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Alice Albright is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial and Investment Officer of the GAVI Alliance, a publicprivate
partnership dedicated to improving health in 72 of the world’s poorest countries by providing life-saving vaccines
and strengthening health systems. Throughout her tenure at GAVI, Albright has focused on innovative financing
solutions such as the International Finance Facility for Immunization, a capital markets-based funding mechanism
launched in 2006 that will raise approximately $4 billion for immunization over the next 10 years. Albright has co-chaired
the Center for Global Development’s study “Making Markets for Vaccines,” an early effort to define the parameters of
the Advance Market Commitment program. She has held executive positions at The Carlyle Group, J.P. Morgan, Bankers
Trust’s Latin American Merchant Bank and Citicorp. Albright graduated from Williams College and received a master’s
degree in international finance from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University
Naser Abdul Mohsin Al-Marri is Deputy Chairman and Managing Director of the Noor Financial Investment
Company, based in Kuwait. Before assuming his current position in 2005, he spent 14 years with the Kuwait Investment
Authority as director of its Loans Department and as acting director of its Direct Investment Department. He also
served as a member of the government financing team that organized loan financing from the U.S. government for the
rebuilding of Kuwait after the Gulf War. He previously spent two years in the United Kingdom working as an associate in
the Corporate Finance, Merchant Banking and Emerging Markets division of Bankers Trust. He has served as a director
of numerous international businesses and is the vice chairman of Meezan Bank, the largest Islamic investment bank in
Pakistan. Al-Marri is a graduate of the University of Kuwait.
Martha Amram, a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute, is CEO of HomeZ Inc., which provides homeowners with
advice and services for saving energy and water. As a consultant, she has worked with Fortune 500 companies and
startups on the value of R&D projects, managing the R&D pipeline, valuation of joint ventures and more. She has
served as the interim CEO of Vocomo Software and as chief economist of PLX Systems. Amram co-founded Glaze
Creek Partners, a consulting firm, which she sold to Navigant Corporation in 1999. At Navigant, she led the real options
practice area. She has also prepared expert testimony on valuation and risk while a vice president at Analysis Group
Inc. and served as an assistant professor at Boston University. Amram is a graduate of the University of Washington and
received a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
G. Chris Andersen is the Founder of G.C. Andersen Partners LLC, a boutique merchant and investment bank
based in New York. Previously he served as vice chairman of Paine Webber and head of the Investment Banking
Group at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Andersen is vice chair of the Milken Institute’s SAVE alternative energy and energy
independence initiative. He is also the lead director of Terex Corp., the third-largest construction company in the world,
and serves on the International Advisory Council of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in
Beijing and on the Rand Corp.’s Asia Pacific Policy Advisory Board. He is the founder of the Cleantech Venture Challenge
at his alma mater, the University of Colorado. Andersen received an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at
Northwestern University.
Margaret Anderson is Chief Operating Officer of FasterCures / The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions, an
initiative of the Milken Institute committed to accelerating the medical research process for new treatments and cures
for diseases. Anderson previously spent five years with the Academy for Educational Development (AED), as deputy
director and a team leader for the Center on AIDS and Community Health. She assisted in the management of a
70-person domestic and international staff, and had responsibility for financial and budget oversight, team projects
and strategic planning. She has also served as program director for the Society for Women’s Health Research, a healthscience
analyst at the American Public Health Association and an analyst and project director at the Congressional
Office of Technology Assessment. Anderson received a master’s degree in science, technology and public policy from
George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.
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Yadin Antebi is Commissioner of Capital Markets, Insurance and Savings at Israel’s Ministry of Finance. Before
assuming this position, he served as deputy commissioner, overseeing strategic planning and implementation of
recommendations made by the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Capital Market Structural Reforms. He specializes in
regulation of the private health-insurance market, reform of private nursing insurance and regulation of insurance
sold by mortgage banks. He also led reform of Israel’s mandatory car insurance. Antebi holds a bachelor’s degree in
economics and accounting and an M.B.A. in finance and accounting from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Nancy Aossey is President and CEO of International Medical Corps (IMC), a non-governmental organization
dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering by delivering medical relief, health-care training and development
programs that build self-reliance. After becoming CEO shortly after IMC’s founding in the mid-1980s, Aossey
established the organization as a leader in medical crisis response and recovery, launching humanitarian activities in
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Rwanda, Somalia, southern Sudan, Angola, Mozambique, Cambodia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Thailand,
Honduras and Nicaragua. Her efforts have transformed IMC into one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations,
providing more than $120 million in disaster response and recovery programs annually. Today IMC’s 3,500 staff and
volunteers work in the world’s most challenging places, including low-income, fragile and post-conflict regions like
Darfur, northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Chechnya, Ethiopia and Iraq.
David Arfin is Vice President of Customer Finance for SolarCity. He is the creator of the firm’s SolarLease, a first-of-itskind
financing option that allows homeowners to pay less for solar power than they currently pay for electricity. Prior to
joining SolarCity, Arfin was the founder of FirstEnergyFinance.com, co-founder and CEO of GlooLabs Inc. (later acquired
by Cisco Systems), co-founder of Flywheel Communications and founder and CEO of CLE Group (later acquired by
Practicing Law Institute). Before he began launching companies, he was a lobbyist for the Association of American
Universities, a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs in Los Angeles and an intern in the Israeli Knesset. Arfin received a bachelor’s
degree from the University of California, Los Angeles; a master’s degree from Claremont Graduate University; and an
M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Gregory Arnold is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CE2 Capital Partners, a U.S.-based investment manager
focused on the growing environmental commodities markets. He is also President of CE2 Carbon Capital, a company
dedicated to building a portfolio of carbon offsets and other assets focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions in
North America. Arnold began his career as an investment banker with Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Kidder, Peabody & Co. At
Goldman Sachs, he focused on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions for energy and power companies. Over
his career, Arnold has had a number of senior dealmaking roles in large corporations and growth companies, including as
President of Passlogix, Inc., a security software company he co-founded. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University
of California, San Diego, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is on the boards of the UC San Diego Dean’s
Council in Physical Sciences and Passlogix, Inc.; he is also a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.
Paul Aronzon is the Co-Practice Group Leader of the Financial Restructuring Group and a partner in the Los
Angeles Office of the global law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP. He has more than three decades of
experience in restructuring and corporate reorganization, representing debtors and creditors in reorganization
cases, including exchange and tender offers, consent solicitations and rights offerings, as well as prepackaged and
prearranged reorganizations. Aronzon has also represented private equity funds, hedge funds and others acquiring
control positions in financially distressed companies. He advises on corporate governance and fiduciary duty in the
restructuring context, and his engagements have spanned a broad range of industries. Aronzon graduated from
California State University, Northridge, and received his law degree from Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.
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