

30 years experience as a global turnaround and change agent. Chairman and founder of Catalyst
Acquisition group, a specialized buyout firm focused on turnarounds and rapid, confidential
corporate divestitures. Hands-on global leader often asked to implement change from C-level
positions. General expertise: value creation via people motivation, product creativity and
customer focus. Functional/business expertise: marketing, globalization, P&L management,
mergers/acquisitions, outsourcing, restructuring, advanced techonology, telecommunications,
professional services.
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22 years experience as a financial services executive on Wall Street with firms including
Steelhead Partners, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Barclays Capital, Bear Stearns,
and Merrill Lynch. Domestic and international experience. Expertise: Dept capital markets,
structuring, debt sales, cross marketing, client relations, raising and managing money.
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25 years experience start up and transition management for health-related charities,
including hospitals, hospice and African health, as executive director, president, director
of development and director of public affairs. Expertise: non-profit management, health and
global health, development, public affairs, government relations.
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25 years experience in international development in the Americas, Africa and Asia, including
project management and engineering consultancies with UN agencies, bilaterals - CIDA, DFID,
DANIDA, and international ngos - WaterLife, WaterAid, Plan International. Expertise: water
and sanitation program design, budget, implementation, monitoring, evaluation, community
participation, capacity building.
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20 years experience as management executive, including president of SocialReturns, creator
and co-director of Yale/Goldman Sachs/Pew Charitable Trusts Partnership on Non-Profit
Ventures, product and marketing manager of Scholastic, Inc., and vice president of New
Ventures. Expertise: non-profit sector marketing and new business development, strategic
and long-range planning, market analysis.
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12 years experience in project direction, including business development strategy, design,
production of editorial, packaging, internet, corporate identity. Founding partner of Mexico
City-based design firm Entrelinea. Trustee of Origen, an ngo that serves disadvantaged women.
Expertise: corporate and ngo marketing in Mexico, Central America, and USA, multinational
professional network, native Spanish speaker.
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30 years experience in all forms of communication management, including corporate
communications, journalism, marketing promotion and non-profit organizations. Currently
president and ceo of CFSC Consortium. Expertise: communications, public policy, public
information, stakeholder capacity development, corporate diversity concerns.
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10 years international business with multi-national firms Hewlett Packard and Wextrust
Capital, including investment analysis, market research, management consulting, strategic
relationship management. Fluent in Chinese and English languages. Expertise: Investment
analysis, risk assessment, multicultural negotiations, business operations, business
development, team performance.
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10 years experience in emerging markets and microfinance, including founder/managing director
Minlam Asset Management, Inc. Analysis of microfinance institutions in India published in
C.K.Prahalad's The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. Expertise: Microfinance, creation
and management of socially responsible investment products, investment analysis, management,
marketing.
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25 years senior management experience in domestic and international business, including
co-founder PC industry, cio Tritium Card Services, president Data Treasury Corp,
president/ceo ImageSoft Inc., chairman/president/ceo Intersoft Corp, vice president product
management Pertec Computer Corporation. Expertise: personal computer industry, biometric
hardware/software, financial modeling, intellectual property, contracts.
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25 years experience in medicine, public health and polar exploration, including World Health
Organization, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, clinical medical practice,
North Pole/ Antarctica expedition leader, ocean sailor. Expertise: infectious disease
epidemiology, including SARS, Avian influenza, expedition leadership.
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12 years experience in global ventures, including strategy consulting for Accenture's US
business launch centers, performing investment manager roles for corporate venture companies
and operating manager roles for startups and turnarounds in US and Asia. Founding principal
in several social ventures and projects involved in microfinance, water, wind power, social
justice and community entrepreneurship. Expertise: Venture investments, operations and
management of startups and turnarounds, offshore business models.
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30+ years of experience as a hands-on enterprise software technologist executive and product
team builder, researching, envisioning, innovating, planning, designing, implementing,
managing, teaching and evaluating software/hardware systems tools, applications, and SDLC
methodologies and architectures. Served four times as Chief Technology Officer in small to
medium sized startups where he has led many teams and organizations to successful product
delivery, revenue, market differentiation and funding.
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10 years experience in web and software development, including president of Do More Consulting,
enterprise architect at Merrill Lynch - Global Banking and International Technology, vice
president product development of Provengo. Expertise: web-based software development and
enterprise software design.
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