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Larry
Kellner |
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Larry Kellner is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of
Continental Airlines Inc., the world�s fifth largest airline. Kellner joined the
airline in 1995 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, and was
named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in November 1996. In
May 2001, he was elected President of the airline and to the Board of Directors,
and in March 2003, he also was named Chief Operating Officer. He became Chairman
of the Board and Chief Executive Officer in December 2004. Kellner has promoted International growth at the airline, which now serves more
destinations than any other carrier. He has also fostered the company�s unique
culture, putting emphasis on strong internal communication and giving employees
the tools to provide outstanding customer service.
During Kellner�s 11 years at Continental, the carrier has won more awards for
customer satisfaction than any other airline. In 2006, FORTUNE magazine ranked
Continental the No. 1 �Most Admired Global Airline� in their annual �Most
Admired Global Companies� issue for the third consecutive year. Continental was
also named the most admired airline on FORTUNE�s �America�s Most Admired�
airline industry list.
Prior to joining Continental, Kellner was Executive Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer of American Savings Bank, with approximately $20 billion in
assets, where he was responsible for all financial operations and strategic
planning.
Kellner graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business
Administration from the University of South Carolina, where he served as Student
Body President. In addition, the University of South Carolina presented him
with the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998.
Kellner is active in numerous community and civic organizations. He currently
serves on the Board of Directors for Marriott International and the Air
Transport Association. On the civic front, he is a member of the Board of
Directors of the YMCA of the Greater Houston Area, the Sam Houston Area Council
of the Boy Scouts of America, the Greater Houston Partnership, and the Spring
Branch Education Foundation, and serves on the advisory board of the March of
Dimes. He resides in Houston with his wife, Susan, and their four children.
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Paul
Hamilton |
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Paul Hamilton is
President for Shell Global Solutions (US) Inc.,
responsible for the activities of the Shell
Global Solutions business in the U.S. Within
the Shell Global Solutions network, he is also
responsible for global Engineering and
Analytical Technologies.
Mr. Hamilton is a specialist in the Manufacturing
and Energy Industries, having begun his career with
Shell in March, 1977 at the Deer Park, Texas
refinery. He has broad experience in the refinery,
petrochemical and gas businesses. He has held
management positions in operations, maintenance,
engineering, project engineering and consulting.
His career has spanned the United States at various
locations as well as a 6-year stay in The
Netherlands. Outside of work he enjoys snow skiing,
tennis, travel and time with his family. His wife
is a University Associate Professor and both of
their children are currently attending university.
He received a
Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering from
the University of Colorado and Master of Science
Degree in Environmental Engineering, again from the
University of Colorado.
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Consul
General S.M. Gavai |
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Consul General S.M. Gavai graduated from Fergusson College, Pune with a B.A. (Hons.)
degree in history. Consul General S.M. Gavai joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1975. He has
served in various capacities in India�s Diplomatic Missions in Yugoslavia,
Hungary, Zimbabwe, Indonesia, Germany, Scotland where he was Consul General of
India and in Maldives where he was High Commissioner (Ambassador) of India.
During his tenure in the
Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi, he has
headed the SAARC Division, Northern Division &
Administration Division and has been India�s Chief
of Protocol.
Consul General Gavai is married
to Rina and they have two sons. |
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Counsel
General Skand Ranjan Tayal |
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Counsel General Skand Ranjan
Tayal has been in Foreign Service since 1976. He is a graduate
in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur and an Associate of the Indian
Forest College, Dehradun. He has published
research papers in the international Chemical
Journals.
His
experience has been vast and varied, the positions
he has held are:
- Under Secretary (United Nations) in the
Indian Ministry of External Affairs from June
1982 to October 1984.
- First Secretary in the Permanent Mission of
India to the United Nations, Geneva from
October 1984 to February, 1987.
(Dealt
with WIPO, UNDP, UNCTAD etc.)
- Director (UNESCO Unit) and
Secretary to the Indian National Commission for
UNSCO from August 1990 to August 1995.
- Head of Division for all Consular, Passport
and Visa work in the Ministry of External
Affairs, New Delhi from January 1999 � July
2002.
- As Chief Passport Officer of India during
1999-2002 have managed the Central Passport
Organization as CEO with a total staff strength
of 2500 and a budget of over $25 million.
- Was Consul General of India at Johannesburg
during 1996-1998 when several initiatives were
taken to promote India � South Africa Economic
& Commercial Relations. An India-South
Africa Commercial Alliance (ISACA) was
established by FICCI and CII organized a major
"Made in India" Show during 1998.
