Board of Directors

Vinton Cerf

Vinton Cerf is Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, where he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications. Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," he is the co-designer of the basic Internet protocols and architecture of the Internet.

Cerf served as Senior Vice President at MCI and earlier served at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and the U.S. Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency. He is former Chairman of the Board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He is President of Association for Computing Machinery and is a Visiting Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Cerf has received numerous awards and commendations including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the U.S. National Medal of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from UCLA and more than a score of honorary degrees.

Kenny Emson

Kenny Emson is senior vice president of Finance and Administration for the National Multi Housing Council. Previously, he served as chief development officer, senior vice president and chief financial officer of The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, a philanthropic nonprofit that pools $360 million in charitable donations to make grants that benefit both Washington-area and national charities.

A native of England, Emson is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from The George Washington University. He is a member of the George Washington University Athletic Hall of Fame. He is a Board member of the Kiwanis Foundation and the National Children’s Center Foundation.

Mitchell Gordon

Mitchell Gordon has served as both an investment banker and a senior corporate executive. He is President of Morpheus Capital + Advisors, a New York- and San Francisco-based merchant banking firm. Prior to joining Morpheus, he was CFO, Executive Vice President, and served on the Board of Directors of Interpool, Inc.

Gordon founded and was President of Atlas Capital Partners, a private equity investment firm. He was formerly Managing Director and Co-Head of Salomon Smith Barney's Transportation Investment Banking Group. He also served as Senior Vice President and Head of the Transportation and Automotive Investment Banking Groups at Furman Selz. Gordon has served as Vice President of Investment Banking at Needham & Company and was previously Manager of Strategic Planning for American Broadcasting Companies.

He is Chairman of the Hunter College Community Board and served on the Board of Directors of Student Sponsor Partners, a New York City-based educational mentoring organization. He holds a BSBA from Washington University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Karim Leguel

Karim Leguel of Rasini and Company is responsible for managing its Fund of Funds and the Research Team, and is instrumental in driving its strategic initiatives. He joined Rasini in 1997 as a research associate in hedge funds, covering both qualitative and quantitative analyses.

Prior to joining Rasini, Leguel was an Account Manager at BSI (a subsidiary of Swiss Bank Corp. with over Sfr 30 billion under management) for two years, where he managed Private Banking Client accounts in Equity, Bond and Currency Allocations. In addition, he worked within the Asset Allocation Group and was a Credit Analyst at UBAE Bank in Rome.

Leguel received an MBA from Bocconi Business School and holds a BSc in Business Economics from London University.

Omid Moghadam

Omid Moghadam is CEO and Chairman of Ascendant Diagnostics, Inc., a breast cancer diagnostics company. He joined Ascendant from Harvard Medical School’s Center for Biomedical Informatics, where he was focusing on applications of personal genomics in clinical practice, and from Xovo Health, a firm he founded to commercialize new genomics tools.

Prior to Harvard, he co-founded Integrated Analytics Solutions, an Intel division providing services to the genomics industry, and Dossia;, a corporation that created the first national network for managing personally controlled health records. In the past, he has held executive positions with Intel, AMS-CGI and Eastman Kodak Corporations where he spearheaded new innovations in medical imaging, and digital photography.

He serves as the chairman of the board of directors of CardioWise, and as non-executive director of Health-e Pty, NanoWatt and Resounding HealthPty, and is on the advisory boards of Genophen Inc., Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Children’s Hospital Boston.

Bill Richardson

Bill Richardson is chairman of Global Political Strategies, the executive advisory service of APCO Worldwide. His career has spanned public service, academia and the private sector.

He completed his second term as governor of New Mexico in 2010. Richardson served as secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy and also as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, where he handled delicate Congo transition negotiations and dealt first-hand with the issue of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in the UN Security Council. For 15 years prior, he represented northern New Mexico's 3rd Congressional district.

Richardson served as a special envoy on many sensitive international missions. He successfully won the release of hostages, American servicemen and prisoners in North Korea, Iraq, and Sudan.

David Rubenstein

David Rubenstein is the founder and executive director of the Best Shot Foundation. Earlier, he built and led the Save Darfur Coalition, an alliance of more than 1,000,000 individuals and 180 groups working together to end the genocide in Darfur, and which he helped organize in July 2004.

From 2001 through 2004, Rubenstein was principal of the Thoughtful Action Group, strengthening nonprofit groups by providing guidance in organizational development, staff and management issues, board development, and strategic planning. Earlier, he was Executive Director of the award-winning EnvironMentors Project, which he founded in 1991.

He was honored for this work by Washingtonian Magazine as a 1999 Washingtonian of the Year. He holds a degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis.