Board of Directors
Accion's board of directors brings to the organization diverse experience from both the private and public sectors, including commercial and investment banking, corporate and nonprofit management, and international community development.
Officers
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Chair
Diana Taylor
Managing Director, Wolfensohn Fund Management LP
Co-Vice Chair
Titus Brenninkmeijer
President, Solgenix LLC
Co-Vice Chair
Henry Miller
COO, Goodman Media International, Inc.
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Secretary
Anne Stetson
President, Lighthouse Consulting
Treasurer
Russell B. Faucett
General Partner, Barrington Partners
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Directors
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Thomas C. Barry
Founder and CEO, Zephyr Management
Nancy Birdsall
President, Center for Global Development
Amy Butte
Founder and CEO, TILE Financial
Roberto Dañino
Deputy Chairman of the Board, Hochschild Mining, PLC
John G. Heimann
Founding Chairman, Financial Stability Institute
Former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency
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Joseph Hill
Former Senior Associate General Counsel & Regional Head of Latin America at MetLife
Tara Kenney
Managing Director, Deutsche Asset Management, Inc.
Gabriel Rozman
Executive Vice President, Emerging Markets, TATA Consultancy Services
Barbara Lucas
Partner, Luness Partners, LLC
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Directors Emeriti
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Michael Chu
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School;
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Ignia
Robert Helander
Managing Partner, InterConsult LLP
Daniel R. Martin
Associate Professor, Pace University
*List as of June 30, 2012
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui
Managing Partner, Ignia
John W. Scott
Retired Corporate Vice President, CPC International
Nancy Sherwood Truitt
President, Truitt Enterprises, Inc. |
Board of Directors Bios
Diana Taylor
Managing Director, Wolfensohn Fund Management LP
Diana Taylor joined Wolfensohn Fund Management LP, a strategic consulting and investment firm, in 2007, prior to which she served as New York State superintendent of banks and chairwoman of the New York State Banking Board. Before her government service, she worked in the private sector as vice president for KeySpan Energy and as an investment banker with Smith Barney, Lehman Brothers and Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette.
Diana serves on the boards of Citigroup, Brookfield Asset Management and Sotheby's. She also serves on several charitable boards. She chairs the boards of Accion International, Hudson River Park Trust, New York Women’s Foundation and the YMCA of Greater New York. Other board memberships include Dartmouth College, the Mailman School of Public Health and the International Women's Health Coalition. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York.
She earned her AB from Dartmouth College, her MBA from the Columbia School of Business, and her MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia.
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Roberto Dañino
Deputy Chairman of the Board, Hochschild Mining, PLC
Roberto Dañino is a Peruvian attorney who currently serves as Deputy Chairman of Hochschild Mining PLC, a gold and silver producer listed in London, and Chairman of Fosfatos del Pacífico, listed in Lima. He also serves as independent director in the boards of various corporations and non-profits in Peru, South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States.
He has practiced as an international corporate lawyer for more than 30 years, most recently as a Partner at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering LLP, now Wilmer Hale LLP, where he headed the Latin American Practice.
In the public sector, he served as Prime Minister of Peru and Ambassador of Peru to the United States and, early in his career, as Secretary General of Economy, Finance and Trade.
In the multilateral world, he was the founding General Counsel of the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC), the private sector affiliate of the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC. He later served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of the World Bank Group, and as Secretary General of ICSID, the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes.
He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and the Catholic University of Peru. He is married to Pauline Beck, and they have four sons.
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John G. Heimann
Founding Chairman, Financial Stability Institute
Former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency
John Heimann’s career has spanned both the private and public sectors. He is Senior Advisor to the Financial Stability Institute (FSI), of which he was the founding chairman in 1999. The FSI is a joint initiative of the Swiss-based Bank for International Settlements and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, whose mission is to promote better and more independent supervision of the banking, capital markets and insurance industries by supervisory authorities around the globe, primarily for supervisors of transitional and emerging growth economies.
From 1984 to 1999, Mr. Heimann acted as chairman of the Financial Institutions Group of Merrill Lynch & Company, and also served as member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Prior to that, Mr. Heimann served as United States Comptroller of the Currency. In this capacity, he was a member of the Board of Directors of the FDIC, and was acting chairman for one year. He chaired the Federal Financial Institutions Examinations Council. Prior to becoming Comptroller, Mr. Heimann was appointed Superintendent of Banks of New York State and Commissioner of Housing of Community Renewal of New York State.
In 1967, he was a founding partner of the private equity firm of Warburg, Pincus LLC.
He is a director and trustee of the Urban Assembly; treasurer and trustee of the Nasher Foundation; director of The American Ditchley Foundation; and a member of the Group of Thirty. Additionally, he is a member of the board of directors of Interaudi Bank and Newsmith Capital Group. Mr. Heimann is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Russell Faucett
General Partner, Barrington Partners
Russell Faucett is the general partner of Barrington Partners, an investment company that trades debt and equity securities of public companies in financial difficulty. Prior to his current activities, he was a general partner of an investment banking company for middle market companies, an advisor to several major California commercial banks, an executive vice president of a commercial finance company, and a president of a venture capital company.
In addition to his business and investment activities, Mr. Faucett works with several non-profit organizations, as a member of their board of directors, assisting them in strategic planning and financial management. Mr. Faucett graduated with distinction from Pomona College with a bachelor of arts in physics and obtained a master of science in Industrial Management from MIT.
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Tara Kenney
Managing Director, Deutsche Asset Management, Inc.
Tara Kenney is a managing director for Deutsche Asset Management, Inc., and has acted as a portfolio manager for Scudder's Latin American equity product for over seven years. Ms. Kenney's group has approximately US $1.5 billion under management in Latin America. In March of 2001, she was made a co-manager of Scudder's Emerging Markets equity products. Prior to joining Scudder, Ms. Kenney was employed by Bankers Trust in their Latin America Merchant Bank from 1987-1994. She was involved with the firm’s corporate finance activities in the Andean region, including mergers and acquisitions and capital markets activities.
Ms. Kenney earned a MBA in finance from New York University's Stern School of Business in 1991. She holds bachelor’s degrees in political science and Spanish from the University of Notre Dame and did post-graduate work in economics at the Pontifica Universidad Catolica of Peru.
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Thomas C. Barry
Founder and CEO, Zephyr Management
Thomas Barry is the president and chief executive officer of Zephyr Management, L.P., an investment management company which he founded in 1994. Zephyr sponsors 13 specialized investment funds with approximately US $2 billion in committed capital. Zephyr’s private equity funds invest in Mexico, Africa (Kingdom Zephyr Africa Management Company) and India; debt of housing and healthcare facilities in the US. Zephyr’s marketable securities funds invest in stock markets of developing countries.
Prior to founding Zephyr, Mr. Barry was president and CEO of Rockefeller & Co., the investment management arm of the Rockefeller family, from 1983 to 1993. Previously, Mr. Barry was employed by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. from 1969 to 1982.
Mr. Barry received a MBA from Harvard Business School in 1969 and an undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1966 where he majored in Latin American studies. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
Mr. Barry is active in numerous nonprofit institutions. Currently, he serves as a director/ trustee of TechnoServe, Trickle-Up and the Kucetekela Foundation. He was a trustee of Princeton-in-Africa from 2004-2007.
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Nancy Birdsall
President, Center for Global Development
Nancy Birdsall is the founding president of the Center for Global Development. Prior to launching the center, Dr. Birdsall served for three years as senior associate and director of the Economic Reform Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her work at Carnegie focused on issues of globalization and inequality, as well as on the reform of the international financial institutions.
From 1993 to 1998, Dr. Birdsall was executive vice-president of the Inter-American Development Bank, the largest of the regional development banks, where she oversaw a US $30 billion public and private loan portfolio. Before joining the Inter-American Development Bank, she spent 14 years in research, policy, and management positions at the World Bank, most recently as director of the Policy Research Department.
Dr. Birdsall is the author, co-author, or editor of more than a dozen books and over 100 articles in scholarly journals and monographs, published in English and Spanish. Shorter pieces of her writing have appeared in dozens of U.S. and Latin American newspapers and periodicals. Dr. Birdsall holds a PhD from Yale University, a master's from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a BA from Newton College of the Sacred Heart.
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Titus Brenninkmeijer
President, Solgenix
Titus Brenninkmeijer is a social entrepreneur whose work has focused on assisting global entrepreneurs to grow sustainable businesses through the development of commercially viable applications. Mr. Brenninkmeijer’s experience in international retail allows him to leverage deep knowledge of consumer behavior and trends to help his partners successfully target current and future consumer needs. Before entering the solar energy industry in 2003, he spent twenty-five years in the retail industry in the UK, Germany, Spain, Brazil and the US.
