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Nixi Cura * Vic Garvey * Chris Huntington
Timothy P. Harkness * Adam Leipzig * David Lisi
Bill Lipschutz * Gayle Maurin * Rena Morjaria
J Dakota Powell * Daniel J. Stratton

 

Nixi Cura read East Asian Studies at Yale University, then specialized in Chinese painting and Buddhist art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She taught or held post-doctoral fellowships at several institutions in the US before becoming Course Director of the Arts of China postgraduate program at Christie’s Education London. She has also served as co-founder of the Arts of China Consortium, as visiting scholar at the Chinese Academy of Arts, Beijing, as visiting professor at Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, and currently as Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. While pursuing her research and professional interests around the world, she has remained engaged with the Yale community through its Alumni Schools Committees, in supporting rising juniors and seniors in the Yale Bulldogs internship programs abroad, by organizing events for Yale alumni and students in Beijing and London, most recently for the Yale Arts Network, LoNyLa and TimeWave.

 

Vic Garvey: As the former Senior Vice President of Olympics at NBC Universal, Vic Garvey worked on 9 Olympic Games for the television network serving in both Logistical and Client Marketing executive capacities. He has produced more than 80 live shows and events in over 20 countries worldwide. He also served as Executive Consultant to the Chairman of NBC Universal and the Vice Chairman of GE. Vic has helped raise over £5 Million ($8M) for children’s charities internationally.

 

Chris Huntington was a member of the US Olympic Rowing Teams in 1984 and 1988, and rowed at Oxford in 1986 and ’87. He is currently a Partner with New Energy Fund Advisors, a New York-based strategic consulting firm working with start-up and early stage renewable energy and clean-tech companies. Prior to forming NEF-Advisors, Huntington was one of six founders of SkyFuel, a leading utility-scale solar thermal power technology provider where he oversaw Business Development, originating and managing strategic projects and relationships. Before SkyFuel, Huntington was a Principal at Red Hook Renewable Energy Ventures which invested in and advised renewable energy companies. Huntington moved into renewable energy and clean technology after a 17-year career as a financial news Correspondent and Producer at CNN. Chris earned his undergraduate degree in Rhetoric (pre-law) from the University of California at Berkeley and a graduate degree in Social Studies (Politics, Philosophy & Economics) from the University of Oxford.

 

Timothy P. Harkness is a partner in Freshfield Bruckhaus Deringer’s litigation practice group, based in New York. Tim represents clients in complex commercial litigation matters including class actions, securities fraud matters, bankruptcy litigation, and matters pertaining to the liability of accounting firms in federal and state courts throughout the US, in arbitrations and in regulatory proceedings. He has served a prominent role in major cases including In re Parmalat Securities Litigation, New York v. Grasso, and litigation arising from tax shelter investigations and fraud related to the Bernard L. Madoff Ponzi scheme. Tim received his BA cum laude from Yale University in 1987 and his JD cum laude from the University of Michigan in 1995, where he was Contributing Editor of the Law Review. Tim is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Association of Yale Alumni.

 

Adam Leipzig is an entrepreneur, entertainment executive and successful producer. As president of National Geographic Society’s film division, he built the National Geographic Films label as a profitable brand, closed $125M in financing, acquired 7 films, put 2 into production, and co-managed distribution of films that received one Academy Award and one nomination. Previously, Adam was senior vice president, motion picture production for Walt Disney Studios and Touchstone Pictures where he was responsible for developing and supervising movies, and for the administration of creative talent. He then became a producer for Interscope Communications, a division of PolyGram Filmed Entertainment. Among the 25 films for which he has been responsible are March of the Penguins, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Dead Poets Society, Titus, Amreeka and The Way Back. Prior to his feature film career, Adam joined the Los Angeles Actors’ Theatre, and with other artists in the company went on to found the Los Angeles Theatre Center, a four-theatre, 1200-seat performing arts complex. During his seven-year tenure as manager, dramaturg and producer with the company, he oversaw more than 300 productions of plays, music, dance and performance art. Collectively, Adam’s projects have generated over $2 billion in revenue on $300 million production spending. Twice in his career he has been responsible for the year’s most profitable film. Adam currently publishes the popular website CulturalWeekly.com and is writing books on filmmaking and creativity.

 

David Lisi is a partner in Reed Smith’s Global Regulatory Enforcement Group. He represents U.S. and international technology companies in matters concerning securities litigation and counseling, in antitrust matters and in complex civil, technology and IP litigation. David advises corporate directors and defends individuals, companies and underwriters in shareholder class action lawsuits, merger and acquisition disputes and in proceedings before the Department of Justice, SEC and NASD. David also has conducted numerous special investigations for audit committees and special litigation committees for Silicon Valley and international clients in connection with securities and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act issues. A.B., Yale College, English Literature and J.D. Cornell Law School.

