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Larry Brilliant is the President of Skoll Urgent Threats Fund and Philanthropic Advisor to Jeff Skoll and Google,
interacting with foundations, nonprofits, universities and governmental agencies to solve global challenges. As an M.D.,
Brilliant helped to lead the successful World Health Organization smallpox eradication program in India and South Asia.
He also founded the Seva Foundation, which works in dozens of countries. Brilliant chairs the National Biosurveillance
Advisory Subcommittee and was elected to the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2008, Time magazine named him one
of the 100 most influential people in the world. He was a professor of international health and epidemiology at the
University of Michigan for ten years and has authored two books and dozens of scientific articles on infectious diseases,
blindness and international health policy. Brilliant received a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and an
M.D. from the Wayne State University School of Medicine.
Eli Broad is the Founder of The Broad Foundations, which seek to advance entrepreneurship for the public good
in education, science and the arts. In the course of his 50-year career, Broad built two Fortune 500 companies from
the ground up, serving as Founder-Chairman of KB Home (formerly the Kaufman and Broad Corp.) and SunAmerica.
Through the Broad Education Foundation, he aims to improve urban public education through better governance,
management, labor relations and competition. The Broad Art Foundation operates a lending library of contemporary
art to museums and university galleries worldwide. The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Foundation funded the Broad Institute
for biomedical research in partnership with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. A regent
of the Smithsonian Institution and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Broad received the Carnegie
Medal of Philanthropy in 2007.
Donald Brownstein is CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Structured Portfolio Management (SPM), a
leading fixed-income hedge fund with special focus in mortgage-backed securities. Before creating SPM in 1997,
Brownstein founded and managed CDC Servicing Inc., a specialized investment subsidiary of the Caisse des Dépôts
et Consignations. From 1988 to 1993, he worked in portfolio management at Franklin Savings Association, a leader
in the development of quantitative methods for managing mortgage-backed securities. Between 1969 and 1989, he
served as a professor in the philosophy departments of the University of Kansas and the University of Texas. Brownstein
received a bachelor’s degree from Queen’s College in New York City and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of
Minnesota. He was a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University.
Norman Brownstein is a Founding Member and Chairman of the law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck
LLP. Nationally recognized for his experience in real estate law, commercial transactions and public policy advocacy,
he has helped dozens of major organizations and corporations (including AT&T, Apollo Private Equity, the Private
Equity Council, Ares Private Equity, Genworth Financial, Johnson & Johnson, Toshiba Corp., Western Union, Comcast,
Intelsat, Global Crossing and the National Cable & Telecommunications Association) develop and execute legislative
and regulatory strategies. In 2009 he led the successful effort to include the cancellation of indebtedness income tax
deferral in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The National Law Journal has named Brownstein among the
“100 Most Influential Lawyers in America.” He was also named one of the “Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America”
in the 2009 listing of the nation’s top attorneys.
John Bryant is Founder, Chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE and Vice Chairman of the U.S. President’s Advisory
Council on Financial Literacy. An empowerment leader for the underserved, Bryant started Operation HOPE in 1992
with one employee and an annual budget of $65,000 and turned it into a multimillion-dollar concern encompassing
400 private-sector partners, 1,500 nonprofit organizations and schools, 100 government partners in 68 major U.S. cities
and five provinces in South Africa. Operation HOPE focuses on financial literacy. Bryant’s work to eradicate poverty has
garnered him more than 400 awards and citations, including Oprah Winfrey’s Use Your Life award. He is recognized as
an author and national community leader who has been cited by four past U.S. presidents for his work to improve lowwealth
communities across America.
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Robert Bucklin is Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Banking Officer for the U.S. and Canadian
operations of Rabobank International, a global financial services leader specializing in food and agribusiness. Bucklin
has 35 years of banking experience, including executive positions at First Chicago and First City Texas Bank Group. He
joined Rabobank in 1993 as senior vice president and manager of the Dallas office and moved to New York in 1994 to
assume the role of chief corporate banking officer. He serves on the board of directors and executive committee of
Global Green USA and, since 1999, has helped guide the organization’s success in advancing smart climate solutions for
communities and green building. Bucklin holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from
Harvard Business School.
Steven Burd is Chairman, President and CEO of Safeway Inc., one of the largest food and drug retailers in North
America. During his 17 years as CEO, Safeway shareholder returns have outpaced 92 percent of the S&P 500. Recognized
as one of the best-managed retail food companies, Safeway has reversed escalating health-care costs by implementing
a plan that pays for preventive care and rewards healthy behavior, giving employees higher-quality care while reducing
out-of-pocket costs. In 2007 Burd joined other corporate leaders to form the Coalition to Advance Healthcare Reform;
this alliance of more than 60 companies advocates for health-care reform that advances market-based solutions,
universal access, incentives for preventive care and greater cost transparency. Since 2001 Safeway has raised more than
$100 million to fund some of the most promising cancer research. Burd received a master’s degree in economics from
the University of Wisconsin.
Judy Burton is President and CEO of the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools, a nonprofit charter-management
organization focused on providing grade 9-12 and grade 6-8 public charter schools that outperform neighboring
schools and prepare students for success in four-year colleges. Alliance schools serve high-poverty, overcrowded and
historically low-performing school communities in Los Angeles. In the past five years, the Alliance has launched 16
charter schools that are among the top-achieving schools in Los Angeles Unified School District. The group has also
raised $90 million in public and private grants for facilities, and school and corporate operations. Of the 11 LAUSD
secondary schools named California Distinguished Schools in March 2009, four are Alliance high schools. Burton is a
former LAUSD local district superintendent and has led numerous district-wide reform efforts. She received a bachelor’s
degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a master’s degree from California Lutheran College.
Richard Byrne is CEO of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. He is also co-head of Global Capital Markets at Deutsche
Bank, which includes underwriting and syndication of all equities, investment-grade and high-yield bonds and loans,
worldwide. He also oversees leveraged finance and financial sponsor coverage globally and is a member of the
firm’s Global Banking Executive Committee and Global Markets Executive Committee. He previously served as head
of Global Capital Markets for the Americas. Before joining Deutsche Bank, he was co-head of the Global Leveraged
Finance Group and head of Global Credit Research at Merrill Lynch. He also was a perennially top-ranked credit analyst
in numerous categories, most notably in the gaming, lodging and leisure sector. Byrne holds a bachelor’s degree from
the State University of New York at Binghamton and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at
Northwestern University.
Douglas Bystry is President and CEO of Clearinghouse CDFI, a for-profit community development financial
institution. He created Clearinghouse CDFI in 1995 in an effort to bring capital to low-income and distressed areas of
California. Clearinghouse CDFI provides direct loans for affordable housing, community development and other unmet
credit needs, and holds more than $250 million in combined assets and a loan portfolio of more than $60 million. It has
received allocations of $258 million under the New Markets Tax Credit Program. Bystry has been providing financial
services to low-income communities for the past 22 years. Previously, he was executive director of Santa Ana (Calif.)
Neighborhood Housing Services Inc., providing rehabilitation loans and revitalization programs in the Artesia-Pilar area
of Santa Ana. He also served on the National Advisory Board for the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corp., the La Habra
(Calif.) City Council and the Orange County Housing Commission.
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