TTF USA Ambassadors

Allan I. Mendelowitz is President of the ACTUS Financial Research Foundation.

The ACTUS Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation dedicated to creating and promoting an open-source algorithmic financial contract standard that can increase financial transparency and enable current and forward-looking analysis.  Over the course of his career, he has held a number of senior executive positions in the U.S. government.  In his most recent assignment, he served as Chairman of the Federal Housing Finance Board, the prudential regulator of the Federal Home Loan Bank system.

Previous positions included service as the Executive Director of the Congressional Trade Deficit Review Commission, Executive Vice President of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, and Managing Director for International Trade and Finance at the U.S. GAO.  Earlier in his career he was an Economic Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

He has published articles in scholarly journals and popular publications, lectured widely in the United States and abroad on economic and financial topics, and testified as an expert witness before the U.S. Congress more than 145 times.

His education includes economics degrees from Columbia University (A.B.) and Northwestern University (Ph.D.).

Andre is focused on creating mathematical models whose concepts are carefully true to the meanings ascribed to them, so that their evaluation provides reliable information to users.

He began his career in finance building fixed income pricing models, and has worked, done research and published in physics, the foundations of physics, epistemology, and broadly in ex post financial analysis with particular emphasis on decision evaluation.

He has a B.S. from The Cooper Union and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Boston University.

Ben became a CPA in 1961 and was an investment adviser for 40 years. He is a graduate of Stanford University with a BA in Economics and a joint MA from the Stanford Business School and the Food Research Institute where he was coached by his mentor, Professor Dr. Karl Brandt, a member of President Eisenhower’s Council of Economic Advisers. Ben received the Private Sector Initiative Commendation from President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

He was the founder of The Overseas Oversight Group in 1998 that has oversight responsibilities as protector of overseas trusts and companies, as well as starting three other financial advisory organizations. He sold his investment advisory business in 2012 and co-founded PFA with Stewart Frank in 2014.

He served four-year terms on committees of the American Institute of CPAs including the Investment Committee that had oversight over the pension and health plans of the employees of this 350,000-member organization. He is a past chairman of the AICPA special task force on International Tax Reporting Requirements. Prior to these nationwide professional assignments, he participated actively in California CPA Society Committees. Additionally, he served on the asset protection committee of the American Bar Association and as a member of the Probate and Trust Division.

George Mellman is a veteran finance consultant with decades of senior-level, client-facing work for institutional money managers, fiduciary oversight committees, C-suite executives, and third-party advisory firms. He is a skilled analyst in all major asset classes, with special expertise in “best practices” for DB and DC retirement plans.

For over fifteen years, George was a Vice President and Senior Consultant at Fidelity’s Investment, where he was responsible for maintaining ongoing investments relationships with many of its largest corporate and non-profit clients. Previously, he had been Director of Consultant Relations at a Connecticut-based asset management firm and a pension consultant for multi-employer and public-sector clients.

For his institutional clients, George has evaluated investment portfolios, made buy-sell and asset allocation recommendations, and assisted with their other fiduciary oversight decisions.  For these clients, this has led to improved portfolio risk-return metrics, measurable cost savings, and greater overall alignment with stated investment goals.

Additionally, for many years George was an MBA and undergraduate level Finance Instructor at both Northeastern University in Boston and Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. He also has been engaged in litigation analysis support activities and various start-up organizations.  Published research includes “401(k) Lawsuits: What Are the Causes and Consequences?” (https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/IB_18-8.pdf)

George has been an active volunteer with the CFA Institute, where he has served on Technology, Education, and Committees Governance committees.   Earned professional designations include: Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”), Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (“CIPM”), Financial Risk Manager (”FRM”), and Certified Financial Planner (“CFP”). He holds an undergraduate degree from Boston University and an MBA from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Jason is founder, chairman and CIO of Rayliant Global Advisors (RGA), a global investment management group with more than US$29 billion in assets managed using its strategies, as of Dec 31, 2019. Rayliant applies quantitative methods to access behavioral-based alpha prevalent in inefficient markets like China. Jason also co-founded Research Affiliates, a smart beta and asset allocation leader with over US$180 billion in assets managed using its strategies.

Jason sits on the editorial board of the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Investment Management, the Journal of Investment Consulting and the Journal of Index Investing. He is an adjunct professor of finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management, and a visiting professor at
Tsinghua University (China), Kyoto University (Japan) and National Chengchi University (Taiwan).

Jason has published more than 40 journal articles and is a contributing author to nine handbooks in finance and economics. He has won two Graham and Dodd Scroll Awards; one Graham and Dodd Reader’s Choice Award; one Graham and Dodd most prestigious award, three Bernstein Fabozzi/Jacob Levy Awards; and three William F. Sharpe Awards. He also co-invented the
Fundamental Index, awarded best index by Global Pensions magazine in 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Jason received his Ph.D. in finance from UCLA Anderson School of Management. He received his M.S. from Stanford University and B.S. from the California Institute of Technology.

Mark Hooker teaches in the Economics Department at Northeastern University in Boston. Recent roles include risk and portfolio management for a start-up hedge fund-of-funds company, and heading quantitative investment research at State Street Global Advisors. Earlier in his career he served as a staff economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and an assistant professor of Economics at Dartmouth and Wellesley Colleges. He received his PhD in Economics from Stanford University.

Nicholas Ashford is Professor of Technology & Policy and Director of the Technology & Law Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he teaches courses in Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics; Law, Technology, and Public Policy; and Technology, Globalization and Sustainable Development.  Dr. Ashford is a Faculty Associate of the Center for Socio-technical Research in the School of Engineering; the Institute for Work and Employment Research in the Sloan School of Management; and the Environmental Policy Group in the Urban Studies Department.  He holds both a Ph.D. in Chemistry and a Law Degree from the University of Chicago, where he also received graduate education in Economics.  Dr. Ashford is also a visiting scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health and has taught intensive courses in Sustainable Development, and European & International Environmental Law at Harvard University, Cambridge University, UK and at the Cyprus University of Technology.

