Board of Overseers

Born May 5, 1945, César Alierta holds a degree in law from the University of Zaragoza and earned an MBA at Columbia Business School in 1970.

Mr. Alierta has been chairman and chief executive officer of Telefónica, S.A., since July 2000, and member of the board of directors of China Netcom (CNC) and of Telecom Italia. He also has been a member of the board of O2 since 2006.

Between 1970 and 1985, Mr. Alierta was general manager of the capital markets division at Banco Urquijo in Madrid. Subsequently, he was the chairman and founder of Beta Capital, which in 1991 he combined with his post as chairman of the Spanish Financial Analysts’ Association. He has also been a member of the board of directors and standing committee of the Madrid Stock Exchange. Between 1996 and 2000, he held the post of chairman of Tabacalera, S.A., and subsequently, Altadis, following the company’s merger with the French group Seita. He joined the board of directors of Telefónica on January 29, 1997.

Among his most recent awards, in September 2005 Mr. Alierta received “The Global Spanish Entrepreneur” award from the Spanish-U.S. Chamber of Commerce in recognition of the Telefónica Group’s success in joining the Dow Jones Global Titans 50 index. Telefónica is the first Spanish company and one of the few European ones to belong to this index, which consists of the 50 biggest companies in the world.

In April 2008, Mr. Alierta was appointed chairman of the social board of the UNED (National Distance Education University).

Louis Bacon is founder, chairman, chief executive officer and principal investment manager of Moore Capital Management, LP. Moore Capital, founded in 1989, is a private investment management firm that invests in the global financial markets and private equity markets.

Headquartered in New York, with additional offices in Washington, D.C., and London, Moore Capital provides investment management services to its institutional and high net worth clients through several privately offered funds, including two global diversified hedge funds, as well as funds that concentrate in the global fixed income and emerging market sectors.

Mr. Bacon is also the founder and chairman of the Moore Charitable Foundation, Inc. He established the foundation in 1992 to provide financial support to nonprofit organizations that focus primarily on land and water conservation.

Prior to founding Moore Capital in 1989, Mr. Bacon was a senior vice president — futures at Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. He previously held positions at Walter N. Frank & Co., a NYSE specialist firm, and at Bankers Trust.

A native of North Carolina, Mr. Bacon earned an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School and holds a BA in American literature from Middlebury College in Vermont, for which he serves as a trustee.

Andrew F. Barth is president of Capital Guardian Trust Company, chairman of Capital International Limited, executive vice president of Capital Group International Inc., and vice chairman of Capital International Research, Inc. He also serves as a director for the Capital Group Companies, Inc. He is a member of the Global Institutional Group executive office and the Capital Group Companies management committee.

Mr. Barth joined the Capital Group Companies in 1985 after completing his MBA at Columbia Business School. He graduated from Columbia summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Mr. Barth is based in Los Angeles. His civic duties include serving on the board of trustees for the American Ballet Theater, the Center for the Study of the Presidency, the California Science Center Foundation and Pomona College, and on the board of overseers for the Huntington Museum, Library and Gardens.

Wolfgang Bernhard is a member of the supervisory board of OeIAG in Austria. Mr. Bernhard was born on September 3, 1960, in Boehen, Germany. After attending school in Bavaria and obtaining his Abitur, he completed a master’s degree in electrical engineering and economics at the Technical University Darmstadt in 1986 and received his MBA from Columbia Business School in 1988. He completed his doctoral degree, with a dissertation on international exchange rate risks, at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt in 1990. During his graduate studies, he received scholarships from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes and the DAAD.

Mr. Bernhard joined then Mercedes-Benz in 1992 as a project manager for the reduction of material costs and increase in productivity in Mercedes-Benz AG assembly plants. In 1994, he became S-Class assembly center manager at the Mercedes-Benz AG Sindelfingen plant, with responsibility for the S-Class launch. He was promoted to managing director of Mercedes-AMG GmbH in 1999. Mr. Bernhard was appointed a member of the board of management of DaimlerChrysler AG in November 2000 and held the position of chief operating officer of the Chrysler Group from November 2000 until April 2004. During this time he was responsible for the turnaround of the Chrysler Group. In February 2005, he joined the board of the Volkswagen AG and became chairman of the VW Group brands (Volkswagen, Skoda, Bentley and Bugatti) from May 2005 to February 2007. During this time, he was responsible for the turnaround of the Volkswagen brand.

From March to July 2007, he was instrumental with the sale of the Chrysler Group of DaimlerChrysler AG to Cerberus. In April 2009, he rejoined Daimler AG as head of the Mercedes-Benz Light Truck Division.

Jean-Luc Biamonti is the chairman of the Société des Bains de Mer in the Principality of Monaco. He was born in Monaco and received his undergraduate degree from ESSEC in Paris. After three years of working with the French bank Paribas, he attended the Columbia Business School and received his MBA (Beta Gamma Sigma) in 1978.

From 1979 to 1980, Mr. Biamonti was head of the mergers and acquisitions department of the Nestlé Group, and he served as vice president of finance for Nestlé Capital Corporation from 1981 to 1982. In 1983, he joined the First Boston Corporation/CSFB in its New York mergers and acquisitions department.

He moved to its London office in 1984, where he was responsible for southern Europe M&A activities until 1987. Mr. Biamonti joined Wasserstein Perella in 1988 as managing director and cohead of the London office. He was responsible for continental Europe M&A activities until 1991, when he became managing director at Crédit Lyonnais Securities, serving as head of worldwide M&A business for the Crédit Lyonnais Group.

Mr. Biamonti joined Goldman Sachs International in 1993 as vice president in charge of key relations in France and Belgium. He was promoted to managing director in 1996, to cohead of investment banking for France and Belgium in 2000 and to head of the consumer and retail group in 2002. Mr. Biamonti was chairman of the consumer and retail group when he concluded his career at Goldman Sachs International.

He has an interest in contemporary art. Mr. Biamonti and his wife, Joelle, have three sons.

Daniele D. Bodini is chairman of American Continental Properties Group (ACP), a diversified real estate group in North America and Europe. ACP is involved in the investment and development of office and apartment buildings, hotels, parking facilities and shopping centers in the U.S. and Europe.

Mr. Bodini is the ambassador of the Republic of San Marino to the United Nations, chairman of the American-Italian Cancer Foundation, chairman of the Foundation for Italian Art and Culture and guarantor of the Italian Academy at Columbia University. He is a member of the boards of the European School of Oncology, the Endowment for Inner-City Education and the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association in Cody, Wyo., as well as a member of the Council for the United States and Italy.

Mr. Bodini was born in Italy and received an MA in engineering from the University of Rome in 1968 and an MA in architecture in 1970. In 1972, he received an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Anne Busquet is principal at AMB Advisors, where she advises companies on business strategy, marketing and development, and a managing director at Golden Seeds Group, an angel investment group.

Ms. Busquet started her career at Hilton International in Paris before joining the American Express Company in New York, where she held several high executive positions, including senior vice president, merchandises services; executive vice president, card marketing U.S.; president of relationship services; and president of interactive services and new businesses. She created and led a strategic venture group that invested $360 million over five years in businesses and start-ups. Simultaneously, as a division president within the American Express Company, she led global interactive initiatives and sat on the American Express executive committee

Within InterActiveCorp (IAC), an Internet commerce conglomerate, Ms. Busquet became chief executive officer of Local and Media Services and led a group of businesses with revenues of $300 million that included Citysearch, Evite, Entertainment Publications (EPI), ServiceMagic and TripAdvisor (until the August 2005 Expedia spin-off).

She serves on the boards of Pitney Bowes, Blyth, Inc., and Invoke Solutions and on the advisory boards of JEGI and Second Space.

Ms. Busquet received her BS from Cornell University and her MBA from Columbia Business School. She is a trustee of French Institute Alliance Française and previously served on the boards of Teach For America and Harlem Children’s Zone.

Daniel M. Cain is chairman of Cain Brothers & Company LLC, a healthcare investment banking firm founded in 1982, and a general partner of its private equity affiliates, CB Health Ventures and Health Enterprise Partners. His prior professional experience includes corporate and real estate finance with Merrill Lynch, Blyth Eastman Dillon and Salomon Brothers.

Mr. Cain is a director of several companies, including Sheridan Healthcare, Brim Healthcare and NATIXIS-Loomis Sayles Mutual Funds. He is chairman of the Norman Rockwell Museum and a member of the boards of the American Heart Association and Brown University School of Medicine.

Mr. Cain has a bachelor’s degree in American civilization from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Paul Calello is chief executive officer of the global Investment Bank of Credit Suisse, and a member of the executive boards of Credit Suisse and Credit Suisse Group. Previously, Mr. Calello was chief executive officer for all of Credit Suisse’s operations in the Asia Pacific region.

He has held management positions at Credit Suisse in Tokyo, London, Hong Kong and New York. He joined the bank in 1990 as a founding member of the former financial derivatives subsidiary of Credit Suisse First Boston.

Mr. Calello earned an undergraduate degree from Villanova University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Foreign Policy Association. He is a member of the board of directors of the New York Philharmonic and serves as a trustee of the Credit Suisse Foundation.

Russell Carson attended public high school in Toledo, Ohio, prior to receiving a BA degree in economics from Dartmouth College in 1965 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1967.

Since 1978, Mr. Carson has been a general partner of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS), one of the country’s largest private investment firms, which he cofounded. Over the past 30 years, WCAS has raised 15 institutionally funded limited partnerships with total capital in excess of $20 billion and has invested in more than 250 companies. The firm has evolved into the leading specialist in the buyout of privately owned companies in the information services and healthcare industries. Unlike many buyout firms, WCAS emphasizes the growth of acquired businesses and ultimately seeks its financial returns through access to the public stock market. Mr. Carson has focused on WCAS’s healthcare investment activities and is a director of four portfolio companies.

From 1967 to 1978, he was employed by the Citicorp Venture Capital subsidiary of Citicorp and served as its chairman and chief executive officer from 1974 to 1978.

Active in community affairs, Mr. Carson is a trustee of Dartmouth College, chairman of the Rockefeller University board of trustees, a trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a director of the Partnership for New York City, cochairman of the New York City Investment Fund, a director of the World Trade Center Memorial Foundation and chairman of the Endowment for Inner-City Education. He resides in New York City with his wife, Judy, and their two children.

Max Chapman is chairman of Gardner Capital Management Corp., a private investment management firm in New York City.

From 1989 until 1999, Mr. Chapman held several executive positions within the Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) group of companies. In 1989, he was named cochairman of Nomura Holding America Inc., and he was appointed chief executive officer in June 1992, a title he held until he became nonexecutive chairman in 1996. He became a director of the Nomura Securities Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) in 1990 and was promoted to managing director in 1996. He served as chairman of Nomura Europe Holding plc (London) in 1997 and 1998. He relinquished all Nomura positions effective March 1999.

From 1969 until 1989, Mr. Chapman was employed at Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. He began his career at Kidder, Peabody in the corporate finance department, serving as an investment banker until 1980, during which time he became vice president and shareholder. In 1980, he founded the financial futures department, and in 1983 he became director of the fixed-income group while retaining his other responsibilities. In 1986, he cofounded the high-yield bond group, and a year later he was appointed director of Kidder, Peabody’s global capital markets group. In 1987, he was elected president and chief operating officer of Kidder, Peabody Group, Inc., the holding company, and president and chief executive officer of Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc., its investment banking and broker-dealer subsidiary. He also served as a member of the board of directors and vice chairman of the management committee of Kidder, Peabody Group, Inc., and was a member of the board of directors of General Electric Capital Corporation and General Electric Financial Services, Inc.

Mr. Chapman joined the board of directors of the American Stock Exchange in December 1990 and became a vice chairman in May 1996, a position he held until the AMEX was sold to the NASD in October 1998. During this time, Mr. Chapman also served as a director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the Futures Industry Association and the Securities Industry Association. He is also chairman of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Foundation Investment Fund, Inc., chairman of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and a trustee of the Grand Teton National Park Foundation and the National Air and Space Museum.

Mr. Chapman received a BA in economics with honors in 1966 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MBA in finance in 1969 from Columbia Business School. He has a daughter and two married sons. Mr. Chapman is an avid golfer as well as an instrument-rated pilot and collector of WWII fighter aircraft.

Arnie Chavkin is a managing director at Pine Brook Road Partners, LLC, a growth-oriented private equity firm. He retired in 1986 as chief investment officer at J.P. Morgan Partners (JPMP), a multibillion-dollar private-equity firm affiliated with JPMorgan Chase.

Prior to joining JPMP in 1990, Mr. Chavkin was a member of Chemical Bank’s merchant banking group and a generalist in its corporate finance group, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and private placements for the energy industry.

His experience prior to Chemical Bank included corporate development for Freeport McMoRan as well as positions with Gulf + Western Industries and Arthur Young & Company.

Mr. Chavkin is a certified public accountant. He received his BA degree from Columbia College and his MBA degree from Columbia Business School. He is a director of Noble Environmental Power and PQ Corporation and a member of the Columbia College board of visitors.

Jerome Chazen is founder and chairman of Chazen Capital Partners, a private investment firm. He is also chairman emeritus and one of four founding partners of Liz Claiborne, Inc. He was largely responsible for the innovative sales, marketing, distribution and licensing programs that are an integral part of Liz Claiborne’s success.

Prior to joining the venture that would become Liz Claiborne, he worked as an analyst on Wall Street and spent 16 years in retailing. Mr. Chazen is a trustee emeritus of Columbia University and chairman emeritus of the board of the Museum of Arts & Design. He is also a managing director of the Metropolitan Opera Association. He serves on the boards of directors of Taubman Centers, Inc., Atrinsic, Inc., the New York City Investment Fund, the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund and the Shenkar College American Committee. He is also a partner and member of the board of the Partnership for New York City.

Mr. Chazen, the founder and benefactor of the School’s Jerome A. Chazen Institute of International Business, is a trustee of the National Jewish Center of Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, vice chairman of the board of directors of the Greater New York Council of the Boy Scouts of America and a member of the advisory board of the Louis Armstrong House and Archives at Queens College in Flushing, N.Y.

Mr. Chazen and his wife, Simona, have three children and seven grandchildren and live in Upper Nyack, N.Y. He is an avid art collector and jazz enthusiast.

Christopher Cheng is the chairman of Wing Tai Corporation Ltd. His contacts and experiences in China and Asia are very strong, and he conducts business in Europe and the U.S. markets as well as through USI Holdings and the Gieves Group.

Mr. Cheng has served as a member of the board of directors of many business and public organizations, including the Securities and Futures Commission, the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee (the de facto board of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority), the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (past), the Standing Committee on Judicial Salaries and Conditions of Service Hong Kong (chairman), DBS Group Holdings Ltd., NWS Holdings Limited, PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited, the Hong Kong Chamber of Commerce (past chairman) and the Hong Kong Jockey Club (steward).

He has also served on the advisory and trustee boards for such institutions as the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Temasek Foundation CLG Limited, and he is a charter member of the President’s Council on International Activities of the Yale University.

Mr. Cheng earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA from Columbia Business School. He was awarded an O.B.E. in 1992 and a Gold Bauhinia Star in 2004.

Giuseppe Ciardi, senior partner and chief investment officer of Park Place Capital Limited, received a BS in civil engineering from the University of Rome in 1977 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1981.

