Board of Directors and Advisors
The membership of the Board of Directors and Advisors is actively being expanded this year.
Board of Directors
Chien Lee, Chairman
Advisors
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Biographies
Clayton H. Fowler
Chairman and Chief Executive
Spinnaker Real Estate Partners, LLC
Clayton H. Fowler is a founding partner of Spinnaker Real Estate Partners. Mr. Fowler has over 30 years experience in the acquisition, development, construction and management of commercial office and residential projects. He has ownership interest in over 2.5 million square feet of commercial office, industrial and multi-family properties located in Connecticut. His residential experience includes the completion of over 5,300 housing units nationwide.
In the Minnesota winter of 1970, Clay went on his first Outward Bound course as a student. After graduating from Princeton University in 1972, Clay spent the next ten years as a Senior Outward Bound Sea Instructor and Course Director in Maine.
Mr. Fowler is currently a leading advocate of affordable housing and has served on affordable housing committees, boards and study groups throughout Connecticut. He has been the Chairman of the Planning Board for the Town of Pound Ridge, New York for the past 20 years. In addition, he is a national board member for Outward Bound USA and serves on the Executive Committee in addition to being chairman of its Safety Committee. Mr. Fowler lives in Pound Ridge, New York with his wife and four children.
Tom Glaisyer
Project Manager
Netcentric Campaigns
Tom Glaisyer is an experienced project manager specializing in organizational change and assimilation of social software technology. He has 10 years of experience working as a technology and change management consultant in the private sector where he focused on the implementation of large back office systems and the changes they generated in the workplace. He has worked in the United States and Western and Eastern Europe and has gained experience working with an international organization (United Nations), higher education institutions (Harvard University, Columbia University), the information industry (Reuters), the oil and gas industry (BP Amoco, Gazprom, BG Transco), and the aerospace industry (United Technologies Corporation: Pratt & Whitney).
Mr. Glaisyer is currently working with Netcentric Campaigns for a variety of NGO clients in the foreign policy and environmental advocacy movements. He will begin a Ph.D. in Communications at Columbia University in the fall of 2007. In 1983 at the age of 14 he attended an Outward Bound Junior Standard course at Outward Bound Rhowniar in West Wales that changed his life.
Stephen C. Hassenfelt
Chairman and Chief Executive
Granville Capital, Inc.
Stephen C. Hassenfelt is the Chairman and CEO of Granville Capital, Inc. and has over 20 years of experience in the investment management business. He was the Chairman and CEO of NCT Opportunities, Inc., a subsidiary of U.S. Trust Corporation specializing in hedge fund advisory services. During his career, he has served in senior executive positions with N.C. Trust Company (which he co-founded in 1984) and its successor U.S. Trust Company of North Carolina as well as U.S. Trust Corporation.
Mr. Hassenfelt graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1972 with a B.S. in Business and from Wake Forest University Law School in 1976 with a J.D. (cum laude). He is a Certified Public Accountant and Chartered Life Underwriter. Mr. Hassenfelt is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Outward Bound North Carolina, Chairman of the Board of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and serves on the Boards of Outward Bound Israel, Habitat for Humanity of Greater Greensboro, and is the past Chairman and on the Board of Greensboro Day School.
Janina Hrebickova
Head of Office of the Czech Republic to Kosovo
Janina Hrebickova is the Head of Office of the Czech Republic to Kosovo. Previously, she was the Deputy Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic Mission to the United Nations, 2004 to August 2007. In 2003, she was the Czech Republic Foreign Affairs Ambassador-at-Large to Iraq, leading and coordinating the work of 22 Czech experts in reconstruction, nation and capacity-building projects throughout the country. Prior to her work in the diplomatic service of the Czech Republic, her international work encompassed four peacekeeping missions of the United Nations in roles including spokesperson, producer, media trainer, and chief of unit. She served as a political analyst and in a number of professional capacities for organizations such as the International Organization on Migration and the International Research Exchange Board.