Dr. Ashford is the co-author of two textbooks/readers used in his classes: Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State (2018, revised edition, Routledge/Earthscan Press; see https://youtu.be/u-OdFBARXHg and Environmental Law, Policy and Economics: Reclaiming the Environmental Agenda (2008, MIT Press; see http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262012386). He also authored a major policy work for the Ford Foundation, Crisis in the Workplace: Occupational Disease and Injury, (1976, MIT Press). He co-authored four additional books: Public Participation in Contaminated Communities, (2001, http://ashford.mit.edu/public-participation-contaminated-communities

; Chemical Exposures: Low Levels and High Stakes (second edition 1998, John Wiley Press; Chemical Exposures:  Low Levels and High Stakes, N.A. Ashford and C.S. Miller, Second Edition, John Wiley Press, 1998, 440 pages. Available for free at https://tiltresearch.org/health-care-providers/publications/ (click to obtain pdf version); Technology, Law and the Working Environment (second edition 1996, Island Press) and Monitoring the Worker for Exposure and Disease (1990, John Hopkins University Press). He has published several hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals and law reviews.

http://ashford.mit.edu

Bartlett Naylor is an expert on corporate governance, financial markets and shareholder rights. He has worked as a consultant for Capital Strategies Consulting, Inc., director of the Office of Corporate Affairs for Teamsters Union and chief of investigations for the U.S Senate Banking Committee.

Media Appearances:
Bartlett has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Hill, The Washington Times, Dow Jones, Minnesota Public Radio, Daerings Navingslv and El Mercurio, among other media.

Chet has been recognized as a leading insurance/IT executive, providing both strategic and practical insights across all P&C lines of business. He has worked in the P&C insurance information industry 40+ years for carriers, broker/MGA/agency, vendors and industry associations on policy, billing, claims, reinsurance and reporting/BI solutions.

Chet’s roles have included CIO for Interstate Insurance, Senior Director – Research & Development for ACORD, Vice President of software sales and co-founder of a global insurance proof-of-insurance solution. His experience spans the globe both in insurance and technology.

Michael Harold, Co-founder and CTO of GoKnown, LLC
(www.goknown.com)
Michael Harold is a Co-Founder and CTO of GoKnown, LLC, a
technology startup building a real time, distributed ledger
marketplace for data. Having spent more than 35 years in the
computer industry, Michael has experience as an inventor,
corporate strategist, architect and analyst.

He has been recognized as a visionary inventor and technology
pioneer in multiple markets including Distributed Ledger (DL)
computing, Mobile Media Casting, Enterprise information
Archiving and Search (EIA), Cloud Computing, Last-mile Web
Acceleration, Business Process Management (BPM) and
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). His notable inventions
include N-bit encryption and compression, decentralized peerto-peer computing (a precursor to blockchain and distributed
ledger computing), media casting, mobile out of home
“touchless” device management and decentralized
cryptographic data storage and key management.

He is known for having pioneered the world’s first web-based,
global supply chain EAI solution for FedEx and is a recognized
inventor of mobile media casting and smart TV technology with
patent licensees that include Microsoft, Sony, Samsung, LG,
Panasonic, Roku and others.

Claude Cicchetti is Director of Graduate Finance Programs at Bentley University and is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Department. His interests are in foreign exchange, portfolio management, derivative products, and investment ethics. He has taught courses in investments and international finance, and has developed and taught a course in investment ethics. At Bentley he is Chair of the Finance Department’s Graduate Policy Committee, is a member of the advisory board for the Hughey Center for Financial Services, and sits on Bentley’s Graduate Council.

Claude was previously head of global asset allocation and fixed income funds at SBC Global Asset Management in Switzerland (now UBS GAM), having formerly worked as head of structured equity portfolios for SBC GAM in London. Claude also has extensive derivative markets experience as head of capital markets for Bank of Boston in London which originated and distributed products such as interest rate and currency swaps, interest rate caps/floors, and currency options. Claude also designed one of the currency option market’s first exotic options – the Boston Option. Claude has a degree in Economics and Philosophy from Hamilton College and has a Masters in Finance from the University of London.

Neil Scarth is a Principal of Frost Consulting, which works with asset managers and asset owners on a variety of research issues including research valuation/budgeting software platforms (FrostRB), strategy-level research spending database/benchmarks (FrostDB), and investment process ESG ratings.

Frost also works with asset owners to identify potential performance risks to equity strategies related to changes in research spending/process resulting from commercial pressures and regulatory change globally.

Research spending is an important input for most active equity strategies.  Frost solutions allow asset managers and asset owners to collaborate on mutually transparent research budgets designed to allow the investment strategy to meet its targeted return.  It is in the interest of both parties for the product to succeed.

Research transparency and “sustainability” are emerging as ESG factors and stewardship/ governance issues for asset owners.

Neil has held a wide range of roles in asset management and investment banking in both Europe and North America, ranging from running equities businesses at global banks to launching and managing all aspects of varying asset management products.

Neil was appointed to the UK Investment Management Association’s Research Review Advisory Panel and has consulted extensively with global regulators on research issues. Frost has authored papers on research topics for, and in collaboration with, the CFA Institute, the University of Edinburgh, and Stanford University.

Dubbed “the leading [U.S.] national watchdog of state and local economic development subsidies,” and “an encyclopedia of information regarding subsidies,” Greg founded and directs Good Jobs First, a research and policy center promoting accountability in economic development. His two books include The Great American Jobs Scam, which Publishers Weekly called ““…a parade of damning case studies showing why communities should not woo corporations with subsidies.” GJF is home to Subsidy Tracker, Tax Break Tracker and Violation Tracker. Violation Tracker captures 20 years of federal and state regulatory penalties; it reveals the U.S. financial services sector to be by far the nation’s most heavily-penalized corporate sector. GJF led the campaign for Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB) Statement 77 on Tax Abatement Disclosures, a landmark in U.S. municipal finance. It requires all states and most local governments (cities, counties and school districts) to finally disclose how much revenue they lose to corporate tax breaks. It remains the only form of tax expenditure ever codified by GASB.

Leo M. Tilman is a leading expert on risk, strategy, and finance and a long-time advisor to companies, governments, and institutional investors around the world. Prior to founding Tilman & Company, a global strategic advisory firm, Tilman held senior roles at BlackRock and Bear Stearns and taught finance at Columbia University, his graduate and undergraduate alma mater. He is the author of four books, including Agility (2019) and Financial Darwinism (2008). Tilman helped shape the modern concept of risk intelligence and, in collaboration with U.S. government, created innovative models for public/private partnerships. He has been profiled as Business Visionary by Forbes and honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.

Blake Goud has been the CEO of the RFI Foundation since the organization’s incorporation in 2015. The RFI Foundation works to connect responsible finance and Islamic finance together, and to support its members’ adoption of responsible finance practices and their integration into the global responsible finance industry.

Blake has more than a decade experience researching Islamic finance and working in in a compliance and investment officer role in the finance industry. He was the Chief Research Officer for ME Global Advisors where he focused on MENA financial sector development and the growth of the Islamic economy. He was responsible for leading ME Global Advisors’ research efforts as well as advising on the content of the events organized by ME Global Advisors.

