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Monumental Sports & Entertainment Partners MidOcean Partners. He is also a venture partner of New Enterprise Associates and is active in numerous local and national civic affairs. In addition to being a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he is on the board of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Leadership 100, Caves Valley Golf Club, the Baltimore Orioles, and is an Archon of the International Order of St. Andrew.
Earl Stafford is the chairman and CEO of The Stafford Foundation, which is a faithbased, nonprofit organization that supports more than 30 nonprofits that provide services to the disadvantaged and underserved and helps them to improve their lives and become self-reliant. The foundation created and funded The People’s Inaugural Project, which brought hundreds of disadvantaged Americans from across the country to witness and participate in the inauguration of President Obama. The foundation also established the Doing Good campaign with Dr. Bill Cosby’s endorsement. The campaign is designed for people who are seeking ways to help others become self-sufficient so that they may in turn help others who are underserved. Mr. Stafford is the former chairman and CEO of UNITECH, a technology solutions company that developed advance distributed training programs, training simulation systems and homeland security solutions for the Federal Government. Mr. Stafford enjoyed a distinguished career in the U.S. military, including serving as the assistant Air Force liaison officer to the Federal Aviation Administration where he was responsible for ensuring Department of Defense initiatives and programs which were integrated into the FAA’s National Airspace System modernization effort. He currently serves on the boards of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Drexel University, Wesley Theological Seminary, Venture Philanthropy Partners and Business Executives for National Security.
Cliff White
was a founding partner and the financial architect of NEW Customer Service Companies Inc., the nation’s leading provider of extended-service plans and buyer-protection programs for consumer products. Founded in 1983 with headquarters in Sterling, Va., NEW provides award-winning post-sale consumer care for leading retailers, consumer service providers, wireless carriers and financial services firms in the United States, Canada, China, Japan, Turkey and the United Kingdom. A graduate of Lehigh University, Mr. White started his career as a CPA with Deloitte Haskins & Sells in New York City. There he was responsible for managing the field work on the Bank of New York and Mitsubishi International Corporation audits. Currently he and two other founding members of NEW are partners in SWaN Investors, a diversified private investment fund with more than 20 investments, including the Washington Nationals Baseball Club. He is active on the Board of the Community Foundation of Montgomery County, where he and his wife, Debbie, have a family fund. Mr. White is also on the foundation’s Sharing Montgomery Grants Committee and is a founder and co-chair of the foundation’s Neighbors in Need Montgomery Fund, which assists those in the county who are in dire need of housing, food and employment. The Whites also are donors in Venture Philanthropy Partners, an innovative philanthropic organization that makes investments in high-performing nonprofit organizations that serve children and youth of low-income families in the National Capital region. In addition, Mr. White is the treasurer of St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church in Bethesda, Md.
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