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WHY WE NEED D I V ERSI T Y I N THE BOA RD ROOM

BY THOMAS P. DINAPOLI New York State Comptroller Too many boardrooms across corporate America are in a sad state of status quo, homogenized into the kind of groupthink that can stifle innovation and damage their reputations. The lack of gender and racial diversity in corporate boardrooms is why the New York State Common Retirement Fund joined with the Thirty Percent Coalition in 2012 to focus attention on more than 40 S&P 500 companies that did not have women on their boards of directors. We expanded that list to include companies on the Russell 1000 Index. That list includes some of the most recognizable brand names of American commerce.

According to research by Equilar, just 18 percent of board seats at S&P 500 companies were filled by women in 2014. This falls to 14.9 percent when looking at the S&P Mid-Cap 400, and drops further to 11.7 percent when looking at the S&P Small-Cap 600.

This disparity persists despite the growing body of research, by Credit Suisse and others, which demonstrates that companies with female board directors perform better than those with none.

We need change in the boardroom.

When we see a company that has few or no women on its board, we have to ask questions. We’re not only concerned about the company’s reputation, but also its ability to innovate and compete in an increasingly global marketplace. Without directors who can advance creative business solutions, a company risks stagnation.

Fortunately, we’re building momentum as more corporations wake up to

the value of diversity. As investors, we believe this is part of good governance and a sign of a well-functioning board.

Our Fund has led investor coalitions that have persuaded 12 major portfolio companies regarding our case in the past few years, including eBay, Urban Outfitters and Monster Beverage in 2015. These companies have already added 11 diverse directors.

If the gender disparity is so wide, one would expect that there is a virtual chasm that keeps minorities out of corporate boardrooms. When we reach out to portfolio companies, we ask them to adopt formal language in their nominating committee charters that they will consider and seek out diversity by gender and race regarding board candidates.

This year, we broke new ground by expanding that request to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

Two companies, Monster Beverage and homebuilder Standard Pacific Corp., agreed and added sexual orientation and gender identity to the diversity considerations in their board director nominating charters. Standard Pacific Corp. is likely the first to ever formally adopt this diversity commitment.

We expect to see more companies follow this new precedent and include sexual orientation and gender identity in their diversity considerations in the years ahead.

It is difficult to understand why a corporation would risk alienating its customers or its shareholders by allowing its boardroom to be perceived

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as the exclusive domain of one gender and one race. It is frustrating that the boards that persist in resisting diversity are missing out on some of the greatest talent available to them. Companies across our portfolio have a lot of work to do.

State legislation is being considered that would require companies seeking business with New York State to disclose the number and percentage of their female directors and executives, and their plans to increase gender diversity on their boards. If it becomes law, it will put corporations large and small on notice that New York is concerned about equity in business.

Philadelphia has adopted legislation similar to that proposed in New York.

Additionally, on a global perspective, nations including Germany, Australia and France are insisting on either increased diversity from publicly traded companies, or disclosure of board composition.

Diversity in the boardroom can improve performance. At the end of the day, our foremost goal is to provide a good return on investment and a secure retirement for the 1.1 million members of the New York State and Local Retirement System. Corporations that put our returns at risk are going to hear from us.

NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli is trustee of the $183.5 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund

TEC H C A N SOLV E NYC’S GRE ATE S T CH A L L EN G ES

BY MINERVA TANTOCO New York City Chief Technology Officer As New York City’s first chief technology officer, I am very fortunate to be part of an administration that is open to new ideas and recognizes the power of technology to transform government, to democratize society and to improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers. I also have the privilege of being part of a groundbreaking team of technology leaders responsible for fulfilling Mayor Bill de Blasio’s inspiring vision of making New York City the most tech-friendly and innovative city in the world.

New York City’s tech ecosystem is well on its way, with $30 billion in annual wages, 300,000 jobs and the most female tech founders and startup requests in the country. I encourage my colleagues and partners in the tech sector to use their skills and apply the best technology where it is needed most: to address inequity of all kinds, close the tech divide and make our mark as the most socially responsible tech community in the world.

There is no place more diverse than New York City, and our rising tech sector can leverage and capitalize on that core strength. It gives us an edge toward a more socially sustainable city and builds a healthy bottom line.

According to McKinsey & Co., gender-diverse and ethnically diverse companies are, respectively, 15 percent and 35 percent more likely to have financial returns above their national industry medians. We must act thoughtfully and proactively in order to fully leverage this diversity and expand on it to remain globally competitive.

If a diverse set of employees isn’t being brought to the table, amend recruitment strategies and help “prime the pump”: Invest in local computer science education programs or get in touch with the city to find out more about how we are incubating tomorrow’s tech leaders through the Tech Talent Pipeline initiative. Together, we can collaborate to make my story—a Filipino-American, a product of New York City public schools, and a woman in tech—the norm, and not the exception.

I’m increasingly approached by individuals and organizations who want to step up to the plate and use their tech for good but don’t know where to start.

Public-private partnerships are a fantastic way to give back. Governments and nonprofits tackle some of the most challenging social issues of our time.

Technologists love a good challenge and thrive on seeing their work have an impact. There couldn’t be a more perfect fit.

For instance, could your predictive analytics or digital marketing methods help steer social services to where they will have the most impact? My office recently supported HudsonHack, an intern hack-a-thon produced by Warby Parker in which participants from over 50 companies were asked to find tech solutions to social issues presented by Robin Hood’s Blue Ridge Labs, Donors Choose, and the city Department of Homeless Services. Looking ahead, the annual NYC BigApps competition will continue through October and brings together over 35 partners who

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will work with technologists to deliver solutions for issues identified in the city’s OneNYC plan. We encourage you to participate in events like these, sync up with partners to create your own, or think of other ways your latest solutions could help solve our toughest urban challenges.

Let’s be the tech sector with a heart as big as New York City itself. In my short time in City Hall, I have been inspired and deeply touched by the warmth and genuine kind-heartedness of those inside and outside government, propelled by a deep desire to make a difference for other human beings. It’s one of the most rewarding parts of this role in public service.

There are many paths to being helpful and impactful. Topics such as homelessness, access to mental health resources, domestic violence, workforce diversity and the digital divide all require solutions as big and bold as the challenges themselves.

I know the tech community is up to the challenge. All it takes is the same hands-on, entrepreneurial spirit that brought the industry to where it is now.

After all, we can’t sit around and wait for progress and opportunity to just happen. To create a more just, equitable and socially sustainable city, we must actively pull that future into the present—together.

Minerva Tantoco is the first chief technology officer for New York City, where she drives the citywide technology strategy.

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HOLD INDIVID UA L S ACCOUN TA BL E ON WA L L STR EET

BY BENJAMIN L AWSK Y Former New York State Superintendent

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There is still an accountability gap on Wall Street.

It has been more than seven years since the 2008 financial crash. Yet, in the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, we are still dealing with the same type of reckless and often illegal conduct that triggered a massive economic meltdown.

We have continued to see a parade of wrongdoing—from foreclosure fraud to foreign exchange manipulation to tax evasion to money laundering.

Unfortunately, the list goes on.

That raises a vital question: Why are some employees on Wall Street so prone to wrongdoing—especially after misconduct in the financial markets contributed to pushing the economy off the cliff? What exactly are we doing wrong as regulators and prosecutors?

Some evidence may be found in a recent report released last month entitled “The Street, the Bull and the Crisis.” The report’s authors surveyed

more than 1,200 financial services professionals in the United States and United Kingdom.

The report’s findings are alarming.

Despite the fines, regulatory reforms and legislative actions that followed the 2008 collapse, the report says “a culture of integrity has failed to take hold” in financial services. Nearly a quarter of those surveyed “believe it is likely that fellow employees have engaged in illegal or unethical activity in order to gain an edge.” Nearly 1 in 5 people questioned said they believe professionals must sometimes act illegally or unethically to be successful.

More than a quarter disputed the notion that the client’s interests come first.

In other words, there is a far too prevalent view that people on Wall Street need to cheat to get ahead.

What’s worse, if bankers look at a number of the recent financial settlements with big financial

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institutions, they are likely to believe that even if they get caught cheating they will face little to no personal consequences.

Indeed, we almost always see bank settlements where a corporation writes a big check to the government without any individual Wall Street executives held to account.

Real deterrence of future wrongdoing has to mean more than just “corporate” accountability.

It is a little odd when we say that “a corporation has broken the law” or “a corporation engaged in misconduct.”

A corporation is a legal fiction.

Corporations are made up of people and when there is wrongdoing at an organization, that wrongdoing is caused by people.

Penalties imposed at the corporate level are an important and necessary tool in a regulator’s enforcement tool belt, especially as it relates to organizationwide failures of oversight

or compliance.

But we need to go further.

Regulators—and society as a whole— must insist on individual accountability, not just corporate accountability.

We need to find and penalize the individuals within an organization who are responsible for purposefully skirting rules and breaking laws.

Greater individual accountability means that culpable individuals should face real consequences. That may mean suspensions, firings, bonus clawbacks and other types of sanctions. In the most serious cases, bankers should also face the possibility of criminal prosecution and prison.

While DFS does not have authority to bring criminal prosecutions, it has taken a number of actions to expose and penalize misconduct by individual senior executives—including all the way up to the C-suite, when appropriate.

For example, DFS required the chief operating officer of France’s largest bank, BNP Paribas, and the chairman of one of the United States’ largest mortgage

companies, Ocwen Financial, to step down as part of enforcement actions brought against those companies.

Ultimately, we believe that a greater focus on individual accountability is actually good for Wall Street over the long term.

Despite that seemingly dark picture of corporate social responsibility on Wall Street, it is unfair to paint with an overly broad brush. Big financial settlements grab dramatic headlines, but most corporations play by the rules, and most of the people in the financial markets are ethical professionals who work hard to serve their customers.

The question we need to address is how to protect consumers, investors and honest organizations by weeding out bad actors and incentivizing more ethical behavior throughout the world of financial services.

