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Bill Miller, Chairman Emeritus (2005-2009)
Jim Rutt, Chairman Emeritus (2009-2012)
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Trustee
Greg Amadon grew up in California. Amadon is a visionary who possesses the unique ability to imagine the possibilities and create products not generally thought possible - in the case of his last company- Terabeam (Free Space Laser communications) that created a 24 inch laser optical transceiver that when hung in an office window, delivered bi-directional gigabit local loop connectivity to the internet. As CEO, Amadon raised over $500 million in private financing for Terabeam.
An inventor at heart, Amadon also founded three other companies, Virtual IO (3D heads up display headsets); Cellular Technical Services (fraud prevention software for cellular telephone carriers) and Portable Technologies (real-time cell phone rental system for rental car companies). He also built a high power telescopic video camera system while at CBS News to record video from distances of up to five miles away that was used extensively during the Reagan White House. Amadon received a ...
Trustee
Karen Heim-Amadon grew up on a large family farm in Iowa. Her entrepreneurial spirit, curiosity and desire to further her education drew her to New York City, where she attended Westchester College. After working in the fashion industry and attending college, Karen and her partners opened a real estate rental company and, later, a real estate sales company. Her real-estate career spanned 15 years beginning in the early 1990's as a young entrepreneur with Real Renters LTD, and later a building sales firm Heim Realty LLC. During the years of the Internet boom as an angel investor, Karen and her associates garnered critical acclaim when they wired the first residential building Manhattan with T1 Internet access at a time when dial up service was still in its infancy. The East Village T1 project garnered international attention when Reuters wrote the first article before a press release was even out ...
Trustee
Senior Managing Director, Brock Capital and Chairman, United Rentals Inc.
Jenne K. Britell, Ph.D., is a Senior Managing Director of Brock Capital, LLC. She was formerly the Chairman and CEO of Structured Ventures, Inc, advisors on financial services business and product strategy to U.S. and foreign companies. She is a board member of three NYSE companies, United Rentals, Inc.(URI);* Crown Holdings, Inc. (CCK);** and Quest Diagnostics Inc. (DGX).*** She is also a director of the U.S. Russia Investment Fund and the U.S. Russia Foundation, and a Sustaining Trustee of the Fox Chase Cancer Center.
Dr. Britell is a former senior executive of GE Capital. At GE Capital, until March 2000, she served as the Executive Vice President of Global Consumer Finance and President of Global Mortgage and Commercial Banking. Previously, she was President and CEO of GE Capital, Central and Eastern Europe. Based in Vienna, she had responsibility for the GE Capital consumer and commercial ...
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President, Collins Capital
Michael Collins has been President of Collins Capital since 1982; which today is a group of “Fund of Funds” invested in multi-manager strategies utilizing alternative, non-traditional liquid investment strategies internationally
Prior to Collins Capital ...
Trustee, Science Board, External Professor
Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Computer Science/Engineering/Psychology
John H. Holland is professor of computer science and engineering and professor of psychology at the University of Michigan; he is also external professor and member of the executive committee of the board of trustees at the Santa Fe Institute.
Professor Holland was made a MacArthur fellow in 1992 and is a fellow of the World Economic Forum. He serves on the Advisory Board on Complexity at the McDonnell Foundation.
Professor Holland has been interested for more than 40 years in what are now called complex adaptive systems (CAS). He formulated genetic algorithms, classifier systems, and the Echo models as tools for studying the dynamics of such systems. His books Hidden Order (1995) and Emergence (1998) summarize many of his thoughts about complex adaptive systems.
Trustee
Managing Partner, Dryad Partners
Henry Lichstein is Managing Partner of Dryad Partners, his consulting company. He takes interim CEO/CFO roles, consults for technology-based companies, and serves on boards.
From 1970 to 2000 Henry was with Citibank, holding positions in financial control, treasury, technology strategy, and advanced development efforts. He did the early work on Citi’s commercial Web sites, Smart Card and Electronic Commerce activities, spoke on payments and E-Commerce in the US and China, and made a number of successful technology investments. He held Treasury, Financial Control, and other staff jobs, and wrote a report for the Group of 30 on Clearance and Settlement in the world’s securities markets.
Henry joined Palisades Ventures in 2000, focusing on broadband technology investments, and worked with venture companies. He was CFO of PrivaSys, a transaction card company; Interim CEO of Roubini Global Economics in New York City; and Interim CFO at Lucix, a satellite ...
Trustee
Chairman and CEO, Business Resources International
William N. (Bill) Sick is chairman and chief executive officer of Business Resources International, a firm specializing in early-stage high-technology companies.
Since 1989, he has been a co-founder, chairman, active director or advisor of thirteen early-stage companies in the semiconductor, software and biotechnology fields. After exiting most of these companies through IPO’s and sales, he remains active in several companies, including VIRxSYS (genetically engineered treatment for HIV/AIDS) and Acoustic Technologies (audio processing solutions for communications products) and Zounds (hearing aids).
In the 1980s, Mr. Sick was CEO and a director of American National Can Company, created in an LBO that merged American Can and National Can to form the world’s largest packaging company. He managed the merging of the two companies and later its sale and transition to Pechiney, a French aluminum company.
Prior to that time, Mr. Sick served in a variety of positions at Texas ...
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