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Board of Directors

Co-Chairs

Michael K. Rozen
TRGP Capital Management, LLP
Mona Sutphen
The Vistria Group

Vice-Chairs

Lynda Clarizio
Former President, Nielsen US Media

Secretary

Elizabeth Bowyer
Goldman Sachs

Treasurer

J. Adam Abram
James River Group, Inc.
Tom Bernstein, Emeritus Board Chair
Chelsea Piers Management, Inc.
Jay Carney
Amazon
Sarah H. Cleveland
Columbia University Law School
Donald Francis Donovan
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Matthew S. Dontzin
Dontzin Nagy & Fleissig LLP
Mara Frankel Wallace
Susan E. Hendrickson
Arnold & Porter
Ben Jealous
People For the American Way
Alencia Johnson
1063 West Broad
Roberta “Robbie” Karp
Karp Randel LLC
Nat Kreamer
Advanced Energy Economy
Robert A. Mandell
Former Ambassador to Luxembourg; Greater Properties, Inc. (Ret.)
David P. Matthews
The Matthews Law Firm
Benedict P. Morelli
Morelli Law Firm PLLC
Hassan Murphy
TRGP Capital Management, LLP
Sanja Partalo
WPP
Nazanin Rafsanjani
Gimlet Media and Spotify (Former)
Cindy Simon Skjodt
Samerian Foundation
Lev A. Sviridov
Hunter College - CUNY
William D. Zabel, Emeritus Board Chair
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP

Emeritus Board

Jo Backer Laird
Michael Davis
Dan Doctoroff
Mitchell F. Dolin
Kenneth Feinberg
R. Scott Greathead
John Hutson
Kerry Kennedy
Phil Lacovara
Barbara A. Schatz
James R. Silkenat
Rose Styron
James W. Ziglar

Board of Advocates

Dick Batchelor
Orlando, FL
James J. Benjamin Jr.
New York, NY
Eric Biel
Washington, D.C.
Binta Niambi Brown
New York, NY
Maren Christensen
Marina Del Ray, CA
Stuart M. Cobert
Scarsdale, NY
Cathleen Collins
New York, NY/Los Angeles, CA
Alan R. Crain, Jr.
Houston, TX
James R. Dugan II
New Orleans, LA
Viv Eisenberg
New York, NY
Melissa B. Francis
New York, NY
Terry Friedman
Los Angeles, CA
Jennifer S. Geetter
Washington, D.C.
Marcy Harris
New York, NY
Daniel J. Jones
Washington, DC
Joseph D. Lee
Los Angeles, CA
James Leitner
Wyckoff, NJ
Peggy Matthews
Houston, TX
Allen Matusow
Houston, TX
Marcellus McRae
Los Angeles, CA
Gordon Quan
Houston, TX
Shefali Razdan Duggal
San Francisco, CA
Allison Saxe
New York, NY
Abigail Scheuer
New York, NY
Steven H. Schulman
Washington, D.C.
Greg Segal
New York, NY
Robert D. Sloan
New Orleans, LA
Mary Ann Stein
Washington, D.C.
Liza M. Velazquez
New York, NY
James D. Zirin
New York, NY

Tech Advisory Board

Welton Chang
Washington, D.C.
Michael Feinberg
New York, NY
Tom Iler
Baltimore, MD
Jonathan Kirschner
San Francisco, CA
Alexa Koenig
San Francisco, CA
Dimitri Roberts
Chicago, IL
Danny Rogers
New York, NY
Nithya Thadani
New York, NY
Alex Urbelis
New York, NY

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