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Douglas Becker is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Laureate Education Inc., a global operator of international<br />
universities. The company provides a university experience for traditional and working-adult students through<br />
its international network of accredited universities spanning 20 countries and enrolling nearly 500,000 students<br />
worldwide. Becker previously served as <strong>the</strong> CEO of Sylvan Learning Systems, which he built into <strong>the</strong> largest tutoring<br />
company in North America with more than 1,000 centers. Becker demonstrates his commitment to community as<br />
chairman of <strong>the</strong> International Youth Foundation, a global charity focusing on youth employment, education and civic<br />
engagement, and as <strong>the</strong> founding chairman of Port Discovery Children’s Museum in Baltimore. He is also a director of<br />
Constellation Energy Group Inc., a Fortune-100 leading energy firm in <strong>the</strong> United States.<br />
Gary Becker, recipient of <strong>the</strong> 1992 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, is <strong>the</strong> University Professor of<br />
Economics and Sociology at <strong>the</strong> University of Chicago. He is also a professor at <strong>the</strong> university’s Booth School of Business<br />
and <strong>the</strong> Rose-Marie and Jack R. Anderson Senior Fellow at <strong>the</strong> Hoover <strong>Institute</strong>. He was awarded <strong>the</strong> Presidential Medal<br />
of Freedom in 2007, <strong>the</strong> National Medal of Science in 2000, <strong>the</strong> John Bates Clark Medal of <strong>the</strong> American Economic<br />
Association in 1967 and many o<strong>the</strong>r awards. The author of numerous books and professional articles, Becker was a<br />
featured monthly columnist for BusinessWeek for almost 20 years. He is recognized for his expertise in human capital,<br />
economic incentives, economics of <strong>the</strong> family, and economic analysis of crime, discrimination and population. Becker<br />
taught at Columbia University for 12 years before returning to <strong>the</strong> University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D.<br />
William Bennett is a former U.S. Secretary of Education and <strong>the</strong> current Washington Fellow at <strong>the</strong> Claremont<br />
<strong>Institute</strong> in Claremont, Calif. He also hosts <strong>the</strong> weekday radio program “Morning in America,” has written for leading<br />
newspapers and magazines, and provides political commentary on CNN. An advocate of education reform, Bennett<br />
served as President Reagan’s secretary of education and chairman of <strong>the</strong> National Endowment for <strong>the</strong> Humanities, and<br />
President George H.W. Bush’s “drug czar.” He has written and edited numerous books, including two volumes of America:<br />
The Last Best Hope and The American Patriot’s Almanac. Bennett has taught at Boston University, <strong>the</strong> University of Texas<br />
and Harvard; he also founded and served as <strong>the</strong> first chairman of K12 Inc., an online education company. He received a<br />
bachelor’s degree from Williams College, a Ph.D. from <strong>the</strong> University of Texas and a J.D. from Harvard University.<br />
Seth Berkley is President, CEO and Founder of <strong>the</strong> International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), a not-for-profit<br />
organization dedicated to ensuring <strong>the</strong> development of safe and accessible HIV vaccines worldwide. IAVI is currently<br />
operational in 24 countries. Berkley is a medical doctor specializing in infectious disease epidemiology and international<br />
health. Prior to founding IAVI in 1996, he was an officer of <strong>the</strong> Health Sciences Division at The Rockefeller Foundation. He<br />
has worked for <strong>the</strong> Center for Infectious Diseases of <strong>the</strong> U.S. Centers for Disease Control, <strong>the</strong> Massachusetts Department<br />
of Public Health and <strong>the</strong> Carter Center, where he was assigned as an epidemiologist to <strong>the</strong> Ministry of Health in Uganda<br />
to help develop its national AIDS control programs. Berkley is an adjunct professor at Columbia and Brown universities<br />
and has authored more than 85 publications. He received undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University<br />
and trained in internal medicine at Harvard University.<br />
Scott Berns is a Co-Founder of The Progeria Research Foundation Inc. and chairs its board of directors. He has worked<br />
at <strong>the</strong> March of Dimes national office since 2001 and is currently Senior Vice President of Chapter Programs. He also<br />
serves on <strong>the</strong> executive committee of <strong>the</strong> American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Perinatal Pediatrics. In 2001, Berns<br />
completed a one-year White House Fellowship as a special assistant to <strong>the</strong> U.S. secretary of transportation. He is a pediatric<br />
emergency physician and was medical director of pediatric trauma at Hasbro Children’s Hospital for seven years. Berns<br />
