Shaping the Future - Milken Institute

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