Speakers

CATE AMBROSE

Cate Ambrose is President and Executive Director of the Latin American Venture Capital Association (LAVCA), a non-profit membership organization dedicated to promoting the growth of the private equity and venture capital industry in Latin America and the Caribbean. At LAVCA she oversees research and programs on public policy and regulation, industry data, corporate governance and other areas. She is a member of the US-Brazil Venture Capital Task Force hosted by the US Commerce Department, and speaks and writes regularly on a range of topics related to public policy and private investment in Latin America.

Prior to joining LAVCA, Ms Ambrose was Chief of Advocacy for the Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, a United Nations initiative co-chaired by Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto and former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, where she directed research projects on business regulation and property rights in Mexico, Brazil, Guatemala, India, Kenya and Tanzania.

Until 2005, Ms Ambrose was Executive Director of Programs at The Economist, where she founded The Global Agenda, a high-level panel of economists, policymakers and business leaders, and chaired conferences on finance, business strategy and public policy in the US and Latin America. These included annual roundtables with the Presidents of Mexico and Colombia.

Ms Ambrose began her career as a journalist in Spain. She holds an MPA in International Economic Policy from Columbia University, and received her BA in Latin American studies from St Lawrence University and the University of Madrid.

JIM ANDERSON '80

Jim Anderson is president of SVB Analytics, a wholly owned subsidiary of SVB Financial Group. SVB Analytics provides solutions to analytical problems that are specific to emerging growth technology, life science and venture capital companies. In that regard, SVB Analytics is rendering valuation opinions for clients to help them comply with IRC 409A and delivering capitalization management solutions through the firms controlling stake in eProsper, Inc.

Anderson joined Silicon Valley Bank in 1999 and has served in a variety of capacities, most recently as a founder, president and chief investment officer of SVB Asset Management, a non-bank affiliate of Silicon Valley Bank. He was also a founder and managing director of SVB Securities, Silicon Valley Bank's broker dealer subsidiary. These groups today represent total client assets in excess of $14 billion.

Anderson has more than 25 years experience in investment banking, asset management, and commercial banking, assisting clients with corporate finance strategies, valuations, M&A and investments, including 20 years in the technology and life science sectors.

Prior to joining Silicon Valley Bank, Anderson was managing director of technology investment banking for CIBC Oppenheimer where he was responsible for initiating the firm's entry into the technology sector in 1991. He has worked with a wide range of firms, including small development stage companies and multi-billion dollar investment grade corporations. In his early banking career, Anderson held several positions with Chase Manhattan Bank, including managing the West Africa Region for three years based in Dakar, Senegal. He also worked as a software engineer at Electronic Data Systems and served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Zaire.

Anderson earned a master's from the American Graduate School of International Management and a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the State University of New York. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Anderson is a member of the Asset Liability Committee, which has responsibility for strategy and management of Silicon Valley Bank's $2 billion investment portfolio. He is the editor of the weekly newsletter, Investment Strategy Outlook, published by SVB Asset Management and is frequently asked to speak at industry-related events on the economy and financial matters for technology and life science companies.

MATTHEW ARKINSTALL

Matthew Arkinstall is an Investment Director at Greenpark Capital.  He has spent the last 15 years as a specialist in private equity, originally in infrastructure direct investment.  He spent nearly 10 years at MLC in Australia where he took a leading role in the development of a multi-billion dollar portfolio of private equity funds around the world.

Matthew is Australian and has a First Class Honours degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Sydney. Matthew is also an Associate of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.

ROGER BERRY

Roger Berry is a Director of Fund Strategies & Investor Relations for the Group Funds division of Climate Change Capital, a leading fund manager for the low carbon economy. Roger is responsible for the development of the company’s investment fund products in five asset class: carbon & infrastructure, private equity, listed equities, land & water and real estate. CCC is headquartered in London with offices in Beijing, Boston, Madrid and Washington DC. The firm has over $1.6 billion of assets under management.

Roger was formerly a Managing Partner and co-founder of Liberty Global Partners, an advisory and placement firm focused exclusively on emerging markets private equity. Liberty Global Partners helped to raise significant commitments from institutional investors and played a lead role in the creation of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association. For over eighteen years, Roger has been immersed in the opportunities and challenges of transitional markets. He brings skills in negotiation, facilitation, and marketing, and has advised companies, investors, or governments in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Roger is a graduate of Harvard University (1990).

SUSAN BOEDY '02

Susan Boedy's background has involved management projects in Europe, Asia, and North America, including a three-year posting in Mongolia with the Peace Corps, the Soros Foundation and the United Nations. Susan was most recently a partner of San Francisco-based Venture Archetypes, a business planning, corporate development, and strategic advisory firm that has worked with 70+ emerging technology and life science companies. Susan built, managed and sustained relationships between the entrepreneurial and investment communities.

Her background also includes professional assignments with Intel, the German Ministry of Economics and Labor, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and the United Nations. Susan is currently a member of the corporate advisory board for the Thunderbird International Business Review. She has most recently been actively involved with the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE), is former chair and VC Moderator of the Entrepreneurs' Gathering, is former chair of the Thunderbird Bay Area Private Equity & Venture Capital Forum and was co-chair of the Second Annual Thunderbird Globalization of Private Equity Investing Conference. She is a frequent featured speaker at various global equity and venture capital conferences and events throughout the US.

Susan graduated Magna Cum Laude from Drake University in 1995 and from Thunderbird in 2002 where, among other achievements, she founded the Graduate Women in Business Organization, founded the Thunderbird Leadership Seminar and received the highest annual award given to any graduating student: the Barton Kyle Yount Award. She is proficient in Mongolian, German and Italian languages.

SEBASTIEN BURDEL

Sebastien is an Investment Principal with Coller Capital, responsible for origination and execution of secondary transactions in the US market.
Since joining Coller Capital in 2003, Sebastien has completed numerous secondary direct and LP transactions. Sebastien has been part of the team responsible for investing Coller International Partners IV and V, $2.6bn and $4.8bn funds respectively. Sebastien initially joined Coller Capital's London office where he worked until early 2006. He subsequently moved to New York where he has since been a key component of the firm's growing presence in the US market.
Before joining Coller Capital, Sebastien worked for General Electric as an Associate in the Corporate M&A group, where he completed strategic acquisitions and disposals on behalf of many of GE’s industrial businesses (including GE Power Systems, GE Industrial Systems, GE Healthcare and GE Aircraft Engines). Prior to that he was an Analyst for GE Equity, General Electric's direct private equity group, where he focused on European mid-market buyouts and co-investments. Sebastien began his career with GE Medical Systems in the finance function.
Sebastien holds a BA (Hons) in Finance from Audencia - École Superieure de Commerce de Nantes in France and is completing his Executive MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

ÁNGEL CABRERA

As president of Thunderbird School of Global Management, Ángel Cabrera, Ph.D., guides a truly global learning network with operations in the United States, Latin America, Asia and Europe, including Russia. The school is regarded as the world’s leading institution in the education of global managers, holding the No. 1 ranking in the Financial Times, U.S. News & World Report and The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive survey of corporate recruiters.

