B.A., Columbia University, 1959;
B.S., in Mining Engineering, Columbia University, 1960;
M.B.A., in Finance and Accounting, Columbia University, 1964;
Advanced Management Program, Harvard Business School, 1980.
Senior Financial Executive, experienced in all aspects of internal and external
accounting, finance, insurance, investor relations, tax, and acquisitions. Goal
oriented team player who problem solves issues, sets tone of urgency, and empowers
subordinates. Currently Advisor/Consultant with AdOne/Connect, a company
that puts newspaper classifieds on the Internet. In 1995 was Consultant/Acting
Chief Financial Officer with DVI, Inc., a NYSE finance company serving
the medical equipment market with assets of $400 million. From 1992 to 1994
was Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer of MINORCO (U.S.A.)
INC., a subsidiary of Minorco, managing all North American operations,
with sales of $1.9 billion in mining and agri-business. Was Principal of Express
Office Products, Inc. (1991-1992), office products company which uses state
of the art communication technology to allow large customers to reduce costs
dramatically with just in time buying. Member Board of Directors: Terra Industries
Inc. 1993-1994 (NYSE); AdOne.
B.Com. (Hons.), University of Manitoba, 1981;
M.S., Cornell. 1986;
Ph.D., 1988;
Chartered Accountant. 1982.
Teaching affiliation: Accounting, Business Law, and Taxation.
Teaching and research interests: financial accounting and capital markets research,
behavioral decision theory research, lab markets research.
Has taught financial and managerial accounting at the University of Manitoba
and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. Since 1988 has been teaching
accounting at Columbia Business School.
B.S., in Business Administration, Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio, 1969;
M.B.A., in Finance, Northwestern University, 1970.
Chairman and CEO of Salomon Brothers Asset Management. Is a Managing
Director of Salomon Brothers Inc's
(SBI) Management Board. Prior to assuming his present responsibilities, served
as Director of the SBI's Global
Research Department and was in charge of its Investment Strategy Group. Among
his previous positions, has also been the SBI's
Chief Administrative Officer and head of New York Fixed Income Sales. Was named
a Managing Director in 1985. Joined Salomon Brothers in 1974 from Continental
Bank where, as an investment officer, managed pension fund assets of large
corporate and municipal entities.
Attorney;
Certified Public Accountant .
President of The Chalfin Group, a Metuchen, New Jersey based firm, that
specializes in providing strategic planning, valuation and consulting services
to entrepreneurial businesses. The Chalfin Group frequently represents and consults
with buyers and sellers of businesses. Is actively involved with several businesses,
as an owner/investor, corporate board member and consultant. Has been cited
in The Best Lawyers in America Directory of Experts as an expert in the
area of business valuation and frequently lectures on this topic.
M.B.A., Columbia Business School;
professional degree from the Architectural Association in London, England, where
she is a licensed architect.
Currently, Vice President, MetLife Real Estate Investments. From 1996-1998
was the Head of Mortgage Production, responsible for a national network of field
offices which originate commercial loans for MetLife's
general account portfolio. During this period, MetLife originated $4.8 billion
of new loans. Prior to joining MetLife, ran the Northeast Investments and Sales
office at Prudential where she worked in the areas of debt originations,
re-structurings, portfolio management and equity sales. Is a member of ULI,
ICSC, REBNY, ARCUK, and an occasional lecturer and adjunt professor of real
estate at the Columbia Business School.
M.A., Cambridge, U.K., 1970;
M.B.A., Graduate School of Business, Columbia University, 1984;
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1987.
Statistician at Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (1970-1982).
Assistant professor of marketing at Stern School of Business (1986-1995).
Associate Professor of Marketing, Fordham University (1996-present).
Research focuses on use of probability and statistical methods applied to marketing
problems. Teaches courses in marketing management, marketing research and marketing
models. Published articles in Management Science, Marketing Science
and Journal of Direct Marketing and elsewhere. Consultant to GM, Pfizer,
Lucas Industries, NPD, Arthur Andersen, etc.
Ph.D., in Finance, Graduate School of Business at Stanford
University.
Member of the Investor Derivatives Marketing Desk at J.P. Morgan. Structures
and markets fixed income over-the-counter derivatives for financial institutions
including banks, insurance companies, and asset managers.
B.A. in Economics, Yale University;
M.B.A., Harvard Business School.
Currently, a Vice President at the venture capital firm of E.M. Warburg,
Pincus & Co., which has 60 professionals and venture capital assets
of $8 billion in 100 companies. Specializes in funding high technology companies.
