Advisory Board Co-Chairs

Beate Bolen

Chief Financial Officer, Barclay Investments, Inc.

Beate Bolen is Chief Financial Officer, CCO, and a Director of Barclay Investments, Inc. She has been involved in international fixed income sales and trading since 1977. Before joining Barclay Investments in 1989, Ms. Bolen was a trader and product manager at Smith Barney in New York and London. She spent 9 years working in the fixed income department at Paine Webber in various positions, the last as Eurobond trader and International Product manager. Prior to working at Paine Webber, she worked at Molson Rousseau in Montreal.

Alan J. Morrison

Partner, Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP

Alan J. Morrison is a partner at the New York firm of Cohen Pontani Lieberman & Pavane LLP. Mr. Morrison’s practice focuses on U.S. and international patent prosecution in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical areas; opinion work relating to patentability, infringement and invalidity; and biotechnology- and pharmaceutical-related contract drafting and negotiation. Prior to joining Cohen Pontani, Mr. Morrison was a partner at the New York firm of Cooper & Dunham LLP, in-house counsel at Johnson & Johnson, and associate attorney at the New York firm of Rogers & Wells. Mr. Morrison earned his B.A. in biochemistry from U.C. Berkeley, his M.S. in biological chemistry from the University of Michigan, his M.Phil. in biochemistry and molecular biophysics from Columbia University, and his J.D. from Yeshiva University. Mr. Morrison has lectured both domestically and internationally on various topics in U.S. patent law. Mr. Morrison has a long-standing interest in foreign affairs, particularly in developing nations, and has traveled to many such countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Advisory Board

Andrew K. Boszhardt, Jr.

President, Great Oaks Capital Management, LLC

Andrew Boszhardt is founder and President of Great Oaks Capital Management, LLC, a registered investment advisor which manages long-short equity funds and separate accounts. Mr. Boszhardt was formerly a Managing Director and portfolio manager at Neuberger-Berman. He served as Vice President at Goldman Sachs from 1980-1996. Mr. Boszhardt received his BBA in Accounting and MBA from the University of Wisconsin.

Kenneth Cain

Author and former United Nations Peacekeeper

Kenneth Cain served in United Nations Peacekeeping operations in Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti and Liberia. He has written for the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the American Lawyer, GQ and a series of scholarly publications of foreign affairs. His piece in the Human Rights Quarterly on war crimes in Liberia was nominated for a 2000 National Magazine Award. He is co-author of Emergency Sex and Other Desperate Measures: A True Story from Hell on Earth, an LA Times bestseller. He is an honors graduate of Harvard Law School, was an International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a Fulbright Scholar of constitutional law in Coloumbo, Sri Lanka.

Ken Fish

President, Absolute Travel

Ken Fish is the president and owner of luxury travel company Absolute Travel. It is Ken Fish’s personal and professional goal to make people’s wildest travel dreams a reality. In addition to running his company, he is a highly regarded spokesperson for the travel industry and is regularly featured in the most respected trade and consumer publications. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, Ken has dedicated a good portion of his adult life to travel. From 1983 to 1987, he worked for an Australian travel company and then traveled extensively throughout Australia and Southeast Asia. He founded luxury tour operator Absolute Travel upon his return to New York City. In addition to steering the direction of the company and being an active industry advocate and spokesperson, he continues to travel extensively and has taken more than 80 overseas trips since 1983. When he is not exploring the world, Ken unpacks his suitcase in New York City, where he lives with his wife and two children.

Steven J. Kolleeny

Special Counsel, Skadden, Aarps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Steven J. Kolleeny is special counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He has litigated and arbitrated a diverse array of commercial disputes in federal and state courts and is also experienced in resolving disputes through arbitration and mediation... Mr. Kolleeny is experienced in expedited litigation involving contests for corporate control. In addition, he has represented a number of financial institutions and other companies in securities litigation, as well as represented clients in post-closing disputes arising out of sales of businesses. For many years, Mr. Kolleeny has represented political asylum seekers and also coordinated the pro bono work of lawyers of Skadden, Arps in handling numerous asylum cases. Several of those cases have benefited greatly from close collaborations with the dedicated professionals at Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture.

Michael McCracken

President and Chief Operating Officer, UGONetworks

Michael McCracken is the President and Chief Operating Officer of UGO Networks and also serves as the Board of Directors' Secretary. Prior to joining the Company, Prior to joining UGO Networks in 1998, Mr. McCracken was pr an investment banker with Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions, public and private debt and equity issuance, as well as principal investing in start-up ventures within the internet market space through DLJ's Global Retail Partners' merchant banking fund (GRP). Prior to joining DLJ, Mr. McCracken worked with Salomon Brothers Equity Capital Markets Group as well as Intel Japan KK as the Director of Business Development in the Office of the President. Mr. McCracken received his BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University and his MBA from Harvard University.

Madeleine Schachter

Special Counsel, Pro Bono at Baker & McKenzie LLP

Madeleine Schachter is Special Counsel, Pro Bono at Baker & McKenzie LLP where she focuses exclusively on the practice and development of pro bono work. She also is a a lecturer at Weill-Cornell Medical Center in the Division of Medical Ethics in the Department of Public Health, and she has taught more than a dozen courses at the Fordham University School of Law. Her publications include three books: "Law of Internet Speech," "Informational and Decisional Privacy," and "The Law Professor’s Handbook: A Practical Guide to Teaching Law." She chairs the NYC Bar Pro Bono and Legal Services Committee. In addition, she is a tutorial student in classical ballet. Ms. Schachter is a Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where she majored in Political Science and also designed an individualized major in Medical Ethics, and a graduate of the New York University School of Law where she was a Root-Tilden Scholar.

Michael B. Sheffery

Founding General Partner, OrbiMed, LLC

Michael B. Sheffery is a founding General Partner of OrbiMed Advisors, LLC, a preeminent global health sciences asset management firm. Dr. Sheffery, who is Co-Head of Private Equity at OrbiMed, was formerly Head of the Laboratory of Gene Structure and Expression at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He received both his Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and his B.A. in Biology from Princeton University. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of a number of private biotechnology companies.

Javier Timerman

Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns

Javier Timerman was born in 1961 in Buenos Aries, Argentina. When Javier was 15 years old, the military dictatorship arrested, tortured, and released his father, journalist Jacobo Timerman, and then exiled the entire family to Israel. After completing his Bachelor of Arts at Tel Aviv University , Javier Timerman moved to New York City and earned a Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University . Having begun his career on Wall Street in 1986, Mr. Timerman is currently a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns and Co. where he runs Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Trading. He is responsible for foreign exchange, rates, and credit trading in Latin America and all foreign exchange trading in New York. Mr. Timerman is also a board member of Americas Watch and Shoes4Africa.