Mr. Ciardi began his career in 1981 as an associate with the fixed income group of Morgan Stanley. In 1985, he moved to London to become a founding partner of the capital markets group of Lazard Brothers & Co., London, where he comanaged proprietary capital for the firm. In 1990, he became a partner with the Banque Nationale de Paris Investment Group London, managing BNP’s proprietary investment capital.

In 1992, Mr. Ciardi began the London investment arm of Cominvest UK Ltd., a subsidiary of Cirio. In 1993, he undertook the management buyout that created Park Place Capital. To manage its proprietary capital, he assembled a trading team made up of highly experienced professionals who had worked with him over many years. Today, Park Place Capital is composed of four hedge funds with separate mandates as well as individual managed accounts with total assets in excess of U.S.$600 million. Park Place Capital’s overall investment strategy is a global macroeconomic approach focusing on blue-chip, large-capitalization companies.

By the end of 1999, the stunning success of the Park Place International D fund was described in Barron’s as “breaking all known performance records and probably securing a place in hedge-fund history for the next millennium” (February 14, 2000).

Mr. Ciardi is a member of the President’s Circle of Tufts University and a sponsor of the Columbia Business School Pan-European Reunion. He is a benefactor and a development patron of Sussex House School, London, and an active member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. He has appeared on CNN’s World Business Today and is a regular guest speaker at conferences and seminars worldwide. He is an active supporter of the independent asset management industry and an official investor and supporter of the EASDAQ stock exchange.

A 1967 graduate of Boston University, Howard Clark received an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1968. Mr. Clark has been a vice chairman in the investment banking division of Barclays Capital, an investment banking firm, since September 2008. He previously served as vice chairman of Lehman Brothers Inc. from February 1993 to September 2008, and before that, as chairman and chief executive officer of Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers in 1990, he was executive vice president and chief financial officer of the American Express Company.

Mr. Clark is a member of the board of directors of Mueller Water Products, Inc., White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd., United Rentals, Inc., and Walter Energy, Inc. Additionally, he serves on the board of trustees of the Boys’ Club of New York and the Central Park Conservancy and is a member of the board of advisors of the Edward S. Harkness Eye Institute at Columbia University Medical Center.

Patrick Combes assumed leadership of Viel & Cie in 1979, subsequently transforming the company from a modest domestic player in France into a holding company controlling CFT, Compagnie Financière Tradition, one of the world’s leading interdealer brokers.

A leader in a broad range of financial products, the company operates a large network of subsidiaries in the world’s major financial centers—London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore—but in total present in 27 countries and has more than 2,000 employees around the world.

In addition, Mr. Combes is the shareholder of Bourse Direct, which is the fourth-largest online broker in France, and he also has a 40 percent stake in Swiss Life, a private bank.

Mr. Combes is a member of the BIM commission since 2001 (Fédération Bancaire Française), of the strategic committee of Paris Europlace since 1994 and of the Euro 50 Group. He is also vice president of the Turgot Association and a member of the board of directors of Planet Finance since 2003.

Mr. Combes attended the École des Affaires Européennes (ESCP-EAP) in Paris and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is a knight of the Légion d’honneur, a distinguished decoration in France.

After 25 years of service, Lee Cooperman retired from his positions as general partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and as chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Asset Management to organize a private investment partnership under the direction of Omega Advisors in 1991.

At Goldman Sachs, Mr. Cooperman spent 15 years as partner, and from 1990 to 1991 he held the position as of counsel to the management committee.

In 1989, he became chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and was chief investment officer of the equity product line, which included managing the GS Capital Growth Fund, an open-end mutual fund, for 18 months. Prior to those appointments, Mr. Cooperman spent 22 years in the investment research department as partner-in-charge, cochairman of the investment policy committee and chairman of the stock selection committee.

For nine consecutive years, he was voted the No. 1 portfolio strategist in the Institutional Investor All-America Research Team survey. Mr. Cooperman continues to serve as a limited partner of the Goldman Sachs Group, LP.

As a designated chartered financial analyst, Mr. Cooperman is a senior member and past president of the New York Society of Security Analysts. He is a member of the board of directors and chair of the audit committee of Automatic Data Processing, Inc., a trustee of Saint Barnabas Hospital and chairman of the Saint Barnabas Development Foundation. He is also a member of the board of directors of the Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon–Walter Winchell Foundation, a trustee of New Jersey Performing Arts Center and board chairman of Green Spaces, a committee organized to rebuild 13 parks in Newark, N.J.

Mr. Cooperman received his MBA from Columbia Business School and his undergraduate degree from Hunter College. He is the recipient of an honorary doctor of finance degree from Roger Williams University and was inducted into Hunter College’s Hall of Fame. He and his wife, Toby, have two sons and three grandchildren.

Norman Eig retired as the chairman and chief executive officer of Lazard Asset Management LLC and the vice chairman of Lazard Frères in 2006 with more than 35 years of investment experience.

He was also the chairman of the board of directors of the Lazard Funds, Inc., and Lazard Retirement Series, Inc.

Mr. Eig has spent his entire career in asset management. Prior to joining Lazard in 1982, he was a general partner at Oppenheimer & Co., as well as a managing director of Oppenheimer Capital Corp., which he joined in 1973.

Mr. Eig is chairman of the board of the New York University Cancer Institute and serves on the board of trustees of the New York University Langone Medical Center and of the Endowment for Inner-City Education. He also serves on the board of directors for the Pay-O-Matic Check Cashing Corporation and on the advisory board of Banfi Vintners.

He received a BS from Ohio State University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Mr. Eig is married and lives with his wife, Barbara, in Jupiter, Florida. He has three adult children and four grandchildren.

Carol Einiger is president of Post Rock Advisors, LLC, a private investment advisory firm based in New York.

Ms. Einiger received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970 and her MBA from Columbia Business School in 1973. She worked at Goldman Sachs from 1971 to 1972 and at the First Boston Corporation from 1973 to 1988, where she became a managing director and head of the capital markets department. From 1988 to 1989, Ms. Einiger served as an executive in residence and visiting professor at Columbia Business School, and from 1989 to 1992, as a managing director at Wasserstein, Perella & Co. From 1992 to 1996, she served as chief financial officer and then acting president of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation.

Beginning in 1996, she served for nine years as chief investment officer of the Rockefeller University, until establishing Post Rock Advisors in 2005.

Ms. Einiger is a director of Boston Properties, Inc., the Lasker Foundation and the New York Stem Cell Foundation and a member of the investment committees of UJA-Federation of New York and the Lasker Foundation. She previously served on the boards of trustees and investment committees of the University of Pennsylvania and the Horace Mann School, as vice chair of the investment committee of the Museum of Modern Art, as a director of Credit Suisse First Boston (USA) and on the advisory board of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, LP.

Ms. Einiger has received numerous awards, including the Alumni Award of Merit of the University of Pennsylvania, the Columbia Business School Distinguished Alumna Award, the Anti-Defamation League Woman of Achievement Award and the Catalyst Award for Corporate Leadership.

Ms. Einiger and her husband live in New York and are the parents of a 30-year-old son.

Brad Evans is a managing director of Morgan Stanley and a vice chairman of the firm’s investment banking department. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1970, became a vice president in 1976 and was elected a managing director in 1979.

During his career he has served as cohead of Morgan Stanley’s mergers and acquisitions department and has also been head of the firm’s European investment banking business, based in London.

Mr. Evans received a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth in 1964. Following his graduation he served four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He received an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1970. Mr. Evans is a member of the board of trustees of Dartmouth College.

Meyer Feldberg served as dean and professor at Columbia Business School for 15 years. He received a BA from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, an MBA from Columbia Business School and a PhD from the University of Cape Town. He has been a visiting professor at the Cranfield School of Management in England, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and INSEAD in France.

After graduating from Columbia, Professor Feldberg was employed by the B.F. Goodrich Company in Akron, Ohio. In 1972, he was appointed dean of the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business. In 1979, he became director of executive education and associate dean at Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. In September 1981, he was appointed dean of Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business, and in 1986 he became president of the Illinois Institute of Technology.

In 1989, Professor Feldberg returned to Columbia as professor of management and dean of the Business School. In 2003, he was named the Sanford C. Bernstein Professor of Leadership and Ethics and held the chair until 2007. He stepped down as dean in June 2004 and was appointed dean emeritus.

Professor Feldberg is a director of Macy’s, Primedia Inc., Revlon, Inc., Sappi Limited and UBS Funds. He is the author of a number of articles and books, including Organization Behavior: Text and Cases.

In 2007, Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed Professor Feldberg president of New York City Global Partners. He works with the mayor’s office on New York City’s relationships with 40 other global cities.

Professor Feldberg, who participated in numerous international swimming meets in the late 1950s and 1960s, is a keen sportsman who especially enjoys skiing and hiking. He serves on the board of the New York City Ballet, the world’s premier company. He is married to Barbara, an artist, and has two married children and six grandchildren.

Paul Ferri, a venture capitalist for more than 35 years, was the founding partner of Matrix Partners in 1982. Prior to Matrix, he founded Hellman Ferri Investment Associates (1977 to 1982) and was a general partner of WestVen Management (1970 to 1978).

The family of Matrix Partnerships has achieved industry record-setting returns over the last 15 years. The Matrix Partners V Partnership has achieved the highest rate of return in the history of the venture capital industry. In 2003, Mr. Ferri was inducted into the Private Equity Hall of Fame, which cited his work “in founding and helping to build Matrix Partners into one of the most successful venture firms in the industry.” In February 2001, Forbes magazine selected

Mr. Ferri as one of the Top 20 Venture Investors of all time and the “Best VC in Boston.” Also in 2001, he received the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council Award for “Venture Capitalist of the Year.”

Mr. Ferri serves or previously served on the boards of directors of Airvana, Applix, ArrowPoint Communications, Ascend Communications, Atria Software, Banctec, Bytex, Cascade Communications, Codex Corporation, Empirix, Paradyne, Redstone Communications, Sonus Networks, Stratus Computer, Sycamore Networks, VideoServer, Winphoria Networks, Xyplex and numerous other private companies.

Lawrence Flinn earned a BA degree from Yale University in 1957 and an MBA degree from Columbia Business School in 1960. After graduating from business school, Mr. Flinn worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York until the end of 1964. He then joined the Bogdan Company, a venture capital firm.

Mr. Flinn was attracted to the nascent field of cable television because it was a natural monopoly within municipal boundaries and a good place for smaller businessmen to operate. When Bogdan chose not to invest in cable television, Mr. Flinn bought Vestal Video, Inc., a small operation in suburban Binghamton, N.Y. He moved to the Binghamton area to manage the fledgling business, which was later renamed United Video Cablevision, Inc. (UVCI). In about four years Mr. Flinn boosted the number of subscribers from 3,000 to nearly 15,000, and by 1970 UVCI served about 15 communities in upstate New York.

In 1975 Mr. Flinn purchased United Video, Inc. (UVI), which used towers and microwave technology to transmit television signals from WGN-TV Chicago and other big-city stations in places such as Dallas and Houston to smaller underserved cable television markets in the central United States. In 1976, UVI began using, with FCC permission, an uplink to transmit the signal of the popular WGN, which broadcast Chicago Bulls basketball games, featuring Michael Jordan, Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox baseball games. The innovation was an almost immediate success, and before long UVI was distributing WGN by satellite to more than 60 million homes. UVI then changed its name to United Video Satellite Group (UVSG). The next big success for UVSG was the Prevue Channel, a program guide that UVSG individually customized for each cable television system to which it delivered program-guide listings. By 1998, the Prevue Channel (now called the TV Guide Channel) was distributed to more than 40 million homes nationwide.

Mr. Flinn took UVSG public in 1993. Through its SpaceCom Systems subsidiary, UVSG provided space-segment transmission for the Satellite Music Network (which it also founded) and for 5 of the country’s 10 largest paging companies. UVSG also developed the Sneak Prevue Channel, which promoted pay-per-view subscriptions on cable television systems for more than 26 million homes and by 2000, there were more than 10 million premium digital guide subscribers to the TV Guide Channel service, in addition to the more than 40 million viewers to the analog guide service. In addition, UVSG provided programming services for 4 million homes equipped with the original 9 meter satellite receiving dishes. This was a very profitable business for the Company. Under Mr. Flinn’s ownership and leadership as chief executive officer, UVSG’s revenues increased from $7 million in 1976 to well over $1 billion in 1998.

In 1995, Mr. Flinn decided to exit the cable television field and to sell UVCI. He sold the 162,000 cable subscribers that he had built up in eight states from Maine to New Mexico. At the time of the sale, he was the 42nd-largest multiple system operator of cable television systems in the United States. Beginning in 1996, Mr. Flinn sold control of UVSG over the next couple of years, and in 1998 he retired. Mr. Flinn and his wife, Stephanie, live in Jupiter Island, Fla. They have three children: Lawrence III, Marion and Adriane.

When Lew Frankfort joined Coach, Inc., in 1979 as vice president of new business development, the company’s sales were just $6 million.

Mr. Frankfort, now chairman and chief executive officer, has literally transformed Coach from a cottage-industry manufacturer of leather goods into the premier American accessories brand. As of June 2008, under Mr. Frankfort’s stewardship, Coach’s annual sales reached $3.2 billion.

In his 30 years with the company, Mr. Frankfort has continued to build upon Coach’s strong customer franchise by broadening product offerings, modernizing stores, accelerating retail expansion, improving operational efficiency and growing the brand’s international presence. At the beginning of his career at Coach, Mr. Frankfort spearheaded the development of Coach Stores and its introduction into international markets. In 1985, Coach was acquired by Sara Lee Corporation, and he was appointed president of Coach. In 1995, Mr. Frankfort was named chairman and chief executive officer. During 2000, he oversaw Coach’s transition to a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Prior to his corporate career, Mr. Frankfort held various positions in the public sector, spending 10 years in New York City government. For three of those years, he served as commissioner of the Agency for Child Development and helped restore New York’s Head Start and day care programs during the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s.

Mr. Frankfort holds a BA from Hunter College and an MBA in marketing from Columbia Business School.

Mr. Frankfort also serves on the board of directors of Teach for America, a public-private partnership aimed at eliminating educational inequity in America.

Robert Friedman is president of @radical.media’s global entertainment company that specializes in the production and distribution of film, TV and digital content. The company’s credits include the Academy Award–winning The Fog of War, the Grammy-winning A Concert for George, Jay-Z’s Fade to Black, The Iconoclasts, the Emmy-winning series 10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America, the pilot episode of Mad Men and MTV’s Britney: For the Record. Radical Media has also developed cross-platform initiatives, including driverTV, a hi-def video-on-demand auto channel in partnership with NBC.

Previously, Mr. Friedman was president of Classic Media: Harvey & Golden Books Entertainment, overseeing the company’s burgeoning portfolio of family-oriented properties. The company was sold to a private equity investor and subsequently to a large UK-based entertainment company.

Prior to joining Classic Media, Mr. Friedman was a top-ranked executive with AOL Time Warner, where his positions included president of New Line TV and cochairman of New Line Cinema in charge of worldwide theatrical marketing for such films as Austin Powers and Lord of the Rings. At AOL he was president of AOL Interactive Marketing and Television. He also served as the chief marketing officer of Time Warner.

Mr. Friedman serves on the boards of Mount Sinai Hospital, Vassar College and the Big Apple Circus and is a member of the International Academy of TV Arts & Sciences. He has been a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO) for almost two decades. He is also on the board of the Morgans Hotel Group, which includes Hard Rock Casino, Delano and Hudson properties, among others.