He was the Community Leader for the Thomson Reuters Islamic Finance Gateway from 2012 to 2015. At Thomson Reuters, he conducted research and was the lead author for a number of widely referenced reports on the Islamic finance and Islamic economy sectors, he was involved in organizing large-scale events and one-on-one sessions including IILM roundtables in London and Washington, DC and the Global Islamic Economy Summit in Dubai, UAE.

His published research includes papers on incorporating environmental, social & governance (ESG) within Islamic finance, Islamic microfinance, renewable energy microfinance and Islamic public finance. He received his B.A. in Economics from Reed College in 2003.

Dr. McMillan joined CFA Institute in October of 2008 after more than a decade as a professor of accounting and finance at Johns Hopkins University’s Carey School of Business and George Washington University’s School of Business.  Prior to pursuing a career in academia, he was a securities analyst and portfolio manager at Bailard, Biehl, and Kaiser and Merus Capital Management in San Francisco, California.

As the Director of Ethics Education and Professional Standards, Dr. McMillan is responsible for creating and developing educational content for CFA Institute members and investment professionals in ethics and professional standards.  He is also responsible for providing Ethical Decision-Making Workshops to pension plan trustees, investment professionals, regulators, and university students.

Prior to joining CFA Institute, Dr. McMillan served in a variety of volunteer capacities. He was a member of the CFA Council of Examiners for 10 years, and a grader for the CFA Level II and Level III exams for 12 years. In addition, he was the Vice President and Treasurer of the CFA Society of Washington, DC.

Currently, Dr. McMillan is the Treasurer and a member of the board of directors of the Alexandria Police Foundation, which provides resources to Alexandria police officers that improve officer performance, morale, and effectiveness.  He is also the treasurer and a member of the board of directors of the Friends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena, a nonprofit organization, which provides free figure skating, ice hockey, speedskating and synchronized skating lessons to underprivileged children in the Washington, DC area. Dr. McMillan is also on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Business Research and a member of the Society for Business Ethics.

Dr. McMillan has a PhD in accounting and finance from George Washington University, an MBA from Stanford University, and BA from the University Pennsylvania. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Certified Compliance and Ethics Professional (CCEP), a Chartered Investment Counselor (CIC), and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA).

Ivka is an accomplished investor with over 20 years experience managing global and international equity portfolios for retail and institutional clients. She has experience launching new investment strategies, both active and indexed, and has significant expertise in sustainable investing (ESG and SRI) and gender-lens investing.

Before co-founding Promethos, Ivka was lead portfolio manager of International Strategies at Boston Advisors. Prior to joining Boston Advisors in 2015, Ivka was a senior portfolio manager at Pax World Management, where she managed the Pax World International Fund and the Pax World Global Women’s Equality Fund. Before Pax World, she managed international and global portfolios at State Street Global Advisors and Baring Asset Management, and was a global equity analyst at Independence Investments and at Putnam Investments.

Early in her career, Ivka worked as a management consultant to large corporations in the U.S., Europe and Latin America, including three years in Prague working on projects to privatize state-owned Czech companies.

Ivka’s global investment expertise is enhanced by her experience living and working around the world and her ability to communicate effectively in English, French, German, Spanish and Czech. She earned a B.A. degree in biology from Harvard University, a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and an M.B.A from INSEAD. Ivka currently serves on the boards of the Boston Economics Club, United Planet, and American Boronite Corporation.

Elizabeth is the President & Chief Compliance Officer of Cayena Capital Management, LLC, an independent registered investment firm, with a family office in New Hampshire. Liz began her career in 2005 with Fidelity Investments and has since held positions with TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab, Windhaven Investment Management, and a small local independent registered investment adviser. Her financial services experience covers a broad range of roles including that of a relationship manager to high net worth individuals, research assistant, retirement specialist, global trade analyst, and Portfolio Manager.

Throughout her career, Liz, has had a particular interest in race and gender equality within the financial services industry and in socially responsible investment themes, corporate practices, environmental stewardship, consumer protection, human rights and diversity. A native of New Hampshire, Liz received a B.S. degree in Business Finance from Southern New Hampshire University, where she is currently completing her Masters in Applied Economics.

She was previously registered with FINRA with Series 7, 9 and 10 licenses, with an active Series 65 and 63. Additionally, Liz serves as Treasurer of Girls at Work, a local nonprofit located in Manchester, NH and on the executive board of NHPBS, located in Durham, NH.

Herb Blank is a Senior Consultant for Global Finesse LLC, heading the product strategy practice.  He provides ESG, ETF, enhanced indexing and alternative data expertise.

During the past 35 years Herb has been involved in quantitative risk management, ESG modeling, ETF product development, portfolio management, product strategy, and business development. He served as Portfolio Manager for the Deutsche Bank CountryBaskets, the first ETFs launched on the NYSE, and assisted in planning the launches of iShares, GLD, and CountryBaskets.

Herb is a frequently published author and a well-recognized name from his 22 years helping to guide QWAFAFEW, a global society of investment quants.  He holds an MBA from NYU Stern and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Nell Minow has worked in the field of corporate governance and shareholder advocacy for more than 30 years, currently as Vice Chair of ValueEdge Advisors, and previously as co-founder and board member of GMI Ratings (formerly The Corporate Library), which was sold to MSCI in 2014.

Before GMI, she was a principal in the governance investment firm LENS (where Business Week online called her “the queen of good corporate governance” and Fortune called her “a CEO killer”) and general counsel and president of Institutional Shareholder Services.

She is co-author with Robert A.G. Monks of three books, including five editions of the leading textbook on corporate governance, and she taught MBA students at George Mason University for five years.  In 2008, she received the highest award in the field from the International Corporate Governance Network and in 2013 she received a lifetime achievement award from Corporate Secretary Magazine.

Her past service on non-profit boards includes the advisory council and board of WETA, Washington DC’s public television and radio stations, and as a board member of Reading Is Fundamental, a national literacy organization and the Center on Media and Public Affairs/STATS, the leading organization monitoring the media’s political coverage and assisting journalism organizations with statistical reporting.

She was a columnist for the Huffington Post and wrote the Risky Business column for BNet (owned by CBS) and continues to write for a number of outlets on business and culture.

Ms. Minow is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Chicago Law School.

Dan Solin is the New York Times bestselling author of the Smartest series of investing books.  Dan’s books have been enthusiastically endorsed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Vanguard founder John Bogle. Kiplinger’s listed The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read on its top ten list of the financial books every investor should read. He also writes a popular newsletter for investors, another newsletter for investment advisors and has a YouTube channel for investors.  Dan blogs weekly for Advisor Perspectives.

