Ennius E. Bergsma Senior Managing Director Senior consultant, advisor in global corporate finance; corporate and business unit strategy, M&A and marketing in consumer goods, telecomm and e-commerce. Investor, Director and Chief Strategy Officer, Passlogix; Chairman, the Netherland-America Foundation; Trustee, the Hewitt School; Honorary Board Member, Chair and President, Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York;

Pamela J. Newman Executive Advisor Pamela J. Newman is the Founder, President, and CEO of PJN Strategies LLC, a boutique strategic consulting firm in New York City. Dr. Newman is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, and The Cosmos Club. She is on the Board of Directors

Curt Launer Managing Director Co-head, Energy investment banking group; Founder, Bakken Energy, developer of clean hydrogen production, transportation and storage applications. Won Institutional Investor Magazine’s first place honors for twelve of thirteen years; Inducted into Institutional Investor’s Hall of Fame in 2011 and named “one of the best analysts of all time.” Equity research

James P. Schadt Senior Managing Director CEO with experience in publishing, software and global beverages; Trustee, Northwestern University; founding member, Northwestern College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Board Former Chairman, CEO, President, and COO, Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.; President and CEO, Cadbury Beverages, Inc.; CEO, Mercator Software, Inc; President (Wines and Spirits), PepsiCo, Inc.; Beacon Group

Carl H. Pforzheimer III Senior Managing Director Investment banker, philanthropist, and private investor. Manager, Carl H. Pforzheimer & Co.; Board member and chair of numerous charities and educational institutions including the New York Public Library, Lincoln Center, Pace University, Visiting Nurse Service of New York and Horace Mann School; Director of boards including U.S. Trust and Ampco-Pittsburg

Jean D. Hamilton Senior Managing Director CEO, diversified financial services companies. Operating and investment expertise. Director of public and private companies in insurance, financial services, money management. Director and committee member of non-profit entities. Currently, RenaissanceRe Holdings Director, First Eagle Funds and First Eagle Variable Funds Trustee, Chair of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site Investment

Steven C. Baum Senior Managing Director Managing Partner, CPA firm; LLM; expert in business and tax consulting, personal financial management, charitable foundations and not-for-profit sector. Managing Partner Emeritus, Marks Paneth & Shron LLP; Member, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; member, NY State Bar Association; Secretary/Treasurer and Trustee, Dorot Foundation; Secretary/Treasurer and Trustee, Union Square Fund;

Trevor Kidd Executive Advisor Trevor has over 35 years of experience as a business owner, entrepreneur, investor and senior executive specializing in niche manufacturing, telecommunications, enabling technologies, mergers and acquisitions, and specialty financial services product structuring and financing.

Walter H. Morris, Jr. Advisor Former financial services executive in corporate banking, international banking, capital markets, residential/commercial real estate lending and advisory/consulting services Independent director and member of the audit committee for the Federal Home Loan Banks-Office of Finance. Former Partner/Principal in Structured Finance Advisory Services, Ernst & Young; Executive Vice President & Chief Lending

Gary E. Zimmerman Managing Director Investment banker and private investor with significant domestic and overseas M&A and capital markets experience across multiple industry sectors and geographies.  Managing Partner of Six Trees Capital LLC and Founder and CEO of Max (MaxMyInterest.com).  Former Managing Director and Global Head of Strategic Solutions for Sovereign Wealth Funds at Citigroup.