most recently
“Sustainable Excellence: The Future of Business in the 21st Century” with Aron Cramer. A senior fellow at the Milken
Institute, he sits on the boards of the New America Foundation, Carnegie Council on Ethics and World Policy Institute.
In 2003, the World Economic Forum named him a “Global Leader for Tomorrow.” Karabell is a regular commentator on
CNBC, and contributes to Time, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Foreign Affairs and other news outlets.
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Mel Karmazin is CEO of Sirius XM Radio, a satellite radio service with 21.9 million subscribers. Karmazin joined the
company in 2004 and is a member of its board of directors. Karmazin oversees all aspects of the company’s operations from
its New York City headquarters. He was president of Viacom from 2000 to 2004. He served as president and CEO of CBS
Corp. from 1999 to 2000. He joined CBS in 1997 as chairman and CEO of CBS Radio through a merger of Westinghouse/
CBS and Infinity Broadcasting. He had served as Infinity’s president and CEO from 1981 until Infinity became a wholly
owned subsidiary of Viacom in 2001. He was named chairman and CEO of CBS Station Group (Radio and Television) in
1997. Prior to Infinity, Karmazin spent 10 years with Metromedia. He is vice chairman of the board of trustees of the Paley
Center for Media and serves on the board of Autism Speaks. He was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and has
received the National Association of Broadcasters National Radio Award.
Neil Kataria is co-founder and president of newBrandAnalytics, which helps companies use customer feedback
intelligently. Kataria spearheaded development of newBrandAnalytics’ industry-specific social business intelligence
products. His blend of local operations, social media, data analytics and enterprise business intelligence expertise are
the driving force behind the firm’s algorithms and artificial intelligence feedback analysis engines. The products are used
by thousands of hotels, restaurants, retailers and leisure companies worldwide. Kataria has founded other successful
companies, including Conformia Software; Chakra Aveda, the Estee Lauder retail and salon-spa group in San Francisco;
Infinity Development Group, a real estate firm that builds and operates affordable housing around the world; and Blue Tiger
Capital, a private equity firm with investments in emerging technology, retail and real estate assets.
Richard Kauffman joined the U.S. Department of Energy in September as a senior advisor to Secretary Steven
Chu. He is working with the secretary to expand the department’s efforts to support the game-changing technologies we
need to create the jobs of tomorrow, invest in the clean energy economy and help ensure America remains competitive
in the global marketplace. One of the country’s leading experts on private-sector investment in clean energy, he was
CEO of Good Energies Inc., an investor in renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies. With more than two
decades of experience in the financial sector, Kauffman was managing director and chaired the Global Financing Group at
Goldman Sachs. He previously served as vice chairman of Morgan Stanley’s Institutional Securities business and co-head of
its Banking Department. Kauffman has also served as chairman of Levi Strauss & Co. and on the boards of several nonprofit
organizations, including the Brookings Institution.
Francine Kaufman is chief medical officer and vice president of global medical, clinical and health affairs at Medtronic
Diabetes; a distinguished professor emerita of pediatrics and communications at the Keck School of Medicine and the
Annenberg School of Communications of the University of Southern California; and an attending physician at Children’s
Hospital Los Angeles. She has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed and invited publications, and 30 books or book
chapters, including the 5th edition of the ADA’s “Medical Management of Type 1 Diabetes and Diabesity.” Kaufman was
chair of the National Institutes of Health-funded Studies to Treat (the TODAY Trial) or Prevent (the HEALTHY Trial) Type
2 Diabetes in Youth (STOPP-T2). She was president of the American Diabetes Association, chair of the National Diabetes
Education Program and chair of the Youth Consultative Section of the International Diabetes Federation. She is a member
of the Institute of Medicine and serves on the Advisory Council of the NIH Diabetes Branch.
Jack Keane, a retired U.S. Army vice chief of staff, is a partner in SCP Partners and president of GSI. He is a director
of MetLife and General Dynamics, a member of the secretary of defense’s policy board, and involved in many non-profit
and charitable organizations. Keane retired a four-star general in December 2003. Since then he has made trips to Iraq
for senior defense officials, including assessments for Gen. Petraeus during the surge period. He played a key role in
recommending the surge strategy in Iraq and continues to advise senior government officials on national security and
the war in Afghanistan. In January he completed his fourth assessment in 18 months of Afghanistan, this time for Gens.
Allen and Mattis. Keane is a career paratrooper, a combat veteran of Vietnam who has been decorated for valor. He spent
much of his military life in operational commands where his units were employed in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo. He
commanded the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and the 18th Airborne Corps.
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Paul Kedrosky is a contributing editor to Bloomberg and a partner at Omensetter Capital and SK Ventures. An
active investor and serial entrepreneur, he has sold companies to Twitter, Demand Media and others. He has started five
companies and sold two of them. He has also been an equity research analyst for a major brokerage firm and has held
sales and product management positions in the technology industry. A sought-after speaker and editor of one of the bestknown business blogs, he has almost a quarter-million Twitter followers. He is frequently quoted in major publications
around the world, including The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, The Economist, BBC and Forbes,
among others. He has published more than 300 articles in academic and non-academic publications. Kedrosky holds
a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Carleton University, an M.B.A. from Queen’s University, and a Ph.D. from the
University of Western Ontario.
Liam Kennedy is the editor of London-based Investment & Pensions Europe (IPE) magazine and editorial director of
IPE International Publishers Ltd. He has 13 years’ experience as a financial journalist and editor, specializing in institutional
investment and pension funds. In that time he has met, interviewed and profiled countless senior executives at European
and global pension funds, asset management companies and consultancies, as well as many other influential figures. He is
also a regular speaker/moderator at industry events. Prior to joining IPE in 2007, Kennedy spent nearly seven years at the
Financial Times group in London, where he worked as a specialist editor and writer and launched four specialist European
pension and investment publications. He holds an M.A. from the University of Glasgow, U.K.
Brad Keywell is a co-founder and director of the popular online coupon site Groupon and a co-founder of Lightbank,
a venture fund investing in disruptive technology businesses. He is a co-founder and director of Echo Global Logistics,
a co-founder and director of MediaBank LLC and a trustee of Equity Residential. An adjunct professor at the University
of Chicago Booth School of Business, he was appointed chairman of the Illinois Innovation Council by Gov. Pat Quinn.
Keywell is the founder and chairman of Chicago Ideas Week and chairman of the Future Founders Foundation, which
runs programs to inspire high school students in entrepreneurship. He sits on the boards of the NorthShore University
HealthSystem, a $1.5 billion health-care organization, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in addition to several
organizations that focus on entrepreneurship and education.
Conrad Kiechel is the director of communications at the Milken Institute. A veteran of both journalism and public
relations, he was international editorial director of Reader’s Digest, overseeing its more than 40 international editions. In
that role, he launched several new editions, including one in the People’s Republic of China. Kiechel led the company’s
efforts to create reader-driven new magazines in several markets, and created a new international bureau for the flagship
magazine. His non-editing contributions at Reader’s Digest include interviews with such figures as Nelson Mandela and
the Dalai Lama. As a principal at a prominent New York strategic communications firm, he worked on behalf of one of
America’s largest energy firms. A director of the World Press Institute, Kiechel is a graduate of Columbia University and
holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. He also studied at the University of
Cologne as a Fulbright Scholar.
David Kirchhoff is a director and president and CEO of Weight Watchers International. Previously he has served as
president of WeightWatchers.com and chief operating officer for Weight Watchers in Europe and Asia. Before Weight
Watchers, Kirchhoff served as chief financial officer of the Enthusiast Media Group of Primedia Inc., a print and digital
content provider; director of corporate strategy and development for PepsiCo Inc.; and a manager and consultant with The
Boston Consulting Group. He holds a B.S. in biomedical and electrical engineering from Duke University and an M.B.A. from
the University of Chicago Graduate School Of Business.
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Maria Klawe is the president of Harvey Mudd College. Appointed in 2006, she is the first woman to hold the position
at that university. Prior to joining HMC, she was the dean of engineering and a professor of computer science at Princeton
University. Klawe joined Princeton from the University of British Columbia, where she served in various roles from 1988 to
2002. Prior to UBC, Klawe spent eight years with IBM Research in California and two years at the University of Toronto.
Klawe is a member of the boards of Microsoft Corp., Broadcom Corp. and the nonprofit Math for America. She is also a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a trustee for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley,
and a member of both the Stanford Engineering Advisory Council and the Advisory Council for the Computer Science
Teachers Association. Klawe received her Ph.D. and B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Alberta.
Kevin Klowden is director of the California Center and a managing economist at the Milken Institute, where he
oversees the Institute’s efforts to address key economic development and human capital issues facing the state. In addition,
he focuses on crucial regional economic development issues, particularly knowledge-based industries and infrastructure.
Klowden was the lead author of “Film Flight: Lost Production and Its Economic Impact in California” and “California’s
Position in Technology and Science.” He has written about the effect of transportation infrastructure on job growth in
“California’s Highway Infrastructure,” “Jobs for America” and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. In addition
to writing on the role of technology-based development in publications such as “North America’s High-Tech Economy,” he
coordinated the Institute’s two-year Los Angeles Economy Project, seeking public-policy and private-sector solutions to
the challenges raised by an increasingly unskilled labor pool.
Michael Klowden is president and CEO of the Milken Institute. He is responsible for dramatically enhancing the
Institute’s research capabilities and worldwide outreach. During his tenure, the Institute’s annual Global Conference has
become one of the world’s premier business, finance and policy events. Klowden also initiated specialized research centers,
including the California Center, the Israel Center and the Center for a Sustainable Energy Future; established a major
presence in Washington, D.C., with the founding of FasterCures and the new Center for Financial Markets; and expanded
the use of Financial Innovations Labs that suggest solutions to specific challenges. Previously Klowden was president of
Jefferies Group Inc.; senior partner at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; and partner at Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp. He holds a
bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago, where he is now a trustee, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He has
served on numerous for-profit and charitable boards.
Steven Knapp is president of The George Washington University. His priorities include enhancing GWU’s partnerships
with neighboring institutions, expanding the scope of its research, strengthening its alumni community, enlarging students’
opportunities for public service and leading its transformation into a model of urban sustainability. Previously Knapp taught
English literature at the University of California, Berkeley, before serving as dean of arts and sciences and then provost
of Johns Hopkins. He serves on many boards, including the Economic Club of Washington, Greater Washington Urban
League and World Affairs Council-Washington, D.C. He also serves on the senior advisory board of the Northern Virginia
Technology Council and the executive committee of the Council on Competitiveness. Knapp is a fellow of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Modern Language Association.
He earned his Ph.D. and master’s degree from Cornell University and his B.A. from Yale University.
Bob Kocher is a partner at Venrock, where he focuses on health-care IT and services investments. He serves on the
advisory boards of Harvard Medical School Health Care Policy Department, National Institute of Health Care Management
and ChildObesity180. He is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Engleberg Center and co-chair of
the health data initiative. Prior to Venrock, Kocher was President Obama’s special assistant for healthcare and economic
policy and a member of the National Economic Council. He was a leader of the first lady’s “Let’s Move” childhood obesity
initiative. Earlier, he was a partner at McKinsey & Co. and led McKinsey Global Institute’s health-care economics work.
Kocher received undergraduate degrees at the University of Washington and a medical degree from George Washington
University. He completed a research fellowship with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the National Institutes of
Health, and finished his internal medicine residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard.
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Robert Kotick is president, CEO and a director of Activision Blizzard. He was a director and CEO of Activision Inc.
from 1991 until 2008, when he became CEO of Activision Blizzard in connection with the combination of Activision and
Vivendi Games. By merging Activision’s top-selling portfolio of console and handheld games with Blizzard Entertainment’s
leading PC and online subscription franchises, Activision Blizzard is the largest, most profitable pure-play interactive
entertainment software publisher in the world, with leading market positions across every major category of the rapidly
growing interactive entertainment software industry. The company is based in Santa Monica, Calif., and operates in
16 countries with more than 7,000 employees worldwide. Kotick also serves on the board of The Coca-Cola Company and
on the Board of Trustees for The Center for Early Education. He chairs the Committee of Trustees and is vice chairman of
the board at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Richard Kottmeyer is global agriculture and food production leader at IBM Global Services. He leads IBM’s mission
to empower more than 100 million producers globally, from the smallholder in India to the midsized farmer in Europe to
the largest farms in North America. His work focuses on the use of science and technology to optimize food security and
farmer income, meeting the demands of a growing middle class for more variety in their diet. Prior to IBM, Kottmeyer led
four major agricultural consulting and investment banking practices, advised over 50 large transformations and worked in
over 60 countries. He represents IBM on the Global Harvest Initiative’s steering committee, works with the Farm Foundation
think tank, and is a keynote speaker at key agricultural events like the USDA’s Agricultural Outlook 2012 and the Japanese
2040 rollout; these engagements emphasize the need to not only think about how we grow more food, but also how we
grow more food using less.
David Krone is chief of staff to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He previously served as senior vice president of
Comcast Corp. Earlier, he was executive vice president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA),
the principal trade association of the cable industry in the United States. Before joining the NCTA in 2002, Krone served
as executive vice president of marketing with the YES (Yankees Entertainment and Sports) Network. In this capacity, he
was responsible for the initial branding campaign to launch the network, as well as ongoing affiliate marketing projects.
From 2000 until 2001, Krone was executive vice president of communications and marketing for GlobalCenter Inc., which
merged into Exodus Communications Inc. Earlier in his career, he served as executive vice president of government relations
at AT&T Broadband, which encompassed all of AT&T’s domestic video, local telephony and data services operations. Krone
worked for TCI from 1992 through 1999.
Joel Kurtzman is a senior fellow at the Milken Institute and executive director of its Center for Accelerating Energy
Solutions. 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, serving as deputy director of its Project on
the Future. While at the U.N., he participated in negotiations between India and Union Carbide over the Bhopal disaster and
was awarded India’s Indira Gandhi Prize. The author of 24 books and hundreds of articles, he received a master’s degree
from the University of Houston.
Paul Kusserow is a senior vice president at Humana Inc. as well as chief strategy and corporate development officer,
responsible for strategic planning as well as merger, acquisition and venture-capital activities. Before joining Humana, he
was managing director of private equity at B.C. Ziegler and Co.; managing director and chief investment officer of the
Ziegler HealthVest Fund, where he focused on early-stage investments in health-care services and health-care IT; and
managing director of San Ysidro Capital Partners LLC, a health-care services consulting and investment advisory firm.
Previously Kusserow served as Tenet Healthcare Corp.’s senior vice president in charge of corporate strategy and venture
investments, and was the founder of Tenet Ventures. He started his career at McKinsey & Co., where he specialized in
marketing and organizational redesign. Kusserow received a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and an M.A. from
the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
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Halvard Kvaale is a managing director and head of portfolio advisory services at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.
Earlier, he served as the head of global advisor research at Morgan Stanley. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Kvaale was the
head of global manager research and fee-based advisory solutions at Deutsche Bank. Previously, he worked at Prudential
Investments; in addition to managing its consulting programs, he ran the investment management analysis unit and senior
consulting and performance measurement groups, and created one of the industry’s first integrated mutual fund and
separately managed account advisory programs. Kvaale attended the Norwegian School of Management, where he earned
a master’s degree in international management, and graduated with a master’s in investing from San Francisco State
University. He holds a certified investment management analyst designation from the Wharton School of Business and is a
member of the Investment Management Consultants Association.
Celinda Lake, a prominent pollster and political strategist for Democrats and progressives, is president of Lake
Research Partners. Lake’s polling and strategic advice helped candidates such as Sen. Jon Tester, Rep. Tim Walz and Gov.
Bob Wise defeat incumbent Republicans, and her expertise guided Sen. Mark Begich to become the first Senate candidate
in Alaska to oust the incumbent in 50 years. She has focused on female candidates and women’s issues, having worked for
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Janet Napolitano and Sen. Debbie Stabenow. Lake worked for the largest independent
expenditure campaign to take back the House and has been a key player in efforts by progressive groups such as the AFLCIO, SEIU, Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, Human Rights Campaign and EMILY’S List. She recently helped elect Annise
Parker, the first openly gay mayor of a major U.S. city. With Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway, Lake co-authored the
book “What Women Really Want,” which examines how women are changing the U.S. political landscape.
Sherry Lansing is CEO of the Sherry Lansing Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to cancer research and public
education. Among its initiatives is the EnCorps Teachers Program, which retrains technology professionals as California
math and science teachers. Lansing is also founder of PrimeTime LAUSD, which engages retirees in public education
through targeted volunteerism. In addition, she is chair of the University of California Board of Regents and co-founder of
the Stand Up To Cancer initiative. During nearly 30 years in the movie business, Lansing was involved in the production,
marketing and distribution of more than 200 films, including Academy Award winners “Forrest Gump,” “Braveheart” and
“Titanic.” In 1980 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. Lansing sits on numerous boards, including
the Carter Center, Civic Ventures and the Lasker Foundation.
Renaud Laplanche is CEO of the Lending Club, responsible for overseeing the organization’s strategic direction and
operations. Laplanche has appeared in many leading publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times,
The Washington Post, USA Today, BusinessWeek and Barron’s. He has also been featured on CNBC, ABC News and Fox
Business News.
Timothy Lappen is founder and chairman of the Family Office Group at the law firm of Jeffer Mangels Butler &
Mitchell LLP, serving as outside general counsel to high-net-worth individuals, their families and their businesses. He also
is a member of the firm’s corporate, real estate, hospitality, entertainment and banking and finance groups. His work
involves myriad family office matters, such as corporate, succession planning, labor and employment, real estate, pre- and
post-nuptial agreements, general business, real estate, intellectual property, tax, litigation and land use. Recognized by his
peers (via Worth magazine) as one of the “Top 100 Attorneys” in the U.S., Lappen is involved with numerous civic activities.
He currently serves on the advisory board of the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank and as director and president of the
Center for Childhood. A practicing attorney for close to 40 years, Lappen holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of
California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Marc Lasry is chairman, CEO and co-founder of Avenue Capital Group, a global alternative investment manager with
over $13 billion in assets under management. Avenue, founded in 1995 and headquartered in New York City, has nine offices
around the world. Distressed investing has been the focus of Lasry’s professional career for more than 26 years. He also
co-founded Amroc Investments L.P. in 1989 in association with the Robert Bass Group Inc. as a distressed debt investment
partnership. Prior to that, Lasry was co-director of the Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization Department at Cowen
& Co. He previously served as director of the Private Debt Department at Smith Vasiliou Management Co. Lasry also
clerked for former Chief Bankruptcy Judge Edward Ryan of the Southern District of New York. He serves on the board or
advisory board of Mount Sinai Medical Center, The Clinton Foundation and the 92nd Street Y. Lasry holds a B.A. from Clark
University and a J.D. from New York Law School.
Carey Lathrop is a managing director and head of global credit markets at Citi. He is responsible for the management
of Credit Sales, Trading (investment grade, high-yield, short-term, distressed, portfolio and exotic credit derivatives,
emerging markets credit trading, and credit sector specialists), and the Credit Opportunities Group. He previously held
several leadership positions within the fixed-income business, including global head of credit trading, global head of
investment grade and high-yield trading, global head of emerging markets credit trading, and head of the U.S. investment
grade fixed-income syndicate desk. Lathrop began his career at Salomon Brothers as an associate in the Sales and Trading
Department and managed the Short-Term Generalist Sales Group before joining the syndicate desk in 1994. Prior to
receiving an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, he worked for the IBM Corp. He also holds a B.S. from Stony Brook
University.
Otavio de Garcia Lazcano is CEO and head of investor relations for LLX Logistics. Prior to LLX, he was CFO
at Companhia Siderurgica Nacional (CSN) from 2002 to 2009. He also headed the departments of financial control,
accounting, budget, treasury, credit analysis, insurance, mergers and acquisitions, investments and investor relations at
the company, which he joined in 1996. Previously, Lazcano worked at Aracruz, one of the world’s leading paper and pulp
producers. He has a degree in economics and an M.B.A. from Fundacao Dom Cabral.
Edward Lazear is a Stanford University professor, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and former chairman of
the Council of Economic Advisors. Before joining Stanford in 1992, Lazear taught at the University of Chicago. As the
chief economic advisor to President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2009, he counseled on a broad range of issues. Lazear
currently serves as chairman of the board of overseers of the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago
and is a member of the advisory board of the George W. Bush Institute. Lazear is the recipient of the IZA Prize in Labor
Economics and the Jacob Mincer Prize for lifetime contributions to the field. He also received the Melamed Prize, which
cited his book “Personnel Economics” as the best research by a business professor for the award period. Lazear has been
an advisor to the governments of Czechoslovakia, Romania, Russia, Ukraine and Georgia. He holds an A.B. and A.M. from
the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
Sancy Leachman, a professor at the University of Utah, is the director of the Melanoma and Cutaneous Oncology
Program at Huntsman Cancer Institute. Her research applies molecular-level insights to patient care and emphasizes the
use of human genetics in the prevention and treatment of disease. Leachman has assembled and studied one of the
largest and best-characterized hereditary melanoma populations in the world. She developed and published international
consensus guidelines for melanoma genetic testing in this population and is currently developing genetic counseling
strategies to help patients avoid the disease. Leachman founded the International Pachyonychia Congenita Consortium
and led a first-in-human mutation-targeted siRNA Phase Ib trial for this inherited skin disorder. A graduate of the University
of Texas at Austin, Leachman received her medical degree and a Ph.D. at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical
School and completed her dermatologic training at Yale.
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Susan Leal is chief strategy officer and senior vice president of water in the Americas at AECOM. A water utility expert
specializing in identifying realistic and creative solutions to water-related challenges, Leal recently concluded two years
as a senior fellow of the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. As part of her fellowship, she co-authored
the book “Running Out of Water.” As former general manager of San Francisco’s Public Utilities Commission, Leal led the
charge for a dramatic upgrade of the Bay Area’s water system and outdated wastewater system. She previously served
two terms as the elected treasurer of the city and county of San Francisco and as a member of the San Francisco Board of
Supervisors. Leal sits on the board of the Savannah Ocean Exchange and is an associate of the School of Engineering and
Applied Sciences at Harvard. She is on the advisory board of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the
University of California, Berkeley, where she received a B.A. and J.D.
Michael Leavitt is the founder and chairman of Leavitt Partners, a health-care intelligence business. Previously Leavitt
served as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2005-2009), administrator of the Environmental
Protection Agency (2003-2005) and governor of Utah (1993-2003). At the EPA, he oversaw the implementation of the
most protective ground-level ozone standards in U.S. history and signed the Clean Diesel Rule, a landmark rule to clean
up non-road diesel fuel. His service at HHS included implementing the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program and
planning for a pandemic flu. A seasoned expert in public policy, global health and health system reform, Leavitt is a soughtafter speaker and advisor to CEOs, governors, members of Congress and political candidates.
Steve LeBlanc is the senior managing director of private markets for the Teacher Retirement System of Texas. He
was instrumental in creating the Private Markets’ Strategic Partnership Network at the pension fund and the Real Estate
Certificate Program for Undergraduate Students at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as a business professor.
In 2011, he testified before a congressional subcommittee on the Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth
Companies Act of 2011. Previously LeBlanc was president and CEO of NYSE-listed REIT Summit Properties in Charlotte,
N.C., president of Urban Growth Property Trust in Chicago and executive vice president for Archstone Communities Trust
in Santa Fe, N.M. He is a member of the Private Capital Research Institute and the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and
Emerging Companies. He has appeared on Bloomberg Television and was a guest host on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” LeBlanc
has a bachelor of business administration from the University of Texas at Austin.
Timothy Leiweke is president and CEO of AEG, one of the world’s leading presenters of sports and entertainment
programming. Since joining AEG, he has acquired or merged more than 50 divisions and companies to create a global
live entertainment organization that develops, produces, promotes, markets and manages sports and entertainment
programming in both facilities owned and operated by AEG as well as other venues. Divisions under Leiweke’s direction
include AEG Live, which creates, produces and promotes live entertainment, and AEG Facilities, which operates more than
100 of the world’s pre-eminent venues. Leiweke has helped remake downtown Los Angeles with the Staples Center - built
under his direction in a record 18 months - and the 4 million-square-foot L.A. Live complex, a privately financed $2.5 billion
sports and entertainment district that features five venues, 18 restaurants and clubs, residences and a 54-story convention
“headquarters” hotel.
