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p a n e l i s t s Charlie Rahilly is the President of Premiere Radio Networks Inc., a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications that syndicates 90 radio programs and services to more than 5,000 radio affiliates, reaching more than 190 million listeners weekly. He oversees all aspects of company operations, directing and supervising all talk and music programming and services, featuring Rush Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Casey Kasem, Ryan Seacrest, Steve Harvey and other personalities. Before assuming his current position in 2007, he was executive vice president of operations at Clear Channel Radio, where he oversaw Central Region Radio Operations. Rahilly began his career in radio in 1987 as controller at KFAC-FM in Los Angeles; he moved on in 1990 to become an account executive at Clear Channel’s 102.7 KIIS-FM, taking on various management roles at the station and then within the company’s Los Angeles cluster. Joshua Cooper Ramo is Managing Director at Kissinger Associates, based in Beijing and New York City. Ramo, a Mandarin speaker who has been called “one of China’s leading foreign-born scholars” by the World Economic Forum, advises some of the largest corporations and investors in the world. Prior to entering the advisory business, Ramo was an award-winning journalist and the youngest-ever foreign editor of Time magazine. His latest book, The Age of the Unthinkable, was published in 2009. Lewis Ranieri is Chairman and CEO of Ranieri & Co. Inc. He is also chairman of Hyperion Partners, prime originator and founder of the Hyperion private equity funds, and a principal partner and founder of the Selene Residential Mortgage Opportunity Fund. He is also founder and chairman of Ranieri Partners LLC and Ranieri Partners Management LLC, investment management companies focused on financial service opportunities. Prior to forming Hyperion in 1988, he was vice chairman of Salomon Brothers. Generally considered to be the “father” of the securitized mortgage market, Ranieri helped develop the capital markets as a source of funding for housing and commercial real estate. He has served on the National Association of Home Builders Mortgage Roundtable since 1989. In 2004 BusinessWeek named him one of “the greatest innovators of the past 75 years”; in 2005 he received the Distinguished Industry Service Award from the American Securitization Forum. John Rapisardi is a Partner and Co-Chair of the Financial Restructuring Department at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, a leading financial services law firm. He has more than 25 years of domestic and international restructuring experience, representing debtors, creditors and investors across a variety of industries. He currently is lead counsel to the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry. He was recognized as one of the nation’s leading restructuring lawyers by Chambers USA, and included in “Best Lawyers in America.” Rapisardi is a bankruptcy columnist for The New York Law Journal and co-author of a treatise on Chinese bankruptcy code. Rapisardi received a bachelor’s degree from Fordham University, an LL.M. from New York University and a J.D. from Pace University. He clerked two years for the then-chief bankruptcy judge of the Southern District of New York. Andrew Rasiej is a Social Entrepreneur, Futurist and Founder of the Personal Democracy Forum, an annual conference and website addressing the intersection of politics and technology. He is also the co-founder of techPresident.com, an award-winning blog that covers how the Obama administration is using the Internet and how technology is empowering new levels of citizen engagement. He has advised political leaders on the use of Internet since 1999. In 2004 he served as chairman of the Howard Dean Technology Advisory Committee. He is also the founder of MOUSE.org, co-founder of Mideastwire.com and serves as senior technology advisor to the Sunlight Foundation. 124 p a n e l i s t s Sumner Redstone is Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp., positions to which he was elected in 2006 following the creation of two separate, publicly traded companies from the former Viacom Inc. He was CEO of the former Viacom Inc. from 1996 to 2005 and chairman of the former Viacom Inc. since 1986. He has also been chairman, CEO and president of National Amusements Inc. Redstone was the first chairman of the National Association of Theatre Owners and is currently a board member. He served in the Military Intelligence Division during World War II. While a university student, he joined a group working to break Japan’s military and diplomatic codes; he subsequently received two division commendations and the Army Commendation Award. Redstone graduated from Harvard University and holds an LL.B. from Harvard Law School. Brock Reeve is Executive Director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI). In partnership with the faculty directors, he has overall responsibility for the operations and strategy of the Institute, whose mission is to use stem cells, both as tools and as therapies, to understand and treat the root causes of leading degenerative diseases. HSCI is comprised of the schools of Harvard University and all its affiliated hospitals and research institutions; it currently has 65 principal faculty and more than 100 affiliated faculty. HSCI invests in scientific research in three main areas: seed grants, core facilities and large-scale disease programs. It also has programs to address ethics and public policy issues, provide lab experiences for undergraduates and educate high school science teachers, science journalists and the public at large. Reeve is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School. Aamir Rehman is the Head of Strategy for Fajr Capital Ltd., a principal investment firm focused on attractive Muslim markets. He is