Board of Directors
Stephen H. Oleskey
Chair
Stephen Oleskey is a partner in the Litigation Department at WilmerHale. Mr. Oleskey originally joined Hale and Dorr, WilmerHale’s predecessor, in 1968. In 1987-88 he served as Massachusetts Deputy Attorney General and Chief of the Public Protection Bureau. Mr. Oleskey has been consistently committed to pro bono service throughout his legal career and received numerous awards for his service to indigent clients in his local community and abroad, most recently an American Bar Association 2007 Pro Bono Publico Award for his lifetime dedication to pro bono legal services. He served for eight years on the Board of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund (now Legal Momentum). Mr. Oleskey received a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1964, magna cum laude, (Phi Beta Kappa) and was later named a Distinguished Alumnus, as well as serving as a Trustee. He holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law (1968) and has received honorary Doctor of Law Degrees from the University of Southern New England School of Law (now the University of Massachusetts School of Law) and from Northeastern University School of Law.
Dr. Lyndon Haviland
Vice Chair
With more than 25 years’ experience in domestic and international public health, Dr. Haviland brings broad expertise in management consulting, health policy, advocacy, social marketing, corporate social responsibility, and branding, as well as applied research design and evaluation.
Dr. Haviland was most recently a Senior Project Leader for the UN Secretary-General’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health, an initiative which conceived a common strategy for saving over 16 million lives and raised over $40 billion in new resources.
Dr. Haviland has directed programs in philanthropy, HIV/AIDS care, maternal and child health care, vaccines and tobacco prevention and cessation services. She has also worked in a broad range of professional environments including the Aspen Institute, UNAIDS, HRSA and SPNS projects, UNDP, WHO, the International Medical Corps, the American Legacy Foundation, and the award-winning TRUTH® campaign against smoking.
She holds a masters and a doctorate degree in public health, and has completed Advanced Management & Leadership training at the Harvard Business School. An accomplished writer and public speaker, Dr. Haviland has published more than 25 peer reviewed publications and is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business School Alumni magazine.
Kevin Mitchell
F&A Committee Chair
Kevin Mitchell is an executive with BreitBurn Energy, a domestic energy company. His specialization is in the areas of internal audit and risk management. Prior to working with Breitburn, Kevin worked for seven years for the Unocal Corporation, and also worked for Lockheed and Hughes and Deloitte and Touche.
James Bernard
James Bernard, Worldwide Director of Microsoft's Partners in Learning Program, leads a $500 million global initiative that provides teachers and schools with technological resources to expand student learning. A fixture in more than 114 countries, Partners in Learning helps teachers and school leaders more effectively use technology in teaching and learning by providing professional development, celebrating innovative teachers, and measuring the impact that innovative teaching practice has in student learning outcomes. The program is Microsoft’s largest education initiative, reaching more than 8 million teachers and school leaders worldwide. Bernard has also held a number of other globally focused consumer marketing and communications positions at Microsoft. He was part of the Xbox launch team, Windows Mobile, and a project bringing technology to people in developing countries.
Between 2006 and 2008, Bernard served as Vice President of Marketing and Communications for World Learning, leading an award-winning marketing and communications department that was responsible for redefining the organization’s brand, market position and communications strategy.
Prior to joining Microsoft in 1999, Bernard spent eight years in a variety of marketing, public relations and communications roles working for non-profits, agencies and corporations in Chicago. He lived in Kenya for six years and has traveled extensively around Africa and other parts of the world.
A frequent speaker at international conferences, Bernard holds a degree (with honors) from the EW Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. He currently lives in Seattle with his wife and daughter.
Kevin Bonderud
Kevin Bonderud is an independent communications, media relations, and public affairs consultant. From 1990-2005, he was the senior communications and legislative strategist, media consultant, and writer for Widmeyer Communications, a Washington, DC-based public relations firm. At Widmeyer, where he was Executive Vice President and partner in the firm, he developed and led major communications, public education, media operations, and advocacy campaigns, especially those addressing legislative, regulatory, and public policy issues, for clients ranging from Fortune 100 corporations and large trade and professional association to leading nonprofits, think tanks and government agencies. His writing on behalf of clients has been published in most major newspapers, as well as many specialty publications. Throughout the 1980s, Bonderud served as press secretary for Minnesota Congressman Martin Sabo, and worked on presidential and congressional campaigns. He is a graduate of Augsburg College in Minneapolis.