Dr. Cabrera, who is a citizen of Spain, is a world-renowned global leader and management educator whose work and expertise has been recognized and tapped by top global organizations including the World Economic Forum and the United Nations. The World Economic Forum has named Dr. Cabrera a “Global Leader for Tomorrow” and appointed him to the World Economic Forum of Young Global Leaders. Along with being a regular attendee of the World Economic Forum held Davos each year, Dr. Cabrera has been named the Founding Chair of the WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Promoting Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Cabrera presently serves as a senior adviser to the UN Global Compact Office on Academic Affairs. In that role, he chaired a taskforce to develop the “Principles for Responsible Management Education,” which serve to strengthen the role of business schools in promoting global corporate citizenship. The taskforce presented the principles at the UN Global Compact Leaders Summit in July 2007. He also playsa key role in designing the Global Compact Academic Network’s strategy, serves as a Global Compact ambassador to academic organizations, and helps promote its activities around the world and as they relate to education forums like the World Economic Forum.

An outspoken advocate of corporate social responsibility and managerial professionalism, and in 2008 received the prestigious honor of being named a Henry Crown Fellow by the Aspen Institute. He is a frequent speaker at prestigious international forums. His viewpoints have been featured by the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, CNN, CNN International, CNN Español and a number of other regional and international media.

Dr. Cabrera is the former dean of the Instituto de Empresa, one of Europe’s leading business schools, and in 2004 was showcased by BusinessWeek as one of 25 “Stars of Europe.” He is an active member, a current or past board member of several international organizations including AACSB International, EFMD-EQUIS, the UN GlobalCompact, the Iberoamerican Academy of Management, the Georgia Institute of Technology, ESSEC, the Greater Phoenix Leadership and the Future Trends Forum in Madrid.

Dr. Cabrera earned his Ph.D. and MS from the Georgia Institute of Technology, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar, and a BS and MS in Engineering from Madrid Polytechnical University, Spain’s premier Engineering school.

V. MARC CALI III

Marc has eleven years of industry experience and is responsible for Probitas Partners’ relationship management activities raising capital for alternative investment funds.  Prior to joining Probitas Partners, Marc was head of the Private Finance Group at Signal Hill Capital where he was responsible for the origination and execution of structured private placements to financial sponsors. Before joining Signal Hill, Marc was Vice President of the Private Finance Group at Legg Mason/Stifel Nicolaus. While at Legg Mason, he worked on a variety of financing transactions, including private placements, PIPEs, and senior and subordinated debt offerings for growth capital, acquisition financing, and recapitalizations. Previously, Marc was an associate in the Private Placement Group at Credit Suisse First Boston and he began his career as an attorney in the Investment Management Group of Schulte, Roth, and Zabel, the New York Law firm. Marc earned a BA in Economics from Lehigh University, an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a JD in Corporate and Securities Law from the Northwestern University School of Law. He is a member (inactive) of the New York State Bar.

JOHN COOK '79

John Cook graduated summa cum laude from Purdue University in 1974 with a B.S. in Industrial Management. From 1974 to 1977 he pursued a pre-medical curriculum at the University of Washington (Seattle); and in 1979 obtained an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management with a specialization in Europe and the Middle East.

In 1979 he joined International Harvestor Company (Brussels) as Assistant Marketing Director of the Truck Group for the Middle East. In 1981 he joined Univestors S.A. as Assistant to the President, responsible for marketing the firm's investment products to private and institutional clients across Europe. In 1982 he joined Merrill Lynch as an Account Executive in the Brussels office, and simultaneously began organizing Thunderbird European Alumni Reunions, which evolved into the Thunderbird Global Reunions and Global Business Forums. He was also elected to the Board of Governors of the American Club of Brussels and head of the Corporations Division of the United Fund.

In 1989 Mr. Cook joined Security Pacific Merchant Bank in Frankfurt as a Director of Business Development for the Benelux and Scandinavia with a focus on leveraged lending and acquisition finance. At the Chairman's request he initiated a global equity origination practice to source private and institutional equity on behalf of the bank's European clients. In 1992 Mr. Cook became an independent financial advisor based in Frankfurt, focused on private placements in real estate, venture capital, private equity and hedge funds. In 1995 he relocated to Zurich, Switzerland and became a director and principal of WJ Hopper & Co Limited, a London-based investment banking boutique focused on international fund raising for private equity fund managers. He sits on the Investment Committee of ACS Venture Capital Partners (Vienna); is a member of the Executive Committee of the American Club of Zurich; is a member of the Thunderbird Global Council and recipient of the 2003 Jonas Mayer Award from Thunderbird.

JONATHAN COSTELLO

Jonathan is an Executive Director for the Private Equity Fund of Funds group.  He joined Morgan Stanley in 2007 and has 14 years of relevant industry experience.  Prior to joining Morgan Stanley AIP, Jonathan worked with Susquehanna International Group, LLP where he was responsible for secondary private equity investments including investment strategy, business development, transaction management, and portfolio construction.  Prior to Susquehanna, Jonathan was a Managing Director at SSG Capital Advisors, L.P., where he led the firm’s secondary advisory business.  Prior to that, he worked with Safeguard Scientifics, Inc., where he was responsible for managing the firm’s private equity fund portfolio and for screening, structuring and monitoring private equity investments in software and information services.  Jonathan received a B.S. in finance from Boston College.

TIMOTHY CUNNINGHAM '76

Group, LLC, a financial services firm that raises institutional capital for hedge fund and private equity managers in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australasia.  Touchstone was founded in 2002 and operates with six full-time professionals in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Sydney, Australia.  The company’s principals have helped raise over $3.5 billion in institutional capital.

Previously, Mr. Cunningham co-founded and served as President of an investment management firm that developed and advised the first life-cycle mutual funds focused on retirement investing, and advised pension fund trustees on a variety of asset-liability and governance issues.  Prior to this, he served as a  investment consultant to a number of major institutional investors on alternative asset allocations and manager selection. 

Mr. Cunningham co-founded and managed a group of venture capital funds headquartered in Philadelphia.  He has co-authored two books on investing.

Mr Cunningham holds a Masters of International Management from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and a BA (magna cum laude with highest honors) from Williams College.

RICHARD W. DECKER JR. '70

Prior to founding Belvedere Capital in 1994, Mr. Decker was a partner in The Contrarian Group, which focuses on turning around undervalued and troubled companies by adding investment and operating management.  The Founder and Managing Partner of the Contrarian Group, Peter V. Ueberroth, is the former Commissioner of Major League Baseball and President and CEO of the successful 1984 Olympic Games held in Los Angeles and is presently Chairman of the United States Olympic Committee.

In 1993, Mr. Decker was one of the five founding Directors and Vice Chairman of Independent Bancorp of Arizona (Caliber Bank) in Phoenix, Arizona. This involved raising approximately $150 million in capital and creating the largest 'de novo' banking institution believed ever to have been created in the United States with approximately $1.8 billion in assets and 49 branches. This became Arizona's fifth largest bank and the largest independent bank in the state.

Prior to joining The Contrarian Group in 1990, Mr. Decker was President and CEO of WestAmerica Bank, a $1.5 billion asset, 35-branch community bank headquartered in Marin County, California. From 1973 to 1988, Mr. Decker was with First Interstate Bank of California, a $20 billion bank (acquired by Wells Fargo), as Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer reporting to the President and serving on the bank's Managing Committee. Mr. Decker started his banking career in 1970 with Chemical Bank in New York, London and Paris.

Mr. Decker is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and is a member of the Board of Directors of Green Bancorp. Mr. Decker is also a past member of the Board of Directors of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association in Boston.

Mr. Decker earned his BS degree from Long Beach State University in 1967 and an MBA in 1969. In 1970, he earned an additional graduate degree from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird). In addition, he completed the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management at Stanford Business School and in 1986 completed the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School.

