National Jury 2022

Jacqueline B. Mars, National Jury Chair
Retired Vice President, Mars, Inc.
The Plains, Virginia

Mrs. Mars is the owner of a working farm that specializes in organic farming and equine training and breeding. David and Karen O’Connor, Olympic Gold, Silver and Bronze Medalists in the sport of three-day eventing, have trained and ridden her competition horses at her two locations in The Plains, Virginia, and Ocala, Florida. Mrs. Mars is the retired Vice President of Mars, Inc., where she was responsible for development of new food products and their marketing strategy. She is a strong supporter of conservation groups concerning land use and the environment as well as an advocate and supporter of women’s education and their employment in the business community. Since 2014, Mrs. Mars has served on the board of American Prairie, an organization that is creating the largest nature reserve in the continental United States. A passionate promoter of the arts, she is Chairman of the Washington National Opera, a member of the board of trustees of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, as well as Vice Chairman of the National Sporting Library & Museum.

Jay Abbe
Retired President/COO, JDS Uniphase
Healdsburg, California

Jay and his wife, Karen, reside on their ranch and vineyards outside of Healdsburg, California, 70 miles north of San Francisco, where they grow grapes and produce a modest amount of wine. Jay is a retired technology business executive, having served as Chief Executive Officer of Optical Coating Laboratory in the late 1990s and President and Chief Operating Officer of JDS Uniphase, a fiber optics company, until his retirement in 2001. Prior to his operating roles, Jay also served for 18 years as a management consultant and senior partner with McKinsey & Company. Currently, he remains active as a director of several public companies, a trustee of his independent secondary school in Pennsylvania, and several local community organizations in Sonoma County. Since 2009, Jay has served on the board of American Prairie, an organization that is creating the largest nature reserve in the continental United States. Having grown up outside of Philadelphia in a very East Coast family, where “the West” meant Ohio, Jay connected strongly to Montana during a summer job in 1961 working on the Minuteman missile complex in the central part of the state.

Alan Airth
Newport Beach, California

Alan Airth is a member of the Board of Directors at Mars, Incorporated. He is chairman of the Board Digital Sub-Committee and the Board Advisor Search Committee, as well as serving on the Audit and the Benefits Funding & Investment Oversight Committees.

Prior to joining the Mars board in 2016, Alan was a successful commercial real estate executive. He has extensive experience in asset management, property investment, and executive leadership with a variety of national firms as both manager and owner. Alan was a trusted advisor to Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank during the 2008-2012 great recession. He served on the SoCal Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties Board of Directors for 10 years holding multiple leadership roles including President of the organization.

He serves on the American Prairie Board of Directors and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation Board. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Council, Boy Scouts of America, and a lifetime member of the National Eagle Scout Association. He holds a Fellowship with the National Association of Corporate Directors and is a member of the Private Directors Association. Alan has a Bachelor’s degree in finance and real estate from the University of Arizona and earned his MBA from The Anderson School at UCLA.

Dawn Arnall
Aspen, Colorado

Dawn Arnall is a private investor, businesswoman and philanthropist. She currently serves as Chair of SBP Capital Corporation. A seasoned executive with more than three decades of professional experience, Dawn is an active investor in the real estate and energy sectors.

Dawn is a Trustee of The National Medal of Honor Museum, The College of William and Mary Foundation Board, and former Trustee of the National Geographic Society, Conservation International, and Smithsonian National Zoo Advisory Boards. She is a member of the George W. Bush Institute's Woman's Advisory board, is chairwoman of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Board and is the Chairman of the International Council of Advisors for Shalva.

Dawn obtained her Bachelor of Arts and Masters in Business Administration from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

She resides in Aspen, Colorado.

Stephen Badger,
Director, Producer
Santa Fe, New Mexico

Stephen Mills Badger II, born September 1968, attended Duke University and Reed College, and, in 1992, graduated from Union Institute in Cincinnati, OH, with a BA in Anthropology. He was one of the largest investors and key developmental influencers of Seeds of Change, an organic seed and food company and was President of the company from 1995-2004. From 2004-2008 Stephen led Corporate Affairs for Mars, Incorporated as the Global Director. In March of 2008, Stephen joined the Mars, Incorporated Board and became Chairman in March of 2011 and served for its term of three years. In March 2017 he assumed the role again for another three-year term.

Other boards include/have included Island Press, Permacultura Latin America, The Africa Society, The Association for Traditional Arts, Project Hempstead Heart, Santa Fe Preparatory School, and the Muscle Shoals Music Foundation. Stephen also produced “Muscle Shoals” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013.

Jill E. Bough
Photographer
Big Sky, Montana

Jill Bough has been an integral part of building the growing community of Big Sky, Montana. She and her husband, Loren, were the founders of the local public high school which boasts numerous awards and an International Baccalaureate curriculum. Jill is a photographer whose work has been described as journalistic storytelling. Having lived in Russia for nine years, her projects primarily focus on Russia-related topics and people. She has exhibited in New York, Cambridge, Minneapolis and Moscow, Russia. Having grown up in Montana, Jill is passionately in love with grasslands and prairie. She and Loren own multiple ranches and split their time between the mountains of Big Sky and the prairies of Central Montana. She is excited to be part of the National Jury and hopes that her Montana roots may benefit the organization.

Cynthia Chace
Sheridan, Wyoming

Cynthia Chace is a contemplative photographer who seeks to capture the essence of God's grace in her photographs. She was born in Tokyo, Japan, and has lived all over the world and attended schools in Brussels, Belgium; Gstaad, Switzerland; and Rome, Italy. Early in her career, she worked as a fashion editor for Vogue, Glamour, and Harper’s Bazaar magazines, which gave her the chance to learn from some of the world's top photographers. Residing in Wyoming, Cynthia focuses her lens on the Western United States where she captures the awe of magnificent vistas, the land of the Bighorn Mountains, and beauty on the plains of Wyoming. Her photography has been and continues to be shown around the world including New York City, Tokyo, and Miami. 

She currently serves on the advisory boards of Buffalo Bill Center of the West - Cody Firearms Museum, Sheridan Memorial Hospital - Transitional Care Unit, and Food Bank of the Rockies - Wyoming Chapter. Cynthia is the President of both The Frederick and Patricia Supper Foundation and Freeborn Foundation. She has also served as a trustee for Millbrook School in Millbrook, New York, and Long Ridge School in Stamford, Connecticut, and as Chair of the Wyoming Community Foundation. Cynthia is a graduate of Leadership Wyoming 2016 and an alumnus of Loyola University in New Orleans and Choate. Cynthia currently is the creator of a daily global email spiritual meditation ministry.

David A. Coulter
Vice Chairman, Managing Director and Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus
New York, New York

Mr. Coulter served as Vice Chairman, Managing Director and Senior Advisor at Warburg Pincus, focusing on the firm’s financial services practice from 2005 – 2014.

Mr. Coulter retired in September 2005 as vice chairman of J.P. Morgan & Chase Co. He previously served as Executive Chairman of its investment bank, asset and wealth management, and private equity business. Mr. Coulter was a member of the firm’s three person Office of the Chairman and also its executive committee.

Mr. Coulter came to J.P. Morgan Chase via its July 2000 acquisition of The Beacon Group, a small merchant banking operation. Before joining The Beacon Group, Mr. Coulter was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the BankAmerica Corporation and Bank of America NT & SA. His career at Bank of America was from 1976 to 1998 and covered a wide range of banking activities.

He served on the board of Aeolus Re, MBIA, Webster Bank, Sterling Financial and the Strayer Corporation. He currently is on the board of The Providence Service Corp., Triton International, and Varo Money, Inc. He also serves on the boards of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Asia Society of Northern California, American Prairie, Third Way, Macaulay Honors College, and IQ2.

He received both his B.S. and his M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University and currently serves as a Trustee for Carnegie Mellon.