Conor Lenihan is vice president of the Skolkovo Foundation. He has served in several government ministries in
Ireland, including minister for science, technology and innovation until March 2011. As a minister he created a single budget
line for science and technology funding and participated in the country’s Innovation Task Force. He began his working life
as a newspaper journalist and in the 1980s was based in the Palace of Westminster as a political correspondent for the
Irish News. He was first elected to the Irish parliament in 1997. Lenihan was educated at Belvedere College and University
College Dublin, where he studied economics, history and politics. He is a member of one of the best-known political
families in Ireland; his grandfather, father, aunt and brother all served in the Irish parliament and in key ministerial positions.
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Mark Levy is co-founder and former vice chairman of Levy Restaurants, a nationally recognized and critically acclaimed
fine dining, sports and entertainment leader in the food industry. Levy fine-dining restaurants include the Ivy Awardwinning Spiaggia and the Fulton Crab House. As the market leader in sports and entertainment dining, Levy Restaurants
operates in venues that include Chicago’s Wrigley Field, L.A.’s Staples Center, Miami’s American Airlines Arena and Walt
Disney World in Orlando, Fla. Since 2007, Levy has served as chairman of Mastro’s Restaurants LLC; he was appointed its
CEO in 2010.
Freda Lewis-Hall is chief medical officer and executive vice president at Pfizer Inc., leading Pfizer Medical. Previously,
she was a leader in medical affairs and biomedical product development at Vertex, Pharmacia, Bristol-Myers Squibb and
Eli Lilly. Lewis-Hall has held leadership, medical and research positions at the National Institute of Mental Health and the
Howard University Hospital and College of Medicine. In 2010, the Obama administration appointed her to the board of the
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Lewis-Hall serves on numerous boards, including the Institute of Medicine’s
Forum on Drug Discovery, Development and Translation; the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health; and the
Harvard Medical School Board of Fellows. Among her many honors is being named the Healthcare Businesswomen’s
Association’s 2011 “Woman of the Year” and one of the “75 Most Powerful Women in Business” by Black Enterprise. She
holds a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University and an M.D. from Howard University College of Medicine.
Tong (Cindy) Li is a senior economist at the Milken Institute. She specializes in the U.S. mortgage market, international
capital markets, banking regulations and the Chinese economy. Li has authored and co-authored more than 30 reports,
papers and articles. Her research work has been published in academic journals and presented at major academic and
regulator conferences. She is a co-author of “The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets: A Comprehensive
Analysis of the Meltdown” and “Financial Institutions in China: A Study on Formal and Informal Credits,” both published
in 2009. She currently serves on the editorial board of Bank and Banking Systems. Li has been interviewed by such major
media outlets as China’s Phoenix Television and China Youth Daily. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University
of California, Riverside, with research focused on microfinance and economic development, and special emphasis on
China. She received a bachelor’s degree in international finance from Peking University.
J. Leonard Lichtenfeld is deputy chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society, in charge of the Cancer
Control Science Department. The department produces the society’s guidelines for prevention and early detection of
cancer, including the roles of nutrition and physical activity. A board-certified oncologist and internist who was a practicing
physician for more than 19 years, Lichtenfeld is active in several state and national medical organizations and advisory
committees. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann Medical College (now Drexel University
College of Medicine) in Philadelphia. His postgraduate training was at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, Johns
Hopkins and the National Cancer Institute in Baltimore. Lichtenfeld has received several awards in recognition of his
efforts on behalf of his colleagues and professional activities. He has been designated a master of the American College of
Physicians in acknowledgement of his contributions to internal medicine.
Caroline Lieber is director of Sarah Lawrence College’s Joan H. Marks Graduate Program in Human Genetics, the
country’s first and largest master’s program in genetic counseling. She has 32 years’ experience in genetics: 18 as a clinical
counselor and supervisor, and 14 in her current role as educator and administrator. Lieber is active in professional educational
outreach and regularly speaks to community and academic audiences. She is an instructor in the LEND program at the
Westchester Institute of Human Development. She recently traveled to Guatemala to assess the role of genetic counseling
in the health-care system. Lieber and colleagues received NSGC’s 2005 Jane Engelberg Memorial Fellowship to complete
a project entitled “Narratives of Heritability: Privileging Family Stories as Genetic Understanding,” the results of which were
published in 2011. In 2011, Lieber and three students founded GenetAssist, an organization of genetic counselors who travel
internationally to assist with genetics education and service provision.
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Steve Liesman, CNBC’s senior economics reporter, reports on all aspects of the economy including the Federal
Reserve Bank and major economic indicators. He appears on “Squawk Box” as well as other CNBC programs. Liesman
joined CNBC from The Wall Street Journal, where he was a senior economics reporter covering monetary policy,
international economics, academic research and productivity. He previously worked as the Journal’s energy reporter and,
from 1996-1998, its Moscow bureau chief. He was a member of the reporting team recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for
stories chronicling the crash of the Russian financial markets. Prior to joining the Journal in 1994, Liesman was the founding
business editor for The Moscow Times, the country’s first English-language daily newspaper. There, he helped create the
publication’s stock index, which was the country’s first. Liesman holds an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism and a B.A. in English from the State University of New York, Buffalo.
Vinny Lingham is CEO of Gyft.com. Lingham has founded a number of businesses under the umbrella of incuBeta.com,
a world leader in online and search engine marketing. In 2007 Lingham left incuBeta to pursue Lingham Capital, a venture
capital firm. He is the former CEO of Yola. Honored by the nonprofit Endeavor as a high-impact Endeavor Entrepreneur,
Lingham has been featured in GQ, the Sunday Times and Entrepreneur as well as on various radio and TV shows. In 2006
incuBeta won South Africa’s top technology company award, and Lingham was named the “Top Young IT Entrepreneur in
Africa.” He is a frequent speaker at international online marketing conferences, primarily in the U.S. and U.K., and his blog
has a significant following. A member of the Society of Industry Leaders, Lingham serves on numerous advisory boards
and commissions. He holds a B.Com in information systems from the University of Cape Town and an honors degree in
electronic commerce from the University of South Africa.
Robert Litan is vice president for research and policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City,
a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a fellow at the Bush Institute. He is the author or co-author of more
than 25 books and 200 articles on a wide range of economic subjects. His most recent book, “Good Capitalism,
Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity,” co-authored with Carl Schramm and William Baumol,
has been translated into 10 languages. His next book, “Better Capitalism,” co-authored with Carl Schramm, will be
published by Yale Press this fall.
Charles Y.S. Liu is chairman of Hao Capital, which manages Hao Capital China Fund I LP and Hao Capital China
Fund II LP. Liu is also a senior fellow at the Peking University Center on China and Global Affairs. He founded Hao Capital
in 2005 as a private equity fund, investing in Chinese companies in a wide range of industries. Liu previously served as
managing director of Lazard Asia Ltd. and spent 15 years working for the United Nations organizing international economic
conferences and executing development projects for international organizations and agencies. Liu has been a guest
host on CNBC and regularly appears on CCTV, BBC and Bloomberg. He served as chairman and a board member of the
Investment Committee of Applied Materials Inc., becoming the first Chinese national to serve on a Fortune 300 board. Liu
graduated from Princeton University and attended the J.D. program of New York University Law School.
Andrew Lo is the Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management, the director of
MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering, and a principal investigator at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
Lab. Lo has published numerous articles, authored several books, including “The Econometrics of Financial Markets,” and
currently helps edit several finance and economics journals. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of
Economic Research, a consultant to the Office of Financial Research, a member of the Economic Advisory Committee
for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Moody’s Academic Advisory and Research Committee, the New
York Fed’s Financial Advisory Roundtable, and founder and chief investment strategist of AlphaSimplex Group, LLC, an
investment advisory firm based in Cambridge, Mass. Lo received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University and taught
at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1984 to 1988.
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Dennis Lockhart is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Lockhart is responsible for all
activities, including monetary policy, bank supervision and regulation, and payment services. Prior to his role at the bank,
he served on the faculty of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. In 2002-2007, Lockhart was chairman
of the Small Enterprise Assistance Funds, a sponsor/operator of emerging markets venture capital/private equity funds.
Previously, he was managing partner at the private equity firm Zephyr Management LP, president of Heller International
Group at Heller Financial and an executive at Citicorp. In 2000, he served as chairman of the advisory committee of the U.S.
Export-Import Bank. Lockhart earned a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.A. in international economics and American
foreign policy from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He also attended the Senior
Executive Program at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.
Kenneth Lombard is president of Capri Urban Investors, a partner of Capri Capital Partners LLC and a member of
Capri’s Investment Committee. He is responsible for equity and structured finance investments as well as asset management
for the firm. Immediately before joining Capri, Lombard served as president of Starbucks Entertainment, where he provided
vision and strategy for the group’s entertainment initiatives. In March 2007, he managed the collaboration with Concord
Music to form a new Starbucks music label. Lombard also negotiated the successful collaboration between Starbucks and
AT&T Wi-Fi Service. Before joining Starbucks, Lombard helped launch Johnson Development Corp. in 1992 and spent 12
years as president and a partner of the firm. He began his career as a sales associate for IBM, where he worked from 1976
to 1979. Lombard earned a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Washington.
Damien Loveday is the global head of hedge fund research at Towers Watson. He has more than eight years of
experience in hedge fund research and over 12 years of experience in manager research. Loveday has helped build the
strength and depth of Towers Watson’s hedge fund research capability in fixed-income strategies since his arrival in 2006
and has taken a direct, proactive role in advising clients on their hedge fund programs. Prior to joining Towers Watson,
Loveday spent seven years at RBS Asset Management specializing in manager research and product construction. He
covered a range of regional and global fixed-income, equity and hedge fund mandates. Loveday studied at Yale and
received a B.S. in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics. He is also a CFA charterholder.
Evan Lovell is a founding partner of Virgin Green Fund (VGF) and a member of its Investment Committee. He is a
seasoned private equity investor and operator in the renewable energy and resources sector, having invested globally over
the last 15 years. Lovell serves on the board of VGF I portfolio companies Quench and Seven Seas Water and was previously
on the board of Duratherm before its sale to Clean Harbors Inc. Prior to VGF, Lovell was an investment professional with
TPG Capital and a partner in TPG’s Aqua Fund, which focused on growth capital investments in the water and renewable
energy sectors. Prior to that, he was director of international development for Culligan Water Technologies and assistant
to the chairman for international development at Astrum International, the holding company for Samsonite and American
Tourister Luggage, Botany 500 Menswear, Culligan, Anvil Knitwear and Pet Specialties. He previously served on the boards
of Eden Springs and Grupo Rotoplas.
Gary Loveman is chairman, CEO and president of Caesars Entertainment Corp. A former associate professor at
Harvard Business School, he joined Caesars Entertainment in 1998, drawing on his background in marketing and service
management to develop Total Rewards, which today has more than 40 million members. Since being named CEO in
2003, he has presided over the 2004 purchase of Horseshoe Gaming and the World Series of Poker, and the 2005
acquisition of Caesars Entertainment Inc. In 2008, Caesars went private in a $30.7 billion transaction. In the wake of the
financial crisis, Loveman led Caesars’ successful debt reduction and liquidity improvement strategies, while adding Planet
Hollywood to the company portfolio. He was recognized as the gaming and lodging industry’s best CEO by Institutional
Investor magazine for four consecutive years. A past chairman of the American Gaming Association and a member of the
President’s Export Council, Loveman holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Penny Low is founder and president of the Social Innovation Park (SIP) and a longtime member of Singapore’s
Parliament. SIP advocates a more inclusive, sustainable world, through collaborative innovation and partnership with the
public and private sectors. Low is a union advisor and sits on many national and international committees. She is a veteran
of the wealth management industry and a serial entrepreneur. Low has visited more than 70 countries and spoken at many
international forums including Davos and ASEAN100. She has received many awards, including honors by the Genevabased World Economic Forum as a founding member of the New Asian Leaders and the Young Global Leaders. She is
a founding curator of the Global Shapers Community and has been an Ideas Festival scholar at the U.S.-based Aspen
Institute as well as a Yale University scholar and world fellow. She is an alumnus of the National University of Singapore,
Harvard, Yale and Tsinghua University.
Peter Lowy is co-CEO of Westfield Group, one of the world’s largest retail property groups. Westfield has 120,000
shareholders around the world and investment interests in 118 shopping centers in the United States, United Kingdom,
Australia, New Zealand and Brazil with a gross value in excess of A$61 billion. Lowy has 29 years of experience in the
shopping center and REIT industry, having worked for Westfield since 1983. Prior to joining Westfield, he worked in
investment banking in London and New York. Lowy serves as chairman of the Homeland Security Advisory Council for Los
Angeles County; sits on the Executive Committee and Board of Trustees for RAND Corp. and the Executive Committee
of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy; and is a director of the Lowy Institute for International Policy. He holds a
bachelor of commerce degree from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
George Lucas, founder and chairman of Lucasfilm, is one of the movie industry’s greatest storytellers and innovators.
The originator of the “Star Wars” and “Indiana Jones” franchises, Lucas has created characters that have inspired
generations of filmgoers and become bedrocks of popular culture worldwide. He directed or produced such memorable
films as “THX 1138,” “American Graffiti,” “Willow” and “Tucker: A Man and His Dream.” Lucasfilm has garnered over 100
Academy Award nominations and more than 40 Oscars and special achievement awards. Lucas revolutionized the film
industry by forming Industrial Light & Magic to create the visual effects for “Star Wars,” and was the first filmmaker to use
computer technology. His R&D led to the first digital editing system (which became AVID) and the Pixar Computer, which
led to Pixar Animation Studios. In 1999, “Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace” became the first major live-action film
to be projected digitally; “Episode II” was the first major movie shot using entirely digital media.
Tom Luna is Idaho’s superintendent of public instruction. Since first taking office, Luna has worked to raise student
achievement by creating a customer-driven public education system that meets the needs of all students and ensures
that every student will graduate from high school prepared to live, work and succeed in the 21st century. Luna worked
with Idaho’s governor to pass one of the most comprehensive pieces of education reform in the nation. Before working in
education, Luna was a successful businessman. He first got involved in education by serving on the Nampa, Idaho, school
board. Since then, he has served at the local, state and national levels. Luna is the president of the Council of Chief State
School Officers, a nationwide organization that brings together the top education leaders from every state.
Bo Lundgren is director general of the Swedish National Debt Office, responsible for cash management, debt
management, state guarantees and loans, deposit insurance, investor protection and bank support. He is also chairman
of the National Government Employee Pensions Board and vice chairman of the National Property Board. From 1975 to
2004, Lundgren was a member of Parliament and active in economic policy. He also served as minister for Fiscal and
Financial Affairs from 1991 to 1994, implementing tax reforms and budget consolidation measures. Lungren was leader
of the Moderate party, the main center-right party in Sweden, and vice president of the European Peoples Party in the
European Union. He has also been a member of the boards of SAS Sweden AB and Vin & Sprit AB. Lundgren is the author
of “Lower Tax for All” and “When the Bubble Burst.” He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Lund University in 2010 and his
B.Sc. degree from Lund in 1974.
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Frank Luntz is CEO of Luntz Global and a contributor on Fox News. Called “the Nostradamus of pollsters” by Sir David
Frost, Luntz has written, supervised and conducted thousands of surveys, focus groups, ad tests and dial sessions in more
than two dozen countries. He has helped almost 30 Fortune 100 companies and CEOs navigate the economic climate and
connect more closely with consumers. His “Instant Response” focus group technique has been profiled often on television,
and he has been a guest on virtually every major talk show in America. Luntz has also written about language for numerous
national and international newspapers. He is the author of three New York Times best-sellers, including his latest book,
“Win: The Key Principles to Take Your Business From Ordinary to Extraordinary.” Luntz graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania and received a Ph.D. in politics from Oxford University.
Doug Lynch is the vice dean at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. In collaboration
with Gregory Milken of the Milken Family Foundation, Lynch developed the Penn GSE-Milken Education Business Plan
Competition to stimulate innovation in education and connect entrepreneurs to venture capitalists and funders. It is now
one of the largest business plan competitions and by far the largest focused on education. He also created a partnership
between the University of Pennsylvania and Teach for America to support corps members serving in Philadelphia. Lynch
helped launch one of the nation’s first charter schools and ran online higher education programs in the mid-1990s. He
worked with the New York Fire Department after 9/11 and WorldCom after its ethical challenges. Trained as an economist,
Lynch sits on the Delaware governor’s Innovation Board and the Board of Visitors for the CIA. He also chairs the U.S.
delegation to the International Organization for Standardization setting global standards for workforce training.
Kevin Lynch is vice chairman of BMO Financial Group. Lynch began his career as an economist with the Bank of
Canada. He served as deputy minister of industry from 1995 to 2000 and then deputy minister of finance from 2000
to 2004. Later he was executive director of the International Monetary Fund, clerk of the Privy Council, secretary to the
Cabinet and head of the Public Service of Canada. He retired from government service in 2009 and joined BMO in 2010.
He serves on the boards of the Gairdner Foundation, Perimeter Institute, University of Waterloo, U.K. Ditchley, Canadian
Ditchley Foundation, Learning Partnership, Shannon School of Business and Accounting Standards Oversight Council.
Lynch was named to the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada in 2009, was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from
McMaster University and was a recipient of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal. He earned a B.A. from Mount Allison
University, a master’s in economics from the University of Manchester and a Ph.D. in economics from McMaster University.
John Paul Macdonald is senior vice president of human resources and public affairs at Bombardier, leading its
talent management strategy. A 30-year veteran in communications, public affairs, investor relations and human resources,
Macdonald has also served as vice president of communications at Bombardier. Before joining the firm, he was vice
president of corporate affairs at Molson, and worked for media conglomerate Quebecor and Unisys subsidiary Paramax
Systems Canada. Prior to that, he held various public affairs positions in the Canadian Forces, including director of public
affairs for the Department of National Defense. He has expertise in financial communications, crisis communications and
conflict resolution in situations as varied as share offerings, mergers and acquisitions, aircraft crashes, a murder trial and
strike actions. He received a B.A. from McGill University and studied communications strategy at the Kellogg Graduate
School of Management at Northwestern University.
Doug Mack is CEO of One Kings Lane, an online retailer of home decor. An e-commerce and consumer-industry
veteran, Mack was CEO and co-founder of Scene7, the leading rich media platform for e-commerce, powering websites for
more than 1,000 retailers worldwide, including Nike, QVC, Macy’s and Williams-Sonoma. After completing the successful
sale of Scene7 to Adobe in 2007, he joined the Adobe executive team; as vice president and general manager of digital
imaging and dynamic media, he provided leadership for flagship properties such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Flash
Media. Previously, Mack served as executive vice president of the Home Division for Broderbund Software, where he
oversaw the growth of such leading consumer properties as Print Shop and 3D Home Architect. A graduate of Boston
College, Mack began his career at General Electric and later joined McKinsey & Co.
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Aaron Mankovski is the chairman of Israel Advanced Technology Industries and managing general partner of Pitango
Venture Capital. In 1996, he co-founded Eucalyptus Ventures, which merged with Pitango in 2000. He sits on numerous
boards of Pitango portfolio companies. From 1986 to 1993, Mankovski was president and CEO of Orbotech Inc. in Boston.
He has been a pilot in the Israeli air force, a sales executive at IBM and a member of the board of Chromatis Networks
(acquired by Lucent for $4.5 billion). In 2009, Mankovski was elected chairman of the High Tech Industries Association,
where he led its transformation from a venture capital organization to a body representing the entire high-tech industry in
Israel. In 2011, the association merged with Israel Life Science Association to create Israel Advanced Technology Industries.
Mankovski also serves on the boards of Tel Aviv University and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation. Mankovski
holds a B.Sc. in computer science and statistics from Tel Aviv University.
Christine Marcks is the president of Prudential Retirement, a full-service retirement plan provider for plan sponsors
in the corporate, public, nonprofit and Taft-Hartley retirement markets. Prior to this position, Marcks served in a number
of leadership roles in retirement and related financial-services businesses, including both institutional and individual
retirement businesses. Prior to joining Prudential, she was senior vice president and head of ING Financial Horizons, an
advisory business focused on the pre-retiree market. Earlier in her career, Marcks had bottom-line responsibility for the
company’s defined-contribution and individual annuity businesses. She also served as an international economist with
the U.S. Treasury Department. Marcks earned a B.A. degree in foreign affairs from Assumption College and an M.A.
in economics from Georgetown University. She holds NASD series 7 and 24 licenses and serves on the boards of many
not-for-profit organizations.
Peter Maslen is CEO of Knowledge Universe, an education company with a network of more than 3,000 locations
worldwide employing over 30,000 academics and education professionals. Knowledge Universe offers early childhood,
secondary and higher education, and serves more than 400,000 students daily. Before heading up Knowledge Universe,
Maslen was president of Starbucks Coffee International, where he led the company’s rapid expansion outside the U.S.,
from its initial start-up phase to a highly successful global business with operations in more than 30 countries. Maslen
began his international career in fast-moving consumer goods with Mars Inc., where he was the regional director for Asia,
before moving on to PepsiCo. He was European president of Tricon Global Restaurants (now Yum Brands and part of
PepsiCo), with responsibility for the development and growth of the Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken and Taco Bell
brands throughout Western and Central Europe and the former Soviet bloc countries.
Jim Matheson is a general partner in Flagship Ventures. He joined Flagship in 2000 and focuses on creating and
funding new ventures in sustainable and clean technology. A former Navy pilot and TOPGUN instructor, Matheson has over
20 years of technology and leadership experience. He serves on the boards of Flagship portfolio companies Advanced
Electron Beams, Black Duck Software, Frontier Renewable Resources, Mascoma Energy Corp., Midori, Novomer and Oasys
Water, and is chairman of Genstruct and Ze-gen. Matheson has spearheaded Flagship Ventures’ role as the Department of
Energy’s entrepreneur-in-residence at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is on the board of New York-based
hedge fund Black Horse Capital, the New England Clean Energy Council, the national board of the Clean Tech Open, CLF
(Conservation Law Foundation) Ventures and the Center for Women & Enterprise. He retired in 2008 as a commander in
the Naval Reserves. Matheson earned an M.B.A. from Harvard and a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy.
Dottie Mattison is a senior managing director at Guggenheim Partners. Since joining Guggenheim in 2010, she has
partnered with the portfolio’s brand and consumer companies, including The BCBGMAXAZRIA Group, Billboard, The
Hollywood Reporter, Adweek and the Clio Awards. Mattison was previously general manager and senior vice president of
the Apparel Global Merchandising Center of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and chief merchant of Walmart.com. Her responsibilities
included chairing the Global Entertainment Council (charged with creating cross-category merchandising programs
from entertainment content), leading the Sustainability Textiles Network, completing The Prince of Wales’s Business and
Sustainability Programme at the University of Cambridge, and forming an industrywide Apparel Consortium to redefine
supply-chain environmental and social standards. Prior to Wal-Mart, Mattison was a merchandising executive at Gap, Old
Navy and Gap.com. She is a trustee of The San Francisco School and a director of the Dress for Success Worldwide Board.
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James McCaughan is CEO of Principal Global Investors and president of global asset management for the Principal
Financial Group. He oversees all global asset management activities, including developing global strategies and identifying
and analyzing market opportunities. McCaughan has 31 years of experience in the investment business and was most
recently the CEO of the Americas division of Credit Suisse Asset Management in New York. Prior to joining Credit Suisse,
he was president and chief operating officer of Oppenheimer Capital in New York. A fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, he
holds degrees in mathematics from the University of Cambridge.
Raymond McDaniel Jr. is chairman and CEO of Moody’s Corp., responsible for its activities and its two operating
divisions: Moody’s Investors Service, the credit rating agency, and Moody’s Analytics. During his tenure, McDaniel has
helped lead the company to record levels of financial performance and implemented important enhancements to Moody’s
ratings practices. Some of these initiatives include growing the core ratings and research business globally, implementing
international expansion and new products, and improving professional practices in the ratings business by enhancing credit
policies, rating committee processes and credit research capabilities. He began his Moody’s career as a senior analyst in
New York. McDaniel holds a law degree from Emory University and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Colgate
University. He was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York in 1984 and is a member of the board of John Wiley & Sons
Inc. and the National Council on Economic Education.
