Shaping the Future - Milken Institute
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panelists<br />
Douglas Teitelbaum is Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager at Bay Harbour Management, which focuses<br />
on investing in markets for distressed securities. He began his career in distressed securities at Oppenheimer & Co.<br />
and later joined <strong>the</strong> research department and sales desk of RD Smith Company Inc. After working at RD Smith and its<br />
successor company, BDS Securities, Teitelbaum became a partner in <strong>the</strong> Los Angeles distressed investment boutique<br />
of Dabney/Resnick. He later joined Bear Stearns as a managing director in <strong>the</strong> high-yield and distressed securities<br />
department. Teitelbaum joined Bay Harbour Management in 1996 as a principal and co-portfolio manager. There,<br />
he has overseen complex and successful reorganizations, including Bally’s Grand, Barneys New York, Telcove Inc. and<br />
NextWave Telecom Inc. He currently serves as co-chairman of <strong>the</strong> Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino and is on <strong>the</strong> board<br />
of Planet Hollywood International. Teitelbaum was formerly a director of Telcove and Barneys New York.<br />
Lauren Tennant is a Product Development Analyst at Argo Group International Holdings Ltd., an international<br />
underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance products in <strong>the</strong> property and casualty market. Tennant assists in<br />
<strong>the</strong> development of new products and markets with lead responsibilities in <strong>the</strong> micro-insurance sector. Prior to joining<br />
Argo Group International, Tennant was a risk analyst at Guy Carpenter & Company, a leading global reinsurance<br />
intermediary. There she helped execute risk-management solutions to address a wide variety of exposures for regional,<br />
national and international portfolios of business. Tennant graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign<br />
Services with a degree in international economics and a certificate in international development. While <strong>the</strong>re, she also<br />
attended <strong>the</strong> Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador, where she led sustainable development projects to help<br />
overcome social and economic inhibitors within indigenous Quechua communities.<br />
Stella Thomas is Founder and President of <strong>the</strong> Global Water Fund, which raises awareness of <strong>the</strong> global water<br />
crisis and seeks tangible financial and technical solutions to problems of water scarcity and sanitation. Thomas<br />
serves as a liaison to governments, international organizations, and business and civic groups on issues related to<br />
sustainable development and <strong>the</strong> environment. She also consults on global water issues and technologies, and advises<br />
governments and industry leaders on environmental, health, economic, political and social factors related to water.<br />
She frequently lectures to organizations around <strong>the</strong> world. Thomas holds two undergraduate degrees from Michigan<br />
State University and diplomas in economics from <strong>the</strong> University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics.<br />
She holds a master’s degree in natural resources and conflict resolution from <strong>the</strong> School of International Relations and<br />
Diplomacy/University of Paris, and a master’s from <strong>the</strong> University of Oxford in water science, policy and management.<br />
Felicia Thornton is CEO of Knowledge Universe Education (KUE) U.S. She oversees <strong>the</strong> strategic vision and<br />
operations for several of KUE’s business lines, including KinderCare Learning Centers, <strong>the</strong> nation’s leading private provider<br />
of early childhood education and care through 1,778 community-based centers; CCLC, a national child-care provider for<br />
progressive employers; KLC School Partnerships, which provides on-site before- and after-school programs, summer<br />
camps and science programs; KCDL, which offers distance learning programs for middle school and high school students,<br />
including courses through Keystone National High School and Middle School, iQ Academy and Aventa Learning; and KU<br />
Technologies, a global provider of technology solutions and services to business partners in <strong>the</strong> child-care and education<br />
industry. Before joining KUE, Thornton held executive positions with Albertsons Inc. and Kroger. She received a bachelor’s<br />
degree in economics from Santa Clara University and an M.B.A. from <strong>the</strong> University of Sou<strong>the</strong>rn California.<br />
Trevor Tice is <strong>the</strong> Founder and CEO of CorePower Yoga (CPY), one of <strong>the</strong> largest networks of yoga studios in <strong>the</strong><br />
U.S. He opened <strong>the</strong> first CorePower in Denver in 2002 and now owns and operates 35 upscale yoga studios. CPY offers<br />
a proprietary form of physically challenging, heated yoga along with a host of integrated wellness programs. Prior to<br />
forming CPY, Tice owned TechPartners International, a $60 million IT company that he sold in 2001. A board member<br />
of MindBody Online and BridgeView IT, he is a member of <strong>the</strong> Colorado chapter of <strong>the</strong> Young Presidents’ Organization<br />
and a semifinalist for Colorado’s 2010 Entrepreneur of <strong>the</strong> Year. Tice also formed The Karma Yoga Project, a nonprofit<br />
organization that leverages <strong>the</strong> generosity of <strong>the</strong> CPY community to support philanthropic causes, most recently <strong>the</strong><br />
Haiti relief effort. He received a bachelor’s degree in business from <strong>the</strong> University of Colorado.<br />
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