Eric Adler
Eric Adler is the co-founder and Managing Director
of the SEED Foundation, Inc., an organization devoted to bringing outstanding
educational opportunities to under served inner city communities. The
Foundation's first project is the SEED School of Washington, D.C., the
nation's only public access college prep boarding school for inner city
children. Along with SEED’s co-founder Raj Vinnakota, Eric has
been involved in every facet of the planning and development of the
SEED School, including designing the educational program, hiring key
staff, raising more than $24 million in private donations, lobbying
the federal and D.C. governments for $9 million in annual operating
funding, floating more than $14 million in tax free bond financing,
and developing the School's 19 acre campus to serve 300 students. Now
in its eighth year of operation, the SEED School has already seen impressive
academic and social gains in its students, and the School’s first
two graduating classes have earned 100% rates of admission to colleges
including Princeton, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Ohio Wesleyan, Howard,
American, Spelman, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, and many others.
The SEED Foundation is now working on opening additional similar schools
in Washington, DC and elsewhere. SEED has been the subject of much media
attention, appearing on ABCNews/Nightline, Good Morning America, PBS,
the Oprah Winfrey Show, and in publications including The Washington
Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and Time and Newsweek magazines.
The SEED Foundation received the prestigious Innovations in American
Government Award from the Ash Institute of the Kennedy School of Government
at Harvard University, and the 2005 Fast Company /Monitor Group Social
Capitalist Award as one of the 25 best social entrepreneurship organizations
in the world.
Eric taught high school physics for eight years and was Dean of Students
at St. Paul's School in Baltimore, before earning an MBA in finance
from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Eric has
been a management consultant to Fortune 500 clients, the principal of
an investment advisory firm, and an adjunct faculty member of the Johns
Hopkins University Graduate Division of Business and Management. He
is a graduate of the Sidwell Friends School and of Swarthmore College,
where he earned degrees in Engineering and Economics. Eric is an Echoing
Green fellow for his work at The SEED Foundation, is a 2001 recipient
of the Manhattan Institute’s Outstanding Social Entrepreneurship
Award, and received Oprah’s Angel Network’s Use Your Life
Award on the Oprah Winfrey Show aired May 24, 2002. He and Vinnakota
were named 2002 Washingtonians of the Year by Washingtonian Magazine.
Eric is married with two small children, and is a rare survivor of pancreatic
cancer.
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Hewson
Baltzell
Hewson is President and co-founder of Innovest, and is a commercial
and investment banker with a specialization in corporate and environmental
finance. Prior to co-founding Innovest, Hewson worked with Lehman Brothers,
Chase Manhattan and Mellon Bank. At Lehman Brothers, Hewson developed
risk management analysis and procedures in the Principal Transactions
Group. At Chase Manhattan, his responsibilities included the restructuring
and securitization of the bank's multi-billion dollar real estate portfolio.
Prior to his tenure at Chase, Hewson managed both debt and equity portfolios
for a privately-held, foreign-owned investment company and worked in
the international division of Mellon Bank. Hewson holds an M.B.A. in
Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and
is a guest lecturer in non-traditional equity analysis.
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Christine Bell
Christine T. Bell is Manager for Corporate Responsibility
Communications at Merck & Co., Inc. She provides communications
support for many of the major programs of The Merck Company Foundation
and the Merck Office of Contributions. Ms. Bell has primary responsibility
for communications around Merck’s programs and partnerships focused
on global health issues, including the Merck Mectizan Donation Program
and Merck’s HIV/AIDS partnership in Botswana with the Government
of Botswana and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as
the Company’s disaster relief efforts. In addition, she is responsible
for the development and publication of Merck’s biennial corporate
responsibility report and related CR web content.
Before joining Merck in January 2004, Ms. Bell was
a Vice President at Powell Tate ¦ Weber Shandwick Public Affairs,
a public relations firm located in Washington, D.C., where she provided
support for clients including corporations, associations, non-profits
and government agencies on a range of policy and communications issues.
Ms. Bell joined Weber Shandwick in 1999, and in 2001 was seconded to
Weber Shandwick’s Brussels office for one year, where she was
assigned to the Consumer practice area.
Ms. Bell received her B.A. from McGill University
in 1992 and her M.A. from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies (SAIS) in 1998.
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Anne Marie Burgoyne
Anne Marie Burgoyne is the Director of the Draper Richards Foundation,
responsible for identifying and supporting Fellows, marketing, and creating
infrastructure for the support of the Fellows and their organizations.
Before joining Draper Richards, Anne Marie was the Executive Director
of United Cerebral Palsy of the Golden Gate (UCPGG) where she undertook
a successful financial and operational turn-around and program merger.
