Eric Hangen, AICP (Chair)
Len Finocchio, Dr.P.H. (Vice Chair)
David Rich, MS, MBA (Treasurer)
Ruma Bose, MBA
Rick Duke, PhD
Desmond Fitzgerald
Robert Herdt, PhD
Miriam Rabkin, MD, MPH
Ian Warburg, MS

Eric Hangen, AICP (Chair), is the President of I Squared Community Development Consulting, Inc., which provides business and strategic planning, neighborhood revitalization planning, and housing finance and real estate development consulting services to clients nationwide. He has worked in the community development field for over 10 years. As a Management Consultant with the Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Eric helped nonprofit corporations across the country develop neighborhood revitalization, strategic, and business plans. Eric also worked as the senior planning advisor for the city of Caguas, Puerto Rico, where he coordinated the development of a master plan and developed downtown and neighborhood revitalization plans, in addition to creating three nonprofit organizations. He has a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University and a Bachelor's in Environmental Studies from Brown University, and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Len Finocchio, Dr.P.H. (Vice Chair), has worked in the health policy field for over 14 years focusing on insurance coverage for children, hospital uncompensated care, consumer protection and the health care workforce. He is a Senior Program Officer at the California HealthCare Foundation specializing in access to health services for underserved populations. Len received his Doctor of Public Health degree from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan. His research has been published in Academic Medicine, American Journal of Public Health, Health Education and Behavior, and Public Health Reports. Len is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Community Health Education at San Francisco State University.

David Rich, MS, MBA (Treasurer), has twenty years experience creating and building market-based solutions to alleviating poverty in North & Central America, Africa and Asia. David grew up in the Middle East and South Asia and received degrees from Yale, Southern Connecticut State University and the Kellogg School of Management. David is the former Country Director of IDE in India where he was responsible for developing and marketing low-cost appropriate technologies to over 250,000 rural households throughout the country.

Ruma Bose, MBA, is a business executive with a passion to serve her community through involvement with non-profit boards. She is a Managing Director at Sage Beauty Group, a venture and advisory business focused in the beauty and personal care industry and is currently serving as interim President of Vincent Longo Cosmetics. Previously, Ruma was Managing Director at Zuci Capital and Senior Director with Roseworth Capital, both focused in the consumer goods industry, and Founder of Finish Line Floors. Ruma was formerly a member of the Young President's Organization (YPO). She is currently serving on the Boards of Renaissance 2.0 and Contribute Media and on the non-profit boards of Aquaya Institute and Seed NY.

Rick Duke, PhD, is an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co., where he has worked in the basic materials, energy and healthcare sectors. He did his graduate education in Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Rick's doctoral dissertation develops the economics of public support for emerging energy technologies, and he has published on a range of technology and economics topics. Prior to joining McKinsey, Rick worked as an assistant economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He also managed the Honduran office of a renewable energy company and consulted to the Natural Resources Defense Council and the International Finance Corporation.

Desmond Fitzgerald, is a Graduate of Harvard College and has an M.A, from Columbia University. He is Chairman of the Board of North American Properties Group and US Guaranteed Finance Corporation, Board Director of Hilliard Farber & Co, Williams Capital Management and Holland Balanced Fund Inc, Advisory Director of Putnam Trust Company, Trustee of the Children's Aid Society, and a Member of Harvard University Art Museums Visiting Committee.

Robert Herdt, PhD, is currently Adjunct International Professor of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. For 17 years, he was on the staff of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York as Program Director in charge of the Foundation's work on Agriculture and most recently as Vice President responsible for the Foundation's budget and for oversight of its agricultural, health, and overseas programs. He earlier served as Scientific Advisor to the CGIAR Secretariat at the World Bank in Washington from 1983-1986 and for 10 years before that was Economist at the International Rice Research Institute in Los Banos, Philippines. He is the author or co-author of six books or mongraphs, including The Rice Economy of Asia with Randolph Barker. He received his PhD at the University of Minnesota in Agricultural Economics after obtaining his Undergraduate and Master's degrees at Cornell.

Miriam Rabkin, MD, MPH, is the Director of the Clinical Unit of the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Miriam is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Columbia University, where her clinical practice focuses on HIV/AIDS and primary care. She is also a faculty member of the Clinical Ethics committee and the Center for Bioethics, and worked as a consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation's Health Equity division from 2000-2003. Her current work focuses on access to HIV/AIDS care and treatment in resource-limited settings and she has worked to create and expand HIV treatment programs in nine countries in sub-Saharan Africa and in Thailand. Miriam received her BA from Harvard College, her MD from the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, and her MPH from the Mailman School of Public Health.

Ian E. Warburg, MS, is Vice President of Green Stamp America (GSA), a diversified investment and management company which oversees a broad spectrum of business interests, including the US-based investment activities of the Tokyo-based Green Stamp Group of companies. In addition to his daily responsibilities with GSA, Ian serves on the Board of Directors of Victoria International Corporation, a Boston-based boutique management consulting firm providing performance improvement consulting services to the service industries for more than 30 years. Ian's community endeavors include more than a decade and a half of dedication to the Hole in The Wall Gang Camp, a camp for children with cancers and other life threatening blood diseases. Additionally, he was co-founder and chairman of the President's Council of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, a fundraising organization dedicated to the support of Israel's oldest and most prominent center for learning and research. Ian holds a Masters of Science in Organizational Development from American University and a Bachelor of Arts from New York University in International Politics and Economics.