William F. Andrews – Mr. Andrews is Chairman of Corrections Corporation of America, Katy Industries and Allied Aerospace Company. Previously he was Chairman of Northwestern Steel & Wire Company and Scovill Fasteners, Inc. From 1992 to 1994, he was Chairman and CEO of Amdura Corporation, Chairman of Utica Corporation and advisor to Investor International (U.S.) Inc. In 1990–1992 he was President and CEO of UNR Industries, Inc. Earlier he was President of Massey Investment Company. Mr. Andrews was Chairman and CEO of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, 1986–1989, and Chairman and CEO of Scovill, Inc., 1981–1986. Mr. Andrews is a director of Black Box Corporation, Johnson Controls, Inc., Navistar International Corporation, Southern New England Telecommunications Corporation and Trex Inc.
Jonathan J. Bush – Mr. Bush is President of J. Bush & Co., which he founded in 1970. He is a graduate of Yale University (BA) and New York University School of Business (MBA). Mr. Bush is former chairman of the Board of The United Negro College Fund and chaired the UNCF Capital Campaign which raised two hundred and eighty million dollars. He is a former board member of Russell Reynolds Associates, The Baltimore Orioles, The Yale Alumni Fund, The Boys Club of New York, Miss Porter’s School and held the position of Finance Chairman of the New York Republican party. A former member of the Board of Yale New Haven Hospital, Mr. Bush served as co-chairman of the Smilow Cancer Hospital Capital Campaign. Mr. Bush holds honorary degrees from Buthune-Cookman College, St. Augustine’s College and Stillman College.
Donald K. Clifford, Jr. – Mr. Clifford is Founder and President of Threshold Management, Inc., formed in 1984. He is also President of The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks. For 25 years prior to that he was a Director with McKinsey & Company, Inc., the international management consulting firm. Prior to McKinsey, Mr. Clifford was with W.R. Grace where he held various positions in finance and marketing. In 1985 Mr. Clifford and Richard E. Cavanagh co-authored a book on threshold companies entitled The Winning Performance: How America’s High-growth Midsize Companies Succeed. His articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review, Dun’s Review, Management Review, Business Horizons, Organizational Dynamics and other management magazines in the US, Europe and Japan. Mr. Clifford is an investor and founding director of Avenir Group, Inc., and an advisor to its affiliated companies.
Doni L. Fordyce – Doni Fordyce is a partner of L-1 Investment Partners. She brings two decades of senior executive and investment management experience to L-1 Investment Partners. From 1996 to 2003, Fordyce served as CEO, president and COO of Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc. Under her leadership, the firm’s assets grew at a 25 percent CAGR from $6 billion to $24 billion. Her experience at BSAM included private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, structured products, managed accounts, mutual funds and institutional separate accounts. Prior to joining BSAM, Fordyce was vice president of Goldman Sachs Inc. from 1986 to 1996. While there, she was one of the founders of the asset management business, which included products and services for institutional and retail investors. Earlier she was with the structured bond portfolio group, where she designed and implemented asset/liability solutions, asset allocation and portfolio optimization and hedging strategies for institutional investors. She has served as a board member for the U.S. Department of Defense Investment Board, and The Big Apple Circus, as well as a special advisor to BISYS Corporation
L. Scott Frantz – Mr. Frantz is President of Haebler Capital, a private investment company in Greenwich, Connecticut, with interests in private and public equity markets, venture capital, the specialty coffee import business, and industrial privatization in emerging markets. He recently was elected State Senator for the 36th District of Connecticut. Mr. Frantz is Chairman of the Bradley International Airport Executive Board, Chairman of the Connecticut Development Authority, a director of Haebler Capital, Marina America, Inc. and S&T Development. He serves on the following nonprofit boards and councils: AmeriCares, Greenwich Teen Center, International House, Connecticut Republican Finance Committee, American Everest Foundation and the Veterans Appreciation Council.