Prior, Anne Marie was a Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) Farber
Fellow at Community Gatepath, a non-profit that provides healthcare
services to children and adults with developmental disabilities. During
her time with the agency, she doubled the capacity of the children’s
center and grew all of the agencies client-staffed business enterprises.
Before entering the non-profit arena, Anne Marie was the Vice President
of Service at Digital Impact, a publicly-traded email marketing company,
where she grew and managed a team of over 100 sales and service providers,
and an Associate at Robertson Stephens, where she did investment banking
with emerging market clients. Currently Anne Marie serves on the Boards
of Reentry Strategies Institute, Little Kids Rock, SCOJO Foundation,
Grassroot Soccer and the Stanford Business School Alumni Consulting
Team. Anne Marie received her MBA and Public Management Program (PMP)
certificate from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and
was selected by her peers as the recipient of the Ernest C. Arbuckle
Award. She also holds a B.A. in English and a B.S. in Marketing from
the University of Pennsylvania and its Wharton School, respectively.
She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter.
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Jeff Butler
Mr. Butler has extensive leadership and operations
experience in the domestic and international healthcare and hospital
management industries. As CEO of BroadReach Healthcare, he maintains
overall responsibility for the management of the firm and the development
of its innovative systems enabling scale-up of high quality healthcare
delivery networks in emerging markets. Previously, Mr. Butler served
as Partnership Director at The Advisory Board Company – a Washington,
DC based healthcare research, consulting firm, and think tank representing
over 2,500 hospital, pharmaceutical, and medical device member institutions.
At the Advisory Board, Mr. Butler helped to develop, lead and manage
a $25M strategy and operations consulting practice assisting hospitals
and healthcare organizations. Previous to The Advisory Board, he served
as a hospital COO, Interim CEO for two hospitals, and as a one of the
founding management team members for the start-up and $900M public spin-off
of LifePoint Hospitals from HCA. He resides in Alexandria, Virginia
with his wife – a corporate and legislative healthcare attorney
– and two children. Mr. Butler is an avid sailor, golfer, and
a private pilot.
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Jim Davis
Jim Davis brings to his position extensive experience in leading the
development of value-added services in the energy industry. In 2004,
he was recognized for his achievements as Northern California winner
of the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award
for Social Responsibility.
As president, Jim has established Chevron Energy Solutions as one of
the nation's leading energy services firms and the first comprehensive
energy services company in the oil and gas industry. Before joining
Chevron Energy Solutions, Jim served as senior vice president of Integrated
Solutions for PG&E Energy Services, one of the foremost energy services
companies in the nation. As sales executive and business strategist,
he conceptualized and established PG&E Energy Services' integrated
energy solution model for major commercial, industrial, and institutional
accounts, then developed and managed the supporting marketing, sales,
deal structuring, finance, and operations functions. The success of
this business led to its sale to Chevron in 2000.
Earlier in his career, Jim served as senior vice president of Marketing
and Sales at Duke/Louis Dreyfus, where he led the company's expansion
into value-added services. He has also managed global, national, and
regional account teams for Enron Capital & Trade Resources and for
Access Energy Corporation, where he developed and headed a vertical
market team providing integrated solutions to industrial accounts.
Jim holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration, with
a major in marketing, from Ohio State University.
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RAY GILMARTIN
Mr. Raymond V. Gilmartin is Special Advisor to the
Executive Committee of Merck & Co., Inc., a global research-driven
pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets
innovative vaccines and medicines. Mr. Gilmartin served for 10 years
as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Merck.
Mr. Gilmartin joined Merck as President and Chief
Executive Officer in June 1994, and was named to the additional position
of Chairman of the Board in November 1994. Mr. Gilmartin came to Merck
after serving as Chairman, President and CEO of Becton Dickinson.
Mr. Gilmartin serves on the boards of General Mills,
Inc. and the Microsoft Corporation. He is chairman of the Board of Directors
of the United Negro College Fund and serves on the Board of Dean's Advisors
for the Harvard Business School. An active participant in health industry
affairs worldwide, Mr. Gilmartin is a trustee of the Healthcare Leadership
Council.
Mr. Gilmartin also is involved in global economic
and policy issues that concern the pharmaceutical industry. In 2003,
he was sworn in as a member of the President's Export Council. He also
serves on the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness,
and is a member of the Transatlantic Business Dialogue and of the Trade
and Poverty Forum, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United
States.
Mr. Gilmartin received a BSc in electrical engineering
from Union College in 1963 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in
1968.
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David Hircock
David Hircock is the Advisor to the President of Aveda
(natural resources). His work covers areas of "fair and equitable
trade", conservation, guiding the use of ingredients used by the
Aveda Corporation in its formulation, assisted by the "precautionary
principle".
He is a Member of the Public and Private Alliance
- Certification and Sustainable Marketing of Non-Timber Forest Products
(NTFP) alliance project in Nepal that aims to increase incomes and employment
for Nepal's NTFP producers and to promote sustainable resource management.