Prior to joining Warburg, was at Dell Computer Corporation as special
assistant to the company's founder,
Michael Dell, and was later promoted to manager of worldwide desktop marketing.
Began career at McKinsey & Company in their New York and Milan offices.
B.S., (in Materials Science and Engineering) Massachusetts
Institute of Technology;
M.B.A., Harvard Business School.
While at M.I.T. was the Robert S. Farout Scholar. Currently is a partner with
ARCH Venture Partners, L.P. and is Managing Director of the ARCH/Columbia
new venture creation alliance. ARCH is a venture capital partnership that
forms and develops companies that bring to market technological innovations
and other intellectual property developed at academic and research institutions
in the U.S. Prior to joining ARCH, co-founded the Durel Corporation and
American Superconductor Corporation and was a Venture Capitalist with
A.R.D. in Boston. Also spent two years in the health care consulting
practice of McKinsey & Company. In addition to his ARCH actitivies,
serves on the Board of Directors of Clonetics Corporation, Advanced Cryomagnetics,
Inc., the Butcher Wax Company, and Bell Geospace, Inc.
B.S., in Accounting, Lehigh University, 1980;
M.B.A., Columbia Graduate School of Business, 1984.
While matriculating at Columbia, worked for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell &
Co. Began investment career at Mitchell Huthchins Asset Management
in 1984 as an Assistant Portfolio Manager. Started working at Capital Builders
Advisory Services as Vice President in 1987. Joined Tiger Management
in January 1989. While at Tiger was a Senior Managing Director and a member
of the Management Committee. Left Tiger in December 1993 to become a private
investor. Has been licensed as a Certified Public Accountant and received the
designation of Chartered Financial Analyst. Is an adjunct professor at the Columbia
Graduate School of Business.
B.A., Physics, Amherst College, 1969;
M.B.A., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1974.
Currently Managing Director of J.P. Morgan Securities, Inc. and an equity
analyst specializing in the property/casualty insurance industry; twenty companies
under active coverage. Member of 1996 Wall Street Journal All-Star analyst
team for stock picking. Analytic focus, in numerous reports, industry publications
and speaking engagements, on common stock valuation techniques. Involved for
the past fourteen years in JPMS financial services practice including work in
equity private placements and initial public offerings, investment banking and
mergers and acquisitions. Prior Morgan financial analytic positions in transportation,
aerospace and electronics industries. Corporate financial experience on the
treasury staffs of General Motors and, on special assignment from Morgan,
W.T. Grant Corporation. International financial experience with PepsiCo
Inc. as assistant treasurer, international finance, with responsibility
for all local currency financing and foreign exchange.
B.S., Mass Communications, Virginia Commonwealth University,
1988;
M.B.A., Darden School, University of Virginia, 1992;
currently Ph.D. candidate in Management of Organizations, Graduate School of
Business, Columbia University.
Work experience includes positions with Saks Fifth Avenue, Kraft General
Foods, and Procter & Gamble.
Teaching and research interests include Cross-Cultural Management, Organizational
Justice, Strategic Intent, and Entrepreneurship.
B.S., Boston University;
M.B.A., Columbia Business School, Columbia University.
Currently an independent management consultant specializing in building organizational
excellence, molding corporate cultures and managing change. Formerly, Chief
Personnel Officer for PepsiCo's Beverage Division worldwide. Has extensive
experience in utilizing outside consultants as well as leading Pepsi-Cola's
internal management consulting group. Has international reputation for expertise
on people and organization issues, including helping organizations grow and
develop executive leadership as well as coaching managers on how to enhance
their executive effectiveness for career success.
B.S., in Economics, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce
of the University of Pennsylvania;
L.L.B., Harvard Law School.
Member of the Bar: New York and Massachusetts.
Judge Advocate, United States Air Force, three years of active duty, and discharged
as a Captain.
Member, American Law Institute, Association of the Bar of the City of New York,
American Bar Association. Partner, Battle Fowler LLP, New York, New York,
and started the Real Estate Department there. Chairman of the Board of Directors
of Arrow Lock Company (subsequently acquired by Walter Kidde &
Co.). Presently trustee of Independence Savings Bank, formerly the
largest mutual savings bank in New York State and now publically owned, and
Director of Graycor, Inc., a closely held major industrial construction
company based in Chicago. Practice specialization has been largely real estate,
handling all phases of acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, financing and development.