A former securities attorney, Dan graduated from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Dan is the President and founder of Solin Strategic, LLC, which coaches investment advisors all over the world.

He is also the President and founder of Evidence Based Advisor Marketing, which provides marketing and web design services to advisors.

Dr. Ashby Monk is the Executive and Research Director of the Stanford Global Projects Center. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the University of Oxford and a Senior Advisor to the Chief Investment Officer of the University of California.

Dr. Monk has a strong track record of academic and industry publications. He was named by aiCIO magazine as one of the most influential academics in the institutional investing world. His research and writing has been featured in The Economist, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Institutional Investor, Reuters, Forbes, and on National Public Radio among a variety of other media.

His current research focus is on the design and governance of institutional investors, with particular specialization on pension and sovereign wealth funds.

He received his Doctorate in Economic Geography at Oxford University and holds a Master’s in International Economics from the Universite de Paris I – Pantheon Sorbonne and a Bachelor’s in Economics from Princeton University.

David H. Webber is the author of The Rise of the Working-Class Shareholder: Labor’s Last Best Weapon, published by Harvard University Press in April 2018. Webber has toured extensively for the book, and has published op-eds about it in theNew York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, In These Times, and elsewhere. The book has been reviewed or otherwise covered in the New York Review of Books, twice by the Financial Times, Publisher’s Weekly, Bloomberg Radio, CSPAN’s BookTV, Forbes, Nightly Business Report, NPR’s Marketplace, the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, the Harvard OnLabor blog, Cornell University’s ILR Review, Rorotoko, de Volkskrant, Calcalist, the Majority Report with Sam Seder,the David Pakman Show, Knowledge@Wharton Business Radio, Splinter News, Dissent, Agence France-Presse, Reuters, and others.

Webber co-edited a second book, Research Handbook on Representative Shareholder Litigation (Elgar), published in November 2018. He has published scholarly articles including “The Use and Abuse of Labor’s Capital” in the New York University Law Reviewand “The Plight of the Individual Investor in Securities Class Actions” in the Northwestern University Law Review, with additional work forthcoming in the Vanderbilt Law Review and elsewhere. Webber has presented his research at the Harvard Stanford Yale Junior Faculty Forum, the Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, and the American Law and Economics Association conference, among others.

Webber is the winner of Boston University School of Law’s 2017 Michael Melton Award for Teaching Excellence. He also co-teaches the Pensions and Capital Stewardship course for the Harvard Trade Union program at Harvard Law School. He is a graduate of Columbia and NYU Law School, where he was an editor for the law review.

Gary N. Kleiman is a pioneer and recognized expert in the field of global emerging economies and financial markets. He founded the first consulting firm dedicated to providing independent analysis and advice to public and private sector clients in 1987, and research coverage and firsthand experience reached seventy-five countries in all developing regions. For three decades the company provided written reports and verbal briefings to banks, fund managers, institutional investors, and corporations to guide portfolio allocation and risk management. The firm also offered technical assistance and training to government and international lending agencies on financial sector and capital markets strategy and development. Mr. Kleiman was simultaneously responsible for content delivery, business outreach, and thought leadership, and his multifaceted entrepreneurial and substantive skills can apply to complex board assignments.

He was chosen as the overall financial sector strategist for the IMF-World Bank’s original First Initiative strengthening program, and was involved in private sector industry group formation such as the Emerging Markets Traders Association.  In Washington he advised government bodies on global economic and financial vulnerability issues for twenty years, and has been an expert witness in international sovereign debt cases. He has spoken at dozens of professional conferences and events worldwide, and is often cited and featured in the media. He has been a regular writer and commentator throughout his career, launched a website blog in 2008, and contributes to international outlets including Asia Times, BNE Intellinews and Financial Times.

Mr. Kleiman was an adjunct professor and developed an emerging market finance course for the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, where he graduated magna cum laude, and has been a longtime student mentor. He also completed advanced studies at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris) and the London School of Economics, and worked in Asia and the Middle East prior to starting his firm in New York before relocation to Washington. He is a senior member of non-profit advocacy groups like the Bretton Woods Committee, where he led specific poor country and refugee support efforts, and served on project task forces for the Council on Foreign Relations and World Economic Forum.  Mr. Kleiman is conversant in several languages, and has been an active political campaign volunteer and policy adviser, and competitive runner with age group placement.  He is listed in “Who’s Who in America” and has been married to Elizabeth Morrissey, who co-founded Kleiman International Consultants, for twenty-five years and has a teenage son Dylan.

Website: www.kleimaninternational.com

Jim is the director of the wealth advisory practice for Toroso Advisors, a division of Toroso Investments, LLC. Toroso is an ETF research and investment management company, developing and launching ETFs in addition to managing client wealth, both corporate retirement plans and families.

He is focused on advising corporations and people on all financial planning matters and has spoken to industry groups on the need for transparency in Retirement Plans.

Before joining Toroso, he was with Rothschild as Vice President, Senior Institutional Consultant and Corporate Retirement Consultant. Previously, he was at Salomon Brothers and Morgan Stanley covering large institutional portfolios.

Jim has an MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, is a graduate of the Certified Investment Management Analyst program at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, the Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF) program at the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Certified Retirement Planning Specialist.

Jim is also a past member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade, Home Federal Bank, Highland Park Hospital, Blythedale Children’s Hospital, the Executive Board of The Forward Association, and a current chairperson of FINRA Dispute Resolution.

William Jannace has worked nearly 30 years in the securities industry at the American and New York Stock Exchanges and FINRA. As a senior counsel at Ross PLLC, he advises clients across a range of applications and compliance needs. Currently he is also focused on blockchain industry related broker-dealer and ATS advice, FinHub referrals, and related matters.

He is also an adjunct professor/lecturer at Fordham School of Law, Wharton Business School, Georgetown Global Education Institute, the Global Financial Markets Institute, Baruch University, The TABB Group, and the Financial Markets World, where he teaches courses covering:

• Capital Markets/IPOs/Exempt Offerings/ADRs
• Securities/SRO/Mutual Fund/Investment Adviser/Broker-Dealer Regulation
• Broker-Dealer Operations/Net Capital/Customer Protection/Prime Brokerage/Short Selling/Clearance and Settlement.
• Corporate Governance/Proxy/Activism/Corporate Social Responsibility/Environmental, Social, Governance/Impact Investing/Climate Change/, State Capitalism/Family Firms/ Sovereign Wealth Funds/Geopolitics/Geoeconomics.

He has also taught courses at The U.S. Army War College, New York Law School, Wharton Business School, Drexel University, New York University, Pace University, Securities Training Corporation, New York Institute of Finance, New York Society of Security Analysts, and the Securities Industry Institute/Wharton Business School on the above topics.