It is important to remember that “Wall Street”—besides being a physical address in lower Manhattan—is a group of thousands and thousands of individual people going about their

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everyday lives and trying to support their families. And the work they do is vital to New York’s economy.

When you focus more on deterring individuals, we stop sending the message to the world that an entire bank is bad or that the entire financial industry is bad. When bad things happen at banks, it is because some person or persons decided that it was worth it for them to commit a bad act.

Of course, when you are talking about an employee’s reputation, career or even personal liberty, we have to have a very high degree of confidence that we have our facts right, and the action we are taking is just and fair.

But we believe the only serious way to expose—and hopefully deter—bad conduct is for regulators, prosecutors, market actors and our society to insist on a culture where individuals are held accountable.

Benjamin Lawsky is New York State›s superintendent of financial services.

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Strengthening Communities Con Edison is proud to support hundreds of nonprofit organizations committed to maintaining and enhancing the vitality of the neighborhoods we serve.

These groups use education, training, special programs and events to enrich the quality of life of all New Yorkers.

We congratulate all the City & State honorees, including our own Frances A. Resheske, Senior Vice President, Public Affairs.

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ROBERT AMLER, MD Vice President & Dean

STUART APPELBAUM President

TIMOTHY ARMSTRONG Chairman and CEO

Robert W. Amler, MD has helped New York Medical College strengthen relationships with government and other external partners at the local, state and federal levels. As dean, he has presided over substantial financial and academic improvements – reorganizing the academic structure, launching a new doctoral program, launching highquality distance degree programs, expanding research and inaugurating new centers of excellence. He cultivated a vibrant outreach program, linking 30 community organizations to serve a diverse catchment area. He appointed nine local health commissioners/ directors to the Public Health Practice Council, which integrates curriculum development with evolving needed competencies in the health workforce.

A central figure in New York’s public health community, Dr. Amler was appointed by New York’s governor in 2006 to chair the regional advisory council for the Berger Commission on hospital and long-term care utilization.

He has consulted for academic medical centers on clinical research support, graduate medical education, regional service integration, and disaster preparedness.

Stuart Appelbaum is serving his fifth term as President of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. He also currently serves as an Executive Vice-President of the 1.3 million-member United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. At the UFCW International, Appelbaum serves as the Director of the Legislative and Political Affairs Department.

Appelbaum is a Vice-President of the national AFL-CIO and a member of the federation’s Executive Council. He also serves generously as chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store International Union and Industry Benefit Funds, and is the President of the Jewish Labor Committee.

Tim Armstrong is CEO of AOL Inc., a pioneering global media technology company headquartered in New York City and operating in 20 countries worldwide. AOL owns, builds and operates global media brands and provides technology and services to over ten thousand other brands and media companies.

A national leader in outstanding corporate citizenship, Armstrong serves on the board of The Priceline Group, Inc., The Paley Center for Media, the New York regional board of Teach for America, the Waterside Charter School in Stamford, CT, and is Chairman Emeritus for the Ad Council. Tim is also the chairman of the IAB Education Foundation, a new non-profit working to improve diversity and close the skills gap across the digital media and advertising landscape.

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Thanks for thinking big.

You inspire us.

Congratulations to all the City & State Responsible 100 honorees including TD Bank’s own, Peter M. Meyer, NYC Market President.

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JOHN BANKS President

KATE BARTON Vice Chair, Tax Services

BRUCE BEAL, JR. President & General Partner

As president of the Real Estate Board of New York, John H. Banks III serves as a key leader of one of the city’s most important, productive and community-oriented industries. Banks previously logged a highly distinguished career in public service, working initially under Mayor Ed Koch and then serving as Deputy Director of the City Council’s Finance Division, where his responsibilities included briefing and testifying before the Council on fiscal policy matters, negotiate the city’s budget on behalf of the City Council. He was later the Council’s Chief of Staff before becoming Vice President at Con Edison.

Banks devotes a large portion of his time to community service, actively working on the boards of the New York Public Library, The Vincent J. Fontana Center for Child Protection, Pelham Picture House and Manhattan College.

Kate Barton is the Ernst & Young Americas Tax Vice Chair, involved in leading the service line from all perspectives, including client relations, risk management, strategy and operations.

Barton has worked with large multinational public companies, providing international tax services. She has also helped companies develop and implement appropriate domestic and international tax planning and compliance strategies.

In the process, Barton has placed a particular emphasis on mentoring Ernst & Young’s young employees, especially when it comes to advancing professionals from underrepresented populations.

“A lot of what I do is matchmaking,” said Barton. “I look to connect someone who can benefit from guidance from a more experienced colleague. It can be so helpful to have someone who knows your space well to help guide you.”

Bruce Beal Jr. is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day development process for projects across all asset classes throughout the country including acquisition, finance and construction activities. He also oversees Related’s existing operating portfolio and the company’s affordable housing initiatives.

Related currently holds 45,000 units of affordable and workforce housing across the country, with 8,500 located in New York City. Its winning proposal for the Hunter’s Point South development in Queens will add another 925 units of permanent workforce housing to that total.

“The way we look at it,” he said, “we’re going to be in this city for the long term. And for communities to do well, we have to provide great and affordable housing.”

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SKDKNICKERBOCKER SALUTES NEW YORK’S RESPONSIBLE 100 CONGRATULATIONS TO

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FRANK BRACHINI Chairman & CEO

WILLIAM BRAT TON Commissioner

NEIL S. BRAUN Dean

Under Frank Branchini’s leadership, EmblemHealth has built upon its initial goals to provide holistic, quality health care, insurance and services to low- and middle-income New Yorkers. GHI and HIP – where Branchini served as CEO before the company merged with HIP to form what is today EmblemHealth – were among the first companies to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs when it wasn’t “fashionable” to do so and other insurers stayed away, he is proud to point out.

As a nonprofit corporation, EmblemHealth has no shareholders, so any “historical excesses” or surpluses get returned to participating members in various ways: as additional benefits, investment in health care for the community or lower premiums.

William J. Bratton has been appointed the 42nd police commissioner of the City of New York by Mayor Bill de Blasio, the second time he has held the post.

Commissioner Bratton established an international reputation for re-engineering police departments and fighting crime in the 1990s. As Chief of the New York City Transit Police, Boston Police Commissioner, and in his first term as New York City Police Commissioner, he revitalized morale and cut crime in all three posts, achieving the largest crime declines in New York City’s history. At the NYPD in 1994 and 1995, he led the development of Compstat, the internationally acclaimed command accountability system now in use by police departments nationwide. In his second tour at the NYPD, he has move the policing paradigm one step further by delivering lower crime rates while strengthening relations between the Department and every community in the city.

Neil Braun has held a multitude of positions during his career: entrepreneur, television network president, corporate attorney, CEO and film producer. He has more than 30 years of experience in senior management including stints as president of the NBC Television Network and CEO of Viacom Entertainment.

Before being named Dean of Pace University’s Lubin School, Braun is was CEO of The CarbonNeutral Company, which assists firms in analyzing and reducing their carbon footprints (greenhouse gas emissions). CarbonNeutral has invested in more than 200 projects on six continents for more than 300 major corporate clients and 1,000 small business clients. The company was later combined with Braun’s start-up, The GreenLife Organization, in order to bring its eco-friendly platform to a wider global market.

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CONGRATULATIONS From the entire BeneStream team, thank you to City and State for including BeneStream CEO, Ben Geyerhahn, as one of The Responsible 100.

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www.benestream.com BeneStream provides businesses innovative cost-saving products and services by connecting their qualified employees to government benefits.

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JAMES F. CAPALINO Chief Executive Officer

ADOLFO CARRIÓN, JR. Executive Vice President

JOHN CATSIMATIDIS Chairman & CEO

Jim Capalino is recognized as one of New York’s premier urban problem-solving strategists. His background combines senior management roles in government, public relations, real estate and construction management, with extensive public sector experience at senior levels of New York City government. His firm’s longstanding commitment to corporate citizenship resulted in its 2014 launch of a groundbreaking Corporate Social Responsibility Group specifically to assist businesses in contributing the time, talent and resources to the communities in which they operate.

In 1977, he co-managed the mayoral campaign of Congressman Koch when he was elected the 105th Mayor of the City of New York. A founding (and current) member of the Board of Directors of Friends of High Line – and supporter of groups ranging from ABNY to the League of Conservation Voters – Jim has played a critical role in making possible some of the most important civic projects in the last four decades of New York City history.

Adolfo Carrión, Jr. is the former Bronx Borough President and briefly served as Director of Housing and Urban Development for the White House.

He is now Executive Vice President of Stagg Group, which builds high-quality, affordable homes and apartments throughout the Bronx and Westchester.

Over the course of an accomplished career in public service, Carrion, who started as a school teacher, later led a series of innovative rezoning initiatives that created or preserved more than 40,000 units of affordable housing and left a lasting legacy on the Bronx.

A classic American story of service and success, John Catsimatidis was born on the Greek island of Nisyros in 1948. Six months later his parents immigrated to New York City in search of a better life, settling on 135th Street in Harlem.

His father found work as a busboy and his mother was a stay-at-home mom.

By his 25th birthday, Catsimatidis was already a success, with 10 Red Apple Supermarkets scattered along Broadway on Manhattan’s Upper Westside.

Four decades later, the Red Apple Group has evolved into a diversified corporation with holdings in energy, aviation, retail and real estate and over 8,000 employees.

John is a firm believer in giving back to the community. His philanthropy includes a wide range of nonprofits, including the Police Athletic League, JDRF, Alzheimer’s Association, Parkinson’s Disease Foundation and Children’s Tumor Foundation. He serves on the Boards of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, the Hellenic Times Scholarship Fund and, over the years, has served in a variety of volunteer positions in the Greek Orthodox Church.

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CPC applauds our President & CEO, Rafael E. Cestero and all of today’s honorees for their selection to “The Responsible 100,” in recognition of their commitment to promoting the core principals of corporate social responsibility.

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JOHNNY CAVALIERO Managing Director Accenture

RAFAEL CESTERO CEO

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ALL AN CHAPIN Partner

Accenture is a global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. We develop and implement technology solutions to improve our clients’ productivity and efficiency – and may run parts of their operations on their behalf. Ultimately, the company enable its clients to become high-performance businesses and governments.

Accenture is a dedicated recruiter of people with disabilities as employees and maintains strong relationships with job recruiters of people with disabilities. Further, its Accenture Diversity Council assesses inclusion and diversity challenges, sets strategic direction and prioritizes actions.

For New York to continue to be a desirable place for people of all backgrounds to live, its housing sector must confront two great challenges: embrace sustainable practices on a profound scale and produce enough affordable housing to meet the demands of a growing and diverse population.

The Community Preservation Corporation, led by Rafael Cestero, has shown how an organization can address both challenges at the same time.

“As a lender, what we try to do is make it easy for building owners to increase the amount of the loan that we’re providing them by the dollar amount it takes to make the improvement,” explained Cestero.

Allan Chapin is a Partner based in Compass Advisers’ New York office, and Head of the firm’s global presence in France and the Low Countries.

In 1968, Chapin joined the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. He was a resident of the Paris office for several years, and then served as head of the Sullivan & Cromwell European operations.

Throughout his 31 years with Sullivan & Cromwell, Chapin represented sovereign governments, agencies, investment and merchant banks, insurance companies, a wide array of industrial private sectors companies and many foreign investors, both individuals and corporations. Chapin is a former director of PPR, SCOR, InBev, CIFG, American Motors Corporation and Mack Trucks.

An exemplary example of the principle of giving back, Chapin serves as the pro bono Chairman and President of the French-American Foundation, which was created by Presidents Ford and Giscard D’Estaing as the primary non-governmental link between the U.S. and France.

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AUDREY CHOI CEO, Institute for Sustainable Investing Managing Director & Head of Global Sustainable Finance Group

PETER CIACCIA & MICHAEL CAPIRASO NYRR President and CEO & NYRR President, Events & TCS NYC Marathon

Audrey Choi is CEO of Morgan Stanley’s Institute for Sustainable Investing. She is also Managing Director and Head of Morgan Stanley’s Global Sustainable Finance Group. In these roles, she oversees the firm’s efforts to support resilient communities and promote economic opportunity and global sustainability through the capital markets.

In a career spanning the public, private and nonprofit sectors, Choi has become a thought leader on how finance can be harnessed to address public policy challenges.

Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Choi held senior policy positions in the Clinton Administration, the Commerce Department and the Federal Communications Commission. While at the White House, she served as Chief of Staff of the Council of Economic Advisers and Domestic Policy Advisor to the Vice President.

Over the past 55-plus years, New York Road Runners have grown from a local running club to a global champion of the running movement. It is the world’s premier community running organization, and its efforts and events serve all runners and active individuals, from beginners to professional athletes: the young, the elderly and the underserved of all abilities.

It touches the lives of over 400,000 New Yorkers throughout the five boroughs, and runners around the world, through a wide variety of events and programs for people of all ages. A unique nonprofit model, which teams contributions from corporate, foundation and individual donors with earned income from our best-in-class events, makes all its efforts possible.

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STEVEN COHEN Executive Vice President

MacAndrews & Forbes

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Steven M. Cohen is Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel of MacAndrews & Forbes one of America’s leading diversified holding companies. He previously had devoted much of his career to public service, achieving a major series of accomplishments in the realm of law enforcement. Cohen worked as Secretary to New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, following his service as Counselor and Chief of Staff under Attorney General Cuomo. In private practice, Cohen has represented a wide array of corporations and individuals in complex commercial, criminal and regulatory matters. He previously served as the Chief of the Violent Gangs Unit in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. He also is a member of the New York University Board of Trustees.

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BETH COMSTOCK Vice Chair

JENNIFER CUNNINGHAM Managing Director

GIL CYGLER Owner

As Vice Chair of GE, Beth Comstock leads the legendary firm’s efforts to accelerate new growth. She operates GE Business Innovations, which develops new businesses, markets and service models, and drives brand value and partners to enhance GE’s inventive culture. This unit includes GE Lighting, GE Ventures & Licensing and GE sales, marketing and communications.

She previously served as GE’s chief marketing and commercial officer. Prior to joining GE, she was President of Integrated Media at NBC Universal overseeing ad revenue and the company’s digital efforts.

In leading Ecomagination – GE’s growth strategy to enhance resource productivity and reduce environmental impact – Comstock has helped develop pioneering solutions to produce clean water and air by innovatively combining best practices in business and technology. Her work has solved some of the toughest environmental challenges while adding to GE’s bottom line – embodying the best of how to do well by doing good.

Jennifer Cunningham is a partner in the New York office of SKDKnickerbocker. She provides strategic communications services for many of the nation’s largest advocacy and nonprofit groups. Jennifer has been at the helm of numerous political and legislative campaigns, including successful efforts to expand health insurance and protect funding for healthcare.

Cunningham was the principal architect behind the messaging, strategy and award-winning television ads for successful marriage equality campaigns in New York and Washington state.

Jennifer’s portfolio also includes candidate races at the state and federal level.

She has overseen media and strategy for numerous winning New York Congressional candidates during the last several election cycles.

Founded in 1979, AllCar began when Gil Cygler’s father, Samuel, began renting cars to customers who needed a temporary vehicle while their own was being fixed at his car repair and service station, according to Auto Rental News. Gil Cygler, now the owner of AllCar and Rent-a-Car, started working in the business when he graduated college.

Cygler largely shaped the car rental business in New York, serving on the board of the directors for the American Car Rental Associates for 10 years.

Cygler was also imperative in overturning the law in New York State that had prohibited the sale of loss damage waiver and limited a car rental company’s ability to collect for vehicle damage to $100.

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DAN DOCTOROFF CEO

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RYAN ELLER President

Seth Diamond oversees the Operations Division of Metroplus, New York City’s leading affordable health insurance organization. His work encompasses Corporate Affairs, Compliance, Marketing, Communications, Transportation, Project Management, Non-Provider Contracting and Medicare.

Diamond has over 25 years of leadership experience, including his prior position as Director at the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery, where he was responsible for heading the Sandy, Irene and Lee recovery efforts, focused on housing and small businesses. In his long and distinguished career in public service, Diamond was Commissioner of NYC’s Department of Homeless Services, as well as Executive Deputy Commissioner of NYC’s Human Resources Administration, where he helped conceive and supervise the city’s landmark welfare reform program.

Dan Doctoroff is recognized as one of the world’s leading urban visionaries and a champion of leveraging technology and data for social change. He is currently CEO of Sidewalk Labs, an urban innovation company that develops technology at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds, with a focus on improving city life for residents.

Prior to that, he served as CEO of Bloomberg LP, the leading global provider of financial information, where he dramatically increased the size and influence of storied firm’s news organization, while implementing cutting-edge innovations for its financial clients.

Before joining Bloomberg LP, Doctoroff led a wholesale reimagining of New York City’s physical and economic landscape as Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding. He spearheaded the effort to revive New York after the attacks of 9/11 through a five-borough strategy, which included the most ambitious land-use transformation in the city’s modern history, and the largest affordable housing program ever launched by an American city.

Since opening its doors in 2011, RWNY has donated more than $1.5 million to local charities. Its philanthropic program has supported organizations addressing a wide range of needs, including education, healthcare and arts and culture. The Boys and Girls Club of Queens, the Jamaica YMCA and Toys for Tots have all received RWNY grants.

“Casinos are engines of economic opportunity that can offer an exceptional experience for customers, but they need a community that welcomes the casino,” Eller explained. “You need to share those common goals, and employees need to believe in what management does, and the role they can play in the community.”

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COREY FERNANDES Vice President – Business Development & Member Relations

EILEEN FISHER Founder and President

PETER FLEISCHUT Chief Innovation Officer

Corey Fernandes spearheads the Municipal Credit Union’s community outreach campaign, where he continues to develop new ways to help lift up communities.

“We’re a nonprofit institution. We don’t have customers,” Fernandes said.

“We have members. That’s our philosophy – and it impacts everything we do.”

Fernandes has played a central role in the success of “Financially Fit,” a flagship MCU program designed to offset the dearth of financial education in the school system. The programs offer individualized and group workshops on personal finance, the ways credit can impact life decisions, the basics of sound budgeting and the perils of identity theft.

Eileen Fisher founded her namesake company in 1984 for a very personal reason: she was having trouble getting dressed. Although she couldn’t sew and only had $350 in the bank, Fisher had four shapes made up and took them to The Boutique Show in New York. Encouraged by $3,000 in orders, she expanded a “line” to eight pieces.

Today, Eileen Fisher is 1,100 people strong, with more than 60 stores in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. The company’s ambitious Vision2020 plan aims to create an entirely sustainable company – down to the fibers and colors in its clothing.

A pioneer in the corporate responsibility movement, Fisher pledges to support women through social initiatives that address their well-being, practice business responsibly with absolute regard for human rights and guide our product and practice toward sustaining our environment.

In his role as Associate Chief Innovation Officer at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Peter Fleischut has become a leader in developing technological cures for this growing prevalence of data. In the process, he’s transformed the patient experience.

“Engaged and empowered patients are not only happier,” Fleischut said, “they recover quicker as well.”

Amid the dense thicket of records, metrics and measurements, sometimes the simple solution is the most visionary. “Through the use of just simple texting, we can keep patients families’ informed and up to date about every step of their loved one’s process,” Fleischut explained. “Our whole premise is to be more effective, efficient and patient-centered.”

