Advisory Board
RSR Partners Advisory Board Members
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.
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 (19931996), Zurich Financial Services (19972006), and Pactiv (19982000). He was a chairman for the Business Roundtable (19981999) and the National Association of Manufacturers (19941995).
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 Quinton – Mr. Quinton is a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch. He is a member of the Executive Committee for Global Research and the Operating Committee for the firm's businesses in Latin America. Within the Global Research Department he is head of Latin America Research, Chairman of the Americas New Product Committee and Chairman of the Americas Research Recommendations Committee. Mr. Quinton is a Trustee of International House where he is a member of the Executive and Investment Committees and Chair of the Development Committee. He is a member of the Foreign Policy Association, the Asia Society and the Economic Club of New York.
Simon Williams – Mr. Williams is currently the Chairman of Camelot Financial Capital Management where he focuses on financial services investments. Mr. Williams is the former Chief Risk Officer, Global Consumer Group for Citigroup, Inc. Prior to this position he served various management roles for Citigroup from 1997- 2003, including EVP Region Head of their Latin America and Asia Consumer Groups, as well as EVP Head of Citigroup’s International Retail Bank. Before joining Citigroup, Inc., Mr. Williams was an executive with GE Capital Corp. in the US and Europe. He has served on the boards of Citigroup Germany and the Student Loan Corporation, and is a council member of the NYU Wagner School. Mr. Williams holds a BS in Mathematics from Exeter University in his native England, and graduated with distinction from INSEAD Business School in Fontainebleau, France.