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Stephen Howell, Chair, Board of Directors Howell is a Vice President and the Chief Financial Officer of The Nature Conservancy. He has served on a number of not-for-profit boards, and was a founding member of the Business Volunteers for the Arts program of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington. He was awarded one of the inaugural outstanding volunteer service awards for his efforts. Frank Hicks, Board of Directors Hicks is the Director, Business Development Facility, at Forest Trends, an international non-profit organization that promotes sustainable forest management and conservation. The Business Development Facility is a consulting service that provides technical assistance to forest operators interested in developing revenue streams from non-timber and ecosystem services and products. Prior to his current position, Hicks was the Director of the Rainforest Alliance’s Sustainable Agriculture Program, a Vice President with Organic Commodity Products, a Program Director with TechnoServe in Ghana, served as the Regional Representative for the Biodiversity Conservation Network (BCN), and worked as a Program Officer for the Ford Foundation. Hicks has a Masters in Public Policy degree, with a focus in international development, from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Tara C. Kenney, Board of Directors and Investment Committee Kenney, Managing Director for Deutsche Asset Management, is currently head of institutional business development in Latin America. Prior to that, Kenney spent 13 years as a portfolio manager for Deutsche/Scudder's Latin American equity portfolios, responsible for managing over $US 3 billion in assets. Kenney began her career in Latin America at Bankers Trust. She was involved with the firm's corporate finance activities in the Andean region, including mergers and acquisitions and capital markets activities. In addition, she represented the bank as its principal negotiator for the Mexican and Brazilian Brady Plans. In the 1980s, Kenney was instrumental in the debt restructuring for the bank's exposure to Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Peru. Prior to her career in commercial banking, she worked in microenterprise finance for the Inter-American Development Bank. Kenney received her MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business and her BA from the University of Notre Dame. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Accion International, a leading microcredit non-profit organization, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and the World Education and Development Fund. Michael Murray, Board of Directors Murray is a founding partner of New Millennium Partners, a venture capital fund that focuses on both early stage startup funds and late stage mezzanine deals. Prior to founding New Millennium Partners, Murray was the Managing Director of Brøderbund Software's Online Venture Fund and General Manager of their online business unit. Murray gained 12 years of significant general management experience at Pacific Bell in such areas as sales, strategy, engineering, product development, sales management, datacommunications, and broadband. Murray holds an Executive MBA from Tuck, Dartmouth’s Business School. Tammy E. Newmark, Board of Directors and Investment Committee Newmark heads the fund management team at the Conservancy for EcoEnterprises Fund. Before joining the Conservancy, Newmark led Technoserve, Inc.’s environmental business advisory services in Latin America and Africa. Prior to that, she was a founding officer and vice-president of the Environmental Enterprises Assistance Fund, a nonprofit venture capital fund that specializes in environmental investments in Asia and Latin America. She established Yayasan Bina Usaha Lingkungan, and Preferred Energy Investments in Indonesia and the Philippines, respectively. She has also worked for the International Finance Corporation in Washington, D.C., and The Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. Newmark has an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Bradford Northrup, Board of Directors Northrup, who has been with The Nature Conservancy for over twenty-five years, is currently the Director, Conservation Strategies Group. Prior to that, he was the Vice President and Director of the Mid-Atlantic Division. As Vice President of the Conservancy’s Eastern Region for eight years, he supervised land acquisition and stewardship activities regionally and initiated ten state conservation programs. As Vice President of the Conservancy’s Support Service Division for seven years, Northrup directed the organization’s finances, personnel program, data processing, and training and planning activities. He was Director of the Conservancy’s new Caribbean Regional Program from 1989 to 1996. Judy Oglethorpe, Board of Directors and Investment Committee Oglethorpe is currently the Director of Conservation Strategies at World Wildlife Fund-US. Before that she served as the executive director of the Biodiversity Support Program, a collaborative project of the Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund and World Resources Institute that supports on-the-ground conservation projects integrating social and economic development, research and analysis, and information exchange and outreach. Oglethorpe has 15 years experience in wildlife and natural forest management; policy formulation; tourism development; environmental impact assessment; institutional development; and project appraisal and evaluation. Daniel Shepherd, Board of Directors and Investment Committee Shepherd joined the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) as an environmental specialist in February 1999. Before joining the IDB, he was a member of the Climate Change Team of the World Bank, where he developed a renewable energy policy tool for less-developed countries that utilizes Global Environment Facility resources. Shepherd has held research positions at the Smithsonian Institution and the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, Kenya. Richard P. Schifter, Board of Directors Schifter has been a managing partner of Texas Pacific Group since 1994, and of Newbridge Latin America, a venture capital fund since its formation in 1996. Prior to joining Texas Pacific Group, Schifter was a partner at the law firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C., where he specialized in bankruptcy law and corporate restructuring. He joined Arnold & Porter in 1979 and was a partner from 1986 through 1994. Schifter is a member of the District of Columbia Bar and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1978. He received a B.A. with distinction from George Washington University in 1975. Antonia E. Stolper, Board of Directors Stolper is
a partner with Shearman & Sterling, LLP, based in New York City. Her
practice focuses primarily on corporate finance transactions in emerging
markets. She has extensive registered public offering experience for
foreign private issuers. Recently, her practice has focused on debt and
equity securities offerings for Latin American issuers, representing both
underwriters and issuers, and on restructuring transactions in
Latin America, representing issuers, dealer managers, and creditors. In addition, she
advises a number of foreign and domestic issuers on their ongoing SEC
reporting requirements, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and corporate governance
matters. Stolper received her B.A from Yale University and her J.D. from New York University School of Law. Maria Teresa Szauer, Board of Directors and Investment Committee Szauer is Director of Environment at the Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF) in charge of developing both environmental and social programs of the institution. As a consultant on sustainable development and impact assessment, she has worked for private, urban, and infrastructure sector projects, as well as for international agencies such as the World Bank, UNDP, and IDB. She participated in the definition and final editing of the environmental and human rights chapter of the preparatory phase of the 1991 Colombian Constitution. Szauer has a Master of Science degree from the University of London. She holds a Biology degree from the Universidad de los Andes of Colombia.
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