Ms. Hrebickova's early career was as a journalist for Czech and international news organizations, and as a television news anchor and host, specializing on foreign affairs and policy. She is a founding member of the International Women Media Foundation, and is a member of the International Journalistic Federation. She holds a Master's degree from Charles University in Prague, and PhD in Comparative Linguistics and Literature.
Peter Kyle
Lead Counsel
Finance, Private Sector and Infrastructure Practice Group
World Bank
Peter Kyle is a Lead Counsel with the World Bank and is based in Washington, DC. He hails from New Zealand and was educated at Victoria University of Wellington gaining a BA (Economics) and a Bachelor of Laws (Honors). After qualifying as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New Zealand in 1972, he clerked for the Chief Justice of New Zealand. He was then awarded a Rotary International Graduate Fellowship to complete a Master of Laws degree at the University of Virginia in 1974. Upon returning to New Zealand, Mr. Kyle was made a partner in the leading New Zealand commercial law firm of Watts and Patherson. In 1979, he took leave from his firm to serve as a Senior Counsel with the Asian Development Bank in Manila, Philippines until 1985. In 1992, he accepted an offer of a senior position within the Legal Department of the World Bank and moved with his wife and two children to Washington, D.C.
Mr. Kyle completed his first Outward Bound course at Anakiwa, New Zealand, in February 1966. He formed and became an active leader in the OBNZ Alumni Association and was elected to the Council of OBNZ in 1970. He served on all major Council and Board committees and chaired many of them. At the time of his move to Washington, DC he was the Senior Vice President of OBNZ. He also became actively involved in the international activities of Outward Bound and in 1988 was instrumental in drafting the legal documentation which led to the establishment of the Outward Bound International Advisory Board - the predecessor of Outward Bound International (OBI). In 1993 he was appointed to that Board and became Vice President of the organization the following year. In 1997 he was appointed as the inaugural Chairman of OBI, a position he held until 2002 when he was appointed Chairman Emeritus. He continues to be active in the management of OBI and is the current Chairman of the Operations Council.
Elizabeth Anglin Knox
Managing Director
Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding
Elizabeth Knox is the founding Managing Director of the Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding. Her focus in the start-up phase of the Center is business planning, overall management and capacity-building, board development, fundraising, and liaising with the international Outward Bound community. Ms. Knox joined Outward Bound as a field instructor in 1995. She has served the organization in multiple capacities since that time, including as Director of Operations and Safety and Director of Marketing in North Carolina, and as a Development Associate in New York City. She served as the Development Officer for Outward Bound International/Global Leaders Program, and more recently, was the Interim Vice President, Development for Outward Bound, Inc.
Ms. Knox has been actively engaged with the international Outward Bound network, including participation in Outward Bound World Conferences in Australia, Malaysia and South Africa, and visits to developing Outward Bound programs around the world. In addition to her work with Outward Bound, she served as General Manager of Yamnuska Inc. in Canada, where she co-proposed and co-managed adventure training contracts for the British and Canadian militaries. Ms. Knox has an undergraduate degree from Guilford College, and holds a masters degree in Public Policy and Administration from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.
Chien Lee, Chairman
Private Investor
Chien Lee is a private investor based in Hong Kong. He serves as a director of various companies including the publicly listed Hysan Development Company Limited, Swire Pacific Limited and Television Broadcasts Limited.
Mr. Lee is currently Vice Chairman of Outward Bound International and Chairman of its Global Advisory Board. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Outward Bound Trust of Hong Kong since 1992 and was its Chairman from 1996 to 2006. Mr. Lee is a member of the Councils of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Institute of Education and St. Paul's Co-educational College in Hong Kong. He also serves on the Advisory Council of The Asia Society Hong Kong Center and is a Trustee of The Asia Foundation.
