 CHAIR: DEAN GOODERMOTE is the chairman and chief executive officer of Double-Take Software, a leading developer of disaster recovery and high availability systems. He is also the founder of the start-up Grid-Analytics, which targets the search and analysis of health care information to improve safety and quality of care. He has spent the past two decades either managing or founding high-technology companies, including Clinsoft, which at the time of its merger was the world’s leading provider of software for clinical trial data management and adverse event analysis.
Mr. Goodermote sits on the boards of several high-technology companies and nonprofit organizations, including the Endowment for Psychotherapy at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital. He also teaches at HHL-Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Germany's oldest business school, where he was elected to the honorary position of Professor of Entrepreneurship. Mr. Goodermote serves on the Health Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also an official with the United States Ski and Snowboard Association and is active in the freestyle skiing community. KENNETH H. BACON is president of Refugees International. From 1994 to 2001, he was assistant secretary of public affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense, where he advised the Secretary and other top officials on public affairs strategy. He also served as Pentagon spokesman and managed a large internal communications operation for the U.S. military. From 1969 to 1994, he was a reporter, editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal based in Washington, D.C., and concentrating on defense, banking, economics and international finance. He received his bachelor's degree from Amherst College, a master's degree in business from Columbia Business School and a master of arts from the Journalism School of Columbia University. Mr. Bacon is the co-chairman of the Partnership for Effective Peace Operations, and he serves on the boards of The American University in Cairo, Population Action International and InterAction. He is an emeritus trustee of Amherst College and the Folger Shakespeare Library as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has published articles and op-ed pieces on humanitarian issues in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Newsday, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientistsand World Policy Journal. (Kenneth H. Bacon died on August 15 at the age of 64. Mr. Bacon’s insights and advice to the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response will be deeply missed. Read more.)
KEN BANTA leads Corporate Strategic Affairs at Schering-Plough Corporation, the global, research-based pharmaceutical company. He is based at Schering-Plough’s Kenilworth, New Jersey, headquarters. In this role Ken is responsible for providing strategic counsel and project leadership on a wide array of company priorities. He works directly with Chairman and CEO Fred Hassan and other members of the top management team. A key focus of Ken’s role is driving the continuing transformation of Schering-Plough, which has become as one of the most dynamic companies in the global biopharmaceutical sector. When Ken joined the company with CEO Hassan in the Spring of 2003, the company was under severe stress and suffering from declining sales and earnings. The subsequent turnaround executed by the new management team has been one of the most dramatic and robust on record. Ken’s contribution has ranged from playing a key role in building and embedding a new, high performance culture in the organization, to building relations with external stakeholders, to reputation management. In 2007 Schering-Plough acquired the Dutch biopharmaceutical company Organon BioSciences for $15 billion. Ken has played a significant role in the very successful continuing integration process. Unusually for such a deal, the combination became accretive early in the first year.
Prior to joining Schering-Plough, Ken had extensive experience in other successful, large, global change initiatives, working closely with Fred Hassan. He led Strategic Communications at the global pharmaceutical company Pharmacia Corporation, until Pharmacia’s acquisition by Pfizer in April of 2003. Pharmacia Corporation was the result of the successful integration of the former Pharmacia & Upjohn and Monsanto/Searle companies beginning in 2000, led by then-CEO and Chairman, Fred Hassan. The successful merger was one of the few on record of large global companies that sustained sales and earnings growth and R&D productivity throughout the integration process. Ken joined Pharmacia’s predecessor company, Pharmacia & Upjohn (P&U) in 1996. From 1997 onward he worked with then-CEO and Chairman of P&U Fred Hassan and other senior management colleagues to implement a turnaround program that transformed the company from one of the worst performing companies in the pharmaceutical industry, into one of the best performers in its global peer group.