Mr. Friedman is married to Elissa Gretz, MD, who grew up in Schenectady, N.Y., attended Vassar College and most recently headed the Benign Gynecology Division of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Dr. Gretz is now medical director of the GYN clinical staff at Mount Sinai Medical Center. They have two daughters, 20 and 18 years old, who both attend Williams College.

Mario Gabelli is chairman and chief executive officer of GAMCO Investors, Inc.

Mr. Gabelli is a summa cum laude graduate of Fordham University and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

A chartered financial analyst, Mr. Gabelli and the firm’s team of research analysts identify stocks based on his proprietary Private Market Value (PMV) with a Catalyst methodology that is now an analytical standard.

Mr. Gabelli is also chairman of LICT Corporation. He is a member of the Economic Club of New York.

Born in Rome in 1947, Gabriele Galateri di Genola received a classical education at the Ennio Quirino Visconti High School in Rome and earned a law degree from the University of Rome. He earned his MBA from Columbia Business School in 1972.

From 1969 to 1970, Mr. Galateri was an assistant lecturer of economics at Rome University. Starting in 1971, he worked at Banco di Roma as the head of the financial analysis department and later as head of the international financial department. He was financial director at Saint-Gobain in Italy and then assistant to the financial group director in Paris.

In 1977, Mr. Galateri joined FIAT S.p.A., where he moved from head of North, Central and South American operations at the International Finance Office to head of international finance and, ultimately, director of finance. He was named managing director of IFIL S.p.A in 1986 and became the managing director and general manager of IFI S.p.A. in 1993. He rejoined Fiat S.p.A. in 2002 as chief executive officer, a position he held until December 2002. He then served as chairman of Mediobanca S.p.A. until June 2007. In December 2007, he was appointed chairman of Telecom Italia.

Mr. Galateri is vice chairman of Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. He is a nonexecutive member of the boards of TIM Participações S.A., Banca Esperia S.p.A., Banca CRS S.p.A., Italmobiliare S.p.A., Fiera di Genova S.p.A., UTET S.p.A., Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia—Foundation Istituto Europeo di Oncologia and Accor S.A. He is a member of the general council and the executive board as well as the chairman representative for telecommunications and broadband development of Confindustria.

Married with one daughter, Mr. Galateri has been awarded the Cavaliere del Lavore honor.

Mark Gallogly is cofounder and managing principal of Centerbridge Partners, LP. Centerbridge is a multistrategy investment firm with more than $6 billion assets under management. The firm is focused on private equity, distressed debt and credit investing. Prior to founding Centerbridge in partnership with Jeffrey H. Aronson in October 2005, Mr. Gallogly was at the Blackstone Group, where he was most recently a senior managing director, the head of private equity and a member of the group’s management committee and the private equity group’s investment committee.

In his more than 16 years at Blackstone, Mr. Gallogly has been involved in a broad spectrum of industries, businesses and investment cycles. He has served on numerous public and private company boards of directors. He is currently on President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, the advisory council of the Hamilton Project, an economic policy group at the Brookings Institution, and the board of directors of the Dana Corporation.

Mr. Gallogly graduated with honors from the University of Notre Dame and attended Sophia University in Tokyo. He received his MBA from Columbia Business School in 1986. He lives in New York City with his wife, Lise Strickler, and their three daughters.

Nathan Gantcher is a managing member of EXOP Capital LLC. He is the former vice chairman of CIBC World Markets Corporation, the U.S. Section broker/dealer of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). CIBC acquired Oppenheimer & Company in November 1997. Mr. Gantcher had been with Oppenheimer since 1968 and served as its president and co–chief executive officer from 1983 until the firm was acquired in 1997.

In 2003, Mr. Gantcher retired from the board of trustees of Tufts University, where he had been a member since 1983 and chairman for the last eight years. He is a director of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation, Liquidnet and Liberty Acquisitions Holdings Corp.

Mr. Gantcher is a member of the steering committee of the Wall Street division of the U.J.A., a past director of the Jewish Communal Fund, a trustee of the Anti-Defamation League and cochairman of the “I Have A Dream” Foundation.

Mr. Gantcher received a BA from Tufts University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Philip Geier became chairman and chief executive officer of the Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc., in 1980. He retired from this position at the end of December 2000.

In February 2001, he formed the Geier Group to provide consulting/advisory services in the marketing, communications and venture capital areas.

Additionally, Mr. Geier is a senior advisor for Lazard Frères & Co. LLC and serves on the boards of directors of AEA Investors, Inc., and Fiduciary Trust International. His philanthropic relationships as director or trustee include Autism Speaks, the International Tennis Hall of Fame, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Save the Children Federation, Inc., and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Mr. Geier holds a BA in economics from Colgate University (1957) and an MBA in marketing and finance from Columbia Business School (1958).

Lawrence Glaubinger was born in Newark, N.J. He grew up in New York and Philadelphia and graduated from Philadelphia’s Central High School. After serving in the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II, he graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from Indiana University in 1949.

Mr. Glaubinger began his business career at Ronson, Inc., as administrative assistant to the president. He went on to spend 14 years with United Merchants Manufacturers, Inc., rising to merchandise manager of imported fabrics. He left United Merchants in 1966 to start the Channel Textile Company, where he remained until 1975, when he sold his interest.

In midcareer he attended Columbia Business School, receiving an MBA in 1977. He participated in a leveraged buyout of Stern + Stern Industries and took the company private. He is president of and a major stockholder in Lawrence Economic Consulting, Inc., which does consulting work for leveraged buyouts.

Mr. Glaubinger is a director of Leucadia National Corporation. He is a director of the Indiana University Foundation, a member of the Indiana University Business School Dean’s Advisory Council and a member of the board of advisors for Indiana University’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation and for Indiana University’s President’s Cabinet. At Indiana University, Mr. Glaubinger is also a member of the Hoosier Hundred, chairman of the Dean’s Associates and a life member of the alumni association. He was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by Indiana University and was elected to the Indiana University Business School’s Academy of Alumni Fellows.

From 1980 to 1982, Mr. Glaubinger headed Columbia Business School’s annual fund drive. He was also cochairman of the fund-raising campaign for Columbia Business School from 1983 to 1987.

Mr. Glaubinger is an active skier and golfer and a member of the Green Brook Country Club and the Princeton Club of New York.

He and his wife, Lucienne, live in Hallandale, Fla.

James Gorman is copresident of Morgan Stanley, a leading global financial services firm. He reports to chairman and chief executive officer John J. Mack and serves as a member of the Morgan Stanley management committee.

In this role, Mr. Gorman works closely with copresident Walid A. Chammah across all aspects of Morgan Stanley’s business. The firm’s Global Wealth Management Group (GWMG) and Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) report to Mr. Gorman on a day-to-day basis, as do the operations and technology functions. He also coheads corporate strategy.

In addition to these duties, Mr. Gorman will serve as chairman of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, a new joint venture between Morgan Stanley and Citi that was announced in January 2009 and will become an industry-leading wealth management organization upon closure, which is expected later in 2009.

Mr. Gorman joined Morgan Stanley in February 2006 as president and chief operating officer of GWMG. One of the largest businesses of its kind in the world, GWMG provides a range of wealth management products and services to individuals, businesses and institutions through a network of nearly 500 offices worldwide.

Before joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Gorman held a succession of executive positions at Merrill Lynch. From 2001 to 2005, he led the company’s U.S. and, subsequently, global private client businesses, the equivalent of GWMG at Morgan Stanley. He joined Merrill Lynch in 1999 as chief marketing officer and also served as head of strategy and research.

Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Gorman was a senior partner of McKinsey & Company, where he was a member of the firm’s financial services practice. Earlier in his career, he was an attorney in Melbourne, Australia.

Mr. Gorman serves as a trustee of the Spence and St. Bernard’s Schools in New York City and cochairs the business committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in Washington, D.C., and served as chairman in 2006.

A native of Australia, Mr. Gorman earned a BA and a law degree from the University of Melbourne and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Michael Gould became chairman and chief executive officer of Bloomingdale’s in November 1991. His tenure has seen the greatest period of transformation and growth in the store’s history, expanding from 16 units, mainly in the East, to a broad national brand presence, with 40 stores in 18 major markets from coast to coast.

Mr. Gould received his BA from Columbia University in 1966 and continued there to earn an MBA in 1968. A brief summer stint at Abraham & Straus in New York was enough to inspire him to seek a retail career; in 1968, Mr. Gould entered that store’s executive training squad as an assistant buyer in decorative home furnishings. He soon became the company’s youngest merchandise vice president.

In 1978, Mr. Gould was named senior vice president of Robinson’s Department Stores in Los Angeles, responsible for men’s, children’s, juniors, moderate sportswear and home furnishings. Within two years he was appointed executive vice president of merchandising and sales promotion. In 1981, he became Robinson’s chairman and chief executive officer. Subsequently, Mr. Gould also became a member of the board of directors for Associated Dry Goods. In 1986, he was tapped as president and chief operating officer of Giorgio Beverly Hills. When Avon Products purchased the company in 1987, he was named president and chief executive officer.

Mr. Gould divides his spare time among a number of important affiliations. He serves on the board of trustees of Lenox Hill Hospital and of the Allen Stevenson School. He also serves on the national board of Hebrew College in Boston. Mr. Gould is chairman of the board of trustees of the American Jewish Committee.

David Greenspan is a managing director of Blue Ridge Capital, LLC, a New York–based investment firm. Blue Ridge has a global portfolio and an investment strategy based upon a fundamental, research-intensive security selection process. Mr. Greenspan joined Blue Ridge in 2000 upon graduation from Columbia Business School. Prior to attending Columbia, he became a CPA and worked with Price Waterhouse in the Washington, D.C., area, his hometown. He graduated with a degree in accounting from George Mason University.

For the past six years, Mr. Greenspan has been an adjunct faculty member at Columbia Business School, where he currently teaches the course Advanced Investment Research: The Analyst’s Edge.

Mr. Greenspan serves on the advisory board of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing at Columbia Business School, is a founding board member of the Josh Waitzkin Education Foundation (JWF) and is a board member of the Success Charter Network, a leading charter school program in Harlem, N.Y.

Mr. Greenspan lives in Scarsdale, N.Y., with his wife, Sloan, and their three children.

Paul Guenther was president of PaineWebber Group, Inc., the parent company of PaineWebber Incorporated, until his retirement in 1995. Since then he has focused on the nonprofit sector. He was appointed chairman of the New York

Philharmonic in September 1996. From 1998 to 2004, he served as chairman of Fordham University, where he continues as a board member.

He serves on the board of directors of the Guardian Life Insurance Company and its affiliate, RS Investments.

Mr. Guenther earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Fordham University in 1962 and an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School in 1964. In the same year, he began his career as a credit analyst with Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. He joined PaineWebber Incorporated in 1966 as a securities analyst and served in a variety of positions. In 1984, when the company realigned its three principal subsidiaries into one, Mr. Guenther became chief administrative officer responsible for administrative services, operations and systems. He assumed responsibility for the firm’s retail sales business in 1987 and for investment banking activities in mid-1988. In late 1988, he was named president of PaineWebber Incorporated, and in 1994, president of PaineWebber Group, Inc.

Mr. Guenther was a 2005 recipient of an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Fordham University and the 1992 recipient of an honorary LLD from Concordia College. His organizational associations include Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, director; Lenox Hill Hospital, vice chairman; Frost Valley YMCA, chairman; Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, trustee; Cristo Rey New York High School, board of directors; and the Governor’s Committee on Scholastic Achievement, trustee. He is a former director of the Securities Industry Association and a former president and director of Columbia Business School’s Alumni Association. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts.

Ernest M. Higa is the president and chief executive officer of Higa Industries.

In 1990, he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the Japanese semigovernmental organization New Business Conference, and in 1998 he received an award from the Ministry of Agriculture.

Mr. Higa is a visiting professor at Nihon University, a member of Keizai Doyukai (one of the three major business groups in Japan), a member of the Trilateral Commission, the board of advisors of Ripplewood Holdings Japan, the board of trustees of the American School in Japan, the board of the Wo Center at Punahou School in Hawaii and an international board member of the Chief Executive Organization. He was also a board member of New Business Conference (1994–99), International Board member of Young Presidents Organization (1993–98), Japan Telecom (2004) and Jermyn Street Capital (2003–06).

Mr. Higa graduated with a BS from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Ehud Houminer has been associated with Columbia Business School since 1991. He serves as an executive in residence and has taught various core and elective courses in the areas of general management and business strategy in the MBA Program.

Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Mr. Houminer is a graduate of the Hebrew University and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Houminer’s business career spanned a period of 25 years with the Philip Morris Companies, during which time he held numerous top-level corporate and operating positions in the areas of finance, planning and general management.

He lived and worked extensively not only in North America but also in Asia, Australia and Europe.

Mr. Houminer serves as a director of Avnet and numerous Dreyfus mutual funds. He is chairman of the advisory board of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev School of Management in Beer Sheva, Israel.

Ming Hsu was born in Taiwan. She graduated early and left the country at 17. She spent the next 20 years in New York where she graduated with a co-major in math and finance from New York University. Furthering her studies in finance as one of the youngest females enrolled in Columbia’s Executive MBA Program, she received her MBA in 1992.

During her professional years in Manhattan, Ms. Hsu worked on Wall Street and then joined Texcomm, a local media and event production company founded by the late New York City icon John “Tex” Reagan McCrary. After her studies at Columbia, Ms. Hsu established her own firm, TRM, which managed U.S. and global real estate assets. She also served on multiple international corporate boards in England, Hong Kong and South Africa. These tenures were at both publicly listed and private corporations in such diverse industries as mining, aerospace, real estate development and advertising.

Presently, Ms. Hsu is based in the Greater China region as an entrepreneur with her husband and two children. Since the late 1990s, she has ambitiously founded several growth companies. She chairs both Merald International Holdings, Ltd., in real estate investments, and Alex & Wright, overseeing the sourcing, in-house design, manufacturing, sale and trade of unique high-end luxury goods throughout Asia, Europe and the United States. She established her proven market niches by implementing efficient systematic operations and vertical integration of the production process and incorporating a “one stop shopping” service concept new to the markets. This created not only a competitive advantage in pricing, design and productivity but also a strong loyal following of trusted clients.

Ms. Hsu’s motivation and passion, nonetheless, are more philanthropic: She has committed and successfully delivered her goodwill and vision to several globally recognized New York based nonprofit organizations, such as Orbis, toward their mission and activities in China. Such active involvement not only allows her to reconnect to her original Chinese roots, but, more importantly, to continue to build upon, support and bridge the interests of esteemed U.S. nonprofit institutions and foundations with their nascent counterparts in China and beyond. She hopes that such multilateral interfaces will inspire all to recognize the fundamental wisdom, strengths and validity of global nonprofit institutions in their pivotal role as catalysts promoting and substantiating the future of global public-private partnerships.

Glenn Hubbard was named dean of Columbia Business School on July 1, 2004. A Columbia faculty member since 1988, he is also the Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics.

Professor Hubbard received his BA and BS degrees summa cum laude from the University of Central Florida, where he received the National Society of Professional Engineers Award. He also holds AM and PhD degrees in economics from Harvard University. After graduating from Harvard, Professor Hubbard began his teaching career at Northwestern University, moving to Columbia in 1988. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Harvard Business School as well as the University of Chicago. Professor Hubbard also held the John M. Olin Fellowship at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

In addition to writing more than 100 scholarly articles in economics and finance, Professor Hubbard is the author of two leading textbooks on money and financial markets as well as coauthor of Healthy, Wealthy & Wise: Five Steps to a Better Health Care System. His commentaries have appeared in Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, Nikkei and the Daily Yomiuri, as well as on television (on PBS’s Nightly Business Report) and radio (on NPR’s Marketplace).