B.S., Oklahoma City University, 1963;
M.B.A., Ohio State University, 1972;
Ph.D., Columbia University, 1982.
Teaching and research interests: financial markets, business cycle and international
finance.
Is President of CBT Worldwide, Inc., a multimedia computer-based training
company. Is also an economic consultant to financial services firms, specializing
in money, banking, macroeconomics and international financial topics. Has developed
and is currently conducting management training programs in these areas at corporations
including Barclays Group, Bank of China, Chase Manhattan Bank, Brown Brothers
Harriman, CS First Boston, and Price Waterhouse. Has been a technical
advisor for MONEY magazine since 1981, and has conducted a special course at
Columbia University's Walter Bagehot Fellowship Program for business press writers.
Is a contributing author to the International Finance Handbook published
by John Wiley and Sons. Began career as a Systems Analyst with Rockwell International
in Columbus, Ohio and Los Angeles, California, developing and utilizing large
scale digital simulation models.
B.S., Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1979;
M.B.A., 1980.
Founder and Managing Partner of Gotham Capital. Former Chairman of the
Board, Alliant Techsystems, an NYSE listed aerospace and defense firm.
Author of "You Can Be A Stock Market Genius (Even If You're Not Too Smart),"
Simon & Schuster, April 1997. Founder of NYSAC, the New York Securities
Auction Corporation.
J.D., St. John's University;
M.B.A., Columbia Business School, Columbia University.
Currently, a Vice President in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at J.P.
Morgan & Co. Incorporated, focusing on industrial and diversified companies,
and is active in coordinating the J.P. Morgan associate and analyst training
program. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan was a generalist in the Mergers and Acquisitions
Group at The First Boston Corporation (1990-1994) and a corporate lawyer
in the New York office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom practicing
in the mergers and acquisitions area (1984-1987). Is also an Adjunct Professor
of Finance at Columbia Business School where she teaches Corporate Finance,
Tax Factors in Business Decisions, and Taxation of Business Organizations
and Their Owners. Was also an Assistant Professor of Law at St. John's University
School of Law, where she taught Federal Securities Regulation, Ethics,
and Real Property.
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Indiana University;
Certificate in Business Administration, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Executive Vice President, Account Managing Director at Young & Rubicam-WCJ,
a leading global advertising agency. Director of the agency's Strategy Review
Board, an internal consulting group for business development. Responsible for
developing and managing integrated marketing plans that entail advertising and
direct marketing. Experience includes Air France, American Express, Apple,
AT&T, Book-of-the-Month Club, Citibank, Columbia House, Groupe Danone/Dannon,
Kraft Foods, Kodak, Oxford Health Care, Time Inc. Magazines, Time-Life Books,
Yves St. Laurent Fragrances. Global marketing experience: European Account
Director for Y&R-WCJ, based in Paris. Leads training sessions for
senior executives and clients in the in the U.S. and overseas. Was a professor
at Temple University for four years. Has been teaching at Columbia Business
School since 1991.
B.S. in Economics, the Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania, 1963;
M.B.A., Harvard Business School, 1966.
Former President and CEO of Grossman's, a 120-store chain located in
nine states, 1993-1994; President and CEO, Pergament Home Centers, a
40-store chain located in seven states, 1991-1992; private retailing consultant,
1987-1991; President and CEO, Hahnes Department Store, a division of
May Department Stores, 1979-1987; various executive merchandise positions at
Federated Department Stores and May Department Stores, 1966-1978.
Teaching interests: retailing.
M.B.A., City University of New York;
B.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Colorado.
Started and managed three successful companies concentrating in information
technology products and software development. Currently, President of Datamark
Technologies, Inc., a New Jersey-based entrepreneurial firm engaged in interactive
card technologies and customer loyalty programs for such customer-driven industries
as retail, restaurant, travel and leisure, and oil and gas companies in North
America. In less than three years, Datamark has built an impressive client list
and has helped these companies harness their transaction data to create new
ways of communicating with and retaining their best customers. Previously, taught
M.B.A. entrepreneurial courses for four years at NYU Stern School of Business,
and has appeared on CNN and CNBC evaluating successful growing businesses. His
recent book, Smart Cards: The Global Information Passport, details how
to manage a successful smart card program.
B.A. in Economics, University of California at Berkeley, 1982;
Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University, 1989.