Nick Dionisopoulos
Investment Banking Analyst, Guggenheim Securities’ Industrials Group
New York City, New York

Nick Dionisopoulos is an Investment Banking Analyst in Guggenheim Securities' Industrials Group, where he works on M&A, financing, and corporate advisory projects. Since joining Guggenheim, he has worked primarily with companies in the automotive, mobility, and capital goods sectors. He received a B.S. in Finance, summa cum laude, from NYU's Stern School of Business in 2019. While at NYU, Nick was a four-year member of the Varsity Men's Swim Team and served as a team captain during his junior and senior years.  

Nick became enamored by the prairie at a very young age following time spent in Western Nebraska's Sandhills, family road trips, and nurturing from both of his parents. He has visited the Reserve twice, has been unsuccessful in four consecutive bison harvest drawings, and is a member of American Prairie's Young Professionals Leadership Network. He grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska, and currently resides in New York City with his fiancé and elderly cat.

Candy Fazakerley
President, CG Investments
Middleburg, Virginia

Candy Fazakerley was the owner and principal of CRE, a commercial real estate company which specialized in the sale of corporate and association headquarters building in the Washington, D.C., area. She and her husband are partners in CG Investments, a commercial real estate development firm which develops, constructs, and manages office buildings and hotels in the Washington area and most recently, San Francisco, CA. Candy is currently an active Board Member of Middleburg Humane, a non-profit dedicated to saving and rescuing animals in the Virginia Hunt Country where she and her husband currently reside. She has two sons and four grandchildren who reside in the San Francisco Bay area.

Liliane A. Haub
Philanthropist
Greenwich, Connecticut

Liliane, a native of Switzerland, grew up in Austria, now living between the US and Germany, enjoyed her education at Sotheby's and Habsburg, Feldman in London, Geneva, and New York before becoming a full-time mother to her four children.

Due to her passion for the environment, art, and education, she leads the family's environmental engagement by serving on the Board of Trustees of Pace University and works closely with the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace which has one of the world’s best environmental law programs. She has served at the Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming for over a decade and is a Director of American Prairie. In addition, she is a member of the Advisory Board of the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University, serves on the Board of Trustees of the Tacoma Art Museum in Washington, and is on the Patrons Steering Committee for the McMullen Museum at Boston College.

Liliane used to be an avid runner and has finished the NYC marathon 4 times to raise funds and awareness for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Liliane and her husband, Christian, have been co-chairing the Parents Leadership Council at Boston College for five years and are on the Board of Regents where they are engaged in international outreach for the university.

Frederick B. Hegi, Jr.
Founding Partner, Wingate Partners
Dallas, Texas

Fred Hegi is the founding partner of Wingate Partners, a partnership that takes controlling interests in companies in industries going through structural change. He has been Chairman of the Board of United Stationers; Loomis, Fargo & Co., Kevco, Inc. and was lead independent director of Lone Star Technologies. He currently serves on the boards of Hallmark Cards and is a member of the George W. Bush Center CEO Advisory Board.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Southern Methodist University. He is former Chairman of the Advisory Council of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas and its Foundation. He is a former Chairman of Interfaith Family Services, a Dallas-based ministry to homeless families, which in 1997 established the Frederick B. Hegi, Jr. Humanitarian Award. He is a past Chairman of Communities Foundation of Texas and is a trustee of the AT&T Center for the Performing Arts Foundation, UT Southwestern Medical Foundation, UT Southwestern Board of Visitors and the Chancellor’s Executive Council of the UT System. In 2012, Mr. and Mrs. Hegi were recognized with the Spirit of Contact Award for leadership to those facing significant personal crises, and in 2015, Mr. Hegi received the Henry Cohn Humanitarian Award from the Anti-Defamation League. The Hegis were honored in 2016 with the Spirit of Generations Award by the Senior Source.