In government, Professor Hubbard served as deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department for tax policy from 1991 to 1993. From February 2001 until March 2003, he was chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers under President George W. Bush. While serving as CEA chairman, he also chaired the economic policy committee of the OECD. In the corporate sector, he is a director of ADP, BlackRock Financial, KKR Financial Corporation, and Met Life, Inc.

Professor Hubbard is married to Constance Pond Hubbard. They live in Manhattan with their two sons.

Philippe Jabre is the founder and the chief investment officer of Jabre Capital Partners S.A., an asset management and advisory business he established in September 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland. Jabre Capital Partners focuses mainly on alternative investment /hedge fund management and long-only management strategies.

Jabre Capital Partners began trading in February 2007 with two funds, and as of the end of July 2007 it manages four funds with total assets of $3.5 billion. The firm has offices in Geneva, the Cayman Islands and Singapore and employs more than 50 people. In August 2007, Jabre Capital Partners received the “Best Hedge Fund Start-Up” award from Euromoney magazine.

In 1997, Mr. Jabre joined GLG Partners, then a division of Lehman Brothers International (Europe), to oversee asset allocation and manage global convertible bonds and equity-linked investments. In September 2000, he cofounded GLG Partners LP and managed hedge fund and long-only absolute return products, which during his time as investment manager reached more than $7 billion in assets under management across a number of funds. Several funds previously managed by Mr. Jabre at GLG have received industry performance awards.

Mr. Jabre completed his MBA at Columbia Business School in 1982.

Ann Kaplan is chair of Circle Financial Group, an investment and wealth management membership organization.

Ms. Kaplan is also an adjunct professor of finance and economics at Columbia Business School. She coteaches a course titled Investment and Wealth Management.

Ms. Kaplan was previously a general partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and a managing director after the firm became a public company. She was a member of the fixed income division for 23 years and served as the head of the municipal bond department. During her last three years at the firm, she was a member of the asset management division, focusing on wealth management.

Ms. Kaplan serves on the boards of Financial Guaranty Insurance Company and Signature Bank, corporations headquartered in New York City. She also serves on the boards of the American Red Cross, Columbia University, Smith College and the Museum of Arts & Design. She is a member of the Committee of 200, the Economic Club of New York and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ms. Kaplan holds a BA in government from Smith College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

James W. Keyes is chairman and chief executive officer of Blockbuster Inc. (NYSE:BBI, BBI.B), one of the world’s leading providers of in-home movie and game entertainment, with reported worldwide revenues of more than $5.5 billion in 2007 and more than 7,700 stores throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.

A 21-year veteran of 7-Eleven Inc., the world’s largest chain of convenience stores, Mr. Keyes served as its president and chief executive officer from 2000 until 2005. Under his leadership, the company experienced record sales and profits and implemented new retail systems technology that improved product-assortment decisions in every store. He also ushered in a new era for 7-Eleven through the introduction of a host of new electronic services.

Prior to serving as president and chief executive officer, Mr. Keyes held a variety of positions at 7-Eleven, including chief financial officer and executive vice president and chief operating officer. He retired from 7-Eleven upon the sale of the company in 2005.

Mr. Keyes graduated cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA from the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School.

He serves on numerous civic boards, including the national board of governors of the American Red Cross, the Dallas Center for Performing Arts, the Dallas Symphony Association, the Cooper Institute, the SMU/Cox School of Business and the Dallas Education Foundation. A recipient of the Horatio Alger Award in 2005 and the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 2008, Mr. Keyes was also the founder of the Education is Freedom foundation, which provides college scholarships for hardworking young students.

Nand Khemka, a graduate of Columbia Business School, is chairman of SUN Group. SUN is an investment group active in Russia and the CIS countries, India, Europe and the United States, with investments in brewing, oil and gas, power and energy-related sectors. Other investments include private equity, venture capital and real estate.

Leveraging more than 40 years of business with the former Soviet Union, Mr. Khemka is a member of the prime minister of Russia’s Foreign Investment Advisory Council and the World Economic Forum’s Foreign Business Leaders Council for Russia. He is a member of the board of trustees of International House in New York. He is also honorary consul general of Jamaica in India. Mr. Khemka plays an active role in the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and is chairman of the Indo-Russian Joint Business Council.

Henry Kravis (b. 1944) earned a BA in economics from Claremont McKenna College, Calif. (1967), and an MBA from Columbia Business School (1969). While at the Business School, Mr. Kravis was also vice president of Katy Industries, a New York Stock Exchange company, where he designed and implemented its acquisition program. He then joined Bear Stearns & Co., where he became a partner, and remained there until 1976, when he and two partners founded Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), a merchant banking firm that pioneered the development of the management buyout.

Mr. Kravis has been involved in the largest and most successful acquisitions via management buyouts. These include TXU, Toys R Us, First Data, RJR Nabisco, Beatrice, Safeway, Duracell, Owens-Illinois and Autozone, among others. In total, his firm has completed more than 165 transactions with a total acquisition price of approximately $440 billion. KKR has offices in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Mr. Kravis is a member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. He founded and is cochairman of the New York City Investment Fund, which was designed to create jobs and help small businesses in New York City, particularly in the inner city. The New York City Investment Fund is a private entity that also works closely with the administrations of New York City and New York State in helping to make New York City a better place to live and work.

Mr. Kravis also serves on the boards of the Partnership of New York City, where he was cochairman; Mount Sinai Hospital; Public Television Channel 13/WNET New York, for which he served as chairman of the board; the Rockefeller University, vice chairman; and Claremont McKenna College. He also founded and is chairman of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College. He and his wife, Marie-Josée, live in New York City.

From March 2007 to December 2008, Sallie Krawcheck was the chief executive officer and chairman for Citi Global Wealth Management, responsible for the Citi Private Bank, Citi Smith Barney and Citi Investment Research, which make up one of the largest wealth management businesses in the world, with nearly $1.7 trillion in client assets. During her time as CEO, she was also a member of Citi’s senior leadership committee and executive committee.

Ms. Krawcheck joined Citi in October 2002 as chairman and chief executive officer of Smith Barney, where she oversaw the global management of the Smith Barney and Citi Investment Research businesses. Over the next two years, she successfully guided one of the leading private wealth management organizations and restructured Citi Investment Research to operate independently, while strengthening the quality and transparency of its research. In 2004, she was appointed chief financial officer and head of strategy for Citigroup Inc. For the next three years, she oversaw financial reporting, treasury, tax, investor relations, mergers and acquisitions and strategic planning for the firm.

Prior to joining Citi, Ms. Krawcheck was chairman and chief executive officer of Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, where she became one of the most influential voices for research quality and integrity. She was responsible for managing research, brokerage and trading operations, as well as business development and planning. She also served as an executive vice president of Bernstein’s parent company, Alliance Capital Management from 1999 to 2001. Prior to that, she was Bernstein’s director of research and appreciably grew the firm’s profit base by expanding industry-sector coverage. From 1994 to 1999 she was a senior equity research analyst responsible for the coverage of life insurance and securities brokerage companies . For each year she covered the securities brokerage sector, she was ranked the No. 1 analyst in Institutional Investor magazine’s annual poll.

Previously, Ms. Krawcheck worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette as an associate in the corporate finance department and, prior to that, as a financial analyst at Salomon Brothers.

For six straight years, from 2002 to 2007, Fortune magazine also recognized Ms. Krawcheck as one of the “Most Powerful Women” in business. Forbes magazine, in 2006, listed her as No. 6 in the rank of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.” She was also the recipient of CNBC’s “Business Leader of the Future Award” in 2007. In 2002, she was recognized as one of Time magazine’s “Global Business Influentials,” and in 2003 Fortune named her the “Most Influential Person Under the Age of 40.”

A native of Charleston, S.C., she attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Morehead scholar and received a BA with academic honors 1987. In 1992, she received an MBA from Columbia Business School.

An active participant in the affairs of her alma maters, she has endowed her former secondary school, the Porter Gaud School, with the Krawcheck Scholarship, a needs-based scholarship awarding full tuition to students of exceptional aptitude. She is a member of the board of directors of Dell Inc., the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Foundations, Inc., and Carnegie Hall and the board of trustees for the Economic Club of New York.

Bill Lambert earned a BS from Ohio State University in 1968 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1972. After serving as managing director in the mergers group at First Boston Corporation, he and three partners came together to found Wasserstein, Perella & Co., Inc., in February 1988. When the firm was sold in 2000 to form Dresdner, Kleinwort & Wasserstein, a world-class investment bank with a quality advisory and relationship culture and full-service financing and distribution capabilities, he stayed on as vice chairman until his retirement in 2004.

In his retirement, Mr. Lambert is active in community affairs. In addition to his service as a member of the Board of Overseers at Columbia Business School, he is chairman of the advisory committee of the School’s Social Enterprise Program. He is a trustee of Northwestern University and a member of the university’s investment committee. He is also a trustee for the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University and vice president of the board of directors of Urban Pathways, an organization dedicated to helping the homeless rebuild their lives.

Mr. Lambert lives in New York City with his wife, Sheila. Their son, Phineas, is a member of the class 2010 at Columbia Business School.

For more than 60 years, Eugene Lang, a protagonist of small business, pursued a career that created many manufacturing ventures in the United States and abroad based on new industrial products and innovative technologies. Reflecting his accomplishments, Forbes magazine characterized him as “the quintessential entrepreneur,” and Nation’s Business, “a father of innovation.”

Retired from business, he now devotes his enterprise to the Eugene M. Lang Foundation, founded in 1963, which focuses on social concerns, primarily innovative projects in education, healthcare and helping underprivileged children. He received a BA from Swarthmore College in 1938 and an MS from Columbia Business School in 1940.

Mr. Lang has been an adviser to the U.S. Departments of Commerce and State, a member of the NYSE’s individual investors advisory committee and a managing board member of the Metropolitan Opera Association, chairing its investment committee. He is chairman emeritus of the board of managers of Swarthmore College, life trustee of New School University and founding donor of its Eugene Lang College. He is also founding donor of the Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship at Columbia Business School, founder and chairman emeritus of the Conference of Board Chairmen of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges, a member of the advisory council of the Carnegie Mellon Graduate School of Industrial Administration, founder and chairman emeritus of the “I Have a Dream” Foundation and founder and chairman of Project Pericles, an organization that promotes preparation for participatory citizenship as an essential part of higher education. Mr. Lang has received many awards for public service, with 39 honorary degrees, including an LLD from Columbia University, and the School’s Botwinick Prize in Business Ethics. In 2008, the National Conference of Citizens designated him “The Citizen of the Year.” In 1990, President George H. W. Bush designated him a “Point of Light,” and in 1996 President Bill Clinton awarded him this nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Mr. Lang was married to the late Theresa Volmar Lang from 1946 to 2008. He has three children, eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Frank Lautenberg was born in Paterson, N.J. He attended Columbia Business School on the GI Bill, graduating with a BS in economics in 1949.

He was elected to the Senate in 1982 and reelected in 1988 and 1994, and served on four committees: environment and public works, budget, appropriations and small business. Senator Lautenberg chose not to seek reelection in 2000. In September 2002, after an upheaval in the U.S. Senate race, he was asked by the governor and by the Democratic Party to run for reelection. In a history-making six-week campaign, he won a fourth term, and he was reelected to a fifth term in 2008. He is on the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees the Department of Homeland Security, and the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, where he continues to pursue federal investments for rail and telecommunications projects in New Jersey.

Throughout his Senate career, Senator Lautenberg has sponsored legislation and fought for gun control, protection of the environment, national security and human rights, antiterrorism measures, transportation funding and economic growth. His signature legislation began with “no smoking on airlines.” He is an advocate of high-speed railways in the United States and of funding for mass transit. He has written laws to end ocean dumping of sludge and plastic, track medical waste, initiate a national pollution prevention program and give citizens the right to know about toxic pollutants released into their communities’ water, soil and air. He also helped to enact the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 and to raise the drinking age throughout the country to 21.

Since returning to the Senate in 2003, Senator Lautenberg has fought to improve the lives of New Jersey families. He has fought to save health insurance for thousands of children, reimburse military families who bought body armor for their loved ones serving in Iraq, modernize the G.I. Bill, strengthen Amtrak, increase security along railroads and at ports and chemical plants, reverse global warming, provide justice for victims of terrorism, make college more affordable, turn federal buildings “green” and protect beaches and oceans.

He was one of the founders of Automatic Data Processing and served as chairman and chief executive officer of ADP until he was elected to the Senate. Today ADP is the largest computing services firm in the world.

Senator Lautenberg was inducted into the Information Processing Hall of Fame for his pioneering work in the computer services industry. He is a former president of the Association of Data Processing Services Organizations, founder of the Lautenberg Cancer Research Center and former commissioner of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

He is a former chairman of the National United Jewish Appeal and is a member of the U.S. Holocaust Council.

Senator Lautenberg resides in Cliffside Park with his wife Bonnie. He has four children and 10 grandchildren.

During her 30-plus years with Ogilvy & Mather, Shelly Lazarus has worked in every product category, in both the general advertising and direct marketing disciplines. Rising through the ranks of account service, she has held positions of increasing responsibility in the management of the company, including president of O&M Direct North America, Ogilvy & Mather New York, Ogilvy North America, chief operating officer, and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide. She is currently chairman of the worldwide company.

A graduate of Smith College, Ms. Lazarus has been widely recognized by her peers in the advertising and business communities. She was named Advertising Woman of the Year in 1994 by Advertising Women of New York. She was a recipient of the Women in Communications Matrix Award in 1995 and was named Business Woman of the Year by the New York City Partnership in 1996. She has been listed in Fortune magazine’s annual ranking of the 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business since its inception in 1998. The Direct Marketing Association named her Woman of the Year in 2002. In 2003, she was the first woman honored by Columbia Business School with its Distinguished Leadership in Business Award.

She serves on the boards of a number of industry, business and academic institutions, including General Electric, Merck & Co., Inc., NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the World Wildlife Fund and the American Museum of Natural History. She served for five years as chairman of the board of trustees of Smith College, her alma mater. She has also served as chairman of the leading industry trade group, the American Association of Advertising Agencies — one of only two women to do so in the organization’s history.

Ms. Lazarus is a frequent speaker at industry and leadership forums, not only promoting the power of brands but also commenting on leadership, women in business, and career and life issues — something she speaks to from experience as the wife of Dr. George Lazarus, a New York pediatrician, and mother to their three grown children.

John K. Martin, Jr., is executive vice president and chief financial officer of Time Warner Inc. He oversees all of Time Warner’s accounting, finance and tax areas.

Before assuming his current role in January 2008, Mr. Martin had been executive vice president and chief financial officer of Time Warner Cable Inc. since August 2005. Prior to joining Time Warner Cable, he spent nearly 12 years at Time Warner Inc., most recently serving as senior vice president, investor relations, from 2002 to 2005.