received a bachelor’s degree and an M.D. from Boston University, and an M.P.H. from <strong>the</strong> Harvard University School of<br />
Public Health. He is a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at <strong>the</strong> Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.<br />
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Gina Bianchini is CEO and Co-Founder of Palo Alto–based Ning, a service that enables anyone to create a personal<br />
social network around any <strong>the</strong>me or purpose. Prior to co-founding Ning (with Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen)<br />
in 2004, she was co-founder and president of Harmonic Communications, which was acquired by <strong>the</strong> Japanese<br />
advertising agency Dentsu. She has also held positions at CKS Group and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Bianchini holds a<br />
bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and an M.B.A from <strong>the</strong> Stanford Graduate School of Business.<br />
Leon Black is a Founding Partner of Apollo Advisors LP. He founded Apollo Advisors and Lion Advisors LP in 1990<br />
to manage investment capital on behalf of a group of institutional investors, focusing on corporate restructuring,<br />
leveraged buyouts and taking minority positions in growth-oriented companies. Black also co-founded Apollo Real<br />
Estate Advisors LP. He previously worked at Drexel Burnham Lambert as managing director, head of <strong>the</strong> Mergers and<br />
Acquisitions Group and co-head of <strong>the</strong> Corporate Finance Department. He is a trustee of Dartmouth College, <strong>the</strong><br />
Museum of Modern Art, Mt. Sinai Hospital and <strong>the</strong> Asia Society. He is also a member of <strong>the</strong> Council on Foreign Relations,<br />
<strong>the</strong> National Advisory Board of JPMorgan Chase and <strong>the</strong> board of FasterCures. Black received a bachelor’s degree from<br />
Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.<br />
Jonathan Bloch is Senior Managing Director and Managing Partner of GKM Newport, a private equity fund-offunds<br />
and advisory firm that he co-founded. Currently GKM Newport has investments and committed capital in more<br />
than 55 private equity funds and co-investments representing approximately $1 billion. He also manages a late-stage<br />
venture capital fund. Bloch leads investments in expansion-stage technology funds and direct investments located in<br />
<strong>the</strong> United States. A significant area of <strong>the</strong> firm’s focus is on clean-tech investing; GKM Newport has committed capital<br />
to approximately 12 clean-tech funds that have investments in more than 90 portfolio companies. Previously, Bloch<br />
was a managing director at Gerard Klauer and Mattison; prior to that, he was managing director of <strong>the</strong> Technology<br />
Group at Chanin Capital Partners. He received a bachelor’s degree from <strong>the</strong> University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D.<br />
from <strong>the</strong> University of San Diego School of Law.<br />
Richard Blum is Chairman of The Regents of <strong>the</strong> University of California. He is also chairman of Blum Capital Partners<br />
LP, a private equity firm he founded in 1975. Blum currently serves as chairman of <strong>the</strong> board of CB Richard Ellis and is on<br />
<strong>the</strong> board of three portfolio companies: Fairmont Raffles Holdings International Ltd., Current Media LLC and Myer Pty<br />
Ltd. (Australia). He is also co-chairman for Asia with TPG Capital and co-founder of Newbridge Capital (now part of TPG<br />
Capital). Blum is <strong>the</strong> founder and chairman of <strong>the</strong> American Himalayan Foundation and honorary consul to Mongolia<br />
and Nepal. In 2006 he funded <strong>the</strong> Blum Center for Developing Economies at <strong>the</strong> University of California, Berkeley. He<br />
is also a trustee and member of <strong>the</strong> Executive Committee of The Carter Center, founded by former President Jimmy<br />
Carter. Blum received a bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley.<br />
George Blumenthal is President and CEO of Park Avenue Medical Data Systems. Over <strong>the</strong> past 30 years, he has<br />
been involved in communications technologies and financing medical-device and health information technology<br />
companies. He was founder and chairman of Cellular Communications Inc. and founder and chairman of International<br />
CableTel (now Virgin Media), <strong>the</strong> only cable television company servicing all of <strong>the</strong> United Kingdom. In 1994 he<br />
founded TeraMed to develop devices for repairing aortic aneurysms; <strong>the</strong> company was later acquired by Johnson &<br />
Johnson. During <strong>the</strong> past three years, Blumenthal has worked to create a suite of electronic health-care record-keeping<br />
products known as eHealthMadeEasy. Its underlying IT platform facilitates 25 million outpatient visits annually in Israel<br />
for approximately 40 percent of that country’s population. Blumenthal is also a member of <strong>the</strong> Screen Actors Guild and<br />
has appeared in nine movies, including “Wall Street,” “Traffic,” “The Perfect Murder” and “The Flamingo Kid.”<br />
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