David Kamenetzky
Food-Tech Investor
Miami Beach, Florida

David provides growth capital to consumer brands that benefit from macro trends such as increased consumer connectivity and digitalization (examples include Cook Unity, a dark kitchen concept, Reserve Bar, an alcohol delivery platform, and Fuzzy, a pet telehealth platform); direct to consumer capabilities (such as Front of the Pack, a DTC-only natural pet supplements and snacks brand); health and wellness (such as Super Coffee, a keto-approved, sugar free ready to drink coffee beverage); alternative protein (for example Coconut Collaborative, a plant based yogurt brand, or Project Pollo, a vegan quick service restaurant chain); and carbon efficiency. He partners with some of the most accomplished consumer entrepreneurs and seed and growth funds that invest in those trends.

Elizabeth Baker Keffer
EVP & Chief Relationship Officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
District of Columbia

Elizabeth Baker Keffer is an Executive Vice President and Chief Relationship Officer at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, responsible for elevating the Chamber's member services programs to further support new and existing members. From 2014 until 2022, Elizabeth was a Partner at BDT & Company and served as BDT’s Chief Network Officer, connecting and convening Limited Partners and clients across the firm’s global network to share best practices and lessons learned. Prior to joining BDT, Elizabeth was President of AtlanticLIVE, the events division of The Atlantic, where she also was Publisher from 2001 to 2007. Prior to joining Atlantic Media, Elizabeth served as EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at the Advisory Board Company and Corporate Executive Board.

Elizabeth is chair of the UVA Parents Fund Committee and of the Middleburg Forum, and is also a board member of Ford’s Theatre and an Emeritus board member of Research!America. Elizabeth received a BA in English and minor concentration in Human Biology from Brown University.

Peter Kimmelman
New York, New York

A graduate of the Wharton School and Harvard Law School, Mr. Kimmelman has since 1970 specialized in asset allocation, representing the interests of several families as well as two foreign institutions. Among his non-profit affiliations, he has just completed a four-year term as chairman of the Freer/Sackler Galleries (Smithsonian Institution), Washington. He serves as a trustee, officer, and member of the Executive Committee of World Monuments Fund (30 years plus) and as a trustee of American Federation for Aging Research. Mr. and Mrs. Kimmelman share a passion for traveling, spending more than two months a year for the past 40 years in visiting more than 100 countries. Their two children –a daughter, Kweilen, and son, Damian –both live and work in London and continue to join their parents in their world travels.

Joel Kobert
Bridgewater Corners, Vermont

Joel Kobert retired from the New Jersey law firm, Courter, Kobert, and Cohen, having been the founder and managing partner. He served in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Justice Department and received the Bronze Star and Vietnam Service Medal as an U.S. Army Captain. He served in two administrations of Governors of New Jersey, and was President of the New Jersey Bar Association. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and member of Who is Who in American lawyers.

Currently, he serves on numerous boards including the Elizabeth Dole Foundation, National Sporting Library and Museum, and RHF Foundation for military families.

Judy Koch
Founder and Board Member, Bring Me a Book Foundation
Retired Owner/President, RSP Manufacturing Corporation
Palo Alto, California

“Taking 15 family members to the prairie in 2018 to celebrate a milestone birthday is my legacy holiday for family – an extraordinary memory for my sons, grandchildren and all. I am grateful to Board members, Susan and Gib Myers for introducing me to American Prairie in 2006 and Nancy Mueller for continuing to steward my passion.”

Judy Koch was the owner of RSP Manufacturing Corporation in Fremont, CA. which provided metal fabrication and electro-mechanical assembly services to high tech companies in Silicon Valley. After 18 years of guiding the company to aggressive growth during her ownership, she sold the company in 1997.

Bring Me A Book began as a RSP employee benefit. Judy, a former junior high school English teacher, provided children’s books with audio recordings to encourage largely immigrant families to read together. In 1997, she founded Bring Me A Book Foundation.

The Philanthropic Innovator Award from the Committee of 200 in 2004, and the 2019 Best Practice Award from the Library of Congress, which inspired Bring Me a Book to become a national organization, mean the most to Judy. Best Practices include helping children learn how to choose books to read from school and public libraries.