William McDonough is an executive vice president and the director of collective bargaining for the United Food and
Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW). McDonough’s responsibilities include overseeing collective bargaining
policies and strategies. He has been a union activist since his days as a stock boy at Filene’s department store in the Boston
area. As a member of Retail Clerks Local 711, he became a Filene’s shop steward in 1974. In 1979, he became an international
representative and a crew organizer coordinator. In the early 1980s, he returned to his home local as an organizer until
moving to Las Vegas in the mid-1980s. In 1986, he was elected president of the local, and in 1993 he was called upon to lead
Phoenix Local 99. In 1998, McDonough was elected an international vice president, and in 2002, he became a UFCW region
director. He was elected executive vice president and appointed organizing director in 2004.
Daniel McGahn is president and CEO of AMSC. He joined AMSC in 2006 as vice president of strategic planning
and corporate development and held other senior roles before being appointed CEO in June 2011. At AMSC he has been
responsible for establishing operations in China, Korea and India. He led efforts to enhance the company’s wire performance
and production processes and has overseen AMSC’s day-to-day global operations. From 2003 to 2006, McGahn served
as executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Konarka Technologies, a venture-backed developer of polymer
photovoltaic technology for renewable power. Prior to 2003, McGahn was general manager and chief operating officer of
Hyperion Catalysis, a world leader in carbon nanotube production and application development. He also held managerial
positions at IGEN International, a medical device company, and Princeton Consultants. McGahn holds M.S. and B.S. degrees
in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Raymond McGuire is global head of corporate and investment banking at Citi, based in New York. McGuire is a
member of Citi’s Business Development Committee, Institutional Clients Group Executive Committee and Business
Practices Committee. Prior to Citi, he was the global co-head of mergers and acquisitions at Morgan Stanley; managing
director in mergers and acquisitions at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. and one of the original members of Wasserstein Perella & Co.,
Inc., where he became a partner and managing director in 1991. He started his career in 1984 in the Mergers & Acquisitions
Group of the First Boston Corp. McGuire serves on several boards including the De La Salle Academy (chairman), Lincoln
Center, New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York Public Library, Studio Museum in Harlem (chairman), and Whitney
Museum of American Art. He has also served on various visiting committees at Harvard University, where he received an
M.B.A., J.D. and A.B.
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Patrick McHenry is the U.S. representative for North Carolina’s 10th District. The deputy Republican whip, McHenry
is a member of the House Financial Services Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform,
where he is chairman of the Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs.
McHenry is chairman of the House Conservatives Fund. He has been recognized repeatedly as a “Hero of the Taxpayer”
by Americans for Tax Reform and has received the National Association of Manufacturing’s Manufacturing Legislative
Excellence Award, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Spirit of Enterprise Award and the Family Research Council’s True Blue
Award, among others. Previously McHenry represented the 109th District in the North Carolina House of Representatives.
He was also special assistant to the U.S. secretary of labor under President George W. Bush. McHenry has appeared on Fox
News, Fox Business Channel, CNN, CNBC and MSNBC. He holds a B.A. from Belmont Abbey College.
William McMorrow is chairman and CEO of Kennedy Wilson, which he purchased in 1988 as a real estate auction
company. He is the architect of the company’s expansion into an international firm offering real estate investments and
services, with 23 offices in the U.S., Europe and Japan and more than 300 employees. Kennedy Wilson has assets under
management of more than $12 billion. Prior to joining Kennedy Wilson, McMorrow was the executive vice president and
chairman of the Credit Policy Committee at Imperial Bancorp and held senior positions with a variety of financial services
firms, including Fidelity Bank in Pennsylvania, where he was a senior vice president for eight years. He serves on the
executive board of the University of Southern California’s Lusk Center for Real Estate and is involved in numerous Southern
California charities, including Chrysalis, the Rape Treatment Center and the Village School. McMorrow received his bachelor
of science in business and M.B.A. from USC.
Fred Mendez is senior vice president at Rabobank, N.A., the $12 billion U.S. retail banking division of the Rabobank
Group. He oversees Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) compliance, public welfare lending and investment activity, and
corporate social responsibility. From 1993 to 2002, Mendez was the senior community investment specialist at the Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He has published articles and studies on the CRA, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, consortia
lending, public welfare investing and Native American economic development. Earlier, he worked on the equity options
floor of the Pacific Stock Exchange, ran the fixed-income trading desk for Continental Savings of America and was a
financial industry specialist for Dow Jones/Telerate. Mendez has an undergraduate degree in economics from Santa Clara
University and a post-graduate degree in economics from San Jose State University. He is the chairman of the California
Bankers Collaborative and a board member of the California Association for Local Economic Development.
Richard Merkin is CEO and founder of the Heritage Provider Network, which Fast Company named one of the world’s
“10 Most Innovative Companies” in health care for 2012. In response to the U.S. health-care crises, Merkin created the
$3 million Heritage Health Prize for predictive modeling to save more than $30 billion in avoidable hospitalizations.
As a board member and core contributor to the X Prize Foundation, he advances private-sector involvement in such
transformative issues as health care and education. In health care, he established the Richard Merkin Foundation for stem
cell research at the Broad Institute at Harvard; the Richard Merkin Initiative at the Johns Hopkins Brain Sciences Institute;
and The Richard Merkin Foundation for Neural Regeneration at UCLA. In education, his work resulted in the 2006 opening
of the Richard Merkin Middle School to bring first-rate education to an underserved area of Los Angeles. Merkin was
named Healthcare CEO of the Year for 2011 by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
Douglas Merrill is the founder and CEO of ZestCash, a financial services technology startup dedicated to serving
the needs of the underbanked. He is also the author of “Getting Organized in the Google Era,” a book on personal and
workplace organization published by Random House. Previously, Merrill was chief information officer and vice president
of engineering of Google Inc., where he oversaw all aspects of internal engineering, including Google’s 2004 initial public
offering. He most recently served as chief operating officer of new music and president of digital business at EMI Music.
Merrill holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Princeton University, and a B.A. from the University of Tulsa in social and
political organization.
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Seth Merrin is the founder and CEO of Liquidnet, a global institutional trading network that connects institutional
investors with the liquidity they need to make their most significant trades. Its equities trading extends to more than 630
leading asset management firms in 39 equity markets across five continents. Liquidnet is also forging new partnerships
with exchanges, brokers and corporations to bring in additional liquidity. Prior to Liquidnet, Merrin co-founded VIE
Systems Inc., a financial services application integration software company. He also founded Merrin Financial, launching
the industry’s first order management system, which was acquired by ADP. Prior to that, he was a risk arbitrage trader for
CIBC Oppenheimer. Merrin has been named “Innovator of the Decade” by Advanced Trading magazine two decades in a
row, one of the “100 Most Influential People in Finance” in 2011 by Treasury & Risk Magazine, and one of the “2011 Tech 50”
by Institutional Investor magazine.
Mario Mesquita is the Latin America head of Brevan Howard Assessoria De Negocios Ltda. Before joining Brevan
Howard, Mesquita was a deputy governor at the Central Bank of Brazil (2006-2010), chief economist for Latin America and
Brazil at ABN Amro Banco Real (2000-2006) and an economist at the International Monetary Fund (1997-2000). He holds
a D.Phil. in economics from the University of Oxford.
Nathan Michael is a research assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also received his Ph.D. in 2008. Michael joined the research faculty in 2010. His
research interests include the estimation and control of ground and aerial robots with extensions to multi-robot systems.
Lowell Milken, international businessman and education reform visionary, is founder of the TAP System and
chairman/co-founder of the Milken Family Foundation. In 1985, he created the Milken Educator Awards, the nation’s
preeminent teacher recognition program. Lowell introduced TAP in 1999 to create a 21st century teaching profession with
powerful, sustained opportunities for career advancement, professional growth, teacher accountability and performance
pay. TAP’s proven reforms now impact 20,000 teachers and 200,000 students and are in growing demand. Globally
Lowell chairs Knowledge Universe Education Inc., the leader in early childhood education, and London-based Heron
International, a worldwide force in property development. A summa cum laude graduate of UC Berkeley, Lowell received
the undergraduate Business School’s Most Outstanding Student Award. At UCLA School of Law, he earned distinctions of
the Order of the Coif and Law Review. UCLA recently established the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy.
Mike Milken, the Milken Institute’s chairman, was called “The Man Who Changed Medicine” by Fortune magazine for his
35 years 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 helped
found the Melanoma Research Alliance. His philanthropic career paralleled a financial career that helped democratize
modern capital markets by expanding access to capital, creating millions of jobs. Mike is an investor in many companies
that help build human capital, including enterprises operating early childhood education centers around the world. He
graduated with highest distinction from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned his M.B.A. from the University of
Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He and his wife, Lori, who celebrate their 44th anniversary this year, have three children
and six grandchildren. Additional details and a selection of Mike’s articles are at www.mikemilken.com.
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Andrew Miller is founder and managing partner of several online businesses, including Football Nation, where he is also
president and CEO; Internet Real Estate Group; Chocolate.com; and SimpleDomains.com. He founded InsuranceQuotes.com,
sold to BankRate in 2010 of Luggage.com, sold to CSN Stores in 2005; and CreditCards.com, sold to Click Success in
2004. A consultant to Fortune 100 CEOs, leading investors and domain owners, Miller has been featured in BusinessWeek,
Globes Israel and The New York Times, among others. He began his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert, then joined Bear
Stearns and later Smith Barney. Miller teaches at the Boston University School of Communications and Boston College
School of Management. He is involved with Boston’s Children’s Hospital and The Prostate Cancer Foundation, starting
PCF’s Superstar Little League Challenge in 2010 with his son Bret. Miller holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University
and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School, where he graduated from the Owner/President Management Program.
Darlene Miller is the owner, president and CEO of Permac Industries, a Burnsville, Minn., manufacturer of highprecision products for the aerospace, medical and transportation industries and many others. Starting in sales at Permac in
1992, Miller became a part owner in 1993, and took full ownership the following year. Miller is a member of the President’s
Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, which meets with President Obama every quarter. She is a member of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce board and is president of Hope for Tomorrow, a mentoring program she co-founded in 2005
that pairs business leaders with young people to develop tomorrow’s leaders. She has served on state and local industry
and community boards, including the Minnesota Precision Manufacturing Association and the Minnesota Valley Medical
Manufacturers Network, which she co-founded in 2006. She has twice been a member of the Minnesota governor’s trade
missions to South America and India.
Tony Miller is the deputy secretary and chief operating officer at the U.S. Department of Education, managing a broad
range of operational, management and program functions. Prior to joining the department in 2009, he was an operating
partner with Silver Lake, a leading private equity firm. Prior to that, he was executive vice president of operations with
LRN Corp., a compliance software and eLearning company. Previously he was a partner at McKinsey & Co. specializing in
growth strategies, operating performance improvement and restructuring. Miller began his professional career with Delco
Electronics, a subsidiary of GM Hughes Electronics, where he managed regional channel marketing. He has also been
an advisor to the Los Angeles and Santa Monica-Malibu unified school districts, developing student achievement goals
and strategies, aligning budgets and operating plans, and designing metrics and processes for overseeing districtwide
performance. A graduate of Purdue University, he holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Kodwo (Kojo) Mills is the founder and CEO of Invictus Africa Group, a company that partners with financial
and strategic investors seeking opportunities in sub-Saharan Africa. He has more than 15 years of investment banking
experience. Mills is a co-founder of Shanduka Group, a South African company that has a multi-industry portfolio of more
than 30 investments valued in excess of $1 billion. He was also the managing director of Shanduka’s R300 million private
equity fund, Shanduka Value Partners Fund I. His work experience includes positions at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (now
Credit Suisse First Boston) and Salomon Brothers. He is a director of numerous companies, including Invictus Africa Group,
Shanduka Group and Stanbic Bank Ghana, the Ghanaian subsidiary of the Standard Bank Group of South Africa. Mills has
an economics degree from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from Harvard.
Scott Minerd is chief investment officer and managing partner at Guggenheim Partners. He guides the investment
strategies of sector portfolio managers and leads a specialized research group focused on relative value shifts and global
macroeconomic developments. Prior to joining Guggenheim, Minerd was a managing director at Credit Suisse First Boston
in charge of trading and risk management for the Fixed Income Credit Trading Group. In that role, he was responsible for
the corporate bond, preferred stock, money markets, U.S. government agency and sovereign debt, derivatives securities,
structured debt and interest rate swaps trading units. Previously, Minerd was Morgan Stanley’s London-based European
capital markets products trading and risk manager. He has also held capital markets positions with Merrill Lynch and
Continental Bank. He holds a B.S. degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and has
completed graduate work at both Wharton and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
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Lesa Mitchell is vice president of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s initiatives focused on advancing
innovation. Under Mitchell’s leadership, the foundation is defining and codifying alternative commercialization pathways,
and identifying new models to foster innovation. A leader in the replication of innovator-based mentor programs across
the United States, she was instrumental in the founding of the Kauffman Innovation Network/ iBridge Network, the
Translational Medicine Alliance, the National Academies-based University-Industry Partnership. Prior to joining Kauffman,
Mitchell spent 20 years in global executive roles at Aventis, Quintiles and Marion Laboratories, and founded an electronic
clinical trials consulting business in support of global pharmaceutical clients.
Larry Mizel is chairman and CEO of MDC Holdings, parent corporation of Richmond American Homes. He founded
the firm in 1972 and led it to become one of the nation’s top homebuilders; MDC has consistently maintained one of the
strongest financial positions in the industry over the past decade. Mizel was a founder, and until 1996, chairman of Asset
Investors Corp., an NYSE-listed real estate investment trust, and of Commercial Assets Inc., a real estate investment trust
that traded on the American Stock Exchange. He has been active in many charitable, religious and community causes,
including the Council on Foreign Relations, Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance, American Israel Public
Affairs Committee, National Homeland Defense Foundation, Colorado Concern, Mizel Museum and Mizel Arts and Culture
Center (The MACC). He received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oklahoma and a J.D. from the University of
Denver College of Law.
Michael Moe is the co-founder of GSV Asset Management and GSV Advisors. He has over 25 years of investment
experience and previously helped to found ThinkEquity Partners, a growth-focused investment bank that was sold in
2007 to Panmure Gordon. Before that, Moe worked at Merrill Lynch and Montgomery Securities. He has been named to
Institutional Investor’s All American research team and awarded “Best on the Street” by The Wall Street Journal. He has
testified before Congress on education technology, the new economy and initial public offerings. Moe is chief portfolio
manager for the GSV X hedge fund and CEO of GSV Capital, a publicly traded closed-end fund that invests in VC-backed
private companies. He is the co-chair of Arizona State University’s Education Innovation Council along with the university’s
president, Michael Crow. In 2007, he published his first book, “Finding the Next Starbucks: How to Identify and Invest in the
Hot Stocks of Tomorrow.” He earned his B.A. in political science and economics at the University of Minnesota.
David Morgan is president of Syngenta Seeds Inc. and Syngenta’s regional director for North America. His entire
career has been devoted to agriculture. After graduating from Oxford University, he joined DuPont’s agricultural research
and development division in the U.K. Later, Morgan worked for a number of companies that evolved through a series of
acquisitions and mergers, including Schering Agriculture UK, AgrEvo UK, AgrEvo Canada, Aventis CropScience and Bayer
CropScience. Morgan joined Syngenta in 2007 as head of the company’s Asia Pacific region. In 2008, Morgan moved to
North America to lead Syngenta’s corn and soybean seed business. Recently, he assumed the North American regional
director role. Morgan’s primary focus is on leading the Syngenta team in their creation of crop and customer-focused
strategies and the development of innovative technology for North American producers. Morgan holds bachelor’s and
master’s degrees in agricultural and forestry sciences from Oxford.
John Morton is vice president of investment policy at Overseas Private Investment Corp. (OPIC), where he oversees
the application of policies that maximize OPIC’s sustainable development impact, including OPIC’s aggressive carbon
portfolio reduction goals. Prior to joining OPIC, Morton was managing director of economic policy at The Pew Charitable
Trusts, where his team developed and promoted policy solutions to issues such as the growing U.S. deficit, changing
financial regulatory systems and trends in economic mobility in America’s middle class. Prior to joining Pew, Morton was
director of national security for the John Kerry presidential campaign, an investment officer with Global Environment Fund
and a strategy consultant with Mercer Management Consulting. He began his career at the World Bank. Morton holds a
bachelor’s degree from Harvard College, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.A.
from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.
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Georgette Mosbacher is the CEO and president of Borghese Inc., a worldwide cosmetic company. Under her
leadership, Borghese has gained successful distribution throughout China. Previously, Mosbacher served as CEO and
owner of La Prairie, where she built a world-class, prestigious beauty brand. She has also been a nationally recognized
advocate for women, children and wounded military personnel. In the mid-1990s, Mosbacher founded The New York
Center for Children, a privately financed, tax-exempt charity dedicated to assisting abused children and their families. For
over a decade, she served as the Republican national committeewoman for New York State and was the first woman to be
general chairman of the Republican Governors Association. Her numerous appointments and affiliations include Childhelp
USA, M.D. Anderson Hospital Cancer Center and the Fallen Heroes Fund. She has authored two books, “Feminine Force”
and “It Takes Money, Honey,” a guide for women to financial freedom. Mosbacher has a B.S. from Indiana University.
Frank Moss is a co-founder of Bluefin Labs Inc. and the former director of the MIT Media Lab (2006-2011). He is still
professor of the practice at the MIT Media Lab and heads the new media medicine group. Moss has had a 30-year career as
a high-tech and biotech entrepreneur. He is author of the “The Sorcerers and Their Apprentices: How the Digital Magicians
of the MIT Media Lab Are Creating the Innovative Technologies That Will Transform Our Lives.” Previously Moss was CEO
and chairman of Tivoli Systems Inc., which he took public in 1995; it merged with IBM in 1996. He is also a member of
the leadership advisory councils at the Princeton School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as well as the Mayo Clinic
Innovation Center. Moss holds a B.S.E. from Princeton University in aerospace and mechanical sciences and a Ph.D. from
MIT in aeronautics and astronautics.
Frank Mottek is the business news anchor at CBS’s KNX 1070 Newsradio in Los Angeles. He has more than 30 years’
experience in radio and television news, including KTLA in Los Angeles and “The Nightly Business Report” on PBS. For many
years, he was on radio and television in Miami, where he started his career while in high school. In Florida, he broadcast live
descriptions of more than 20 space shuttle launches on CBS Radio; he was an eyewitness to the 1986 Challenger disaster
at the Kennedy Space Center. On KNX, Mottek follows the financial markets and economic news on a daily basis. He has
served as president of the Florida AP Broadcasters and the Greater L.A. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.
Mottek is on the executive board of the Concern Foundation for Cancer Research and the board of the Radio Television
News Association of Southern California. In January 2012, he won the Golden Mike Award for best business and consumer
news reporting.
Dambisa Moyo is an international economist who comments on the macroeconomy and global affairs. She is the
author of The New York Times best-sellers “Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa”
and “How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead.” Her next book, “Winner Take
All: China’s Rush for Resources and What It Means for the Rest of the World,” is scheduled for publication in June. In
2009, Moyo was cited as one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People in the World” and was named to the World Economic
Forum’s Young Global Leaders Forum. Her writing regularly appears in economic and finance-related publications such
as the Financial Times, The Economist and The Wall Street Journal. She is a patron of Absolute Return for Kids (ARK), a
hedge fund-supported children’s charity. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Oxford University, a master’s from Harvard
University, and an M.B.A. in finance and a bachelor’s degree from the American University in Washington D.C.
Bernard Munos is the founder of InnoThink, a consultancy that focuses on pharmaceutical innovation - specifically,
where it comes from and how to get more of it. He was previously an advisor for corporate strategy at Eli Lilly, where he
focused on disruptive innovation and the radical redesign of R&D. His research has been published in Nature and Science,
and he was recently profiled by Forbes magazine. This year, the popular industry newsletter FiercePharma named him
one of the 25 most influential people in biopharma today. Munos received his M.B.A. from Stanford University, and holds
graduate degrees in agricultural economics and animal science from the University of California, Davis, and the Paris
Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences.
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Charles Murray is the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. A political scientist and libertarian, he
is the author, “Coming Apart: The State of White America,” which describes an unprecedented divergence in American
classes over the last half century. His work first came to national attention in 1984 with the publication of “Losing Ground,”
which has been credited as the intellectual foundation for the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. His 1994 New York Times
best-seller, “The Bell Curve,” coauthored with the late Richard J. Herrnstein, sparked controversy for its analysis of the
role of IQ in shaping America’s class structure. His other books include “What It Means to Be a Libertarian,” “Human
Accomplishment,” “In Our Hands” and “Real Education.” Murray holds a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Harvard University.
Kimbal Musk is a co-founder of The Kitchen Community. An entrepreneur who has started and advised several
companies and nonprofits, Musk saw his first company, Zip2, acquired by Compaq in 1999. He has also been an investor,
advisor or board member for PayPal (acquired by eBay), Tesla Motors, SpaceX, OneRiot (acquired by Walmart) and
SolarCity. After selling Zip2, Musk decided to pursue his passion for food and cooking by attending the renowned French
Culinary Institute in New York City. Following graduation, he moved to Boulder, Colo., to start The Kitchen, which is now a
family of three restaurants with a fourth planned for spring 2012 in Denver. Since opening, The Kitchen has been recognized
as one of “America’s Top Restaurants” by Food & Wine, Bon Appetit, Gourmet and the James Beard Foundation. It has
raised money to help plant and support gardens in elementary schools in the Denver metro area.
Jayson Myers is president and CEO of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, Canada’s largest industry and trade
association, and chair of the Canadian Manufacturing Coalition, a coalition of 48 industry associations that speak with a
common voice on priority issues for Canada’s manufacturing sector. A well-known economic commentator, he is widely
published in the fields of Canadian and international economics and technological and industrial change. He sits on special
advisory councils to the Minister for International Trade, the Minister of Industry, Immigration Canada, Human Resources
Development Canada and the Canadian Border Services Agency.
Ranji Nagaswami is chief investment advisor to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. She directs the investment
policy and governance efforts within the Mayor’s Office of Pensions and Investments for the city’s more than $120 billion
retirement systems. Until 2009, she served as chief investment officer of blend equity and multi-asset strategies at
AllianceBernstein L.P., having previously served as chief investment officer of the mutual fund division and senior portfolio
manager in Bernstein’s value equities and fixed-income teams. From 1986 to 1999, she was at UBS Asset Management.
Nagaswami is a member of the Yale University Investments Committee, Yale School of Management advisory board and
CFA Institute Asset Manager Code of Conduct Advisory Panel. A Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute, she holds a
bachelor of commerce from Bombay University and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management.
Sylvia Nasar is the John S. and James L. Knight professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and
author of “Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius,” released in September 2011. A former economic correspondent
for The New York Times, she also is the author of “A Beautiful Mind: Genius, Madness, Reawakening,” the biography of John
Nash, the Princeton mathematical genius who suffered from schizophrenia for three decades before winning a Nobel Prize
in economics. Trained as an economist, Nasar was a staff writer at Fortune and a columnist at U.S. News & World Report
before joining the Times. Nasar has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, the Russell Sage Foundation and the
Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Newsweek, Fast Company and many
other publications. At Columbia, she co-directs the M.A. program in business journalism and teaches a graduate seminar in
economics reporting that focuses on globalization, growth, living standards and business cycles.
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Marc Nathanson is chairman of Falcon Waterfree Technologies. He is also chairman of Mapleton Investments and
Mapleton/RDS Real Estate Group and a former long-time communications executive. A member of the Cable TV Hall of
Fame, he has owned and operated cable TV, satellite systems, radio stations, microwave and Internet services throughout
the world. In 1994, he was named Inc. magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year. From 1995 to 2002, he was chairman of the
Broadcasting Board of Governors, responsible for the Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio-TV Marti and Radio Free
Europe/Radio Liberty. Nathanson is currently vice chairman of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is on the board of the USC Annenberg School for Communication,
The Aspen Institute, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. Nathanson is a recipient of Global Green’s Millennium
Award and the Environmental Media Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for his environmental work.
Angella Nazarian is the author of the newly released book, “Pioneers of the Possible: Celebrating Visionary Women
of the World,” which honors 20 of the world’s most daring, creative and inspiring women of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Nazarian has been a professor of psychology and a faculty member at Mount Saint Mary’s College and California State
University, Long Beach. She conducts workshops and seminars on topics related to personal development and growth
for women and has been a keynote speaker at national events and conferences. She was the chairperson of the education
committee of the board of trustees at Brentwood School and is currently a trustee at the school. She also serves on the
Parent Advisory Board at Stanford University. She is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post, Maria Shriver’s More.com
blog and Intent.com. Her poetry has appeared in New Millennium Writings, and several of her works have been published
in MO+TH. Her first book, “Life as a Visitor,” was a best-seller for Assouline, her publishers.