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Robert Friedman joined Blackstone in 1999 as a Senior Managing Director, working primarily in Blackstone’s Private Equity Group and also participating in the work of its Financial Advisory Group. He served as Chief Legal Officer of the firm from 2003 through 2010, continuing for most of that period to also participate in some of the work of the firm’s Private Equity Group and its Financial Advisory Group. He has served on 12 different boards of directors of public and private companies over the past 15 years.

An exemplary corporate citizen, Friedman serves on the boards of directors of United Way of New York City, Nantucket Land Council and New Alternatives for Children, serving as Chairman of the Board of the latter organization, which conducts a variety of programs for disadvantaged youth in New York City who suffer from physical and mental disabilities.

Dennis Friedrich was appointed Chief Executive Officer in July 2012 following a year as President and Global Chief Investment Officer. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Commercial Operations since 2009.

Previously, he was President of Brookfield Office Properties’ U.S. Commercial Operations, following two years as Chief Operating Officer of U.S. Commercial Operations. Friedrich has been involved with several major acquisitions, including the Trizec deal in 2006.

Friedrich also previously held the role of head of Strategic Initiatives for the U.S. property portfolio. Prior to joining Brookfield Office Properties, Dennis was co-head of Jones Lang LaSalle’s tenant advisory practice in New York.

With one of the largest building portfolios in the world, he has made it his mission to achieve optimal energy efficiency and minimize his firm’s carbon footprint. Last year, Brookfield was rated America’s No. 1 performer by the Green Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark.

Jill Furillo, RN, BSN, PHN, is Executive Director of the New York State Nurses Association, New York’s largest union and professional association of registered nurses.

Furillo’s work helped elect a progressive mayor and build new and unprecedented political power for nurses and patients in New York. Her commitment to ending inequality in health care has been at the root of all campaigns that NYSNA has spearheaded during her tenure – including the fight to reverse privatization, to protect and strengthen the public hospital system, to win safe RN staffing levels and to ensure that every patient has access to quality, affordable healthcare.

Furillo successfully shepherded the country’s first law setting safe nurse-to-patient ratios through the California legislature. Building on this groundbreaking legislation, Furillo won comprehensive safe staffing standards in collective bargaining agreements in states from Nevada to Florida.

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BEN GEYERHAHN Founder & CEO

ALFRED GR IFFIN President

BETSY GOTBAUM Former Public Advocate

Ben Geyerhahn is a healthcare policy expert and member of New York Governor Cuomo’s Health Benefit Exchange Regional Advisory Committee. Before founding BeneStream – a health technology company that helps employers connect qualifying employees to government health benefits, such as Medicaid, Child Health Plus and SNAP – Geyerhahn was the founder and managing principal of Hudson TG, a policy and political consulting firm.

“Why is it that someone who is eligible will not go out and get Medicaid and food stamps?” asks Geyerhahn.

“We want to understand why people fall down.”

Alfred Griffin is an industry leader in developing innovative solutions to support the financing of renewable energy generation and energy-efficiency projects. As NY Green Bank President, Griffin oversees highly innovative, cutting-edge partnerships with private-sector capital providers and other clean-energy market participants to break down barriers that limit private investment in forward-thinking renewable energy and energy-efficiency projects.

Prior to joining NY Green Bank, Griffin specialized in structured finance with roles in corporate and investment banking, capital markets, and risk management at Citigroup Global Markets Inc. His roles included Alternative Energy Banking, where Mr. Griffin was responsible for the design, marketing, and execution of structured solutions within this fast-evolving market segment. He worked on a wide variety of innovative transactions, including energy efficiency loan and lease securitizations, distributed solar portfolio financings, energy savings projects, and government-agency debt guarantee transactions.

One of New York’s most accomplished public servants, Betsy Gotbaum served the city’s Public Advocate from 2001 to 2008, as Gotham’s No. 2 elected official. Prior to that, she served as President of the New-York Historical Society, where she helped rescue the famed institution from near financial collapse, and then leaving it with a $33 million endowment. In 1990 Mayor David Dinkins appointed Gotbaum Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Parks & Recreations, the first woman to serve in that position.

She began her career serving under Mayor John Lindsay and has been contributing to her community and her city ever since.

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LESLIE GODRIDGE Executive Vice President & Head of National Specialized Industries & Global Treasury Management

NANET TE HORNER EVP/Chief Counsel/Chief Compliance Officer

GEORGE HULSE Vice President of Community Engagement

Leslie Godridge is considered one of the 15 most powerful women in banking, according to American Banker.

At U.S. Bank, where Godridge runs its National Corporate Specialized Industries & Global Treasury Management Division, she found an institution that echoed her own social values and belief in the importance of childhood education.

“U.S. Bank is a special organization,” she said. “We consider ourselves a very philanthropic bank. Community engagement is something we want all of our employees, regardless of seniority, to be involved in.” To back that pledge, the bank gives employees up to sixteen hours per year for volunteer opportunities.

A casino can be a source of jobs and vitality in a community. And, of course, it can be a source of great enjoyment for those who visit. Customers who partake in that enjoyment, however, must know when it’s time to call it quits. But for those who don’t know, it’s the responsibility of the casino to tell them.

Under the leadership of Nanette Horner, Empire Resorts has made a concerted and principled effort to live up to that responsibility. “Problem gambling does not come in a slot machine any more than alcoholism comes in a bottle,” Horner said. “People have problems, and it’s up to the industry to try to help.”

A nonprofit managed care plan, Healthfirst insures more than a million New Yorkers. The outreach George Hulse oversees for Healthfirst not only improves health outcomes within communities, but also raises morale.

Hulse organizes educational events and seminars for some of the city’s most vulnerable communities. That may take the form of “health villages” in housing projects, free exercise classes, and examinations for anyone who wants a checkup.

“A lot of people with insurance plans don’t know what a representative from their company looks like,” he said. “Our members see us at their church events.

They see us at their street fairs. They sees us at provider events in the community.”

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SURI KASIRER Founder & President

CARESS KENNEDY Managing Partner

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Having created one of New York’s preeminent government relations, public affairs and strategic consulting firms from a standing start, Suri Kasirer today advises scores of leading executives and officials from among the city’s leading Fortune 500 corporations, real estate developers and non-profit organizations.

At the same time, Kasirer contributes hundreds of hours each year to a multitude of worthy causes, including Vice Chair of the New York Building Foundation and is on the Board of Directors of the New York League of Conservation Voters, Citymeals-onWheels and Women’s Leadership Forum. She’s also a member of the Steering committee for the Association for a Better New York (ABNY) and the New York City Partnership, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, WX Women Executives in Real Estate, Lincoln Center Corporate Fund Women’s Leadership Council and the Downtown Lower Manhattan Association.

Caress Kennedy is responsible for operational oversight and delivery of service to the entire New York-New Jersey Region at AlliedBarton Security Services. She has been with AlliedBarton since September 2011 and came to the company after 10 years with Global Employment Solutions. A true believer in the value of education and training to mine the potential in all of us, Kennedy is currently on the Board for the Workforce Investment Board of the City of New York and the NYPD Explorers chaired by Police Commission Bratton. She is also a member of ASIS, is past president of the New York Staffing Association and a YWCA Academy of Women Achievers Board Member.

Over the last few decades, Israel has come to boast more startups per capital than any other country in the world.

The future might be even brighter, according to venture capitalist Lou Kerner, who recently launched an investment fund dedicated exclusively to Israeli-owned startups.

“I started The Israeli Syndicate because it makes business sense, but also to benefit the Israeli economy – to help the country survive, and thrive,” explained Kerner.

As Kerner sees it, a buoyant tech sector does more than just stimulate the local economy. In other cities, the influx of designers and technologists spawned more citizen-centric, user-friendly living spaces.

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Marc Landis maintains a diverse real estate and corporate transactional practice focused on the acquisition, development and preservation of affordable housing, commercial leasing matters, the representation of lenders and borrowers in real estate financing transactions, loan workouts and foreclosures, architectural and construction agreements and the representation of cooperative corporations and condominium associations.

Phillips Nizer’s long history of community service is a continuation of something Landis has always considered important in his life. “I subscribe to the Jewish concept of tikkun olam – a commitment to repairing and improving the world,” he said. “I have always believed that giving back by helping others is why we’re here in the first place.”

BENJAMIN L AWSK Y Former NYS Superintendent of Financial Services

JOSEPH IENUSO Executive Vice President for Facilities and Operations

As Superintendent, Benjamin Lawsky was the supervisor of all New York State-chartered banks, the majority of United States-based branches and agencies of foreign banking institutions and all insurance companies in New York. He also regulated all of New York State’s mortgage brokers, mortgage bankers, check cashers, money transmitters, budget planners and similar providers of financial services. Entities supervised by the department number more than 3,800, with assets of more than $7 trillion.

The department was created in October 2011 through the merger of the former New York State Banking and Insurance Departments. Following the merger of the two agencies, Lawsky conducted a series of landmark investigations that helped promote transparency and ethical practices throughout the global financial and insurance industries.

Lawsky now heads a private boutique consulting firm.

For the past century, Columbia University has served as an anchor and source of stability in Morningside Heights. Now that the university has begun an ambitious move into Harlem, Joseph Ienuso, a chief architect of that expansion, is taking the long view.

“We are responsible for the full life of anything we build,” said Ienuso, who makes it his business to deliver the capital projects that serve the university and its surrounding communities.

Ienuso has two ambitious goals. The first calls for at least 35 percent of dollars spent on Columbia’s construction contracts to go to local businesses owned by women or underrepresented minorities. The second requires that 40 percent of the workforce for the university’s projects come from the local community.

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LISA LINDEN President and Chief Executive Officer

STAN LEY LITOW EMMA LI-XU Vice President of Corporate Chairwoman Citizenship and Corporate Affairs A&Z Pharmaceutical, Inc.

Lisa Linden is one of the top public relations professionals in America, having helped scores of clients to define themselves, communicate effectively, build their brands and identities and develop strategies that yield high-impact publicity. With 30 years of experience in the private and public sectors, she has advised high-profile political figures, having held key consulting and staff positions on Presidential, Congressional and statewide campaigns.