Patrick W. Gross – Mr. Gross is Chairman of The Lovell Group, a private investment and advisory firm, where he works with a portfolio of venture capital backed private technology and internet commerce companies. He established the firm upon stepping down as executive committee chairman of American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS) in 2002. From 1970-2001, Mr. Gross was founder and principal executive officer of AMS, which provided information technology services and enterprise software solutions to major corporations and government agencies. He is currently a director of Capital One Financial, Alpine Access, Career Education, CoreStreet, Liquidity Services, and Mobius Management Systems. Mr. Gross attended Cornell University and received a BES from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi), an MSE from the University of Michigan, and an MBA in 1968 from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
James B. Hurlock – Mr. Hurlock is a retired partner from the law firm White & Case LLP and served as chairman of its management committee from 1980 to 2000. He has been a Non-executive Director of Acergy S.A. since 2002 and was appointed deputy chairman in February 2005. Mr. Hurlock is a director of SNSA and chairman of Orient Express Hotels Limited. He participated in the formation and served on the Board of Northern Offshore Ltd. which during the 1970s operated diver lock-out submarines and provided other services to the offshore oil industry. He holds a BA degree from Princeton University, an MA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar) and a JD from Harvard Law School.
Edward A. Kangas – Mr. Kangas served as Global Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu from 1989 to 2000. Under his leadership the firm’s revenues grew to $11 billion in 2000 from $2 billion in 1989. He was one of the chief architects of the 1989 global combination of Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Touche Ross. A Certified Public Accountant, Kangas holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from the University of Kansas. He serves on the boards of United Technologies. Eclipsys Corporation, Hovnanian Enterprises Inc., Intuit Inc., Network Solutions and Tenet Healthcare Corporation. At Tenet, Kangas has served as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board since July 2003. Kangas is currently a member of the board of trustees of the University of Kansas Endowment Association and a member of the University of Kansas Business School Advisors, and he has served as a member of the board of overseers of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
James W. Kinnear – Mr. Kinnear is the former President and CEO of Texaco, Inc. Mr. Kinnear is a director of Saudi Arabian Oil Co. Earlier he was a director of Aramco Inc., Corning Incorporated, Paine Webber Group Inc., an advisory director of Unilever PLC and Unilever N.V. and Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Association and the Veterans Appreciation Council.
Dana G. Mead – is currently Chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s board of trustees, and serves on the board of directors for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Pfizer. Previously, he was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tenneco from 1994 to 1999. He was Chairman of two of the successor companies of the Tenneco conglomerate, Tenneco Automotive Inc. and Pactiv Corporation, global manufacturing companies with operations in automotive parts and packaging, from November 1999 to March 2000. He was formerly a board member for Cummins (1993-1996), Zurich Financial Services (1997-2006), and Pactiv (1998-2000). He was a chairman for the Business Roundtable (1998-1999) and the National Association of Manufacturers (1994-1995).
Mead graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1957 and received his Ph.D in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1967. He served in the U.S. Army line armor and airborne units in West Germany and Vietnam between 1957 and 1978. Mead was a White House Fellow for 1970-71, a member of the Domestic Council from 1972-74, and returned to West Point as a professor in 1974-78.
Richard L. Murphy – Mr. Murphy is President of The Landis Group, where he consults with senior leadership teams and Boards of Directors providing methodologies for executing rapid strategy deployment, organizational alignment, accountability and desired performance results. He is a founder of two management consulting and training firms, Organizational Dynamics, Inc. (ODI), which was ranked on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies for two years running and QED Consulting. Prior to consulting, Mr. Murphy held executive positions at CBS, Texaco and Control Data Corporation. Mr. Murphy currently sits on the Board of the Greenwich Leadership Forum (GLF), in partnership with the Yale Center for Faith & Culture.
Adam D. L. Quinton – Mr. Quinton is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is a Trustee at International House in New York where he sits on the Executive Committee and chairs the Development and Alumni Relations Committee. He a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Work Life Policy and a Managing Director at Golden Seeds, a network of angel investors dedicated to investing in early stage companies founded and/or led by women. Until May, 2010 he served as a Managing Director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and head of Global Macro Research. He has been a top ranked sell side investment analyst on three continents and has led large teams of professionals both regionally (Asia, Latin America) and globally. He is a member of the Economic Club of New York, the Foreign Policy Association, the Asia Society as well as the New York and Indian Harbor Yacht Clubs. Mr. Quinton graduated from Cambridge University, England with a Double First Class degree. He holds an MBA from Cass Business School in London and sits on their US Alumni Board.