George E. Matelich
Managing Director, Kelso & Co.
Larchmont, New York

George joined Kelso in 1985 and is a Senior Advisory Partner and Managing Director. He has served as a director of more than 20 former Kelso affiliated companies and as lead director of two public companies. George earned an M.B.A. from the Stanford GSB in 1982 and a B.A. in Business Administration, summa cum laude, from the University of Puget Sound in 1978. He was a C.P.A. and holds a C.M.A.

 He has served as Chairman since 2013 and has been a director since 2008 of American Prairie, and is a director of Rx Green Technologies, Square Roots, Survey.com, and Storefront. George is also an advisory director of Investco and US WorldMeds, and is also an advisor to the Investment Committee of the New York Botanical Garden and the University of Puget Sound. He served from 2010 for 6 years on the Stanford GSB Advisory Council and he was treasurer of the University of Puget Sound Board of Trustees, on which he served from 1989 for 23 years.

 “I was born and raised in SeaTac, Washington, and now live in Larchmont, New York. My family and I have been Montana property owners since 1997, with a ranch on the Boulder River near Big Timber. We enjoy spending time there fly fishing and hiking with family and friends.”

Susan Matelich
Philanthropist
Larchmont, New York 

Susan Matelich is a philanthropist, gardener, and volunteer. She is a CPR instructor, a crewmember and Treasurer of her local Volunteer Ambulance Corps, holding NY State, National Registry EMT certifications with wilderness training. Susan and her husband George are dedicated to aiding first-generation college and graduate students with scholarships at several universities. In 2008, Susan joined the board of American Prairie, and currently serves on the Governance Committee and is the Chair of the Safety Committee. In the fall of 2015, Susan joined the Board of Trustees of the New York Botanical Garden and serves on their Finance Committee. Born in Alberta, Canada, Susan moved to New York and earned a BS in Marketing, cum laude, from NYU’s Stern School of Business, and enjoyed a career as a commercial fashion model and spokesperson. Susan currently resides in Larchmont, New York, when not fly-fishing with her husband and three adult children and son-in-law in Montana.

Lore Harp McGovern
Hillsborough, California

Ms. Harp McGovern is a serial entrepreneur. She co-founded Vector Graphic Inc., a pioneering PC company in 1976, initiated a successful IPO in 1981 and co-founded Pacific Technology Venture Fund in 1981 in Tokyo and San Francisco. She founded Aplex Corporation and holds two patents, and Good Morning Teacher Publishing, sold in 1990 and 1999 respectively.

Ms. Harp McGovern has been an Angel investor and mentor since 1998, and established in 2000 with her husband, The McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT and serves as its Chair.

She is a native of Germany and has been awarded the 1983 Entrepreneur of the Year Award, Women’s Business Owners of New York Distinguished Citizen Award, Commonwealth Club of San Francisco Distinguished Alumni Award, Pepperdine University.

Board positions include Computer History Museum, Visiting Committee for Theater Art at MIT, Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT, Council for the Arts at MIT, Springboard, and Visiting Committee for Biological Engineering at MIT.

Jeff Miller
President, JAMM Ventures
Diablo, California

Jeff Miller is President of JAMM Ventures, a business consulting company. Prior to establishing his firm, Jeff spent most of his career in operating companies. He was CEO of Documentum, Inc. (DCTM), an enterprise document management software company, from 1993 to 2001, and Chairman of the Board from 1999 to 2003, growing it from 15 employees into a publically traded NASDAQ company  with 1,200 employees and revenues over $200 million. Jeff has more than 40 years of high tech experience, in semiconductors, hardware, and software companies, having spent the early years of his career at Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, and holding senior marketing and general management executive positions at Adaptec and Cadence Design Systems. From 2002 through 2006, Jeff was a venture partner with Redpoint Ventures, focused on mentoring CEOs of several Redpoint companies, particularly those in the enterprise and infrastructure software markets. Jeff has served on the Board of Directors of a number of high technology companies. He currently serves on the Board of one public company, ServiceNow (SaaS for IT; NOW NYSE). Jeff also serves on four philanthropic Boards, American Prairie; the Golden State Warriors Community Foundation (he is a minority owner of the GS Warriors); and two connected with Santa Clara University, the Board of Trustees and the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship, where he Chairs the Advisory Board. Jeff holds a Masters of Business Administration (1976) and a Bachelors of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1973) from Santa Clara University. 