He is a Member of an Advisory Panel formed by the
Swiss Government to design a management tool for the - Convention on
Biological Biodiversity - Access to Benefit Sharing.
He has worked with International Scientific and Agricultural
Research Stations in the UK, India and South Africa. Until recently
he was an Associate editor and member of Advisory Panel for Rodale Press
and Organic Style magazine. He is a medical herbalist with extensive
experience in complementary and alternative medicines and environmental
sciences and a Pharmacist specializing in pharmacognosy—study
of natural medicine—and has worked on the design of a B.Sc. honors
degree course in herbal medicine for the University of Middlesex UK.
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Patrick Fitzgerald
Prior to RecycleBank, Patrick was an attorney in the
Wall Street office of Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP. Patrick's practice
specialized in mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance and
management, and the long-term assessment and valuation of target markets.
Patrick received a Juris Doctorate from Fordham University School of
Law where he was the President of the Irish Law Students Association
and a member of the Urban Law Journal. Prior to Fordham Law School,
Patrick was a Clerk for the United States Tax Court. Patrick is a member
of the New York State Bar Association and is admitted to practice law
in New York Supreme Court and the Southern and Eastern Districts of
New York (Federal). In addition, Patrick is also a member of the Philadelphia
chapter of the Young America Political Action Committee, the Deckhand
Club of the Philadelphia Outward Bound Program, and the University of
Pennsylvania Alumni Secondary School Admission Committee. Patrick received
a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania.
Patrick will be an Entrepreneur in Residence at the
Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania for the Fall
Semester, 2005. In addition, he will also be a guest lecturer for the
Wharton School MBA program.
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Phil Lewis
Philip G. Lewis joined Rohm and Haas Company in 1983
as associate corporate medical director. He was promoted to corporate
medical director in 1988. Dr. Lewis was named director of Safety, Health
and Environmental Affairs in 1989. In 1993, he was given responsibility
for Product Integrity and elected a vice president.
Prior to joining the company, he served as Chief of
Preventive Medicine and Epidemiologist for the III Corps and Darnall
Army Hospital in Fort Hood, Texas.
Dr. Lewis received a bachelor of science degree in
Chemistry from Widener University in 1972; a master of public health
in epidemiology from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of
Public Health, and a doctor of medicine from the Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine both in 1976. He finished his residency in general
preventive medicine in 1978 at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
in Washington, D.C., and his clinical fellowship in dermatology, occupational
and environmental medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in
1983.
Dr. Lewis is a teaching associate in the Division
of Occupational Medicine, Department of Environmental Health Sciences
at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and
the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine of the University
of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is a Fellow of both the American
College of Preventive Medicine and the American College of Occupational
and Environmental Medicine. Dr. Lewis is a member of the board of trustees
for Widener University.
Dr. Lewis has won many awards over the years, including
the George M. Sternberg Medal for Excellence in Preventive Medicine
and Epidemiology. He is widely published and has lectured extensively
on preventive, occupational and environmental medicine, public health,
risk assessment, risk management and sustainable development.
Dr. Lewis resides in Yardley, Pennsylvania.
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Hannah Kettler
Program Officer, Global Health Strategies, The
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Hannah Kettler joined the Institute for Global Health at the University
of California San Francisco in August 2001 as a senior researcher. She
is the director of the institute’s Biotechnology Foundation Program.
This Rockefeller Foundation funded project seeks to design, develop,
and ultimately launch a not-for-profit foundation to facilitate the
engagement of biopharmaceutical companies in the research and development
of new treatments for neglected diseases of the developing world.
Kettler is currently conducting projects for TB Diagnostics
Initiative at TDR/WHO and for ProVenEx, a Rockefeller founded and funded
social venture fund in San Francisco. While at the institute, she has
completed commissioned reports for DFID in the UK, the WHO Commission
for Macroeconomics and Health and the UK Commission on Intellectual
Property and Initiative for Public Private Partnerships, based in Geneva.
In March 2003, Kettler will be moving to Seattle
to join the Global Health Initiatives team at the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation as their program officer. Between 1998 and July 2001 Kettler
worked as the senior industrial economist at the Office of Health Economics
(OHE) in London UK. At the OHE, her research focused on a range of topics
pertaining to the economics of the pharmaceutical industry including
the costs of developing a new drug, institutional and policy frameworks
that support and incentivize innovation, and the impact of the biotechnology
industry on the structure and performance of the established pharmaceutical
multinationals. Kettler completed her Ph.D. in industrial economics
at the University of Notre Dame. Her dissertation, Transitions to Competitiveness:
Problems of Economic Restructuring in Eastern Germany explored how an
east German firm was privatized, and by whom. She conducted her research
in Berlin between 1992 and 1995, based at the Wissenschaftzentrum in
Berlin, Germany.
