BOARD OF DIRECTORS

J. Ronald Terwilliger (Chairman)
Chairman Emeritus
Trammell Crow Residential
Oyster Bay, NY

Joseph S. Brosnan
President
Delaware Valley College
Doylestown, PA

Iris Chen
President & CEO
"I Have A Dream" Foundation
New York, NY

Christopher Coons (Secretary)*
County Executive
New Castle County, DE
Wilmington, DE

Bill A. Duffy
President & CEO
BDA Sports Management
Walnut Creek, CA

Warren Eisenberg*
Co-Chairman
Bed Bath & Beyond
Union, NJ

Sari G. Factor
President
Kaplan K12 Learning Services
New York, NY

Mark Fornasiero
Managing Partner
Clarendon Group
Fort Lauderdale, FL

Mark Gordon
Partner
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Jeffrey R. Gural*
Chairman
Newmark Knight Frank
New York, NY

Llewellyn P. Haden Jr. (Treasurer)*
President
Wales Business Management, Inc.
Atlanta, GA

Kenneth Lewis*
Past President
Lasco Shipping Co.
Portland, OR

Frank Liddell
Publisher and Producer
Carnival Music Group
Nashville, TN

Carol McGuire*
Arcadia, CA

Stephanie Trump (Vice Chair)*
Co-Founder
Williams Island
Miami, FL

Founder and Chairman Emeritus
Eugene M. Lang*
New York, NY          


* Indicates a current or graduated "I Have A Dream" Sponsor.

Joseph S. Brosnan
President, Delaware Valley College
Doylestown, PA

Joseph Brosnan was appointed President of Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, PA, in August 2007. Directly prior to his appointment, he was the Vice President for Strategic Planning and External Affairs at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he served for 12 years. During his tenure at Teachers College, Dr. Brosnan oversaw all strategic planning, fundraising, and institutional advancement operations for the college. Before joining Teachers College, Brosnan served as President of Belmont Abbey College, a liberal arts college near Charlotte, NC. Prior to assuming that presidency, he was Senior Vice President at St. Bonaventure University in New York and Chief Advancement Officer at the State University of New York - Potsdam.

Dr. Brosnan began his career in 1969 as Associate Dean of Students at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY. He earned his bachelor's degree at Marist in 1968, majoring in history. He earned his master's degree in counseling in 1969 and his doctorate in counseling psychology in 1981, both at the State University of New York - Albany. 


Christopher A. Coons (Secretary)
County Executive, New Castle County, DE
Wilmington, DE

After meeting with Eugene M. Lang in 1989, Christopher Coons was inspired to found the "I Have A Dream" Foundation of Delaware, sponsoring a class of 45 students from Bancroft Middle School in Wilmington. He later helped to launch a national AmeriCorps program for the "I Have A Dream" Foundation, engaging 150 AmeriCorps volunteers in "I Have A Dream"'s efforts in 15 cities. Mr. Coons remains an active volunteer and mentor through his work with the United Way and The National Conference for Community Justice, and was the recipient of the Governor's Outstanding Volunteer Award for his unwavering dedication to his community.

Since 2004, Christopher A. Coons has served as the County Executive of New Castle County in Delaware. Previously, Mr. Coons served a distinguished four year term as New Castle County Council President, during which he promoted affordable housing, cut government spending, and stimulated new business growth in the county. Immediately prior, Mr. Coons was legal counsel for W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc., the makers of GORE-TEX® fabrics. 

Mr. Coons graduated from Amherst College with a bachelor's degree in chemistry and political science. He received a law degree from Yale Law School and a master's degree in ethics from Yale Divinity School. 


Bill A. Duffy
President & CEO, BDA Sports Management
Walnut Creek, CA

Bill Duffy has been involved in professional sports representation for more than 20 years. He has parlayed a successful career as a collegiate and professional athlete into a position as one of the most successful and respected sports agents in the industry. His company, BDA Sports Management, has represented over 100 professional athletes, including 22 first round draft picks. Under Mr. Duffy's leadership, BDA Sports was named the Top Global Sports Agency by Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal.

Mr. Duffy was named the Black Sports Agents Association's "Agent of the Year" in 1998 and 2001, and was inducted into both into the Santa Clara University Sports Hall of Fame and as the first ever inductee of the Damien High School (La Verne, CA) Hall of Fame. He has been recognized in the top 10 of Sports Illustrated's "50 Most Influential Minorities in Sport," in Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal's "20 Most Influential People: Agents," as well as in Black Enterprise Magazine as one of the "50 Most Powerful Blacks in Sports."

Mr. Duffy is heavily involved with church and community organizations while also contributing significantly to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, CA, and to initiatives at Santa Clara University and Damien High School.  He graduated from Santa Clara University in 1982.


Warren Eisenberg
Co-Chairman, Bed Bath & Beyond
Union, NJ

Warren Eisenberg has a deep commitment to "I Have A Dream". In addition to his role on the national Board of Directors, he serves on the boards of "I Have A Dream" Foundation - New York Metro Area and "I Have A Dream" Foundation - Plainfield, NJ. Mr. Eisenberg also sponsors the Temple Emanu-El of Westfield, NJ, "I Have a Dream" program. In addition to his commitments to "I Have A Dream", Mr. Eisenberg serves on the boards of Sy Syms College, Berkshire Hills - Emanuel Camps, Hand In Hand, and Gift of Life. 