David Neeleman is the chairman and CEO of Azul Brazilian Airlines, which he founded in 2008. Born in Sao Paulo,
Neeleman lived in Brazil until age 5, when his family returned to Salt Lake City. As a college student, he sold tour packages
to Hawaii to his classmates and was soon invited to work at Morris Travel, a travel agency in Salt Lake City. Morris Travel
began to lease and operate aircraft, and Neeleman co-founded Morris Air, which was bought by Southwest Airlines in 1993.
Morris Air was the first airline to eliminate paper tickets, a revolutionary idea for aviation. In 1999 he launched New Air, a
discount air carrier that later became JetBlue Airways, which he left in 2007. In 2000 Neeleman helped to create Live TV,
the first company to provide in-flight television programming. He was also directly involved in Open Skies, an electronic
ticketing and reservation system that was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1999.
Jonathan Nelson is CEO and founder of Providence Equity Partners, a private equity firm that manages $23 billion
of committed capital and specializes in investments in media, communications and information companies in North
America, Europe and Asia. Nelson has been investing in private-equity transactions for 29 years, focusing on media,
telecom and entertainment. Nelson serves on the boards of Hulu, Television Broadcasts Ltd., Univision Communications
and Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network. Nelson has also served as a director of AT&T Canada, Brooks Fiber (now
Verizon), Voicestream Wireless (now Deutsche Telecom), Warner Music Group and Western Wireless (now Alltel) as well
as numerous privately held companies. Nelson founded Providence in 1989. Previously, he was a managing director of
Narragansett Capital, which he joined in 1983. He is a trustee of Brown University and serves on the board of Newport
Festivals Foundation. He received a M.B.A. from Harvard in 1983 and a bachelor of arts from Brown University in 1977.
Rick Newman is chief business correspondent for U.S. News & World Report and author of “Rebounders: How Winners
Pivot From Setback To Success,” published in May 2012. Newman’s reporting focuses on plain-English explanations of the
momentous changes sweeping through the economy, with pragmatic takeaways for ordinary people. He is a frequent
commentator on MSNBC, CNN, Fox, NPR and other major media outlets. Before moving to New York in 2001, Newman
spent 12 years in Washington, D.C., where he covered the Pentagon and earned several awards, including the Gerald R.
Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense. He is also the co-author of “Firefight: Inside the Battle to Save
the Pentagon on 9-11” (2008) and “Bury Us Upside Down: The Misty Pilots and the Secret Battle for the Ho Chi Minh Trail”
(2006). Visit www.rickjnewman.com.
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Jamie Nordstrom is executive vice president of Nordstrom and president of the Nordstrom Direct Division. Before
taking on his current roles in 2005, he served as corporate merchandise manager for children’s shoes (2002-2005) and
as a project manager for the design and implementation of the company’s inventory management system (1999-2002).
Nordstrom joined the company in 1986.
Cliff Noreen is president of Babson Capital Management and head of the firm’s Fixed Income Group. With over 29
years of industry experience, he oversees public equities and corporate credit-related investments for the quantitative
management team. Noreen joined the firm in 1985 and began leading the high-yield team in 1992, responsible for oversight
of all public high-yield portfolios. In 2004, he assumed responsibility for the Public Corporate Credit Group, which included
the high-grade and high-yield institutional fixed-income teams, and became head of corporate securities in 2005. He was
named vice chairman in 2007. Noreen is also chairman of Babson Capital Corporate Investors (MCI) and Babson Capital
Participation Investors (MPV), two closed-end mezzanine debt funds. He holds a B.A. from the University of Massachusetts
and an M.B.A. from American International College.
Ghanem Nuseibeh is the founder of Cornerstone Global Associates, a high-end London-based strategy and
management consultancy. Described by The National in Abu Dhabi as “the oracle on the Arab World,” Ghanem specializes
in economic and political risk, and works with organizations and governments from around the world. He focuses on
sustainable development and has worked in more than 20 countries. He regularly appears in international media and has
received awards from the Institution of Civil Engineers and the Royal Academy of Engineering in the U.K. He is currently
senior visiting fellow at King’s College, London, concentrating on Middle East entrepreneurship. He also heads the GCC
and Yemen section of the Political Capital Policy Research and Consulting Institute. Nuseibeh was born in Jerusalem and
completed his schooling and university studies in the UK; he holds a degree and post-graduate degree in civil engineering
from Imperial College London.
Denis O’Brien is chairman and principal shareholder of the privately owned Digicel Group, one of the world’s fastestgrowing cellular companies. O’Brien founded Digicel in 2001, launching a cellular phone service in the Caribbean. Digicel
now operates in 32 markets with more than 11.9 million subscribers in the Caribbean, Central America and South Pacific.
One of Ireland’s leading entrepreneurs, O’Brien has investments in international telecoms, radio, media, property, aircraft
leasing, golf recruitment and other interests. He also founded Communicorp Group, which owns and manages a portfolio
of media and broadcasting-related companies in Ireland and seven other European countries. O’Brien, who chaired the
2003 Special Olympics World Summer Games in Ireland, is a U.S. director of Concern Worldwide; founder of The Iris
O’Brien Foundation, and chairman and co-founder of Frontline, the International Foundation for the Protection of Human
Rights Defenders. He holds a B.A. from University College Dublin and an M.B.A. from Boston College.
Eyal Ofer is the chairman of Global Holdings Inc. and Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd. With more than 35 years of
experience in international shipping and real estate, Ofer has amassed one of the largest privately held shipping fleets
in the world and has led the creation of a diversified international portfolio of development and investment properties.
Based in London, Zodiac Maritime Agencies Ltd. operates a fleet of more than 150 ocean-going vessels trading worldwide.
Global Holdings is a U.S.-based company that specializes in large-scale commercial real estate and high-end residential
developments. Its holdings include prime properties in Manhattan and a controlling stake in Miller Global Properties, a real
estate investment fund focusing on North America and Europe. Ofer served as chairman and CEO of Deerbrook Ltd. from
1991 to 2011. His other business interests include banking and cruise lines. He has been on the board of NYSE-listed Royal
Caribbean Cruises, the world’s second-largest cruise line, for more than 15 years.
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Timothy O’Hara is a managing director of Credit Suisse and co-head of global securities in the Investment Banking
division, based in New York. He is a member of the Investment Bank Operating Committee, Fixed Income and Equities
Management committees, Corporate Bank Oversight Committee and IB Risk Management Committee. Prior to his current
role, O’Hara was head of the Fixed Income Department-North America and head of global credit products. O’Hara also
serves as the Credit Suisse representative on the board of directors of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets
Association. He also sits on the boards of the Credit Suisse Americas Foundation and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC.
O’Hara holds a B.A. in economics from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania.
Judy Olian is dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where she is also the John E. Anderson Chair in
Management. Under her leadership, UCLA Anderson has hired a record number of faculty from the world’s best research
institutions, launched new degree and certificate programs, initiated global immersion courses and developed targeted
partnerships, especially in Asia and Latin America. She was previously dean and professor of management at the Smeal
College of Business Administration at The Pennsylvania State University, and served in various faculty and executive roles
at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. She has also been chairman of the Association to
Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). Olian has been widely published in journals, wrote a weekly
syndicated newspaper column and hosted a monthly television show on current topics in business. She holds a B.S. from
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Ronald Packard is the CEO and founder of K12 Inc., a technology-based education company headquartered
in Herndon, Va. K12 is a provider of proprietary curriculum and online education programs to students in kindergarten
through 12th grade. It offers curriculum and academic services to online schools, traditional classrooms and blended
school programs, and directly to families. Packard was previously a vice president of Knowledge Universe and CEO of
Knowledge Schools. He also worked for McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs. In 2010, Packard won the U.S. Distance
Learning Association Award for outstanding leadership in the field. He also serves as chairman of Middlebury Interactive
Languages LLC and is a member of the Digital Learning Council. 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, which
recently named him a distinguished alumnus of the Booth School of Business.
Ana Palacio, a lawyer by profession, was recently appointed by the prime minister of Spain to serve as a member
of the country’s Council of State (Consejo de Estado). Palacio is the first woman to serve as the foreign affairs minister
of Spain. As a lawmaker in the Spanish Cortes, she chaired the Joint Committee on the European Union in both houses
of the Parliament. Palacio has served as senior vice president and general counsel of the World Bank Group and as
Executive Committee member and senior vice president for international affairs of AREVA. As a member of the European
Parliament, she has chaired the Legal Affairs and Internal Market Committee, the Justice and Home Affairs Committee, and
the Conference of Committee Chairs. In 2011, she was appointed a senior fellow and lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson
Institute for Global Affairs.
Tracy Palandjian is CEO and co-founder of Social Finance Inc., a nonprofit dedicated to connecting the social sector
with the capital markets. The social impact bond, which is core to Social Finance’s current work, has been recognized
for its potential in providing innovative financing solutions to some of the most persistent societal problems in the U.S.
and abroad. Prior to Social Finance, Palandjian was a managing director for 11 years at The Parthenon Group, where she
established and led the nonprofit practice and worked with foundations and NGOs to accomplish their missions. She is
co-author of “Investing for Impact: Case Studies Across Asset Classes.” Palandjian is the chairman of Facing History and
Ourselves, and serves on the boards of the Robert F. Kennedy Center, Affiliated Managers Group and Agassi Graf Holdings.
She graduated from Harvard College and holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.
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David Palmer is the president and chief financial officer for Diamond Resorts International, responsible for global
operations and financial activities. Previously a principal with Vision Capital Partners, Palmer was also a founder of Velocity
Capital and a managing director of Trivergance. Palmer has extensive experience as a financial executive and private equity
investor specializing in consumer-oriented companies and industry consolidations. Palmer received an M.B.A. from the
J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in 1986 and an A.B. in physical chemistry from
Hamilton College in 1983.
Javier Palomarez is president and CEO of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, representing nearly 3 million
Hispanic-owned businesses and more than 200 local Hispanic chambers throughout the United States. Prior to the
chamber, Palomarez was vice president of multicultural marketing at ING Financial Services, where he led diversity
outreach programs. Palomarez began his career at Allstate Insurance, where he worked to initiate the industry’s first fully
integrated, nationwide Hispanic marketing, sales and service campaign. Later Palomarez was recruited by Sprint, where he
rose through the ranks to become assistant vice president for marketing and public relations. He serves on the FCC Federal
Advisory Committee on Diversity in the Digital Age and the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Advisory Board.
He is a member of Pfizer’s Small Business Advisory Council, as well as Aetna’s Latino Advisory Council and the Comcast
NBCUniversal Joint Diversity Council. He holds a degree in finance from the University of Texas - Pan American.
Vikram Pandit is CEO of Citigroup Inc., the global bank with approximately 200 million customer accounts and
activities in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. After being named CEO in 2007, Pandit embarked on a plan to
refocus, recapitalize and restructure Citi during the toughest economic climate since the Great Depression. Pandit has
made responsible finance a priority at Citi and has refocused the company around its historic strengths: its global franchise,
unique market footprint, innovative spirit, and talented and diverse employee base. Prior to joining Citi, Pandit worked in
investment banking roles from Morgan Stanley to Old Lane, LP. He serves on the boards of Columbia University, Columbia
Business School and the Indian School of Business. Pandit holds a B.S. and an M.S. in engineering and a Ph.D. in finance
from Columbia.
Stewart Paperin is executive vice president of the Open Society Foundation and president of the $250 million Soros
Economic Development Fund. He manages the administration and operations of the foundation’s network and provides
leadership to its economic reform and economic development activities. Paperin also serves as a consultant to Soros
Fund Management. He has spent more than 35 years as a senior international financial executive in both publicly traded
and private companies, and has served on the boards of Western Union, PennOctane, Global TeleSystems Group, Golden
Telecom Inc., Armour Residential REIT and OAO Svyazinvest (Russia’s national telephone company) as well as a variety
of emerging Internet and telecommunication companies and public-private partnerships. Paperin earned B.A. and M.S.
degrees from the State University of New York at Binghamton.
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.
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Rafael Pastor is chairman and CEO of Vistage International, the world’s largest for-profit CEO membership
organization. An executive development and peer-advisory company, Vistage helps its more than 15,000 members in 15
countries become leaders who make better decisions and achieve better results. Previously, Pastor held senior executive
positions at various global media companies, including CEO and president of Hoyts Cinemas Corp.; president of USA
Networks International; executive vice president, international, of News Corp. and Fox Television; and president of CBS/
Fox Video International. He was also co-founder of the New York investment banking firm Sonenshine Pastor & Co. (now
Sonenshine Partners). Pastor initially practiced law at Hawkins, Delafield & Wood and later was associate general counsel
at CBS Inc. He received a B.A. from Columbia University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Sanjay Patel is managing partner and head of international private equity at Apollo Management International LLP.
He joined Apollo in March 2010 and sits on the Senior Management Committee. He was previously a partner at Goldman
Sachs, where he was co-head of European and Indian private equity for the Principal Investment Area. Patel was also a
member of the Goldman Sachs Partnership Committee and the Investment Committee of the Goldman Sachs Foundation.
He sits on the boards of Brit Insurance NV, Countrywide Holdings Ltd. and Dish TV India Ltd. He serves as an advisor to
Gaja Capital Partners and the India Real Estate Opportunities Fund, and as a trustee of the American School in London and
the Private Equity Foundation in the U.K. Patel also sits on the Executive Committee of the Harvard College Fund Council.
He received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Minxin Pei is the Tom and Margot Pritzker ‘72 Professor of Government and the director of the Keck Center for
International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. His research focuses on democratization in developing
countries, governance in China, and U.S.-China relations. He is the author of “From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of
Communism in China and the Soviet Union” and “China’s Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy.”
Chemi Peres is a managing general partner and co-founder of Pitango Venture Capital. Prior to founding Pitango in
1996, he founded and managed the Mofet Israel Technology Fund, an Israeli venture capital fund traded on the Tel Aviv Stock
Exchange. Peres sits on the board of Ramot, the commercial arm of Tel Aviv University that focuses on technology transfer,
and leads the Advisory Board of the Faculty of Management. Peres sits on the Boards of Governors of the Weizmann
Institute of Science and the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem, as well as the board of the Friends Association
for the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya. Peres is a founder and former chairman of the Israel Venture Association (now
known as the Israeli Advanced Industries Association). He was also chairman of the Israel America Chamber of Commerce
from 2008 until 2011. Peres also sits on the boards of several nonprofit organizations, including Matan and the Caesarea
Foundation.
Tony Perkins is CEO and editor of AlwaysOn, which he founded in 2003. He was also the founder of Red Herring (1993)
and Upside (1989) magazines, the first media brands to pioneer early inside coverage of the entrepreneurs who create and
drive the innovations changing the world. Gilead Sciences, NeXT, DreamWorks, Pixar, Netscape, Yahoo, Amazon, Google,
Skype, YouTube and Twitter are examples of the startups that were identified in their earliest days by the media properties
Perkins founded. He predicted the dot-com crash in his international best-selling business book, “The Internet Bubble”
(HarperBusiness), in October 1999. Perkins continues to chronicle his insider observations weekly on AlwaysOn. He was
previously vice president and co-founder of Silicon Valley Bank’s technology group, founder of the Churchill Club and a
media leader for the World Economic Forum.
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Nancy Pfund is founder and managing partner of DBL Investors, a venture capital firm in San Francisco whose goal
is to match financial returns with altruistic benefits. Originally a part of JPMorgan, DBL became independent in 2008.
Pfund joined JPMorgan (then Hambrecht & Quist) in 1984. Pfund sponsors or sits on the boards of BrightSource Energy,
SolarCity, Solaria, Primus Power, Eco.logic Brands, OPx Biotechnologies and Powergenix. She is a board member or advisor
for the California Clean Energy Fund, the UC Davis Center for Energy Efficiency, the Center for the American West at
Stanford University and the Milken Institute’s Center for a Sustainable Energy Future. She is a founding officer of ABC2,
a foundation that supports brain cancer research. Pfund is the author, with Benjamin Healey, of “What Would Jefferson
Do? The Historical Role of Federal Subsidies in Shaping America’s Energy Future.” Pfund received bachelor’s and master’s
degrees in anthropology from Stanford and an M.B.A. from Yale University.
Ann Philbin is director of the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Under her leadership, the museum has focused on
thematic contemporary and scholarly historical exhibitions. Philbin created public programs that regularly feature many
of the most provocative and creative thinkers of our time. In the position since 1999, she founded the museum’s Hammer
Contemporary Collection as well as the Hammer Projects series, which is focused on emerging artists. Under her direction,
the Hammer has mounted more than 100 exhibitions and installations, many of which have traveled nationally and
internationally. She has also overseen substantial building renovations. This summer the Hammer will present Made in L.A.
2012, the first in a new series of biennial exhibitions focused on emerging and overlooked artists from the Los Angeles
region. Prior to her tenure at the Hammer, Philbin spent 10 years as director of The Drawing Center in New York, where she
curated and organized historical and contemporary exhibitions of works on paper.
Tomas Philipson is the Daniel Levin Professor of Public Policy Studies in the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of
Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. A senior fellow of the Milken Institute, he is also founding partner of
Precision Health Economics. Previously he was a visiting faculty member at Yale University and a visiting fellow at the
World Bank. Philipson, a senior health-care advisor for Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, served as senior
economic advisor to the head of the FDA and later to the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The
two-time winner of the Kenneth Arrow Award of the International Health Economics Association, Philipson is a co-editor of
the journal Forums for Health Economics & Policy and sits on the editorial board of Health Economics and The European
Journal of Health Economics. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Sweden’s Uppsala University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in
economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Triphon Phumiwasana is director of foreign investment and external fund management for the Thai Government
Pension Fund. He currently oversees nearly $3 billion dollars of internal global equity and external fund programs at the
pension fund. Phumiwasana is a key member of asset allocation and investment strategy committees. Prior to joining
the pension fund, he worked as a senior research economist in the Milken Institute’s Capital Studies group. He remains
a visiting fellow at the Institute. His research focused on banks, financial markets, hedge funds, corporate governance,
emerging markets and economic development, with emphasis on global issues. He contributed to the book “Regulation of
Financial Intermediaries in Emerging Markets” and co-authored “The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets:
A Comprehensive Analysis of the Meltdown,” published by John Wiley & Sons in 2009. Phumiwasana received his Ph.D. in
economics with a concentration in international money and finance from Claremont Graduate University.
Nicole Piasecki is vice president of business development and strategic integration for Boeing Commercial Airplanes.
Piasecki joined Boeing in 1992 as a customer engineer on the 777 program and has since held positions such as president
of Boeing Japan, vice president of business strategy and marketing, and vice president of sales and leasing companies.
Her previous experience includes working for Piasecki Aircraft Corp., Weyerhaeuser Japan and United Technologies’
Sikorsky aircraft division. In 2012, she was appointed to the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Seattle branch board
of directors. She also serves on the board of Weyerhaeuser and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Future of Aviation
Advisory Committee. Past appointments include the board of governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan
and the Federal Aviation Administration Advisory Council. She holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from
Yale and an M.B.A. from Wharton. Piasecki also has attended the Keio Business School in Japan.
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T. Boone Pickens, an entrepreneur and philanthropist, built one of America’s largest independent oil companies,
Mesa Petroleum, then reinvented himself in his 70s as the founder of BP Capital. In 2008, he launched the Pickens Plan for
reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil, and published “The First Billion Is the Hardest,” which also details his views
on energy security. Pickens aggressively pursues a wide range of other business interests, from alternative energy options
to Clean Energy, a clean transportation fuels company that he founded and took public in 2008. Clean Energy marks
the eighth entity he has helped go public in his career. CNBC has dubbed him the “Oracle of Oil” for his uncanny knack
of predicting oil price movements. His many professional honors include membership in the Horatio Alger Association
of Distinguished Americans, the Texas Business Hall of Fame, and the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. Pickens has given away
$1 billion to philanthropic causes.
Brock Pierce is the CEO of Titan Gaming and managing director of the Clearstone Global Gaming Fund. He sits on the
boards of Xfire, EverTune, RevenueAPEX and Spicy Horse Games. Pierce is the founder of IMI Exchange, which owns the
world’s leading marketplaces for the trading of virtual goods, with sales exceeding $500 million annually. He also founded
IGE, the company that pioneered the Western market for virtual goods in online games. Outside of gaming, Pierce is cofounder of EverTune, a patented proprietary technology that keeps any stringed instrument in tune for the life of the string,
and RevenueAPEX, a finance company for the Internet advertising industry. Pierce is an angel investor, a supporter of
nonprofit and advocacy organizations, and a member of the Clinton Global Initiative. He began his career as a Hollywood
actor, appearing in 12 major motion pictures, including “The Mighty Ducks” and “First Kid,” as well as commercials. He has
been a guest lecturer at several universities and a speaker at various conferences.
Ryan Pinto is CEO of the Ryan International Group of Institutions. He has executive and management experience
as one of India’s youngest social entrepreneurs in the K-12 education sector. He has grown the Ryan International Group
of Institutions (RIGI) in India and overseas, to 128 institutions, educating more than 200,000 students. Pinto hopes to
transform “traditional” schools into dynamic, interactive learning environments that benefit not only students, teachers and
direct stakeholders, but also their communities, cities and country. He strongly advocates the use of technological tools to
educate each and every child of India. Pinto was instrumental in the inception of the Ryan Group’s international curriculum
schools, the Ryan Global Schools, and in establishing the group’s first overseas school in the United Arab Emirates. He
studied at Warwick University and Aston University, and received a master’s degree in business and entrepreneurship from
Cass Business School, London.
Robert Pittman is CEO of Clear Channel and a founding member of Pilot Group LLC, a private investment firm. He is
the co-founder and programmer who led the team that created MTV and has been CEO of MTV Networks, AOL Networks,
Six Flags Theme Parks, Quantum Media, Century 21 Real Estate and Time Warner Enterprises. He also served as COO
of America Online Inc. and later of AOL Time Warner. He is the former chairman of the Robin Hood Foundation and the
Public Theater of New York, and still serves on those boards in addition to others. Among many honors, Pittman has been
inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and received the International Radio and Television Society’s Gold
Medal and a Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Award. He was recognized in Life’s “Five Original Thinkers of
the ‘80s” and Advertising Age’s “50 Pioneers and Visionaries of TV” and “10 Marketers Who Changed American Culture.”
Kelly Port is visual effects supervisor at Digital Domain. He has contributed to 26 films in his 18 years at the company.
He oversaw work on “Thor,” “Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief,” “The A-Team,” J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek”
and Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino,” as well as the VES-nominated visual effects for “We Own the Night,” among other
films. He is currently in production on visual effects for Twentieth Century Fox’s “Neighborhood Watch.” Port held the
role of associate visual effects supervisor on “Star Trek: Nemesis” and digital effects supervisor on “Stealth,” “We Were
Soldiers” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” Before joining Digital Domain, Port held a wide range of
post-production positions on film and television productions and worked in feature film advertising and graphic design.
A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, he holds a bachelor’s degree from UCLA.
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Alex Pourbaix is president of energy and oil pipelines for TransCanada Corp. He is responsible for TransCanada’s
non-regulated businesses, including power and non-regulated gas storage, as well as the oil pipeline business. Prior to
his current role, Pourbaix was president of energy and executive vice president of corporate development, overseeing
TransCanada’s non-regulated businesses as well as acquisitions, divestments and execution of major transactions in both
the energy and pipelines businesses. He is also responsible for the operation of Cancarb Ltd., a carbon black manufacturing
business owned and operated by TransCanada and TransCanada Turbines Ltd., the world leader in the aeroderivative gas
turbine overhaul and repair business. Pourbaix holds a B.A. and a bachelor of law from the University of Alberta.
Jim Prentice is senior executive vice president and vice chairman of CIBC. He was a member of Canada’s House of
Commons from 2004 to 2010. As chair of the Cabinet Committee on Operations, Prentice was described by Prime Minister
Harper as the “government’s chief operating officer.” He also served as minister of industry, minister of the environment, and
minister of Indian affairs and northern development. His accomplishments include modernization of the Investment Canada
Act, adoption of guidelines governing investments by state-owned enterprises and major revisions to the Competition Act.