A textbook example of corporate citizenship, she is a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of NYC & Company, the City’s convention & visitors’ bureau.

As Co-Chair of the Crisis Communications Committee, she played a key role in the post September 11th media events that have helped tell the story of the City’s tourism industry comeback.

Under Stanley Litow’s leadership, IBM has become a global leader in Corporate Citizenship, gaining wide praise for its social and environmental innovations, labor practices and civic leadership. IBM has developed pioneering voice recognition technologies to help children and adults learn to read, supercomputing capabilities to speed research on cancer and AIDS and new digital-imaging technology to improve water quality.

One of Litow’s most notable initiatives is IBM’s P-TECH program, which has helped bolster the nation’s economic competitiveness by connecting education to jobs. It has been referenced by President Obama in his past two Sate of the Union addresses.

Prior to joining IBM, Litow’s career in public and nonprofit leadership included service as Deputy Chancellor of the New York City Public Schools system, founder and CEO of Interface, a nonprofit think tank.

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In 1995, when Emma Li-Xu decided to have her products manufactured in the United States, the quality enforced under FDA guidelines was her primary consideration. Indeed, when A&Z Pharmaceutical was established in Long Island, the plan was always to introduce products manufactured there to the Chinese market. Li-Xu recognized that Chinese consumers placed great trust in FDA-approved products – a wise observation. In the intervening years, FDA guidelines have begun to serve as a model for many Chinese regulations.

“It used to be that people were less concerned about what they put into their mouths,” Li-Xu said. “But now they want to catch up on the overall quality of medicine.”

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KEN MEHLMAN Global Head of Public Affairs

ELLEN MELCHIONNI President

SOPHIA MENDELSOHN Head of Sustainability

Ken Mehlman helps KKR assess and improve the companies in which it invests by better understanding and managing geopolitical risk and engaging with their key stakeholders. Mehlman oversees the firm’s global external affairs activities, including corporate marketing, regulatory affairs and public policy and communications. Notably, he leads the firm’s Environmental Social Governance programs.

The former Chairman of the Republican National Committee, Mehlman generously contributes his time to a diverse range of issues, including healthcare, education and foreign policy.

He serves as Chairman of the Private Equity and Growth Capital Council, trustee of Mt. Sinai Hospital of New York, Franklin & Marshall College, the American Foundation for Equal Rights, Sponsors of Educational Opportunity (SEO) and the Ideal School of Manhattan, Co-chairman of the American Enterprise Institute’s National Council and member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Insurers tend to be the modest sort. As Ellen Melchionni sees it, most go about their business, providing safety nets for people in times of need, rarely calling attention to their good deeds.

Melchionni’s own contributions to the insurance industry – and to New York State – go well beyond shining a light on the numerous ways in which insurers strengthen the communities they serve. She’s obsessed with setting high standards for corporate citizenship throughout her industry.

Over the years, Melchionni has taken on leadership roles in various trade associations, positions she has used to guide efforts to give back, while at the same time encouraging accountability within the industry. Melchionni currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Insurance Industry Charitable Foundation’s Northeast Division, which supports social causes through volunteer work and grants.

Sophia Mendelsohn is shaping policies and practices that enhance JetBlue’s competitive advantage and reduce environmental impact. Prior to JetBlue, Mendelsohn was Head of Sustainability, Emerging Markets for Haworth Inc., a multinational manufacturer in the corporate real estate industry, where she was responsible for increasing sustainable product offerings in emerging markets, including Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

Previously, Mendelsohn worked for the Jane Goodall Institute, an international NGO, in Shanghai, China, helping spread education about the environment to local and international schools in China. Mendelsohn sits on the board of GIGA, a Shanghai-based NGO whose mission is to promote green building materials and transparency in the construction and design industry.

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AVNER MENDELSON President & CEO

KEITH MESTRICH President & CEO Amalgamated Bank

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Avner Mendelson has been with the Leumi Group for eight years and was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Leumi – US in September 2013. During his tenure, he served as Head of Group Strategy and International Operations, as well as Chief of Staff. He has also served on Leumi’s US Board of Directors since 2012. Mendelson serves on both the Northeast Regional Board and the Board of Regents for the American Friends of The Hebrew University.

With corporate citizenship built into its DNA, Leumi has received the highest Platinum rating for its corporate social responsibility activities from Israel’s prestigious Maala Index.

Keith Mestrich joined Amalgamated Bank after serving as the CFO of SEIU. A 25-year veteran of the labor movement with Workers United, UNITE HERE, UNITE and the AFLCIO, he started at Amalgamated as Director of the bank’s Washington, D.C. office. For Mestrich, it’s all about commitment to the community. That’s why a large part of his professional life involves serving on the boards of the Democracy Alliance, the Roosevelt Institute, the D.C. Employment Justice Center, the Union Health Center, Hot Bread Kitchen and the labor incubator known as The Workers Lab. That atypical trajectory, Mestrich believes, has afforded him a deeper appreciation of the financial needs of the bank’s individual clients, not to mention the organizations that form a large segment of its commercial customer base.

Danny Meyer is the CEO of Union Square Hospitality Group and the founder of Shake Shack. Union Square Hospitality Group includes Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Blue Smoke, Jazz Standard, The Modern, Maialino, Untitled, North End Grill, Marta, Porchlight, Union Square Events and Hospitality Quotient, a learning and consulting business.

An active national leader in the fight against hunger, Danny serves on the board of Share Our Strength and has long supported hunger relief initiatives including City Harvest, God’s Love We Deliver and the Bed-Stuy Campaign Against Hunger. He is equally active in civic affairs, serving on the boards of NYC & Co, Union Square Partnership, and the Madison Square Park Conservancy.

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The Global Gateway Alliance was established by Joseph J. Sitt, President & CEO of Thor Equities, to address the major challenges facing the Metropolitan region’s airports and related infrastructure that, if left unaddressed, will serve as a major impediment to the long-term growth of New York City. By harnessing the expertise of leaders in business, government, academia, labor and other sectors, we seek to tackle these challenges head-on and serve as the leading advocate in an effort to improve our airports and facilitate the continued growth of the region.

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Peter Meyer is responsible for TD Bank’s commercial and retail branch operations and consumer lending throughout the five New York City boroughs, including oversight of more than 70 branches as well as numerous lending groups. Meyer has held senior positions with various banks in New York City and has been instrumental in shaping loan programs and products for numerous healthcare and nonprofit organizations, thereby providing greater access to capital for organizations delivering essential services to New Yorkers most in need.

With a deep commitment to New York’s nonprofit and education communities, Meyer serves on the boards of St. Joseph’s College and York College, and is Chairman of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, Chair of the Finance Committee of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, Vice President of the Queens Museum, Director of the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation, Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy and The American Cancer Society.

HAEDA MIHALTSES Executive Director, External Affairs

JAMES MILLIKEN Chancellor

Haeda Mihaltses is the New York Mets’ main liaison with city, state and federal officials and oversee relations with community stakeholders. Mihaltses spent 12 years in Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration as Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and as a key member of the Mayor’s senior executive management team. She coordinated the City’s relationship with the Federal government, New York State government and City government.

A truly outstanding corporate citizen, Mihaltses serves on the Queens Borough Public Library’s Board of Trustees and is the Board Chairperson at St. Michael’s Home for the Elderly in Yonkers, and a National Board Member of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Ladies Philoptochos Society.

James B. Milliken is Chancellor of The City University of New York, the nation’s leading urban public university. Prior to his appointment at CUNY, Chancellor Milliken served as president of the University of Nebraska, where he also held appointments as professor at both the University of Nebraska’s College of Law and the School of Public Administration.

He is member of the Council on Foreign Relations; the Economic Club of New York; the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness; and the Business-Higher Education Forum. Recognized as a trailblazer in innovation and economic competitiveness, global engagement and on-line learning, Milliken supported a wide range of Nebraska-based initiatives to help disadvantaged students prepare for the workplace – an issue he will surely bring to the fore at CUNY.

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Eric Mower + Associates is one of the largest independent marketing agencies in the U.S. EMA offers clients specialized expertise in business-to-business marketing, public relations and public affairs, consumer advertising, brand promotion and digital/direct/ relationship marketing. In addition to its 115-person Syracuse, New York, headquarters, EMA also has offices in New York City, Buffalo, Rochester and Albany, New York, Charlotte, North Carolina, Atlanta, Georgia, Cincinnati, Ohio and Boston. The agency, owned

by Eric Mower, is consistently named among the top 10 places to work in advertising.

PETER NEGER Partner

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP Peter Neger has more than 30 years of litigation experience in both federal and state courts, and in arbitrations and mediations.

One of the biggest beneficiaries of Morgan Lewis’s legal largesse is the national nonprofit, Say Yes To Education. The renowned organization helps increase high school and college graduation rates by providing a range of services, as well as scholarships, to economically disadvantaged students and their families.

“We are a society of laws,” Neger said. “There are hundreds of thousands – if not millions – of people who do not have access to the legal system. Our profession has to be at the forefront of guaranteeing equal access.”

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Cristyne Nicholas co-founded, with her partner George Lence, Nicholas & Lence Communications, an award-winning, multi-platform firm that specializes in strategic public relations campaigns to increase visibility and ROI for a diverse roster of clients including CEOs, corporations, media companies, destinations, cultural attractions and transportation companies. Nicholas also serves as Chair of New York State Tourism Advisory Council. Governor Andrew Cuomo appointed her to the position in 2013.

With its institutional knowledge and political insight, Nicholas & Lence helps clients connect to meet the challenges posed by public policy, legislative and regulatory action. Based upon the specific needs of clients, the firm works to assess the political landscape, coordinate outreach to key officials and decision-makers, facilitate public/private partnerships, cultivate community support, provide representation at the state and local levels of government and engage in issue-oriented publicity and advocacy campaigns.

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ANNE KAUFFMAN NOLON DENISE M. PICKET T President & CEO President Hudson River Healthcare

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SETH PINSK Y EVP, Fund Manager

Anne Kauffman Nolon has provided vision and leadership to HRHCare for 37 years. She is responsible for guiding the growth and development of one of the largest Community Health Centers in New York State from a single primary care site in Peekskill.

And of its 135,000 patients, more than 8,000 are agricultural workers.

“We serve all people regardless of income or their document status,” Nolon said. “Trust is what we build on. Our migrant outreach workers (at our migrant health sites) speak the same language and often come from the same states that the workers come from – and are well aware of the barriers to care.”

Denise Pickett has been President of U.S. Consumer Services at American Express Company since October 2015.

At American Express she has been responsible for managing all Product Portfolios and driving Acquisition for the U.S.-based OPEN franchise.

She has a long track record of accomplishments in the firm’s Commercial Card business, as well as in the Consumer business where she held a series of senior positions in Loyalty & Retention Marketing, Acquisition, Brand Marketing, New Product Development, Strategic Planning and Small Business Services. She is has been a central figure in making American Express a global model for the fair and respectful treatment of customers.

Pickett is currently a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Schulich School of Business in Toronto, Canada.

Seth Pinsky is leading RXR’s efforts to invest in “emerging opportunities” in New York City and the surrounding TriState region, focusing on asset classes and geographic regions that have historically been characterized by underinvestment, but that have significant growth potential due to planned or inplace infrastructure and other relevant characteristics.

Prior to joining RXR, Pinsky served as Director of Mayor Bloomberg’s Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency, which developed a $20 billion plan to help neighborhoods stricken by Hurricane Sandy to rebuild smarter and stronger and to protect critical citywide systems. As President of the NYC Economic Development Corporation, he oversaw the international Applied Sciences NYC competition, which resulted in the planned Cornell-Tech engineering school on Roosevelt Island.

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MAX POMERANC Regional Head of Public Policy Airbnb

DARRYL RAMSEY Business Development Manager & Technical Strategist for State & Local Governments

FRANCES RESHESKE Senior Vice President of Public Affairs

With digital technology permeating nearly every facet of our lives and geopolitical rivalries spilling into cyberspace, developing the next-generation of technologists should be a top priority for every city, state and nation.

If we fail to connect those dots, Darryl Ramsey, Business Development Manager at Juniper Networks, will not be the one to blame. For one, Ramsey is a driving force in Juniper’s partnership with the National Academy Foundation, which provides STEM education to high school students, along with scholarships, work-based learning opportunities and a student certification program.

For Ramsey, corporate social responsibility means looking out not only for the people who create the products a company sells, but also for the people who consume them. “At the end of the day, no matter what we’re doing from a professional perspective, we are affecting somebody’s life,” he said.

Frances A. Resheske oversees Con Edison’s corporate and internal communications, including government, community and media relations, social media, economic development, branding, advertising and corporate philanthropy. Before joining Con Edison, Resheske was General Manager of Government Relations and Community Development at KeySpan, with responsibility for government relations, economic development, and corporate philanthropy.

Resheske is committed to a wide diversity of community interests, providing hundreds of hours of pro bono service each year on the boards of the Association for a Better New York (ABNY) and its Foundation, and the Directors’ Council of the Historic House Trust, ABNY, NYS Women in Communications & Energy, the Municipal Art Society and Board President of Queens Theatre in the Park – among others.

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Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world – online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 35,000 cities and 192 countries.

On The Airbnb Public Policy Blog, Pomeranc emphasized the impact Airbnb is making on everyday New Yorkers. “Airbnb is making New York more affordable for more families,” he wrote. “The typical host in New York earns about $650 per month sharing their space 5 nights – money that 72 percent depend on to pay their rent or mortgage each month.”

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Congratulations to everyone on the Inaugural Responsible 100 List.

It is an honor to be included on this list with friends and colleagues that I admire and respect for making New York City a better place to live, work and raise our families.

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Arva Rice is President and CEO of the New York Urban League (NYUL), an organization whose mission is to enable African Americans and other underserved communities achieve a firstclass education, economic self-reliance and equal respect of their civil rights through programs, services and advocacy. Prior to joining NYUL, she served as Executive Director of Project Enterprise, an organization that provides business loans, technical assistance and peer support to New York City entrepreneurs.

Rice was selected by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a national foundation that develops solutions to build a brighter future for children, as one of 16 leaders from across the country for its 2013-2014 Children and Family Fellows. Most recently, Rice provided training for NGOs in Uruguay as part of the State Department’s Speaker’s Bureau.

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Rockefeller Foundation Judith Rodin is president of The Rockefeller Foundation, one of the world’s preeminent philanthropic organizations. She was previously president of the University of Pennsylvania and provost of Yale University. Dr. Rodin has recalibrated the foundation’s focus to meet the challenges of the 21st century and today it supports and shapes innovations to expand opportunity worldwide and build greater resilience by helping people, communities and institutions prepare for, withstand and emerge stronger from acute shocks and chronic stresses.

A world-renowned leader in academia, science and development issues, Dr. Rodin has actively participated in influential global forums, including the World Economic Forum, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Clinton Global Initiative and the United Nations General Assembly. She’s also a member of the African Development Bank’s High Level Panel and a Board member of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (co-created

by The Rockefeller Foundation). Governor Andrew Cuomo named Dr. Rodin to co-chair the NYS 2100 Commission on long-term resilience following Superstorm Sandy.

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MITCH ROSCHELLE Partner & U.S. Real Estate Advisory Practice Leader PricewaterhouseCoopers

With its world-class corps of financial experts, PricewaterhouseCoopers has committed itself to addressing the problem of financial literacy. To date, the firm has sent more than 5,000 employees to volunteer in New York City schools. For Mitch Roschelle, New York head of PwC’s “Earn Your Future” financial literacy campaign, this type of skills-based volunteerism lies at the core of the firm’s corporate responsibility efforts.

According to Roschelle, it’s not merely a question of retaining good employees and improving morale.

When a company creates opportunities for its employees to give back, it adds a dimension to their experience within the organization – one that is more important to more workers than ever before.

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TOM RUSSELL Governors Ball/Founders Entertainment

CARLO SCISSURA President & CEO

ALLISON SESSO Executive Director

Since his adolescent days as a punk rock kid hanging out on St. Mark’s Place, Tom Russell knew he wanted to put on shows. While in college, Russell teamed up with Superfly Productions and parlayed an internship into a fulltime job. As the Director of the Superfly Events Group, Russell focused on operations and project management and worked on marquee events such as Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, Vegoose, Superfly During Jazzfest, the Life is Good Festival and multiple music marketing programs. Tom went on to found Founders Entertainment.

He had one goal in mind: to bring his hometown of New York City a major music festival they could call their own.

It now has two major music festivals, and it’s only just begun.

The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is one of New York’s largest business advocacy and economic development organizations, with over 2,100 members. Under Carlo Scissura’s leadership, the Chamber’s membership has grown by more than 200 percent. It has launched a number of highly innovative and successful programs and initiatives, including Explore Brooklyn, Brooklyn-Made and Chamber on the Go, and has received substantial new funding from government agencies and private foundations to support its work.

Scissura is the Vice President of the Federation of Italian-American Organizations, where he has spearheaded the building of the new Italian Cultural and Community Center, and is the Master of Ceremonies for the Brooklyn Columbus Day Parade. Carlo has received numerous honors and awards for his work in the community.

During Allison Sesso’s tenure at the Human Services Council of New York she has led negotiations with city and state government around the provision of Cost of Living Adjustments for nonprofit workers, partnered with the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services on the development and implementation of a range of policy and procedural changes aimed at streamlining the relationship between nonprofits and government, including HHS Accelerator, HHS Accelerator Data, HHS Connect, Group Purchasing, audit reform and more.

Sesso has overseen disaster recovery and preparedness efforts on behalf of the nonprofit sector, including coordination with government, and was tapped by the Mayor to serve on the OneNYC Commission. She was also responsible for developing a comprehensive plan for a sustainable and resilient city that addresses the profound social, economic and environmental challenges ahead.

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Joseph Sitt was taught at an early age the value of hard work and social responsibility. Thor Equities is a forward-thinking international development and redevelopment company. It specializes in urban real estate projects and public/private partnerships in the United States, Latin America and Europe.

Sitt also serves as the Chairman and Managing Principal of the Thor Urban Property Funds with equity in excess of $1 billion in various private equity funds specializing in value-added investments in shopping centers, office buildings, hotels and mixed-use urban projects.

Founder of the Global Gateway Alliance, Sitt has served on the board of The Downtown Brooklyn Council Economic Development Advocacy Group and as co-chairman of The New York City Fulton St. Business Improvement District, where he partnered with the New York City commissioner to create the merger of the administration’s various Brooklyn BIDS.

L ARR Y SILVERSTEIN Chairman Silverstein Properties, Inc

One of New York’s legendary business figures, Larry Silverstein and his firm, Silverstein Properties, has developed, owned and managed 35 million square feet of office, residential, hotel and retail space. The firm currently has $8 billion worth of development activity in the pipeline.

In July 2001, Silverstein signed a 99year lease on the 10.6 million square feet World Trade Center for $3.25 billion, only to see it destroyed in terrorist attacks six weeks later. Since that tragic event, he has devoted himself and his company to rebuilding the office component of the World Trade Center site, a $20-billion project that will consume the balance of his working life.

Silverstein contributes his time and resources to organizations that are dedicated to education and medical research, meeting humanitarian needs and supporting the arts.

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Ed Skyler oversees Communications, Government Affairs, Branding, Sponsorships, Corporate Citizenship, Sustainability and the Citi Foundation.

He is charged with ensuring that Citi’s global dialogues with the public, governments and investors are effective and consistent.

