Leadership

THOMAS F. GREER, Jr. '73
Executive Committee Member, TPEC Advisory Board

CYNTHIA HOSTETLER
Chairman, TPEC Advisory Board; Director, Artio Mutual Funds Complex

LARRY K. MELLINGER '68
Executive Committee Member,
Private Equity Adviser, LKM Advisors, LLC


THOMAS F. GREER, JR. (Thunderbird '73)
Vice Chairman, TPEC Advisory Board
Managing Director, Enterprise Capital Corp.

Mr. Greer is a co-founder of China Enterprise Capital Corporation, a leading private equity management firm in China, and Chairman of Enterprise Capital Corporation.

He began his business career at Morgan Guaranty and Trust Company followed by over a decade with Citicorp in Asia in senior positions in Indonesia, South Korea and Hong Kong. Mr. Greer subsequently joined Royal Trust Asia as its lead executive in Asia and initiated a merchant banking and private banking business that was later sold to the Royal Bank of Canada. He then joined Bank of America as head of its Asia private client and investment management businesses and served on the investment committee of the firm's Asian Direct Equity Fund.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from the University of Colorado and a MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management. He served as an infantry and special forces officer in the United States Army in Viet Nam and Europe

Mr. Greer has been or is a member of a number of professional and not for profit organizations including the Young Presidents' Organization, World Presidents' Organization, trustee of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and is presently Vice Chairman of the Thunderbird Global Council and the Thunderbird Private Equity Center.

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CYNTHIA HOSTETLER
Chairman, TPEC Advisory Board; Director, Artio Mutual Funds Complex

Cynthia Hostetler was elected in 2010 to the Board of Directors and as a consultant to funds in the Artio Mutual Funds Complex. The Artio Funds have both domestic and international focuses, with the international family of funds recognized as the eleventh largest in the United States. Artio Asset Manager has over $55 billion under management. Ms Hostetler serves on the Administrative Services Committee (Chairman), the Audit Committee, the Risk Management Oversight Committee, and the Valuation Committee.

From 2001 to 2009, Ms. Hostetler served as Head of Investment Funds at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). In this capacity, Ms. Hostetler ran the private equity and venture capital group and had direct responsibility for leading a team of 10 professionals investing in emerging markets private equity. Ms. Hostetler was responsible for over $5.5 billion committed to 65 funds and over 400 portfolio companies, making OPIC the largest known investor in emerging markets private equity in the world. During Ms. Hostetler’s tenure, she completely restructured the investment processes and procedures for alternative asset investments. Ms. Hostetler also initiated and led the asset allocation planning for the portfolio, resulting in new commitments of approximately $3.5 billion from 2002-2009.

Prior to joining OPIC, Ms. Hostetler served as President and member of the Board of Directors of First Manhattan Bancorporation (FMB), a bank holding company. Ms. Hostetler was President of FMB from 1991 to 2006. In addition to her bank holding company role, Ms. Hostetler also served for over eight years in a variety of positions at First Savings Bank (FSB), FMB’s primary subsidiary. Ms. Hostetler served as President of FSB from 1996 to 1999 and continued as a Board Member of FSB until 2006. 

Previously, Ms. Hostetler was an attorney in the corporate/banking department of the New York branch of the international law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett.

Ms. Hostetler currently serves as Vice Chairman and on the Executive Committee of the Eisenhower Presidential Library Foundation. Additionally, she is Vice Chairman of the Thunderbird Private Equity Center Board of Directors. Ms. Hostetler was also a member of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association Advisory Board and a member of the Young Presidents Organization for 10 years.

Ms. Hostetler received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia, School of Law in 1988. She graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Southern Methodist University in 1985. While at SMU, Ms. Hostetler also received numerous awards, including the Robert H. Dedman Award for most outstanding Arts and Sciences student, the Presidential Award of Excellence, and the “M” Award.

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LARRY K. MELLINGER (T-bird '68)
Vice Chairman, TPEC Advisory Board
Private Equity Adviser, LKM Advisors LLC

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.

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