Nancy S. Mueller
Retired Founder/President, Nancy's Specialty Foods
Palo Alto, California

Nancy Mueller’s interest in nature and marine preservation is derived from her world-wide experiences. Growing up in Latham, NY, she majored in biology and then chemistry at Russell Sage College in Troy, NY. Upon graduation, she joined her future husband, Glenn Mueller in Palo Alto, CA where he earned a Stanford MBA and she worked for Syntex Corporation in pharmaceutical chemistry.

Two children later and with a venture capital husband, Nancy started her own business, Nancy’s Specialty Foods, parlaying Nancy’s Quiche, both appetizers and entrees, to national distribution through retail and club store venues. She sold the business after 22 years of exciting entrepreneurism in 1999.

Widowed in 1994 and with a desire to dream, she had a Feadship Superyacht built for round the world cruising and SCUBA diving. Ten years later, after touring hundreds of remote islands and countries with friends and family, she sold the vessel and returned to a more normal life.

She serves on the boards of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Waimea Ocean Film Festival, San Francisco Opera as well as American Prairie.

Nancy is married to Robert A. Fox, retired business executive, and lives in Palo Alto, California. She continues to travel extensively and spends time in Hawaii.

Susan Myers
Philanthropist
Atherton, California 

Susan has been a board member of American Prairie along with her husband Gib since 2002. The opportunity to assemble a huge prairie ecosystem full of wildlife in the 21st century is very compelling and exciting to her. Every time she visits the prairie she enjoys being on the landscape and going to find the bison herd. She and Gib would love to see a herd of 10,000 bison in their lifetime. Susan has an interest in food sustainability and has been a member of a food investor group through the Philanthropy Workshop in San Francisco. She is also involved with FoodCorps a national nonprofit that connects kids to healthy food in schools. The intersecting issues of food, health, wellness and social justice are important ones to her. Susan is a member of Impact Partners, a social interest film fund that invests primarily in documentaries. IP has supported a number of films at the Sundance Film Festival. She is also on the advisory board of the Bay Area Lyme Foundation.

In the past, she has served on an independent school board, Crystal Springs Uplands School and the Peninsula Bridge, an educational summer experience for underprivileged students. Susan has three children and eight grandchildren. She enjoys travel, golf, skiing, bridge, reading and spending time with her family. Susan holds a BA in German Studies from Stanford University.

Roland Parrish
President, CEO/Owner of Parrish Restaurants, Ltd
Dallas, Texas

Roland Parrish is the President, CEO/Owner of Parrish Restaurants, Ltd, which owns 23 McDonald’s in North Texas. The company consistently makes Black Enterprise Magazine’s BE 100 as one of the Top 100 Black Owned Businesses in the U.S. He also is the immediate Past Chairman/CEO of the National Black McDonald’s Owner/Operators Association.

Parrish earned his Bachelor’s and MBA at Purdue University’s Krannert School of Business. A scholar/athlete, he lettered four years, served as team captain, was a two time MVP for the Purdue track and field team while making the Dean’s List 7 out of 8 semesters.

His leadership gift supported renovations of the former Management and Economics Library at Purdue and was renamed the Roland G. Parrish Library of Management and Economics. His gift of philanthropy led to the Rev. John and Marie Parrish (parents) Medical Clinic in Fort Portal, Uganda which opened in 2016.

Roland and his wife Jewel have been married 40 years, and have two sons and a daughter–  Rowland (UNT-BA 2002), Wesley (CAI-BA 2013), and Jade (Purdue BS 2012). His hobbies include running, biking, reading, playing musical instruments and collecting automobiles.