In his early career, Skyler served in the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations in various capacities, including City Hall Press Secretary. During his tenure as Deputy Mayor for Operations, the city’s department of transportation began examining bike-sharing programs in other cities.

“We believe cities are part of a network,” he said. “They can share best practices and best ideas and, frankly, steal great ideas from each other.”

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JOSEPH B. STAMM President/CEO

MICHAEL STEINHARDT Managing Member

JENNIFER RAAB President

Joseph B. Stamm, M.P.A., has served in his present capacity as Chief Executive Officer and President since 1985 and has been largely responsible for the unparalleled growth and success of the organization.

MedReview, a subsidiary of New York County Health Services Review Organization, was formed in 1984 to provide auditing services for clients in the private and public sectors. It operates in 25 states around the country.

“Whether it’s in the private sector, whether it’s in the governmental sector, whether it’s on Medicare, whether it’s on Medicaid,” Stamm said, “there has to be a watchdog, an eye that is looking to make certain that everything is being done appropriately.”

Michael H. Steinhardt is a legendary money manager turned philanthropist who is dedicated to creating a renaissance in American Jewish life. After he graduated from the Wharton School of Business in 1960, Steinhardt began his financial career as a research associate, staff writer and securities analyst. In 1967 he formed his own hedge fund company, Steinhardt Partners LP, where he made his fortune in one of the most spectacular careers in the history of Wall Street. Steinhardt has always believed that wealth and financial achievement alone are not sufficient to give full value and meaning to life.

In 1995, Steinhardt stunned the financial world by announcing that he would close his lucrative hedge fund to devote his time and fortune to the causes of the Jewish world. Steinhardt directs his Jewish philanthropic activities through The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life.

Jennifer J. Raab is the 13th President of Hunter College, the largest college of the City University of New York. During her tenure, she has led a successful effort to expand the faculty and recruit a highly distinguished corps of professors and artists. Standards throughout the college have been raised, and fiscal management has been modernized and strengthened. Hunter has won new levels of government awards, private grants and philanthropic contributions and launched the first capital campaign in its history.

President Raab has been responsible for more than $152 million in philanthropic support to Hunter College.

The reforms and improvements are reflected in Hunter’s fast-rising national standing, making Raab a national trailblazer in higher education.

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TONY SCL AFANI Senior Vice President & Chief Communication Officer

STACEY SL ATER Pro Bono Partner

With construction cranes now a familiar feature of the West Side skyline, the Javits Center lies at the heart of a development boom that has attracted people from far and wide, generating nearly $2 billion in economic activity.

Under Tony Sclafani’s leadership, the Javits Center has revamped its community outreach program, placing a greater focus on sustainability and education. The campaign combines a variety of initiatives, from circulating a community newsletter to launching educational programming for local students. One of the principle initiatives, launched in 2009, was a five-year, $460 million renovation that included a number of sustainable upgrades, including the installation of a seven-acre green roof.

“We’ve been supporting New Yorkers economically for 30 years, and now we are supporting them in a different way,” said Sclafani. “We’re improving the building itself in order to raise the quality of life for the people who live and work in this area.”

As Nixon Peabody’s firm-wide Pro Bono Partner, Stacey Slater manages the firm’s pro bono program. She organizes new pro bono initiatives (including pro bono partnerships with clients), regularly presents on pro bono within the firm and works to match pro bono opportunities with the interests of the firm’s lawyers and paralegals. She oversees both internal and external communication about the firm’s pro bono work.

As a firm, Nixon Peabody has focused many of its pro bono efforts on helping low-income women and children, immigrants and United States veterans. It has also recently been involved in high profile litigation to stop racial profiling and to prevent schools from carrying out discriminatory practices.

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TIAA-CREF Global Real Estate Nicholas Stolatis leads the TIAACREFF’s European and global sustainability team, which focuses on sustainability and governance for the firm’s entire domestic and international real estate equity investment portfolio, which encompasses office, industrial, retail and multifamily properties with a total area in excess of 125 million square feet.

According to Stolatis, businesses that think sustainability is expensive often equate it with investing in new technology. Operational excellence, on the other hand, is about managing technology as efficiently as possible.

“If you’re not engaging in sustainable operations, you’re leaving money on the table,” he said. “It’s more expensive not to be sustainable.”

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STEVE TENEDIOS Founder & CEO

ED WALL ACE Shareholder

KATHRYN W YLDE President and CEO

Remaining open to possibility and reacting to the vicissitudes of life are what enabled Steve Tenedios to build his business from a small doughnut-turned-coffee shop into a farmto-table eatery with 14 different locations. It is with a similar mindset that his company, Fresh & Co., approaches the question of giving back to the community.

“There came a point 10 or 15 years ago,” Tenedios recalled, “that it just became very obvious that we were doing well. And it was the community that was supporting us. So we never lost sight of giving back to the community, of taking care of the people who take care of us.”

While he has supported more than 50 nonprofits through his food company, Tenedios recently pared back his efforts to focus more intensely on a select group of charities, including the Food Bank for New York City and Friends of Karen, an organization that supports critically ill children and their families.

Edward Wallace has wide-ranging experience in business and government.

Prior to entering the private sector as a Vice President at Boston Properties, he served as City Council Memberat-Large (Manhattan) and then Chief of Staff to the New York City Council President. Wallace began his career in the Chelsea neighborhood office of the Legal Aid Society, where he served the city’s most disadvantaged individuals.

One of New York’s preeminent corporate citizens, Wallace has served on the Board of NYC 2012 and was Chair of New Yorkers for Parks from 20122014, which The New York Times recently called “the city’s leading parks advocacy group.” He now sits on the Board of the organization as well as the board of the prestigious French-American Foundation.

Kathryn Wylde is President and CEO of the nonprofit Partnership for New York City, the city’s leading business organization. Its mission is to work with government, labor, and the civic sector to build a stronger New York, focusing on education, infrastructure and the economy. Ms. Wylde was previously founding CEO of the Partnership’s housing and investment fund affiliates.

She oversaw affordable housing and economic development programs that helped revive blighted neighborhoods across the city. At the investment fund, she developed a network of business leaders and investors who nurtured the city’s innovation economy, creating thousands of jobs.

An iconic figure in New York’s business and civic communities, Ms. Wylde has played a central role in reviving the city over the last two decades by fusing the interests of the public, private and nonprofit sectors along the principles established by her longtime mentor, David Rockefeller.

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JON SILVAN Founding Partner

Global Strategy Group

JEFREY POLLOCK Founding Partner Global Strategy Group

JEFFREY PL AUT Founding Partner

MERRYL TISCH Chancellor

The fragmentation of electronic media has brought a multitude of benefits to the average citizen. Never before has there been so wide a choice of news outlets. Global Strategy Group has helped many causes break through that muddled media ecosystem. The firm is active in education reform, working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the New York State Education Department to promote Common Core standards.

The foundation had been studying ways to reduce mass incarceration around the country, but promoting an issue that many citizens believe doesn’t affect them posed a challenge. GSG helped solve the problem by creating a series of narrative themes for the foundation’s campaign that related to the general public.

Merryl Tisch brings role as Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents decades of experience in the fields of education, community service and philanthropy. Chancellor Tisch is chair of the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty. With an annual budget of $100 million, Met Council has gained national recognition for its work in the areas of youth and family services, housing, poverty programs and neighborhood preservation.

As one of New York’s most important public citizens, Chancellor Tisch also serves on the executive committees of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, the UJA-Federation of New York, the Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Citizens Budget Commission and the board of The Trust for Cultural Resources of the City of New York.

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SHAZI VISRAM Owner & CEO

JAY WALDER CEO

RUDOLPH L. W YNTER President

Shazi Visram has always wanted to be a part of something bigger than herself.

As a daughter of immigrants who took life-changing risks in order to create a better world for their children, Shazi has sought to create wealth and pay it forward – the question was: how?

Her journey took her to Columbia Business School, where she had an “Aha! Moment” while listening to a friend’s anguish about the difficulty of finding the time to make her own baby food and the lack of healthy options in the traditional baby food aisle.

In that moment Happy Family was born. Shazi made it her mission to create a business that could positively impact the health of our children and give back to those who are in need.

Jay Walder has more than 30 years of international experience in public transportation, including senior roles at three of the world’s largest transit systems.

Prior to joining Motivate, which designs, deploys and manages bicycle share systems around the world, Walder was the CEO of the MTR Corporation in Hong Kong. MTR is regarded as one of the world’s leading railway operators, with an integrated approach to rail transport and property.

Walder has also served as a member of the Executive Board of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP) and as a member of the Executive Committee of the American Public Transit Association.

Rudolph Wynter has profit and loss responsibility for electric transmission, electric generation, liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage in Providence, Rhode Island and gas transmission pipeline investments. Wynter represents National Grid – an electricity and gas company that connects consumers to energy sources through its networks – on the Boards of Clean Line Energy Partners and Millennium Pipeline.

The company is at the heart of one of the greatest challenges facing our society, creating new sustainable energy solutions for the future and developing an energy system that underpins economic prosperity in the 21st century.

Wynter is very active in the community, as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Polytechnic Institute of NYU. He is also on the Board of Directors for the United Way of New York City.

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MEI MEI HU Co-CEO

MICHA EL KLEIN Principal

TERRY MACRAE Chairman & CEO

Tragic but true: Most of us know someone suffering from Alzheimer’s, a debilitating disease and the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States.

“Great treatments have been sitting on the sidelines for years,” said Mei Mei Hu, founder of Give to Cure. As coCEO of United Biomedical, Hu has seen how the pharmaceutical industry can allow some promising drugs to languish – which is why she turned to crowdfunding for help.

“We actually call it ‘cure-funding,’” Hu explained. “It’s a marriage of two ideas: engaging the public and moving forward with good medical research.”

Launched last year, the GTC website allows anyone to make a donation that will help fund a clinical trial – the crucial stage in medical research, according to Hu. A trial can proceed once a sufficient amount of online donations have arrived, with GTC keeping individual donors up to date on the progress and the outcomes of testing.