Prentice was responsible for the Clean Energy Dialogue between Canada and the U.S., served as Canada’s intermediary
with the U.S. administration on energy and environmental matters, and furthered bilateral relations with China on energy
and environmental matters. Prentice sits on the board of BCE Inc. and is one of the Canadian members of the Trilateral
Commission.
Andrew Puzder is CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc. From 1995 through 2000, he was executive vice president, general
counsel for Fidelity National Financial, Inc. Puzder joined CKE in 1997 as executive vice president and general counsel and
in 2000 became president and CEO of CKE. Puzder is credited with resurrecting the Hardee’s brand and turning CKE from
a distressed heavily indebted company with declining profits and sales to a financially stable and profitable company. In
2010, Apollo Management took CKE private. Puzder is a frequent lecturer at colleges and universities and a regular guest
on business shows such as “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” “Squawk on the Street,” and the “Kudlow Report.” Puzder
co-authored “Job Creation: How It Really Works And Why Government Doesn’t Understand It.” He was a contributor to
“Believe in America, Mitt Romney’s Plan for Jobs and Economic Growth.” He has received numerous industry awards.
Puzder received his juris doctorate in 1978 from Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.
Luther Ragin Jr. is the CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network, a nonprofit dedicated to increasing the scale and
effectiveness of impact investing. The GIIN builds critical infrastructure and supports activities, education and research to
develop a more robust impact investing industry. Before joining the GIIN, Ragin served as vice president for investments
at New York-based F.B. Heron Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation in 1999, Luther was chief financial officer of the
National Community Capital Association and Earl G. Graves, Ltd. and spent seven years at Chase Manhattan Bank. He is a
member of the board of directors of Social Finance U.S., ShoreBank Corp. and the Threshold Group. He is a William Henry
Bloomberg lecturer in public management at the Harvard Kennedy School and a senior research fellow at the Hauser
Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Ragin holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in public policy from Harvard and is a
graduate of Columbia University’s Executive Program in Business Administration.
Raghuram Rajan is the Eric J. Gleacher distinguished service professor of finance at the University of Chicago
Booth School of Business. He also serves as an economic advisor to the prime minister of India. From 2003 to 2006, he
was the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. Rajan’s research interests are in banking, corporate finance
and economic development, especially the role finance plays in it. His 2003 book (with Luigi Zingales) entitled “Saving
Capitalism from the Capitalists” was followed by “Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy,”
which was awarded the Financial Times-Goldman Sachs prize for best business book in 2010. Rajan is a senior advisor to
Booz and Co., BDT Capital and MCAP and sits on the international advisory board of Bank Itau-Unibanco. A recipient of
the Fischer Black Prize of the American Finance Association, Rajan was the president of the association in 2011. He is also
a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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A. Barry Rand is CEO of AARP, a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to social change and
helping people 50 and older improve the quality of their lives. He has served as chairman and CEO of Avis Group Holdings,
CEO of Equitant Ltd. and executive vice president of worldwide operations at Xerox Corp., where he began his career as a
sales representative in 1968. He is chairman of the board of trustees of Howard University. Rand’s other board memberships
have included Honeywell Corp., Abbott Laboratories, Ameritech, AT&T Wireless Services, Agilent Technologies, Campbell
Soup Co., the Urban Family Institute, the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation and the Garth Fagan Dance Theatre.
He established the Helen Matthews Rand Endowed Scholarship, a $1.5 million program at the Howard University School
of Education named in honor of his late mother, a public school principal in Washington, D.C. Rand holds a B.A. from
American University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University, where he was a Sloan executive fellow.
Lewis Ranieri is chairman of Ranieri Partners Management LLC and founder of the Hyperion Private Equity Funds.
He is also a principal partner and founder of the Selene Residential Mortgage Opportunity Fund, which buys distressed
mortgages from lenders and works with the homeowners. Prior to Hyperion, he was vice chairman of Salomon Brothers,
where he helped develop the capital markets as a funding source for housing and commercial real estate, established
Salomon as a leader in mortgage-backed securities, and led the effort for legislation to support and build the market.
Considered the father of the securitized mortgage market and an innovator in mortgage and capital markets, he has
served on the National Association of Home Builders Mortgage Roundtable since 1989. One of BusinessWeek’s “greatest
innovators of the past 75 years,” he is a member of the National Housing Hall of Fame and the Fixed Income Analysts
Society Inc. Hall of Fame. He is the author of “Options for REO: The Private Sector Solution to the Foreclosure Problem.”
Steven Rattner is chairman of Willett Advisors LLC, the investment arm for New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s
personal and philanthropic assets. As the U.S. Treasury secretary’s former counselor and lead auto advisor - popularly
known as the Obama administration’s “car czar” - Rattner played a leading role in the 2009 restructuring of the auto
industry as counselor to the secretary of the Treasury. A renowned veteran Wall Street financier, he also serves as the
economic analyst on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” a contributing writer to The New York Times op-ed page, and a monthly
columnist for the Financial Times. His book “Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency
Rescue of the Auto Industry” was published in 2010.
Chris Reilly is a senior associate at TechPar Group. Prior to joining TechPar, she spent the last 18 years as an executive
with CIT Group Inc., a large, diversified commercial finance company serving the small and middle marketplace. Most
recently, she was president of CIT’s Small Business Lending Division, a more than $4 billion organization that has been
recognized as one of the nation’s leading Small Business Administration lenders as well as one of the top lenders to women,
veteran and minority entrepreneurs. Subsequent to CIT’s reorganization, Reilly led the strategic initiative to transfer her
division into CIT Bank. Prior to joining CIT in 1994, Reilly spent 13 years at Arthur Andersen LLC. She was selected by U.S
Banker in 2008 as one of the nation’s “Top 25 Nonbank Women in Finance” and by NJ Biz Magazine in 2007 as one of the
“Best 50 Women in Business.” A CPA, Reilly holds an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a
bachelor’s degree in economics from the College of Mount St. Vincent.
Lynda Resnick is vice chairman of Roll Global. Dubbed the “POM Queen,” she is behind the marketing success of
POM Wonderful 100% pomegranate juice. Resnick and her husband, Stewart, also own Paramount Farms and Paramount
Citrus Companies - making them the nation’s largest farmers of tree crops - as well as the floral service Teleflora and FIJI
Water, the nation’s No. 1 imported bottled water. Resnick continues to create and build successful brands for all their
crops and companies, including the groundbreaking “Get Crackin” campaign for Wonderful Pistachios and Cuties brand
clementine oranges. 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 revealed her marketing secrets in her bestselling book, “Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business.”
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Tony Ressler is a founding partner of Ares Management LLC, which has approximately $46 billion in assets under
management and focuses on alternative assets. Founded in 1997, Ares has 500 employees and offices in Los Angeles, New
York, Chicago, Dallas, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Stockholm and Shanghai. In 1990 Ressler co-founded Apollo Management,
LP, a private investment firm. Prior to 1990, he was a senior vice president in the High Yield Bond Department of Drexel
Burnham Lambert. Ressler sits on the boards of Ares Management and several companies controlled by Ares funds. He
also serves on various nonprofit boards, including the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art. He is founder and co-chairman of the Los Angeles-based Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, a highperforming group of 20 charter high schools and middle schools. He received a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University’s
School of Foreign Service and an M.B.A. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.
Brian Reynolds is a founder and managing partner of Chatham Capital, an $800 million mezzanine fund. He has more
than 20 years of investment and financial experience, including participation in 70 Chatham fundings and more than 150
others representing more than $25 billion of transactions. He specializes in leveraged lending, mergers and acquisitions,
recapitalizations, financial restructurings, MBOs and private placement of debt and equity. Prior to Chatham, Reynolds
was a managing director for KPMG Corporate Finance, where he led the advisory in 21 transactions with an average value
of $84 million. These transactions included equity raises, debt placements, and sell-side and buy-side representations.
Prior to KPMG, he was a senior vice president and credit officer with GE Capital’s Corporate Finance Group for 12 years,
underwriting more than $3 billion of investments by GE without losing any capital on underwritten deals. Reynolds received
a bachelor’s degree from St. Bonaventure University.
Lionel Richie is CEO of Lionel Richie Productions and founder of The Lionel Richie Foundation, as well as a worldwide
entertainer, composer, songwriter, producer and humanitarian. Richie has sold more than 100 million albums worldwide
and is the recipient of an Oscar, five Grammys, 16 American Music Awards and a Golden Globe, among many other awards.
He is one of just two songwriters to have No. 1 records on the charts for nine consecutive years. Richie reached the pinnacle
of success in his field despite humble beginnings. Born in Tuskegee, Ala., he lived in a small, isolated predominantly AfricanAmerican community in the original home of Booker T. Washington, situated on the campus of what is now Tuskegee
University. Through his success, Richie has been able to give back through The Lionel Richie Foundation, an innovative
program that aims to strengthen the partnership between major corporations, organizations and Tuskegee University
while expanding worldwide study programs.
James Rickards is the author of “Currency Wars” and a partner in JAC Capital Advisors. A counselor and investment
advisor, he has held senior positions at Citibank, Long-Term Capital Management and Caxton Associates. In 1998, he was
the principal negotiator of the rescue of LTCM sponsored by the Federal Reserve. His clients include institutional investors
and government directorates. He has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, CNN, BBC
and NPR, and has contributed op-eds to the Financial Times, New York Times and Washington Post. Rickards is a visiting
lecturer at Northwestern University and the School of Advanced International Studies. He has delivered papers on risk at
Singularity University, the Applied Physics Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He is also an advisor on
capital markets to the director of national intelligence. Rickards holds an LL.M. from the New York University; a J.D. from
the University of Pennsylvania; an M.A. in economics from SAIS; and a B.A. from Johns Hopkins.
Skip Rimer is executive director of programs and communications at the Milken Institute, where he has overall
responsibility for the organization’s communications efforts and events. These include the Institute’s publications, website,
media relations and social-network outreach, as well as the Global Conference, State of the State Conference and Milken
Institute Summits. Prior to joining the Institute in 1998, Rimer worked for more than 20 years as a journalist, most recently
as the executive editor of the Santa Monica Outlook. He also worked as a reporter and editor for the Ventura County Star
in Ventura, Calif. He is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including from the Associated Press News Editors Council
and the California Newspaper Publishers Association. He received his master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism and his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Steve Rimmer is CEO of Guggenheim Aviation Partners LLC (GAP) and senior managing director of Guggenheim
Partners. Rimmer formed GAP, an asset management company, in 2003 with Guggenheim, an international financial services
firm. GAP is now managing its second fund, with a portfolio of 54 Boeing and Airbus aircraft representing over $2.2 billion
of assets under management. Rimmer’s involvement in worldwide aircraft and engine trading activities spans over 30 years.
In 2000, he founded XS Aviation Ltd., a commercial aircraft investment management and advisory company. Prior to XS
Aviation, he was a principal of Curtis & Co., in charge of its London office from 1990 through 2000. Rimmer has significant
experience sourcing, financing, remarketing and managing investments for his own account and on behalf of investors.
He has also held senior management positions with several prominent firms in the aircraft leasing and finance sector.
Clifton Robbins is founder and CEO of Blue Harbour Group LP, which takes a private equity approach to investing
in public markets. Blue Harbour serves as a lead minority investor for its portfolio of publicly traded companies and works
in a collaborative manner with management to create and unlock shareholder value. A veteran investor with 25 years of
experience, Robbins founded Blue Harbour in 2004. Before that, he was a managing member of General Atlantic Partners
LLC, a global private equity firm, and served on General Atlantic’s Executive, Investment and Portfolio Review Committees.
Prior to joining General Atlantic Partners in 2000, he was a general partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., which he
joined in 1987. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Robbins also
serves as chairman of its Funding and Finance Committee and previously served as chairman of its Investment Committee.
Robbins holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Donald Rocap is a partner in the tax group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the Chicago. His practice focuses on the tax
aspects of business transactions, with particular focus on structuring mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts,
recapitalizations, venture capital and mezzanine investments, and private equity fund formations. He is a lecturer at the
University of Chicago Law School and is a co-author of “Mergers, Acquisitions, and Buyouts” with Martin D. Ginsburg and
Jack S. Levin, and a special editor of “Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions” by Jack
S. Levin. He has been selected as one of America’s “Leading Lawyers for Business in Tax” by Chambers USA every year
since 2004. Rocap received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia Law
School. Prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis, he was deputy tax legislative counsel for regulatory affairs with the U.S. Treasury
Department’s Office of Tax Policy.
John Rogers Jr. is chairman and CEO of Ariel Investments, a Chicago-based money management firm he founded in
1983 to focus on undervalued small and medium-size companies. Previously, he worked as a stockbroker at William Blair
& Co. Rogers’ passion for investing started when he was 12 and his father bought him stocks as birthday and Christmas
gifts. He sits on the boards of Aon Corp., Exelon and McDonald’s. He is a director of the Chicago Urban League, a trustee
of the University of Chicago and a member of the board of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. Rogers was also
co-chairman of the Presidential Inaugural Committee 2009. Last year, he was appointed by President Obama as chairman
of the President’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability. Rogers’ accolades include being named Mutual Fund Manager
of the Year by Sylvia Porter’s Personal Finance as well as an All-Star Mutual Fund Manager by USA Today. He majored in
economics at Princeton University.
Alice Rogoff is the publisher of AlaskaDispatch.com and founder of the Arctic Imperative Summit. In 2011, Rogoff
hosted the summit, the first international policy gathering in Alaska focused on the issues and opportunities presented by
the melting sea ice. The summit will reconvene July 29-August 1 in Girdwood, Alaska. Beginning in 1985, Rogoff was the
chief financial officer of U.S News and World Report, a position she held for 12 years. She also worked at The Washington
Post Co. as an assistant to publisher Donald Graham. Rogoff was the creator of the national weekly edition of The
Washington Post. In 1978-80, Rogoff was the special assistant to the director of the Office of Management and Budget in
the Carter administration. She has served on numerous boards, including those of the Carter Center in Atlanta, the National
Symphony Orchestra, the Potomac School, the National Child Research Center and the National Geographic Society’s
Council of Advisors. She holds an M.B.A. from Harvard.
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Kenneth Rogoff is the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University. From 2001 to 2003, he served
as chief economist at the International Monetary Fund. Rogoff’s treatise “Foundations of International Macroeconomics”
(with Maurice Obstfeld) is the standard graduate text in the field worldwide, and his monthly syndicated column on global
economic issues is published in over 50 countries. His 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart, “This Time Is Different: Eight
Centuries of Financial Folly,” an international best-seller, shows the remarkable quantitative similarities across time and
countries in the run-up and the aftermath of severe financial crises. Rogoff is also known for his work on exchange rates
and on central bank independence. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences as well as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Group of Thirty. He holds the life title of
international grandmaster of chess.
Nancy Roman is the director of public policy, communications and private partnerships for the United Nations’ World
Food Programme. Roman oversees a global staff of more than 100, with responsibility for operations in more than 80
countries. Among her many roles, Roman chairs the food program’s investment committee, which has more than $1 billion
under management. She sits on the organization steering committee that oversees a $100 million initiative to work with
small holder farmers. Before joining the food program, Roman was vice president of the Council on Foreign Relations in
Washington, D.C., where she established the council’s congressional program. Roman came to Washington in 1988 as press
secretary and foreign affairs advisor for Rep. Clay Shaw Jr., a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
She holds a master of arts degree in international economics and American foreign policy from the John Hopkins School
of Advanced International Studies and a bachelor’s degree in journalism and French from Baylor University.
Michael Rosenfeld is the founder and CEO of Woodridge Capital Partners LLC, a Los Angeles-based real estate
investment and development company. Woodridge and its affiliates own and develop a broad range of hotel, resort,
residential and commercial real estate projects throughout the United States and Canada. Rosenfeld is an acknowledged
leader with over 25 years in the real estate industry. He received the 2008 Single Asset Transaction of the Year Award
from the Americas Lodging Investment Summit and was selected as one of Builder & Developer magazine’s “Who’s Who
in Homebuilding.” Recent projects include The Fairmont San Francisco Hotel, The Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, The
Fairmont Orchid, The Carlyle on Wilshire and The Plaza at College Station.
Jacob Rothman is a managing director for Beach Point Capital Management, responsible for the firm’s investment
activities in the financial, energy and gaming sectors. He has been in the investment industry for more than 14 years, most
recently as a principal at Watershed Asset Management focusing on distressed investments. Prior to Watershed, he was a
portfolio manager at Canvas Capital. Rothman also worked at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. on private equity transactions
and Morgan Stanley in the corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions groups. Rothman received a bachelor’s degree
from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ray Rothrock is a partner at Venrock and the chairman of the National Venture Capital Association. With 50
investments to his credit during his 25 years at Venrock, Rothrock remains passionate about building companies. His current
investments are mostly in the fields of computer network security and energy. Past successful investments with seven IPOs
include Spyglass, Check Point Software, DoubleClick, Digex, USInternetworking, FogDog Sports, Imperva, Vontu and PGP.
Rothrock serves on the boards of Check Point, Appthority, CTERA Networks, CloudFlare, GenBand, CoreTrace, RedSeal
Networks, Aria Systems, Transonic Combustion and Tri Alpha Energy. He has been a trustee of the Texas A&M Foundation.
Rothrock also serves on the visiting committee of the MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. He received a
bachelor’s degree in nuclear engineering from Texas A&M University in 1977, a master’s degree in nuclear engineering from
MIT in 1978 and an M.B.A. from Harvard University in 1988.
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Linda Rottenberg is CEO and co-founder of Endeavor. Rottenberg pioneered the field of high-impact
entrepreneurship, the global phenomenon of using high-growth business to transform economies. Endeavor has offices in
15 countries and has screened 30,000 candidates, ultimately selecting 650 Endeavor entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs
have created 150,000 high-value jobs and generate annual revenues of $4.5 billion. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale
Law School, Rottenberg has been named one of “America’s Best Leaders” by U.S. News & World Report and one of 100
“Innovators for the 21st Century” by Time magazine. In addition, Forbes recently placed her on the “Impact 30” list of the
world’s top social entrepreneurs.
Nouriel Roubini is the co-founder and chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an innovative economic and geostrategic consultancy. He is also a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Previously
he served as the senior advisor to the under secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, helping
to resolve the Asian and global financial crises, and as the senior economist for international affairs at the White House
Council of Economic Advisors. The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and numerous other prominent public
and private institutions have drawn on his expertise, and he is a sought-after commentator whose views are widely cited
by the media. Roubini has published more than 70 theoretical empirical and policy papers and co-authored several books,
including 2010’s “Crisis Economics - A Crash Course in the Future of Finance.” He received an undergraduate degree at
Bocconi University in Milan and a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University.
Marc Rowan is senior managing director of Apollo Global Management LLC and managing partner of Apollo
Management LP, which he co-founded in 1990. Prior to 1990, he was a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Group
of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. with responsibilities in high-yield financing, transaction idea generation and merger
structure negotiation. Rowan serves on the boards of the general partner of AAA, Athene Holdings, Athene Life Re,
Caesars Entertainment Corp. and Norwegian Cruise Lines. He has previously served on the boards of AMC Entertainment,
Cablecom GmbH, Countrywide Holdings, Culligan Water Technologies, Samsonite Corp., Unity Media SCA, Vail Resorts
and Wyndham International, among others. He is a founding member of the Youth Renewal Fund, a board member of the
National Jewish Outreach Program and a member of the Undergraduate Executive Board of the Wharton School of the
University of Pennsylvania, where he received a B.S. and an M.B.A. in finance.
James Rubin serves under New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo as counselor for competitiveness and international affairs at
the Empire State Development Corp. He is also a commentator on U.S. foreign policy and world affairs. Rubin was director
of foreign policy for the Clinton-Gore 1996 campaign and was later appointed assistant secretary of state for public affairs
and chief spokesman for the State Department. He was a policy advisor to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and
acted as a negotiator during the Kosovo war to secure the demobilization of the Kosovo Liberation Army. Rubin serves on
the board of the International Peace Institute and is president of the Atlantic Partnership. He is a frequent contributor to a
number of American and European newspapers and magazines and is a regular commentator on CNN, PBS, BBC, CBS and
other networks. Rubin received a bachelor’s degree in political science (1982) and a master’s degree in international affairs
(1984) from Columbia University.
John Ruffolo is the CEO of OMERS Ventures, the venture arm of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement
System. OMERS Ventures invests in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors. Ruffolo is also the senior vice
president and head of knowledge investing with OMERS Strategic Investments. Prior to joining OMERS, he was a partner
at Deloitte and global thought leader, global tax leader and Canadian industry leader for Deloitte’s technology, media and
telecommunications practice. Ruffolo serves as chair of the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association’s
Government Relations Committee and a member of its Executive Committee. He is also chair of the David Suzuki
Foundation Friends of Ontario and a board member of Communitech. A chartered accountant, Ruffolo was formerly a
partner with Arthur Andersen LLP and was an instructor for both the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and
York University’s Schulich School of Business, his alma mater.
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Stephanie Ruhle is a correspondent for Bloomberg Television. As part of Bloomberg’s morning team on “Inside Track,”
Ruhle regularly interviews business leaders and investors. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Ruhle was a managing director in
global markets senior relationship management at Deutsche Bank. There, she oversaw relationships for some of Deutsche
Bank’s largest hedge fund clients. She began her career at Credit Suisse. Ruhle founded the Corporate Investment Bank
Women’s Network and co-chaired the Women on Wall Street steering committee. She is also a member of the board of
trustees for Girls Inc. New York and the I-Mentor Corporate Advisory Board. She is a member of 100 Women in Hedge
Funds, the Women’s Bond Club and the corporate council of the White House Project, a not-for-profit organization working
to advance women in business, government and media. She earned her bachelor’s degree in international business from
Lehigh University and studied in Guatemala, Italy and Kenya.
Ken Rutkowski is the CEO and founder of METal International. His syndicated radio show “Business Rockstars” and
his weekly METal (Media, Entertainment and Technology Alpha Leaders) events serve as insider guides to global business
leaders and innovators. Rutkowski has been profiled by The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, BBC, Wired, BusinessWeek, Asahi
Shinbun, Bangkok Times, Finland Helsingin Sanomat and dozens of other publications worldwide. He has been a featured
presenter, speaker and moderator at technology and media conferences, including the Consumer Electronics Show, the
National Association of Broadcasters convention, CTIA, the National Association of Television Program Executives, Digital
Hollywood, the Seoul Digital Forum, the LA Games Conference, XMediaLab, GadgetFest and the Future of Television
Conference. He has also spoken at many U.S. universities, including Loyola, Northwestern, Illinois, MIT, Stanford, UCLA, USC
and Berkeley.
John Rutledge is chief investment strategist at Safanad SA, a principal investment firm in Geneva, Switzerland. He is
also a senior research professor at Claremont Graduate University and an honorary professor at the Chinese Academy of
Sciences in Beijing. Rutledge is an economics contributor at CNBC and writes a column for Forbes.com. He has advised
government leaders, CEOs and institutional investors around the world. His teaching and research interests focus on
applications of complex adaptive systems and network theory to issues of financial crisis and portfolio theory. He holds a
Ph.D. in economics from the University of Virginia.
Jim Rygiel is one of Hollywood’s most accomplished visual effects artists. In 2002, he received the American Film
Institute’s first AFI Digital Effects Artist of the Year award, the Academy Award and the BAFTA award for best visual effects
for his work on “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” Rygiel began his career with Pacific Electric Pictures, one
of the earliest companies to employ computer animation for advertising and film. He later moved to Digital Productions,
where he worked on “The Last Starfighter” (1984) and won a prestigious CLIO award for commercial spots introducing the
Sony Walkman. Rygiel later headed the computer animation department at Boss Film Studios, where he supervised many
feature films, both as digital effects supervisor and visual effects supervisor, including “Starship Troopers,” “Outbreak,” “Air
Force One,” “Batman Returns,” “Alien III” and “Ghost.” He went on to supervise “The Parent Trap,” “Star Trek: Insurrection,”
“Anna and the King” and “102 Dalmatians.”
Nathan Sandler is co-founder and managing partner of ICE Canyon LLC, a global investment management firm
specializing in emerging markets and global credit strategies. He has worked in financial services and investment
management since 1983. Prior to forming ICE Canyon, Sandler was managing director and senior portfolio manager
responsible for emerging markets and international fixed income at TCW, where over 13 years he built a global investment
business and a long-term track record in total return and structured credit investment strategies. Prior to joining TCW,
Sandler specialized in U.S. government bond trading and arbitrage as a founding principal in a leveraged fixed-income fund
and as a vice president at Security Pacific Bank. He began his career in Chicago as a derivatives specialist in institutional
futures and options sales. Sandler holds a B.A. in economics and political science from Drake University.
