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Todd Boehly is Managing Partner at Guggenheim Partners LLC. He joined the firm in 2001 to manage and build its
leveraged credit investing activities; he has grown the leveraged credit assets under management from $3 billion to
approximately $14 billion. In addition, he spearheaded the firm’s activities in the middle-market direct lending arena,
where Guggenheim has originated more than $7 billion of proprietary investment opportunities. Boehly is currently
chairman of the firm’s Credit Committee and is a member of its Management Committee and Merchant Banking
Investment Committee. Before joining Guggenheim, he was a vice president at J.H. Whitney & Co., where he developed
the firm’s leveraged loan investing program and co-founded the Shelter Rock Capital Corp., established by Whitney for
its CDO restructuring and takeover activities. He previously worked in the Leveraged Finance Group at Credit Suisse
First Boston. Boehly received a bachelor’s degree from the College of William & Mary.
Dale Bonner is Secretary of the California Business, Transportation and Housing Agency (BT&H), a position to which
he was appointed by the governor in 2007. He oversees more than 44,500 employees and budget of $12 billion. The
agency’s portfolio addresses transportation issues, public safety, affordable housing, international trade, financial
services, tourism and managed health care. As the lead state agency for economic development, BT&H strives to
enhance California’s role in the global economy. Bonner most recently served as a partner in the law firm Epstein Becker
& Green from 2002 to 2007. From 1999 to 2002, he was counsel to the law firm Hogan & Hartson. He served as deputy
secretary and general counsel for BT&H from 1996 to 1998. Bonner received a bachelor’s degree from the University of
Southern California and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
Michael Boskin is the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at
Stanford University. He is also a research associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. From 1989 to 1993,
he served as chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers; in that role he originated NAFTA, introduced
emissions trading into the Clean Air Act, helped resolve the Third World Debt and S&L financial crises and placed
controls on government spending. He chaired the Commission on the Consumer Price Index, whose report has
transformed the way government statistical agencies around the world measure inflation, GDP and productivity. An
adviser to governments and businesses, he also serves on several corporate and philanthropic boards. Boskin received
bachelor’s and master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Maria Boyazny is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Siguler Guff & Company, a New York-based private
equity firm with assets under management of more than $7.5 billion. She oversees Siguler Guff’s flagship Distressed
Opportunities Fund, which has assets under management of more than $4 billion and is one of the largest institutional
fund-of-funds focused on distressed and turnaround investing around the world. Boyazny designs fund strategy,
identifies investments and negotiates terms and conditions. She is a member of Siguler Guff’s Investment Committee
and serves on the advisory boards of many firms investing in restructuring and distressed situations in the United
States, Asia and Europe. Prior to joining the firm in 1997, Boyazny was a member of the Investment Banking Division
of Smith Barney Inc. Boyazny graduated with a degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania and received an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
Alan Boyce is CEO of Absalon, a joint venture between George Soros and the Danish financial system that is assisting
in the organization of a standardized mortgage-backed securities market in Mexico. He is also president of Adecoagro,
a food and renewable energy–producing company that owns and operates highly productive land throughout
Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, and a consultant for Soros Fund Management, where he works to implement the Danish
mortgage system in the United States. Boyce was formerly the director of special situations at Soros Fund Management,
where he managed a portfolio of assets of the Quantum Fund and had principal operational responsibilities for the
bulk of the fund’s investments in South America. Before joining Soros Fund Management, Boyce served as managing
director in charge of fixed-income arbitrage with Bankers Trust. He previously worked for the Federal Reserve Board in
Washington, D.C.
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Thomas Boysen is Chief Learning Officer for GlobalScholar. He began teaching in a remote boarding school in
Kenya and later served as a school superintendent for 20 years in Washington State, New York and California, eventually
becoming San Diego County’s superintendent of schools. As the first Kentucky commissioner of education, Boysen led
the implementation of the landmark Kentucky Education Reform Act. After leaving Kentucky, he has served as senior
vice president of the Milken Family Foundation, chief operating officer of the Los Angeles Unified School District and
senior vice president of K12 Inc, a learning systems company. Boysen has served on numerous national boards and
commissions and speaks and writes on school reform matters. He received a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University
and a Ph.D. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Joseph Boystak is President and CEO of Brightwaters Capital LLC, a Los Angeles–based venture capital firm
specializing in life sciences, nanotechnology and clean technology, with a particular emphasis on funding and
commercializing academic research from colleges and universities. He is currently co-founder and chairman of
WaterStyle Holdings Inc., a spin-out from the University of California, Los Angeles, in water technology; of NanoPacific
Holdings Inc., a spin-out from UCLA in nanotechnology; of Bruin Biometrics Inc., a spin-out from UCLA in medical
devices; and a board member of Exosome Diagnostics Inc., a spin-out from Harvard University in diagnostics. Boystak
serves on the Health Advisory Board at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received a bachelor’s
degree from Boston University and a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Harold Bradley is Chief Investment Officer of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where he leads a team
overseeing a $1.4 billion globally diversified, multi-asset-class portfolio. He currently serves on the NYSE Pension
Managers Advisory Committee. Bradley began his career as marketing officer for the Kansas City Board of Trade,
where he helped launch the world’s first stock index futures contract. He has served as a member of the Investment
Company Institute Task Force on Market Structure and was appointed by SEC Chairman Arthur Levitt to the Federal
Advisory Committee on Market Data. He also served on the Institutional Traders Advisory Committee of the NYSE, the
NASDAQ Quality of Markets Committee and on the executive committee overseeing the development of the Financial
Information Exchange (FIX) protocol. Bradley graduated from Marquette University and has completed the Harvard
Kennedy School program on investment decisions and behavioral finance.
Laurie Brand is Director of the School of International Relations at the University of Southern California, where
she also a Professor. She previously directed the Center for International Studies at USC from 1997 to 2000. In 2004 she
served as president of the Middle East Studies Association. A four-time Fulbright scholar to the Middle East and North
Africa, and presently a Carnegie scholar, she focuses on the role of Arab nationalism and Islam in the construction
of national narratives. She has conducted field research in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Kuwait, Jordan, Syria and
Lebanon. Brand is the author of Citizens Abroad: States and Emigration in the Middle East and North Africa; Women, the
State and Political Liberalization; Jordan’s Inter-Arab Relations; and Palestinians in the Arab World. She has a bachelor’s
degree in French from Georgetown University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Andrew Breitbart runs the news portals Breitbart.com and Breitbart.tv. His latest endeavor, “Big Hollywood,” is
a group blog on Hollywood and politics, written from a center/right perspective, on Breitbart.com. His column of the
same name appears weekly in The Washington Times. Breitbart co-wrote Hollywood, Interrupted, the best-selling attack
on celebrity culture. He was also a primary developer of The Huffington Post.
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