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Alec Haverstick is Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Boxwood Strategic Advisors LLC. Haverstick, who
began his career as a trusts and estates attorney in New York City, has been a managing director at Kidder Peabody
& Co., Prudential Securities Inc., Lehman Brothers and Deutsche Bank. At Deutsche Bank, he led the development of
risk mitigation, liability management and liquidity provision techniques for wealthy entrepreneurs. Before forming
Boxwood, Haverstick was president of Morgan Stanley Trust Company. Haverstick is a graduate of Yale College and
Columbia Law School. He has served as a trustee of St. Paul’s School, The Pingry School and The Shakespeare Theater
of New Jersey and as a member of the Board of Regents of Georgetown University. He is actively involved in the Yale
University Art Gallery and Yale’s capital campaign.
Tony Hawk is perhaps the most recognized action-sports figure in the world. He is also president of Tony Hawk Inc.,
a worldwide leader in video games, merchandising, events, endorsements, and film and digital media. He regularly
appears on television and in films, and hosts a weekly show on the SiriusXM satellite radio network. By age 12 Hawk
was sponsored by Dogtown Skateboards; by age 16 he was widely considered the best skateboarder in the world. He
retired from competitive skateboarding at age 31. With the creation of the Tony Hawk Foundation, he has been helping
others experience the same excitement he did as a young skateboarder, building the self-confidence that drove his
success. The Tony Hawk Foundation has given away more than $2.8 million to fund 427 public skate-park projects in
low-income areas throughout the United States.
Wade Henderson is President and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR). He is also counselor
to the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education and the Joseph L. Rauh Jr., Professor of Public Interest Law
at the David A. Clarke School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia. Henderson is a member of the
FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion, which aims to expand access to banking services for underserved
populations. He also leads an effort to pass the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation to revive the right of workers
to organize unions. Before joining LCCR, he was the Washington bureau director of the NAACP, associate director of
the Washington national office of the American Civil Liberties Union and executive director of the Council on Legal
Education Opportunity. Henderson is a graduate of Howard University and the Rutgers University School of Law.
Michael Henkin is Managing Director and Co-Head of the Recapitalization & Restructuring Group at Jefferies
& Company Inc. Henkin has more than 11 years of investment banking experience, encompassing restructurings,
financings, mergers and acquisitions, and general financial advisory services. He has significant expertise in restructuring
advisory with distressed companies, representing companies, creditors and other stakeholders in a wide range of
situations and industries. Henkin also has extensive experience in the communications, media and technology industries,
with seven years of operating experience at News Corporation, Loral Space & Communications and NextEngine, and
significant transaction experience working with a variety of terrestrial, wireless, satellite and broadband communications
companies. Henkin received a bachelor’s degree in economics and business from the University of California, Los
Angeles, and an M.B.A. and Global Management Certificate from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Mikkal Herberg is the BP Foundation Senior Research Fellow for International Energy at the Pacific Council on
International Policy. He also teaches at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of
California, San Diego, and serves as research director on Asian energy security at The National Bureau of Asian Research.
Previously he spent 20 years in the oil industry with ARCO, where from 1997 to 2000 he was director for global
energy and economics, responsible for worldwide energy, economic and political analysis. He also headed country
risk management and held other senior positions, including director of portfolio risk management and director for
emerging markets. He writes and speaks internationally on Asian and global energy issues. Herberg has testified before
the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission and the
California Energy Commission.
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Dan Hesse is President and CEO of Sprint Nextel Corp. He was previously the chairman and CEO of Embarq Corp.,
as well as president, CEO and chairman of Terabeam Corp. During a 23-year career at AT&T, he served as president and
CEO of AT&T Wireless Services (America’s largest wireless carrier at that time), led the Online Services Group, and served
as president and CEO of AT&T Network Systems International. In 2008, Hesse was chosen the “most influential person
in mobile technology” by Laptop magazine. He has previously been named “Person of the Year” by RCR magazine and
“Executive of the Year” by Wireless Business & Technology magazine. Hesse serves on the board of directors of Clearwire
Corp. and on the national board of governors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
Craig Hill is Principal at Northcross, Hill & Ach Inc. He began his professional career as a financial analyst the
Sacramento Municipal Utility District, evaluating the financial and economic feasibility of the Rancho Seco Nuclear
Power Plant in the mid-1980s. Hill also worked in California’s Office of Energy Assessments to develop financing
programs for upgrading the energy efficiency of state facilities. Hill has worked as a financial adviser to California public
agencies for more than 20 years on such projects as amusement parks, community facilities, infrastructure and masterplanned
developments. His work includes debt issuance of every type, including the new energy bonds. He now serves
as financial adviser to more than 50 public agencies throughout California. Hill is currently working with the city of
Berkeley and the city and county of San Francisco to develop their solar financing programs.
Lawrence Ho is the Chairman and CEO of Melco International Development Ltd., a dynamic, new-generation Asian
conglomerate focused on leisure and entertainment. He is also a Co-Chairman and CEO of Melco Crown Entertainment
Ltd., a NASDAQ-listed company that owns one of just six gaming concessions and subconcessions in Macau. Upholding
the highest standards of corporate governance, Melco won the Corporate Governance Asia Recognition Award for the
third consecutive year in 2008, and was named one of Hong Kong’s Best-Managed Companies by FinanceAsia magazine
for the second year. Ho was named the “Best CEO” and “Director of the Year 2005” by Institutional Investor and the Hong
Kong Institute of Directors, respectively. He was also elected as one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Persons” in 2006.
Susan Hockfield has been President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2004. Under her
leadership, MIT has built on its traditional strengths in science, engineering, architecture, management and economics
to advance the frontiers of energy research and pioneer crucial advances at the intersection of the life sciences, the
physical sciences and engineering. The first life scientist to lead MIT, she is also a professor of neuroscience in MIT’s
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Previously she was provost at Yale University, where she had taught since
1985; she also served as dean of Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. A member of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, she is a director of the General Electric Company and the World Economic Forum Foundation; a
trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; and an overseer of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra.
George Hoguet is a Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager and Global Investment Strategist specializing in
emerging markets at State Street Global Advisors. From 1981 to 1985, Hoguet served at the U.S. Treasury Department,
first as U.S. alternate executive director to the World Bank and subsequently as principal deputy assistant secretary of
the Treasury for international affairs. He has served as president of the Boston Economic Club, a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations and as a committee or board member of the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations, the Boston
Society of Security Analysts, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Middle East Institute. He has
been published in Emerging Markets Review, the Financial Times and many other industry and academic journals. He is
an accredited speaker for the CFA Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard
Business School.
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