Samantha Carey
Samantha Carey is a Partner in the New York headquarters of CTPartners, a global executive search firm. A senior member of the firm’s Global Healthcare & Life Science Practice and Private Equity Practice, she also helps lead the firm’s thriving practice in Private Equity, focused in recruiting investment professionals, operating partners and portfolio company executives for a number of leading LBO and Growth funds. Prior to joining CTPartners, Samantha was a Partner with a leading international Healthcare boutique search firm. She began her search career in 2000. In 2008, Samantha was named to BusinessWeek's list of the World’s Most Influential Headhunters. Samantha was previously with MediMetrix, a boutique strategy consulting firm serving the healthcare industry. There she focused on Mergers and Acquisition and corporate divestitures. She helped shape early managed care programs, as well as design physician recruitment, practice management and business process outsourcing services. Samantha graduated Magna Cum Laude from Kenyon College in Ohio, where she was an All-American swimmer and member of Kenyon’s NCAA Championship Swim Team.
John Grimes
Since 2008, John Grimes has served as Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Cook Inlet Tribal Council in Anchorage, Alaska, where he oversees government grants and private sector fundraising in support of the organization’s $45+ million annual budget. Previously, he served as Director of the Museum of the Institute for American Indian Arts (now the Museum of Contemporary Native Art) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Deputy Director for Research, New Media, and Information at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. He has an extensive professional history of initiating and leading cross-cultural exchange projects, curating exhibitions on both historic and contemporary Native American and Indigenous art, and publishing and lecturing on Indigenous art and creativity. His current focus is on vision/values/results-based strategies for nonprofit sustainability.
Ana Rita Gonzalez
Ana Rita Gonzalez is the President and CEO of Policy Wisdom, a company dedicated solely to shaping public health policies. Before founding Policy Wisdom, Dr. Gonzalez created and led the Global Public Health Policy Group at Fleishman-Hillard, where she developed the e7 methodology for policy influencing. Dr. Gonzalez served for nine years as a hospital and health systems advisor for the World Health Orga¬nization-Pan American Health Organization.
Her works spans the areas of healthcare reform design, health policy planning and influencing, cri¬sis management, and disaster preparedness. She developed and led policy, social marketing, and health-education programs in areas such as immunizations, family planning, diabetes, and heart-related diseases, developmental pediatrics, AIDS, the responsible use of health services and medical devices, breastfeeding, breast cancer awareness, and high-risk pregnancies. At the beginning of her career, Dr. Gonzalez worked in the hospital industry in Puerto Rico managing government and private hospitals, specializing in taking hospitals out of bankruptcy.
Dr. Gonzalez in the co-author of Moments in Leadership: Case Studies in Public Health Leadership (2007). She is also the author of numerous articles. She is a Lecturer at George Washington University Department of Health Policy, and holds a courtesy faculty appointment at Florida International University Stempel School of Public Health. She holds a doctorate in health policy and management from Johns Hopkins University, with a master’s degree in hospital administration from the University of Puerto Rico. She had done gradu¬ate studies in health planning at Cornell University, and was certified in Public Health by the National Board of Public Health Examiners (2009).