In 2005, Mr. Brenninkmeijer founded Solgenix, an investment company with a focus on privately-held solar energy companies in developed as well as emerging markets. He is also a co-founding member and sits on the steering committee of the REDCO Alliance (Rural Energy Delivery Companies), a group of 13 solar energy entrepreneurs from Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Mr. Brenninkmeijer serves as chairman of the Energy Access Foundation, which he co-founded in 2006. The EAF is a nonprofit organization devoted to providing support and funding for innovation in clean energy delivery in the rural marketplace in emerging markets.
He is a board member and partner of Phatenergy, a company focused on the installation of solar systems in Southern California, and Pod Generating Group, a Canadian company installing utility-scale solar systems in Canada and the US. He is a board member of TechnoServe, a nonprofit that works with agricultural entrepreneurs in emerging markets.
Mr. Brenninkmeijer holds a BA from Boston College, a MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and resides with his family in a solar-powered home in Pasadena, California.
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Amy Butte
Founder and CEO, TILE Financial
Amy Butte is the founder and CEO of TILE Financial – an online portal that helps financial institutions and parents educate the next generation of high net worth investors. She is the former chief financial officer and member of the board of directors of MF Global. She joined the company in 2006 to spearhead the spin-out and IPO of the former Man Financial from Man Group.
Before joining Man Financial, Ms. Butte was chief financial officer and executive vice president of the New York Stock Exchange from 2004 to 2006, where she served on the executive management committee and helped lead the company through its transition to a public company and the historic deal with Archipelago. From 2002 to 2003, she was chief strategist and chief financial officer of Credit Suisse First Boston’s Financial Services Division, which included Credit Suisse Asset Management, CSFB Private Client, and the correspondent clearing business, Pershing, preceding its sale to Bank of New York. Prior to that, she was a highly regarded equity research analyst covering the financial services industry as a senior managing director at Bear Stearns from 1999 to 2002. Ms. Butte began her equity research career at Merrill Lynch.
Ms. Butte has a bachelor’s degree in political science and psychology from Yale University and a MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. She is a board member of the Corporate Advisory Board of the New York City Ballet, and the National Organization of Investment Professionals (NOIP), as well as a selected participant in the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders program.
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Joseph Hill
Former Senior Associate General Counsel & Regional Head of Latin America at MetLife
Joseph Hill is the former senior associate general counsel & regional head of Latin America at MetLife. Prior to joining MetLife in January 2006, Mr. Hill was a senior vice president and associate general counsel at JP Morgan Chase & Co., where he worked as the principal attorney for Latin American matters for 12 years. Previously, Mr. Hill was an associate at Mayer Brown in New York and Uría & Menéndez in Spain. He is admitted to practice in both jurisdictions.
He is a member of the New York City Bar Association, where he has served on the Executive Committee and chaired the Committee on Inter-American Affairs. Mr. Hill is also a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds a BA, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Fordham University, and MBA and JD degrees from Columbia University. Mr. Hill is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese.
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Barbara Lucas
Partner, Luness Partners, LLC
Barbara Lucas is a securities and banking lawyer with more than 25 years of experience in law, business and government. A former partner and chairperson of the banking department at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Ms. Lucas has represented major U.S. and foreign banks, broker-dealers, primary dealers, derivatives companies and hedge funds on a wide range of banking, securities, corporate, compliance and governance issues.
Prior to joining Cadwalader, she was general counsel to what was then known as Citicorp's Investment Bank, with responsibility for oversight of all legal and compliance functions in Citi's wholesale securities, commodities, derivatives, structured finance and foreign currency businesses in the US and OECD countries. She also served as chief counsel to the CFTC's Division of Enforcement and director of its Office of Policy Review, as well as special counsel to the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance, in charge of its Corporate Governance Task Force and various regulatory initiatives, including actions culminating in passage of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. A pioneer in the derivatives business and a long-time adviser to all types of financial services companies, she is the author of numerous articles appearing in a wide range of publications.
Ms. Lucas received her undergraduate degree in English from Cornell University and her JD from the Washington College of Law at American University.
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Henry Miller
COO, Goodman Media International, Inc.
Henry Miller has more than two decades of experience in communications and public affairs – managing the reputations, visibility and public policy issues of corporations, government agencies and nonprofit organizations, both domestically and internationally.
In addition, Mr. Miller has served as a managing director at Ogilvy Adams & Rinehart (now Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide), one of the Top 10 public relations firms in the world; as CEO of New York ’92, the nonpartisan nonprofit organization created to manage New York City’s hosting of the 1992 Democratic National Convention; and as deputy chief administrative officer of the City of Atlanta, responsible for external affairs.