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Susana Malcorra
Susana Malcorra was appointed Deputy Executive Director
(Administration) in September 2004. She is responsible for the World
Food Programme’s Administration Department, overseeing finance,
human resources, information and communications technology, and management
services.
WFP is the frontline UN agency fighting to eradicate world hunger, using
food aid to save lives in emergencies and to help the poorest of the
poor become self-reliant. In 2004, WFP fed 113 million people in 80
countries with contributions totaling US$2.2 billion. WFP reaches out
to hungry people who cannot help themselves -- victims of war and natural
disasters, families affected by HIV/AIDS and orphans who have lost their
parents to the pandemic, and school children in poor communities. The
Programme has its headquarters in Rome, Italy.
Susana Malcorra has made a career out of breaking down barriers. At
university in Rosario in her native Argentina, she was the only female
studying electrical engineering. She has not looked back, becoming one
of the most successful businesswomen in Latin America with 25 years
of experience in the private sector before bringing her talents and
experience to WFP in September 2004.
Equipped with her degree in engineering, Malcorra began her career with
the American company IBM as a graduate trainee, working her way up over
14 years to become Director of the Public Sector, the largest branch
of IBM in Argentina at that time. She was later assigned to IBM's corporate
headquarters in the US where she oversaw relations between HQ and Mexico
and the Andean region of Latin America.
Ms Malcorra left IBM in January 1993 to join the recently privatized
telecommunications company Telecom Argentina. For the next ten years
she moved her way up through the ranks of what was then the second largest
telecommunications conglomerate in the country.
Between 1995 and 2001 Ms Malcorra held the prestigious posts of Chief
Operations Officer and Executive Director where she had to negotiate
with the Argentine regulatory authority. She also played a key role
in ensuring that 10 percent of the company shares were in the hands
of employees. In March 2001 she was tapped to lead Telecom's expansion
in the wake of the opening of the telecommunications market in Argentina
when she became Chief Executive Officer, managing a company which posts
annual sales of US$3.2 billion and has a staff of 15,000.
After retiring from Telecom Argentina in 2002 she co-founded Vectis
Management, a company whose objective was to support large organizations
in addressing difficulties in processes of change.
She is a founding member of the Argentine chapter of the International
Women’s Forum (IWF), an organization of eminent women that furthers
dynamic leadership, leverages global access and maximizes opportunities
for women to exert their influence.
She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Business School of
the University of San Andres, Buenos Aires and that of Equidad, an NGO
aimed at eliminating the digital gap among underprivileged children
in Argentina.
Ms. Malcorra is married with one son.
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Scott
Macleod
Scott MacLeod currently serves as a member of the Investment Committee
of each of the investment funds that GEF currently manages and serves
as chairman of one of its portfolio companies, Global Forest Products.
Mr. MacLeod joined GEF in 1998 and has thirty years of experience in
international project finance focused on establishing, acquiring, restructuring,
privatizing and expanding private-sector companies and projects in developing
countries. His transaction-oriented work has involved business development,
project design and structuring, financial engineering and analysis,
project evaluation and negotiation and management advice. Mr. MacLeod
has worked in more than thirty countries in Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa,
and Latin America with corporate executives and senior-level government
officials.
From 1978 to 1998, Mr. MacLeod served in various capacities at the International
Finance Corporation (IFC). He was responsible for loan and equity investments
in Europe, the Middle East and Asia in industries as diverse as semi-conductors,
agribusiness and mining. His last assignment was as Division Manager
of the Privatization and Financial Advisory Group, which provided services
in corporate restructuring, project structuring and financing, and cross-border
mergers and acquisitions. Teams he supervised concluded transactions
for an airline in Kenya (Kenya Airways), a heavy engineering company
in the Czech Republic (Skoda Pilsen), an electricity and water utility
in Gabon, a water utility in the Philippines (MWSS) and an electricity
utility in Panama (IRHE).
Mr. MacLeod has been a frequent speaker and chairman at conferences
on privatization and private-sector participation in infrastructure,
particularly water utilities and more recently on private equity investment
in emerging markets. Mr. MacLeod holds a Bachelor of Arts from Yale
University and a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University
Graduate School of Business.
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John W. Mahoney
As chief operating officer, John Mahoney oversees
operations and sales efforts for Chevron Energy Solution’s major
business units, which include Energy Management Services, Public Sector
Performance Contracting, and the Federal business unit.
John has more than 20 years of experience encompassing
many facets of the energy services field. He was president of Viron
Energy Services for seven years before joining Chevron Energy Solutions
in mid-2003, when Chevron Energy Solutions acquired Viron’s nonfederal
business. While at Viron, John led the company through a significant
growth period that brought it to a leadership position among energy
services businesses.