Mike Klein brings a wealth of experience in both the public and private sectors to his leadership role in the New York US Policy practice at Dentons, including a keen understanding of public policy development on the local, state and federal levels.

With a powerful and lifelong commitment to public service, Klein started his career providing constituent services for New York Congressman Charles Rangel, later serving as legislative director for City Councilman Stanley Michels of Northern Manhattan. He then worked as Regional Representative for Governor Mario M. Cuomo, coordinating policy, press and community affairs in the all-important New York City area, and then as Senior Aide to the Governor upon his departure from office.

Outside of government, Klein has served in wide range of non-profit and advocacy organizations, including as Deputy Director of the Parks Council, and later as Senior Policy Advisor to New Yorkers for Parks, a non-profit advocacy institution. In that post Klein developed and managed Parks 2001, a citywide campaign for parks and recreation services.

Te r r y M a cRa e i s t h e C E O o f Hornblower Cruises & Events, Alcatraz Cruises, Statue Cruises, Hornblower Niagara Cruises and the co-founder of HMS Global Maritime. As CEO, he leads one of the fastest growing charter yacht, dining cruise and maritime hospitality companies in the nation. He is an expert in the design, renovation, construction and operation of luxury yachts, and a highly-regarded leader in the fine dining, entertainment and tourism industries.

Terry began his career as an environmental engineer with Industrial Clean Air, Inc. Quickly climbing the corporate ladder, Terry was named senior vice president and vice president of sales following the acquisition of Industrial Clean Air by Ecolaire Systems, Inc. During his time with Ecolaire, Terry looked for exciting and memorable venues for entertaining clients and soon began frequenting Hornblower Tours. When the company was offered for sale in 1980, Terry purchased it, seeing the potential to expand the business beyond the current offerings. By placing a great deal of importance on customer service, safety and teamwork, he grew the two-boat, 114-passenger operation to a 50-boat, multi-million company, hosting over 6,000,000 in 2011.

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A café can be a whole lot more than just a place to get your morning cup of coffee. For Frank Raffaele, it’s the heart of a community – a place where people can make lasting connections. Raffaele’s growing network of COFFEED coffee shops—there are now nine in his hometown of New York, and one in Seoul, South Korea—has also created series of venues where good business practices can connect with prized social missions.

“We have customers who come in because of the cross-pollination between business and charitable work,” Raffaele explained. Every COFFEED location donates between 3% and 10% of its gross revenue to charity. And that’s just the beginning. Each location also affiliates with a local charitable organization. In partnership with New York Foundling, for instance, COFFEED employs teenagers who have aged out of the foster care system. Similarly, a partnership with Community Mainstreaming Associates has assisted the Long Island nonprofit in its mission to help developmentally disabled adults move into their own homes and find employment.

Raffaele’s current goal is to recruit at least half his workforce from underprivileged communities.

DAVID CHIEN Head of Global Integrated Marketing and Media

KENNETH BIALKIN Partner

One of the many wonders of New York is that omnipresent possibility of discovery. Through its “Friendship Tours” program Gray Line New York Sightseeing offers the opportunity to see the city from the vantage point that only a double-decker bus can provide to underprivileged children, senior citizens and special needs groups from across the city.

“If you’re a child—and I’d like to think there’s a child in all of us—to be on that double-decker bus, 13 feet above ground, seeing all the skyline in front and of you and, to the side, the greenery of Central Park – it’s an awe-inspiring experience,” explained David Chien.

“Our tours can provide a child with an enjoyable educational experience that picks up where the text books and classroom lessons leave off.”

Gray Line accepts tour requests through various organizations, including Ronald McDonald’s House of New York, Garden of Dreams, Jack & Jill’s Late Stage Cancer Foundation, and Litworld.

Chien also responds to organizations serving seniors and those with walking disabilities.

A pillar of New York’s philanthropic and professional communities, Kenneth Bialkin is recognized as one of the great M&A lawyers of his generation, having helped orchestrate some of the most complex business transactions of recent decades, including the mega-merger of MetLife and New England Mutual Life, and the creation of financial giant Citigroup, for which he served as a Board Member for 16 years. At the same time, he helped build Skadden, Arps, Slate Meagher & Flom into one of the world’s great law firms.

But civic service is perhaps Bialkin’s greatest pleasure. The Harvard Law grad serves on a multitude of public and nonprofit boards, including the Municipal Assistance Corporation, Carnegie Hall and New School University. He was also a close and confidential adviser to several icons of New York politics, including Mayor Ed Koch and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

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PAUL VITALE President and CEO

THOMAS HIRSCHFELD COO

NEIL BARSK Y Founder & Chariman

New York City’s homeless shelters have more occupants today than at any time since the Great Depression – a bleak picture that poses a serious public health challenge. Fortunately, this is where individuals like Paul Vitale step in. Vitale considers it his duty to make sure that even the most disadvantaged New Yorkers have access to quality health care.

“Our job is to keep the community healthy,” Vitale said. “It’s a tough job.

Not everyone wants the help. So you have to do it tenderly at times.”

To provide care for the city’s most vulnerable citizens – the disengaged and disenfranchised – Vitale relies on a humanistic approach. This means everything from making sure a patient is taking his medications on time or providing mental health services to a person in crisis. The result might be an AIDS patient receiving care in time to avoid an emergency hospital stay, or intervening to keep a past offender out of prison.

Thomas Hirschfeld joined Halcyon as Chief Operating Officer in April 2005.

He was previously Managing Director of J. & W. Seligman & Co., a $20 billion asset management firm, where he served both as Chief Operating Officer for Investments and as Head of Venture Capital. Earlier, Hirschfeld spent six years as a Partner at Patricof & Co. Ventures (now Apax Partners) and eight years in investment banking at Salomon Brothers (now Citigroup).

Hirschfeld was founding Chairman of the Senior Executives Group within the Asset Managers Forum, an industry standards, education and advocacy group. A believer in the importance of public service, he also served as Special Assistant to Mayor Rudy Giuliani during the Administration’s first term, handling special projects and leading the city’s Economic Policy and Marketing Group. He was also played a central role in creating the city’s Department of Information, Technology & Telecommunications (DoITT).

Neil Barsky has been a newspaper reporter (The Wall Street Journal, New York Daily News), equity research analyst (Morgan Stanley), hedge fund manager (Midtown Capital, Alson Capital) and documentary film director (“Koch”). Barsky is the chairman of the Columbia Journalism Review board of advisers and sits on the board of trustees of Oberlin College.

The Marshall Project, which he founded, is a nonprofit news organization that focuses on the American criminal justice system. Its mission is to create and sustain a sense of urgency about criminal justice in America. Its aim at all times is for accuracy, fairness, and impartiality. The repertoire includes deep investigative projects, narratives and profiles that put a human face on criminal justice, explanatory and contextual pieces, along with guest commentary and voices from inside the system.

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LISA BEL ZBERG Founder & Chair Emerita PENCIL

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Dr. Lisa Belzberg is Founder and Chair Emerita of the non-profit organization PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning). Her wide experience includes working for political campaign consultant David Garth, as a producer of The Charlie Rose Show, as a Principal at Leeds Equity Partners, and she, currently, as Adjunct Professor at Teacher’s College/Columbia University.

One of New York’s preeminent social entrepreneurs, Dr. Belzberg is an acting Board member for OneFamily Fund, Action Canada, JDC and the Barnard/ Columbia Center for Urban Policy. She also sits on Governor Andrew Cuomo’s New York Education Reform Commission, the Dean’s Council for NYU’s Steinhardt School of Education and is an active member of the Advisory Board of Global Business Coalition for Education (GBC-Ed).

ANTHONY MARX President and CEO New York Public Library

Anthony Marx has worked to expand the New York Public Library’s essential role as a provider of free educational opportunities for all New Yorkers, focusing on increasing services to students, researchers, and scholars; improving educational programming in the New York Public Library’s 87 neighborhood branches; partnering with the city’s Department of Education to increase public school access to critical learning materials; and expanding public access to e-books and other digital resources.

In his prior position as president of Amherst College, Marx – a recipient of multiple fellowships and the prize-winning author of three books and various scholarly articles – passionately promoted access to higher education for economically disadvantaged students.

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MICHAEL WOLOZ Managing Partner

Connelly McLaughlin & Woloz Michael Woloz has managed public relations, government relations and marketing campaigns for corporations, boards of trade, universities and nonprofit organizations. He successfully negotiated landmark state and city environmental legislation on behalf on multiple energy clients, shaped the media narrative of clients undergoing major regulatory changes, built marketing campaigns for start-up businesses and helped secure funding and public awareness for a wide variety of cultural clients.

Woloz holds various appointments, including the nationally recognized Mayor’s Clean Heat Task Force. A volunteer for a multitude of causes, Woloz is active in numerous non-profit and charitable organizations, including the arts education group, Young Audiences New York, where he is a longtime Board Member. He is an Advisory Board Member for the citywide arts advocacy group One Percent for Culture. Woloz is also Co-Chair of the Powhattan Democratic Club.

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AL AN PATRICOF Co-Founder & Managing Director Greycroft LLC

Alan Patricof is co- founder and managing director of Greycroft LLC. A pioneering figure in the world of venture capital, Patricof entered the industry in its formative days with the creation of Patricof & Co. Ventures Inc., a predecessor to Apax Partners – today, one of the world’s leading private equity firms with $41 billion under management. In 2006, he founded Greycroft Partners, a venture capital firm, to invest in leading early and expansion-stage companies in digital media. Greycroft is currently investing from its third Fund as well as its Growth Fund, and has $600MM under management.

Alan is highly active in the New York and Washington nonprofit and educational communities. He is a board member of the Finance Committee of Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem and the Board of Overseers of Columbia School of Business. He also serves as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

In October 2013, he was appointed to the President’s Global Development Council by Barack Obama.

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