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Orin Kramer has managed Boston Provident Partners, a financial services hedge fund, since 1992. He is also
Chairman of the New Jersey State Investment Council, the oversight board for the state’s public pension system, and
serves on Pennsylvania’s Financial Asset Management Commission. Kramer is a member of the board of the Alliance
for Climate Protection and has served as a director of three financial firms: Ariel (current), Tempest Re and Golden State
Bancorp. He has taught at Columbia Law School and written two books on insurance issues. He has served as executive
director of three state commissions involving financial industry issues (in New York and California); was associate
director of the White House domestic policy staff for financial industry issues; and co-chaired President Clinton’s
financial services transition team. Kramer graduated from Yale College and Columbia Law School.
Keith Krueger is CEO of the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a U.S. nonprofit organization that serves
as the voice of K-12 technology leaders, especially school district officials who make strategic use of technology to
improve teaching and learning. In 2008 he was honored by eSchool News as one of “Ten Who Have Made a Difference”
in education technology over the past decade. He serves on the advisory boards for eSchool News, Scholastic
Administr@tor magazine and the Friday Institute at North Carolina State University; he is also a past board member
for the Organizations Concerned About Rural Education’s National Committee on Technology in Education & Training.
Krueger has served on joint EU-U.S., United Nations and G8 information and communications panel, and has organized
senior-level U.S. delegations to visit Australia, Asia and Europe to examine best practices in educational technology.
Barbara Krumsiek is President, CEO and Chair of the Calvert Group Ltd., an investment management firm
headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, that manages $12 billion in assets including equity, bond and money market
portfolios. She also serves as director and chair of Acacia Life Insurance Company. Krumsiek serves on the boards of
PEPCO Holdings Inc., the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation (as vice chair), the Economic Club of Washington,
D.C., and the Federal City Council. She previously chaired the Greater Washington Board of Trade. In June 2008 the
Washington Business Journal honored her with the CEO Leadership Award in the large company category, and in
2007 Washingtonian magazine included her among the “150 Most Influential People in Washington, D.C” and among
“Washington, D.C.’s 100 Most Powerful Women” in 2006.
Mike Krzyzewski has been the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Duke University for 29 seasons, after serving as
head coach at his alma mater, the United States Military Academy, for five years. He has tallied 833 career victories to
rank fourth all-time in NCAA Division I history. The Blue Devils have won three national championships (1991, 1992,
2001) under “Coach K.” He has been named National Coach of the Year in eight seasons, while leading Duke to 25 NCAA
Tournament appearances and 10 Final Four trips. Krzyzewski is the winningest coach in NCAA Tournament history,
with 71 victories. He has also experienced success at the highest level on the international scene, leading the U.S. Men’s
Senior National Team to capture the gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Krzyzewski has been honored as
the USA Basketball National Coach of the Year three times in his career.
David Kuplic is the Chief Investment Officer of Securian Financial Group, where he oversees $23 billion in investment
assets under management. Securian is one of the most highly rated life insurance and asset-management groups in
the United States. Kuplic is also executive vice president of Advantus Capital Management, an asset-management firm
that manages more than $16 billion for institutional clients and is an affiliate of Securian. He is responsible for insurance
portfolio management and the investment research, trading, finance and operations, and legal and compliance areas
of Advantus. Since starting in the investment industry in 1984, Kuplic has specialized in fixed-income investment
management, developing deep expertise in fixed-income money management. His experience includes mutual fund
and life insurance company portfolio management, research oversight and investment analysis.
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Joel Kurtzman is a Senior Fellow at the Milken Institute and Executive Director of SAVE (the Strategic Action Volunteer
Effort). Previously he was global lead partner for thought leadership and innovation at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He
has also served as executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, a member of the editorial board of Harvard Business
School Publishing, a business editor and columnist at The New York Times and founding editor of Strategy+Business.
Kurtzman began his career as an international economist at the United Nations, where he was deputy director of the
U.N.’s Project on the Future. While at the U.N., he participated in negotiations between India and Union Carbide over the
Bhopal disaster. For these efforts, he was awarded India’s Indira Gandhi Prize. Kurtzman is the author of 20 books and
hundreds of articles. He received a master’s degree from the University of Houston and was the recipient of a Moody
Foundation Fellowship.
Yair Landau is the former President of Sony Pictures Digital and the former Vice Chairman of Sony Pictures
Entertainment. Under his direction, Sony Pictures Imageworks developed into a leading, state-of-the-art digital
animation and visual effects company, creating computer-generated imaging (CGI) for motion pictures. During the
past several years, Landau grew Sony Online Entertainment into a worldwide leader in massively multiplayer online
games, with a subscriber base of more than 750,000 active accounts. At Sony Pictures Digital, he drove the company’s
expansion into the digital marketplace via Sonypictures.com and the creation of mobile games and personalization
products, casual games and video. Landau is currently a venture partner at Jerusalem Venture Partners. He uses his
expertise in the digital content and gaming industries to guide the portfolio companies he is currently advising, which
include Double Fusion, Animation Lab, iContaqt and Infinite Memories.
Deborah Landis is a costume designer whose Hollywood credits include “Animal House,” “The Blues Brothers,”
“Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” music video, “Trading Places” and “Coming to America,” for
which she received an Academy Award nomination. Her costume for Indiana Jones is on permanent display at the
Smithsonian Institution. She is the author of three books: Screencraft: Costume Design, 50 Costumes/50 Designers:
Concept to Character and Dressed: A Century of Hollywood Costume. She served two terms as president of the Costume
Designers Guild. Landis is the David C. Copley Professor of Costume Design at the School of Theater, Film and Television
at the University of California, Los Angeles, and lectures at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic
Arts and the American Film Institute. She received a Ph.D. from the Royal College of Art.
John Landis is an acclaimed filmmaker, with such classics as “National Lampoon’s Animal House,” “The Blues
Brothers,” “Trading Places,” “Kentucky Fried Movie,” “Three Amigos” and “Coming to America” among his long list of
directing credits. Though known for his comedies, Landis also wrote and directed the 1981 horror classic “An American
Werewolf in London.” Two years later, he raised the bar for music videos with the revolutionary “Michael Jackson’s
Thriller.” Landis collaborated again with Jackson in 1991 on “Black or White.” After producing and directing more than
800 hours of television, including shows like HBO’s “Dream On” and Disney’s “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” he has recently
turned his talents to documentaries, including “Slasher,” which follows the exploits of a used-car salesman, and the
Emmy-winning “Mr. Warmth, The Don Rickles Project.” Landis will be directing “Burke and Hare” for Ealing Studios in
Edinburgh and London this summer.
Brent Lane is Director of the University of North Carolina Center for Competitive Economies and an Adjunct
Professor at the university’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Before he joined UNC in 2004, his professional life bridged
the worlds of venture capital, R&D commercialization and entrepreneurial development. At UNC he draws on scholarly
business research to design capital market solutions to global challenges. He has pioneered research techniques to
identify global growth firms and design investment strategies capitalizing on emergent industry opportunities. Lane
is currently working with several international organizations on sustainable business development strategies that
preserve sensitive natural and cultural World Heritage sites while enhancing their value to regional economies and
benefiting local peoples. He holds bachelor’s degrees in both physical and social sciences and master’s degrees in
science policy and business administration.
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