Mr. Miller holds MA and BA degrees in sociology from the University of Virginia.
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Gabriel Rozman
Executive Vice President, Emerging Markets, TATA Consultancy Services
From July 2001 to present, Gabriel Rozman has served as president for TATA Consultancy Services (TCS) Iberoamerica, Uruguay, establishing the first CMM5 assessed Software Industry in the region. As a member of the TCS leadership he also participates in the management of global customers and global initiatives. In 2000 he worked as CEO for Softtek International and was a senior advisor for IT Advisory Services, Violy, Byorum and Partners, LLP, advising on financing IT projects, acquisitions, mergers and joint ventures.
Mr. Rozman holds a MBA from the University of California, a bachelor’s degree in business administration from California State University and a Certificate in Data Processing (CDP).
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Anne Stetson
President, Lighthouse Consulting
Anne Stetson serves as general counsel and managing director of a capital management company that advises global investment strategies seeking double- or triple-bottom line returns. From 2001 to 2006, Ms. Stetson consulted to foundations and non-profits working in the fields of global health, human rights, and the environment. Ms. Stetson served as associate general counsel to Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo, an investment firm, from 1998 to 2001. There she specialized in offshore funds and foreign investments. Previously, Ms. Stetson provided counsel to Fidelity Investments, for which she established that firm’s subsidiaries in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, and advised on the firm’s foreign investments. She practiced corporate law in New York at Fox & Horan where she advised foreign and US corporations on cross-border transactions.
Ms. Stetson serves as a director of Physicians for Human Rights, the Vance Center for International Justice, the John Merck Fund, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has published articles in the area of foreign investments, Latin American capital markets, and human rights and constitutional reform in Colombia and China.
Ms. Stetson received a BA in English literature from Yale University, a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International Affairs, and a law degree from Boston University. She also studied at Columbia Law School.
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Directors Emeriti
Michael Chu
Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Ignia
Michael Chu is the co-founder and managing director of Ignia, an investment firm. As of July 1, 2003 Mr. Chu has been appointed senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School, joining the Initiative on Social Enterprises. Previously, Mr. Chu was president and CEO of Accion for six years. Prior to joining the staff, he served on the Board of Accion since 1989. Mr. Chu has extensive private sector experience and serves on the board of various private companies.
He graduated with an AB from Dartmouth College and received a MBA with highest distinction (Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School.
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Robert Helander
Managing Partner, InterConsult LLP
Robert Helander is currently managing partner at Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler. From 1965-76 he worked for International Basic Economy Corporation (IBEC) where he served as group vice president, general counsel, and president and director of several companies associated with IBEC. Mr. Helander is affiliated with a number of organizations with international interest including the Council on Foreign Relations and the Fund for Multinational Management Education. Mr. Helander is also director of the Pan American Society, the Fundacion San Martin de Porres, the Americas Society and the International Center.
Mr. Helander graduated from Amherst College and Harvard Law School.
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Daniel R. Martin
Associate Profesor, Pace University
Daniel Martin is an associate professor at Pace University in New York. He was formerly the president and COO of Milestone Scientific and the president and CEO of E-Z-EM Corporation. Prior to E-Z-EM, Mr. Martin was the president of Sterling Latina, and Sterling Europe, with Sterling Drug, Inc. in New York. Before that he also was president and 50 percent owner of the Howland Martin Corporation in New York. Mr. Martin is a board member of the American Chamber of Commerce in Colombia and Peru, as well as the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association of Peru.
Mr. Martin received a BA in economics from Cornell University and a MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
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John W. Scott
Retired Corporate Vice President, CPC International
John Scott is a retired corporate vice president of CPC International, where he was employed for forty years. While there, he was responsible for the company’s capital expenditures as well as the coordination of its computer systems worldwide. Earlier, he had managed businesses for the company in many Latin American countries. Mr. Scott is a graduate of Princeton University.
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Nancy Sherwood Truitt
President, Truitt Enterprises, Inc.
Nancy Truitt is senior advisor to the Tinker Foundation Inc. and president of Truitt Enterprises Inc., a development consulting company. Ms. Truitt has over 35 years of experience in economic and political policy issues in the developing world working with both multinational corporations and non-profit organizations.
Ms. Truitt received a BA from Stanford University and a MBA in management/international business from New York University. She serves as chair of the Board of the Collaborative Arts Project 21 and as a director of the Yorktown Land Trust.
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