MATT DEN BLEYKER, CAIA

Matt Den Bleyker serves as the Portfolio Manager of Alternative Strategies for the $22 billion Arizona State Retirement System.  In this position, his primary responsibility is to assist the ASRS in developing their absolute return, opportunistic and special situation private equity investment programs.  Additionally, he is involved in the management of five domestic enhanced passive equity strategies (AUM $5 billion) and a futures overlay program.
 
Prior to this position, Matt worked in Hong Kong for Man Financial as a Hedge Fund Specialist where he was responsible for developing derivatives trading strategies and prime broking relationships with Asian hedge funds.  Prior to Man, Matt worked in Austin for Texas Teachers Retirement System.
 
Matt received his BBA and MBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Arlington and attended the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.  He also received the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designation (CAIA).

NICK EFSTRATIS

Mr. Efstratis is a Managing Director with Epic Ventures. He has been a venture capitalist investing in early stage technology companies for the past 8 years. Prior to joining Epic Ventures, Nick worked in the Business Development Group at Excite and was a founding member of the management team of NetDocuments. Nick and his family are the founders and operators of RanchLife Adventures, a working cattle and guest ranch located in Montana. He has a B.S. in Entrepreneurship with a minor in Accounting/Economics from Brigham Young University. His M.B.A. is from the Marriott School at BYU.

Nick is responsible for the oversight of the following Epic portfolio companies: Alliance Health, Tricipher, Medsphere Systems, Mozy, Bungee Labs, The Generations Network and SmileReminder.

SCOTT GALLIN

Mr. Gallin joined AIG Investments in 2002 and is responsible for sourcing, screening, analyzing, and executing direct investments in sectors such as healthcare, consumer products, media and transportation.  He currently serves on the boards of Flash Global Logistics, Best Brands and the Body Shop of America and was previously a director of Everest Connections.   Prior to joining AIG, he worked for Kluge & Co., the private equity arm of Metromedia Company, where he participated in the investment of more than $800 million of debt and equity capital in venture-stage, growth equity and buyout transactions.  From 1996 to 1997, he was a Business Analyst in Andersen Consulting’s (now Accenture) Strategic Services group.  He is currently on the Advisory Board of the Adolescent Health Center (an affiliate of Mt. Sinai Hospital) and has worked as a pro bono consultant for several non-profit organizations including the Children’s Aid Society, Helen Keller International and the Acumen Fund. Mr. Gallin received a BA (magna cum laude) in Regional Science and History from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School, where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma.  Mr. Gallin also received a Fulbright Scholarship and attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec.  He is also an Adjunct Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University.

KURT GEIGER

Mr. Geiger has 30 years of international experience in Banking and an extensive track record in equity investments gained during a career in major international banking groups (Chase, Midland Montagu, HSBC, EBRD) with work experience in Frankfurt, London, Hong Kong, New York and Eastern Europe.

From 1993 onwards he worked with the EBRD, an IFI established to promote transition from centrally planned economies to market economies. He is Head of the Financial Institutions Group with a portfolio of $5 billion, and a main driver in building an effective and functioning financial services industry in Central and Eastern Europe. Under his leadership the EBRD invested in over 120 banks, insurance companies and pension funds in 27 countries and also was instrumental in building a private equity industry in the region where the Bank is a core investor in 90 equity funds. Mr. Geiger has been actively involved in many of these transactions and has an excellent reputation as a successful deal maker. He has overseen over 300 equity investments in the region over the past 12 years.

Previously he served as Managing Director with Midland Montagu/HSBC in London from 1989-1990, where he had regional management responsibilities for Europe and later MD International at Midland PLC. Before that, he spent 15 years with Chase Manhattan with postings in Europe, the USA and Asia. He covered many aspects of international finance in different markets with responsibility for large corporate relationships, project finance, corporate restructuring, turnaround, M & A and investment banking.

He served on many Boards such as Trinkaus and Burkhardt Germany, Pekao Poland, Budapest Bank, Hungary (Vice-Chairman of Board of Directors), all listed companies and equity funds such as Advent International and First NIS Russia (listed).

Mr. Geiger has a Ph.D. in Law from Innsbruck University in Austria and a Post-Graduate Degree in International Finance from the College of Europe in Belgium. He is bi-lingual in English, German and speaks also Spanish and French. He is married with two daughters.

GERD GOETTE

Mr. Goette is Managing Partner, based in Palo Alto, CA. He specializes in investments in energy, communications and industrial solutions.
He manages SVC’s investments in BPL Global, G2 Microsystems, ISE Corporation, GenBand, Prenova, Reactive NanoTechnologies, SmartSynch and Zolo Technologies. Earlier investments include Broadlight, Dune Networks, IP-Unity Glenayre, Kagoor Networks (acquired by Juniper Networks), Myrio (acquired by Siemens) and Verimatrix.

With more than 20 years of worldwide industry experience, he combines a strong technical background with wide-ranging operational skills. Prior to joining Siemens Venture Capital in September 2000, Gerd held the position of Vice President and Head of CableTV Solutions in Siemens Information and Communication Networks.

Additionally, Mr. Goette's managerial and operating expertise stems from earlier focus on R&D, system integration, product line management, technical sales support, project management and general management in the fields of telecommunication equipment and solutions.

Mr. Goette received a master’s degree in electrical engineering (Dipl. Ing.) from Technical University Darmstadt, Germany.

STANLEY P. GOLD

Stanley P. Gold is President and Chief Executive Officer of Shamrock Holdings, Inc., a privately owned Burbank, California-based investment company. 

Shamrock Holdings, Inc. is a diversified investment company wholly owned by the Roy E. Disney Family.  Shamrock through its wholly-owned affiliate, Shamrock Capital Advisors, Inc., manages in excess of $2 billion in seven investment funds for institutional investors, as well as high net worth families.

Prior to joining the Shamrock companies, Mr. Gold was a managing partner of Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, Inc., a prominent Los Angeles law firm he joined in 1968.  For a number of years, he specialized in corporate acquisitions, sales and financing.  During his business career he served as President of Shamrock Broadcasting, Inc., President and then Chairman of Central Soya Company, Inc., Chairman of Enterra Corporation (NYSE/EN) and Chairman of Koor Industries Ltd. (NYSE/KOR), Chairman of Tadiran Communications, director of The Walt Disney Company (NYSE/DIS), Ansell, Ltd (ANN/ASX) and is currently a Director of iPass Inc (NASDAQ/iPAS).

A native of Los Angeles, California, Mr. Gold first studied at the University of California at Berkeley and subsequently graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles with an A.B. degree in Political Science.  After receiving his J.D. degree from the Gould School of Law at the University of Southern California in 1967, he then attended Cambridge University in England for postgraduate work.

Mr. Gold's professional and civic affiliations include memberships on the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Chairman of the Board of Governors from 1991 to 1996).  Mr. Gold is the past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California; current Chairman of the Board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles; board member of the USC Law Center Board of Councilors; and the USC Keck School of Medicine Board of Overseers.

He and his wife, the former Ilene Carol Glasberg, live in Beverly Hills, California.  They have two adult children, Charles and Jennifer.

BRETT A. GORDON

Brett Gordon is a member of HarbourVest’s secondary investment team. He joined HarbourVest in 1998 as an analyst after receiving his MBA, became a principal in 2003, and was promoted to managing director in 2008. Brett is one of the leaders of the secondary team, focused on the purchase of U.S and non-U.S. investments in limited partnerships and portfolios of direct investments.  Brett currently serves on the advisory boards of partnerships managed by American Capital Equity Management, Jerusalem Global Ventures, Macquarie Advanced Investment Partners, Vitalife Partners, and the valuation committees of EnerTech Capital and TL Ventures. Brett’s previous experience includes serving as a vice president for The Princeton Review of Boston, Inc., where he managed all operational functions of the organization and was responsible for long range strategic planning.  He received a BS in Management (magna cum laude) from Boston University in 1990 and an MBA (summa cum laude) from Babson College in 1998.