Currently, Research Officer and Senior Economist in the Research Department
of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Has also taught macro and monetary
economics at the University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin at Madison,
DePaul University, and the New Economic School in Moscow. Research interests
focus on monetary policy, financial markets, and banking. Current research projects
include: "Are There Bank Effects in Borrowers' Costs of Funds? Evidence
from a Matched Sample of Borrowers and Banks,"
and "<Does Talk Matter
After All? Identifying the Effects of Inflation Targeting."
B.A., University of Colorado;
M.B.A., The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Managing Director of Lehman Brothers in its Global Real Estate Department.
Lehman Brothers is one of the leading real estate investment banks in the world,
underwriting and advising on real estate capital market transactions in excess
of $50 billion over the past three years. Has been with Lehman for over 14 years
and is responsible for managing client relationships and for originating debt,
equity, derivatives and strategic advisory transactions for both real estate
companies and real estate assets. During his career, has been involved in over
30 equity offerings raising in excess of $6 billion for real estate service
companies and real estate investment trusts. Has also been actively involved
in more than 20 strategic advisory assignments representing greater than $12.6
billion in transaction value. Is a frequent commentator at industry conferences
and has been guest lecturer at several of the country's
top business schools. Is a member of the Zell, Lurie Real Estate Center at The
Wharton School and sits on both the research and placement committees. Is also
a member of the Board of Advisors for The Real Estate Institute at New York
University. Is an Advisory Director for the National Multi-Housing Council and
Vice Chairman, Program Committee for the Urban Land Institute's
UD/MUC Blue Council. Is a member of the National Association of Real Estate
Investment Trusts and a Licensed real estate broker in the State of New York.
B.A., Economics and Finance, York University, 1992;
M.A., Economics, University of Toronto, 1993;
Ph.D., Finance, Columbia University Graduate School of Business, expected October
1998.
Teaching experience includes Options Markets and Capital Markets and Investments
courses at Columbia.
Teaching interests are in the areas of financial economics, options and debt
markets.
Research interests are in the area of empirical asset pricing and include: Use
of options prices, volatilities and trading volumes in asset pricing; Information
flows between markets; Market Microstructures; Performance evaluation and market
timing. Current research projects include: "
Timing Tests and Public Information: An Analysis of the Conditional Distribution
of Returns; Institutional
Investors and Security Returns."
B.A., summa cum laude, 1958;
M.A., 1959;
Ph.D., in Applied Physics, 1964, all from Harvard University, where he was elected
to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi .
Currently, Program Director, Technology Licensing at IBM Corporate Headquarters.
His thirty-four year career with IBM has included applied research and research
management, significant technology development responsibilty in IBM Japan, and
staff positions at the highest levels of the Corporation. Since July 1994, has
been responsible for technology know-how licensing and related activities, particularly
relating to Storage Systems and Technology. From January 1986 until July 1987
was Director of Technology in the IBM-Japan Yamato Development Laboratory.
Started the advanced development of thin-film transistor liquid crystal display
(TFT-LCD) technology in Yamato and oversaw the transition to joint development
with the Toshiba Corporation that eventually led to the creation of the IBM-Toshiba
joint venture, Display Technologies, Inc. His responsibilities at IBM have ranged
from Research Staff Member to Program Director of Quality
and Consultant to the IBM Vice President and Director of Research
in the Research Division and, Program Manager, Technology Review Board
in the Enterprise Systems Line of Business. Dr. Myers holds twelve United States
patents, is an author or co-author of more than 30 technical papers, and has
been on university advisory committees in the US, Canada, and Singapore. Has
given invited papers at meetings of the American Physical Society, the IEEE,
the SPSE, the ACM, and other professional societies, as well as participating
in invited panels on Japan at the Columbia University School of Business and
the MIT Sloan School. In 1995 was a participant in the Asia Project at the Council
on Foreign Relations in New York and was recently named to the Board of Directors
of Thomas Publishing Company in New York.
Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi,
India;
Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad,
India;
M.Phil. and Ph.D., Columbia University, New York.
Has taught various marketing courses at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign,
and New York University. Research has focused on consumer and managerial decision
making. Has published articles in Journal of Retailing, Marketing
Letters, Journal of Consumer Psychology, and other journals. Has
also worked in product management for four years at SmithKline Beecham
(India).
M.B.A. in Finance and M.I.A. in Economic and Political Development,
Columbia University.
Currently is a Principal at Grafton Partners. The firm acts as the General
Partner and manager of the Hamilton Arbitrage Fund, a hedge fund which
invests in arbitrage and delta neutral strategies in the Latin American fixed
income markets. Has been involved in the Latin American debt markets since 1987,
when he joined the sovereign risk trading team at Manufacturers Hanover.
