Chad Gifford was recently Chairman of Bank of America and formerly Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Fleet Boston Financial Corporation, the seventh-largest bank holding company in the United States. Mr. Gifford has worked with FleetBoston since 1966 in their London and Boston offices. Mr. Gifford also currently serves as a Director of the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Director of NSTAR Corporation and Chairman of the Boston Plan for Excellence in the Public Schools. He was the Founding Chairman of The United Way of Massachusetts Bay’s “Success By 6” initiative and serves on the Boards of non-profit organizations including Northeastern University, Boston Symphony Orchestra, WGBH Public Broadcasting, Junior Achievement, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Gifford earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University.

Larry Horowitz, M.D. is President and Managing General Partner of Selby Lane Enterprises; a corporation that is comprised of an Investment Banking/Consulting division as well as an Entertainment division that produces movies for television and plays for Broadway. Dr. Horowitz also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Scripps Research Institute and is a member of the Board of Visitors at the Sanford Institute of Duke University. Previously, Dr. Horowitz has served as a member of the National Advisory Committee on The Food and Drug Administration, Chairman of its subcommittee on Prescription Drugs, Staff Director of the United States Senate subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research, and Chief of Staff for Senator Edward M. Kennedy. He is the author of “Taking Charge of Your Medical Fate” (Random House).

Paul J. Orfalea is the Founder and former Chief Executive Officer of Kinko's, Inc., the industry leading copy chain, with over 1,200 locations. Throughout his career, Mr. Orfalea has been involved in a wide range of investments from small businesses to entire chains, in industries such as direct mail, fundraising, coffee shops and asset management. Mr. Orfalea is on the University California at Santa Barbara Foundation Board of Trustees, KCET TV Resource and Development Committee of the Board of Directors, Espresso Royale, and DataProse. California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo established the Orfalea College of Business in 2001. Mr. Orfalea holds a BS degree from the University of Southern California.

Leonard Silverstein is the co-founder of Silverstein and Mullens, now a division of Buchanan Ingersoll, a law firm with offices in the United States and London. Mr. Silverstein serves as Founder and Chief Editor of the Tax Management publication series, regarded as the most authoritative private publication in the U.S. tax field. Formerly, Mr. Silverstein served as an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service, on the legal advisory staff of the Treasury Department, on the Advisory Group of the House Ways and Means Committee, as Executive Director of the “Filer” Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs, on President Reagan’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities, as Chairman of President-Elect Nixon’s Task Force on Taxes, and as a member of the Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy. Mr. Silverstein is a member of the Board of Directors of the Movado Group, Inc., Chevy Chase Bank, the National Symphony Orchestra, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the White House Historical Association, the French-American Foundation and the Choral Arts Society of Washington. He is also treasurer of the Madison Council of the Library of Congress. Mr. Silverstein received his law degree from Harvard University and his undergraduate degree from Yale University.

Gary Wilson is Chairman of the Board and a principal investor in Northwest Airlines Corporation, the world’s fourth largest airline. He served as Co-Chairman beginning in 1991 and was named Chairman in 1997. Mr. Wilson is also a Director of the Walt Disney Company where he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for 5 years. Before joining Disney, Mr. Wilson was with Marriott Corporation for 11 years as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Wilson serves on the Board of Trustees at Duke University, the Board of Overseers of The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and The Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He is a Member of the NCAA Leadership Advisory Board, Director of Yahoo! Inc., Director of CB Richard Ellis, and a Member of the Supervisory Board of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Mr. Wilson earned a Bachelor’s Degree from Duke University and an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania.