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