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Nicholas Sandler is managing director at Guggenheim Partners and serves as portfolio manager for Guggenheim’s
aircraft financing group. He is also head of public and regulatory affairs, overseeing the firm’s activity in Washington, D.C.
Prior to joining Guggenheim in 2008, Sandler was an analyst and portfolio manager at a private investment company in
Hong Kong. Earlier in his career, he co-founded Public Insight, a policy-focused research firm that serviced institutional
investors, and was a principal of a Washington, D.C.-based government-relations firm advising Fortune 500 clients and
elected officials’ campaign committees. From 2002 to 2004, Sandler served as special assistant to former California Gov.
Gray Davis.
Richard Sandler is executive vice president and a trustee of the Milken Family Foundation, and a partner in the
law firm of Maron & Sandler. He has been an investor for over 25 years, including acting as the managing partner of
various partnerships investing in securities, commercial and industrial real estate projects, and other business transactions.
He serves on the boards of directors of a number of companies that he is involved with including KU Education Inc.,
Knowledge Schools Inc., and Heron International Ltd., an international real estate company. Sandler is currently chairman
of The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and serves on the boards of directors of the American Jewish University,
Milken Community High School, the University of California at Berkeley Foundation, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and
the Milken Institute. He is a member of the State Bar of California, graduated magna cum laude from the University of
California, Berkeley, and received his law degree from UCLA Law School.
Richard Sandor is chairman and CEO of Environmental Financial Products LLC, which specializes in inventing,
designing and developing new financial markets with a special emphasis on investment advisory services. Established in
1998, EFP was the predecessor company and incubator to the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), the European Climate
Exchange (ECX) and the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE). A senior fellow at the Milken Institute. Sandor was
honored by the city of Chicago for his role as the “father of financial futures.” In 2007, he was honored as one of Time
magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” for his work as the “father of carbon trading.” Sandor is a distinguished professor
of environmental finance at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University and a lecturer in law at the University
of Chicago Law School. He earned a Ph.D. in economics at the University of Minnesota.
David Saunders is managing director of K2 Advisors, which he co-founded in 1994. He served as senior managing
director and head of international risk at ABN Amro from 1996 until 2000, when he resigned to devote his full attention
to K2. He has been involved in the investment and trading of financial instruments since 1983, when he joined Tucker
Anthony & R.L. Day as an equity trader. Since then, he has served as vice president on the equity block trading desk at
First Boston Corp.; head trader and partner at the hedge fund WaterStreet Capital; managing director and head trader
at Tiger Management; and president of WorldSec Securities, an Asia-focused investment bank, overseeing all aspects of
their U.S. business. Saunders serves on the boards of the Tiger Foundation, the Windham chapter of the Catskill Mountain
Foundation and the University System of Maryland Foundation. He is a graduate of the University of Maryland.
Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, a global alternative investment
and advisory firm. Scaramucci is a board member of Warrior Gateway, the Lymphoma Foundation and the Brain Tumor
Foundation, and is also on the board of overseers for the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. Scaramucci is the
author of “Goodbye Gordon Gekko: How To Find Your Fortune Without Losing Your Soul” and a regular CNBC contributor.
Prior to SkyBridge, he was the co-founder of Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman in 2001
after building a managed account business and four hedge funds. Upon Neuberger Berman’s sale to Lehman Brothers in
2003, he served as a managing director in their investment management division. From 1989 to 1996, Scaramucci was
at Goldman Sachs, where he became a vice president in private wealth management in 1993. Scaramucci received a
bachelor’s degree in economics from Tufts University in 1986 and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1989.
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Jay Schnitzer is the director of the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA). His research focus includes the interface among health-care simulation and medical disaster preparedness and
mass casualty response - a logical combination of his engineering background coupled with field experience in international
and disaster medicine. Previously, Schnitzer was chief medical officer and senior vice president at Boston Scientific Corp.
He completed his residency training program in general surgery at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, spending one year
performing trauma surgery in the Gaza Strip. He also performed a fellowship in pediatric surgery at Children’s Hospital,
Boston. Schnitzer received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Mass., a Ph.D.
in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School.
Jon Schnur is executive chairman and co-founder of America Achieves. He is also the co-founder, former CEO and
current board member of New Leaders. Schnur recently served as senior advisor to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne
Duncan, co-chairman of the Obama for America Education Policy Committee and member of the Obama Presidential
Transition Team. Previously, Schnur served as President Clinton’s White House associate director for educational policy,
senior policy advisor on education to Vice President Al Gore and special assistant to U.S. Secretary of Education Dick Riley.
Myron Scholes, the 1997 recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, is the Frank E. Buck Professor
of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. The co-creator of the Black-Scholes options
pricing model, he is known for his seminal work in options pricing, capital markets and the financial services industry.
He is the chairman of the Board of Economic Advisors of Sterling Stamos, a director of Dimensional Fund Advisors and
American Century mutual funds, and the former chairman of Platinum Grove Asset Management, which he founded.
Formerly a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Scholes is a member of the Econometric Society and the
American Academy of Sciences. A former director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, he has consulted widely with
financial institutions, corporations and exchanges and continues to lecture around the world. Scholes received his Ph.D.
from the University of Chicago.
Glen Schwaber is a founding partner of Israel Cleantech Ventures (ICV), the premier venture capital fund dedicated
to investing in Israel’s emerging clean-technology companies. ICV has $135 million under management in two funds and
has made 14 investments since its inception in 2006. A 17-year veteran of the venture capital industry, his investment
interests are in power electronics, lighting, energy storage and industrial efficiency. Prior to joining ICV, Schwaber was a
partner at Jerusalem Venture Partners, one of Israel’s largest and most successful VC funds. He also helped establish JVP
Studio, a seed-stage investment vehicle that has incubated exceptional young companies focusing on software and media.
Schwaber holds a master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a
B.A. from Harvard College.
Alan Schwartz has been executive chairman of Guggenheim Partners, a financial services firm, since 2009. He
is the former chief executive of The Bear Stearns Cos. At Bear Stearns, he served as president and chief operating
officer, as executive vice president and co-head of investment banking, and in other financial management positions. He
previously worked in various capacities with Wertheim & Co. and R.W. Pressprich & Co. He earned a bachelor’s degree in
management science from Duke University in 1972. He has been a member of the Duke Board of Trustees since 2005 and
has served as chairman of the university’s Fuqua School of Business Board of Visitors and as a member of the Athletic
Advisory Board. Schwartz is a member of the boards of the Robin Hood Foundation, St. Vincent’s Services, Marvin &
Palmer Associates, MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership, the American Foundation for AIDS Research and the
NYU Langone Medical Center
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Brian Schweitzer is a farmer, rancher and the governor of Montana, an office he has held since 2005. As a young
agronomist with an advanced degree in soil sciences, he went overseas and worked for a decade to bring U.S. agricultural
methods to the developing world. In Africa, Asia, Europe and South America, and during seven years in Saudi Arabia,
he oversaw large-scale irrigation projects and the construction of several of the world’s largest dairies. Schweitzer has
become a leading voice on national energy issues, particularly as they relate to domestic production of clean energy and
fuels to replace foreign oil. Under his leadership, Montana’s government has reduced its energy use by 20 percent, and the
state has been ranked No. 1 in the nation in wind power growth. It is also the fastest-growing state in oil production and
coal production. Montana has developed more new electrical generation capacity since Schweitzer took office than in the
previous 20 years combined.
Mohamed Seif-Elnasr is chief investment officer and managing partner of SAFANAD SA. He has over 30 years
of experience in proprietary trading and investment management in a variety of conventional and alternative disciplines.
Prior to joining SAFANAD, he spent most of his career at the National Commercial Bank – Jeddah, where he established
the firm’s proprietary trading and investment platforms, and at NCB Capital Bahrain, where he was a founding member
and head of asset management. Previously he worked for Citibank London and Credit Suisse First Boston, where was head
of emerging markets ñ Middle East and North Africa risk. Seif-Elnasr holds a B.A. in economics and a minor in psychology
from the American University in Cairo.
Wendy Selig is president and CEO of the Melanoma Research Alliance, a unique public charity focused on finding
and funding the most promising melanoma research worldwide that will accelerate progress toward a cure. Selig manages
MRA’s strategic priorities, research portfolio and day-to-day operations. Founded by Debra and Leon Black and established
under the auspices of the Milken Institute, the MRA is the largest private U.S. funder of melanoma research, having put
more than $33 million into cutting-edge research in 10 countries for melanoma prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Before
joining the MRA, Selig spent nearly a decade in leadership positions at the American Cancer Society and its advocacy
affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. Previously, she was a top aide to U.S. Rep. Porter Goss, the
House Rules Committee and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. She holds a bachelor’s degree from
Princeton University and a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.
Yair Seroussi is chairman of the Bank Hapoalim, a position he has held since 2009. He served as a board member and
as chairman of the Audit Committee of the bank from 1997 through 2002. Seroussi was the founder and head of Morgan
Stanley Israel. He served as the chairman of the Investment Committee of Mivtachim, Israel’s largest pension fund, and
founded a number of private investment funds. Seroussi served as a director of Israel Corp. and Frutarom Industries. He
still acts as a director in DSPG. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University. Seroussi served over
a decade in Israel’s Ministry of Finance, where he held several senior positions and helped establish the Yozma program,
which created the venture capital funds industry in Israel. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science
from the Hebrew University.
Amr Shady is the founder and CEO of T.A. Telecom, which develops specialized service delivery platforms for mobile
operators working in emerging markets, including Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Afghanistan.
Shady enrolled in Dalhousie University in Canada at the age of 15 to study electrical engineering and founded T.A. Telecom
in 2000, three years after graduating. T.A. Telecom is now recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the
Middle East-Africa region and was selected as an Arabia+Turkey Fast 500 company. Shady was selected as an “Endeavor
Entrepreneur” by the nonprofit organization Endeavor, which assists high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets.
Shady was also named one of “5 Young World Tech innovators to watch” by Internet Evolution.
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Lisa Shalett is chief investment officer at Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management and head of investment management
and guidance at Merrill Lynch. With more than 20 years of investment and analytic experience, Shalett oversees the
global asset allocation and portfolio investment strategy guidance provided to advisors and clients. In addition to being
responsible for Merrill Lynch’s investment strategy around the world, she leads the investment analytics and due diligence
teams and heads the Ultra High Net Worth Investment Office, which creates institutional-caliber investment policies and
customized portfolio solutions. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Shalett was the head of Alliance Growth Equities and chairman and
CEO of Sanford C. Bernstein, LLC. An Aspen Institute fellow, she holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics and
economics from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Nathan Shor is director of Galloway Capital as well as founding partner, senior portfolio manager and a member of its
Investment Committee. Galloway Capital manages a broad range of emerging markets fixed-income funds for institutional
investors and high-net-worth individuals. Shor created Galloway Emerging Markets in 2006. Prior to establishing Galloway,
Shor joined forces with Convencao, a Brazilian broker-dealer, in 2003 to develop its emerging markets fixed-income desk.
He began his professional carrier at The Nash Fund, where he was responsible for its emerging markets fixed-income
area. Shor holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston University and a master’s degree in finance from the Instituto Estudios
Superiores de Administracion in Caracas, Venezuela.
Elad Shraga is managing director and global head of the Client Solutions Group for Deutsche Bank, based in London.
He is responsible for Deutsche Bank’s activities across commercial real estate, ABS banking, longevity risk markets, and
illiquid credit and special situations in North America and Europe. Over the course of his tenure at Deutsche Bank, he has
played an instrumental role in the establishment of several markets and products, such as catastrophe risk, longevity/
mortality swaps, and receivable derivatives. Prior to this, Shraga ran the global principal finance business for the bank.
Shraga joined Deutsche Bank in 2000 in the Tel Aviv office as an emerging markets proprietary trader before assuming the
role of regional head of structured credit trading for Deutsche Bank in New York. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Shraga
was a foreign exchange derivatives trader at Bank Leumi in Tel Aviv, pioneering the local derivatives market. He holds a
B.Sc in statistics and mathematics from the University of Toronto.
Frederic Sicre is a partner at Abraaj Capital and spearheads the Abraaj Strategic and Stakeholder Engagement Track
(ASSET), which works with leaders from all fields, including government, business, media and culture. In this role, Sicre
drives business development at Abraaj, its stakeholder communications, international positioning, government relations
and strategic philanthropy. Prior to joining Abraaj Capital, Sicre spent more than 15 years with the World Economic
Forum, where he was managing director. Earlier in his career, Sicre initiated private-sector-led dialogue and reconciliation
initiatives during South Africa’s transition to democracy. He is the editor of “South Africa at Ten,” a book celebrating the
country’s first decade of democracy. A fellow of Stanford University, Sicre holds an M.B.A. from IMD-International Institute
for Management Development, Switzerland, and a bachelor’s degree from Villanova University.
Eric Siegel is a managing director and the global head of alternative solutions and asset allocation product solutions
for Citi Private Bank. Siegel has over 15 years of experience in the financial markets, spanning asset management and
investment banking. Prior to joining CPB, he was a director and co-head of hedge fund research at Bank of America/Merrill
Lynch, a group that managed over $10 billion in hedge fund-related assets, including a fund of funds and a private wealth
management hedge fund platform. Previously, he was a vice president and senior analyst at Liberty Ermitage, a European
fund of funds managing over $1 billion. At Liberty Ermitage he primarily focused on relative value and multi-strategy
hedge fund managers. Siegel began his career at Bear Stearns as a member of the Financial Institutions Group, where he
participated in a wide range of advisory and capital-raising transactions. He holds a B.A. in economics and mathematics
from the University of Pennsylvania and is a CFA and CAIA charterholder.
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Mindy Silverstein is the managing director of marketing and program development at the Milken Institute. Since
joining the Institute in 2005, Silverstein has served as director of the Milken Institute Associates and overseen its growth
from a few dozen local supporters to several hundred worldwide. She also designed the model for engagement and
support around the Institute’s research centers. Engaging and connecting individuals, corporations, foundations and
other stakeholders has been a hallmark of her career in marketing and philanthropy. Before joining the Institute, Silverstein
worked with organizations such as the United Way, I Have a Dream Foundation and GenArt, and conducted research on
evaluation practices in the nonprofit sector on behalf of the James Irvine Foundation. Prior to entering the nonprofit arena,
Silverstein was involved with corporate marketing and events for Coca-Cola, Ernst & Young, Toyota and other clients.
Silverstein received a bachelor’s degree from Indiana University and an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University.
David Simon is chairman and CEO of Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group, the largest publicly traded real estate
company in the United States. The company operates from five retail real estate platforms - regional malls, Premium Outlet
centers, The Mills Corp., community/lifestyle centers and international properties - and owns or has an interest in about
330 properties in North America and Asia. Simon joined the organization in 1990 and led efforts to take the company
public with a nearly $1 billion IPO. 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. In 2010, Harvard Business Review recognized him as one of the world’s best-performing CEOs. In 2011,
he was named the top CEO in his industry by Institutional Investor Magazine. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Indiana
University and an M.B.A. from Columbia.
Jonathan Slone is chairman and CEO of CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets, overseeing CLSA’s global operations in broking,
investment banking, asset management, research and sales teams in 22 locations worldwide. Slone first went to Asia
in 1985 to work with multilateral aid groups in western China, and then moved to Hong Kong, where he was one of the
founders of First Pacific Securities. He spent the next two years opening offices throughout the region before joining
CLSA in 1988 as regional research director. In 1991, Slone moved to New York to establish CLSA’s U.S. operations. While
still at CLSA, he founded G-Trade Services, which was sold to the Bank of New York in 2002; Slone continued to head the
company for Bank of New York until 2005. He rejoined CLSA later that year to assume responsibility for the firm’s global
broking operations, with an emphasis on growing the company’s expanding presence in Japan.
Gary Small is a professor of psychiatry, the Parlow-Solomon Professor on Aging, and director of the UCLA Longevity
Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. Small’s team has developed brain scan methods that
detect the first signs of Alzheimer’s disease years before patients show symptoms. In addition to testing medicines for
delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms, Small has developed healthy lifestyle and memory training programs
that are available throughout the U.S. Scientific American magazine named him one of the world’s top innovators in science
and technology. Small’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time and Newsweek. He
frequently appears on “The Today Show,” CNN, PBS and “The Dr. Oz Show.” He has authored six popular books, including
the New York Times best-seller “The Memory Bible” and his most recent book, “The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program.”
Kathryn Smith is managing director at Fast Forward LLC, the venture arm of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society,
and a business consultant to for-profit and not-for-profit health-care companies. Her responsibilities include establishing
and driving strategy, evaluating companies, working with reviewers and applicants, negotiating agreements and helping
funded companies to succeed. She has over 30 years of pharmaceutical industry experience in R&D, business development
and strategic planning. Prior to becoming a consultant, she spent 26 years at Pfizer. As executive director of the Acquisition
Practice Group, she led the R&D acquisition strategy and integration of acquired R&D companies. Prior to that, she led
Discovery Strategic Alliances, building investments in external research. She has held other positions in clinical development
and in discovery research. Smith received a B.S. in pharmacology from Leeds University, U.K., and an M.A. in biology from
Brown University.
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Matt Smith is CEO of IMI Exchange, a leading global online gaming services company focused on second markets for
virtual goods. The company’s online exchanges match buyers and sellers of more than $1 billion of virtual goods annually.
The company owns the largest exchanges in Korea and expanded into China in 2011. From its core business in Asia, centered
on massively multiplayer online video games, the company is expanding geographically and diversifying its services for
game publishers and gamers. Prior to joining IMI Exchange in 2005, Smith concentrated on the expansion of traditional
media businesses into online models, serving as chief financial officer and chief operating officer for several companies.
That sector was also his focus as an investment banker at Jefferies & Co. and Societe Generale. Smith is a graduate of
Georgetown University.
Ralph Smith is senior vice president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and managing director of the Campaign for
Grade-Level Reading, a national effort to combat the low reading proficiency among low-income children. Smith also
led the foundation’s Making Connections initiative to improve outcomes for children by strengthening families and
neighborhoods. A law professor at the University of Pennsylvania for two decades, Smith is a nationally recognized
legal scholar and attorney. He was chief of staff and chief operating officer for the School District of Philadelphia and
a senior advisor to former Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode on children and family policy. As the founding director of
the National Center on Fathers and Families and the Philadelphia Children’s Network, Smith helped launch and lead the
“responsible fatherhood” movement. Smith serves on numerous foundations and initiatives and received the Jane Addams
Distinguished Leadership Award from the United Neighborhood Centers of America 2010.
Adam Sokoloff is managing director of investment banking and global head of the financial sponsors group at
Jefferies & Co. Inc., responsible for relationships with traditional financial sponsors and leveraged buyout firms, hedge
funds, alternative investment funds and financial entrepreneurs. Since joining the firm in 2002, Sokoloff has helped build
the investment banking department from about 100 bankers in the U.S. to more than 700 globally. A 25-year veteran of
investment banking, Sokoloff has been a managing director at Bear Stearns & Co., a vice president at Drexel Burnham
Lambert and a financial analyst at Kidder, Peabody & Co. Sokoloff has completed more than 250 transactions totaling in
excess of $50 billion. He is involved in several charitable organizations and serves on the board of the Educational Alliance
serving New York’s Lower East Side. Sokoloff holds a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Jonathan Sokoloff is managing partner of Leonard Green & Partners LP, which he joined in 1990. He serves on the
boards of BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc., The Brickman Group Ltd., The Container Store, David’s Bridal Inc., J. Crew Group Inc.,
Jetro Cash & Carry Inc., Jo-Ann Stores Inc., The Sports Authority Inc., Tire Rack Inc., Tourneau Inc. and Whole Foods Market.
Other companies currently in LGP’s portfolio include Petco Animal Supplies Inc., Neiman Marcus Group Inc. and Leslie’s
Poolmart Inc. Before joining LGP, he was a managing director in investment banking at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Sokoloff
received a B.A. from Williams College, where he co-chairs the Endowment Committee for Private Equity.
Nathan Sonnenberg is the chief investment officer of Fortigent and chairman of its Investment Committee and
Investment Quality Assurance Committee. Sonnenberg is responsible for managing Fortigent’s asset allocation and
portfolio construction processes. He oversees the equity, fixed income and alternative investment research teams, and helps
steer the strategic investment research initiatives of the firm. Prior to joining Fortigent, Sonnenberg was a management
consultant with Coopers & Lybrand as part of its information technology group. Sonnenberg holds the Chartered Financial
Analyst (CFA) designation, the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designation and the FINRA Series 7 and
65 licenses. He earned a B.S in systems engineering from the University of Virginia.
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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. Soule’s first
stint as executive vice president and chief science officer at PCF was from 1997 to 2004. He was 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.
Margaret Spellings is a senior advisor to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and president of its Forum for Policy
Innovation. She oversees the Chamber’s three nonprofit foundations: the National Chamber Foundation (NCF), the
Business Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) and the Institute for a Competitive Workforce (ICW). She is also president and
CEO of Margaret Spellings and Co. and provides strategic guidance to some of the most recognized philanthropic and
private-sector organizations in the world. From 2005 to 2009, Spellings served as U.S. secretary of education, overseeing
an agency with a nearly $70 billion budget and more than 10,000 employees and contractors. Prior to serving in the
Cabinet, Spellings was the chief domestic policy advisor to President Bush from 2001 to 2005. Previously, she served as a
senior advisor to then-Gov. George W. Bush and in various strategic roles for the Texas Legislature.
Scott Sperling is co-president of Thomas H. Lee Partners and trustee and general partner of various Thomas H. Lee
Partners equity funds. THL is one of the nation’s leading buyout fund organizations with over $22 billion under management
in its various funds. Sperling’s current and prior directorships include Clear Channel Communications, Thermo Fisher
Corp., Univision Communications, Inc., Warner Music Group, Experian Information Solutions, Fisher Scientific and several
other private companies. Prior to joining THL, Sperling was managing partner of the private capital affiliate of Harvard
Management Co., where he started and led the private investment areas of the Harvard endowment including buyouts,
venture capital, real estate and commodities. Before that he was a senior consultant and case leader with the Boston
Consulting Group. Sperling is a member of the board of the Brigham & Women’s/Faulkner Hospitals and chairman of the
board for the Citi Performing Arts Center.
Eric Spiegel is president and CEO of Siemens Corp. and CEO of the U.S. region. Managing the global engineering and
technology company’s largest single market, Spiegel is responsible for expanding the U.S. business in the industry, energy,
health-care, and infrastructure and cities sectors. Siemens had $22 billion in U.S. sales in fiscal year 2011 and exported about
$5 billion in products from the United States. With more than 60,000 U.S. employees and over 130 manufacturing locations,
Siemens is represented in all 50 states. Before Siemens, Spiegel spent more than 20 years at Booz Allen Hamilton. From
2008 to 2010, Spiegel worked at Booz & Co.’s global energy, chemicals and power consulting practice. A graduate of
the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Spiegel is a member of the executive committee of Ford’s Theatre in
Washington, D.C., the Tuck School’s Board of Overseers, the Business Roundtable and the Electrification Coalition.
Mel Spigelman is the president and CEO of the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance). Before
becoming president in 2009, Spigelman served five and a half years as the director of research and development at the TB
Alliance. Spigelman previously spent a decade managing drug R&D at Knoll Pharmaceuticals, a division of BASF Pharma.
He established global R&D processes as part of Knoll’s senior R&D management team, oversaw a marked increase in U.S.
regulatory filings and approvals, and supervised joint R&D programs with other pharmaceutical companies. Spigelman
holds certifications from the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He
was the recipient of the American Cancer Society Clinical Oncology Career Development Award (1985-1988). Spigelman
received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine,
where he specialized in internal medicine, neoplastic diseases and preventive medicine.
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Lorraine Spurge is CEO of Maplestone Capital Advisors, LLC. Maplestone Capital is a diversified financial service
company that is focused on women-led and family-owned businesses. Spurge previously was a senior managing director
and head of business development at Guggenheim Partners, LLC. She joined Guggenheim in 2008, focusing on strategic
business development, marketing and client services. 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 an institutional high-yield and distressed firm with more than $8 billion of assets under management. Previously,
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 group managing director and chief global strategist of The
TCW Group Inc. He has been with the investment management firm since 1990 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. Previously, 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. SriKumar holds a master’s degree from the Delhi School of Economics and a master’s and Ph.D. in economics from Columbia
University.