Mr. Eisenberg has more than 45 years of experience in the retail industry. He co-founded Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. and has served as a director since its start in 1971. He is currently the company's Co-Chairman, and has also served as Chairman (1992 to 1999) and Co-Chief Executive Officer (1971 to 2003).


Sari G. Factor
President, Kaplan K12 Learning Services
New York, NY

Sari Factor joined Kaplan as President of their K12 Learning Services division in January 2008. She has spent 30 years in educational publishing and services, serving as President of Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, President of Wright Group/McGraw-Hill, General Manager of Everyday Learning Corporation, and as Vice President of Marketing at McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin. Ms. Factor began her career as a middle school mathematics teacher in Deerfield, Illinois.

Ms. Factor received her bachelor's degree in education from Indiana University, where she serves on the Dean's Board of Visitors. She holds a master's degree in business administration from Northwestern University's J. L. Kellogg School of Management. Ms. Factor is a past National President of Sigma Delta Tau Sorority and is currently President of the Sigma Delta Tau Foundation.


Mark Fornasiero
Managing Partner, Clarendon Group
Fort Lauderdale, FL

Mark Fornasiero became involved with "I Have A Dream" in 1992 as a business school student, helping to launch the athletic program for the East Palo Alto, CA Flood School. In the following year, he co-founded the after-school program, which provided supervision, academic support, and extracurricular activities for the students. In addition, Mr. Fornasiero served on the Board and as Director of Corporate Fundraising for The MBA Challenge for Charity, the largest MBA nonprofit organization worldwide.

Mr. Fornasiero has worked in the transportation/logistics industry for 20 years. Ten years ago, Mr. Fornasiero conceived and co-founded RoadLink, the first national company focused on pick-up/delivery of intermodal (ocean/rail) containers, via the Clarendon Group venture partnership. Mr. Fornasiero served on RoadLink's Board and held the roles of CFO and Chief Strategy Officer until 2008, and now serves as a consultant to the company following its sale. Previously, Mr. Fornasiero was a management consultant in the transportation/logistics practice of A.T. Kearney.

Mr. Fornasiero graduated with honors from Cornell University with bachelor's degrees in operations research and economics in 1989. He earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1994, where he received a Public Management Program certificate and was named an Arjay Miller Scholar.

 
Mark Gordon
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
New York, NY

Mark Gordon is a partner in Wachtell Lipton's Corporate Department, where he specializes in advising public companies and major leveraged buyout firms in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, take-over defense, distressed transactions and restructurings, shareholder activism and corporate governance, and securities law matters. His practice has included a broad and varied representation of public and private corporations and financial investment firms in a variety of industries. Mr. Gordon joined Wachtell Lipton in 1994 and was elected partner in 2001.

Mr. Gordon is also a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches mergers and acquisitions, and he is an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University Law School, where he has taught each spring since 2001. His publications include "Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment in the U.S. - Just Warming Up?", "The Return of the Tender Offer", "Deconstructing American Business" (with Martin Lipton) and "Takeover Defenses Work. Is that Such a Bad Thing?" 55 Stanford Law Review 819 (2002). He is a frequent speaker at bar and professional conferences on topics relating to mergers and acquisitions, takeovers and corporate governance. He is a magna cum laude graduate of both Yale College and Harvard Law School. While at Harvard, he was Executive Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and was a member of the best team in the Ames Moot Court Competition.


Jeffrey R. Gural
Chairman
Newmark Knight Frank

Jeffrey Gural is Chairman of Newmark Knight Frank, a full-service commercial and industrial real estate company, which currently manages approximately 150 buildings in the Metropolitan area. Prior to joining Newmark Knight Frank in 1972, Mr. Gural was a member of the staff of Morse-Diesel Construction Co.

In addition to serving on the Board of Directors for the national "I Have A Dream" Foundation, Mr. Gural is the Chairman of the Board for the "I Have A Dream" Foundation - New York Metro Area, and a second-time Co-Sponsor of the Chelsea-Elliot program in Manhattan. Dreamers from the first program he co-sponsored graduated in 2003 and 2004.

Highly active in the community, Mr. Gural is currently President of the New York Chapter of The Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation and Vice President of The Broadway Association. He is also a member of several boards for organizations that include the Real Estate Board of New York, Cooper Union, the 14th Street-Union Square District Management Association, Art New York, Eugene Lang College, the Eldridge Street Synagogue, the Jewish Community Center of the Upper West Side, the Settlement Housing Fund, and the UJA-Federation.

Llewellyn P. Haden Jr. (Treasurer)
President, Wales Business Management, Inc.
Atlanta, GA

Back in 1987, Llewellyn P. Haden sponsored a class of 47 Dreamers in Atlanta, GA. Since then, he has gone on to serve as the President of "I Have A Dream" - Atlanta, and is the immediate past Chairman of the national "I Have A Dream" Foundation.