From 1989 to 1993 worked at First Boston where he was Director and Head
of the Emerging Capital Markets Group - the group responsible for Latin American
fixed-income sales, trading and capital markets. Started up, built and ran a
seventeen-man team that was one of the top six volume traders of Latin American
debt and the leading arranger of Latin American bond issues over the four years.
While there, was a senior member of the team that advised the Mexican government
on the privatization of the banking system. From 1993 to early 1995 was a Managing
Director at The Weston Group, a boutique investment bank specializing
in highly structured transactions in local currency markets, with a primary
focus on Mexico. Pioneered several of the structures that are used in the market.
Has taught over the past four years a seminar on Latin American financial markets
at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. Has also published
numerous articles on finance, and has recently edited and co-authored a book
to be published later this year on analytical techniques in pricing and hedging
emerging debt instruments.
B.A., Ithaca College;
M.B.A., New York University's Leonard
N. Stern School of Business.
Currently, is a Management Consultant to growing entrepreneurial and owner/managed
companies in strategic and systems planning, process improvement and organization
development. Last year retired as a Senior Partner after twenty-eight years
with Grant Thornton LLP having held various management positions including:
Partner in charge of New York area Management Consulting and Regional Director
of Management Consulting, Northeast and Eastern Regions. Has directed numerous
assignments for emerging companies and directed major multi-year systems and
litigation support projects for larger organizations including Lloyds of
London, Motorola, GTE-Sylvania and AT&T. Recently co-authored a book:
The Road to Success: How to Manage Growth.
B.A., University of Vermont;
M.S., Western Connecticut State College;
attended the Wharton School for Family Business in 1987 where her interest in
family business began to solidify. Has been a speaker at seminars and conferences
in the industry and has written articles for trade publications. Is a frequent
lecturer on Family-Owned Businesses at Columbia University's Graduate School
of Business, and is currently employed as an adjunct professor in the Entrepreneurship
concentration. Has over fifteen years of experience in the graphic arts industry.
Began her career with Danbury Printing & Litho, Inc. in 1982 as a
sales trainee. In 1985 became Director of Sales and Marketing and was responsible
for all new business development as well as the hiring and training of sales
executives. In addition to her sales management responsibilities was selected
to become certified as an instructor in the Phil Crosby Quality Improvement
Process. Educated senior management and company personnel for three years and
chaired the Quality Improvement Team. Was charged with overseeing various quality
teams with the primary objective of reducing rework and improving bottom line
results. In 1987 became President and CEO of Danbury Printing, a large
family owned business with annual sales in excess of forty million dollars.
During her seven years as President, initiated a major expansion of the company
which included a fifty-thousand square foot addition, the purchase of major
new press equipment and the introduction of a new Desktop Publishing Department.
During her Presidency, sales revenues increased by approximately fifty percent.
Subsequently, a severe recession occurred in New England in 1993 requiring a
downsizing of the company; she successfully accomplished this by reducing costs
twenty two percent and at the same time positioned the company for eventual
sale. Has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Web Offset Association
of Printing Industries of America and a Board member of the National
Association of Printers and Lithographers (NAPL). Served on the Advisory
Board of the Rochester Institute of Technology. Was inducted into the Walter
E. Soderstrom Honorary Society of the NAPL in 1990 and was the recipient of
the Naomi Berber Award presented by the Graphic Arts Technical Foundation.
B.S.I.E., cum laude, Lehigh University, 1969;
M.S.I.E., 1970;
Ph.D., 1973.
Elected to the Alpha Pi Mu and Sigma Xi Honoraries.