Josef Stadler is a group managing director and global head of Ultra High Net Worth Wealth Management at UBS.
Before joining UBS in 2009, Stadler was a managing director and head of Switzerland investment banking at JP Morgan
Chase. From 1998 to 2000, he was vice president of Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking Financial Institutions Group in
London. From 1994 to 1998, he was with Union Bank of Switzerland as head of strategic planning and vice president of
corporate banking. Stadler is a member of the board of PSP Swiss Property. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business
School and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of St. Gallen.
Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.
He is also the founding editor of International Finance, a top scholarly economics journal, as well as a co-founder and
managing member of Efficient Frontiers LLC, a markets consultancy. He received his M.Phil. and D.Phil. in economics from
Oxford University, and his B.Sc. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent
book, “Money, Markets and Sovereignty,” was awarded the 2010 Hayek Book Prize. His previous book, “Financial Statecraft:
The Role of Financial Markets in American Foreign Policy,” was named one of the “Best Business Books of 2006” by Library
Journal and an “Outstanding Academic Title of 2006” by Choice.
Roger Stein is the managing director of research and academic relations globally at Moody’s Corp. Prior to this, he was
president of Moody’s Research Labs in New York. He has been actively engaged in developing new approaches to applied
credit risk modeling for more than 20 years. As the co-head of Moody’s KMV’s research and product development, Stein
led the development of commercial risk-management tools that have been widely adopted. He also worked extensively
on techniques for risk model validation. Before MKMV, he led Moody’s Risk Management Services research group. Stein
has authored dozens of professional and academic articles and serves on the editorial boards of several finance-related
journals. He is currently a research affiliate at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His latest book is “Active Credit
Portfolio Management in Practice.” Stein has a bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton and
a master’s and Ph.D. from the Stern School of Business, New York University.
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Randall Stephenson is chairman, CEO and president of AT&T Inc. He was appointed to the position in 2007. In
this role, Stephenson has strengthened AT&T’s position as the world’s largest telecommunications company and as a
global leader in mobile broadband and IP-based business communications services. Stephenson began his career with
Southwestern Bell Telephone in 1982. He has held a variety of leadership positions at AT&T and its predecessors, including
serving as SBC Communications’ controller, AT&T’s chief financial officer and AT&T’s chief operating officer. He is a member
of the board of directors of Emerson Electric Co. and a National Executive Board member of the Boy Scouts of America.
Barry Sternlicht is chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, the private investment firm he formed in 1991.
Starwood Capital Group focuses on global real estate, energy, infrastructure and securities trading. Sternlicht is also
chairman of Starwood Property Trust, now the largest commercial mortgage REIT in the U.S. traded on the NYSE. He also
serves as chairman of the Societe du Louvre. For the past 21 years, he has structured investment transactions with an asset
value exceeding $40 billion. Starwood’s funds have invested in over 18,000 apartment units, 1,000 hotels, 22 million square
feet of office properties, 15 million square feet of retail, and 20,000 acres of land in residential subdivisions. Today the firm
manages approximately $12 billion of investor capital on behalf of its high-net-worth and institutional partners. Starwood
Capital Group includes Starwood Energy Partners and Starwood Real Estate Securities. Sternlicht is a trustee of his alma
mater, Brown University. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Melissa Stevens is deputy executive director of FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions. She
manages the planning and implementation of the organization’s programs and priorities. She also directs the organization’s
medical philanthropy efforts including the Philanthropy Advisory Service (PAS), designed to help foundations,
philanthropists and their advisors make more impactful investments in medical research and better assess the return on
philanthropy. Previously, she worked in the health sciences practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers, advising commercial and
federal clients across the health-care continuum. Stevens received both her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and M.B.A.
from Pennsylvania State University.
Laurette Stiles is vice president of strategic resources for State Farm Insurance Companies, which insures more
cars and homes than any other insurer in the U.S. and has over 80 million policies and accounts in force across insurance,
banking and securities products. With over 25 years of experience, Stiles is responsible for oversight of research, data
analytics, customer experience, auto and home safety, innovation and internal consulting. She previously served as vice
president of fire operations and vice president of human resources for State Farm. A member and past chair of the Highway
Loss Data Institute Board of Directors, Stiles has led efforts for Teen Driver Safety and Child Passenger Safety through a
partnership with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She is also engaged with State Farm’s support of K-12 education.
Stiles has a bachelor’s degree in economics and business administration from Vanderbilt University and completed her
Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter designation.
Brian Sullivan is co-anchor of CNBC’s “Street Signs.” Sullivan has more than 15 years of financial broadcasting
experience, having served as an anchor at Fox Business Network and as producer, reporter and anchor at Bloomberg
Television prior to Fox. He is recognized as one of the first financial journalists to highlight the risks of the housing bubble,
and his 2007 special “Subprime Shockwaves” won the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants’ Excellence
in Financial Journalism award and was nominated for the prestigious Loeb Award. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 1997,
Sullivan traded chemical commodities for Mitsubishi International. An avid auto racer, he has a B.A. in political science from
Virginia Tech and a law degree from Brooklyn Law School.
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Kerry Sullivan is president of the Bank of America Charitable Foundation, whose mission is to strengthen the economic
health of communities across the company’s global footprint. Sullivan leads a team responsible for implementing a broad
range of national and international philanthropic programs. She manages strategic relationships with global philanthropic
partners addressing pressing issues of education, community development, health and human services, the environment
and the arts. She leads the company’s signature philanthropic programs that recognize the community leadership and
service of nonprofit organizations and students in 44 markets across the U.S., with more than $150 million invested since
2004. In addition, Sullivan is responsible for Bank of America Community Volunteers. Sullivan serves on Year Up’s national
board and chairs the Summer Fund. In addition, she serves on the Expanded Learning Time Advisory Board and the
Council on Foundations Corporate Committee.
Julie Sunderland is the director of program-related investments for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where she
manages investments and advises global health, global development and U.S. programs teams on innovative financial
mechanisms. Prior to joining the foundation, Sunderland led Oriane Consulting and advised foundations, development
finance institutions and governments on venture capital, SME financing and technical assistance programs. She has also
worked with private equity fund managers in Africa and Eastern Europe on investment strategies, portfolio management
and exits. She has published articles on private equity in emerging markets and is an alternate on the Millennium Challenge
Corporation Board. Sunderland holds a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the
University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Phillip Swagel is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, where he teaches classes on
international economics and is an academic fellow at the Center for Financial Policy at the university’s Robert H. Smith
School of Business. Swagel was assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department from December 2006
to January 2009. In that position, he served as a member of the TARP investment committee and advised Secretary
Paulson on all aspects of economic policy. He previously worked at the American Enterprise Institute, the White House
Council of Economic Advisers, the International Monetary Fund, and the Federal Reserve, and taught economics at
Northwestern University, the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and the McDonough School of Business at
Georgetown University. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in economics
from Harvard University.
Ian Swanson is vice president of product and partnerships at American Express. He oversees development of loyalty
programs and virtual currencies on a global scale across multiple consumer sectors. He previously served as CEO and
co-founder at Sometrics prior to its acquisition by American Express, where he led the company’s analytics, payments
and optimization platform expansion to online merchants worldwide. Under Swanson’s leadership, Sometrics launched
the industry’s first global virtual currency platform in 2008, helping publishers manage all virtual currency monetization
from multiple payment offerings. Today, the platform has more than 3.3 trillion units of virtual currency with a global reach
supporting 90 different payment options and serving an audience of 225 million gamers in 180 countries.
Alex Szewczyk is an analyst at BP Capital and a member of the firm’s investment committee. Szewczyk has been with
BP Capital’s Equity Fund since inception. He monitors domestic and international developments pertaining to energy and
energy-dependent sectors as well as identifies private equity investment opportunities for BP Capital.
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Steven Tananbaum is managing partner and chief investment officer of GoldenTree Asset Management. As a
founding partner and executive committee member, Tananbaum has been instrumental in building GoldenTree into an
organization with 21 partners, 179 employees and approximately $15 billion of assets under 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. Tananbaum
previously worked on high-yield transactions and mergers and acquisitions in the corporate finance department of Kidder,
Peabody & Co. He holds a B.A. in economics from Vassar College, where he serves as a trustee. A CFA charterholder, he is
a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Nandini Tandon is a member of the board of C21 BioVentures. A venture capital investor in Silicon Valley since
2002, Tandon has been closely involved with more than 12 new technology-based ventures. Five of them were acquired
within a few years of investment and several have become public companies. Her focus is on health-care and life science
investments. Until recently, Tandon was managing director at Lumira Capital. Prior to Lumira, Tandon was a partner with
RBC Capital Partner and launched RBC’s U.S. life science venture capital presence. She has held senior positions with
Zyomyx Inc., Hyseq Inc., Chiron Corp., Glaxo Wellcome and the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, where she
received a semiconductor patent. Tandon serves on the board of directors of two Silicon Valley companies, Spinal Kinetics
and U-Systems. She received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Duke University and her B.A. from Hollins University in Virginia.
Jeffrey Tarrant is CEO and co-chief investment officer of Protege Partners, a specialized asset management firm that
he co-founded in 2002 with Ted Seides. Protege focuses exclusively on investing in smaller hedge funds. Prior to Protege,
Tarrant managed institutional-size assets for private family fortunes in Europe and the U.S. since the late 1980s. He was
also member of the board of The Investment Fund for Foundations, the leading investment advisory firm for charitable
foundations and institutions. Tarrant founded Altvest, one of the hedge fund industry’s largest databases and analytic
systems, which is now a division of Morningstar, Inc. He is vice chairman of ARK US, the U.S. affiliate of Absolute Return for
Kids, an international charity for children. Tarrant holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business
and a B.A. in economics from the University of California, Davis.
Aaron Task is the host of The Daily Ticker at Yahoo Finance. Task is an award-winning reporter and producer who
decodes the often cryptic world of business and financial news. As host of The Daily Ticker, he offers insights on the most
important business stories of the day, including politics, the economy, investing, Wall Street, corporate leadership and
company earnings. He is also the host of Driven, a series on Yahoo News about America’s top emerging entrepreneurs
and small-business owners. Prior to joining Yahoo in 2008, he was editor-at-large at The Street.com, where he spent 10
years in a variety of roles, including San Francisco bureau chief. Task is the co-author of “Bailout Nation” and a sought-after
commentator on financial markets, economics, and related public policy. He is a frequent guest on Fox Business News,
MSNBC, ABC and “The John Batchelor Show,” among other national media outlets. Task is a graduate of Rutgers University.
Andrew Taylor is the executive vice president of Grand Challenges Canada, which focuses on bold ideas with big
impact in global health. Grand Challenges Canada is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of people in developing countries by integrating scientific/technological, business and social innovation. Taylor
is responsible for maximizing the organization’s operating performance and achieving its strategic goals. This includes
working closely with the CEO to develop strategic directions and to ensure the strategy is translated into practice. In
addition to directing the operational aspects of the organization, Taylor is also the lead of the Private Sector for Global
Health Development program of Grand Challenges Canada. This involves working closely with the chairman to develop the
strategy, forge the necessary partnerships and set a path forward in translating the pipeline of Grand Challenges Canada,
through integrated innovation, into commercial products.
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Michael Taylor is a member of the Financial Stability Board Secretariat at the Bank of International Settlements and
an internationally recognized authority on financial regulation. Previously Taylor worked with the Bank of England, the
International Monetary Fund, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and, most recently, the Central Bank of Bahrain, where
he was advisor to the governor. Among his numerous publications are the seminal “Twin Peaks” paper (1995) and the
textbook “Global Bank Regulation” (2010). He has also contributed to leading periodicals and specialist journals. He was
educated at Oxford University, where he earned his doctorate.
Gillian Tett is U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times, leading the editorial development of the newspaper’s U.S.
edition and of U.S. news on FT.com. Previously, Tett was assistant editor responsible for the Financial Times’ markets
coverage and Tokyo Bureau chief. She was named Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008)
by the British Press Awards and Senior Financial Journalist of the Year (2007) by the Wincott Awards. Tett is the author of
the New York Times best-seller “Fool’s Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and
Unleashed a Catastrophe,” published in May 2009. “Fool’s Gold” won Financial Book of the Year honors at the inaugural
Spear’s Book Awards. She holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from Cambridge University based on fieldwork in the
former Soviet Union.
Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine, where he writes a blog about economic policy and
edits the website’s coverage of business. He is a former visiting research fellow at the Committee for a Responsible Federal
Budget at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C. Thompson has written for Slate, BusinessWeek and the Daily
Beast. He has appeared as a guest on numerous radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC and MSNBC.
Kirsten Saenz Tobey is co-founder and chief innovation officer of Revolution Foods. She began her career as
an educator and coordinator of experiential education programs at Phillips Academy in Massachusetts and Amigos de
las Americas in Ecuador. Her passion for community health led her to run a public health campaign for Earthjustice.
Prior to graduate school, Tobey managed field station operations for the School for Field Studies in Mexico that focused
on studying the environmental and socioeconomic impacts of the fishing industry. While writing the business plan for
Revolution Foods, she worked with the U.N. Hunger Task Force to evaluate the scalability of school meal programs in Ghana
and with McDonald’s Corp. to incorporate social and environmental responsibility into its supply chain. An Aspen Institute
for Environmental Leaders Catto Fellow, she and her co-founder were named NewSchools Venture Fund’s Entrepreneurs
of the Year in 2010. In 2007, Tobey won the Global Social Venture Competition for the Revolution Foods model.
Eric Topol is director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, chief academic officer of Scripps Health and
professor of genomics at The Scripps Research Institute. He has more than 1,100 original peer-reviewed publications, and
has edited more than 30 books, including his first book for consumers, “The Creative Destruction of Medicine.” He has
been an innovator in wireless medicine and is a co-founder and vice chairman of the West Wireless Health Institute. In 2011,
the University of Michigan initiated the Eric Topol Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine to recognize his contributions,
and the University of Rochester awarded him the Hutchinson Medal, the university’s highest honor. Topol was named one
of the “100 Most Influential People in Healthcare” in 2011. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National
Academy of Sciences and is one of the 10 most cited researchers in medicine.
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Mead Treadwell was elected Alaska’s lieutenant governor in 2010. He is committed to helping Gov. Sean Parnell
strengthen the state economy by filling the Trans Alaska Pipeline System, seeing a pipeline get gas to Alaskans and
markets beyond, bringing affordable energy to the state and securing access to natural resources. President Bush
appointed Treadwell to the U.S. Arctic Research Commission in 2001, and Treadwell became the commission’s chair in
2006. Under his leadership, a new Arctic policy was developed and adopted by the White House and is being implemented
by President Obama’s administration. Treadwell was the director of oil spill response for Cordova, Alaska, during the Exxon
Valdez crisis. He served as Gov. Wally Hickel’s deputy commissioner for the Department of Environmental Conservation,
where he helped to develop Alaska’s oil spill regulations and established the environmental crime unit for the state. As an
entrepreneur and investor, he helped launch a series of technology, manufacturing and service companies.
Bobby Turner is chairman, CEO and co-founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors (CCRA) and a partner of Canyon
Partners, with $18 billion in assets under management. Turner, who oversees CCRA’s real estate debt and equity investments,
and has been a pioneer in “triple bottom line” investing, a philosophy of providing sound returns for investors, fostering
opportunities for residents and embracing environmental responsibility. These investments include the Canyon-Johnson
Urban Funds, a joint venture with Earvin (Magic) Johnson focusing on inner-city and urban real estate development and
the Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund, a joint venture with Andre Agassi. Turner sits on the boards of the
Virginia Avenue Project, Pacific Charter School Development Corp. and Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. He is a
member of the Pension Real Estate Association and the Urban Land Institute. He received a B.S. from the Wharton School
of the University of Pennsylvania, where he sits on the Undergraduate Executive Board of Advisors.
Bart Turtelboom is co-head of global emerging markets and a member of the Senior Management Advisory Group
at GLG Partners in London. Prior to joining GLG, he was a managing director and global co-head of emerging markets at
Morgan Stanley. He has also been a proprietary trader at Vega Asset Management in Madrid; director of the Institutional
Client Group at Deutsche Bank; and an economist at the International Monetary Fund from 1994 until 1998. The recipient
of several awards and fellowships, he is the author of numerous research papers, including for Deutsche Bank and the IMF.
He holds an M.A., M.Phil and Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University; a graduate diploma in international economics
from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy; and bachelor’s degrees in
economics and philosophy from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
Nerijus Udrenas has served as chief advisor to the president of Lithuania since 2009. His responsibilities include
advising the president on the macroeconomic situation nationally and internationally, studying the potential economic
effects of the president’s initiatives and monitoring the economic regulatory environment. He also served as an advisor to
the president from 2004 to 2008. In addition to his government service, Udrenas has served as senior economist to the
Lithuanian bank SEB; financial analyst at ABN Amro Bank, based in Amsterdam; and as a professor at Mykolas Riomeris
University and the International School of Management, both in Vilnius. Udrenas is a graduate of Vilnius University and
received a Ph.D. in comparative history from Brandeis University, an M.B.A. from the Rotterdam School of Management at
Erasmus University in the Netherlands and an M.A. from Central European University in Hungary.
Steven Udvar-Hazy is chairman and CEO of Air Lease Corp. His experience in the aviation industry dates to 1973,
when he co-founded the aircraft-leasing business that became International Lease Finance Corp. (ILFC). As chairman and
CEO, Udvar-Hazy led ILFC to its initial public offering in 1983 and subsequent sale to American International Group for
$1.3 billion in 1990, and ultimately to its becoming the largest aircraft leasing company (by fleet value) in the world, with
over 1,000 jet aircraft. Under Udvar-Hazy’s leadership, ILFC was able to increase its profitability. Even during the recent
recession, ILFC’s income before taxes increased from $1.1 billion in 2008 to $1.4 billion in 2009, the last year of his tenure
as CEO. Udvar-Hazy retired from ILFC in 2010 with a view to exploring other opportunities in the industry. For the past 24
years, Udvar-Hazy has been a member of the board of directors of Skywest Inc. He has over 30 years of experience flying
jet aircraft. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics from UCLA.
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Dennis Urbaniak is vice president, U.S. Diabetes for Sanofi U.S., where he currently is responsible for the U.S. business
unit operations for diabetes products and services and also serves as a member of the leadership team for the Sanofi
global diabetes division. Prior to this role, Urbaniak has held positions such as the vice president of Innovation and New
Customer Channels and vice president US Lovenox Marketing. He joined Sanofi in 1994 and has held various positions
within marketing, sales operations, sales management and sales. Urbaniak also serves as a member of the Monmouth
University School of Science Advisory Council, chairman of the executive council for the Center for Healthcare Innovation,
a senior fellow for the Jefferson School of Public Health, a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Telecommunications
and E-Commerce Committee, and a member of the Med Ad News editorial board.
Darren Van’t Hof is director of renewable energy investments for US Bank, a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bancorp.
Van’t Hof executes internal and external renewable energy policy initiatives for US Bank. Through those initiatives, US Bank
has invested more than $800 million in renewable energy throughout the U.S. The company’s tax equity investing activities
are conducted through the U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corp., which has been recognized as a pioneering effort
in community development projects. Van’t Hof previously held positions in affordable housing, new markets tax credit and
asset management. His background includes real estate development, asset management and structured finance. Van’t
Hof received a B.A. in political science from the University of Missouri.
Chris Varma is founder, president and CEO of Blueprint Medicines. He has also been entrepreneur-in-residence at
Third Rock Ventures since 2010, bringing with him experience as an entrepreneur and an investor in the pharmaceutical
and biotechnology industries. Previously, Varma was a partner at Flagship Ventures, where he also served as the president,
CEO and director of Selventa (formerly Genstruct, Inc.), a Flagship portfolio company. He previously oversaw efforts
spanning clinical development, business development, and sales and marketing at Novartis AG. Most recently, Varma was
director on Tekturna (aliskiren). Prior to Novartis, he was a consultant for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, and before that
worked for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Varma holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the Harvard-MIT
Division of Health Sciences & Technology, an M.S. in management from Stanford University, and both an M.S. and B.S. in
computer science from Stanford.
Leila Velez is the co-founder and CEO of Beleza Natural, a chain of Brazilian beauty institutes and provider of haircare products. Beleza’s 11 beauty institutes serve up to 1,000 clients a day, and the company boasts yearly revenue growth
of about 30 percent. It performs R&D and product development at its factory and through partnerships with universities.
Beleza’s next step is the North American market. In 2005, Velez was named an Endeavor Entrepreneur by the nonprofit
Endeavor, which assists high-impact entrepreneurs in emerging markets. In addition, Beleza Natural was featured by Voce
SA magazine as one of its “Entrepreneurs of New Brazil.” Velez is co-author of the book “Success Stories From the Small
and Medium Enterprises.” She has lectured on entrepreneurship throughout Brazil and in the U.S., Portugal, Argentina,
Chile and Uruguay. Velez holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with a specialty in marketing from Escola
Superior de Propaganda e Marketing and an executive MBA from Coppead, both in Rio de Janeiro.
John Veroneau is a partner at Covington & Burling LLP and co-chairs the firm’s International Trade and Investment
Practice Group. He served as deputy U.S. trade representative and as that office’s USTR’s general counsel. In these
capacities, the ambassador negotiated trade and investment agreements, oversaw World Trade Organization (WTO)
litigation and responded to foreign trade barriers. Veroneau also served in the Clinton administration as an assistant
secretary of defense and held a number of senior staff positions in the U.S. Senate, including legislative director to Sen. Bill
Cohen and Majority Leader Bill Frist.
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Chris Viehbacher is CEO of Sanofi as well as a member of its board and Strategy Committee. After beginning
his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, he acquired broad international experience in Europe, the U.S. and Canada with
GlaxoSmithKline. In his last position, Viehbacher was president of pharmaceutical operations in North America, a member
of the board and co-chairman of the Portfolio Management Board. He is currently chairman of Genzyme and chairman
of PhRMA in the United States. He also chairs the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, which brings together U.S. employers to
develop workplace initiatives that reduce the risk of cancer, enable early diagnosis, and hasten the discovery of novel and
more effective diagnostic tools and anti-cancer therapies. More than 120 organizations are now members, covering nearly
3 million employees. Viehbacher, who lived in France for nine years, was made a knight of the French Legion of Honor in
2003. A certified public accountant, he is a graduate of Queen’s University in Ontario.
Ted Virtue is CEO of MidOcean Partners, a mid-market 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 DB 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. Previously, he was a senior vice president at Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he ran the highyield commercial paper division. Virtue is a graduate of Middlebury College.
Barry Volpert is managing partner of Crestview Partners, which he co-founded in 2004 after 18 years at Goldman
Sachs. Volpert has been responsible for over $6 billion of private equity investments in more than 40 companies from
1989 to 2011 at Goldman and Crestview. He specializes in complex and contrarian investment themes arising out of major
dislocations or restructurings. Notable investments include Goldman’s acquisitions of USG, Rockefeller Center, Messer
Greisheim and Kabel Deutschland; and Crestview’s investments in Charter, Lancashire and Oxbow. Volpert currently serves
as a director of Key Safety Systems, Oxbow and ValueOptions. He is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard
Law School, a director of the Private Equity and Growth Capital Council and an elected council member of the Sagaponack
Village Erosion Control District. From 1981 to 1982, he was a Luce Scholar in Singapore working for the Straits Times.
Volpert received an M.B.A. and law degree from Harvard and an A.B. from Amherst College.
David Wallerstein is senior executive vice president of Tencent. A U.S. native with 20 years of experience living
and working in China and Japan, he is responsible for Tencent’s international strategic initiatives. Prior to joining Tencent
in 2000, Wallerstein was vice president of business development at MIH Asia, overseeing its entry strategy into China’s
Internet sector. Before MIH, Wallerstein was a management consultant based in Shanghai and Beijing, working primarily
with Fortune 500 companies. He has a master’s degree in political economy from the University of California, Berkeley,
and a bachelor’s degree from the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle. He is
proficient in Mandarin and Japanese.
Gerry Wang is CEO, co-chairman and co-founder of Seaspan Corp., an independent owner of container ships.