Earlier in his career John worked for Honeywell in
Philadelphia and Washington, D.C., where he specialized in energy management
systems and held a number of positions in sales and management. John
also held marketing and business planning positions in Minneapolis.
His last position at Honeywell was branch general manager for its Tennessee/Arkansas
district, which had a staff of 120 technicians, pipefitters, engineers
and sales representatives, and a diverse customer base that included
contractors, distributors and large and small commercial businesses
and institutions.
John graduated from the University of Minnesota in
1981 with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration.
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Frances McLaughlin
Frances McLaughlin joins the Broad Foundation as a
Senior Director focused on our Leadership investments. Previously, she
was the Executive Vice President of new business development for the
Council on International Educational Exchange (“CIEE”) a
non-profit international education organization that manages various
educational exchange programs. Prior to her business development role,
she was the COO/EVP of CIEE’s largest division where she managed
operations on a worldwide basis. Before CIEE, Frances managed North
American marketing and sales for EF International Language Schools,
a large, privately owned international educational organization. She
also worked as a regional director of Teach for America’s New
York office in its early start-up phase. She has a B.A. and an Executive
Management Certificate from Columbia University.
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Al Mercer
Al has 25+ years of executive, managerial, and operational
experience in a wide variety of organizations in the public, private,
and non-profit sectors. His background includes managing venture capital
investments in start up companies, profit and loss responsibility in
the high technology sector, and non-profit management in the healthcare
sector.
Al has a Master’s degree in Health Systems
Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Health Care Services. He
is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Entrepreneurial
Management Program, two entrepreneurial courses for start up ventures
offered by Robert Morris University in collaboration with the Kauffman
Foundation, and 20+ years of continuing education and professional development
courses.
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Melinda Moree
Dr. Moree leads the Malaria Vaccine Initiative, which
is at the forefront of the global drive to develop safe, effective,
and affordable malaria vaccines. Under Dr. Moree’s leadership,
MVI is now supporting the development of several malaria vaccine candidates.
MVI works with government, industry and academic partners on five continents
to push forward promising malaria vaccine candidates. As Director, Dr.
Moree seeks to ensure the highest quality in all program activities,
a continued commitment to existing relationships, and the forging of
new partnerships.
Prior to assuming leadership of MVI, Dr. Moree was
Senior Business Development Officer for MVI. In this role, she was responsible
for negotiating diverse partnerships with industry and the public sector
and was instrumental in bringing some of the world’s most important
players to the table to work together in the drive for a malaria vaccine.
As one of the first MVI team members, Dr. Moree has worked to identify
the commercial barriers to malaria vaccine development addressing such
issues as intellectual property rights, guaranteed purchase of vaccine,
market assessment and demand and financial incentives for research and
development. She advised PATH more generally on commercialization issues
surrounding vaccines and vaccine-related technologies and helped to
develop the concept and proposal for the WHO-PATH Meningitis Vaccine
Project that was awarded $70 million in funding by the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation.
Prior to joining PATH in 1999, Dr. Moree was
Manager of Advanced Research at EKOS Corporation and worked in technology
transfer at the University of Washington. Before that, she gained public-private
development experience while serving as an American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Diplomacy fellow at USAID.
During her fellowship, Dr. Moree managed PATH’s five-year health
technology development project for USAID. She also provided technical
guidance to USAID regarding the use and technology transfer of the devices
developed by the project. Dr. Moree received her Ph.D. in medical microbiology
from the University of Maryland at Baltimore.
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Eric Orts
Eric Orts is the Guardsmark Professor at the Wharton School of the University
of Pennsylvania. He is a professor in the Legal Studies and Business
Ethics Department with a joint appointment in the Management Department.
He serves as an academic co-director of the NASD Institute at Wharton
Certificate Program for compliance and regulatory professionals and
directs Wharton’s Environmental Management Program. His primary
research and teaching interests are corporate governance, professional
ethics, and environmental management. His scholarly work is widely published
in academic journals (mostly law reviews) and books.
Prior to joining Wharton's faculty in 1991, Orts practiced law at Paul,
Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City and was a Chemical
Bank fellow in corporate social responsibility at Columbia Law School.
He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and visited
at the UCLA School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, Tsinghua
University, and Sydney Law School. He has also been visiting Fulbright
professor in the law department of the University of Leuven, the Eugene
P. Beard Faculty Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics
and the Professions, and a faculty fellow in the Center for Business
and Government at the Kennedy School at Harvard. In 2005-06, he is a
Visiting Professor at NYU Law School where he is helping to establish
a new diploma program for international business students in U.S. commercial
and corporate law.
Orts is a graduate of Oberlin College (BA), the New School for Social
Research (MA), the University of Michigan (JD), and Columbia University
(JSD). He is a member of the bar of New York and the District of Columbia,
an elected member of the American Law Institute, and belongs to a number
of other professional and academic associations.
At Wharton, he teaches undergraduate and MBA courses in corporate law
and governance, environmental management and policy, introduction to
law, and professional ethics. In addition to the NASD at Wharton Program,
he has taught in a number of executive education programs, including
the Investment Management Consultants’ Association, the Directors’
Institute (in Philadelphia, London, and San Diego), the International
Forum (in Philadelphia, Bruges, and Kyoto), and custom programs for
companies such as Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Philips, and Shell.
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Rod Paige
Dr. Paige, former U.S. Secretary of Education (2001-2005), has assembled
a team of independent, strategic advisors—individuals with deep
rooted academic and business experience and a shared passion for improving
the future for children by improving the way they learn—to co-found
the Chartwell Education Group. Together they offer solutions for the
21st Century challenges faced by the public and private sector enterprises
that focus on pre-K, K-12 and post-secondary education, both in the
United States and globally. As Secretary of Education, Dr. Paige was
an unstinting advocate of student achievement, employing “best
of breed” solutions to achieve results towards the Department’s
goal of raising national standards of educational excellence. He earned
his reputation for seeking out and implementing innovative approaches
to systemic academic improvement when he served as Dean of the College
of Education at Texas Southern University, where he established the
university’s Center for Excellence in Urban Education. Dr. Paige
has also shown a knack for inclusive leadership, first as a trustee
and then as Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District,
the nation’s seventh largest district. In 2001, he was named National
Superintendent of the Year by the American Association of School Administrators.
Dr. Paige, who served as a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, brings a global perspective to the
Chartwell Education Group and a desire to export the best practices
and products for education that the U.S. has to offer and to import
those that have been successful in other countries. Dr. Paige believes
that the Chartwell Education Group can have a significant impact on
the future of nations with education systems undergoing transition.
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Satish Reddy
Mr. Satish Reddy is Managing Director & Chief
Operating Officer of Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Limited, a fully integrated
pharmaceutical company with sales of $446 mn in FY 2005 and market capitalization
of $1.2 bn. Satish joined Dr. Reddy's Laboratories as Executive Director
in 1993, responsible for manufacturing operations of active pharmaceutical
ingredients and formulations, research and development activities, and
new product development. He presided over the company’s successful
transition from a predominantly bulk drugs manufacturer to a more value-added,
finished dosages producer and a research powerhouse.
Satish is a member of the National Council of the
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), an elite group constituted by
the chief executives of the top 20 Indian Corporate houses. This group
assists the Central government is policy making and execution, enhancing
efficiency, competitiveness and expanding business opportunities for
the industry. He was also the previous chairman of CII – Andhra
Pradesh.
Satish mentors Dr. Reddy’s Foundation which
works on issues of social development. He has assisted them on several
key initiatives, for e.g. Child and Police (CAP) and Livelihood Advancement
Business School (LABS).
Satish also takes keen interest in networking with
people in diverse fields and is a founding member of the Hyderabad chapter
of Young Entrepreneurs’ Organization (YEO), a dynamic network
of entrepreneur’s worldwide. In his free time, he enjoys music
and reading.
Satish has a Masters in Medicinal Chemistry from Purdue University,
USA and a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Osmania
University, Hyderabad.
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Bill Rever
Strategic Marketing Manager, British Petroleum Solar
Bill Rever is currently the Strategic Marketing Manager for BP Solar.
Since 1982 Bill has been employed in a variety of roles within the company
(and its predecessors) including applications engineering, project management,
product management, and marketing. Most recently he has played a leading
role in the development of a global marketing strategy for BP Solar
and has lead business development activities focused on new markets
for BP Solar in Asia.
Bill has a B.A. in Physics from the Johns Hopkins
University, an M.S.E. in Energy Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania,
and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
He is a member of the Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society, the American
Solar Energy Society and is also President of the Maryland / DC / Virginia
chapter of the Solar Energy Industries Association.
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Bernadette Ryan
Bernadette spent over four years conducting economic
research on developing countries at the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System and The World Bank and another two years developing monitoring
and evaluation systems for World Bank programs in Africa. She also worked
as a management consultant at the Corporate Executive Board and Bain
and Company. Bernadette holds a MBA from The Wharton School, a MS in
Economics, and a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Lehigh
University.
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Stephen Sammut
Steve Sammut is Venture Partner, Burrill & Company,
a merchant bank and venture capital fund focused on the life sciences,
where he focuses on global investment activity. Mr. Sammut has been
involved in the creation or funding of nearly 40 companies globally.