- Has served in the Indian Embassies in Sofia,
Warsaw, Geneva and Moscow.
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Dr. Ray
Bowen |
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Dr.
Ray M. Bowen is the 21st president of Texas
A&M University. Prior to assuming the
presidency of Texas A&M, Dr. Bowen served for
a year as interim president of Oklahoma State
University. He joined the administration at
Oklahoma State in 1991 as provost and vice
president for academic affairs. He
began his professorial career in 1965 when he
joined the mechanical engineering faculty at
Louisiana State University. Two years later, he
accepted an appointment in the Mechanical
Engineering and Mathematical Sciences Department
at Rice University, where he served for 16 years
including five years as department chair. Dr.
Bowen later served as dean of the College of
Engineering at the University of Kentucky. Dr.
Bowen holds two degrees from Texas A&M. He
earned a B.S. in 1958 and a Ph.D. in 1961, both in
mechanical engineering. He also received a
master's degree from the California Institute of
Technology in 1959. Dr. Bowen is one of a very few
Texas A&M graduates ever chosen to lead his
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MICHAEL
CAPELLAS |
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Michael
Capellas is President and CEO of MCI WorldCom. His extensive business background
balances cutting-edge understanding of information
technology with broad experience in line
management. An expert in information technology
and supply chain management, he has served as
Chief Information Officer and planned and
implemented the transformation of the company's
information systems to capture the opportunities
and meet the demands of the Internet era. Capellas
grew up in Warren, Ohio and also spent time living
with his family abroad. He is a 1976 graduate of
Kent State University, from which he received a
B.B.A. He is a Certified Public Accountant. He and
his wife Marie have been married for 20 years and
have two children. Capellas has been a Houston
resident since 1989. He has been involved in a
wide variety of community leadership and
charitable work, and is an avid golfer. |
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MALCOLM
GILLIS |
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Malcolm
Gillis became the sixth president of Houston's
William Marsh Rice University in July 1993. A
native of Marianna, Florida, Professor Gillis
received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the
University of Florida, and his Ph.D. from the
University of Illinois. He holds an honorary
Doctor of Laws from Rocky Mountain College. His
first academic position was as an assistant
professor of economics at Duke University,
followed by a 15-year stint at Harvard. He
returned to Duke in 1984 as professor of economics
and of public policy. Dr. Gillis spent the first
twenty-five years of his professional life
teaching economics and bringing economic analysis
to bear on important issues of public policy in
nearly twenty countries, from the U.S. and Canada
Colombia, Ghana, and Indonesia. |
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| GEORGE
A. HRDLICKA |
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George
A. Hrdlicka was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in
1931. He attended St. Louis University and
received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1952.
From 1952 through 1954, Mr. Hrdlicka served in the
United States Army. He attended law school at the
St. Louis University School of Law (J.D., cum
laude, 1957). Mr. Hrdlicka has continued to
practice law as a tax specialist with particular
emphasis on the handling of tax controversies both
administratively and in the federal courts. Mr.
Hrdlicka is Board Certified as a Tax Lawyer by the
Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Mr. Hrdlicka
is a member of the Texas Bar Association, Houston
Bar Association, the American Bar Association and
the Missouri Bar Association. He is active in the
Tax Sections of the Houston Bar Association and
the American Bar Association and has served since
1980 as an Adjunct Professor at the University of
Houston Law School where he teaches Partnership
Taxation. |
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| VIJAY
GORADIA |
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Vijay
Goradia is the Chairman of the Vinmar Group of
Companies. Mr. Goradia founded the company in 1978
in New York and helped build it into a global
marketing company in chemicals and plastics. Mr.
Goradia has a degree in Finance and is involved in
many different charities, most notably as the
President of Pratham USA. He is also actively
involved in mentoring entrepreneurs through the
IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE) organization in Houston.
