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Board of Directors

  • Dr. Madeleine K. Albright

    Madeleine K. Albright is a Principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm, and Chair and Principal of Albright Capital Management LLC, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets. Dr. Albright was the 64th Secretary of State of the United States. In 1997, she was named the first female Secretary of State and became, at that time, the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as a member of the President’s Cabinet. She is the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She chairs both the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, and the Pew Global Attitudes Project and serves as president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation. Dr. Albright co-chairs the UNDP’s Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, serves on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Trustees for the Aspen Institute and the Board of Directors of the Center for a New American Security.

  • Bernard Osher

    Bernard Osher, a patron of education and the arts, is well known as “the quiet philanthropist.” He created the Bernard Osher Foundation in 1977 which seeks to improve quality of life through support for higher education and the arts. Mr. Osher has pursued a successful career in business, beginning with the management of his family’s hardware and plumbing supplies store in Maine and continuing with work at Oppenheimer & Company, an investment banking firm, in New York before moving to California. There he became a founding director of World Savings Bank. Mr. Osher purchased the fine art auction house of Butterfield & Butterfield in 1970 and oversaw its growth to become the fourth largest auction house in the world. In 1999, he sold the company to eBay. Mr. Osher serves on a number of philanthropic and non-profit boards. He is an active community leader in the San Francisco Bay Area and the recipient of several honorary degrees.

  • John Pritzker

    John Pritzker began his career at Hyatt Hotels Corporation in 1972 and in 1984 became Managing Director and Divisional Vice President of Hyatt Hotels and Resorts. Pritzker was a founding board member of TicketMaster, Inc. and Chemdex Corporation. Additionally he has served as Chairman and CEO of a number of businesses in the hospitality industry including Red Sail Sports, Mandara Spa, LLC, and The Odyssey Club. In 2004 Mr. Pritzker formed Geolo Capital. Geolo Capital focuses on high-growth, consumer focused business investments in travel and leisure, hospitality and live entertainment. Currently Mr. Pritzker is a member of the boards of Exclusive Resorts, Stone Canyon Entertainment, The UCSF Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation and serves as the President of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation.

  • Lewis S. Ranieri

    Lewis Ranieri is known for single-handedly creating the securitized mortgage market in the 1980s. His career started in the mailroom at Salomon Brothers, a Wall Street powerhouse during the 1980s. By the time of his departure in 1987, Mr. Ranieri had risen to the position of Vice Chairman. Since then Mr. Ranieri founded Hyperion Private Equity Funds and is the Chairman, CEO and President of Ranieri & Co. Inc. Mr. Ranieri serves as a trustee of Environmental Defense, as a director of The Metropolitan Opera Association and is chairman of the board of the American Ballet Theatre.

  • Anthony D. Romero

    Anthony Romero is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He is an attorney with a history of public-interest activism and has presided over the most successful membership growth in the ACLU’s history. In 2005, Mr. Romero was named one of Time Magazine’s 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America. He is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the City University of New York School of Law and has received dozens of other public service awards.

  • Marion O. Sandler, Chairman of the Board

    In 1963, Marion Sandler along with her husband Herbert founded Golden West Financial Corporation, a California savings and loan holding company with two offices and $34 million in assets. In 2006, when Wachovia Bank acquired the company, Golden West was the second largest savings and loan in the country and had grown to $124 billion in assets and 500 offices nationwide. Under the Sandlers' joint leadership, Golden West was considered to be one of the best managed financial institutions in the country by many industry observers. Fortune magazine ranked Golden West as the nation's most admired mortgage services company, and on seven separate occasions named Golden West America's most admired savings institution. Mrs. Sandler was one of only nine women CEO's of a Fortune 500 company. She is currently President of the Sandler Foundation, a major philanthropic organization.

  • Dean L. Smith, Executive Director

    Dean Smith has directed, managed and supervised marketing programs in large corporate environments for over 30 years. He has been a marketing consultant to several of the largest consumer products companies in the country and built and managed the customer communications, marketing and product management activities for almost two decades for Golden West Financial Corporation (GWFC). He was an important member of the management team which built GWFC into the nation's second largest thrift institution with $124 billion in assets at the time it was acquired by Wachovia Bank.

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