He was an account executive at Georgeson and D.F. King serving as liaison for corporations/institutional shareholders regarding corporate governance issues; assisted on proxy fights/tender offers for corporate raiders/listed companies; liaison with trading floor and arbitrageurs to provide market color to listed companies; monitored trading versus 13F filings to determine changes in shareholder ownership. He was also Series 7/63 licensed at Drexel Burnham/Paine Webber and was also a consultant for The World Bank.

International Experience

Mr. Jannace also conducted overseas training programs for the: Russian Securities Commission/Stock Exchange; The Capital Markets Authorities in : Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania and Kenya; Saudi Arabian Capital Markets Authority; Securities and Exchange Board of India; Ukrainian Securities Commission/Stock Market; Romanian Securities Commission; Jordanian Securities Commission; Capital Markets Authority of Turkey; Albanian Financial Supervisory Authority; New York Institute of Finance- Beijing/China, the Taiwan Stock Exchange and for IOSCO in Spain.

Primary Practice Areas

In managing FINRA’s Sales Practice Policy department William Jannace and his staff responded to interpretive, policy and disposition requests, covering capital markets, research, books and records, supervision, outsourcing, bank sweeps, outside business activities/private securities transactions and conflicts of interest. Mr. Jannace also worked in the Enforcement Department where he investigated violations of federal securities laws/SRO rules, conducted OTRs, drafted reports of investigation/statement of charges/settlements and conducted contested/settlement proceeding.

As a regulator, Mr. Jannace interfaced with the SEC, NASD, state regulators/trade associations (SIFMA) in shepherding proposals for approval; and helped draft reports on research analyst conflicts; secondary trading of private companies; transparency enhancements to the securities lending marketplace; and on mutual regulatory recognition. He participated in the Compliance Advisory Group, OSRC, and IOSCO initiatives. He also worked with OFAC and the SEC to help firms identify potential money laundering issues and to restrict terrorist financing post 9/11.  He led a FINRA initiative to rewrite its membership rules. Rule proposals/guidance included:

• SRO Rule Harmonization/Business Continuity/Contingency Planning
• CEO Certification/Internal Controls/Supervision/
• Review/Supervision of Electronic Communications
• AML/Patriot Act/OFAC/SDNs
• IPO Allocations/Research Analyst Conflicts/Qualification Examination
• Portfolio Margin/Capital

He also worked at TD Securities and Smith Barney Shearson, providing legal advice on/reviewed or responsible for:

• Regulation D/S offerings/144A/144 resales/10b-18 share buybacks
• Offering Memorandums/Underwriting and Prime Brokerage Agreements
• Research reports and trading approvals for new issues/secondary offerings
• Ensured trade reporting/Control Room/employee/firm trading compliance

Dispute Resolution Experience and Training

William Jannace is a CIArb Fellow, a FINRA Non-Public arbitrator, a member of the New York International Arbitration Center, a judge for the FINRA Annual Securities Dispute Resolution Triathlon, and arbitrator for the Willem C. Vis Moot Court at Fordham Law School. He also attended Mediation Training at the NYCBA and received a Certificate in International Commercial Arbitration from Columbia Law School/Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.  He is also a research affiliate with the Fletcher Network for Sovereign Wealth and Global Capital. Mr. Jannace received his JD from New York Law School in 1992, his LL.M. in Corporate, Banking, and Finance Law from Fordham Law School in 1996, is a member of the State Bars of New York and Connecticut; received a Certificate in Global Affairs at New York University and Environmental, Social and Governance investment training from the International Corporate Governance Network.

International Experience

Mr. Jannace also conducted overseas training programs for the: Russian Securities Commission/Stock Exchange; The Capital Markets Authorities in: Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania and Kenya; Saudi Arabian Capital Markets Authority; Securities and Exchange Board of India; Ukrainian Securities Commission/Stock Market; Romanian Securities Commission; Jordanian Securities Commission; Capital Markets Authority of Turkey; Albanian Financial Supervisory Authority; New York Institute of Finance- Beijing/China, the Taiwan Stock Exchange and for IOSCO in Spain.

Publications, Speaking Engagements and/or Professional and Civic Associations

He has also volunteered for the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, the Asset Owners Disclosure Project, UNICEF and served as a judge for the SIFMA Foundation InvestWrite Competition. Mr. Jannace is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee and the NGO Committee To Stop Trafficking in Persons. He is also active in raising funds and awareness for humanitarian assistance and an active supporter of education through the establishment of the Anthony E. Jannace scholarship at New York Law School and the Susan M. Jannace scholarship at Fordham University.

He has contributed to the following publications:

“Bretton Woods 4.0 Finding New Relevance in a New World Order,” By Dr. Paul Tiffany and William Jannace, Bretton Woods@75 Blog and Compendium, February 2019.

“Cautionary Notes for Supply Chain Managers and Others Involved in Global Sourcing & Partnerships (Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery Conditions Raise Reputational Risks),” Governance & Accountability Institute, January 2018).

“Sustainability Disclosures in the EU,” Insights, The Corporate and Securities Law Advisor, Volume 31, Number 8, August 2017.

“Sustainability Disclosures in the EU: Implementation of the 2014 EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive,” ABA, Spring 2017.

“Accounting for Trade: President Trump and the Geopolitical Balance Sheet,” NYU-Global Affairs   Perspectives on Global Issues, Spring 2017.

“NASD/NYSE Rule Harmonization: What Do the Changes Mean in Practice, “The Journal of Securities Compliance, Volume One, October 2007.

His speaking engagements include: Securities Regulation/Corporate Governance/Capital Markets, Impact Investing/ESG, and Broker-Dealer Operations/Market Structure/Clearance and Settlement for:

• Skytop ESG Investing Conference
• Skytop Impact Investing Conference
• Skytop Strategies-Compliance Conference
• UNICEF-Human Trafficking Podcast
• Skytop Strategies-Impact Investment Conference
• Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission
• China Construction Bank
• Iraq Stock Exchange
• Securities and Exchange Bureau of India
• Tokyo Stock Exchange
• Hawkamah Institute for Corporate Governance
• Kenyan Capital Markets Authority
• El Salvador Securities and Exchange Commission
• Ghana Stock Exchange
• Mexican Banking and Securities Commission
• Sarajevo Stock Exchange/Securities Commission
• Saudi Arabian Capital Markets Authority
• Central Bank of Kosovo
• Malaysian Securities Commission
• SEC Annual Institute for Securities Market
• US State Department Foreign Delegation
• Hong Kong Securities Commission
• Philippine Dealing System Holdings
• Treasury Department of Argentina
• Ontario Securities Commission
• Securities Operations Forum
• ALI-ABA Compliance and Enforcement Conference
• SIFMA lAD and Fixed-Income Conferences
• FINRA Spring Conference
• NYSE Regulatory Conferences
• SIFMA Equity Capital Markets and Research Management Conferences
• BD Week Annual Compliance Conference
• SIFMA Annual Legal and Compliance Conferences
• NASD Institute for Professional Development
• ABA Conference.

Bar Admissions: Member of the New York and Connecticut Bars

Stefan Pagacik’s career has spanned several industries and roles, most recently as co-founder of AI4Impact, an artificial intelligence platform focused on building next generation impact financial products. Previously, he built two impact themed cloud and mobile platforms (8 of 9 LLC and my4) for retail and institutional investors interested in aligning their values and criteria with their portfolios. His prior entrepreneurial experience involved starting a marine science accelerator in Southeastern Massachusetts (the Regional Technology Development Center of Cape Cod) that commercialized scientific developments in partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the Marine Biological Laboratory.

Transitioning from managing the investment committee of an angel fund (Bay Angels), he focused on building a model for an energy transition solution from fossil fuels to biofuels for the government of Chile. He also designed a social enterprise plan for the city of Detroit aligning entrepreneurs and city agencies to stimulate business opportunities for blighted areas of the city.

His technology background includes retail sales consulting for Apple Computers in the Northeast and building a channel strategy for an emerging leading-edge motion graphics software company (The Company of Science and Art) that was later acquired by Adobe. He opened the Boston office of IT consulting firm Eclipse Information Systems that was later acquired by Century Services of Washington, D.C.

Stefan has a B.A. in English from Harvard College and an MBA from Suffolk University.

Rohanna Wise is the founder and CEO of Wise Trading Technologies, and the creator of WiseRisk, a software platform that automates the implementation of currency hedging strategies. She has worked in buy-side trading and/or trading technology since 1996, starting with energy commodities before moving to fixed income (including currency), and focusing exclusively on currency from 2012.

In 2015, Rohanna launched Wise Trading Technologies to offer a low-cost solution for asset managers to systematically eliminate unwanted currency risk.

She is the author of Hedging Wisely: A Non-expert’s Guide to Expertly Hedging Currency Risk.

Rohanna holds a BA from the University of Rochester and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Thom Young, MBA, President, FARcapital, LLC – Mr. Young primarily responsible for strategic direction of FARcapital. Mr. Young’s emphasis is on sales and marketing to the largest US hedge fund management companies and their global institutional asset owner investor base.

Prior to joining the Company, he co-founded and managed Cambium Capital Management, a conservative Jones model US equity long/short hedge fund working for large institutional investors.  Before Cambium, Mr. Young worked as a Managing Director of Deutsche Bank in New York serving in several roles to include as a Global Relationship Manager and as Co- Head of Global Institutional equity sales.  In 1997 Mr. Young opened and managed Deutsche Bank’s institutional office in Atlanta, Georgia.  From 1983-1996 Mr. Young worked at The First Boston Corporation in New York and Atlanta. While in Atlanta, he covered the Southeast’s largest public pension plans, major endowments, and foundations.

Mr. Young has served on the Boards of the Mint Museums of Charlotte. Mr. Young is past treasurer of the Echo Foundation and past President of the Ne Ultra Society of Davidson College. Mr. Young earned his MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School ’83 and his undergraduate degree from Davidson College’ 78.

FARcapital provides design, implementation and administration of Fund Alignment Rights (FARs), an innovative incentive fee structure struck between global institutional Asset Owners and the US hedge fund Managers they employ.

Fund Alignment Rights (FARs) allow Asset Owners to secure multi year incentive fees, assuring the inherent outperformance over an annual incentive fee fund, without having to provide tax distributions to the US manager each year.

The US hedge fund Managers that offer a FAR share class will leave their annual incentive fee invested in the fund on a pre tax basis, rather than redeemed at year end and taxed as it is today. That invested fee is aligned with their investors’ capital, and compounds tax deferred until an agreed upon period, or longer if the Manager chooses. FARs accumulate greater wealth for the Manager than had the Manager paid taxes each year.

FARs are a transformative idea, the rare fee solution that provides a Win Win for both Asset Owner and US Manager.

Aaron Bernstein is the editor of Global Proxy Watch, a corporate governance newsletter for institutional investors.

He is also a non-resident Senior Research Fellow at the Pensions and Capital Stewardship Project at Harvard Law School. Bernstein left BusinessWeek magazine in 2006 after a 23-year career as an editor and senior writer covering workplace and social issues.

Aaron received a BA in Politics and Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and did graduate work in Political and Legal Theory for two years at Oxford University. He is the author of a book entitled “Grounded: Frank Lorenzo and the Destruction of Eastern Airlines,” and the co-author of “In the Company of Owners: The Truth About Stock Options.”

Aivars is a global entrepreneur and Founder of IT Capital. Aivars is best known for his skills in identifying new business opportunities and re-engineering existing businesses to make them profitable. His ability to identify patterns in business cycles as they occur across the globe led him to start blogging in 2006 about global economics and he accurately predicted the 2008 financial crisis.  He is the author of three books on the future of global economics (available at aivarslode.blogspot.com). Aivars continues to identify best practices, people, processes and technology deployed elsewhere in the world and bring them to the USA.

In the early 2000s Aivars founded Avantce, a private equity firm, in order to invest in software companies. Aivars was instrumental in a number of investments including Robocom Systems International, Select, Radcliffe, ADT, Aviva Solutions and ROI. In addition to his own investments Aivars has been retained by private equity firms CVC Capital Partners, Golden Gate Capital, Bain Capital and Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe to advise on their acquisition strategies in Software.

Aivars successfully participated in creating the strategies for companies like IBM’s EDI business, Inovis, Infor and Mincom. Further, Aivars created a consortium to acquire the major airline cargo space for optimization, this resulted in private equity firms Welsh Carson and General Atlantic investing in 3rd party logistics providers.

Prior to founding Avantcé, Aivars was Group President of Descartes Systems Group, a publicly traded supply chain solutions company, based in Canada.  As Group President, Aivars led the company’s global expansion efforts, achieving profitable growth as well as completing the successful acquisition and consolidation of two EDI businesses, TDNI and TranSettlements.

Prior to joining Descartes, Aivars was with Oracle heading up Applications Software for Australasia. He led the organization’s change from a direct aggressive customer relationship model to that of a consultative business partner.

Aivars first entered the technology industry in 1991, when he joined Dun & Bradstreet Software.  Prior to that he held various management positions, including COO, CFO and CIO roles in both public and private corporations.

Throughout his career Aivars has lived in Australia, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong and has conducted business in most of the industrialized countries in the world.  Aivars holds a Bachelors of Business, Accounting from Swinburne University in Melbourne Australia.  Aivars is a past member of the Board of Directors at First Bank and Trust of Illinois.

Erik was a trader and portfolio manager from 1977 – 2001. Former head of equity trading at Northern Trust Co. in Chicago.

He is now a private investor, founder of a nonprofit investor advocacy firm, and private investing coach.

“It gives me great satisfaction to teach everyday investors (investors who don’t have millions of dollars at their disposal) the same skills and strategies that I used with my high net worth clients as a private wealth manager. It may be a cliché, but giving something back to the community is more rewarding to me than helping very rich people get even richer”

Joseph Hosler, CFA, brings 23 years of investment experience serving the needs of large institutional clients.

His background includes portfolio management and investment analysis, predominantly focused on domestic and international public companies. Prior to the founding of Auour Investments, Joe led investment activities within various sectors at Pioneer, Babson Capital, Putnam Investments, and Independence Investment Associates (IIA). While at IIA, Joe drove the effort to design, develop, and launch one of the first quantitatively driven tax efficient investment approaches focused on individuals and taxable organizations.

Joe holds an MBA from The Darden School of the University of Virginia, as well as, a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Boston University. He is an active volunteer within his community and currently sits on the Boston Security Analysts Society’s Strategists/Economists Subcommittee.

Joe resides in Wenham, MA with his wife of 25 years, two children and three dogs (soon to be four).

Joe is also a member of the Transparency Task Force’s Americas Special Interest Group and a Transparency Task Force Ambassador.

Michael Erlanger, Founder and Managing Principal, of Marketcore.com, Inc (www.marketcore.com).

Michael spent the first 35+ years of his career on Wall Street as a top-ranked corporate bond broker, trader, institutional salesman and department head. Subsequently, he co-founded two profitable Wall Street broker dealers.

Michael is also Chief Visionary, Co-Founder and Director of GoKnown, LLC, a technology start up (www.goknown.com).

David M. Rowe is founder and president of David M. Rowe Risk Advisory, a risk management consulting firm. The firm is focused on risk management support for boards and senior executives of financial institutions, primarily banks and investment banks, with particular emphasis on capital market activities. It also advises on risk management technology strategy and vendor relationships. Dr. Rowe wrote the Risk Analysis column in Risk magazine for 16 years. He also is the author of An Insider’s Guide to Risk Management – Relearning the Lessons of the Global Financial Crisis.

From August 2013 to August 2015, Dr. Rowe served as Senior Strategist for Risk and Regulation at Misys Financial Software. Prior to that, Dr. Rowe was Executive Vice President for Risk Management at SunGard. In both positions, he provided strategic input to solutions for risk management and served as an external spokesman on risk management issues.

Prior to joining SunGard, Dr. Rowe spent more than 25 years in the banking and economic forecasting industries, most recently as senior vice president of the Risk Management Information group at Bank of America in San Francisco. In that role, Dr. Rowe had executive oversight and responsibility for the design, deployment, maintenance and operation of market and credit risk systems for the bank’s global FX, derivative and securities trading activities.

Dr. Rowe’s earlier positions include chief financial officer of Security Pacific Securities, Inc. (the broker-dealer subsidiary of the former Security Pacific Corp.); executive vice president and director of research for Townsend-Greenspan & Co. (Alan Greenspan’s economic consulting firm prior to becoming Chairman of the Federal Reserve) and president of Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates in Philadelphia.

His industry positions have included:

• Board member of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE)
• Board Member and member of the Finance Committee of the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association (PRMIA)
• Member of the editorial board of The Journal of Operational Risk
• Member of the Editorial Board of the GARP Risk Review

Dr. Rowe holds a Ph.D. in econometrics and finance from the University of Pennsylvania, an MBA in finance with a concentration in money and banking from the Wharton Graduate School of Finance and Commerce, and a BA in economics with distinction from Carleton College.

As Client Relations Manager and co-owner of Sentry Financial Planning, the most important part of Helene’s job is helping guide clients through the financial planning process.

The paperwork can be overwhelming and time-consuming and she is there to assist during each step of the process to help keep things simple and organized.

Whether she is scheduling appointments, answering questions, or collecting information, clients can rely on her to keep their affairs in order.

John Spoto is the President and founder of Sentry Financial Planning, LLC, a FEE-ONLY financial planning firm. He does not work for any financial institution, sell financial or insurance products of any kind, accept or pay referral fees or receive commissions.

He specializes in advising people on financial planning matters including retirement and investments.

Because of his commitment to financial literacy, John is known throughout several MA counties for his educational seminars focusing on retirement and investment issues at libraries, organizations and industry conferences.

He is also a financial planning columnist/contributor for several hard-copy and online publications routinely covering all aspects of retirement and investment planning.

John is a State Registered Investment Advisor and CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™. He is a member of The Garrett Planning Network and the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), both of which are nationally recognized financial planning organizations dedicated to providing competent, objective and professional Fee-Only financial planning services. John has an MBA from Boston College and a BA from Boston University.

Charlie Atkins is an economist by training with a specialization in International Monetary Economics, Finance and Operations Research.

He was a Morehead Scholar at UNC Chapel Hill where he was a Summa Cum Laude graduate and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a Marshall Scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

Mr. Atkins was a partner at Cherokee Investment Partners, the largest private equity investor in brownfield properties and is experienced in the rigorous quantification of environmental liabilities and risks.

Greg Rogers, J.D., CPA, is author of a comprehensive 384-page desk book on financial reporting of environmental liabilities and risks published by John Wiley & Sons and a internationally recognized expert on environmental and climate-related financial disclosure.

He is an advisor to the Master of Accounting Program and honorary Fellow at the Cambridge Judge Business School, visiting lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, past Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Committee on Environmental Disclosure.

Greg is also an original member of the Sustainably Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards council.

Darby Hobbs is a visionary, social innovator, motivational presenter, educator, author, and strategic marketeer. Focused on Relationship to LIFE, Oneself and Mankind and building the bridge between what individuals value through understanding their LivingWell^TM Model and their whole life plan including investments.

It’s about connecting the heart, to the mind, to the wallet.

Working with company business leaders, investment firms and financial advisory groups to develop a deeper understanding of how to apply ESG/SRI and Impact Investing criteria into business decisions and to understand the value drivers of individuals ready for being part of the new investment experience – fusing brand and sustainability principles for asset growth.

Darby has also developed programs geared towards academia; targeting social entrepreneurship and innovation as well as student-led impact investing funds.

Through SOCIAL3 ‘Telling the Story’ – Conscious Business Show – becomes paramount as she produces this through various mediums to educate, build brand awareness and engagement with the marketplace.

Her passion in creating positive change, along with the belief that businesses exist for profit and purpose, and that the financial system and the value drivers connected to this today is both a key challenge and opportunity to unlock.

Forbes calls Jon Lukomnik one of the pioneers of modern corporate governance.  Jon serves as executive director of the IRRC Institute, whose research has been widely praised for objectively examining fundamental corporate governance and capital market issues.

He is also the managing partner of Sinclair Capital LLC, a strategic consultancy to asset owners and asset managers. He co-founded the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN) and GovernanceMetrics International (now part of MSCI), and served as interim chair of the Council of Institutional Investors’ executive committee.

Jon served as investment advisor for New York City’s pension funds in the 1990s and has invested or overseen more than $100 billion in institutional assets during his career. He has been a director for various public companies, private companies, not-for-profit corporations and litigation trusts. He has consulted to major institutional investors with aggregate assets of more than half a trillion dollars including the New York State Common Retirement Fund, Maryland State Retirement and Pension System, Nikko Asset Management, International Finance Corporation, Legg Mason, and Savings Bank Life Insurance USA.

Jon currently serves as a trustee for the Van Eck mutual fund complex in the United States and related investment trusts in Ireland, as a member of the Standing Advisory Committee for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, and on Deloitte’s Audit Quality Advisory Committee. He was a member of the official creditors committee which rehabilitated WorldCom following its fraud and bankruptcy.

Mr. Lukomnik has been honored by the International Corporate Governance Association, National Association of Corporate Directors, Ethisphere and Global Proxy Watch.

More than 200 of Jon’s articles have been published in academic and practitioner journals. His most recent book, What They Do With Your Money: How the Financial System Fails Us and How To Fix It, has been praised by legendary investors including Yale CIO David Swensen and Vanguard Founder Jack Bogle.

Stephen Davis, Ph.D. is associate director of the Harvard Law School Programs on Corporate Governance and Institutional Investors, and a senior fellow at the Program on Corporate Governance.

He has also been a nonresident senior fellow in governance at the Brookings Institution. From 2007-2012 he was executive director of the Yale School of Management’s Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance and Lecturer on the SOM faculty.

Davis served on the US SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee. He is a trustee of ShareAction and was for nine years chair and a board member of Hermes EOS, the shareowner engagement arm of Hermes Pensions Management. Davis was also co-director of the Brookings’ World Forum on Governance.

Winner of the 2011 ICGN Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance, Davis is co-author of What They Do With Your Money: How the Financial System Fails Us and How to Fix It (Yale University Press, 2016) and The New Capitalists: How Citizen Investors are Reshaping the Corporate Agenda (Harvard Business School Press, 2006).

His Shareholder Rights Abroad: A Handbook for the Global Investor (1989) was the first study comparing corporate governance practices in top markets. Davis is a co-founder of the International Corporate Governance Network and co-author of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment. Davis earned his doctorate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and completed undergraduate studies at Tufts and the London School of Economics.

In January 2017, Matthew Murray completed his second assignment for the Obama Administration – as a Senior Advisor on Governance and Rule of Law at the Center of Excellence on Democracy, Human Rights and Governance at the U.S. Agency for International Development.  As a Senior Advisor, Mr. Murray helped the Center develop strategies and design development assistance programs to counter systemic corruption in critical nations.

From 2012-2015, Mr. Murray served the Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at the U.S. Department of Commerce.  Mr. Murray led the Department’s efforts to apply commercial diplomacy, strengthen the rule of law and build mutual prosperity with 117 countries in the EMEA region as well as the European Union and African Union.  Mr. Murray developed innovative programs to build good governance and champion entrepreneurship in Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Tunisia, Kenya, and Nigeria.

Throughout his career, Mr. Murray has worked at the intersection of U.S. foreign policy, international law, commerce, and political economy.  Upon graduating from Tufts in 1979, he was selected in a national competition as a Research Assistant to Dr. Leslie Gelb at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He subsequently served as Legislative Assistant for National Security to Senator Edward Kennedy, focused on nuclear arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union and diplomacy towards the Middle East and Northern Ireland.

In 1984, he was awarded a scholarship as an International Fellow at the Columbia University School of Public and International Affairs; he graduated in 1988 with an MIA and JD from the Law School.

From 1988-91, Mr. Murray was as an Associate Attorney at the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie, where he helped the firm launch a Russia law practice and establish one of the first western legal offices in Moscow. In 1991, Matthew Murray founded Sovereign Ventures, Inc., a management consulting firm that advised Fortune 100 companies, government agencies and multilateral organizations in Russia/Eurasia on how to counter corruption risk and engage in dispute resolution.  In 2000, Mr. Murray co-founded the Center for Business Ethics and Corporate Governance, a non-profit dedicated to building rule-based markets in the region.

Between 2007 and 2009, Mr. Murray served as Corruption Risk Manager at TNK-BP Management Ltd., then the third largest producer of oil and gas in Russia, leading a corporate task force to establish a new system of compliance with anti-corruption laws and ethics performance throughout the 65,000 person workforce.

Mr. Murray’s work in the field of political economy includes writing, teaching, speeches and testimony on the importance of voluntarily adopting best practices of ethics, corporate governance, and social responsibility.  In 2011, he was invited by the Brookings Institution to help launch the World Forum on Governance and to co-write a research paper, “Freedom from Official Corruption as a Human Right”, published in 2015.

The Seven Pillars Institute is the world’s only independent think tank for research, education, and promotion of financial ethics. The Institute was shortlisted in the Prospect Think Tank Awards 2016.

Kara has over twenty-three years in global finance and is lead author of International Investment Management: Theory, Ethics and Practice, one of the first books to provide a comprehensive understanding of investment principles, synthesize three theories of finance, and apply ethics in financial practice focusing on Asian cases.

She was named by Ingram’s as one of the “50 Kansans You Should Know”. Kara has five degrees across three disciplines and has lived in London, Oxford, Singapore, Hong Kong, New York, and Washington, D.C.

Prior to joining Style Research, Bernie held positions as Head of Risk and Head of Quantitative Analysis at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership, then the asset management arm of Lloyds TSB and one of Europe’s largest asset managers. He was responsible for developing portfolio risk management and integrating quantitative techniques into a fundamentally based investment process.