Dr. Nancy Hafkin
Nancy Hafkin is Director of Knowledge Working, a consultancy on information technology and international development. Dr. Hafkin has written widely on gender and information technology globally, most recently as co-author of Cinderella or Cyberella: Empowering Women in the Knowledge Society (Kumarian Press, 2007). She has been a pioneer and innovator in the area of networking, development information, and electronic communications in Africa, working primarily with the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) in Addis Ababa. Dr. Hafkin's work on African networking helped build Africa's ICT framework through partnerships with governmental, nongovernmental and development institutions. At UNECA she served as coordinator for UNECA's African Information Society Initiative and team leader for promoting information and communication technologies for development. Dr. Hafkin also served as chief of the Pan African Development Information System and chief of research and publications at the African Training and Research Center for Women. She played a central role in facilitating the Association for Progressive Communications’ (APC) work to enable email connectivity in more than ten countries during the early 1990s before full Internet connectivity became a reality in most of Africa. In 2000 the APC established the Nancy J. Hafkin Information Society Prize to encourage and recognize African initiatives in information and communication technologies. She has a Ph.D. in history and African studies from Boston University and a B.A. from Brandeis University.
Bernhard Liese
Bernhard Liese is chair of the Department of International Health at Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies. He has more than 30 years of experience in the field of health and development. His area of concentration is in globalization and health and tropical diseases. As a former World Bank staff member, Liese worked in various policy and management functions, including senior advisor for human development, director of the health services department, operations advisor, and principal tropical-disease specialist. He was deeply involved in establishing health lending at the Bank and also was the Bank representative for some of the large multi-donor global health programs that the Bank co-sponsors. As a senior HIV&AIDS advisor, he provided support to UNDP’s Global Health Program. Prior to joining the World Bank, Liese worked for several years as health project manager and director of a nursing & midwifery school for the Ministry of Health in Cameroon. Later, he was in charge of the Health Policy Desk in the Federal Ministry of Health in Germany. He is an avid lecturer and author of numerous articles.
Delia M. Marshall
Delia Marshall is a Senior Portfolio Manager with BNY Mellon in New York, where she works closely with current and prospective clients to provide customized investment strategies. She held senior positions at U.S. Trust Wealth Advisory Services, SG Cowan Securities Private Banking, and Kidder Peabody's Financial Futures Department. She has 24 years of experience in broad asset allocation, and speaks on topics related to Behavioral finance. Delia is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, the Financial Women's Association of New York, the Chartered Financial Analysts Institute, and the Society of Neuroeconomics. She graduated from New York University and completed Harvard's Kennedy School Executive Education Series: Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance.
Mina Mauerstein-Bail
Co-President, Sirleaf Market Women's Fund
Mina Mauerstein-Bail has over 25 years of international experience in social and economic development with the United Nations and other development agencies in Africa, Asia and West and Eastern Europe. Mina has been a leading figure in innovative programs on HIV and development, maternal mortality, water and sanitation, regional economic development, local governance and community development and public-private partnerships. Her most recent position was as Director of a multi-country HIV leadership program aimed at enhancing the capacity of mayors and local governments to address the HIV epidemic at the community level. She is currently co-president of the Sirleaf Market Women’s Fund in Liberia, a board member of Health Innovations in Practice (HIP) based in Geneva, Switzerland. Mina undertook her academic training in the United States, France and Spain and holds degrees in Education (B.A. SUNY Albany) and Sociology (M.A. City University of New York).
Mark Minelli
Mark Minelli is President and CEO of Minelli, Inc., one of the nation's leading cultural brand consultancies. Minelli, Inc. has a unique approach to branding, believing deeply in the power of the social imperative and its essential relationship to brand strategy. As an extension of his personal beliefs, Mark's company is strongly committed to working with institutions and organizations that help shape and foster a better world for us all. Examples of recent clients include the Cook Inlet Tribal Council, the Peabody Essex Museum, Boston's Museum of Science, the Trustees of Reservations, and the YMCA of Greater Boston. A frequent speaker on branding, Mark has presented to audiences such as Harvard University, FleetBoston Financial Foundation, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston University, Council for the Advancement of Secondary Education, American Association of Art Museums, American Marketing Association, National Performing Arts Organization, and Americans for the Arts. Mark also sits on the board of Overssers at the Institute of Contemporary Art. An accomplished painter, Mark is a magna cum laude graduate of the College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning at the University of Cincinnati.