Seaspan’s fleet consists of 76 container vessels with an asset value of approximately $7 billion. Wang spearheaded
Seaspan’s container ship business in 1999 amid economic hard times. In 2005, he successfully took Seaspan’s container
ship business public, and he was subsequently appointed CEO and director of the newly founded public company, Seaspan
Corp. The offering was the largest shipping IPO in North American history. Wang holds a bachelor’s degree in navigation
from Shanghai Maritime University and a master’s degree in international economics and management from a program
sponsored by United Nations’ Economic and Social Commission of Asia Pacific. In 1993 he obtained an M.B.A. from the
University of British Columbia.
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David Warren is the CEO and chief investment officer of DW Investment Management, which he founded in 2009.
He was a partner and CEO of Brevan Howard U.S. Asset Management from 2008 until he launched DWIM. Before joining
Brevan Howard, Warren spent 13 years at Morgan Stanley. As a managing director, he ran various groups, including
Mortgage Capital Markets, Mortgage Trading and Securitized Products (Americas), and later built a new proprietary
trading group for corporate credit. Previously, Warren was at Credit Suisse First Boston from 1987 to 1994, rising to the
rank of managing director. While his primary responsibilities were in mortgage trading, he also headed a new fixed-income
product development team. Warren served on the Bond Market Association from 1998 to 2002 and as chairman in 2000.
He also sat on the board of ISDA from 2006 to 2007. He is a patron of the Metropolitan Opera and on the board of The
Cooke Center. He has a B.S. in computer science from Yale University.
Kevin Warsh is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a lecturer at the Graduate School of
Business at Stanford University. Warsh was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from
February 2006 until April 2011. He was the Fed’s representative to the Group of 20 and the board’s emissary to the
emerging and advanced economies in Asia. In addition, he was administrative governor, managing and overseeing the
board’s operations, personnel and financial performance. From 2002 to 2006, Warsh served as special assistant to the
president for economic policy and executive secretary of the White House National Economic Council. Previously, he was
a member of the mergers and acquisitions department at Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York, serving as vice president and
executive director. Warsh holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a law degree from Harvard University.
Phyllis Washington, the owner of Maison Felice-Phyllis Washington Antiques in Palm Springs, Calif., is chairwoman
of the Dennis and Phyllis Washington Foundation, the major philanthropic organization for The Washington Cos. and
the Washington family. The foundation has provided hundreds of scholarships for higher education and is now funding
a graduate scholarship program. Washington received a degree in education from the University of Montana and taught
elementary school for six years before leaving to raise her sons. Now new educators will be trained in the latest technology
and methods at her alma mater’s 27,000-square-foot Phyllis J. Washington Education Center. In 2011, the university
recognized her leadership with the renamed Phyllis J. Washington College of Education and Human Sciences. She is the
first recipient of the university’s Phyllis J. Washington Award and the Neil S. Bucklew Presidential Service Award. A member
of the International Women’s Forum, Washington was the Montana Woman of the Year in 2007.
Joanne Weiss is chief of staff to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. She joined the department in 2009 to
serve as his senior advisor and as director of the $4.35 billion Race to the Top program, designed to encourage and reward
states for systemwide, comprehensive education reforms. Prior to joining the administration, Weiss was a partner and
chief operating officer at NewSchools Venture Fund, where she focused on investments and management assistance
for a variety of charter management organizations, human capital solution providers, and academic tools and systems
designers. Prior to her work at NewSchools, she spent 20 years as CEO or vice president of curriculum and technology for
companies providing technology-based products and services to underserved students in K-12 and higher education.
A C Wharton Jr. is the 63rd mayor of Memphis, Tenn. After years of teaching, private practice, and public service as
the executive director of Memphis Area Legal Services and Shelby County’s chief public defender, he was elected the first
African-American Shelby County mayor in 2002 and re-elected in 2006. During this time, he developed the county’s first
financial plan and decreased its long-term debt, reduced the county payroll, increased efficiency and raised taxes only
once in seven years. In 2009, he was elected mayor of Memphis with 61 percent of the vote in a field of 25 candidates. Since
he has taken office, Memphis has achieved a record number of “firsts” that have reduced crime, improved city services,
enhanced the quality of life and created new good-paying jobs for Memphians. Wharton was re-elected in 2011 to a full
four-year term.
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John Williams is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. He joined the bank as a research
advisor in 2002, was named senior vice president and advisor in 2004, and has served as executive vice president and
director of research since 2009. Williams has collaborated with economists in the United States and across the globe to
examine economic and policy issues from different perspectives and has published numerous articles in leading research
journals. He currently acts as the managing editor of the International Journal of Central Banking. Williams earned his Ph.D.
in economics from Stanford University, an M.S. from the London School of Economics and an A.B. from the University of
California at Berkeley.
Mark Wiseman is executive vice president of investments for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. He is
responsible for managing public market, private market and real estate investments. Prior to this role, he was senior vice
president of private investments. On July 1, he will become president and CEO of the CPP Investment Board. Before joining
the CPP, he was responsible for the private equity fund and co-investment program at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
Previously, Wiseman was a lawyer with Sullivan & Cromwell in New York and Paris. He also served as a law clerk to Canadian
Supreme Court Justice Beverley McLachlin. Wiseman sits on the board of several nonprofit organizations, including Mount
Sinai Hospital in Toronto and Right to Play International. He is a certified member of the Canadian Institute of Corporate
Directors. He holds a B.A. from Queen’s University, a law degree and an M.B.A. from the University of Toronto, and a
master’s degree in law from Yale University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
James Lee Witt is the chairman and founder of Witt Associates and a former director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency. Based in Washington, D.C., Witt Associates provides disaster recovery and mitigation management
services to state and local governments, educational institutions, the international community and corporations. Witt is an
advisor to the state of Louisiana, assisting with the long-term recovery in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He
has over 25 years of disaster management experience, culminating in his appointment to head FEMA, where he served
from 1993 to 2001. After the devastating Midwest floods of 1993, Witt pursued a program to buy flood-prone property. By
acquiring properties that were repeatedly flooded, he saved taxpayers millions of dollars when floods again ravaged that
area in 1995. In 2003-2006, Witt was CEO of the International Code Council, a 50,000-member association that develops
the safety codes used to construct residential and commercial buildings, including homes and schools.
Susan Wolford is managing director and group head of the Business and Educational Services Group at BMO Capital
Markets. She has been an investment banker for over 25 years, leading a variety of financing and merger-and-acquisition
transactions across many industry groups. For the past 12 years, she has focused on the educational services industry,
working with pre-K-12, post-secondary and lifelong learning companies. Prior to joining BMO, Wolford worked at First
Union, where she co-headed the Educational Services Group. Previously she was a partner and senior vice president in
the Media and Entertainment Group of Kidder, Peabody & Co. She has served on the boards of a number of educational
institutions, including the Dean’s Advisory Council of Villanova School of Business and the Investment Committee of The
Pennington School. Wolford is a graduate of Villanova University and received a master’s degree in international affairs
from Columbia University, where she was named an International Fellow.
Perry Wong is the director of research at the Milken Institute. He is an expert on regional economics, development
and econometric forecasting. He 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, including regional
economic development in southern China, Taiwan and elsewhere in Asia. His most recent research has focused on economic
issues for California, including pension shortfalls and debunking the myth that high-skilled workers are leaving the state.
Wong is in his second stint at the Institute; he was senior vice president and senior economist for economic strategy at City
National Bank from March 2011 to April 2012. Previously he was a senior economist and director of regional forecasting at
Global Insight Inc. Wong received a master’s degree in economics from Temple University.
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David Wood is director of the Initiative for Responsible Investment, a project of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit
Organizations at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he is also an adjunct lecturer in public policy. He directs research
and field-building work on responsible investment across asset classes, and currently manages projects on responsible
investment strategy with pension fund trustees, mission investing by foundations, the changing landscape of community
investing in the United States, and impact investing and public policy. Prior to joining the IRI, he taught the History of
Ethics, including the History of Economic Thought and Human Rights, at Boston University. He holds a Ph.D. in history from
The Johns Hopkins University and serves on the board of US SIF: The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment.
Raymond Wood is a managing director of Credit Suisse, head of the U.S. Power and Renewables Group and global
head of the alternative energy practice. Over his 22-year career, Wood has assisted clients on noteworthy strategic
transactions and financings, a number of which have been awarded “Deal of the Year” honors. He has expertise across
the spectrum of mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, leveraged finance, structured finance, commodities and
privatizations. Among his most noteworthy transactions are advising Next Era in its divestiture of five natural gas-fired
generating stations for approximately $1.4 billion; being lead manager for the $700 million Genesis Solar Project nonrecourse secured notes (DOE loan guarantee); being lead manager for several wind power corporate financings including
Invenergy, Terra Gen and First Wind; and the sale of two Energy Capital Partners portfolio companies, Next Light and First
Light. Wood holds an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
Tom Wyatt is CEO of Knowledge Universe-U.S., the nation’s largest private provider of early childhood education and
care and the parent company of the KinderCare, CCLC, Champions, Knowledge Beginnings, Cambridge Schools and The
Grove School brands. Most recently, Wyatt served at Gap Inc. as president of GapBody (beginning in 2006) and president
of Old Navy (beginning in 2008), overseeing all aspects of the brand. Prior to Gap Inc., Wyatt was president and CEO of
Cutter & Buck. He served as president of Warnaco Intimate Apparel and spent more than 20 years in positions at Vanity
Fair Corp., including president of Vanity Fair Intimates and Vanity Fair Intimates Coalition. Additionally, Wyatt served on the
board of Gap Foundation and Juma Ventures, two organizations focused on education. He is also a board member of Jack
in the Box Inc.
Glenn Yago is the senior research fellow at the Milken Institute and senior director of its Israel Center. The founder
of the Institute’s Financial Innovations Labs, he is an authority on capital markets, emerging markets and environmental
finance. Yago is a recipient of the Gleitsman Foundation Award of Achievement for social change. His work focuses on
fostering innovative financial policies, programs and instruments to solve economic development, social, environmental
and health challenges, and increasing capital access for traditionally underserved markets. The director of the acclaimed
Koret-Milken Institute Fellows Program, he is a visiting professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Hebrew University’s Graduate
School of Business and a fellow of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Financial Institutions Center. His latest books
are “Financing the Future” and “Fixing the Housing Market.” Yago is co-editor of the Wharton School-Milken Institute
Series on Financial Innovation. He holds Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Andrey Yakunin is a co-founding partner of VIY Management LLP, responsible for private equity growth capital
and real estate investment platforms for Russia with more than US$400 million in assets under management. With more
than 15 years of experience in international business operations, consulting and commercial real estate, Yakunin manages
assets in Russia’s leading hotel and multi-use real estate projects; runs the team specializing in consumer-driven industries,
B2B services and industrial production; and serves on the boards of several enterprises. Previously, he worked in various
financial consultancy, strategic development and tax planning roles involving such teams as Rocco Forte’s New Hotel
Group, MCD-Pannell Kerr Forster and Europe Management-Invest. Yakunin, who has served as an associate professor,
holds an M.A. in economics and mathematics, a Ph.D. in finance and credit from St. Petersburg State University and a joint
M.B.A. from the London Business School and Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
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Elanna Yalow is CEO of Knowledge Universe Early Learning Programs. She serves as professor of early childhood
education at the Asian International College in Singapore. She also been a lecturer at California State University, Long
Beach. Yalow has published in the Annual Review of Health Promotion and Education, Journal of Allergy and Clinical
Immunology, Educational Researcher, Handbook of Human Intelligence, Contemporary Education Review, and Personnel
Psychology, among others. She has spoken on issues related to children at numerous international and national conferences,
including the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the Education Writers Association, Parenting
Magazine’s Mom Congress, the Hechinger Institute Seminars on Education and the Media, the World Forum on Early Care
and Education and NBC’s 2011 Education Nation Summit. Yalow holds a Ph.D. and an M.B.A. from Stanford and a B.A. in
psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Russ Yarrow is general manager for corporate affairs at Chevron Corp. He is responsible for corporate marketing,
executive communications and California corporate affairs. Prior to joining Chevron, he was senior vice president of global
corporate relations at Visa International. Before that, he managed the corporate practice at Ketchum. From 1988 to 1997,
Yarrow held a variety of senior corporate communications positions at Bank of America, including leading communications
and stakeholder engagement for its CRA-related initiatives and BofA Community Development Bank. He has been a guest
lecturer at professional functions and has served in senior positions at several nonprofits, including the Commonwealth
Club (where he is currently on the Board of Governors), the San Francisco Global Trade Council and the Northern California
Golf Association. An award-winning former journalist, he majored in journalism at San Diego State University and is a fellow
of the San Francisco Academy, a graduate-level public relations seminar.
Iris Yedidia is a researcher and group leader for agricultural microbiology and biotechnology at the Agricultural
Research Organization of Israel’s Ministry of Agriculture, specializing in the physiology of flower bulbs and the involvement
of natural products in plant resistance to bacteria. She is a leading researcher on aquatic plants that are suitable for water
reclamation and their role in artificial wetlands as assimilators of pollutants. Yedidia has initiated a collaboration with high
schools to educate young people on the importance of water quality and the preservation of natural water resources.
Yedidia holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Haifa University and a Ph.D. in agricultural microbiology from the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, and has performed post-doctoral research at the Weizmann Institute of Science in the field of
molecular genetics. Yedidia has numerous publications in the field and is editing the first practical guidebook for flower
bulbs in Hebrew.
Jessica Yellin is CNN’s chief White House correspondent, a position she has held since June 2011. Yellin previously
served as national political correspondent, covering politics, policy and culture for CNN programs including “The Situation
Room with Wolf Blitzer” and “John King, USA.” Yellin joined CNN as a Capitol Hill correspondent in 2007. Her reporting
has been prominently featured during CNN’s 2012 coverage of key primary elections and caucuses. During the network’s
Peabody Award-winning coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, she traveled throughout battleground states to
cover some of the most high-profile races and conduct interviews with the candidates. In 2010, she won a Gracie Award
for her reporting on the intersection of women and politics. Prior to CNN, Yellin was a White House correspondent for ABC
News, reporting for programs including “World News,” “Good Morning America” and “Nightline.” Yellin is a graduate of
Harvard University.
Kneeland Youngblood is a founding partner of Pharos Capital Group, a private equity firm that focuses on
providing growth and expansion capital to businesses in health care, business services and opportunistic investments. He
is a director of Starwood Hotels and Lodging, Gap Inc. and Energy Future Holdings Corp. (formerly TXU) and is a former
director of Burger King Corp. Youngblood graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in politics/science
in human affairs and earned a medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. He is a member
of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Ksenia Yudaeva is the head of the Macroeconomic Research Center of Sberbank, the largest Russian commercial
bank. Her responsibilities include covering macroeconomic development analysis and risks and providing relevant reports
to the top management of the bank, investors and the general public. She also holds the position of deputy head of the
expert committee at the Russia Government Committee on Enhancing Resilience of the Russian Economy. As a member
of the committee she advises the government on policy issues related to the global financial and economic situation. Prior
to joining Sberbank, Yudaeva worked for several Russian think tanks, including the Center for Strategic Research (the
major think tank advising the Ministry of Economy) and the Moscow Carnegie Center (the Moscow arm of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace). She has written numerous articles that have appeared in the Russian press and
publications in Russian and international academic journals and conference volumes.
Mark Yusko is the co-founder, CEO and chief investment officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management. Prior to forming
Morgan Creek, he was president, CIO and founder of UNC Management Company, the endowment investment office for
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. With $1.5 billion of investments under management, he was responsible for
strategic and tactical asset allocation recommendations, investment manager selection, manager performance evaluation,
spending policy management and performance reporting. Previously, Yusko was the senior investment director for the
University of Notre Dame Investment Office. He is an Investment Committee member of the Weaver Foundation and
MCNC Endowment, a member of the DukeEngage National Advisory Board, president and chairman of The HesburghYusko Scholars Foundation at Notre Dame, and president and head of the Investment Committee of the Morgan Creek
Foundation. Yusko holds a B.S. from Notre Dame and an M.B.A. in accounting and finance from the University of Chicago.
Mike “Zappy” Zapolin is the co-founder of SocialExtract, a cloud-based technology that helps companies
embrace social media as a marketing and customer service medium. SocialExtract allows marketing and PR teams to
deploy hundreds or thousands of agents to talk to customers and prospects. Zapolin is the visionary behind such Internet
brands as Music.com, Beer.com, Computer.com, Creditcards.com, Debt.com, Diamond.com, PrescriptionDrugs.com, Silver.
com, Arbitration.com and Mediation.com. He has been featured multiple times on NBC’s “Today Show” and other major
media outlets. Zapolin is the creator of the Harvard Business School elective “eBusiness” and was recently a speaker at The
Economist Magazine’s “Global Branding” conference” in Shanghai. He began his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert, later
becoming one of the youngest vice presidents in the 100-year history of investment bank Bear Stearns. After leaving to
start his own direct marketing company, Z.T.V., he and Deepak Chopra co-authored “Ask the Kabala.” Visit www.zappy.com.
Steven Zecher is the project director for regional development and finance research at the Milken Institute Israel
Center. He focuses on financing strategies with an emphasis on public-private-philanthropic structures. Zecher has
extensive experience in urban and regional development policy, project finance strategies, small-business and real estate
lending, feasibility studies, fiscal impact analysis, market studies and business valuations, and economic development.
Since moving to Israel in 2003, Zecher has been developing business expansion projects, joint business ventures between
Arabs and Israelis in Jerusalem, joint planning and infrastructure and environmental projects among communities of Arab
and Jewish Israelis, and regional industrial policy research. Zecher holds a bachelor’s degree in politics from Brandeis
University and a master’s degree in urban planning from the University of Pittsburgh.
Betsy Zeidman is a senior fellow at the Milken Institute, with expertise in impact investing, community development
finance, corporate governance and strategic philanthropy, and an executive fellow at the USC Center for Communication
Technology Management. She consults with investment funds and organizations on building and growing sustainable
investment programs that generate positive financial and social returns. She previously served as the inaugural director
of the RFK Compass Program at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. Earlier, Zeidman served
as director of the Milken Institute’s Center for Emerging Domestic Markets. Before joining the Milken Institute, Zeidman
provided management and advisory services to clients in the public, private and nonprofit sectors, with a specialty in
corporate responsibility and financial performance. She received her bachelor’s degree and her M.B.A. from Yale University.
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Sam Zell is chairman of Equity Group Investments, which he founded more than 40 years ago. His investments span
continents and industries, including real estate, energy, logistics, transportation, media and health care. He is recognized
as a founding father of today’s public real estate industry after creating three of the largest REITs in history. He is also cofounder and chairman of Equity International, a private investment firm focused on companies outside the U.S. Zell is the
chairman of five other public companies as well as Tribune Co., a private media conglomerate. Zell serves on the JPMorgan
National Advisory Board; the President’s Advisory Board at the University of Michigan, his alma mater; and the Visitor’s
Committee at Michigan’s Law School. He established the Zell/Lurie Entrepreneurial Center with the University of Michigan
Business School and endowed the Samuel Zell/Robert Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania as well as the Northwestern University Center for Risk Management.
James Zelter is managing partner of Apollo Capital Management and CEO of Apollo Investment Corp. Zelter, who
joined the firm in 2006, directs Apollo’s multibillion-dollar capital markets business. Apollo Investment’s portfolio is
principally in middle-market private companies. The company invests primarily in mezzanine loans, senior secured loans
and the equity of portfolio companies. Prior to Apollo, Zelter was with Citigroup and its predecessor companies from
1994 to 2006. Most recently, he was responsible for the global expansion and strong financial performance of the Special
Situations Investment Group, a proprietary investment group he founded within Citigroup’s Fixed Income Division. Before
joining Citigroup, Zelter was a high-yield trader at Goldman Sachs. He is a board member of DUMAC, the investment
management company that oversees the Duke Endowment and Duke Foundation. Zelter has a degree in economics from
Duke University.
Elias Zerhouni is president for global research and development and a member of the Executive Committee for
Sanofi. Before assuming this role, Zerhouni was a scientific advisor to the company and played an instrumental role in
redesigning the Sanofi R&D model to foster increased innovation through scientific networks. At Johns Hopkins University
and Hospital, he was professor of radiology and biomedical engineering. He served as director of the National Institutes
of Health from 2002 to 2008. In that position he oversaw the NIH’s 27 institutes and centers with more than 18,000
employees and a budget of $29.5 billion (2008). In November 2009, President Obama appointed Zerhouni as one of the
first presidential science envoys. Zerhouni has founded or co-founded five start-up companies, authored more than 200
publications and holds eight patents. He is a senior fellow of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and a trustee of the Mayo
Clinic. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
David Zervos is managing director and chief market strategist at Jefferies & Co. Inc. He is known for his provocative
market strategy and views; his current presentation, “Fed Reflation vs. European Detonation,” has received notable
attention. Zervos joined Jefferies in 2010 after spending 2009 as a visiting advisor in the Division of Monetary Affairs at the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. Prior to the Fed, he held a variety of research, sales
and trading positions in the private sector, most recently managing global macro portfolios for Brevan Howard and UBS
O’Connor. He began his career as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in the early 1990s. He received a B.Sc. from
Washington University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Rochester.
George Zimmer is founder and executive chairman of the Men’s Wearhouse. Zimmer opened the first location in
1973 in Houston, Texas. The company now operates over 1,200 stores with more than $2 billion in sales. A Fortune 1000
company, the Men’s Wearhouse is the largest retailer of men’s tailored suits, dress casual clothing and tuxedo rentals in
the U.S. and Canada. Zimmer attributes much of the company’s success to his “servant leadership” corporate culture.
He emphasizes core corporate values of collective trust, honesty, respect, integrity, authenticity, celebration, good will
and caring for each other along with other essential principles like hard work, accountability, loyalty and commitment to
customer service. The resulting high-quality work environment inspires employees to deliver a shopping experience that
enables Zimmer to say “I guarantee it” in the company’s advertisements. The Men’s Wearhouse has appeared 11 times on
Fortune’s list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.”
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Rhonda Zygocki is executive vice president for policy and planning at Chevron Corp., a position she has held since
2011. Her responsibilities include strategy and planning, policy, government and public affairs, and health, environment
and safety. Previously, Zygocki served as vice president of policy, government and public affairs and vice president of
health, environment and safety. Zygocki played a key role in design and implementation of the company’s operational
excellence management system. She joined Chevron Canada Resources as a petroleum engineer in 1980. Over the course
of her career, Zygocki assumed positions of increasing responsibility, including managing director of Chevron Australia,
advisor to the chairman of the board, manager of strategic planning, chief financial officer of Chevron Canada Resources,
profit center manager for Chevron U.S.A. and general manager of strategic business services for Chevron Canada. Zygocki
earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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Sports Authority
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Nart Charuworn
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Senior Finance Fellow
Melissa Bauman
Editor
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Senior Economist
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Executive Assistant
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Communications Director,
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Director, Government Affairs
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Director, Israel Center
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Research Intern
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Senior Economist
Yu (Lydia) Liu
Research Intern
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Database Assistant
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Prabha
Economist
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Senior Editor
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Caitlin MacLean
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Skip Rimer
Samantha Mayberry
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Jorge Velasco
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Elizabeth West
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Program Manager, FasterCures
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Teresa Whang
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Program Development Associate
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Research Analyst
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Perry Wong
Communications Consultant
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Director of Research
Joshua Nimmo
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Associate Director, Marketing
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Associate Director of Programs
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Howard Soule
Senior Fellow
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Executive Vice President
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Prostate Cancer Foundation
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Kevin Murphy
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Special Counsel to Sedgwick LLP
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George J. Stigler Distinguished
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University of Chicago
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Georgetown University
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Research Professor,
Institute for Social Research,
University of Michigan
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Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology
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Professor Emeritus, UCLA
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Senior Fellow
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Policy Studies, Harris School,
Senior Fellow
Professor, University of Maryland
Triphon Phumiwasana
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Visiting Fellow
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Management, Thai
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Isidore and Gladys J. Brown
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Richard Sandor
William Frey
Komal Sri-Kumar
Senior Fellow
Group Managing Director
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Trust Company of the West
Senior Fellow
Chairman and CEO, Environmental
Financial Products LLC
Jonathan Simons
Senior Fellow
President and CEO,
Prostate Cancer Foundation
Frank Song
Visiting Fellow
Founding Director, Centre
for Financial Research,
University of Hong Kong
Andrew von Eschenbach
Senior Fellow
President, Samaritan
Health Initiatives Inc.;
former FDA Commissioner
Betsy Zeidman
Senior Fellow
Executive Fellow,
USC Center for
Communication Technology
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