Professionally, Mr. Haden is president of Wales Business Management, Inc., an Atlanta based company that manages the business affairs of high income executives, athletes, and entertainers.  In addition, he is president of Albemarle Corporation, also based in Atlanta, which facilitates the placement of money between small to medium-sized companies and real estate developers, and investors and/or lenders.  Mr. Haden received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Georgia State University, and he began his career in the banking field.  

In addition to his commitments to "I Have A Dream", Mr. Haden is a member of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), and sits on the Advisory Board of Project Pericles.  He is also a former member of the Board of Directors of America's Charities and is a former Chairman of the Atlanta-Fulton County Zoo, Inc.


Kenneth Lewis
Past President, Lasco Shipping Co.
Portland, OR

Kenneth Lewis was the founding Co-Chairman (along with two others) of the Oregon "I Have A Dream" Foundation and also served as a past Chairman of the national "I Have A Dream" Foundation. Mr. Lewis currently serves on the Oregon Government Ethics Commission, the Board of Trustees of Pacific University, and the Oregon Center for Public Policy.  

Mr. Lewis graduated with honors from both Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He clerked for a federal judge in New York and then practiced law in Portland. In 1963, Mr. Lewis joined Lasco Shipping Co., and he served as its President from 1979 until his retirement in 1994.  He served on the Board of Directors of the Britannia Steam Ship Insurance Association, Ltd., of London, England, and the Swedish Club of Gothenburg, Sweden.  

Mr. Lewis's many commitments to the community have included service on the Board of Visitors of the University of Oregon Law School, and on the Board of Directors of Lewis & Clark College, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Oregon Community Foundation. He is also a past president of the Port of Portland Commission. In 1996, Mr. Lewis was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the Presidential Commission on U.S. Pacific Trade and Investment Policy.  He thereafter also served on the U.S. Trade Deficit Review Commission and the U.S. China Security Review Commission, both commissions created by the U.S. Congress.  Mr. Lewis is the recipient of the President's Public Service Award from the Oregon State Bar Association, the Equal Opportunity Award from the Urban League of Portland, and the Maurice D. Sussman Memorial Award from the American Jewish Committee.


Frank Liddell
Publisher and Producer, Carnival Music Group
Nashville, TN

Frank Liddell is the founder of Carnival Music Group. He began his career in the music industry at Bluewater Music in 1990. Four years later, Mr. Liddell moved to Decca Records, where he worked with artists such as Mark Chestnutt, Gary Allan, and Lee Ann Womack. Mr. Liddell's experience as a publisher and producer led him to found Carnival Music Group in Nashville, Tennessee in 1999. Today Carnival represents a star-studded roster of artists such as Bruce Robison and Mr. Liddell's wife, Lee Ann Womack, and has produced songs by Tim McGraw, Faith Hill, the Dixie Chicks, Garth Brooks, and others. 

Mr. Liddell co-produced the 2008 Academy of Country Music's Album of the Year for "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" by Miranda Lambert. In 2005, Mr. Liddell was named country music producer of the year by the Society of European Stage Authors & Composers. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors for the national "I Have A Dream" Foundation, Mr. Liddell is on the Board of Directors at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. 


Carol McGuire
Arcadia, CA

A graduate of the University of Arizona, Carol McGuire has taught students in public schools from kindergarten through high school. She has also owned and operated a small business.  For the past 30 years, Ms. McGuire has been actively involved in her community, serving on numerous boards of the PTA, Little League, Creative Arts Group Alliance, Assistance League of Arcadia, Arcadia Tournament of Roses Association, Arcadia Educational Foundation, and Arcadia Boosters Club, among others.

A member of the "I Have A Dream" family since 1991, Ms. McGuire is the Sponsor of two "I Have A Dream" programs in Pasadena, California, and currently serves on the Board of Directors for both the Los Angeles and the national "I Have A Dream" Foundations. More than 90% of her first class of Dreamers ("I Have A Dream" - LA Project 12) graduated from high school.


Stephanie Trump (Vice Chair)
Co-Founder, Williams Island
Miami, FL

Since sponsoring Miami's first "I Have A Dream" program in 1995, Stephanie Trump has helped grow Miami into one of the largest "I Have A Dream" regions in the country, with nearly 800 Miami Dreamers ranging from second graders to college students. Ms. Trump was so inspired by the success of her first Dreamer class that, soon after their graduation from high school, she sponsored another class - this time serving 96 kindergarteners in North Miami Beach - and also co-Sponsors another cohort of Miami students. 

Ms. Trump is part of the family of developers that conceived the 80-acre condominium enclave on the Intracoastal Waterway in South Florida known as Williams Island, as well as the Acqualina Resort and Spa at Sunny Isles Beach. She continues to play an integral part in the architectural, design, and training processes of these properties.  In addition to her work with "I Have A Dream", Ms. Trump is involved with the Greater Miami Federation, and was one of the founders of American Friends of Beit Issie Shapiro, a nonprofit community center for the education and treatment of children with developmental and mental disabilities. Ms. Trump was born and educated in South Africa, and has a bachelor's degree in English, speech and drama, and a master's degree in education. 

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