ANDRÉ P. JAEGGI

Prior to setting up Ji Portfolio Services in early 2009, André was a Managing Director of Adveq, a leading provider of private equity fund of funds worldwide. He co-developed Adveq from a two Partners initiative into a globally active management company with close to 70 employees and offices in Zurich/Switzerland, Frankfurt/Germany, New York/USA, and Beijing/China and more than USD 4bn under management. André initiated Adveq’s European investment program and concentrated on investment management processes, risk management and governance. Since retiring from operations at the end of 2008 he remains on the Board of Directors.

Before joining Adveq in 1998, André was the Managing Director of Prevista Investment Foundation, one of the largest investment foundations for pension plans in Switzerland. Prior to that, he was the head of the Investment Institute of 'Finanz und Wirtschaft' in Zurich and Editor and Deputy Editor in Chief of 'Finanz und Wirtschaft' in Zurich and New York for a period of 11 years.

He is non executive Director of two Swiss Pension funds. André holds an MA and a PhD in Political Science and an MA in History from the University of Zurich.

MANSOUR JAVIDAN, PHD

As Dean of Research and Garvin Distinguished Professor, Dr. Mansour Javidan is head of the Thunderbird Research & Knowledge Network. This new unit, established under Thunderbird 2010, coordinates the school's multiple knowledge generation and dissemination activities, including the work of Centers and individual faculty, helps secure new resources to fund our research, and establishes and manage a school-wide strategic research agenda. The Dean of Research works closely with the Dean of Faculty to support and review faculty research, and helps our Marketing and Communications & Outreach colleagues raise the school's public research profile.  Like the Dean of Faculty, the Dean of Research reports to the school's provost.

Dr. Javidan is a multiple award-winning executive educator and author whose teaching and research interests span the globe. He received his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota, and he serves as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the world-renowned research project on executive performance and leadership, titled GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness).  The recently published GLOBE book which he edited, was the recent winner of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology's (SIOP) award competition for The M. Scott Myers Award for Applied Research in The Workplace.

Dr. Javidan has been designated an Expert Advisor (Global Leadership) by the World Bank and a Senior Research Fellow by the U.S. Army. He is also on the Board of Directors of Business for Diplomatic Action. He has designed and taught a variety of executive development courses, offered and facilitated workshops, conducted consulting projects, and made presentations in 22 countries around the world.

His publications have appeared in such journals as Journal of International Business Studies; Harvard Business Review; Strategic Management Journal; Academy of Management Perspectives; Leadership Quarterly; Management International Review; Organizational Dynamics; Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences; Human Relations; Journal of World Business; and Journal of Organizational Change Management.

Dr. Javidan has been spearheading Thunderbird's Global Mindset project which is focused on assisting managers and executives to work more effectively with those from diverse cultural backgrounds.

JARL KALLBERG, Ph.D.

Jarl Kallberg is a professor of global finance at Thunderbird. Prior to joining Thunderbird in the fall of 2007, he was a member of the finance at New York University’s Stern School of Business since 1978. He was also a member of the faculty of New York University’s Law School and for several years was the director of the finance Ph.D. program. Dr. Kallberg has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in mathematics and earned his Ph.D. in business administration at the University of British Columbia.

His current research interests are in financial engineering, real estate, financial contagion, entertainment economics, credit and statistical modeling. On the MBA, Executive MBA and undergraduate levels he has taught investments, corporate finance, financial engineering, portfolio theory, working capital management, mortgage-backed securities, integrative corporate strategy, and the business of music and film. In 2005 he was named the Professor of the Year at the Undergraduate College. At the Ph.D. level he has taught the first course in financial theory. His publications have appeared in such journals as Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Empirical Finance, Management Science and Operations Research. He has written or edited six books on corporate finance. He has been a visiting professor at Bilkent University, the University of British Columbia and at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

Dr. Kallberg served as the editor of the Journal of Cash Management from 1984 to 1992. He is currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Real Estate Economics and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Corporate Treasury Management. He was also an assistant vice president at and consultant to the Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, where he directed a group of economists building credit, bankruptcy and other economic models for D&B and its major clients. Dr. Kallberg has worked with the U.S. Congress and the World Bank on international banking and credit. He has been an instructor or consultant for Cushman and Wakefield; Deutsche Bank; Goldman Sachs; Indian Railways; KPMG; Lehman Brothers; Luxembourg School of Finance; Malaysian Bankers Association; Morgan Stanley; National Productivity Board of Singapore; New York Association of Security Analysts; New York Telephone; Pfizer; Prudential Securities; Prudential Real Estate; Simpson, Thacher and Bartlett; Singapore Institute of Management; among others.

DR. ZEINAB KARAKE-SHALHOUB

Zeinab Karake-Shalhoub is director of research at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), in the United Arab Emirates. Before joining DIFC, she was a professor in the School of Business and Management at the American University in Sharjah (AUS), United Arab Emirates. Zeinab served as the Associate Dean of the School of Business and Management, the Director of Marketing, Management and MIS, and the Chair of MIS.  Before coming to   AUS, Zeinab was a professor of Business Administration at Catholic University in Washington, DC (1989-2001). Zeinab Also served on the Faculty of the School of Business at George Washington University for four years (1986-1989). She has a BBA in Marketing and Research from the College of Business (Beirut, Lebanon, 1979), an MA in Quantitative Management and Economics from Catholic University of America (Washington, DC, 1982) and a PhD with Information Decision Systems &  and International Finance from the George Washington University (Washington, DC, 1987). Zeinab completed three summers (summer 1996; summer 1997; and summer 2000) of professional, post-doctoral programs at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts. She is a visiting scholar at INSEAD (2006).

Zeinab is the author of more than 50 published articles, monographs, and reviews. She is also the author of five published books Technology and Developing Economies (Praeger Publishers, New York, 1990), Information Technology and Managerial Control (Praeger Publishers, New York, 1992),   Organizational Downsizing, Discrimination, and Corporate Social Responsibility (Quorum Publishers, New York, 1999), Trust and Loyalty in Electronic Commerce: An Agency Theory Perspective (Quorum, New York, 2002), and The Diffusion of Electronic Commerce in Developing Economies,  (Edward Elgar Publication, 2007). Zeinab is also the regional editor of Management Decision Journal.

Zeinab is twice recipient of the prestigious Emerald/MCB University Press International Excellence Research Award for her groundbreaking research (1995, 2002).  She also received the AUS Excellence in Service Award in 2001. Zeinab was elected and served as the Founding President of the AUS Faculty Senate (2000-2001). In 2003, Zeinab Received the Best Researcher Award from The American University of Sharjah; and more recently she was nominated and received the 2007 Emirates Business Women Award for innovation.

In addition to her work as a researcher, administrator, professor, writer, and editor, Zeinab has developed and delivered a number of seminars and training programs for mid-and-high level American and international managers, both in the United States and abroad. She delivered keynote speeches at a number of conferences and serves as a consultant and a resource specialist for a number of national and international companies and institutions.