His wife Marie has a Ph.D. in Biotechnology, and
they have two children, Sapphira, aged 17, who is
a high school junior and an accomplished pianist,
and Kevin, aged 10, who is a sports fan. |
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| BOB
BEAUCHAMP |
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Robert E. ("Bob") Beauchamp is the President and Chief Executive Officer of BMC Software and a member of the Company's Board of Directors. Mr. Beauchamp, age 41, has been with BMC Software since
1988 and most recently held the position, Senior Vice President - Product Management and Development. Mr. Beauchamp has also served in a variety of key positions during his twelve years with the Company, including Senior Vice President of Research and Development, Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Corporate Development, and various sales and sales management positions |
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| JOHN
MENDELSOHN |
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Since
July, 1996, Dr. Mendelsohn has served as President
of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center. Prior to 1996, Dr. Mendelsohn was Chairman
of the Department of Medicine at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
In 1997, he received the
fourth Raymond Bourgine Award for achievement in
cancer research and the Joseph Burchend Award for
Clinical Research from the American Association
for Cancer Research. He is a member of the boards
of the Houston Grand Opera and the
Richard Lounsbery Foundation. He is an elected
member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the
New York Academy of Medicine. Mendelsohn received
his medical degree, cum laude, from Harvard
Medical School. He also completed a fellowship in
hematology at Washington University. |
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John
Bookout joined First Reserve Corporation
as Senior Advisor in August of 2006. John supports
First Reserve in its relationship development
program in the energy and investment communities,
and participates in the due diligence process for
selected transactions. Having spent 23 years at
McKinsey & Company, John brings a unique strategic
focus to First Reserve and its portfolio companies.
Among the positions he has held at McKinsey, John
served as Managing Partner of the Los Angeles and
Texas Offices, Leader of the North American Energy
Practice and as the Leader, Global Industry
Practice, where he was responsible for all of
McKinsey�s 17 global industry practices. John has
assisted many energy and energy-related companies in
terms of strategy and mergers and acquisitions,
including advising major oil companies, the leading
pipelines, and the large electric and gas
utilities. John also serves on the Board
of Directors of McDermott International, Inc., and
Tesoro Corporation, and as a member of the Baylor
College of Medicine Board of Trustees. John
graduated from Rice University and earned an MBA
from Stanford. |
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Dr. G. JAY GOGUE |
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Gogue
(rhymes with �rouge�) comes from New Mexico State
University, where he served as president since July
1, 2000. Prior to that, he spent five years as
provost at Utah State University and was vice
president for research at Clemson University from
1988 to 1995. A native of Waycross, Georgia, Gogue,
55, earned bachelor�s and master�s degrees in
horticulture from Auburn University. In 1973, he
received a doctorate in horticulture from Michigan
State University. Gogue began his professional
career in 1973 as a research scientist with the
National Park Service. From 1977 to 1986, he was
chief scientist for the Park Service and responsible
for educational centers, law enforcement activities
and natural resource management at 50 national
parks.
A former Little League coach and U.S. Army reserve
officer, Gogue is a board member of the Natural
Resources Ecology Section of the National
Association of State Universities and Land Grant
Colleges and is certified as an accreditation
reviewer for the Northwest Association of Schools
and Colleges, Commission on Colleges, a regional
accrediting agency. |
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Jim
Reinhartsen |
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Mr.
Reinhartsen has served as President of the Clear
Lake Area Economic Development Foundation (CLAEDF)
from 1993 to the present. His accomplishments at
CLAEDF include initiating a regional coalition to
support NASA and the aerospace industry. This
program has since been expanded to the national
level. He has also been credited with developing a
successful strategy to diversify the economic
profile of the Clear Lake region. Prior to his
association with CLAEDF, Mr. Reinhartsen was part of
the Grumman Aerospace management team responsible
for establishing a manufacturing presence with the
energy industry, an effort that ultimately expanded
to $60 million in sales and employed 600 people. He
was appointed to the Board of Eagle Broadband Inc.
in 2003. His knowledge and long-term relationships
with area educational institutions, the NASA Johnson
Space Center, manufacturing, marketing and economic
development will be a valuable contribution to Eagle
Broadband organization. |
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Roy M
Huffington |
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Roy M.
Huffington is Chairman of the Board and Chief
Executive Officer of Roy M. Huffington, Inc., an
independent, international oil and gas company
located in Houston, Texas. He received a B.S. degree
from Southern Mathodist University and M.A. and
Ph.D. degrees in Geology from Harvard University. He
subsequently served from Ensign to Lt. Commander
with the United States Navy from 1942 to 1945,
receiving a Bronze Star with Combat V, and
Presidential Unit Citation for his participation
with Task Force 58 in the Pacific. In 1946, he
joined Humble Oil & Refining Company as a field
geologist, leaving in 1956 to set up his own oil and
gas exploration company. Roy M. Huffington, Inc., as
an independent, worked mostly in Texas and Louisiana
until 1968, when Mr. Huffington secured a
production-sharing contract with the Government of
Indonesia. Discoveries in East Kalimantan led to the
development of a multi-billion dollar LNG export
project between Indonesia and Japan. In 1985, he
received the Gold Medallion Oil Pioneer Award from
the Government of Indonesia for meritorious services
to the oil and gas industry in that country. In
1990, the overseas properties of the company were
sold to the Chinese Petroleum Corporation of Taiwan.
