Board of Directors

DIRECTOR:
Rachel Ehrenfeld, Ph.D. is an expert on terrorist financing and the shadowy movement of funds through international banking, governments, business and charities to fund terrorism. She has a unique understanding of the challenges of international terrorism and Narco-Terrorism to democracy and freedom, and how money laundering and political corruption facilitates terror financing and economic warfare. Ehrenfeld also studied political corruption in Latin America and elsewhere and has developed the International Integrity Standard (IIS), to help control and monitor corruption.

Ehrenfeld was invited by the Brazilian government to lecture about the destabilization caused by Narco-terrorism, corruption and money laundering. She testified before Congressional Committees, as well as the European and Canadian Parliaments, provided evidence to the British Parliament, and consulted foreign governments as well as U.S. government agencies such as the Department of State and Defense, Treasury, Justice, the CIA, and Homeland Security. She is also a Member of the Board of Directors of the Committee on the Present Danger.

She has been a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Institute of War and Peace Studies, a research scholar at the New York University School of Law, and a fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Jesus College at Cambridge University. She has a PhD in Criminology from the Hebrew University School of Law.

Ehrenfeld is the author of Funding Evil: How Terrorism is Financed - and How to Stop It (BonusBooks, 2003, 2005); Evil Money (HarperCollins, 1992, SPI, 1994) and Narco-Terrorism: How Governments Around the World Used the Drug Trade to Finance and Further Terrorist Activities (Basic Books, 1990, 1992). Her articles have appeared in numerous publications such as The New York Times, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, The Jerusalem Post, The Wall Street Journal and the Huffington Post, and she is a frequent guest on domestic and international TV and radio.

David W. Hamon serves as a Principal with the non-profit security research organization ANSER (Analytic Services, Inc.) of Arlington, Virginia. Currently he is seconded to the Department of Defense (DoD – Defense Threat Reduction Agency -- DTRA) as Director for Research, Studies & Analyses, Office of the Advanced Systems and Concepts. From 2002-2005 he also served there as Chief of Advanced Concepts Studies. As an ANSER Principal, Mr. Hamon worked in the area of future strategic threats and their impact on international security.

From 1998-2001 he served as Regional Director for Policy and Programs within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), African Affairs, where he was the regional affairs officer. His responsibilities included policy planning, strategy development, stability operations, security cooperation, and health and security. He represented the DoD on the HIV/AIDS Cabinet level Task Force and served on the UNAIDS International Security Sector Global Steering Committee. Mr. Hamon advises the U.S. Navy on HIV/AIDS in uniformed service populations, has worked with Argonne National Laboratory, and consults for the private sector on international logistics. He is a Contributing Faculty for the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. He serves on boards including a disaster relief NGO, a Washington based music ensemble, and local non-profits supporting educational scholarships for high school students in music and American History.

Mr. Hamon is a retired U.S. Army in 1995 after serving as a logistician, including 10 years of service in Europe. His military service included the United Nations Department of Peace-keeping Operations (DPKO) where he was Chief of Current Operations, Field Administration and Logistics Division. Mr. Hamon holds a Master’s of Arts Degree in International Relations from Northeastern University in Boston, MA, and a Bachelor’s of Education in Vocational Education/Speech & Communication from Colorado State University. He also holds two UN training certificates on Civil-Military Coordination (CIMIC).

Steven R. Howard is head of the New York Investment Company Act Practice at Bingham McCutchen LLP, and has over 25 years of experience advising domestic and international investment advisers and investment funds on all aspects of their businesses. He is nationally recognized for his work with investment funds and alternative investments, including mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity funds, funds of funds, venture capital funds and CDOs. He frequently speaks at industry conferences on a wide range of topics concerning investment funds and their advisers and is often quoted in national news services. He teaches a course on the regulation of mutual funds at New York Law School as an adjunct professor. Steve has recently co-authored an investment management treatise with Professor Jeffrey J. Haas titled, Investment Adviser Regulation.

Over the years, Steve has represented a diverse group of sponsors of funds, including AIG, Citicorp, GE Capital and HSBC. As a result, he has developed strong working relationships with the investors in their funds, including corporate pension plans, state and local pensions plans, university endowments, private foundations, and various offshore investors, such as the Government of Singapore and the Sultanate of Brunei.

Steve has advised numerous global and international funds on the foreign custody requirements of the Investment Company Act and has supervised 100 country surveys of securities custody laws and foreign investor limits.

Steve’s practice includes extensive inadvertent investment company analysis for public and private companies seeking exemption from the Investment Company Act of 1940, including advising clients on securitizations, structured finance, REITs, CDOs and other financial structures.