Nancy Murphy
Nancy Murphy currently serves as executive vice president at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) where she is responsible for program development, communications and marketing, and member engagement. In addition she leads the organization’s Scaling What Works initiative. She came to GEO after consulting with organizations working in health, wellness and sustainability, including KaBOOM!, Children’s National Medical Center and Campo Kumeyaay Nation, among others.
Nancy has over 20 years of experience in communications, public policy and partnership building. In previous positions, she served as senior vice president for the Case Foundation, working on the global clean drinking water crisis, and led the corporate responsibility practice for the global communications firm, APCO Worldwide. There, she worked with corporate clients, most notably UPS and Johnson Controls, in strategy development, management, and communication of corporate responsibility policies and practices. She also assisted private foundations and nonprofit organizations with strategic planning, program development and communication. Nancy also has served as policy director for the National Youth Leadership Council and as a program officer for the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Nancy has a bachelor’s degree from University of Dayton and master’s degrees in public affairs and health communication from University of Minnesota and Boston University, respectively.
Nancy currently serves on the boards of Taproot Foundation and the global nonprofit, Pact.
Pamela Roussos
Pamela Roussos works with early stage software companies as a business and marketing strategy consultant helping founders create, refine and execute their business strategy and go-to-market plans. She has over 20 years of experience working in both large and start-up software companies, growing teams and delivering products. Companies she has worked at include Amdahl, Pure Software, Rational Software, 555-1212.com, Consera and Zend. She has worked in various managerial capacities such as Business Unit Manager, VP of Marketing, COO and CEO. Pamela also serves on the board of the International Enneagram Association (IEA) (non-profit) and DriveDev Inc., a software consulting organization. She graduated from the University of New Hampshire with a BS in Computer Science.
Frank Sims
Frank Sims recently retired as vice president of transportation for Cargill Incorporated, providing corporate leadership for all transportation areas, including development and implementation of transportation policy and oversight of personnel. Sims joined Cargill in 1972 as a CMD [merchant in Chicago and moved up through the ranks from branch manager, to merchandising manager for the producer marketing region in Minneapolis, to vice president of CMD. In January 1998 he was named president of Cargill’s North American grain division, with responsibility for all grain operations in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Sims is a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and past member of the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee for trade in grain and oilseed of USDA. He also served as vice-chair of the U.S. Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council and past chair of the board of the North American Export Grain Association. He currently serves as director on the Boards of Tennant Company and Piper Jaffray and is chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. Sims received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Paul at Quinn College, Waco, Texas in 1972.
Eva T. Thorne
A native New Yorker, Eva T. Thorne holds an undergraduate degree in history from Harvard University and a doctorate in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Eva is the Meyer and Walter Jaffe Assistant Professor of Politics at Brandeis University. She does research on international development, Latin American politics, and corporate social responsibility (CSR). She is a partner at Deutch Consulting, where she advises clients on political risk. And she is a founder and principal of Corporate Governance Solutions, a boutique firm that advises clients on political and financial risk management. She has lived and worked all over Latin America and the Caribbean and speaks Spanish and Portuguese. Eva has lectured widely on issues of CSR, and political risk in the United States and Europe. She writes and publishes on political risk for business journals. Eva is completing a book on the politics of reform at the World Bank and is working on another book project on land rights, natural resources, and indigenous in Latin America.
David Wilson
David Wilson is a partner in Thompson Hine's Business Litigation practice group. He focuses his practice on complex civil litigation, internal and government investigations, and securities enforcement matters. David has extensive experience litigating cases in both state and federal courts in many jurisdictions, before administrative agencies, and in domestic and international arbitration forums. Prior to joining Thompson Hine, David was a partner in the litigation department of WilmerHale LLP. Mr. Wilson worked for Congressman James Jeffords of Vermont and for the Coalition of Northeastern Governors. He also served as a law clerk to Judge Mark L. Wolf of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He is a member of the Massachusetts, Maryland and District of Columbia bars. Mr. Wilson received a bachelor’s degree cum laude from Harvard University and a J.D. degree cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.