He is on numerous Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards, including
NexMed, Inc. (NASDAQ), Mitsubishi International Corporation, Combinent
BioMedical Systems , Gentis, and Dynamis Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Sammut
currently holds appointments as a Senior Fellow Wharton Entrepreneurial
Programs and Health Care Systems where he teaches a variety of courses
on private equity, biotechnology entrepreneurship, intellectual property,
and economic development. He holds degrees in biological sciences and
humanities from Villanova University, attended Hahnemann Medical College,
and holds an MBA from the Wharton School.
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Martin E. Sandbu
Martin E. Sandbu is a lecturer in Business Ethics.
He has a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University,
and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Balliol College,
University of Oxford. He researches and writes on questions at the intersection
between economics and moral and political philosophy. One of his research
topics is how fairness motives affect people's preferences. At Wharton,
Sandbu teaches Legal Studies 210: Ethics and Corporate Responsibility.
He also does scholarly and applied work on economic development. He
has published research on the political economy of natural resource
wealth in developing countries, and has advised governments and NGOs
on how to manage the challenges that natural resource rents pose to
good governance and transparency.
Originally from Norway, Sandbu is the co-founder and
chairman of the board of the Norwegian think-tank Liberalt Laboratorium
("Liberal Laboratory") and directs its working group on Islam
and Liberal Society.
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Regula Schegg
Regula Schegg joined GFUSA in July 2005. She brings
over 10 years of working experience, of which 4.5 years in sustainable
private equity, banking and corporate finance. Previously, she was a
Financial Analyst at SAM Sustainable Asset Management in Zurich and
Chicago, where she participated in the establishment of two first time
private equity funds. She has also provided M&A services as Strategic
Development Manager for a large Swiss technology corporation. She is
a Steering Committee Member of the Annual Private Equity Conference
at Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management. Schegg
graduated with a MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, and
has passed the CFA level II exam. She holds degrees from the Lucerne
School of Business, University of Applied Sciences of Central Switzerland,
and BA in General Studies (Commerce) from the University of Abertay
Dundee, UK. She also acts as Steering Committee member of the Annual
Private Equity Conference at Thunderbird.
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Truman
Semans
Truman Semans is the Director for Markets and Business
Strategy at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. He manages the
Center's Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC), a group of
41 largely Fortune 500 corporations working with the Pew Center to address
issues related to climate change, and directs Pew Center analytic work
on climate-related markets and investment.
Mr. Semans’ experience spans business and finance,
environmental issues and domestic and international policy. He has held
senior management positions in the environmental management software
industry. At McKinsey & Company and the consulting firm he founded,
Truman advised large corporations and organizations on corporate strategy,
mergers and acquisitions, technology investment and commercialization,
new venture development and strategic marketing.
Prior to McKinsey, Truman served as International
Economist on energy and environment at the Treasury Department. He managed
U.S. engagement in the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the largest
multilateral financier of greenhouse gas mitigation, and led U.S. teams
in improving GEF investment programs for renewable energy, energy efficiency,
and clean fossil fuel technology. While at Treasury, he also served
on the U.S. Climate Change Delegation, interacted with Congress on appropriations,
and worked with the White House on a range of environmental issues and
initiatives with foreign governments. Truman joined Treasury after several
years with the International Institute for Energy Conservation, where
he directed projects facilitating energy efficiency in emerging markets.
Truman also has experience in private equity and investment banking,
including with Deutsche Bank.
Mr. Semans has a Masters with Academic Distinction
in Economics and International Relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS, an
MBA from Duke’s Fuqua School of Business, and a BA in Religion
from Duke University, where he served as President of the student body.
Mr. Semans sits on the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment
Board of Visitors, the President’s Advisory Council of the Chesapeake
Bay Foundation, and the boards of several other organizations.
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Wendy Taylor
Wendy Taylor is the Executive Director of BIO Ventures
for Global Health (BVGH), a new non-profit entity formed to accelerate
the development, distribution and accessibility of biotechnology products
that address diseases of the developing world. BVGH is still in its
early start-up phase and will be officially launched later this year.
Prior to joining BVGH, Ms. Taylor was the Director
of Regulatory Affairs and Bioethics for the Biotechnology Industry Organization
(BIO). Joining BIO in November 2001, she negotiated on behalf of the
biotech industry the third reauthorization of the Prescription Drug
User Fee Act (PDUFA) with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA); established
and led BIO's Regulatory Affairs Committee and worked with the FDA to
address a range of regulatory issues important to the biotech industry.
Ms. Taylor is also responsible for spearheading BIO's global health
initiative. As part of that effort, she planned the first Partnering
for Global Health Forum sponsored by BIO and the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation and created a new non-profit organization focused on
stimulating global health product development.
Ms. Taylor has extensive experience in the executive
and legislative branches of the US government in both public health
and welfare, including positions at the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB), the US Department of Health and Human Services, and the US House
Committee on Ways and Means. She received a Master of Public Policy
from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a BA
from Duke University.
