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Max Azria is Chairman, CEO and Designer of BCBGMaxAzria Group Inc., which he founded in 1989. Redefining the
designer apparel category by offering innovative, high-quality clothing at contemporary price points, Azria named the
company for the phrase bon chic, bon genre, Parisian slang meaning “good style, good attitude.” The brand combines
European sophistication and American spirit. In 1996, Azria began to expand his product categories and launched
a global branding corporation. Today, BCBGMaxAzria Group designs, develops, produces and markets collections
of women’s ready-to-wear and accessories, and select categories for men. The group encompasses a portfolio of 21
brands, including BCBG Max Azria, Max Azria, Max Azria Atelier, Hervé Léger by Max Azria, BCBGirls and BCBGeneration,
among others, and a retail and wholesale network of more than 1,000 boutiques and 13,500 points of sale worldwide.
Lee Bailey is Managing Partner of US Renewables Group, which was formed with the participation of Rustic Canyon
Partners, a venture capital fund where Bailey was a partner and continues to serve as an advisory partner on energy
technology opportunities. He is chairman of SolarReserve and also serves on the boards of Pentadyne (where he is
also an investor), Transonic Combustion, USRG Geothermal, USRG Biodiesel Group and USRG. Previously Bailey was
the founding CEO of the Rural Health Care Corp. and founding director of the U.S. Israel Fund. He has also served as
the White House Director of International Science and Technology Commercialization initiatives for Russia, Egypt,
Jordan, Israel and South Africa. Bailey received a bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University, a master’s degree from
Northwestern University and a law degree from Washington University School of Law.
Shawn Baldwin is Chairman of Capital Management Group (CMG), a firm that provides advisory and investment
banking services to institutions. Since 2002 the company has participated in 75 capital market transactions worth more
than $68 billion. Baldwin is a frequent guest on Bloomberg, CNN, CNBC, NBC and CBS. He has been featured in The
Economist, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fortune and Money magazines, and was named one of 40 leading investment bankers
under 40 by Investment Dealers’ Digest. Prior to CMG, Baldwin was chief operating officer of a registered investment
advisory firm and worked for American Express and U.S. Bank. He also has the distinction of being the second African-
American member of the Chicago Stock Exchange. Baldwin has a bachelor’s degree from Antioch University and a
master’s degree in financial strategy from the University of Oxford.
Larry Band is a consultant to the Environmental Defense Fund, focusing on its Ocean Enterprise initiative. He
previously worked at Lehman Brothers in a number of different roles. He spent 17 years as an investment banker
advising corporations on a wide variety of strategic and financing transactions, focusing primarily on firms in the
telecommunications, technology and industrial sectors. His experience also included management responsibility for
the global telecommunications banking practice and the global technology mergers and acquisition practice. Band
also served as a senior member of Lehman’s human capital management team as global head of recruiting, with
responsibility for talent management for junior professionals across the firm. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, he
worked as a management consultant for Bain & Company and as a policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.
He received bachelor’s degrees from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Peter Barker-Homek is CEO of TAQA, the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company. He is driving the firm’s global
growth agenda in upstream oil and gas, pipelines, gas storage, LNG (liquefied natural gas) regasification systems
and power generation. Barker-Homek has more than 27 years of experience and has been involved in more than
$30 billion of energy-related transactions. He joined TAQA from BP PLC, where he was a senior advisor in the Mergers and
Acquisitions division, leading and advising on upstream, midstream, downstream, chemicals, mining and renewable
transactions. He has held positions with BG International as director of worldwide downstream gas distribution
development, and with Pacific Enterprises as vice president of development for Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Previously, he worked with Merrill Lynch in its Capital Markets Group. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Polytechnic
University of New York and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.
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Steve Barr is Founder, Chairman and former CEO of Green Dot Public Schools, which he founded in 1999 to develop
charter schools in Los Angeles. The first school opened in fall 2000; most recently, Green Dot restructured one Watts high
school into eight small charter schools in 2008. Barr also serves on the Advisory Commission on Charter Schools for the
California Board of Education. He has held a number of leadership positions in political and social service organizations.
In 1990, he co-founded Rock the Vote and led the successful effort to pass the Motor Voter Bill, signed into law in 1994.
Barr hosted President Clinton’s National Service Inaugural event, which led to the creation of AmeriCorps, and oversaw
an AmeriCorps after-school project in South Central and East Los Angeles. Barr, also a writer, is politically active, having
served several presidential campaigns and acted as a finance chair for the Democratic Party.
Timothy Barrett is Executive Director and Chief Investment Officer of the San Bernardino County Employees’
Retirement Association (SBCERA). He was recently elected vice president of the State Association of County Retirement
Systems. Under his direction, SBCERA was named Mid-Sized Public Plan of the Year for 2007 by Money Management
Letter. Barrett was formerly SBCERA’s investment manager and began his career there as a project manager, splitting time
between technology and investment work. He serves on the European Strategic Partners Advisory Board of Standard
Life Investments and the Lehman Brothers Secondary Opportunity Fund, and is a board member of The Children’s Fund.
A member of the CFA Institute and a charter holder of the CFA designation, Barrett earned a bachelor’s degree from the
University of Montana and a master’s degree in financial and tax planning from San Diego State University.
James Barth is the Senior Finance Fellow at the Milken Institute and the Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance at
Auburn University. His research focuses on financial institutions and capital markets, with an emphasis on regulatory
issues. He recently led an international team advising the People’s Bank of China on banking reform. Barth previously
served as chief economist of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and later of the Office of Thrift Supervision. He has
been a professor at George Washington University, associate director of the economics program at the National Science
Foundation and the Shaw Foundation Professor of Banking and Finance at Nanyang Technological University. Barth is
the author of multiple books, including The Great Savings and Loan Debacle and Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels
Govern; his latest, published this spring, is The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets. Barth received a Ph.D.
from Ohio State University.
Frank Baxter served as U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay from November 2006 to January 2009. He is also Chairman
Emeritus at Jefferies & Company Inc., a global investment bank specializing in small and midcap companies. After a
decade with Jefferies, Baxter moved to London in 1984 to start and act as managing director of Jefferies International.
In 1987 he became CEO of Jefferies and started the Investment Technology Group, now a major electronic institutional
brokerage. A former director of the NASD, he chaired the committee that led to the spin-off of NASDAQ and
subsequently served on the board of NASDAQ as a member of the Executive Committee. He is also a former director
of the Securities Industry Association. His numerous civic activities include serving as chairman of After-School All
Stars and of the Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools. Baxter received a bachelor’s degree from the University of
California, Berkeley.
Billy Beane is Vice President and General Manager of the Oakland Athletics. During his tenure, the A’s have compiled
a 976-804 record over the last 11 seasons, winning four AL West titles and securing one AL Wild Card spot. Under Beane,
the A’s have adopted an organizational philosophy that stresses plate discipline and pitchers who command the
strike zone. Beane’s executive talents and baseball philosophy were the subject of Michael Lewis’s best-selling book
Moneyball; as a result, Beane is regularly asked to address top companies on his management approach of identifying
and using undervalued assets to create and sustain a competitive edge. He originally joined the A’s front office staff
in 1990 as a major league advance scout. Beane played six major league seasons with the Mets, Twins, Tigers and A’s,
ultimately serving as a utility player on the A’s 1989 world championship team.
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