Mr. Martin was director in the equity research group of ABN AMRO Securities LLC from 2000 to 2002, immediately before rejoining Time Warner Inc. as head of its investor relations unit. He held the position of vice president of investor relations at Time Warner Inc. from 1999 to 2000. Earlier, Mr. Martin served as director in the office of the president at Time Warner, where he provided financial advice to senior company executives. Mr. Martin also served as director of finance special projects, where he was involved in diverse projects that included strategic planning, company restructuring and refinancing, budgeting and mergers and acquisitions. He joined Time Warner Inc. in 1993 as a manager of SEC financial reporting.

Under Mr. Martin’s leadership, Time Warner Inc.’s investor relations program was recognized for excellence by Institutional Investor magazine.

Before joining Time Warner Inc., he was a certified public accountant, working as a senior accountant in the business assurance group at Ernst & Young L.L.P. in New York.

Mr. Martin serves on the media advisory board at Columbia Business School. He is also a member of the Conference Board’s Council of Financial Executives, Financial Executives International (FEI) and the Paley Center for Media.

He received an MBA in financial and organizational behavior from Columbia Business School in 1994 and a BS in economics from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania in 1989.

Linda Ho McAfee is a group director of Fairmont Shipping, a family-owned business engaged in international ship owning, ship management and other ship-related services, including sourcing, training and deployment of seafarers, real estate, trading and other investments. She is also a senior vice president of ShipServ Ltd., a maritime procurement solutions provider.

Born in the Philippines, Ms. McAfee is a citizen of Canada. She received her bachelor’s degree in arts and commerce from McGill University in 1971, with a major in finance and international business. She received her MBA from Columbia Business School in 1973.

From 1973 to 1976, Ms. McAfee was with Citicorp International Bank Limited’s New York office in the merchant banking division. In 1976, she moved to the Hong Kong merchant banking division of Citicorp International Group’s Asia Pacific Corporation, and in 1978 she joined Fairmont Shipping HK Ltd., where she served as president and director of the Magsaysay Group through 1988. She became group director of Fairmont Shipping in 1989. In 2000, she founded iShipExchange, now merged into ShipServ Ltd. Ms. McAfee is a trustee and board member of the SYDA Foundation HK Ltd.

She serves as a member of the Hong Kong Forum, the friends’ committee of the Asian Cultural Council, the president’s council of the Asia Society and the advisory committee for the Harvard Asia Center. From 1988 to 1989, Ms. McAfee was a member of the executive committee of the Hong Kong Shipowners Association.

She was a trustee and board member of the Hong Kong Bayanihan Trust from 1994 to 2001. In 1999, she served as the off-site chairman of the Young Presidents’ Organization at Hong Kong University. She was also a member of that group from 1986 through June 2000. She has been a member of the World Presidents’ Organization since 2000 and a founding member of the Hong Kong chapter in 2002. In 2004, she served as the social chairman of the WPO China University.

Ms. McAfee lives in Hong Kong. She and her husband, Gage McAfee, have three children.

As chief executive officer and chairman of Wolters Kluwer, Nancy McKinstry spearheaded the successful transformation of the company into a forward-looking, customer-focused global information services provider for professionals worldwide.

Before assuming her present position in 2003, Ms. McKinstry gained more than a decade of experience at Wolters Kluwer and its operating companies in North America. Early in her career, she held management positions with Booz Allen Hamilton, where she focused on assignments in the media and publishing industries.

Ms. McKinstry is a member of the boards of directors of leading telecom supplier Ericsson, the American Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands and TiasNimbas Business School. She is also a member of the advisory council of the Amsterdam Institute of Finance and the advisory board for the University of Rhode Island. In addition, she is a member of the University Club of New York City.

Ms. McKinstry earned an MBA in finance and marketing from Columbia Business School and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. In May 2005, she was awarded the honorary degree of doctor of laws by the University of Rhode Island in recognition of her contributions to business.

Yuzaburo Mogi became president and chief executive officer of Kikkoman Corporation in February 1995 and subsequently became chairman and chief executive officer in June 2004. Kikkoman, the world’s largest producer of soy sauce, opened its first U.S. plant in Walworth, Wis., in 1973 and its second U.S. plant in Folsom, Calif., in 1998. In recent years, a plant was opened in the Netherlands in 1997 and in China in 2002. Kikkoman also has plants in Singapore and Taiwan.

Mr. Mogi joined Kikkoman in 1958 after graduating from Keio University in Tokyo. He received his MBA from Columbia Business School in 1961. From 1994 to 2000, he served as a trustee of Columbia University, and in October 2000 he was appointed trustee emeritus.

Mr. Mogi served as vice chairman of Keizai Doyukai (the Japan Association of Corporate Executives) from 1995 to April 2003. From January 2001 to January 2007, he served as vice chairman of the Central Council for Education, and in 2002 he became the Japanese chairman of the Japanese-German Forum.

In January 2003, he became the Japanese chairman of the Japan-Midwest U.S. Association, and in July of the same year he became the cochairman of the National Congress for the 21st Century Japan (21 Seiki Rincho).

Since 1987, Mr. Mogi has been the honorary ambassador of the State of Wisconsin to Japan in recognition of his role in establishing Kikkoman’s first U.S. plant there. He was a 1998 recipient of the Harry Edmonds Award, given by International House of New York, and in 1999 he was awarded the Medal with Blue Ribbon of Japan. In 2003, Mr. Mogi was conferred the royal decoration Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands.

In May 2006, he was awarded the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Mr. Mogi is the author of several books, including The Day Shoyu Made It to America’s Tables and Overseas Strategies Without Friction.

He is married and has three children and five grandchildren.

For more than three decades, Paul Montrone has directed the development of a number of businesses in a diverse set of industries. He is currently executive chairman of Latona Associates and Liberty Lane Partners, both private investment groups, and Perspecta Trust LLC, a New Hampshire trust company.

Mr. Montrone was chief executive officer of Fisher Scientific International Inc. from its initial public offering in 1991 until its merger with Thermo Electron in 2006, forming Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. Over this period, the equity value of Fisher increased from approximately $200 million to $12 billion, and the annual return to shareholders was 26 percent compounded.

Prior to leading Fisher Scientific, Mr. Montrone was chairman and chief executive officer of Wheelabrator Technologies Inc., a leading environmental services company. Annual shareholder returns at Wheelabrator under his leadership were 22 percent compounded. Previously, Mr. Montrone was executive vice president of the Signal Companies, Inc., and its successor, AlliedSignal Inc. (now Honeywell International Inc.), as well as president of the Henley Group, Inc., and executive vice president and chief financial officer of Wheelabrator-Frye Inc.

Mr. Montrone began his career at the Pentagon, serving in the systems analysis group in the Office of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara while a captain in the U.S. Army. For many years, Mr. Montrone also participated in healthcare policy matters at the national level and in business policy through his activity with the Business Roundtable and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

He has served on a number of corporate boards and many nonprofit institutions, especially the Metropolitan Opera, for which he was president and chief executive officer and is now president emeritus. In addition, he is on the boards of the New England Conservatory, the Boston Symphony and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health.

Born in Scranton, Pa., in 1941, Mr. Montrone was graduated magna cum laude from the University of Scranton in 1962 and holds a PhD from Columbia University.

Norberto Morita, 61, is chairman and founding partner of the Southern Cross Group (SCG), one of the leading private equity groups focused on Latin America.

Mr. Morita founded SCG in 1998, when he and his partners launched the first Southern Cross Latin America Private Equity Fund (SCLAPEF I). Since then, CG has raised more than $1 billion through three funds and acquired and managed companies in fields as diverse as retail, distribution and logistics, branded consumer products, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, security services, oil, gas and power generation. Through its portfolio companies, SCG is present in almost every country in Latin America.

Previously, Mr. Morita was chief executive officer of the Bemberg Group (1984–97), one of the largest industrial groups in Latin America, active primarily in the food and beverage sector. The group’s flagship is Quinsa, the undisputed market leader in the beer business in the Southern Cone of Latin America.

Incorporated in Luxembourg, Quinsa has been listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange since 1991 and on the New York Stock Exchange since March 1996.

Before becoming chief executive officer of the Bemberg Group, Mr. Morita held a series of positions in the United States, United Kingdom and France with Corning Glass Works, culminating with his appointment as managing director of Corning France, Corning’s largest subsidiary outside the United States.

Mr. Morita serves on the boards of the International Council of INSEAD and the European Business School based in Fontainebleau, France, and is a member of the Argentine Business Association.

He also assists the advisory councils of several nonprofit organizations, such as Patagonia Land Trust, an organization devoted to the preservation of the Patagonia ecosystem, and CIPPEC, a foundation focused on increasing efficiency and transparency in public administration in Argentina.

Mr. Morita holds a chemical engineering degree from the University of Buenos Aires (1971) and an MBA from Columbia Business School (1975).

An avid fly fisherman, skier and golfer, Mr. Morita is married and has three daughters. The family lives in Buenos Aires.

Jonathan Newcomb serves as a managing director to Coady Diemar Partners, a New York investment firm. From early 2006, he served as president and chief executive officer of Cambium Learning, a Boston-based education services firm. In May 2007, Cambium Learning was sold to the New York private equity firm Veronis Suhler.

From 1994 to 2002, Mr. Newcomb held the position of chairman and chief executive officer of Simon & Schuster. He also served as a member of Viacom’s executive committee. From 1991 to 1994, he held the office of president and chief operating officer of Simon & Schuster, and he was president of its professional publishing group before that. Prior to joining Simon & Schuster, Mr. Newcomb was president of the McGraw-Hill financial information group (Standard & Poor’s and Data Resources).

Mr. Newcomb is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Columbia Business School. He was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army and is a decorated Vietnam veteran. He serves on the boards of Journal Communications (NYSE), the BNA Corporation and United Business Media (LSE).

Mr. Newcomb has two grown sons and lives with his wife in Manhattan.

Nicholas Oppenheim is deputy chairman and chief executive of Aida Capital, a London-based fund of hedge funds manager, a position that he has held since its inception in 2001.

Throughout his career Mr. Oppenheim has been engaged in corporate restructuring work, principally in financial services businesses, including a UK life assurance company, a UK licensed deposit taker, a UK commercial finance entity, an Australian fund manager and a U.S. surplus-line insurance broking business, as well as various UK leisure businesses.

Mr. Oppenheim is a nonexecutive director of Cottin Frères, a Burgundy-based négociant listed on the deuxième marché. He also serves on the Leadership Council at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.

He earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1973.

Mike Overlock joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 1973 and was elected to the partnership in 1982. Mr. Overlock was head of the mergers and acquisitions department from 1984 to 1996. He served as cohead of the investment banking division from 1990 to 1996 and served as a member of the management committee and the international executive committee from 1990 to 1995.

Mr. Overlock is a director of Becton, Dickinson & Co., Simms Fishing Products, LLC and Flagler System, Inc., and an adviser to the Parthenon Group in Boston. He is a member of the board of the Rockefeller University. He is a member of the investment committee for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was the chairman of the board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International and a member of its board from 1992 to 1998. He was also a trustee of the Kent School.

He received a BA in economics from the University of North Carolina in 1968 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1973. Mr. Overlock served in the U.S. Army as a first lieutenant in Vietnam from 1970 to 1971. He and his wife, Trina, live in Connecticut; they have three children.

Steven Pan is the chairman of Formosa International Hotels Group, based in Taiwan. He is also the president and chief executive officer of Pacific Resources Group, a diversified global real estate holding company.

Mr. Pan joined Formosa International Hotels Group in 1991 and became president in 1992. In 2000, he led a management buyout of the controlling stake in the group and became chairman and chief executive officer. Since then, the group has become the largest and most profitable hotel company in Taiwan. The group’s flagship, the Grand Formosa Regent hotel in Taipei, a Four Seasons hotel, has consistently been ranked the leading hotel in Taipei and one of top 20 hotels in Asia. Currently, the group continues its expansion plan in China, focusing on boutique hotel and serviced-apartment acquisitions and management.

Mr. Pan founded Pacific Resources Group in San Francisco in 1994 upon acquiring the Chevron headquarters building. The group completed many landmark transactions in San Francisco, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The 2004 sale of Pacific Place in San Francisco was the largest real estate transaction on record during a five-year period and was awarded the real estate deal of the year. The group is still active in California and Asia.

Mr. Pan began his career as an associate with First Boston after earning an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1988. In 1986, he received BA in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he met his wife, Constance. They have two daughters, Lauren and Kristen.

Vikram Pandit is chief executive officer of Citigroup. Before being named chief executive officer on December 11, 2007, Mr. Pandit was chairman and chief executive officer of Citi’s Institutional Clients Group, which includes Markets & Banking and Citi Alternative Investments.

Before joining Citigroup, Mr. Pandit was a founding member and chairman of the members committee of Old Lane, LP, a multistrategy hedge fund and private equity fund manager that was acquired by Citi in 2007. From 2000 to 2005, he was president and chief operating officer of Morgan Stanley’s institutional securities and investment banking business and was a member of the firm’s management committee. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Pandit taught at Indiana University. He has also taught at Columbia Business School.

Mr. Pandit is a member of the governing board of the Indian School of Business (Hyderabad, India) and a member of the New York City Partnership. He is a former board member of the Trinity School and the American India Foundation, and he served on the NASDAQ stock market board from 2000 to 2003.

Born in India, Mr. Pandit received three degrees from Columbia: a BS in electrical engineering in 1976, an MS in electrical engineering in 1977 and a PhD in business in 1986. He joined the Board of Overseers at the Columbia Business School in 2002 and has hosted events at Morgan Stanley and Citigroup for Columbia Business School alumni. In 2003, he became a trustee of Columbia University. He is a member of the executive steering committee for the Columbia Campaign.

Alan Patricof is the managing director of Greycroft, LLC, a venture capital firm focused on the digital media sector.

Prior to founding Greycroft in 2006, he was the founder and chairman of Apax Partners, Inc. (formerly Patricof & Co. Ventures, Inc.), the U.S. arm of Apax Partners, Worldwide, LP, now one of the world’s leading private equity firms with $39 billion under management or advice.

During the past 40 years,he has participated in the financing and development of a large number of public and private companies. Companies that he has been involved with at the initial stages are Apple Computer, America Online, Cadence Systems, Office Depot, FORE Systems, Cellular Communications, Inc., and Audible, Inc. He is also a board member of TechnoServe, Trickle Up Program and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), and a member of the the global advisory board of Endeavor. In addition, he is a member of the Initiative for Global Development (IGD) Leadership Council.

In June 2007, Mr. Patricof was appointed to the board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation by the president of the United States. He has also served as an adviser to the IFC, focusing on the area of small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs), and as a member of the UNDP’s Commission on the Private Sector & Development; in addition, he was vice chairman of the Commission on Increasing Capital Flows to Africa. From 1993 to 1995, he served as chairman of the White House Conference on Small Business Administration.

Mr. Patricof holds a BS in finance from Ohio State University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is married to his wife, Susan, for 39 years and he has three sons, Mark, Jonathan and James, as well as six grandchildren, Lily, Nina, Jack, Chloe, Riley and Sawyer.

Ronald Perelman is chairman and chief executive officer of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc., a diversified holding company with interests in consumer products, entertainment, financial services, biotechnology and gaming. Among the principal interests of the company are Revlon, Inc., the world-famous brand name in cosmetics and personal care products; Panavision Inc., the leading designer, manufacturer and supplier of high-precision camera and lighting systems; AM General, the designer and manufacturer of Hummer and Humvee vehicles; TransTech Pharma, Inc., a drug discovery company using proprietary high-throughput technology to develop novel small molecule therapeutics; Scientific Games Corporation, a leading supplier of systems and services to the gaming industry, a licensed operator of pari-mutuel betting and a major supplier of prepaid phone cards; Deluxe Film and Creative Services Business Inc., the world’s largest processor of 35-millimeter film and one of the main distributors of release and trailer prints for motion pictures; and Harland Clarke, a strategic partner that provides checks and related products and services and offers the ability to assist financial institutions’ customers in bank-related transactions.