From 1990 to 1993, Mr. Huffington served as the U.S.
Ambassador to Austria, where he worked to open up
business opportunities between the newly-accessible
Eastern Block countries and their Western
counterparts. He sponsered two annual,
highly-successful business seminars in Vienna and
was awarded the 1992 Ambassador of the Year award
form the Diplomatic Club of Vienna. In 1997, he was
awarded the "Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeichen" ("Grand
Decoration of Honor in Gold") for services to the
Republic of Austria.
Among the honors and awards Mr. Huffington has
received from business, civic, professional and
academic groups, are the Alumni Achievment Award
from the Harward Business School and the
Distinguished Alumnus Award and a Doctorate of
Humane Letters from Southern Methodist University.
He has also been elected into the Texas Business
Hall of Fame. Mr. Huffington has published
geological articles in various professional
journals. He has also been a director or trustee of
numerous professional, civic, cultural, medical and
educational institutions throughout the United
States and in several other parts of the world.
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Dr. Peter
G. Traber |
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Peter G.
Traber, M.D. is President and Chief Executive
Officer of Baylor College of Medicine and a
Professor of Medicine, positions he has held since
March 2003. Prior to joining Baylor, he served as
Senior Vice President for Clinical Development &
Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer at
GlaxoSmithKline, where he was responsible for
worldwide clinical development programs for GSK's
phase II-IV portfolio.
Prior to GlaxoSmithKline, Dr. Traber was Chief
Executive Officer of the University of Pennsylvania
Health System in Philadelphia. He was selected as
Interim Dean for the University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine in 2000 after serving as Chair of
the Department of Internal Medicine at the school
from July 1997 to February 2000. Under his
leadership, the Department of Internal Medicine was
ranked third in the nation in NIH funding, and had
multiple divisions on the U.S. News & World Report
annual survey of top medical schools. He also served
as Chief of Gastroenterology at the University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine from 1992 to 1997.
Prior to that position, he was on the faculty at the
University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann
Arbor from 1987 to 1992, where he helped to build
the research and clinical enterprise.
Dr. Traber received his M.D. at Wayne State Medical
School in Detroit in 1981, and served a residency in
internal medicine at Northwestern University Medical
School in Chicago, where he also did a fellowship in
gastroenterology. He completed a fellowship in
gastroenterology research at the University of
Michigan Medical School, and in 1997, completed the
Management Development Program for Physician
Executives at The Wharton School at the University
of Pennsylvania.
A respected researcher, Dr. Traber�s scientific
studies have included work on fundamental regulatory
control mechanisms in intestinal biology with the
goal of gaining a better understanding of human
disease. He is the author of numerous publications
on this research and the Senior Editor of the
Handbook of Gastroenterology and Associate Editor of
the Kelly Textbook of Internal Medicine. In 1999,
Dr. Traber received the Distinguished Alumnus Award
from Wayne State University School of Medicine. He
has medical specialty certification with the
American Board of Internal Medicine and the American
Board of Gastroenterology. He has been actively
involved in the American Gastroenterologic
Association, and has served as chair for various AGA
committees, sections and subsections. He is a member
of the American Society for Clinical Research,
having served on the National Council, and the
Association of American Physicians. |
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Dr.
David Leebron |
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David W.
Leebron was appointed the seventh President of Rice
University in 2004, where he is also Professor of
Political Science. He grew up in Philadelphia and
graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in
1976. He attended Harvard Law School, and in his
second year was elected President of the Harvard Law
Review. After graduating magna cum laude in 1979, he
moved to Los Angeles to begin a clerkship with Judge
Shirley Hufstedler on the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals. After Judge Hufstedler was appointed
Secretary of Education, David taught torts as Acting
Assistant Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law in
1980.
In 1981, David joined the New York law firm of
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and specialized
in corporate matters. He became a faculty member of
the New York University School of Law in 1983, where
he also served as Director of the International
Legal Studies Program. In 1989, David joined the
faculty of Columbia University School of Law, and in
1996 he was appointed Dean and named the Lucy G.
Moses Professor of Law. David has authored a
textbook on international human rights and has
written numerous articles on issues of international
trade, human rights, and corporate finance.
David is married to Y. Ping Sun and has two young
children, Daniel (8) and Merissa (5). |
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