 

Bill Lipschutz is the Director of Portfolio Management for Hathersage. Prior to helping form Hathersage, Bill was President and Chief Executive Officer of Rowayton Capital Management Inc., an asset management firm that he founded in August 1991. Prior to that, Bill was President and Chief Executive Officer of North Tower Management Group, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc. Prior to forming North Tower in September 1990, Bill was a Managing Director of Salomon Brothers Inc., where he was Global Head of Foreign Exchange. Bill Lipschutz received a BFA in Architectural Design from Cornell University and a MBA in Finance from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. Lipschutz is featured in The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders, by Jack D. Schwager, 1992 and The Mind of a Trader: Lessons in Trading Strategy From The World’s Leading Traders, by Alpesh B. Patel, 1998. He was inducted into the Trader Monthly Hall of Fame in October, 2006.

 

Gayle Maurin is a business development strategist and executor with global expertise currently working on new media/TV and performing arts projects. Prior to 2010 Gayle identified, solicited, established new partnerships and grew funding through philanthropic grants, CSR platforms, cause-marketing programs and multi-platform sponsorships for award winning PBS national prime-time series and specials: African-American Lives, American Masters (Emmys, Peabodys & Grammys), Arthur (Emmys), Australia: Beyond the Fatal Shore, Big Ideas, Charlie Rose (Peabodys), Colonial House, Craft in America (Peabody), Faces of America, Frontier House, George Shrinks, Great Performances (Emmys), Joffrey Nutcracker, Looking for Lincoln, Mysterious Human Heart (Emmy), NATURE (Emmys), NewsHour (Emmys, Peabodys), Oprah’s Roots, P.O.V. (Emmys, Peabodys & Webby), Religion & Ethics Newsweekly (Angel, Christopher), Sesame Street (Emmys), Simon Shama’s Power of Art, Stage on Screen, The Ascent of Money, That Money Show, Wide Angle (Peabodys), World Innovation Challenge. Maurin holds a BBA and MBA from SMU – Cox School of Business, completed a post-graduate program in Theater Management at Yale University – School of Drama, and was a NEA Fellow, consultant and panelist.

 

Rena Morjaria is currently a lawyer for a leading global investment bank and is based in London. Prior to this, she was the senior legal counsel at a London-based hedge fund and has also worked for Merrill Lynch and Linklaters (in London and New York). Rena obtained an acting diploma from LAMDA before reading Law at Cambridge University where she continued to act, playing leading roles in a number of theatre productions. She co-founded the film and television production company, Flick the Switch, and continues to be on the company’s board of directors.

 

J Dakota Powell was Producing Artistic Director of Brave New World on Broadway (NYC) in which over 150 major artists performed plays in response to 911 (see BBC press). As Head of Entertainment for KPE Europe, Powell was responsible for producing digital content across multiple platforms. Powell’s plays: Bliss Moon, The Impostor, Savage Light, Blackwater, Harry Black. Harry Black was produced in the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s New Work Series. Blackwater was selected for the National Playwrights Conference, O’Neill Theatre Center and the Lincoln Center Reading Series. Powell has been produced by the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Philadephia Theater Company’s New Works Series, Circle Repertory Theatre Lab, the Ensemble Studio Theatre and Duke University’s New Works Series; she has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory Theatre, Talking Wall Pictures and PBS Great Performances. AB, Economics/Political Science, Yale University. MPS, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

 

Daniel J. Stratton is a product of Yale University and a short stint at J. Aron and Co., which was purchased by Goldman Sachs in 1982. Dan traded various commodities using the spread strategies that he learned at J. Aron. He was entrepreneurial by age 24 and held seats on the COMEX, NYFE, CBOT, CSCE and the NYMEX. Currently Dan can be found leading philanthropic work through Faith Exchange, a church that weathered 9-11 and is located in TriBeCa, NYC and the ProVision Network – a group of inspired capitalists working to create opportunity while doing good. He has pioneered work in various nations and is currently working on many projects — The Water Initiative, PATH Medical, JOBenomics and work with the Native American Indian tribes. Dan is the founder of both Faith Exchange and ProVision Network. Dan has one daughter, Danielle, who is a freshman at George Washington University. His wife of 25 years, Ann, works as pastor of Faith Exchange with Dan.
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