Mr. Perelman is also an active philanthropist who believes powerful results can be achieved when financial resources are leveraged with human resolve.

He is founder of the Revlon /UCLA Women’s Cancer Research Program, a center for leading-edge research into the causes and treatment of breast and ovarian cancer. The staff of the program conducted the discovery research and initial clinical trials leading to the development of Herceptin, the first genetically based treatment for a major cancer to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Mr. Perelman also established the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology at New York University Medical Center. The center is internationally recognized as a leader in patient care, education and research of skin diseases. He recently established the Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical Center. Mr. Perelman sits on the boards of both institutions.

He also serves on the boards of Carnegie Hall, the University of Pennsylvania and the New York University Medical Center, among others.

Mr. Perelman holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Wharton School. He lives in New York City and is the father of six children.

Born in France, Daniel Piette received a diploma from the École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales of Paris and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1970.

In 1970, he joined Arthur D. Little, Inc., as a consultant. He joined the Bosch Company four years later as marketing manager and served as manager of the electrodomestic department from 1976 to 1979. From 1979 to 1984, he worked as division manager and executive vice president of Manurhin and then as managing director of Matra-Manurhin. He became branch chief operation officer of the DMC Group in 1984 and joined LVMH in January 1990. He has been in his current positions, which also include serving as a member of the executive committee of the LVMH Group, since July 1999.

Mr. Piette is married and has three children.

Ian Plenderleith is chairman of BH Macro, a London-listed company investing in the Brevan Howard hedge fund. He is also on the boards of MediCapital Bank and Europe Arab Bank in London and Sanlam and the Bond Exchange in South Africa.

Previously, Mr. Plenderleith pursued a career of public service in central banking. From 2003 to 2005, he served as deputy governor of the South African Reserve Bank, where he was a member of the monetary policy committee and was responsible for the bank’s financial market operations. His main career, from 1965 to 2002, was at the Bank of England in London, where he was most recently the executive director responsible for financial market operations and a member of the UK monetary policy committee. During his career he also worked for a period at the International Monetary Fund, served as UK government broker and was on the board of the London Stock Exchange (deputy chairman in 1996).

Mr. Plenderleith also served as an alternate director of the European Investment Bank, Luxembourg, from 1980 to 1986, and of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, where he chaired the G-10 gold and foreign exchange committee, from 1990 to 2002.

Mr. Plenderleith read Literae Humaniores at Christ Church, Oxford, and in 1971 received an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he was awarded the Beta Gamma Sigma medal.

In his professional life, Mr. Plenderleith is a fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers and of the Securities and Investment Institute. He has served on the Financial Law Panel and chaired various UK working groups in the central banking field. He is a liveryman of the Innholders Company.

Mr. Plenderleith’s continuing interest in the humanities is reflected in his involvement with the British Museum, where he serves on the council of the British Museum Friends. He is on the council of the Globe theater in London and has served as a board member of the City of London Festival. His other interests are theater, archaeology, cricket and long-distance walking.

Robert Reibestein is a director of McKinsey & Company. Born in The Hague in 1956 and of Dutch nationality, he studied in Leiden and Delft, where he obtained degrees in constitutional law and management science. After completing an MBA at Columbia Business School, he joined McKinsey in August 1982.

During his career within the firm, Mr. Reibestein has served a large and diverse number of European organizations, both in the private and in the public sector, as a consultant. His work over the years has covered the full range of strategic, operational and organizational issues within a wide spectrum of industry sectors. The main focus of his work today is on financial institutions (commercial banks, investment banks, re/insurance companies, asset and pension managers, and stock and derivative exchanges) and on transportation companies (airlines, railroads, and express, parcel and postal organizations).

From July 1995 until September 2003, Mr. Reibestein led McKinsey’s practice in the Netherlands, after which he became responsible for the firm’s global banking and securities practice. As of January 2007, he is in charge of the offices in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He also contributes to McKinsey’s overall leadership through his participation in several of its most prominent standing committees and practices (including the shareholders’ council and the managing director’s advisory group).

In addition Mr. Reibestein contributes to society — for instance, as a vice chair of the supervisory board of Leiden University and chairman of the board of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Richard Paul Richman is the chairman and founder of the Richman Group, Inc., and its affiliates, the eighth-largest apartment owner in the United States according to the National Multi-Housing Council. The firm’s portfolio includes more than 1,100 housing properties located in 49 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Guam. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Conn., and has 11 regional offices throughout the nation.

Mr. Richman was a founder of the Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition, one of the country’s leading advocacy groups for affordable housing, and has served as its president and chairman of the board. In addition, he has been a member of various other national and local housing organizations. Mr. Richman is a frequent speaker nationally on housing and urban development and has appeared in a variety of forums: business, governmental and educational, including the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Yale University, and New York University School of Law, and on ABC’s Nightline and National Public Radio. Mr. Richman is also a member of the board of trustees of the Progressive Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., a Washington think tank, the Dean’s Council of Columbia Law School, the University of Pennsylvania’s Urban Research Institute and the University of Pennsylvania Parents’ Leadership Board. He has also been involved in national public affairs, including having served as the finance chairman in Connecticut for two presidential campaigns. In addition, Mr. Richman and his wife, Ellen Schapps Richman, have received numerous civic and charitable honors and awards.

He graduated from the Columbia Business School with an MBA, the Columbia University Law School with a JD and Syracuse University with a BA in political science.

Mr. Richman is married to Ellen Schapps Richman, a business school professor and former vice president of Wyeth Corporation. The couple have two children. Scott, 26, is a graduate of the Brunswick School of Greenwich, Conn., and the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania. Brooke, 22, graduated from Greenwich Academy and the University of Pennsylvania.

Alexander Riesenkampff became a founding partner of the law firm Schulte Riesenkampff in Frankfurt am Main after having retired from the firm CMS Hasche Sigle, which he also cofounded. His firm specializes in competition, corporate and labor law and provides legal services relating to mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Riesenkampff, admitted to the bar in Germany and Pennsylvania, studied at the universities of Munich, Bonn and Cologne and received his doctorate from the University of Cologne. He also studied at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. In 1961, he received an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Besides holding memberships on several boards, he teaches, as honorary professor, transnational and European business law at the University of Freiburg in Germany. He has published widely on international business and competition law. In addition, he serves as honorary counsel of Finland in the state of Hesse.

Benjamin Rosen is chairman emeritus of the Compaq Computer Corporation. He was a founding partner of Sevin Rosen Funds, a technology venture capital firm.

Previously, Mr. Rosen was vice president at Morgan Stanley & Company.

Before that, he was an electronics engineer at Raytheon and Sperry Gyroscope. In 1992, Computerworld chose Mr. Rosen as one of the 25 people in the computer industry “who changed the world.” Also in 1992, Computer Reseller News (CRN) selected him as the No. 1 executive in the personal computer industry. In another issue that year, CRN featured Mr. Rosen as one of the 10 “Legends of the PC Industry.”

Mr. Rosen is a life trustee of the board of trustees of the California Institute of Technology, a member of the board of managers and overseers of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and a member emeritus of the board of directors of the New York Philharmonic.

Born in New Orleans in 1933, Mr. Rosen received a BS in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1954, an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1955 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1961.

Art Samberg is chairman and chief executive officer of Pequot Capital Management, Inc. Prior to establishing Pequot Capital, Mr. Samberg served as president of Dawson-Samberg Capital Management, where he established the first Pequot investment fund in 1986. He spun the Pequot series of hedge funds out of Dawson-Samberg in January 1999, creating Pequot Capital. Prior to joining Dawson-Samberg, he was an employee and partner at Weiss, Peck & Greer, Inc., and served as a member of its management committee.

Mr. Samberg holds an SB from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is a life member of the MIT Corporation, an ex-officio member of the MIT executive committee and chairman of the MIT Investment Management Company. He also received an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he is cochair of the executive committee of its Board of Overseers.

Mr. Samberg also serves on the board of trustees and executive and investment committees of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, on the board of directors of Historic Hudson Valley and as the chairman of the Jacob Burns Film Center.

His other philanthropic affiliations include the board of College Summit, the national board of directors of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and the board of overseers at the Children’s Hospital of New York. He is also senior chair of Wall Street & Financial Services of UJA.

Born in 1946, Paolo Scaroni has been chief executive officer of Eni, one of the world’s leading energy companies, since June 2005.

He obtained an economics and commerce degree from Milan’s Bocconi University in 1969 and worked for three years at Chevron before receiving an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1973.

For a year following business school, Mr. Scaroni was an associate at McKinsey & Company. From 1973 until 1985, he held a series of positions with Saint-Gobain, culminating with his appointment as president of the Saint-Gobain glass division.

In 1985, Mr. Scaroni became chief executive officer of Techint, where he oversaw the privatizations of SIV, Italimpianti and Dalmine. He joined Pilkington in 1996 and was chief executive officer until May 2002.

From May 2002 to May 2005, he was chief executive officer of Enel, Italy’s leading electricity utility.

Mr. Scaroni is a member of the boards of Assicurazioni Generali, LSEG plc (London Stock Exchange Group), Veolia Environnement (Paris) and Fondazione Teatro alla Scala.

In November 2007, he was decorated as an officer of the French Légion d’honneur.

Dong Bin Shin was appointed executive vice chairman of Lotte Group Korea, a leading international diversified conglomerate with significant interests in confectioneries and snacks, beverages and retail, as well as petrochemicals and construction, in February 1997. In his capacity as executive vice chairman of the group, he also serves as chief executive officer and a director of the Lotte Confectionery Company, chief executive officer of Honam Petrochemical Corp., chief executive officer of Lotte.com and a director of Lotte Department Store. In addition, he is executive managing director of Lotte Co. and executive vice president of Lotteria Co. for Lotte Japan.

Mr. Shin joined the Lotte Group in 1988 after spending six years as executive director for institutional research and sales in the London office of Nomura International Ltd. He has also served as vice president of the Korea-Japan Economic Association, vice chairman of the Federation of Korean Industries and a director of the Asia Business Council. Mr. Shin is coauthor of a Korean-language volume that aims to share with Korean distributors his experience as chief executive officer of Korea-Seven, the first 7-Eleven in Korea.

Mr. Shin earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1981 after completing an undergraduate business program at Aoyama Gakuin University.

He is a medalist of the Order of Civil Merit of Moran, an honor awarded him by the president of the Republic of Korea in June 2005.

David Silfen is a senior director of the Goldman Sachs Group in New York. He is a retired member of the partnership’s Executive Committee and its predecessor, the Management Committee, the firm’s senior governing body. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1968 and became a partner in 1978. He was the inaugural cohead of the firm’s Equities Division, in which capacity he had worldwide responsibility for trading, sales and capital market activities for all equity securities. Mr. Silfen became a limited partner in 1997. At the time of the firm’s incorporation the following year, he was named a senior director and remains a consultant on a wide range of activities. Currently, Mr. Silfen is also chairman and chief executive officer of Mayfair Management Co., Inc., a family office investment management firm, and a senior advisor and limited partner of Maveron Equity Partners, a Seattle-based venture capital firm.

In addition to his service on the Board of Overseers at Columbia Business School, Mr. Silfen is a member of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also chairman of the Trustees Development Committee, a member of the Board of Overseers of the university’s School of Arts & Sciences and a member of the Penn Investment Board, which oversees the university’s endowment. Mr. Silfen currently is chairman of the Smithsonian Institution Endowment’s Investment Committee and is a former vice chairman of the Smithsonian National Board.

Mr. Silfen earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1968 and is a recipient of the School’s Distinguished Alumni Award. He also holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences. He resides in New York City with his wife, Lyn. They have two grown children.

David E. Simon is chairman and chief executive officer of Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group, Inc., a member of the S&P 500 and the largest U.S. publicly traded real estate company. Simon Property Group is engaged primarily in the ownership, development and management of retail real estate, primarily regional malls, Premium Outlet Centers, The Mills, community/lifestyle centers and international properties. It currently owns or has an interest in approximately 385 properties in North America, Europe and Asia.

Mr. Simon joined the organization in 1990. In 1993, he led the efforts to take Simon Property Group public with a nearly $1 billion initial public offering that, at the time, was the largest real estate stock offering ever. Mr. Simon became chief executive officer in 1995. Since that time, he has orchestrated more than $25 billion in strategic acquisitions that, together with ground-up development, have allowed the company to assemble a portfolio of top-tier shopping centers that serve as home to virtually every top national and international retailer.

Before joining the organization, Mr. Simon was a vice president of Wasserstein Perella & Co., a Wall Street firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyouts.

Mr. Simon is a member and former chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) board of governors and is a former trustee of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). He has received numerous industry honors, and in 2000 he was inducted into the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Academy of Alumni Fellows.

Mr. Simon holds a BS degree from Indiana University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Jerry Speyer is chairman and co-chief executive officer of Tishman Speyer. He is one of two founding partners of the company, which was formed in 1978.

Mr. Speyer is chairman of the Museum of Modern Art and vice chairman of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He is the former chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, chairman emeritus of the trustees of Columbia University, chairman emeritus of the Real Estate Board of New York, chair emeritus of the Partnership for New York City and past president of the board of trustees of the Dalton School. Mr. Speyer’s other board affiliations include Yankee Global Enterprises, Carnegie Hall and the Economic Club of New York.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Speyer graduated from Columbia College in 1962 and Columbia Business School in 1964.

Dan Stanton is a founding principal of Samson Capital Advisors, LLC, a fixed income money management firm for wealthy family groups and high net worth individuals. Samson Capital is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Williamsburg, Va. Additionally, Mr. Stanton is a partner in the Edgartown Investment Group, which is engaged in specialized real estate development in Edgartown, Mass.

Mr. Stanton is a retired partner from Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he worked from 1981 through 2003. Over the course of his career at Goldman Sachs, he managed equity institutional sales and the private wealth management business globally. Additionally, he founded the firm’s global securities services business, which provides prime brokerage and related services to the hedge fund community. Mr. Stanton also managed the Frankfurt and Boston offices at various times in his career. He became a partner in 1994 and retired in 2002. He served as an advisory director during 2003.

Mr. Stanton received his MBA from Columbia Business School in 1981 and his BS summa cum laude from Canisius College in 1979. He received an honorary doctorate from Canisius College in 2008. Mr. Stanton serves as the chair of the investment advisory committee for Canisius College, which manages the endowment for the college. He is also the chairman of the board of trustees at the Benjamin School in North Palm Beach, Fla., and a member of the board of directors of Lydian Bank & Trust in Palm Beach.

Mr. Stanton and his wife, Mary, have three children and reside in Palm Beach, Fla., and Martha’s Vineyard.

Upon his retirement in May 2004, Charles Strauss was a director of Unilever and president and chief executive officer of Unilever United States, since 2000, as well as group president — Home and Personal Care, North America, since 1999.

He was previously group president for Latin America, a position he held beginning in March 1996.

