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BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jill Ker Conway, Chair Jill Ker Conway is an Australian-American author and corporate leader with extensive board governance and leadership experience at such companies as Nike, Colgate Palmolive and Lend Lease. Well known for her autobiographies, in particular her first memoir, The Road from Coorain, she was also Smith College's first woman president, from 1975–1985, and now serves as a Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Kenneth Dircks, Secretary Ken Dircks is a long-time systems integration executive who specializes in the use of technology in the public sector. He spent many years implementing the systems that help run NYC government, under mayors Dinkins, Giuliani and Bloomberg. He has worked for large consulting companies like IBM and Accenture deepening their public sector practices. But he has also helped smaller IT consulting shops grow new offerings from the ground up. Ken's true tech interests lie in data analytics and the mobile public sector workforce. He also continues to pursue the idea of creating a US-based IT workforce that can compete on price with offshore resources. Kenneth W. Banta Ken Banta is an advisor on transforming organizations and their cultures to drive long term high performance. Most recently he helped to drive the turnaround of Bausch+Lomb, the global eye health company, now part of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International. Previously he held the same roles at Pharmacia Corporation and then Schering-Plough Corporation, where he played key roles in the transformations of those companies from organizations under stress into high performance competitors. Earlier, Ken served as a senior counselor with the global public affairs consultancy, Burson-Marsteller. Ken began his career as a writer and foreign correspondent with Time Magazine. Rosanne Haggerty Rosanne Haggerty is President of Community Solutions and an internationally recognized leader in developing innovative strategies to end homelessness and strengthen communities. She has more than 20 years of experience developing permanent supportive housing and advising communities in the U.S. and around the world on their efforts to end homelessness. She is a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, an Ashoka Senior Fellow and a Hunt Alternative Fund Prime Mover. Paul Romer Paul Romer, an economist and policy entrepreneur, is a University Professor at NYU and interim director of the Marron Institute on Cities and the Urban Environment. He is also the founding director of the Urbanization Project at the Stern School of Business. Prior to NYU, Paul taught at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He also taught in the economics departments at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago and the University of Rochester. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a non-resident scholar at both the Center for Global Development in Washington, D.C. and the Macdonald Laurier Institute in Ottawa, Ontario. In 2002, he received the Recktenwald Prize for his work on the role of ideas in sustaining economic growth. Paul serves on the board of trustees for the Carnegie Endowment for the Advancement of Teaching. Eileen O. Ruby Eileen Ruby is a retired banker with over 25 years on Wall Street. She specialized in client

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