Appointed Commissioner of the $1.1 billion, 7800 employee New York City Department
of Transportation by Mayor David N. Dinkins on February 1, 1990. As Commissioner,
has restructured the organization, reducing executive and administrative
costs by nearly 40%; brought into the organization top-flight professional
engineering management to the bridge and highway construction programs;
substantially increased productivity and reduced unit costs in highway
resurfacing, asphalt production, and parking ticket writing saving the taxpayers
tens of millions of dollars; raised department revenues and reduced costs resulting
in a net surplus of $66 million of revenues over expense budget costs, the first
such surplus in the department's history; instituted Total Quality Management
concepts into the department, including a new quality assurance program
in highway construction, which has been praised by New York State engineers
as the first acceptable highway program in DOT's history; created or enhanced
customer service and employee integrity programs throughout the agency that
have received praise from citizens, community groups, elected officials, and
the media, including PVB's "Zero Complaint" program, highway's "212-Pot-Hole"
complaint phone number and Traffic's "Total Commitment to Integrity" and "Community
Based Enforcement" programs. In addition to the job of Commissioner, Mayor Dinkins
appointed Dr. Riccio to the Board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
in June 1990. Before being named Commissioner, was Assistant Professor of Industrial
Engineering at Lehigh University; Assistant Director for Research of the Police
Foundation in Washington, D.C.; Director of Management Services for NYC Board
of Education's Division of School Buildings; Assistant Commissioner for Operations
Planning of the NYC Department of Sanitation; and Deputy Transportation Commissioner
for Highway Operations of the NYC Department of Transportation. Has published
numerous articles and book chapters on public sector productivity in scholarly
journals and textbooks, and has served on the Editorial Board of the Operations
Research Journal. Has received numerous awards including the City Club's
prestigious Earthling Award for Outstanding Public Service and the March of
Dimes' Service to Humanity Award.
B.A., Ohio University. 1969;
J.D., Columbia Law School, 1972;
M.B.A., Columbia University Graduate School of Business, 1982.
Admitted to the Bar in New York, Ohio, and Federal Courts.
Practiced with Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur in Ohio and Shearman
& Sterling in New York. Taught at the Ohio State University College
of Law. From 1982 to 1986 was an independent consultant to venture capital firms.
Currently, heads his own firm representing foreign financial interests in their
U.S. real estate investments.
B.A., Brown University;
M.B.A., Harvard Business School.
Has been involved with turnarounds for the past twenty years. Began his turnaround
career in the workout department of Chase Bank. Has been the President/CEO
of eight turnarounds in a variety of industries including furniture, technology,
newspaper, apparel, and academic test preparation. Is interim CEO of a medium-sized
service company in Atlanta, and currently serves on three corporate Boards.
In 1989 joined Danskin, the apparel company, as President after revenue
fell from 1982's $110 million to 1986's $40 million, where it remained flat
for the next three years, and the company suffered a $4 million EBIT loss. At
the close of his three-year reign, sales reached $70 million and EBIT grew to
$6 million. Was hired by The Washington Post as CEO of its academic test
preparation subsidiary, Kaplan, following an 80% EBIT drop and 5% revenue decline.
With his implementation of a number of initiatives, EBIT doubled with 17% revenue
growth over the next two years.
B.A., Smith College;
M.B.A., Columbia University.
Consultant to the real estate industry on strategic portfolio matters, commercial
mortgage-backed securities and CMBS special servicing. Most recently held the
corporate position of vice president for real estate investments at Aetna
Inc., where she was responsible for Real Estate Investment. During her 17-year
career at Aetna, has held positions in bond investments, financial guarantees,
portfolio management, corporate finance and mortgage finance. As head of real
estate investments, was responsible for the direction and oversight of Aetna's
mortgage loan and owned real estate portfolios totaling $6.9 billion, located
throughout the United States. Prior to joining Aetna, was an associate at Morgan
Stanley Realty.
Is active in many professional associations. Is a member of the Urban Land
Institute (ULI) and its Industrial & Office Park Development Council. Is
also a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association, National Association for
Real Estate Investment Managers, National Network of Commercial Real Estate
Women, Pension Real Estate Advisors (PREA) and Real Estate Finance Assocition.
In 1996 was invited to join the CSSA Board of Governors as a principal governor,
as well as accepting the position of director to the REFA Hartford Executive
Committee.
B.A., Political Science and Sociology, Emory University.
Currently, President, Empire Sports & Entertainment and Director,
Sports & Entertainment, Louis Harris & Associates. Formerly,
Director, Sports Practice, Hill & Knowlton, and Executive Director,
New York City Sports Commission. Has initiated and led successful bids
to attract the Olympic Congress of the USA and the Goodwill Games. Manages relationships
with such clients as Coca-Cola, the NCAA, Radio City Productions,
and Madison Square Garden. Recognized by Crain's
New York Business "Forty Under Forty."
Lectured on sports and entertainment marketing around the world including recent
addresses in Sao Paulo, Brazil and Santiago, Chile. Coordinator for New York
University annual Summer Institute in Sports and Event Marketing.
B.A., in English literature, Lehigh University, 1965.