Gerald L. Parsky
Chairman, Aurora Capital Group
Rancho Santa Fe, California

Gerald Parsky is the Chairman of Aurora Capital Group, a private investment firm. Previously, Mr. Parsky served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 1974-1977. For the next 14 years, Mr. Parsky was affiliated with the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, where he was a Senior Partner and member of the Executive and Management Committees. In 1991, Mr. Parsky founded Aurora Capital Group. Past activities include: Regent, University of California; Trustee, Princeton University. Present activities include: Trustee, The RAND Corporation; Trustee, George Bush Presidential Library Foundation; Trustee, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation; Board of Directors, The Irvine Company. Mr. Parsky is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia Law School.

William R. Price, III
President, Driva Solutions, LLC
Bellevue, Washington

Bill Price was raised in Baltimore and received a BA from Dartmouth. He spent five years as a Naval Officer and received an MBA from Stanford. Price served as the Senior Engagement Manager of McKinsey and Company in San Francisco and Stockholm, a COO at Automated Call Processing Corp (ACP), and a Vice President of MCI Call Center Services. Price was Amazon’s first Global Vice President of Customer Service. He was the lead co-author of The Best Service is No Service and Your Customer Rules! He founded and serves as President of Driva Solutions, a customer service consultancy. Price also currently is an Adjunct Professor at University of Washington’s Michael G Foster School of Business and is an advisor at Antuit, a big data company.

David M. Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group
District of Columbia

David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $276 billion from 27 offices around the world.

Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Economic Club of Washington; a Fellow of the Harvard Corporation; a Trustee of the National Gallery of Art, the University of Chicago, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Constitution Center, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and a Director of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among other board seats.

Mr. Rubenstein is a leader in the area of Patriotic Philanthropy, having made transformative gifts for the restoration or repair of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Monticello, Montpelier, Mount Vernon, Arlington House, Iwo Jima Memorial, the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the National Zoo, the Library of Congress, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Mr. Rubenstein has also provided to the U.S. government long-term loans of his rare copies of the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment, the first map of the U.S. (Abel Buell map), and the first book printed in the U.S. (Bay Psalm Book).

Mr. Rubenstein is an original signer of The Giving Pledge; the host of The David Rubenstein Show and Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein; and the author of The American Story, How to Lead, and The American Experiment.

Laura Turner Seydel
Chair of Captain Planet Foundation and Director of Turner Foundation
Atlanta, Georgia

Laura Turner Seydel is chairperson of the Captain Planet Foundation which has worked collaboratively worldwide for over 30 years to engage and empower young people to be problem solvers for the planet. She is a passionate board member of the Children & Nature Network, whose mission it is that all children grow up realizing the many benefits that exposure to nature provides.

Laura is the cofounder of the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and cofounder and board chair for Mothers and Others for Clean Air which works to improve air quality for at-risk populations, especially children in the Southeast. She serves on the board of Project Drawdown which is the most comprehensive plan to reverse global warming by enlisting 71 researchers from 22 countries to map, model, and measure the top 100 scalable solutions.

Additional organizations she serves include the Turner Foundation, the Turner Endangered Species Fund, Nuclear Threat Initiative, United Nations Foundation, Environmental Working Group, Waterkeeper Alliance, League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and is a Patron of Nature for the International Union of the Conservation of Nature.

Shauna Varvel
Greenwich, Connecticut

Shauna Varvel was raised in Utah, spending time in Wyoming and Montana, where she first developed her love for the vast beauty of the American West. Shauna attended BYU as an undergraduate and now serves on the President’s Leadership Council and National Advisory Committee for the university.

Shauna began her professional career in PR for Estee Lauder, in New York and ultimately co-heading PR for its Prescriptives brand in Tokyo. She continued expatriate life in Asia for a total of 16 years. Through her experiences doing charitable work in Indonesia and Cambodia Shauna became passionate about the education of children. Shauna served on the New York and Greenwich boards of Room to Read.

Shauna recently completed the renovation of a farmhouse in Provence, France, set on 65 acres of working farmland, which she owns and operates. She enjoys spending time there with her husband of 31 years and their five children.

Anne Ward
Greenwich, Connecticut