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STAFF   |   BOARD OF DIRECTORS   |   ADVISORS

Greg Allgood, PhD
David Ebersman
Deborah Winslow Nutter, PhD
William K. Reilly, JD
Anthony Rock

Greg Allgood, PhD, is the Director of Children's Safe Drinking Water at Procter & Gamble and Senior Fellow in Sustainability. He has been with P&G for 21 years and leads the company's efforts to provide safe drinking water in the developing world. He is also chair of the communications working group of WHO's International Network to Promote Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage and serves on the interim steering committee of The Global Water Challenge and UNICEF's Global Task Force on Water and Sanitation. He was recognized as Distinguished Alumnus of the Year in 2006 from his alma mater, the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at UNC-Chapel Hill's School of Public Health. Dr. Allgood received the 2007 Strategic Vision Award from the Center for Strategic and International Studies and was co-recipient of the 2007 International Health Communication Gold Medallion from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Communication Programs. He is a frequent lecturer on public private partnerships, sustainability, and safe drinking water in the developing world.

David Ebersman is executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) of Genentech, and is responsible for the company's Finance, Treasury, General Audit, Investor Relations, Corporate Relations, and Corporate Information Technology groups. He joined Genentech in 1994 as a business development analyst. During the next several years, he was promoted to positions of increasing responsibility in Business Development, Product Development and Product Operations. David served as vice president, Product Operations; senior vice president, Product Operations; senior vice president, Finance and was appointed senior vice president and CFO in March 2005. In January 2006, Ebersman was promoted to executive vice president. Prior to joining Genentech, David was a research analyst covering biotechnology investments for Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., an investment banking firm. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in economics and international relations from Brown University.

Deborah Winslow Nutter, PhD, is Senior Associate Dean of the Fletcher School at Tufts University, where she maintains broad executive responsibility for developing and implementing new strategic initiatives and business opportunities; creating strategy for and managing the various boards of the school. In addition to her Fletcher responsibilities, Dean Nutter serves as Advisor to the Provost for the International Board and other international projects, and is responsible for the strategic development and management of the university's International Board of Overseers, whose mission is to further the internationalization of the university. Dean Nutter received her PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. She writes and speaks in the area of United States foreign policy and leadership.

William K. Reilly, JD, Co-Chair and Founding Partner, Aqua International Partners, a private equity fund sponsored by the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation dedicated to investing in water projects and companies in developing countries. Prior to that he was the Payne Visiting Professor at Stanford University (1993-1994), Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1989-1993), and president of the World Wildlife Fund (1985-1989). Administrator Reilly served as head of the U.S. delegation to the Earth Summit at Rio in 1992 and is chairman of the board of World Wildlife Fund. He also serves on several corporate boards, and is a director of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, National Geographic Society and the American Academy in Rome. By appointment of the President, he serves as one of the seven members of the Presidio Trust of San Francisco, which manages The Presidio National Park.

Anthony Rock, currently serves as Special Advisor for Strategic International Initiatives to the President of Arizona State University, as well as Associate Vice President for Research. He joined ASU after a 30-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service, retiring with the rank of Minister-Counselor. He previously served as acting Assistant Secretary of State responsible for science, technology, environment, and health affairs. Mr. Rock also spent four years as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and, simultaneously for two years, as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Health. At embassies in Tel Aviv, Brussels (European Union), and Paris, he was responsible for all aspects of U.S. foreign policy related to environment, energy, science, technology, and health. During his foreign service tenure, Mr. Rock also served in the Office of the United States Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President, managing both Middle East trade and trade in key technologies with Europe. He has been the recipient of the Department of State Superior Honor Award on multiple occasions. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Rock was part of the shipboard research team of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, then physical scientist and Coordinator for International Research in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the Department of Commerce. He also held the position of International Director of the National Sea Grant College Program.