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Nir Tsuk
Nir Tsuk is the director of the Global Fellowship
Programme at “Ashoka – Innovators for the Public,”
which selects, supports and connects social entrepreneurs in more than
fifty countries. He joined Ashoka after finishing his PhD in political
science in Cambridge and after realizing that he prefers to 'work with'
rather than 'look at'. Prior to this, Nir was involved in policy research
and analysis for the Community Development Foundation in London and
for the Committee for Social Affairs in the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem;
earlier he was also a curriculum developer for formal and informal education
at the Yitzhak Rabin Centre, the editor of a computer magazine, a restaurant
manager and a street cleaner.
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Bill Rever
Bill Rever is currently the Strategic Marketing Manager
for BP Solar. Since 1982 Bill has been employed in a variety of roles
within the company (and its predecessors) including applications engineering,
project management, product management, and marketing. Most recently
he has played a leading role in the development of a global marketing
strategy for BP Solar and has lead business development activities focused
on new markets for BP Solar in Asia.
Bill has a B.A. in Physics from the Johns Hopkins University, an M.S.E.
in Energy Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.B.A.
from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member
of the Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society, the American Solar Energy
Society and is also President of the Maryland / DC / Virginia chapter
of the Solar Energy Industries Association.
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Lynn
Scarlett
Lynn Scarlett is Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management, and Budget
at the Department of the Interior. Prior to joining the Bush Administration
in July 2001, she was President of the Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation,
a nonprofit current affairs research and communications organization.
For 15 years, she directed Reason Public Policy Institute, the policy
research division of the Foundation. Her research focused primarily
on environmental, land use, and natural resources issues.
Ms. Scarlett is author of numerous publications on incentive-based environmental
policies, including, most recently, a chapter in Earth Report 2000 (McGraw-Hill)
on "dematerialization." She co-authored a report, Race to
the Top: State Environmental Innovations, which examines state environmental
programs that utilize incentives, private partnerships, and local leadership
in addressing environmental problems.
Ms. Scarlett served on Pres. George W. Bush's environmental policy task
force during his presidential campaign. She was appointed by former
Gov. Pete Wilson to chair California's Inspection and Maintenance Review
Committee, a position she held for 6 years. Ms. Scarlett served as an
Expert Panelist on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's full-cost
accounting and "pay-as-you-throw" projects. She chaired the
"How Clean Is Clean" Working Group of the National Environmental
Policy Institute from 1993-98 and served at the request of former EPA
Administrator William Ruckelshaus on the Enterprise for the Environment
Task Force, which examined new directions for U.S. environmental policy.
Ms. Scarlett received her B.A. and M.A. in political science from the
University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also completed her
Ph.D. coursework and exams in political science and political economy.
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Jon Schnur
Jon Schnur is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder
of New Leaders for New Schools. Jon works with the New Leaders for New
Schools team and community to accomplish its mission– promoting
high levels of achievement for every child by attracting, preparing,
and supporting the next generation of outstanding leaders for our nation's
urban schools. Since co-founding New Leaders for New Schools in 2000,
he has led the development and management of the organization's strategy,
management team and board, core values, partnerships, and fundraising.
Currently 231 New Leaders serve over 100,000 children
in New Leaders for New Schools’ six partner cities: New York,
Washington, DC, Chicago, Memphis, Baltimore, and the Oakland Bay Area.
New Leaders is on track to provide 25% of the new urban principals needed
in the U.S. by 2012 and is supported by a broad coalition of public
and private sector leaders in the education, corporate, philanthropic,
and political sectors, including major support from the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, The Eli and
Edythe L. Broad Foundation as well as blue chip companies like Boeing,
FedEx, and others.
Jon previously served as Special Assistant to Secretary of Education
Richard Riley, President Clinton's White House Associate Director for
Educational Policy, and Senior Advisor on Education to Vice President
Gore. He has developed national educational policies on teacher and
principal quality, after-school programs, district reform, charter schools,
and preschools. Jon graduated from Princeton University and a Wisconsin
public high school.
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Philip Weinberg
Philip Weinberg is the Vice President of Strategy
& Finance for Victory Schools, one of the nation’s most successful
private managers of public schools and a national leader in the movement
for whole school reform. He formerly served as Victory’s Director
of Operations in Philadelphia, where he helped lead Victory’s
historic partnership with the School District of Philadelphia, as part
of the 2002 State take-over of the city’s public schools.
Prior to Victory, Mr. Weinberg worked as a consultant for Bain &
Company and previously for the Illinois Department of Human Services,
where he assisted in implementing a major overhaul of the State’s
massive welfare-to-work bureaucracy. Mr. Weinberg received his BA from
Northwestern University, his MBA from The Wharton School of the University
of Pennsylvania, and he is currently a Resident with the Broad Foundation’s
Residency in Urban Education.
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