Before joining Pharmacia & Upjohn, Ken was a Senior Counselor with Burson-Marsteller based in London, where he advised corporate, government, and non-profit organizations on public affairs and public relations. From 1982 through 1991, Ken worked as a writer and foreign correspondent for Time Magazine. This included his assignment as Eastern Europe Bureau Chief from 1985 to 1990, covering the democratic revolutions of that region, and as Europe Senior Correspondent 1990-1991.
Ken is a graduate of Amherst College and attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, and grew up in Germany, Italy and the United States.
Ken serves on the Board of Common Ground, the New York organization dedicated to long-term solutions to homelessness. He is also a member of the Board of the Hudson Union Society, a Manhattan-based non-profit dedicated to multidisciplinary discussion among its members and a roster of global leaders from the arts, politics, science, business and non-government organizations. Ken Banta lives in Manhattan. JOHN M. BARRY is a prize-winning and New York Times best-selling author of five books, including The Great Influenza and The Rising Tide: the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America. He has appeared on several television and radio news programs and has contributed to award-winning television and film documentaries, including several that have been shown on the PBS program "American experience." "The Currents of Change," won an Alfred DuPont Columbia Award for excellence in broadcast journalism. He has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Time, Newsweek, Esquire and The Washington Post. He has also appeared as the keynote speaker at varied venues across the country, including an international conference at the National Academy of Sciences and at a White House conference on the Mississipi Delta. Mr. Barry is a member of the federal government’s Infectious Disease Board of Experts and has advised federal, state and World Health Organization officials on both pandemic influenza and bioterrorism. After Hurricane Katrina, the Louisiana Congressional delegation asked him to chair a bipartisan working group on flood control. He is a co-founder of RiverSphere, a $125 million research center being developed by Tulane University, and the first facility in the world to study rivers in a comprehensive way. Currently, he is a distinguished visiting scholar at the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research. He earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University and completed work beyond the master's level in history at the University of Rochester before withdrawing from the doctoral program. Before writing his first book, he coached college football, then spent ten years as a journalist covering national politics and economics. He divides his time between New Orleans and Washington, D.C. DEEPAK CHOWDHURY joined Legg Mason in 1997 as president of Legg Mason Global Investments, the firm’s offshore mutual fund business unit. In 1994, he founded and served as president of Global Fund Consultants, a Miami-based provider of offshore funds turnkey solutions and asset allocation programs to institutional clients. Previously, he spent seven years at Lehman Brothers and its predecessor firms in New York, where he served as senior vice president and director of the Managed Products Group, having management responsibility for its offshore fund business and its international central asset account operations. Mr. Chowdhury has held positions with Citibank N.A. in New York and with Turnell & Newall Ltd. in the United Kingdom. He received a bachelor’s degree from Bombay University and a master of business administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He serves on the boards of the American Visionary Art Museum, Business Volunteer Unlimited Maryland and Center Stage. He is also a member of the Bryn Mawr School Board of Trustees and is a 2005 graduate of the Greater Baltimore Committee's Leadership Program of Baltimore.  JAMES C. COBEY, MD, MPH, FACS, is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon in an independent practice that specializes in major trauma, spine reconstruction and total joint replacement. He has been the team doctor for Gallaudet University for twenty years and he is an instructor in international humanitarian law and disaster relief for the American Red Cross. He is a professor of orthopaedics at Georgetown University School of Medicine and a senior associate in international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has been a guest lecturer at Yale School of Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and other medical schools.
As a member of Physicians for Human Rights, Dr. Cobey shared in the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. In 2001 he received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Johns Hopkins University. He is president of the School's Society of Alumni and a member of the Dean's Alumni Advisory Council. In 2002 he received the Frank Annunzio Award from the Christopher Columbus Foundation. The American Red Cross honored him with its International Humanitarian Service Award in 1998, and in 1992 he received the organization's Charles R. Drew Award. Dr. Cobey earned a bachelor's degree in history from Hamilton College, specializing in Thai foreign policy. He received his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and earned a master of public health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, focusing on international health. 