An entrepreneur who specializes in the acquisition, development, and eventual
re-sale of small and mid-sized companies. Focuses on businesses with unique
ideas or technologies which are in need of energy and guidance during their
initial growth phase. Is currently involved with companies in the construction,
real estate, and office supply industries. Is actively doing business in the
former Soviet Union. During his 28-year business career, has lectured in numerous
business and academic forums both here and abroad. As a part of his current
activities, is developing a series of software programs for business education
for a start-up firm, Bizco Inc. Is also working with Thirteen WNET,
the PBS television station in New York, developing a children's education series
called "Folk Tales of the World." These programs, a series of multimedia productions,
will provide self-paced business education utilizing advanced electronic technologies.
Is also founder and Chairman of KIDCARE, a non-profit organization chartered
to assist homeless children in East Harlem.
B.S.E., Princeton University, 1965;
M.B.A., Stanford Graduate School of Business, 1973.
Investment Banking Professional at Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated,
1973-95. Concentration in the development and execution of advisory assignments
involving major corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures,
corporate defense, recapitalizations, financial restructurings, joint ventures,
spin-offs, squeeze-outs, etc. Managing Director, 1985-95; Advisory Director,
May 1995.
B.A., New School for Social Research, 1960;
M.B.A., Bernard M. Baruch School for Business and Public Administration, 1963;
Ph.D., City University of New York, 1971;
C.P.A.
Teaching and research interests: financial and managerial accounting.
Has served on the faculty of Herbert H. Lehman College, CCNY, 1967 to present.
Consultant to commercial and investment banks, and to real estate boards and
other organizations of realtors. Has also submitted expert accounting testimony
to legislative and judicial bodies. Formerly senior auditor with S.D. Leidesdorf
and Company, CPAs. Has written articles for Management Accounting,
The Government Accountants Journal, and The Journal of Accountancy;
has published articles and book reviews in the New York Times and elsewhere.
B.A., in Psychology, Brandeis University;
M.B.A., Harvard Business School.
Received the "Technology 100 Award" from TECHNOLOGY Magazine, the "Maroon Citation"
from Colgate University and two IR-100 Awards from Industrial Research Magazine.
Invented EasyCap and founded United States Guaranty Corporation (USGC),
of which he is Chairman and CEO, in order to make it possible, for the first
time, for small and middle market borrowers and their banks to eliminate interest
rate risk. Prior to founding USGC, was, for 25 years, the managing general partner
of Cambridge Research and Development Group (CRDG), a company he and
his twin brother established to develop and license inventions, start companies
around inventions and acquire and manage small industrial companies. Is the
inventor of the OvuGuide and holds five U.S. and numerous foreign patents
on it and other unrelated inventions. Is on the Board of Directors of Oppenheimer
& Co.'s "Quest For Value" fund (NYSE), and Camp Avoda and is
a member of the Corporation of Babson College. Has served on the International
Board of Directors of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association. Has been
a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School, MIT's Sloan School and others,
and is currently teaching two seminars in entrepreneurship at Columbia Business
School with Professor Murray Low and Professor William Doyle.
M.B.A., Columbia Business School.
Senior Portfolio Manager with John A. Levin & Co., a New York investment
management firm. Prior to joining John A. Levin, was a Senior Vice President
and portfolio manager at Jennison Associates LLC. Before Jennison, was
a research analyst and portfolio manager with Scudder, Stevens & Clark
Inc., and research analyst with Putnam Investments.
B.A., Political Science, College of Wooster;
M.A. in Economics, Boston University;
M.S. in International Relations, Georgetown University.
Is United States Representative, Banco de Santiago. In his current position
since 1992, his responsibilities include the organization of the New York branch
of the bank. Arranges Banco de Santiago notes in the U.S., European and Japanese
markets. Organizes and finances deals for Chilean and U.S. investors. Previously,
served as Commercial Counsellor in the New York Office of ProChile, the Chilean
Government Export Agency. Also, was General Manager of America Economia,
a Latin American publishing company whose main shareholder is Dow Jones,
and Economic Advisor to the American Embassy in Santiago. Was formerly an advisor
to the General Manager of Banco Morgan Finansa and a consultant to the
World Bank. Has been a professor of economics at Georgetown University
(ILADES), the Universidad Gabriela Mistral, the Universidad de Santiago, Fundacion
Adolfo Ibanes, and the Universidad Catolica de Chile.
B.A., Duke University, 1974;
J.D. and M.B.A., University of Pennsylvania Law School and Wharton Graduate
Business School, 1978.
Founder and Chief Executive, David F. Smith & Co., L.P., a New York-based
investment banking and merchant banking boutique specializing in mergers, acquisitions,
venture capital and buyouts. Founding member of mergers and acquisitions group
at Alex. Brown, 1983-1996. Head of Consumer Sector Mergers and Acquisitions,
Alex. Brown. 1990-1996. Previously associated with the Robinson-Humphrey
Company and the law firm Alston & Bird, both of Atlanta, GA.
Lead investment banker in more than 70 successfully completed merger and acquisition
transactions involving strategic and financial acquirors. Clients have included
entrepreneurs, family businesses, professional investors, and large corporations,
both domestic and international. Speaker at Practicing Law Institute Seminar
on Mergers and Acquisitions 1998; articles published in law reviews and tax
journals.
Member, State Bar of Georgia.
B.S.E. (Chemical Engineering), Princeton University;
M.B.A., Harvard Business School.
Currently, Managing General Partner, Private Equity Partnership, and Vice Chairman
of Spenser Trask Inc. Formerly, Managing Director of Prudential-Bache
and Managing General Partner of the Private Equity Partnership. Founding
General Partner of Lawrence Venture Associates, a venture capital limited
partnership headquartered in New York City. Previously served as Executive Vice
President and Group Executive of the Worldwide Corporate Group at Irving
Trust Company. Prior to that was with Citibank for fifteen years,
where he founded Citicorp venture Capital as President and Chief Executive Officer.
Currently, is a special limited partner of Utech Venture Capital Fund,
Washington, D.C., which specializes in investments in companies of interest
to its public utility limited partners. Director of Digital Video Systems
Inc., KLS Enviro Resources Inc., Movie Gallery, Inc., and several private
companies including Exigent Diagnostics Inc. and Coaxicom, Inc.
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (finance
and economics).
Managing Partner and CEO of Stern Stewart & Co., a strategic policy
advisory firm whose client list numbers almost 2,000. The firm also publishes
the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance with a subscription list of
24,000, produces and markets a family of software for strategic financial planning
called FINANSEER @ and presents short courses in corporate finance to
senior executives, bankers, and partners of major accounting firms. For 17 years
was a rotating panelist on "Wall Street Week" where twice his stock picks won
top performance for the year and has presented his views on financial economics
on CNN's "Moneyline." For the last ten years has been one of the three business
forecasters at the annual University of Chicago forecast luncheon in December.
Spent four years as a financial policy columnist for the Financial Times
of London and has been widely published in business newspapers and periodicals,
including the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, Fortune, Planning
Review, and Corporate Finance. Has been a member of the board of
directors of four corporations and is currently a member of the Executive Advisory
Committee of the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University
of Rochester and a member of the University of Chicago's Council on the Graduate
School of Business. Currently Adjunct Associate Professor at the Graduate School
of Business at Columbia University and the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg,
South Africa; has also served as an adjunct faculty member of the graduate business
school of the University of Cape Town in South Africa and at the University
of California in Berkeley and in Los Angeles, Florida University, the University
of Wisconsin, and the University of Hawaii.
A CPA, is a Managing Director at Lehman Brothers and was formerly Tax Partner-in-Charge of the Capital Markets Group at KPMG Peat Marwick in New York. In these capacities, has participated in numerous transactions where his focus has been on devising tax and accounting oriented solutions to business problems. Is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants where he served as Chairman of the Committee on Revision of the corporate tax laws. Is also a member of the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants and chaired that organization's Committtee on Distributions, Liquidations and Reorganizations. Is the author of Taxation of Corporate Capital Transactions (John Wiley & Sons Inc. 1984) and has authored over 200 articles for publications that include The Journal of Taxation, Tax Notes, The Tax Adviser, The Journal of Accountancy and The CPA Journal. Is a contributing editor to The Journal of Accountancy and The Journal of Taxation of Investments, and serves on the editorial board of The Journal of Accountancy. Is quoted extensively in the business press including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Barron's and The New York Times and has been named (in each of the past three years) by the CPA Review as one of the 25 most quoted certified public accountants in the United States. Is a frequent lecturer on corporate and investment tax topics and has participated in New York University's Annual Institute on Federal Taxation, National College of Tax Practice sponsored by Arizona State University and The Georgetown Law Center's Annual Tax Institute. Was named to Institutional Investor's All American Research Team in 1990, 1992, 1993-95 in the Accounting Category.