Educated in Hong Kong, Switzerland and the United States, Mr. Lee received his B.S., M.S. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University, where he has served on the Board of Trustees, the Board of the Stanford Alumni Association and the Advisory Council of the Graduate School of Business. Currently, Mr. Lee is a member of the Advisory Board of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.
Heskel Nathaniel
President and Founder
Breaking the Ice
Heskel Nathaniel is the Founder of Breaking the Ice, an international non-profit organization dedicated to inpiring people to transform conflicts from enmity into trust and mutual respect. Mr. Nathaniel served as a team member for the Antarctica Journey and the Sahara Journey, two expeditions that earned Breaking the Ice international recognition. Mr. Nathaniel is a co-founder of Outward Bound Israel and has served on its Board of Directors since 2006.
Mr. Nathaniel is the Founder and Managing Director of arsago, a real estate investment firm based in Germany. arsago is an exclusive investment partner of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund for investments in Germany. An Israeli, born in Haifa in 1962, Mr. Nathaniel served in the Israeli Defense Forces for over 10 years.
Mark Gerzon
Founder and President
Mediators Foundation
Mark Gerzon, author of the book Leading through Conflict, is Distinguished Fellow for Leadership at the East West Institute and President of Mediators Foundation. As co-director of the Global Leadership Network, he helped form a group of more than two dozen leadership experts and practitioners from throughout the world who are developing and delivering workshops and educational curriculum that help leaders and their organizations learn skills that are critical for dealing with conflict and leading across difficult social divides. He specializes in enhancing the capacity of competing groups and divided organizations to find alignment around shared goals and values, and has conducted leadership trainings and lectured throughout the world.
In the private sector, Mr. Gerzon has worked with companies ranging from major consumer products to high technology industries, and with business organizations such as the Conference Board. In the public sector, he has extensive experience consulting with organizations such as the U.S. House of Representatives and the United Nations Development Program. With this diverse clientele, his mission remains constant: to foster the emergence of leaders who know how to build bridges across differences, rather than walls that reinforce them. For the past two decades, Mr. Gerzon has directed or supported a wide range of projects focused on building a more just, peaceful and sustainable world. His familiarity with Outward Bound stems from his work with Outward Bound International to develop and deliver the Global Leaders Program in Tanzania in 2006.
Michael D. Schwamm
Partner
Duane Morris LLP
Michael Schwamm is a partner in the corporate department of the New York office of Duane Morris LLP, a national law firm with offices in 20 cities in the United States as well as London, Singapore, Hanoi and Ho Chi Min City.
Mr. Schwamm practices in the areas of corporate, mergers and acquisitions, securities and technology law. He is a former vice president and general counsel of FiberCity Networks, Inc., a telecommunications service provider. In 2006, he was selected as a Super Lawyer in Securities and Corporate Finance in New York and has been a partner at Duane Morris since 2003.
Mr. Schwamm is a 1983 magna cum laude graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, where he was editor of the Journal of Law and Policy in International Business and a cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Schwamm has provided corporate advice and counseling to Outward Bound Center for Peacebuilding on a pro bono basis, (specifically through) assisting in its incorporation and application for tax exempt status.
William Ury
Negotiation Advisor and Mediator
William Ury is co-founder of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, where he directs the Global Negotiation Project. He is co-author of the international bestselling Getting to YES and author of The Power of a Positive No.
Over the last twenty-five years, Mr. Ury has mediated between quarrelling corporate divisions, battling unions and management, and warring ethnic groups around the world. He has also served as a negotiation consultant to governments and dozens of Furtune 500 companies. He is co-founder of the e-Parliament (www.e-parl.net), a problem-solving forum and ideas bank for effective legislation, connecting members of congress and parliament around the world.
Mr. Ury's most recent project is the Abraham Path Initiative (www.abrahampath.org) which seeks to create a permanent path of tourism and pilgrimage in the Middle East that retraces the footsteps of Abraham, the unifying figure of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Trained as an anthropologist, Mr. Ury holds a B.A. from Yale and a Ph.D. from Harvard.