WILLIAM FLUMENBAUM is a senior vice president and investment counselor for Capital Guardian Trust Company’s Personal Investment Management division and a vice president of Capital Guardian Trust Company, a Nevada corporation. Before joining the firm in 1998, he spent eight years with the University of California, Los Angeles, as executive director of the Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation, and subsequently as director of principal gifts across the campus. Before that, he spent two years as an executive director of the Children’s Health Fund in New York and four years as the director of programs for Helen Keller International. He also spent 10 years in international public health with a Swiss foundation. Mr. Flumenbaum earned a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and a master's degree in educational psychology from the California State University, Hayward. He serves on the boards of directors of the Anson Ford Theater and the Venice Family Health Clinic, and on the University of California, Los Angeles's Board of Governors. Additionally, he is a member of the Board of Public Counsel and the Board of New Roads Schools. ANETTE HOEGH GOELET has an educational background that combines her interests in economics, and social and political sciences. Her career has focused on education and social services. After primary and secondary education in Norway, she began her undergraduate education at Girton College, Cambridge University, where she studied economics and political science. She then transferred from to Columbia University where she completed her bachelor's degree, majoring in economic history and political science. Since 1988, Mrs. Goelet has served on the Board of Directors of Fountain House, an organization in New York committed to bettering the lives of people recovering from with mental illness. She served as Board president from 1996 to 1999, and has chaired the Board's Council for Education, Training and Research as well as the Program Committee. In 1994 she was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the International Center for Clubhouse Development (ICCD) in New York, a global network that creates opportunities for people living with mental illness. She served as president of the Board from 2000 to 2005, and is currently the immediate past president. Mrs. Goelet is a member of the boards of the Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, The Park School in Brooklandville, Maryland, and the Hannah More Foundation in Reisterstown, Maryland. She has also served on the boards of the Children’s Storefront, a tuition-free independent school in Harlem, the Garrison Forest School in Owings Mills, Maryland, Youth as Resources in Baltimore, and the Westside Housing Corporation in New York. H. DARRELL HARVEY is co-chief executive officer of The Ashforth Company. He serves on the boards of Paradigm Properties, Warburg Realty Partnership, Benchmark Assisted Living and Integrated Color Solutions. Mr. Harvey is chairman of the Board of the Business Council of Fairfield County and co-chairman of the Board of the Stamford Hospital Foundation. He is also a member of the World Presidents’ Organization, the Chief Executives’ Organization and the Urban Land Institute. Before joining The Ashforth Company, Mr. Harvey was an attorney at Hill & Barlow in Boston and worked for the Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in Brooklyn. He is a graduate of Harvard College and received his juris doctor degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. MARGARET CONN HIMELFARB is an editor and medical research advocate and a former child life instructor in pediatrics and nursing at Johns Hopkins Hopsital. She also has worked as a psychiatric research associate at Johns Hopkins and Sinai hospitals. A native of Baltimore, Ms. Himelfarb’s community and civic activities have included serving on the boards of or in volunteer leadership positions with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Homeland Association, the Associated Jewish Federation, Gilman and Bryn Mawr schools, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where she sits on the Health Advisory Board. She is also a member of one of the School's committee's for human research and is an unaffiliated non-scientist on the Institutional Review Board. Ms. Himelfarb is widely recognized for raising public awareness about diabetes and stem cell research. A founder, past chair and the first life member of the Maryland Board of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), her involvement over the past two-and-a-half decades has helped guide the chapter's growth from a small group of concerned families to a major statewide organization, raising millions of dollars for diabetes research. She has served on the board of JDRF International and is currently a member of its International Board of Chancellors. For over a decade she has sat on JDRF's Research Review Committee, helping to select the Foundation's grant recipients, often in partnership with the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health and the Medical Research Councils of Canada and Australia.