H. JEFFREY LEONARD

Dr. Leonard is the President and a founding partner of Global Environment Fund (GEF). Founded in 1990, GEF is among the largest, most experienced and most successful private equity firms dedicated exclusively to investments in the energy, environment and related sectors. Today, GEF has approximately $1 billion in aggregate capital under management. Dr. Leonard is the primary architect of GEF's global private equity investment program and serves as Chairman of the investment committees for Global Environment Emerging Markets Fund, GEF Clean Technology Fund, and other GEF funds. Since GEF's inception, he has led emerging markets private equity investments in the clean technology, independent power, gas distribution, water treatment, consumer products, healthcare and forestry sectors. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of several organizations supporting the asset class, including the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association ("EMPEA"), and he is co-chair of the Advisory Board for the Clean Technology Venture Network.

Dr. Leonard currently serves on the Board of the National Cooperative Bank; Reva Electric Car Company (Bangalore, India) and several other GEF portfolio companies. He has previously served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of International Pepsi-Cola Bottler Investments (Africa), and a founder and board member of Global Forest Products Ltd (Sabie, South Africa). In addition, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) in Cali, Colombia, and Chairman of the Water Supply & Wastewater Treatment Summit of the World Economic Development Congress.

Dr. Leonard is the author of five books and numerous technical articles relating to world trade, technology development and global environmental industries. From 1992 through 1998, Dr. Leonard served as a member of U.S. Department of Energy's Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel to the Secretary of Energy, and has previously served as an advisor or consultant to, among others, the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the World Resources Institute, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment and the Consultative Group on International Agriculture Research. In 2006-07, Dr. Leonard served as co-chairman of the energy transition team of Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley. He is a Board member of the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) and is a founding board member and chairman emeritus of the Board of Beacon House Community Ministry, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children and their families in northeast Washington, D.C.

Dr. Leonard is a graduate of Princeton (Ph.D.), London School of Economics (MS. Econ) and Harvard College (BA, magna cum laude).

DOUGLAS LOWENSTEIN

Douglas Lowenstein became the first President of the newly-formed Private Equity Council in February, 2007. Prior to launching the PEC, Lowenstein founded the Entertainment Software Association in 1994 and built it into one of the world's most influential and respected entertainment industry trade bodies. Under his leadership, the ESA developed and implemented government affairs, communications, anti-piracy enforcement, intellectual property policy, and research programs to advance and protect the business and public affairs interest of the $30 billion global video game industry.

Prior to joining the ESA, Lowenstein was an executive vice president in the Washington and New York strategic communications firms Robinson Lake Sawyer Miller (now Weber Shandwick). From 1982-86, Lowenstein worked for U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH), serving the last two years as Legislative Director.

Lowenstein spent the first nine years of his career as a newspaper reporter with the Buffalo Courier Express (1973-74), the Capitol Hill News Service (1974-76), and the Cox Newspapers Washington Bureau (1976-82).

Lowenstein received a BA degree in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of a book (Lowenstein: Acts of Courage and Belief), published in 1982 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich about his late uncle, former Congressman, anti-war and civil and human rights leader Allard K. Lowenstein.

MARK MARUSZEWSKI

Mark joined Pomona Capital in 2000 and manages the investment team and process. Mark has twelve years of private equity experience. Prior to joining Pomona, he spent four years in direct private equity with Stratum Group and eight years at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. in the areas of financial product management and business development. Mark received an MBA from Georgetown University, a BS degree from Allegheny College and became a CFA charter holder in 1996. Mark is an active member of the NY Society of Security Analysts and the CFA Institute

F. JOHN MATHIS, Ph.D.

F. John Mathis, is Director of the Thunderbird Global Financial Services Center. He was previously Dean of Faculty at Thunderbird School of Global Management and former Chairman of the World Business Department, has been a Professor of International Banking and Finance at Thunderbird, in Glendale, Arizona since 1988. Prior to coming to Thunderbird, Dr. Mathis was Senior Portfolio Officer with The World Bank/International Finance Corporation and Senior Financial Analyst with The World Bank/International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. For 14 years he was Chief International Economist with Continental Illinois National Bank and before that was with the Chase Manhattan Bank. A graduate of the University of California at Riverside, he also received his M.A. degree there. He received a Ph.D. degree in Economics from the University of Iowa, and taught at the University of Illinois and the State University of New York prior to entering the banking business.

In addition, Dr. Mathis does consulting for financial and non-financial corporations in the U.S. and around the World. He specializes in securitization, trade finance, financial structuring, and financial re-structuring. His wide experience includes: applying the analysis of changes in the economic and financial environment; projecting and evaluating financial and economic developments globally; identifying the risks and management options and policies associated with domestic and international loans and investments; developing corporate borrowing, liquidity and investment strategies and policies; and formulating financial plans and budgets.

Dr. Mathis has written and edited several books that are industry standards (including Corporate Financial Management and Offshore Lending by U.S. Commercial Banks), has contributed numerous articles to prestigious journals, and has been invited to speak throughout the world on international business issues. He has developed and presented training programs in international finance and risk management, foreign exchange and capital market products, and financial management planning to executives in the United States and Canada.

WENDALL MCCAIN

Mr. McCain is one of three founders of Parish Capital Advisors, LLC, which focuses on providing institutional investors access to small, experienced private equity funds.  He has spent the last ten years focused on alternative asset classes and has also experienced the private equity business from the perspective of advisor, direct investor, and limited partner. While his direct private equity focus is on early stage venture capital investments, he has also executed mezzanine, leveraged buyout, secondary and PIPE transactions.

Mr. McCain was most recently a Vice President at BancBoston Ventures, where his group managed a $600 million diversified private equity portfolio, and he managed a direct investment portfolio of eleven early stage companies and four limited partnerships. Mr. McCain was active as a board member or board observer of seven of those companies. Mr. McCain aggressively sourced new investment opportunities and reviewed over two hundred opportunities annually. In addition to his investment and portfolio management responsibilities, he also assisted the BancBoston fund-of-funds group with fundraising and strategic partnerships.

Mr. McCain received a BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar, and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School, where he was a Toigo Fellow.

GEORGE McPHERSON

Mr. McPherson is a Managing Director at Global Environment Fund (GEF), where he leads business development and fund formation activities for all of GEF’s strategies.  He has been raising funds focused primarily on alternative energy, infrastructure and natural resources around the world for the last nine years.
Mr. McPherson has been instrumental in GEF’s growth since 2004, when he joined the firm.  The company is now one of the largest private equity firms focused exclusively on energy and environmental technologies and services.  Before coming to GEF, Mr. McPherson advised a variety of private equity firms on fund formation and capital raising.

From 1988 through 2000, Mr. McPherson held various positions in engineering, business development and management for Hewlett-Packard.  In 1993, he led the formation and development of Hewlett-Packard’s Video Communication Division, a pioneering venture in broadband video communications and media.  In 1998 he was awarded membership in Hewlett-Packard’s President’s Club, an honor bestowed upon the firm’s top 100 employees around the world.

Mr. McPherson received a Master of Business Administration in Finance from The George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

LARRY K. MELLINGER'68

Mr. Mellinger is a financial advisor and consultant to private sector investors and bankers doing business in the United States and emerging markets. His career as a senior financial services executive has encompassed broad-based experience in private equity, commercial banking and financial advisory work, across markets in developed and developing countries.

Prior to his current financial advisory work, Mr. Mellinger had served for five years as Senior Managing Director and Global Head of AIG's Alternative Investments area. In this capacity he was in charge of AIG's private equity and hedge fund activities in the United States, Europe, Japan and emerging markets world-wide. His responsibilities included AIG's sponsored funds, which today total 36 funds with over $10 billion in capital commitments, with five additional funds currently in the advanced stages of fund-raising, in addition to an additional approximately $10 billion of AIG's proprietary capital invested in various categories of alternative assets.

Before joining AIG in September 2000, he was a founding partner of Integra Partners, LLC, a Washington, D.C.-based financial advisory and infrastructure project development firm specializing in emerging markets. Mr. Mellinger has over 30 years of experience in emerging markets banking and finance, including the seven years he served as the U.S. Executive Director for Presidents Reagan and Bush on the board of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, from 1986 to 1993.

Prior to the IADB, he was Chief Financial Officer of Mexico's Gruma Corporation, one of the largest food manufacturing groups in Latin America. He began his professional career with the Union Bank in Los Angeles, where he became the regional head of both the Latin America and Asia Pacific groups, before becoming its Senior Vice President and General Manager for International Banking.

He holds a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Kansas and an M.S. in International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management.

He was raised in Latin America and Australia before attending school in Kansas and is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.

MICHAEL MUELLER, CFA, CPA

Mr. Mueller has served as the Deputy Chief Investment Officer for the Office of the State Treasurer for nearly ten years, prior to that, he served as the agency’s Audit & Risk Manager for five years. In that position, his responsibilities included monitoring Treasury compliance with internal policies and Oregon State law, and managing Treasury’s overall risk exposure.  He served as Interim Chief Investment Officer for the State Treasury during 2002.
 
As the Deputy CIO, his duties span all asset classes as well as managing the Treasury’s custody, performance, consulting and lending relationships.  In addition, he helps the CIO to plan, organize, and direct the day-to-day activities of the Investment Division staff for the Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund (OPERF) ($45 billion in assets; $9.8 billion in private equity). He also has primary responsibility for Treasury’s relationship with the State Accident Insurance Fund ($3.4 billion in assets), the Department of State Land’s Common School Fund ($725 million in assets; 10% private equity target), and the Higher Education Pooled Endowment Fund ($50 million; $7 million in private equity).  Mr. Mueller is also the OST staff to the Oregon Growth Account Board, an in-state fund using a portion of lottery revenues to investment in venture capital, in Oregon ($91 million committed).

Prior to his employment at Treasury, Mr. Mueller worked for five years at the international accounting firm of KPMG Peat Marwick in their San Francisco and Portland, Oregon offices as a certified public accountant. His client responsibilities included firms in high-tech, government, banking, and investment management, including many with SEC reporting requirements. Mr. Mueller earned his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2002. Mr. Mueller is a graduate of Stanford University where he earned degrees in quantitative economics and history.

MARK O'HARE

Mark O’Hare studied Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at Cambridge University, where he graduated with First Class Honours and was awarded the Stokes Prize in Mathematics.     He represented his college 1st VIII in rowing.   Subsequent to this he studied Finance at London Business School.

Mark’s initial career was as a Manager with Boston Consulting Group, where he advised clients in Europe, the US and Africa, following which he founded Goodall Alexander O’Hare & Co, an independent strategy consulting firm.

In 1993 he founded Citywatch, the UK’s shareholder  information service, which was acquired by Reuters in 1998, and now provides a global service on the ownership of listed equities.   In 2002 he founded Private Equity Intelligence (Preqin), the alternative assets information service which provides extensive research, data and consultancy services on private equity, private real estate, infrastructure and hedge funds.     Preqin is an independent business with 50 staff serving over 2,500 customers in 72 countries.   Preqin tracks fund returns, fund raising information, fund terms and conditions, the GPs running the funds, and the LPs investing in them, and provides this information to its customers through a range of hard copy publications, online databases, and bespoke research projects.

Mark is married with four grown children, and is a marathon runner in his spare time.

NICHOLAS PARKER

Nicholas Parker co-founded the Cleantech Group, introducing the cleantech concept to the investment and business community in 2002. Previously Nicholas accumulated over 15 years experience starting and investing venture funds worldwide through limited partnerships, family offices, corporate funds and endowments. During this time, he pioneered the first "sustainability" driven private equity funds and participated in one of the first solar IPOs. In the 1990s, he also founded, built and sold an environmental finance firm. He has served as an advisor to multilateral agencies and major corporations.

Nicholas earned a BA Hons. in Technology Studies (Carleton University, Ottawa) and an MBA (City University, London), and has authored or edited more than ten publications related to cleantech, finance and international business, starting with Investing in Emerging Economies in 1993. He serves as Chairman of E+Co, a public purpose investment company for clean energy enterprises in developing countries, and is on several boards, including: Government of Singapore Cleantech Advisory Board, Canadian Centre of Excellence for Commercialization of Research and the X PRIZE Energy & Environment Council. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA). Nicholas has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America and currently resides with his two children in Toronto.

TODD J. PETERSON

Todd is a partner in the Private Equity and Venture Capital Practice Group, focusing on emerging markets work. This work includes four major components: forming private equity and similar funds primarily directed at emerging markets, working on transactions for such funds, working on a wide array of cross-border joint ventures (again primarily in emerging markets), and working on various infrastructure projects in emerging markets (including a number of biofuel and carbon credit related projects).

For the past several years Todd has been listed in The Legal Media Group Guide to the World’s Leading Equity lawyers, as well as The Legal Media Group Guide to the Worlds Leading Mergers and Acquisition Lawyers (Legal Media Group is the legal publishing arm of Euromoney Institutional Investor).  He has also been involved with Africare for a number of years, and is listed in the Princeton Premier Business Leaders and Professionals Honors Edition.

JOSEPH QUINLAN

Joseph Quinlan is a Managing Director and the Chief Market Strategist of Bank of America, Global Wealth and Investment Management.  He is charged with the development and implementation of domestic and global investment strategies.  He joined the firm in June 2003 after working for several years as a Global Economist at Morgan Stanley (1994-02).

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Quinlan worked as Director of Economic Research at Sea-Land Services, a $3 billion global transportation firm.  He has also been an International Management Consultant.  Quinlan started his career with Merrill Lynch Economics.

In addition to his duties at Bank of America, Mr. Quinlan is a leading expert on global capital flows and the transatlantic economy.  He has been a Senior Transatlantic Fellow (non-resident) at The German Marshall Fund in Brussels, Belgium since 2003, where his research centers on regional and global trade and investment flows.  As a Fellow, he regularly debriefs and advises senior U.S. congressional leaders on global economic/financial affairs on Capitol Hill, and has testified before the European Parliament on transatlantic trade issues.

Quinlan is also a Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University.  In 1998, he was nominated as Eisenhower Fellow and studied China-Taiwan cross-straits relations for a month in Taiwan.

He is the author, co-author, editor or contributor to eight books, the most recent:  “Deep Integration:  How Transatlantic Markets are Leading Globalization,” Johns Hopkins University, 2005, co-authored with Daniel Hamilton.  He has published over 125 articles on international economics and trade, with publications appearing in such venues as Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and Barron's.

Quinlan lectures on global finance at New York University, where he has been on the faculty since 1992.  He has lectured on global affairs and international finance at various institutions in Europe and Latin America.  Mr. Quinlan has also served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of States.

He earned a Master's degree in International Political Economics and Development from Fordham University in 1984.  He attended Niagara University, graduating in 1980 with a B.A. in Political Science. He has done additional course work in international finance at New York University. He sits on the Board of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fordham University and is a member of the President's Council, Fordham University.

AMIT RATANPAL

Amit in his 11 years of work experience has the distinction of successfully traversing varied roles across the financial industry. This has given him cross skills vital to his current assignment as the Head of Fund of Funds business at ICICI Bank Limited. A large part of Amit’s experience has been in the areas of Private Equity, Investment banking, Asset management and Private Banking.

Amit joined ICICI Bank Limited in March 2005 and became a key part of its International Banking Group at a time when it was the key focus area for the bank. He has played several pioneering roles to build up its business streams where he set up its equity desk for global and private banking investors, its offshore investment management company. He also started the investment banking practice for private banking and global institutions.  In his present profile he Head’s the Fund of Funds platform.

Prior to this, Amit worked for 5 years with Birla Sun Life group on various assignments.  Some of the key assignments include providing appropriate treasury solutions to corporate clients for debt and equity linked products, part of the core team to form the firm’s Alternate Channels division as well as conceptualizing and implementing its electronic broking solution and distribution network across India.
During his three years of articleship while doing his Chartered Accountancy, he was working on full time assignments geared towards financial consulting to several large and reputed organizations

Amit is a Chartered Accountant and an Executive MBA from NMIMS, Mumbai. He has attended several training programs including a course on Private Equity & Venture Capital at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

JESSE REYES

Jesse Reyes manages Crane Capital Associates' U.S. operations and leads U.S. manager origination and due diligence efforts. Prior to joining Crane Capital, he was Vice President, Global Research at Thomson Venture Economics. He joined Venture Economics in 1989 as Research Manager and later became Managing Director of Venture Economics' Institutional Investor Services' - which is a performance and portfolio analytics monitoring service which monitored over $300 billion in LP investments in private equity and venture capital investments for limited partner clients.

Jesse is widely regarded as one of the leading experts on performance measurement and quantitative analysis of the venture capital and private equity industry. He pioneered many of the performance benchmarking metrics now standard in the private equity industry. He developed private equity benchmarking products at Venture Economics such as the Investment Benchmark Reports and the Private Equity Performance Database on private equity performance, which have become the leading fund performance measurement tools by LPs and GPs alike. While at Venture Economics he also developed the Post Venture Capital Index-a public market index jointly developed with Warburg Pincus. He is one of the most highly sought-after speakers at industry conferences and is a frequent contributor to the industry and financial press.

In addition to his activities at Crane, Mr. Reyes is a member of the CFA Institute's and the Global Investment Performance Standards' (GIPS) committees on performance presentation standards representing private equity investing. He is an Educational Board Member of the Kauffman Fellows program. He also is an courtesy lecturer at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, where he teaches classes on topics in institutional private equity investing.

Prior to joining Venture Economics, he was a visiting assistant professor at Texas Tech University teaching courses in futures, finance and applied economics. While at Texas Tech he also served as a consultant to U.S. AID projects specializing in economic and financial analysis of micro-business development and financial markets development projects in Central America. He was the founder and the managing director of Texas-based Decision Research Associates, a software firm specializing in oil and gas partnership accounting and other office management software.

A native of Ralls, Texas, his background includes a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics and an MBA in Finance and Statistics., both from Texas Tech University as well as graduate studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University.

EMMANUEL ROUBINOWITZ

Emmanuel Roubinowitz has extensive experience in direct private equity, especially start-ups, LBOs and turnarounds.
He joined Fondinvest Capital in February of 2004 and became a managing director in 2006.

Prior to 2004, he was an investment director at Nomura Private Equity, in London. He previously worked for Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in London, where he focused on European LBOs; and he co-founded an investment firm specialized in corporate turnarounds.

Emmanuel is a graduate of HEC (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

ANNE-MARIE ROUSSEL

Anne-Marie Roussel is Director of Strategic and Emerging Business for Microsoft in Mountain View, California.  Anne-Marie manages Microsoft’s Digital Media portfolio, evaluating startups for acquisition/partnership with Xbox, Surface, Zune and Mobile Entertainment groups. She also manages relationships with VCs investing in these areas.

Prior to Microsoft, Anne-Marie was Vice President, Research at Gartner Group based in Paris.  During her ten-year career at Gartner, Anne Marie was responsible for advising private and corporate funds on strategic investment trends and individual opportunities in emerging IT companies in the US and Europe.  She also launched and managed “Gartner Invest” – Gartner’s service targeted at the investment community. She managed Gartner’s “Cool Vendors” report - recognizing the best and brightest startups in the industry – and the yearly Predictions report.

Prior to her investment focus, Anne Marie specialized in the telecommunications area, advising Gartner clients on strategic market and regulatory developments in the US and Europe. For example, she helped U.S. and European telecommunications companies redefine their strategies following the EC-mandated deregulation of telecoms markets in the mid-to-late 90s. She also headed the launch of Gartner’s Internet practice in Europe in 1996 – advising large international companies about how to deploy Internet strategies and providing guidance to small Internet startups on how to get venture .

Prior to Gartner, Anne Marie served as Paris Bureau Chief for McGraw-Hill/CMP Publications and Washington D.C. Editor for Communications Week. She also served as a correspondent covering news for various McGraw-Hill publications - based in Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington, DC.

MANINDER SALUJA

Mani is Co-Head of Emerging Markets Private Equity at Quilvest, a global institution that primarily manages the investments for one large family group as well as third party investors. Mani is involved in both the fund and direct private equity investment activities of the group.

Prior to joining Quilvest, Mani worked at Alvarez & Marsal, a crisis management and restructuring firm, where he assisted various North & South American companies and their creditors with operational and financial turnaround situations. Mani also worked in the New York and Hong Kong offices of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where he worked on a variety of high yield, M&A, restructuring, public and private equity transactions in the United States, Western Europe, Russia, South America and Asia. In addition, Mani worked as the Director of Finance and Strategic Planning for a US based regional communications provider.

Mani received his MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BBA with a concentration in finance from the University of Michigan.

ERIK SEBUSCH '01

Mr. Sebush recently joined the pension plan investing arm of UPS.  His position focuses on private market investments into private equity, venture capital, and real estate funds on behalf of the plan assets.  Prior to that Erik worked in the venture capital arm of UPS.  The UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund (SEF) was started in 1997 and is an early stage corporate strategic investor.  The SEF is an early stage co-investment model investing primarily for learning about new technologies or market spaces.  Initial experience at UPS was working in the New Product Concepts Group, which looks for new products and innovative ideas for the future of UPS.  Erik holds a patent from his work in New Product Concepts and spearheaded several new general service offerings currently generating large revenues to UPS.

Erik is a frequent speaker and judge to various venture capital events and innovation panels.  He is also on the boards of several start-up companies. Currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia with his family.  Erik enjoys mountain biking, mixed martial arts, emerging technologies, and travel.  His travels have taken him globally where he also lived and worked in Korea and Thailand.

Erik earned his International MBA from Thunderbird, School of Global Management.  He was very active on campus through his presidential positions or executive leadership in various business clubs or cultural clubs on campus.  In addition to those activities he was a teaching assistant, played rugby and was a Barton Yont Award (Academic excellence) nominee.  Prior to graduate school Erik spent over 12 years working for high net worth individuals in private practice and with Merrill Lynch’s high net worth Private Capital Group.

JAMES D. SEYMOUR, CFA

James D. Seymour, CFA, is a Managing Director of EMP Global in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining EMP Global in 2006, Jim was with Commonfund Capital, the wholly owned subsidiary of Commonfund which manages its private capital programs. Mr. Seymour was primarily responsible for the international and emerging markets private capital programs at Commonfund and Commonfund Capital from 1993 to 2006.

Previously, Mr. Seymour spent 18 years with Bankers Trust Company in the international banking and corporate finance area including 12 years living and working in Bahrain, Manila, Taipei, Istanbul, and London and his last position was Division Head for the Americas in the Global Assets Department. He was a member of the Risk Standards Working Group which wrote the Risk Standards for Institutional Investment Managers and Institutional Investors that was completed in November 1996. Mr. Seymour received a BA in Political Science from Yale University in 1969 and an MBA in International Finance from the Harvard Business School in 1975. He also served four years in submarines in the U.S. Navy. He is a Certified Financial Planner and a Chartered Financial Analyst.

