Julie Andrews, Honorary Chairwoman
Julie Andrews is an internationally acclaimed star of stage, film and television. Among her many well-known stage roles are Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, Queen Guinevere in Camelot and Maria in The Sound of Music. Her films include Thoroughly Modern Millie, Star, Hawaii, Tom Curtain, Darling Lili, The Tamarind Seed, 10, S.O.B., That's Life, Victor/Victoria, Duet for One, Relative Value and The Princess Diaries. She has starred in many television programs and films.
Ms. Andrews has also authored a number of children's books under the name of Julie Edwards and written a series of other children's books with her daughter Emma and in 2008 published an autobiography, "Home: A Memoir of My Early Years".
Ms. Andrews has been active on behalf of a number of major charities, including Operation USA, UNICEF and Save the Children; she served as Goodwill Ambassador for UNIFEM in 1992. She has received innumerable awards and honors, including Golden Globe Awards, Academy Awards, Emmy Awards, Grammy Award and British Academy for Film and Television Arts Special Tribute Award. She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 2000 and was honored at The John F. Kennedy Center for the 24th annual national celebration of the arts in 2001. In 2006 she received the Life Achievement Award of the Screen Actors Guild.
John E. Lichtenstein, President
John Lichtenstein is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the American Board of Criminal Lawyers. He is a past president of the Virginia Trial Lawyers Association. A frequent lecturer regarding trial practice issues, John is recognized by his peers in Best Lawyers in America in both civil and criminal practice. His work includes trials involving catastrophic traumatic injury, product liability, complex medical issues, and serious criminal matters in federal and state courts. He is a founding principle of Lichtenstein Law Group PLC.
John holds a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia. He and his wife Annie have three incredible sons and reside in Roanoke, Virginia.
James Radtke, Treasurer
James Radtke is Senior Vice President of UBB Securities, a broker-dealer designed exclusively for independent and community banks throughout the country. He consults bank owners, presidents and board members to ensure comprehensive balance sheet management results in income maximization. Jim specializes in investment portfolio management. He has been with UBB Securities for over twenty-two years. Prior to UBB, Jim worked for Cargill, Inc. in emerging markets debt and petroleum products trading.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business, with a Finance emphasis from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management. He resides in Minneapolis, MN with his two children.
Randy R. Knopp, Secretary
Randy R. Knopp is a managing director in the private wealth management division at Morgan Stanley. Prior to this role, Mr. Knopp was a managing director at Merrill Lynch in the institutional fixed income division. Mr. Knopp received a B.S. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He resides in Southampton, New York with his wife, Heidi, and is the very proud father and grandfather of three great children and three grandchildren.
Roger A. Egan, Jr., President Emeritus
Roger Egan is currently the Senior Vice President of the Worldwide Tanzu Sales. In this role he leads Global Sales, Pre-Sales, Customer Success, Services, Marketing, and go-to-market Strategy and Operations for the Modern Applications business at VMware.
Roger joined VMware in June 2021. He brings over 30 years of sales leadership experience in both large scale and start-up technology companies. Prior to VMware, he served as Executive Vice President of Global Sales at Siemplify, and Executive Vice President of Global Sales at Docker, where he was one of the earliest employees and played a leadership role in the creation of one of the first Enterprise Container Platform companies in the industry. Roger also served as the Vice President of Channel Sales for North America at Red Hat, and in various sales leadership roles at IBM over 17 years.
He holds an MBA in General Management from Duke University and a Bachelor's Degree in Finance and Computer Information Systems from Manhattan College. He currently serves on the Board of the Voice Health Institute, where he served as the President of the Board of Directors for five years. Roger resides in Charlotte, NC with his wife, Christine, and his five children.
John L. Ward, Ph.D., President Emeritus
John Ward is professor emeritus of family enterprises at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. There, he co-founded Kellogg’s Center for Family Enterprises and served as a distinguished teacher, researcher, and consultant in governance, strategic management, philanthropy, succession and continuity planning. He has published more than ten books and 30 cases.
Dr. Ward was a regular visiting lecturer at IMD, Hong Kong Institute of Science and Technology, IESE, Bocconi University, and The Stockholm School. He has served as a board member of many for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Dr. Ward has been keenly active in youth leadership development and sports programs.
Dr. Ward received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his MBA and Ph.D. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
Scott Solombrino, Director
Scott A. Solombrino serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of Dav El Chauffeured Transportation Network. Mr. Solombrino serves as president of the National Limousine Association (NLA). He Co-founded NLA in 1985. Mr. Solombrino entered the limousine business in 1979 as driver, reservations agent and mechanic. He studied at Suffolk University in Boston Mr. Solombrino is active in a number of professional, civic and cultural organizations and supports numerous philanthropic causes.
He serves as President of NBTA Allied Leadership Council and Director of the National Business Travel Association. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Reservation and a member of the Business Leadership Council of the Boston Symphony. He is the founder, President and board member of the Massachusetts Limousine Owners Association, a founding member of the Limousine Association, and a member of the Los Angeles Livery Association, the New York Private Livery Association and the SKAL Club of Boston. In January 2000, Mr. Solombrino was named one of the 25 most influential executives in business travel, leading the industry into the new millennium, by Business Travel News, a top trade publication.
Mr. Solombrino was also named Suffolk University Alumnus of the Year in 1984 and was a Deputy Sheriff in Suffolk County in Massachusetts.
Leonard Harlan, Director
Leonard M. Harlan is a co-founder of Castle Harlan, Inc. and a co-founder of CHAMP, the former Australian affiliate of Castle Harlan. Mr. Harlan is a General Partner of Harlan Capital Partners, Inc., founded by his son, Josh, in 2011. He is currently a director of Leviant, Dwarfs, Director Emeritus of The America for Bulgaria Foundation established by the U.S. Congress, and formerly a director of over 17 companies.
Mr. Harlan is a life member of the Board of Fellows of the Weill Cornell Medical College and the Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University, co-founder and co-chairman of the Deans Council Executive Committee, a member of the Clinical Affairs Committee, the Special Committee on Research, the Business and Finance Committee and the Compensation Committee. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Healthcare Leadership and Management Scholarship Program and was for 13 years co-chair of the Policy Board of the Cornell Physicians Organization. He is an emeritus member of the Steering Committee of Jacobs Institute of Cornell Tech; a director of the Voice Health Institute (VHI), the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York, formerly a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of Harvard Business School, vice president and member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association, and for six years was a member of the Harvard Business School Visiting Committee. Mr. Harlan is a member of the Board of Governors of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), director of Palm Beach AJC and a member of BENS (Business Executives for National Security). He is a former director and current member of the Foundation for Art & Preservation in Embassies (FAPE). He is President of the Garvan Institute (Australia) U.S. Charitable Trust and a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Private Equity.
A graduate of Cornell University with a Bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering, Mr. Harlan has a Masters with Distinction and Doctorate from the Harvard Business School. He lives with his wife, Fleur, in Palm Beach and has two sons and four granddaughters.
Alex Pinchev, Director
Alex Pinchev has over 40 years of successful experience in the software industry, as an entrepreneur, a software executive, and an investor. He was President, Sales and Marketing for Rackspace where he led a turnaround and successful sale to Apollo Group for $4.3B.
Previously, Alex served as the CEO of Acronis, a leading provider of cloud and on-prem data protection solutions with over 150,000 customers around the globe. From 2003-2012 Alex served as EVP and President of Global Sales, Services and Field Marketing of Red Hat, Inc., growing company’s business from $50m to $1.2B. From 1996 to 2003, Alex was the Foulder and CEO of Main Control, a leading provider of enterprise-wide Technology Infrastructure Management software products.
He remains active on public and private boards and continues to advise and invest in startups and firms seeking global expansion, through Capri Ventures, early stage fund founded by Alex.
Alex possesses intimate knowledge of entrance and growth strategies for international and local markets, and holds deep relationships across major players in the Global Enterprise Software business.
Steven Fitzpatrick, Director
Steven Fitzpatrick is a Managing Director and Head of Technology Debt Capital Markets at Mizuho Securities. In his current role he is responsible for providing capital raising advice and debt financing solutions for technology companies. Prior to joining Mizuho in 2015, Steven was a Managing Director at RBS, RBS Greenwich Capital and Morgan Stanley.
Mr. Fitzpatrick received a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and an MBA in finance from Columbia Business School. He currently serves on the Cornell University Council and on the Athletics Alumni Advisory Committee, Duke University Parents Committee and the Board of the Tokeneke Club. Steve resides in Darien, CT with his wife, Laura, and is the proud father of Connor, David and Elizabeth.