Ms. Himelfarb has testified before the Food and Drug Administratin on diabetes-related matters, served on advisory committees for the director of the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Library of Medicine. In 2001, she successfully spearheaded a national campaign for a diabetes awareness postage stamp. Ms. Himelfarb received a leadership award from Gilman School and has been honored as Humanitarian of the Year by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and the Harlow Fullwood Foundation. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master of public health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 
NAFISA HOODBHOY works as a producer/broadcaster for the Voice of America, Urdu Service based in Washington D.C. For 16 years, she was staff reporter for the daily Dawn newspaper, the most widely circulated English language newspaper in Pakistan. She has also written for The Washington Post, Paris Match and other leading publications. In January of 2001, Ms. Hoodbhoy taught the course "Gender Politics of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran" at Amherst College on a Ford Foundation Fellowship. Following September 11, 2001, she taught a related course at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has helped to produce television documentaries the BBC and Lifetime Television and has worked for radio stations in the U.S. Ms. Hoodbhoy received a master's degree in history from Northeastern University. WILLIAM LIN, Ph.D, is Manager of Corporate Contributions and Community Relations for Johnson & Johnson (J&J). Dr. Lin’s responsibilities include managing the Company’s response to natural disasters and humanitarian crises, and responsibilities for the Company’s product donations portfolio. Dr. Lin developed the product donation program strategy to embody Johnson & Johnson values with respect to the health and wellbeing of women and children. In ensuring that J&J is effective in responding to global humanitarian and natural disasters, Dr. Lin also manages and develops the relationships with major international governmental as well as non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Since joining the group in 2005, Dr. Lin has led the development of the program Children Without Worms, the largest global drug donation effort by a pharmaceutical company for the treatment and prevention of intestinal worms. Dr. William Lin started his professional career as a research scientist in the AIDS and Hepatitis division of the diagnostics sector of Johnson & Johnson. With successes and experience in new product development, he advanced through several other divisions of J&J that included positions in Quality Systems, Operations Information Management, and Strategic Sourcing. With 15 years of in-depth experience in the inner workings of this multi-national pharmaceutical company, he was well positioned to bring an operational perspective to the corporate social responsibility (CSR) arm of J&J. Dr. Lin holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from UCLA. MARGARET ROGGENSACK is the Policy Director for Free the Slaves, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to eradicating modern day slavery through community-based and multi-stakeholder partnerships, advocacy and education. Free the Slaves is the sister organization of Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights organization. Prior to joining Free the Slaves, Ms. Roggensack practiced law with Hogan and Hartson, chairing the firm's Latin America Practice Group. During Ms. Roggensack's nearly 20 year career in private legal practice, she counseled clients on bilateral and multilateral trade agreements and sector specific arrangements; represented private sector interests in World Trade Organization dispute settlement proceedings; advised multinational corporations on U.S. and Latin American investments and related sourcing, training and philanthropic initiatives, and played leadership roles in industry task force and coalition efforts. She has served as an advisor to numerous private and quasi-governmental organizations on democratic transition, rule of law, and economic recovery initiatives and U.S. policy toward Latin America. She is member of the board of the Due Process of Law Foundation, and past president of the Washington Foreign Law Society. Ms. Roggensack graduated magna cum laude from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota in 1976 with a B.A. in history. She was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow from 1976 to 1978, studying economic development projects in Latin America. She received her J.D. from George Washington University in 1984, where she was the Articles Editor of the Journal of International Law and Economics. FRANCES STEAD SELLERS is editor of the weekly Health section of The Washington Post and was formerly an editor of Outlook, the news paper's Sunday commentary section. She came to the Post from Civilization, the magazine of the U.S. Library of Congress, which she helped launch in 1994 and which won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1996. She has written for a wide variety of U.S. and British publications, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian and The Times, and was a guest editor for the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's book Saving Lives: Millions at a Time. In 2003, she received an Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellowship to write about migration, dual citizenship and transnationalism; and in 2006 she was awarded a Wolfson College Press Fellowship at Cambridge University to do research into the evolution of newspapers in an age of instant news. Ms. Sellers grew up in