MARK STEED '07

Mark is the Private Equity and Venture Capital Strategist for the innovative Arizona PSPRS.  In this capacity, he manages a program with a robust commitment to opportunistic private investments and entrepreneurial thinking.  He was recently featured as the Keynote Speaker at the Private Equity Summit in Palm Springs to discuss the impact of the “Global Credit Crisis and Private Equity.”  He’s also been invited to participate in several panel discussions on the private equity and venture capital industry.   Mr. Steed also has a unique global perspective as he has traveled to such places as Slovenia and Hungary, meeting with Private Equity firms and Venture Capitalists to better understand challenges they face in emerging economies.  Mark graduated with his MBA from Thunderbird’s School of Global Management and received his BA (with honors) in Latin American Studies and Business Management from Brigham Young University.  In his spare time, Mr. Steed enjoys teaching high school students the basics of economics and finance.

HEATHER M. STONE

Heather focuses on private equity and venture capital and is Chair of the firm's Fund Formation practice group. She has over 14 years of experience in a range of domestic and cross-border corporate and securities transactions and fund formation work. Heather has represented many private equity firms, as well as many growth-oriented software, emerging technology and media companies in all stages of development, from start-ups to multi-national public companies. In 2001, Heather was voted by Digital Industry as the “Best General Lawyer for a High-Tech Firm”, and has been designated a “Super Lawyer” by Law & Politics and Boston Magazine.

WILLIAM THARP

Mr. Tharp is Chief Executive Officer of CCI, a company committed to growing its existing businesses and acquiring attractive companies and growing them in partnership with management.  CCI’s wholly owned subsidiary, Quantum Leap Asset Management Limited, is manager or co-manager of Covington Venture Fund Inc. and Venture Partners Balanced Funds (alternative energy & efficiency venture funds) and also of the FA Renewable Power Funds Series I, II & III, project finance funds for renewable power development opportunities.  Mr. Tharp has over 10 years of experience in merchant banking in both Canada and the United Kingdom, and over 15 years as an entrepreneur working principally within the alternative energy and efficiency marketplace.

Mr. Tharp is a member of the Board of Directors of CCI and the following asset management companies: Quantum Leap Asset Management Limited, Indian Investments Ltd. (Alberta), Investeco Capital Corp., and the following alternative energy & efficiency technology and project development companies: Adventus Intellectual Property Inc., RuggedCom Inc., and Observatory Inlet Development Corp in addition to several other companies.

Mr. Tharp is also an investment committee member of Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC), a foundation with a $1bn investment fund that acts as a primary catalyst in building a sustainable development technology infrastructure in Canada, and appointed to the Task Force on Capital Markets & Sustainability for the National Round Table of Canada.

ROBERT THELEEN '70

Mr. Theleen has been a pioneer in China's venture capital industry. Formerly, he was Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and a founder of ChinaVest, the oldest American venture capital firm in Greater China. Founded in 1983, ChinaVest raised over US$300 million from leading American and European institutions, and invested in industries including light manufacturing, branded services, telecommunications and information technology. Mr. Theleen is currently a trustee of the Asia Foundation and serves on the Board of Directors of one of China's leading state-owned enterprises.

He was educated at Duquesne University, Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management, and Johns Hopkins University.

MICHAEL VITERI '95

Michael Viteri is the Manager of Portfolios & Trading Strategies for the $28.2 billion Arizona State Retirement System. Michael manages six domestic equity strategies (market value $7 billion) and a futures overlay program and has executed numerous transitions during his tenure. His responsibilities have included manager oversight for the externally managed Domestic and International Equity asset classes and oversight of the Commission Recapture program. Prior to this Michael served as a Portfolio Manager at Fan Asset Management in Mountain View, CA. In this capacity, Michael managed several public fund and corporate institutional accounts. Michael completed his BA in Anthropology and Spanish from Arizona State University, and his Masters in International Management/MBA at Thunderbird School of Global Management.

TOM WHITEAKER '96

Tom Whiteaker leads the external venture capital activity for Hartford Ventures, the innovation and venture capital division of The Hartford (HIG).  In this role he is responsible for leading The Hartford’s investment activities in venture backed companies with strategic relevance to The Hartford’s business ecosystem.  Tom joined The Hartford in 2008. 

Prior to joining The Hartford, Tom led Visa’s corporate venture function in the security and e-commerce sector.  In this role he established and managed venture capital investments in privately-held technology companies with strategic relevance to Visa.  While at Visa Tom formed strategic partnerships with and invested in several companies including:  Zone Labs (Acquired by CheckPoint), nCircle Network Security, NextPage (Acquired by Fast Search & Transfer), Vericept, IP Commerce, Third Brigade and Inside Contactless.  Tom joined Visa in 1999.

Prior to Visa Tom was the Senior Director of International Business Development for Omnium Worldwide where he led Omnium’s international expansion  efforts in to Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Tom graduated from Thunderbird, The School of Global Management in 1996 with an MBA in International Management and also holds a B.S. degree in Finance.

ROGER WITTLIN '78

Mr. Wittlin joined Silver Lake in 2007 as a Managing Director to head up Silver Lake's Credit Investment business. He has significant experience in analyzing and managing fixed income investments and is focused on developing the firm's debt investing strategy.

Prior to joining Silver Lake, Mr. Wittlin was the lead portfolio manager and group head of Sutter Credit Strategies, an autonomous business unit within Wells Capital Management. Sutter's external assets grew from inception to $3.5 billion from 2002-2007 under Mr. Wittlin's management. Sutter's investors included various state pension funds, endowments, foundations, and corporations. Mr. Wittlin joined Wells Fargo Bank in 2000 and managed both the bank's high yield team and co-managed its proprietary high yield portfolio before forming the Sutter Credit Strategies business to manage non-proprietary assets. Mr. Wittlin has over 24 years of capital markets experience beginning in 1982 as a member of Lehman Brothers fixed income department. Later, Mr. Wittlin was a vice president in fixed income with the Principal Investment Group at Goldman Sachs, which purchased and structured distressed and sub-performing assets. Mr. Wittlin was also a managing director at Deutsche Bank prior to joining Wells Fargo.

Mr. Wittlin received his bachelors degree in journalism from Arizona State University and received masters degrees in both business administration and international management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird).

CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT

Mr. Christopher Wright is Managing Director and Director at Merifin Capital Group and a Senior Advisor at Fraser Finance LLP and Allianz Private Equity. A veteran private equity professional in Europe and the United States, Mr. Wright served as the Head of Global Private Equity and Chairman at Dresdner Kleinwort Capital, with over $4.5 billion under management. He is an Advisory Director at Campbell Lutyens & Co Ltd. Mr. Wright also serves as the Chairman of Noble Venture Finance Ltd and Wall Street Technology Partners LP. He is Director at Lombard Risk Management PLC, Roper Industries Inc, Genaissance Pharmaceutical Inc, Maxcess International Corporation, Mrs. Fields Holdings LLC, I-documentsystems Group PLC, and Tritex Corporation. He is a Member of the Advisory Board at Amadeus Capital Partners Limited.

Merifin Capital is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in early stage, late stage, buy-out, and turnaround financing. Merifin Capital is headquartered in Brussels, Belgium and has offices in Geneva, Switzerland and New York, United States.