also the author of Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States. Rehman was formerly the global head of strategy for HSBC Amanah, a worldwide business unit of the HSBC Group, serving more than 300,000 customers in major markets of the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the United States. Previously a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, he has advised clients in multiple industries regarding a wide range of strategic issues. Since 2008 he has been an adjunct scholar at the Middle East Institute, a Washington-based nonpartisan research organization. Rehman received a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. Carl Reiner is an icon of the entertainment industry. He was the co-star of “Your Show of Shows”; creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show”; the interviewer of “The 2000 Year Old Man”; and director of “The Jerk,” “All of Me” and “Oh, God!” to name just a few of his credits. A writer, actor, director, producer and comedian, Reiner has accumulated 12 Emmys in a lifetime in show business and was elected to the Emmy Award Hall of Fame. He won a Grammy for the spoken word “The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000.” Among recent acting roles, he reprised Saul Bloom in “Ocean’s Thirteen” and appeared on the season finale of the television show “House.” Reiner’s first book, the autobiographical Enter Laughing, was published in 1958 and turned into a Broadway play. His next book, Just Desserts, will be published in July 2009. Edward Rendell is Governor of Pennsylvania, having begun a second term of office in January 2007. As governor, Rendell serves as chief executive of the nation’s sixth-most-populous state and oversees a $28.3 billion budget. His strategic investments have energized Pennsylvania’s economy, revitalized communities, improved education, protected the environment and expanded access to health care to all children and affordable prescription drugs for older adults. From 1992 through 1999, Rendell served as mayor of Philadelphia. Before serving as mayor, he was elected district attorney of Philadelphia for two terms, from 1978 through 1985. He has always been active in the community through a variety of memberships on boards and teaches government and politics courses at the University of Pennsylvania. An Army veteran, Rendell is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Villanova Law School. 125
p a n e l i s t s Amy Resnick is the first female Editor-in-Chief of The Bond Buyer in New York. Since her appointment in 2000, she has set the paper’s editorial direction and led redesigns of The Bond Buyer and its website. She joined the paper in 1995 as a reporter and became its managing editor before being named to the top editorial post. In 2006-2007, she spent a year as a Knight Wallace Journalism Fellow at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, studying politics, taxation and infrastructure finance. She has been quoted by national news outlets; appeared on CNN, CNBC and C-SPAN; and spoken at numerous conferences. She has written about municipal finance and political issues in state and local government for publications in New York, Massachusetts and Virginia. Resnick holds a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. Lynda Resnick is Vice Chairman of Roll International. Dubbed the “POM Queen,” she is behind the marketing success of POM Wonderful, the wildly popular 100% pomegranate juice that created an entirely new product category out of a fickle and obscure fruit. Resnick and her husband, Stewart, also own Teleflora (the world’s largest floral-bywire company), FIJI Water (the leading imported bottled water brand in the United States), Paramount Farms and Paramount Citrus Companies. Resnick is vice chairman of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees. She serves on the executive boards of The Aspen Institute, UCLA Medical Sciences, the Prostate Cancer Foundation and the Milken Family Foundation, and is a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Resnick reveals her secrets for creating memorable brands and pioneering fresh approaches to launch and promote them in her best-selling book, Rubies in the Orchard: How to Uncover the Hidden Gems in Your Business. Charles Ries recently joined the Rand Corporation as a Senior Fellow in February 2009. He previously served as Coordinator for Economic Transition at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, where he was responsible for overseeing assistance and economic policy initiatives. Ries was U.S. ambassador to Greece from 2004 to 2007. As principal deputy assistant secretary of state for European affairs from 2000 to 2004, he oversaw diplomatic and economic relations between the United States and the European Union. Ries has held diplomatic assignments in London, Brussels (at the U.S. Mission to the European Union), Ankara and Santo Domingo. He formerly served as deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for North American affairs and was a member of the NAFTA negotiating team. At State Department headquarters, Ries has worked on international energy and G-7/G-8 Summits, among other issues. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins University. Richard Riordan is former two-term Mayor of Los Angeles. He served as L.A. mayor from 1993 to 2001, then as California’s secretary of education from 2003 to 2005. He also co-founded the private equity firm Riordan, Caps & Carbone, which eventually merged with Bingham McCutchen. Currently, Riordan is of counsel in Bingham McCutchen’s Los Angeles office. A longtime advocate of education reform, the Riordan Foundation has distributed 21,700 computers to 2,100 schools in 40 states and enabled the purchase of 128,000 books for classroom libraries. Riordan’s Recreational Reading Mini-Grant Program has also donated $1.5 million to classroom libraries. He launched Read to Me, a citywide program that encourages L.A. parents to read to young children. He also co-founded a scholars and a fellows program at the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles. Riordan graduated from Princeton University and the University of Michigan Law School. Sir Ken Robinson is an author, speaker and internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity, innovation and human resources. The 2008 recipient of the George Peabody Medal, Robinson most recently wrote the best-seller The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. Robinson has worked with governments in Europe, Asia and the United States. In 1998 he led a national commission on creativity, education and the economy for the British government. All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999. He was the central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the peace process in Northern Ireland, using a blueprint for change known as “Unlocking Creativity.” He was also one of four international advisers to the Singapore government for its strategy to become the creative hub of Southeast Asia. 126 p a n e l i s t s James Robinson III is a General Partner of RRE Ventures, an information technology venture firm that he cofounded. He served as chairman and CEO of American Express Company from 1977 to 1993. Prior to American Express, he was a general partner with White Weld & Company, and assistant to the chairman and president of Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. Robinson was also chairman of the Executive Committee of First Data Corporation and non-executive chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb from 2005 to 2008. He is a director of the Coca-Cola Company, an advisor to Novell, honorary chairman of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and honorary trustee of the Brookings Institution. He served as co-chairman of the Business Roundtable and as chairman of the Advisory Committee on Trade Policy and Negotiations. Robinson holds a bachelor’s degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Shane Robison is Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at HP, where he is responsible for shaping the firm’s overall corporate strategy and technology agenda, and for overseeing corporate marketing. He steers the company’s $3.6 billion research and development investment and fosters the company’s global technical community. Robison also leads the company’s strategy and corporate development efforts, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, intellectual property licensing, venture capital community and partnerships. He was one of four principal architects of HP’s merger with Compaq Computer Corp. In 2004 InfoWorld declared Robison one of the world’s 25 most influential chief technology officers. He previously held senior management positions with Compaq, AT&T Labs, Cadence Design Systems and Apple Computer. Robison received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from the University of Utah. Michael Rosen is Principal and Chief Investment Officer for Angeles Investment Advisors LLC. A 25-year investment industry veteran, he was a partner at Asset Strategy Consulting from 1997 to 2001. He was previously director of investments with Wellpoint’s Blue Cross of California, overseeing a portfolio of more than $3 billion. Rosen spent eight years with First Interstate Bank Ltd. as a bond and currency trader and then chief market strategist. He started his career as a derivatives trader with Barclays Bank PLC in New York and in London. Rosen was an adjunct professor of finance at Pepperdine University and at Loyola Marymount University. He has a bachelor’s degree from Tufts University and a master’s degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts/Harvard). He is president of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and a trustee of Kehillat Israel and Village School. Robert Rosen is Dean of the School of Theater, Film and Television at the University of California, Los Angeles. As an educator, critic and preservationist, Rosen has been a leader in the field of film and television, including positions as co-founder (with Martin Scorsese) of the Film Foundation, executive board member of the International Federation of Film Archives and membership on numerous community and professional boards. He has been an invited lecturer in more than 20 nations around the world on criticism, historical memory and media preservation and has published broadly in the field. He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including Officer of Arts and Letters from the French government; the Career Achievement Award of the International Documentary Association; the Educational Achievement Award of the Caucus of Television Producers, Writers and Directors; and the Directors Guild of America’s John Houston Award for contributions to artists’ rights. Marc Rowan is a Founding Partner of Apollo Management LP, a private investment firm that manages a series of institutional funds focused on complex equity investments, leveraged buyouts and corporate reorganizations. He currently serves on the board of directors of AAA, an Apollo-sponsored multibillion-dollar alternative investment manager; Harrah’s Entertainment, a leading hotel-and-casino company; and Norwegian Cruise Lines, a premium cruise line with itineraries worldwide. He also serves on the boards of AP Investment Europe Ltd., BHR Holdings GP Ltd. and Apollo Principal Holdings IV GP, Ltd. Prior to joining Apollo, Rowan was a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions department of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., with responsibilities in high-yield financing, transaction idea generation and merger structure negotiation. Rowan graduated from The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a bachelor’s degree and an M.B.A. in finance. 127
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