the south of England, the only member of her immediate family not to pursue a career in medicine, and came to the United States in 1982 as a British Thouron Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She now lives in Baltimore, Maryland, with her husband, a professor of international law, and their college-age daughter. LAMA SHIKANI grew up in Lebanon and received her medical degree at the American University of Beirut, before moving to Baltimore, Maryland, to do a residency in clinical pathology and a fellowship in hematology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She experienced firsthand the Lebanese civil war and is knowledgeable about the plight of refugees. Dr. Shikani is fluent in Arabic and French and familiar with the cultures and religions of the Middle East. She has held several leadership and volunteer positions at Gilman School. She is married to Alan Shikani, MD, a part-time faculty member of the Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and chief of the departments of head and neck surgery at Union Memorial and Good Samaritan hospitals in Baltimore. Mrs. Shikani manages her husband's medical practices. NADYA K. SHMAVONIAN is an independent consultant who provides strategic direction and counsel to foundations and nonprofit organizations. She brings extensive foundation management experience to her practice, having most recently served as vice president for strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation for over three years. In that role, she helped oversee a dramatic reframing of the Foundation’s programmatic and operating approach, readying Rockefeller to meet new challenges of the 21st century. Earlier in her career, she spent 12 years at The Pew Charitable Trusts where she worked as executive vice president, following several years as director of administration and as program officer in health and human services. She spent seven years between these executive leadership roles as an independent consultant, where her practice included work with foundations and nonprofit organizations in the areas of management consulting and executive coaching, strategic planning and evaluation, leadership and organizational development, meeting facilitation , infrastructure development, human resources management and program design. Before joining the foundation community, she had considerable experience working in the health sector as well as overseas in humanitarian relief, both of which she has continued to address during the 22 years she has spent in and around philanthropy. Ms. Shmavonian has provided consulting assistance to many foundations, including: several years with the Rockefeller Foundation before her full-time employment, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The California Endowment, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Pew Charitable Trusts, the Atlantic Philanthropies, the Joyce Foundation, and several others. She also works with a broad array of local, national and international nonprofit organizations, with special emphases on strategic and management consulting (see attached client list). Ms. Shmavonian currently serves as one of the first two non-family members of the Surdna Foundation Board, as well as on the Board of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, and as an Advisory Board member to the National Philanthropic Trust. She has extensive past experience serving on nonprofit boards, including The Alliance for A Green Revolution in Africa (a joint partnership of the Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations), The Center for Bioethics of the University of Pennsylvania; Abington Memorial Hospital Foundation; Chestnut Hill College, and the National Philanthropic Trust advisory board, among others. She was also a member of the International Network on Strategic Philanthropy, an international working group supported by the German-based Bertelsmann Foundation. Ms. Shmavonian holds a B.A. from the University of Chicago, and an M.B.A. in health care management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  STEWART SIMONSON is vice president and director, government affairs at SRA International, Inc., a global consulting firm headquartered Fairfax, VA. Simonson joined SRA through the acquisition of Constella Group, LLC, in August 2007.
Before joining Constella, Simonson spent nearly five years with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), serving as deputy general counsel, special counsel to the secretary and, finally, assistant secretary for public health emergency preparedness. In that position, he coordinated public health preparedness activities of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He also represented HHS in negotiations with foreign governments and international agencies on public health preparedness matters.
Prior to HHS, Simonson was corporate secretary and counsel at the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak). Earlier in his career, he served as chief legal counsel to the Governor of Wisconsin.
Simonson has received several awards in recognition of his contributions to public health preparedness, including The Surgeon General's Medallion and the FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research's Public Health Achievement Award.
Simonson is a member of the Wisconsin and District of Columbia bars.
SUZANNE WOLFF is a retired senior vice president of Mercantile Bank and Trust Company. Mrs. Wolff has two children who graduated from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. One is involved in international health issues. Another son, a graduate of The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, works at the United Nations. |
