Frances F. Townsend

Frances Fragos Townsend currently runs her own independent consulting business providing strategic advice to Boards and CEOs. Prior to that, she served as the Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Chief Compliance Officer and Corporate Secretary at Activision Blizzard. From 2010 through 2020, Ms. Townsend worked at MacAndrews & Forbes Inc., a private investment firm, […]
Teri Ardleigh

Teri Ardleigh Swift is currently a Realtor Associate at Sotheby’s International Realty – Palm Beach. Her real estate career began in Charlottesville, Virginia where she worked successfully for over 11 years. Teri enjoys the process and challenge of finding the right property for clients to fit their real estate needs and make the best deal […]
Hon. Kevin Rudd

Kevin Rudd is Australia’s Ambassador to the United States of America, taking up his posting in Washington in March 2023. Kevin served as Australia’s twenty-sixth Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, then as Minister for Foreign Affairs before a second term as Prime Minister in 2013. He was Member for Griffith in the Australian Parliament […]
David A. Paterson

David A Paterson became New York’s 55th Governor on March 17, 2008. He immediately raised eyebrows when he warned off an impending fiscal crisis in his inaugural address. Governor Paterson was ahead of the national curve in predicting and acting on the State’s fiscal downturn. Despite the greatest economic crisis that New York State has […]
Amb. John D. Negroponte

John D. Negroponte, Vice Chairman, joined McLarty Associates in 2009, following a distinguished career in diplomacy and national security. Ambassador Negroponte held government positions abroad and in Washington between 1960 and 1997 and again from 2001 to 2008. He has been Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations, and Iraq. In Washington he […]
Anita B. McBride

Anita B. McBride is executive-in-residence at the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies in the School of Public Affairs at American University in Washington, D.C. She directs programming and national conferences on the legacies of America’s first ladies (the First Ladies Initiative) and their historical influence on politics, policy, and global diplomacy. McBride’s White House service spans […]
George M. Logothetis

George Logothetis is the Executive Chairman of Libra Group, a privately owned, global business group with assets and operations in nearly 60 countries. He is based in New York City. At 19, George became CEO of his family’s company, Lomar Shipping, which had three vessels. The shipping business was grown into a more modern and […]
Constantine M. Logothetis

Constantine Logothetis is a non-executive member of Libra Group’s Board of Directors and the Chairman of Alithea Capital. He began his career at the Logothetis family’s London-based shipping company, Lomar Shipping, in 2000, where he was a key management team member before becoming the founding Executive Vice Chairman of Libra Group when it was formed […]
Suwat Liptapanlop

Suwat Liptapanlop served as Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister, and more recently as Minister of Justice. Mr. Liptapanlop has served in different positions within the government of Thailand. He was Deputy Minister of Communication and transport. From 1994 to 1995 he was Minister of Science Technology and Environment. From 1996 to 1997 he was Minister of […]
H.E. Aleksander Kwaśniewski

Aleksander Kwaśniewski is the former President of the Republic of Poland (1995 – 2005). He was born on the 15th November 1954, in Białogard, Poland. He participated in the famous “Round-Table” negotiations in Poland that finally brought the peaceful transformation of Poland and the whole Central and Eastern Europe from communism to democracy. A co-founding […]
John Koudounis

Serving as a driving force behind improving strategic initiatives, Calamos Investments President and Chief Executive Officer John Koudounis is critical in delivering innovative solutions to business development and expanding product breadth for the firm’s global base of clients. Under Mr. Koudounis’ leadership, the firm’s AUM has grown to more than $40 billion and has also […]