Mr. Strauss served as chairman and chief executive officer of the Unilever subsidiary Langnese-Iglo GmbH in Hamburg from 1989 to 1992. He was then appointed president and chief executive officer of the Lever Brothers Company in New York City. He began his Unilever career in 1984 as president and chief executive officer of Ragú Foods.

Mr. Strauss is a member of the boards of the Hartford Financial Group, the Hershey Company and Aegis Group plc.

Born in New York City, Mr. Strauss was raised in Stamford, Conn. He received an AB in 1965 from Dartmouth College and earned an MBA in 1967 from Columbia Business School with a major in marketing.

Mr. Strauss joined Procter & Gamble, Cincinnati, upon completing active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps. While with P&G, he gained experience in brand management and as a sales representative.

In 1971, he joined International Playtex, New York, in marketing management before relocating to the United Kingdom as director of marketing and sales for Playtex Ltd., London.

Mr. Strauss returned to the United States in 1977 to join the Marketing Corporation of America in Westport, Conn., as a managing partner, working with clients on strategic brand and new product development and acquisitions.

In 1980, he joined Gagliardi Brothers, an affiliate of the H.J. Heinz Company, as president and chief executive officer, his most recent position prior to joining Unilever in 1984.

Mr. Strauss is past chairman of the board of the International School Hamburg (1990–92). He serves on the board of the St. Vincent’s Special Needs Center in Trumbull, Conn.

Mr. Strauss is married with one son. His personal interests include modern and contemporary art, opera and classical music.

Born in Hartford, Conn., in 1941, Sabin Streeter earned a BA in economics from Middlebury College in 1963. From 1984 to 1989, he was a Middlebury trustee and chaired its New York Diversity task force. He received the Middlebury Alumni Plaque Award in 1998. Mr. Streeter graduated from Columbia Business School in 1967 as a member of Beta Gamma Sigma. At Columbia, he was a Harriman scholar and a recipient of the Most Outstanding Graduate Award. He taught the investment banking course several times in the late 1970s and created an entrepreneurial finance seminar in 1993 that was later offered at the University of Chicago. He is a board member of the Eugene M. Lang Entrepreneurial Initiative Fund and a guest lecturer in various courses at the School.

Before joining Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) as an investment banker in 1976, Mr. Streeter worked at Blyth Eastman Dillon and at Dean Witter. During the period from 1991 to 1993, he assumed responsibilities for deal flow as managing director of business development for Sprout Capital, a venture capital affiliate of DLJ. He retired from DLJ as a managing director in 1997.

He has served on the boards of several Westchester community organizations, including the Chappaqua Summer Scholarship Program, the Horace Greeley Scholarship Fund, A-HOME and the St. Peter’s Community Outreach Center in Peekskill. He is a member of the board of Episcopal Charities in New York, EXPLORE Charter School in Brooklyn and the Westchester Community Foundation.

Mr. Streeter’s three sons are Sabin Jr., a graduate of Columbia’s School of the Arts who works for Kunhardt Productions in documentary films; Gordon, a graduate of Columbia Medical School who is a pediatrician in Hamden, Conn.; and George, who has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago and is on the faculty of the University of Missouri in St. Louis. Mr. Streeter’s wife, Beverley Hamilton, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Mount Holyoke College in 1964.

Washington SyCip earned a BSc and an MSc in commerce with highest honors from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines.

Soon after passing the CPA exam at age 18, he came to Columbia for postgraduate work. After passing the oral examination for his PhD, his dissertation was interrupted by World War II. He served with the Philippine Regiment of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Army Air Force in the China-Burma-India theater.

Mr. SyCip returned to the Philippines, where he founded an accounting and consulting firm. The firm grew rapidly and established offices in all the developing nations of East Asia.

One of the original signatories of the document establishing the International Federation of Accountants, Mr. SyCip served as federation president from 1982 to 1985. In 1968, he cofounded the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines and has since served as chairman of its board of trustees and board of governors. He was the first chairman of the Euro-Asia Center of INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

Mr. SyCip was vice chairman of the Conference Board in New York and is a member of the international advisory boards of American International Group and the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He was also on the international advisory boards of Chase Bank, Caterpillar, United Technologies, Owens-Illinois, AT&T and other international companies. He is also on the boards of many major Philippine and Asian companies.

On August 2, 2006, the Federal Republic of Germany conferred on Mr. SyCip the Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit (Verdienstkreuz 1. Klasse). He received the 1992 Ramon Magsaysay Award for International Understanding. He was named to the Philippine Legion of Honor, degree of commander, in 1991. He was named Officer First Class of the Royal Order of the Polar Star by the King of Sweden in 1987 and awarded the Star of the Order of Merit by the Republic of Austria in 1976.

He is married to the former Anna Yu. They have three children and seven grandchildren.

Charles Tate, 64, is chairman and founder of Capital Royalty L.P., a private equity firm targeting investments in the healthcare industry. Headquartered in Houston, the firm provides capital to the healthcare industry by acquiring royalty and net revenue interests in ethical pharmaceuticals or medical devices from royalty holders or biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies needing liquidity or capital for developmental purposes.

Mr. Tate has more than 35 years’ experience in investment and merchant banking. Prior to forming Capital Royalty, he was a partner and member of the management committee of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Inc., from which he retired in June 2002. He joined Hicks Muse in 1991. Prior to that, he was at Morgan Stanley & Co. for 19 years, most of that time as a managing director in the mergers and acquisitions department, and for the last two-and-a-half years in the merchant banking area. Before joining Morgan Stanley, he was employed by the Bank of America in New York from 1968 to 1971.

Mr. Tate serves on the University Cancer Foundation board of visitors for M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and is a member of the strategic advisory committee, chairman of the Center for Global Oncology Advisory Group and a member of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center “Making Cancer History” Campaign Cabinet. He serves as chairman of the external advisory committee of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, a single University of Texas academic department spanning U.T. Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and the Health Science Center at Houston. Mr. Tate also serves on the University of Texas development board and is co–vice chair of the “Campaign for Texas.” He served during 2004 on the University of Texas Commission of 125 and was a member of its executive committee.

He also serves on the industry and community affiliates committee of the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas. During 2002, he served on Governor Rick Perry’s Council for Science and Biotechnology Development and was chairman of the committee on capital formation. In 2005, Governor Perry appointed him chairman of the Texas Life Science Center of Innovation and Commercialization as part of the advisory structure for the state’s Emerging Technology Fund. In June 2008, Mr. Tate was appointed to the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas oversight committee and is chairman of the economic development and commercialization subcommittee.

Since September 2004, Mr. Tate has served as a director of the University of Texas Investment Management Co. (“UTIMCO”) and is currently chairman of the risk committee and a member of the audit and ethics committee. Since January 2008, he has served on the Robert A. Welch Foundation board of directors.

Mr. Tate received his BBA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1968 and his MBA from Columbia Business School in 1972. He was elected to the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business Hall of Fame in 2003, and in 2007 he was elected a distinguished alumnus of the University of Texas.

Nobuo Tateisi is executive advisor of the Omron Corporation. After receiving his BA in English literature from Doshisha University, he went to Japan’s Sanno Junior College and Columbia Business School.

Mr. Tateisi has a long history with Omron, which he first joined in 1959. He became a senior managing director in 1978 and was named executive vice president of the company in 1985. In 1987, he was appointed vice chairman, and he was promoted to chairman in 1995. He assumed the role of executive advisor in 2003.

Some of Mr. Tateisi’s numerous professional activities include serving as chairman of the committee on international labor affairs of the Japan Business Federation, chairman of the Council for Better Corporate Citizenship, acting chairman of the Japan Vocational Ability Development Association and chairman of the committee on policy evaluation of the Ministry of Justice.

Mr. Tateisi enjoys reading and listening to music.

Sidney Taurel is chairman emeritus of Eli Lilly and Company.

Born a Spanish citizen in Casablanca, Morocco, Mr. Taurel became an American citizen in November 1995. After graduating from École des Hautes Études Commerciales, in Paris, France, in 1969, he received an MBA degree from Columbia Business School in 1971.

Mr. Taurel joined Eli Lilly and Company in 1971 as an international marketing associate. His 37-year career included 15 years in Brazil, France, Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom. He became president of Lilly International in 1986, president of the pharmaceutical division in 1993, chief operating officer in 1996, chief executive officer in 1998 and chairman of the board in 1999. He retired as chairman and chief executive officer in 2008.

Mr. Taurel is a member of the boards of IBM Corporation, the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and the Indianapolis Tennis Championships. He is a member of the Business Council and a trustee of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Mr. Taurel received three presidential appointments: to the Homeland Security Advisory Council (2002–03), the President’s Export Council (2003–06), and the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations (2007–09). He is an officer of the French Legion of Honor.

Mr. Taurel is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. He and his wife, Kathryn, have three grown children.

Diana Taylor joined Wolfensohn & Co., an investment banking firm, as a managing director in April 2007. She has more than 20 years of experience serving in both the public and private sectors. From 2003 to 2007, Ms. Taylor held the position of superintendent of banks for the State of New York, a post to which she was nominated by Governor George Pataki and confirmed by the State Senate. From 1996 through 2003, she held various positions in the state government, including chief financial officer of the Long Island Power Authority and deputy secretary to the governor for housing and finance. She also worked for two years at KeySpan Energy as vice president for governmental and regulatory affairs.

Before her work in the public sector, Ms. Taylor was the founding partner of M.R. Beal and Company, a successful investment banking firm concentrating primarily in municipal bonds. She started her investment banking career as an associate at Smith Barney Harris Upham, moved on to Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb as a vice president and then to Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette as a senior vice president.

Ms. Taylor serves on the board of directors of Sotheby’s, Brookfield Properties, Allianz Global Investors and FNMA. In addition, she serves on several not-for-profit boards, including the YMCA of Greater New York, the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, Dartmouth College, the New York Women’s Foundation and ACCION International. She chairs a commission for the Federal Depository Insurance Corporation concentrating on financially underserved communities. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ms. Taylor completed her AB at Dartmouth College, where she majored in economics. She earned her MBA in finance from Columbia Business School and her MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. She resides in Manhattan.

Sue Toigo is chairman of Fitzgibbon Toigo Associates and founder of the Robert A. Toigo Foundation. Fitzgibbon Toigo Associates was established in 2002 to provide marketing services to large institutional investors worldwide on behalf of investment firms.

The Toigo Foundation was established by Ms. Toigo and her late husband, Robert Toigo, to provide mentors, summer internships, ethics and leadership workshops, job placement services and financial assistance for attending MBA programs to talented minorities seeking careers in the financial services industry. Columbia Business School was the foundation’s first education partner, supporting a class of seven fellows in 1988. In addition to the nine Toigo fellows at Columbia this academic year, fellowships are also provided at 16 other business schools. The program serves 135 current fellows and has 700 alumni in the financial services industry globally.

Long an advocate for children and minorities, Ms. Toigo served for 16 years as the lobbyist for and a founding board member of the California Children’s Lobby and was named one of 10 Outstanding California Lobbyists by the California Journal. As the executive director of the Children’s Alliance, she helped establish child-care centers throughout California and has infant and toddler programs in French Camp, Calif., named for her. An honors graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, she has been inducted into Berkeley’s Women’s Hall of Fame.

Ms. Toigo has one daughter, Molly Brock Hemming, and is married to Ambassador Derek Shearer.

Massimo Tosato was born in Venice in 1954 and lives in London. He is married with three children. Educated at the University of Rome, he received an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1980.

In 1981, Mr. Tosato founded Cominvest S.p.A., an investment banking and asset management organization, and became its chief executive officer.

In 1991, at a time when Cominvest had become a significant independent financial services company, it was sold to the Cassa di Roma Group. He also cofounded Tonic-Ata-Ecom, an advertising company, and served as its chairman from 1982 to 1987. In 1994, he cofounded Viasat Assistance S.p.A., which was subsequently sold in 1997 to the Telecom Italia Group.

In 1995, Mr. Tosato joined Schroders as managing director of investment management in Italy. In 1999, he relocated to London, where he became head of Schroder Investment Management for Continental Europe and the Middle East.

In 2001, he was appointed group managing director, retail, and joined the Schroders plc main board and the group executive committee.

In 2003, he was appointed global head of distribution at Schroders. He is responsible for managing Schroders’s institutional and retail businesses globally across the group.

In May 2007, Mr. Tosato was appointed vice chairman of Schroders in addition to his responsibility for global distribution. He is also in charge of the fund of hedge funds subsidiary, NewFinance Capital.

From April 2002 until April 2005, Mr. Tosato was an independent director of the board of Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, Rome. In March 2005, he became a board director of the Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London.

Joe Tucci is chairman, president and chief executive officer of EMC Corporation. Mr. Tucci has been EMC’s chairman since January 2006 and president and chief executive officer since January 2001, one year after he joined the company as president and chief operating officer. He is also chairman of VMware Corporation.

Headquartered in Hopkinton, Mass., with approximately 40,000 employees operating in more than 60 countries, EMC is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. EMC reported revenues of $14.9 billion in 2008. Its current market capitalization places it among the 10 most valuable information technology product companies in the world.

Before joining EMC, Mr. Tucci directed the financial and operational rebirth of Wang Global during six years as its chairman and chief executive officer. At Wang, he guided the company through a rapid and successful emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and transformed the company from a midrange computer manufacturer into a worldwide leader in networked technology services and solutions. In June 1999, Wang was acquired by Getronics NV.

Prior to joining Wang in 1990, Mr. Tucci was president of U.S. information systems for Unisys Corporation, a position he assumed after the 1986 merger of Sperry and Burroughs that created Unisys. He began his career as a systems programmer at RCA Corporation and holds a bachelor’s degree from Manhattan College and an MBA in business policy from Columbia Business School.

Mr. Tucci is one of 150 chief executive officer members of the Business Roundtable and the former chairman of its Task Force on Education and the Workforce. He is one of nine chief executives who steer the Technology CEO Council, the IT industry’s leading public policy advocacy organization, and is a member of the executive committee of TechNet, a network of CEOs who work to advance the United States’ global leadership in innovation. In addition, he is a member of the board of directors of Paychex, Inc., a member of the board of advisors of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, a member of the board of trustees of Northeastern University, a member of the advisory board of Tsinghua University in Beijing and an overseer of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Arthur Ty is president of the Metropolitan Bank & Trust Company, the largest bank in the Philippines, and an officer of several affiliated Metrobank Group companies.

The group’s interests include securities trading, credit instruments, insurance, leasing, remittance, technology services, travel, power generation and automobile manufacturing.

Since joining the group in 1991, Mr. Ty has held various leadership positions in areas as diverse as retail and corporate banking, treasury and funds management, operations management and technology services. In his current capacity, he is responsible for shaping Metrobank’s corporate strategies and managing, along with the bank president, all of the company’s business lines. Most recently, he has focused his efforts on growing the group’s consumer finance business, a responsibility that involves oversight of three separate companies.

As one of the senior officers of Metrobank, Mr. Ty takes an active role in the activities of the Metrobank Foundation, whose main areas of interest are education, healthcare and community development.

Mr. Ty holds a BS in economics from University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He started his career with Citibank (Manila) and IBI Asia (Hong Kong) and has lived in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the United States. He is an avid golfer and enjoys a happy family life with his wife, Zandra, and their three children.

Alberto J. Verme is co-chief executive officer for Citicorp’s operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa and a member of Citi’s senior leadership committee. He is also a member of the Institutional Clients Group management committee and Investment Banking operating committee. In 2008, Mr. Verme relocated to Dubai to focus on the Middle East as a strategic imperative for Citi clients around the world.

Citi is a leading global financial services company and has a presence in more than 100 countries. The Citi brand is the most recognized in the financial services industry. Citi is known around the world for market leadership, global product excellence, outstanding talent, strong regional and product franchises and commitment to providing the highest-quality service to its clients.

Since Mr. Verme’s appointment to his current position in March 2004, Citi has attained investment banking leadership across key regions, products and sectors.

Prior to his appointment to his current position, Mr. Verme was head of global energy, power and chemicals investment banking from 2001.

Mr. Verme joined Salomon Brothers in 1994 and worked as head and later chairman of Citi’s Latin America investment banking group through May 2001. During that time, he built the leading Latin America banking team, recognized with the IFR 2000 Latin America Bank of the Year award. Mr. Verme’s experience in Latin America has since been expanded into a truly global expertise, with client and transaction experience spanning every continent.

Prior to 1994, he worked for Metallgesellschaft AG as president of MG Global Capital in London. From 1983 to 1992, he worked for the First Boston Corporation, where he served as director and head of Spain (1990–92) and cohead of emerging markets (1988–90). A Peruvian national, Mr. Verme received a BA in economics from Denison University in 1979 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1984. He began his career at the World Bank in 1979.

He is a member of the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of London advisory council.

William von Mueffling is president and chief investment officer of Cantillon Capital Management, an investment firm with more than $5 billion under management.

Mr. von Mueffling was previously a managing director at Lazard Asset Management, where he was responsible for hedge funds. Prior to joining Lazard, he was with Deutsche Bank in Germany and France. He earned a BA from Columbia College and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1995.

Mr. von Mueffling is chairman of the advisory board of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing at Columbia Business School. He is a board member of the International Center of Photography, a world-leading museum and school of photography; the American Academy of Berlin, a private, nonprofit center for advanced study; and Charity Navigator, the leading charity evaluator in the United States. He also serves on the board of directors of New York City Global Partners, which promotes New York’s interaction with cities around the world, and on the President’s Working Group subcommittee for asset managers.

Donald Waite is director of the Executives in Residence Program at Columbia Business School, where he is also an adjunct professor. He is retired from McKinsey & Company, the international management consulting firm, where he spent his entire career. He remains a McKinsey director emeritus and continues as a member of the McKinsey investment committee.

Mr. Waite joined McKinsey’s New York office in 1966, directly after graduating from Columbia Business School. In 1970, he moved to the Amsterdam office, where he helped build the firm’s financial services practices in Europe. He returned to New York in 1975 and assumed leadership of the banking and securities practice in 1977 and of the combined financial institutions practice in 1983.

From 1990 to 1996, Mr. Waite was managing partner of the five McKinsey offices in the northeast United States (New York, Boston, New Jersey, Stamford, Washington, D.C.). From 1996 to 2002, he was one of three members of the firm’s office of the managing director and chairman of its investment and compensation committees.

Throughout his career, Mr. Waite has maintained a focus on the management of firms employing high-talent professionals. He has worked extensively with investment banks, law firms, foundations, educational institutions, and advertising and media companies on matters of strategy, organization, the role of the corporate center, and the retention and motivation of their professional staff. During the period Mr. Waite was partner in charge of McKinsey’s consulting activities for financial institutions, the firm conducted extensive research into the environmental and management challenges facing financial institutions. He has personally advised branches of the federal government on regulatory policy and execution.

Mr. Waite received an MBA with honors from Columbia Business School, where he was a Harriman scholar, and a BA with distinction from Dartmouth College. He serves as a director of several corporate and not-for-profit institutions.

Lulu Wang is founder and chief executive officer of Tupelo Capital Management, a New York–based investment firm. She has been engaged in professional money management since 1972. Ms. Wang had been a director and executive president of Jennison Associates Capital Corporation for 10 years before founding Tupelo Capital Management at the end of 1997. While at Jennison, she managed assets for pension, endowment and mutual funds. Ms. Wang joined Jennison Associates in 1988 from Equitable Capital Management, where she held the title of senior vice president and managing director. She had been with Equitable since 1978, and prior to that had been affiliated with Bankers Trust and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Ms. Wang received her BA from Wellesley College and subsequently earned an MBA from Columbia Business School. She is a chartered financial analyst.

Ms. Wang is on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Rockefeller University, the Asia Society, WNYC Public Radio and the Committee of 100. She serves the Shoreland Foundation as president, Wellesley College as a trustee emeritus and the New York Community Trust as a consulting director. Her professional as well as volunteer work have been honored by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Asia Society, the China Institute, Columbia Business School, Girls Inc., the N.Y. Women’s Agenda, Ernst & Young and American Women’s Economic Development.

Ms. Wang is married to Anthony Wang, and they have a son, Duncan. In her free time, she enjoys American furniture and art, vintage cars and gardening.

Lorne Weil is chairman of Scientific Games Corporation, a leading supplier of technology-based products and services to the worldwide gaming industry. He was previously vice president—corporate development of General Instrument Corporation and a manager in the Boston office of the Boston Consulting Group.

Mr. Weil received his undergraduate degree in economics and math from the University of Toronto, an MSc from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Columbia Business School, where for the last 10 years he has sponsored the annual Outrageous Business Plan Competition. He is also chairman of the advisory board of the Entrepreneurship Program at Columbia Business School.

Mr. Weil is married and has four children ranging in age from 29 to 3.

Lorenzo Weisman is cofounder of Hill Street Capital, an investment banking firm based in New York. Prior to founding Hill Street Capital, he was a managing director of UBS Warburg, the successor firm to Dillon, Read & Company, until July 2001.

Mr. Weisman joined Dillon, Read & Company in New York in 1973, moved to Dillon, Read Limited in London in 1977 and was appointed its president in 1984. He was responsible for building Dillon Read’s international operations from London before returning to New York in March 1993. While active in mergers and acquisitions, financings and advisory assignments, Mr. Weisman has also been involved in the creation and investment process of venture capital, development capital and buyout funds and investment companies.

Mr. Weisman is a member of the advisory committee of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard and chairman of the French Institute/Alliance Française in New York. In 2008 he was made a Chevalier by the National Order of the Legion of Honor of France.

Mr. Weisman is married and has a son and two daughters. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Columbia Business School.

Peter Woo was born in Shanghai and attended St. Stephen’s College in Hong Kong. He graduated as senior class president from the University of Cincinnati with majors in physics and mathematics and earned his MBA from Columbia Business School.

After holding various positions at the Chase Manhattan Bank in New York and in Hong Kong, in 1975 Mr. Woo joined the World-Wide Shipping Group, a company founded by his father-in-law, the late Sir Yue-kong Pao, and later became vice chairman.

Mr. Woo is chairman of Wheelock and Company Limited and the Wharf (Holdings) Limited. These companies own properties in Hong Kong, China, Singapore and Japan, i-Cable Communications (cable TV and broadband Internet), Wharf New T&T (telephony), Modern Terminals Ltd. (sea container terminals), Marco Polo Hotels and Hamptons International.

In October 2000, Mr. Woo was appointed by the Hong Kong government as chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, with more than 40 offices outside Hong Kong.

Starting in 1988, he chaired the management and organizational reform initiatives for Hong Kong’s public hospital system with the Provisional Hospital Authority. He was chairman of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority from 1995 to 2000, overseeing 46 public hospitals, 50,000 staff and an annual budget of some U.S. $2.5 billion.

From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Woo was chairman of the Hong Kong Polytechnic. He oversaw its change of status to the Polytechnic University, the largest university in Hong Kong, and extensive management reengineering initiatives.

Mr. Woo was chairman of the Hong Kong Environment and Conservation Fund Committee, established in 1994 and cofunded by him and the Hong Kong government. He also served in 1991 as a deputy chairman of the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, a nonprofit group focusing on the environment internationally.

In 1995, Mr. Woo was selected as Leader of the Year by the Hongkong Standard. He was appointed a justice of the peace in 1993 and was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star by the Hong Kong government in 1998. He was also awarded the Cross of Officer in the Order of Leopold by the late King Baudouin I of Belgium in 1993.

Chairman and founder of the Yuchengco Group of Companies, one of the largest and most successful financial conglomerates in the Philippines, Alfonso Yuchengco is former Philippine permanent representative to the United Nations. He also served as Philippine ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from 1986 to 1988, and to Japan from 1995 to 1998. At the completion of his mission as envoy to Japan, he received the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun from the emperor of Japan and the Order of Sikatuna, with the rank of Datu, from the Philippine government.

Mr. Yuchengco was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as Presidential Adviser on Foreign Affairs in 2004, a position he currently holds. In 2001, President Macapagal Arroyo appointed him presidential special envoy to China, Japan and Korea. For President Joseph Estrada, he served as presidential assistant on APEC matters with cabinet rank (1998–2000). Before naming Mr. Yuchengco Philippine ambassador to Japan, President Fidel V. Ramos appointed him chairman of the Council of Private Sector Advisers to the Philippine government on the Spratlys issue (marine and archipelagic development policy task group).

Since graduating from Columbia Business School in 1950, he has held distinguished professorships in insurance and in finance and economics. He is also a certified public accountant.

Mr. Yuchengco has chaired the boards of the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation, Philippine Fuji Xerox, the Malayan Group of Companies, the Benguet Corporation, the BA (Bank of America) Savings Bank and Asia’s Emerging Dragon Corporation, among others.

He has received numerous awards and decorations, including Outstanding Manilan in Diplomacy (1995), Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold and Silver Star, by the emperor of Japan (1993) and Management Man of the Year from the Management Association of the Philippines (1992). The International Insurance Society inducted him into the Insurance Hall of Fame in 1997. In 2008, Mr. Yuchengco was awarded the first Global Humanitarian Insurance Award by the University of Alabama for his contributions to uplifting humanity and practicing exceptional business ethics while advancing the principles and application of insurance and financial services.

Mr. Yuchengco is active in civic, professional and philanthropic organizations. He served on the National Centennial Commission for the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Philippine Independence. He was chairman of the Asian Bankers Association. He established the Yuchengco Center for East Asia at La Salle University in 1994 to strengthen awareness and understanding of the Philippines’ northeast and southeast Asian neighbors. Through his AY Foundation, he has initiated many programs designed to benefit underprivileged communities.

David Zalaznick, 55, is a founding and managing principal of the Jordan Company LP, a New York private equity firm. He is also chairman of Jordan/Zalaznick Advisers, Inc., and JZ International LLC, an investment firm based in London.

Mr. Zalaznick is on the boards of directors of Cequel Communications, LLC, TAL International Group, Inc., Sensus Metering Systems, Inc., Freedom Finance Holdings Limited, Previnet SpA, Jordan Industries, Inc., and Wound Care Solutions, LLC. In addition, he serves on many of the boards of the private companies in which he and his partners have investments.

Mr. Zalaznick received a BA in economics from Cornell University in 1976 and an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1978. Upon graduating from Columbia, he pursued a career as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch. In 1980, Mr. Zalaznick joined Carl Marks & Co., where he became a vice president and partner in the Carl Marks leveraged buyout group. In January 1982, he and Jay Jordan left Carl Marks to found their present firm and investment partnerships.

During the course of his career, Mr. Zalaznick and his partners have been involved in more than 250 acquisitions. He is also the investment advisor to JZ Equity Partners plc, a London-based investment trust dedicated to investing in mezzanine and equity securities.

Mr. Zalaznick is a vice chairman of Cornell University’s board of trustees. He serves on the executive committee and is chairman of the finance committee.

He and his wife, Barbara, live in New York City with their three children.

Martin Zimmerman is president and chief executive officer of LFC Capital, Inc., a private investment firm specializing in the healthcare industry. From 1975 to 1999, he was chairman and chief executive officer of LINC Capital, Inc., which engaged in the leasing of high-technology and medical equipment, as well as the distribution and rental of analytical instruments.

From 1994 to 1996, he was chief executive officer of LINC Anthem, following the acquisition of LINC’s equipment leasing business by Anthem Insurance (now Wellpoint), a leading Blue Cross carrier. In 1996, he rejoined LINC to manage that company’s other businesses. In total, LINC and LINC Anthem completed more than $2 billion in equipment financing.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Zimmerman was founder and president of Telco Marketing Services, Inc., which was a pioneer in the hospital equipment leasing field. He earned his BS in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1959 and an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School in 1961. At Columbia, he was a McKinsey scholar and a Kennecott Copper fellow.

Mr. Zimmerman is a trustee of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and a member of its finance and exhibition committees. In addition, he also serves on the Council for the Arts at MIT.

He is a past director of the Equipment Leasing Association, and he was a past trustee of Ravenswood Hospital Medical Center, where he was chair of the hospital’s finance committee.

Mr. Zimmerman is a collector of contemporary art and is an avid fly fisherman and skier. He is married and has two daughters, as well as a daughter and a son from a previous marriage.

Charles Exley is retired chairman and chief executive officer of the NCR Corporation, based in Dayton, Ohio. He joined NCR in 1976 as president, director and member of the executive committee. He had previously spent 22 years with the Burroughs Corporation (now the Unisys Corporation), rising from financial analyst to executive vice president of finance to director.

In April 1983, Mr. Exley was named chief executive officer of NCR, and in April 1984 he became its chairman and president. He assumed the title of chairman and chief executive officer in early 1988 and retired from NCR in September of 1991.

Mr. Exley received a BA in economics from Wesleyan University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by Wesleyan University in 1991.

He has served as campaign chairman and in various other capacities for the United Way. From 1989 to 1990, he was chairman of the Dayton Area Progress Council. He also served as an executive committee member for the Dayton Business Committee.

Mr. Exley is former chairman of the computer and business equipment division of the U.S. Savings Bond Campaign and of the electronics industry campaign for the Committee for Economic Development. He is also a former member of the Business Council and the Business Roundtable. At various times, he served as a director of the Burroughs Corporation, Owens Corning Co., Bank One Corp, and Merck & Co. and as a trustee of Wesleyan University and the A.W. Mellon Foundation.

Mr. Exley has three children and six grandchildren.

In 1997, Joseph Vittoria founded Travel Services International, a new public company that changed the traditional distribution system in the travel industry.

From 1987 to 1997, he was chairman and chief executive officer of Avis, Inc. He was president and chief operation officer for the five years before that. While at Avis, he was responsible for creating the Avis Employee Stock Ownership Trust, the largest at that time and long considered a model for companies and governments evaluating employee-ownership programs.

His success at Avis led to his selection as the salaried and management representative to the board of the UAL Corporation for its initial four-year term in 1994, when it created its landmark ESOP. He now serves as chairman of the board of Great Wolf Resorts, Inc., and is a director of Vectrix, Inc. He is also chairman and chief executive officer of Puradyn Filter Technologies, Inc.

Mr. Vittoria was born on Long Island in 1935 and holds a BS in civil engineering from Yale University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

He also holds an honorary doctor of laws degree from Molloy College and doctor of business administration degree from Roger Williams University.

Mr. Vittoria served as an advisory director of the National Crime Prevention Council. In recognition of his efforts on behalf of missing children, he was asked to serve as a member of President Ronald Reagan’s Child Safety Partnership.

He is a former president of the Columbia Business School Alumni Association’s board of directors, and he was the founding chairman of the board of visitors of Georgetown University’s School of Language and Linguistics. His passion for sailing has inspired him to develop unusual sailboats.

He and his wife, Luciana, have four children.