Richard Perle is Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he researches defense, intelligence, national security, Europe, the Middle East, and the Russian region. He is a former assistant secretary of defense for international security policy. He is a former member of the Defense Policy Board, Department of Defense, 1987-2004, and Chairman, 2001-2003; Producer, PBS, The Gulf Crisis: The Road to War, 1992; assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, 1981-1987; and U.S. Senate staff, 1969-1980. He received his B.A. from the University of Southern California and M.A. in political science from Princeton University. His most recent books include: An End to Evil, Present Dangers, and Hard Line.

Leonard P. Shaykin is a Managing Partner of LambdaStar Infrastructure Partners, L.P. Mr. Shaykin was a Managing Partner of Adler & Shaykin (1983-1994), an investment partnership organized to sponsor management leveraged buyouts. Adler & Shaykin managed roughly $300 million of institutional and private capital acquiring companies with total acquisition financing in excess of $2.4 billion. Prior to forming Adler & Shaykin in 1983, Mr. Shaykin was Vice President, Director and a member of the Investment Committee of Citicorp Venture Capital Ltd. and Citicorp Capital Investors, Inc., where he was responsible for establishing and subsequently managing a $100 million equity fund dedicated to management leveraged buyouts. From 1970 to 1974, Mr. Shaykin was an investment officer at First Chicago Investment Corporation and First Capital Corporation of Chicago, the equity and venture capital investment vehicles of First Chicago Corporation. Mr. Shaykin was formerly a director and/or principal shareholder of Best Products Co., Inc., The Chicago Sun-Times, Ecolaire, Inc., the Folger Adam Company, International Healthcare, Joy Technologies, Inc., Multiserv International, Peterson Outdoor Advertising, Wherehouse Entertainment, Inc., and other public and private companies. Together these companies employed over 2,000 employees who were subject to numerous collective bargaining agreements. Mr. Shaykin is a graduate of The University of Chicago (B.A., M.A.) and The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.).

R. James Woolsey is a Venture Partner with VantagePoint Venture Partners of San Bruno, California.

Mr. Woolsey also currently: chairs the Strategic Advisory Group of the Washington, D.C. private equity fund, Paladin Capital Group; and is Of Counsel to the Washington, D.C. office of the Boston-based law firm, Goodwin Procter. In the above capacities he specializes in a range of alternative energy and security issues.

Mr. Woolsey previously served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations, most recently (1993-95) as Director of Central Intelligence. From July 2002 to March 2008 Mr. Woolsey was a Vice President and officer of Booz Allen Hamilton. He was also previously a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC, now Goodwin Procter, where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation, arbitration, and mediation.

During his 12 years of government service, in addition to heading the CIA and the Intelligence Community, Mr. Woolsey was: Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), Vienna, 1989–1991; Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977–1979; and General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970–1973. He was also appointed by the President to serve on a part-time basis in Geneva, Switzerland, 1983–1986, as Delegate at Large to the U.S.–Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) and Nuclear and Space Arms Talks (NST). As an officer in the U.S. Army, he was an adviser on the U.S. Delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I), Helsinki and Vienna, 1969–1970.

Mr. Woolsey serves on a range of government, corporate, and non-profit advisory boards and chairs several, including that of the Washington firm, ExecutiveAction LLC. He serves on the National Commission on Energy Policy. He is currently Co-Chairman (with former Secretary of State George Shultz) of the Committee on the Present Danger. He is Chairman of the Advisory Boards of the Clean Fuels Foundation and the New Uses Council, and a Trustee of the Center for Strategic & Budgetary Assessments. Previously he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution, and a trustee of Stanford University. He has also been a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, 1999–2000; The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), 1998; The President’s Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, 1989; The President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), 1985–1986; and The President’s Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission), 1983.

Mr. Woolsey has served in the past as a member of boards of directors of a number of publicly and privately held companies, generally in fields related to technology and security, including Martin Marietta; British Aerospace, Inc.; Fairchild Industries; and Yurie Systems, Inc. In 2009, he was the Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Mr. Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended Tulsa public schools, graduating from Tulsa Central High School. He received his B.A. degree from Stanford University (1963, With Great Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A. from Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar 1963–1965), and an LL.B from Yale Law School (1968, Managing Editor of the Yale Law Journal).

Mr. Woolsey is a frequent contributor of articles to major publications, and from time to time gives public speeches and media interviews on the subjects of foreign affairs, defense, energy, and intelligence. He is married to Suzanne Haley Woolsey and they have three sons, Robert, Daniel, and Benjamin.

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