Gregory Amenoff is a painter who lives in New York City and New Mexico. His BA is from Beloit College. In 1994 he received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts College of Fine Art in Boston. He is the recipient of numerous awards from organizations including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Tiffany Foundation, and The Artist Foundation of Massachusetts. He has had one person exhibitions in scores of museums, public spaces and galleries throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in the permanent collections of more than twenty museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

He has been a Professor of Art at Columbia since 1994 and was recently appointed as the inaugural Eve and Herman Gelman Professor of the Visual Arts in the School of the Arts. He has also taught at The School of Visual Arts in New York, Rhode Island School of Design, Yale, Skowhegan and numerous other schools.

He is represented by Alexandre Gallery in New York, Nielsen Gallery in Boston, The Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe and Vidal St. Phalle Galerie in Paris.

Theodore S. Berger has served as Executive Director of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) since 1980. In this position, Mr. Berger has been responsible for for all aspects of policy formulation, overall administrative and long-range planning, annual fundraising and development for this not-for-profit arts service and creative development organization. He has also represented the Foundation and Directors in relationships with other cultural and academic institutions, public agencies, foundations, donors, elected officials and legislators at local, state, and national levels, as well as in many speaking and panelist engagements throughout the country.

Previously, Mr. Berger served as the Executive Director of the New York State Arts in Education Program from 1973-79. He worked as a free-lance writer from 1970-73 and graduated from Columbia University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences with a major in English in 1965.

Mr. Berger serves either as a Director on the Board, or in an advisory capacity for various organizations, including the Alliance of New York State Arts Councils, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York City Arts Coalition, Studio in a School, amongst numerous others.

Ms. Caesar serves as President of the Caesar Consulting Group (CCG), a strategic consulting firm that provides capacity building and business planning services to non-profit organizations and philanthropic advisory services to foundations and high net worth individuals. Ms. Caesar's consulting career spans over 20 years and she has worked with clients representing a broad range of social and philanthropic issues.

Highly regarded for her knowledge in the field, Ms. Caesar is often engaged to speak or write on a variety of topics concerning philanthropy, business planning and social enterprise. She has conducted training for organizations such as The Conference Board, New York Regional Association of Grantmakers, New York State Society of Association Executives, Association of Fundraising Professionals, and Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York. Ms. Caesar is a member of the board of directors of WITNESS, Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, and CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning).

Thomas Devine is a financial consultant to Emigrant Savings Bank, responsible for originating and underwriting large loans to the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), oil and gas (Master Limited Partnerships) and homebuilding sectors.

Mr. Devine's career and professional expertise span banking (including two of the ten largest banks in the world, Citigroup and HypoVereinsBank), structured finance, real estate development, transportation, the public sector and non-profit "social purpose" corporations, in many instances as the founding principal.

Mr. Devine received his B.S. on Marine Engineering (honors) from the US Merchant Marine Academy and his M.B.A. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.

Thomas Hsu is an investment director of CNC Industries of Monaco where he lives.

Mr. Hsu is a Committee Director of the Britannia Steam Ship Insurance Association Limited and a Board Director of Teekay Corporation. His family's philanthropic interests also include support of primary education in developing countries.

Mr. Hsu is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University. In 2007, he was appointed l'Ordre de Saint-Charles, Chevalier.

Corina Larkin is a painter and writer who lives in New York.

Prior to becoming an artist, Ms. Larkin co-founded a company to market the brand of U.K. childcare expert Dr. Miriam Stoppard. She also worked at Booz Allen & Hamilton as a management consultant to the media, telecommunications and financial sector for many years, serving clients in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Ms. Larkin received a BA from Cornell University, a BFA from Purchase College, an MA in China Studies and International Economics from SAIS and an MBA from Wharton. She speaks German and Mandarin Chinese. Ms. Larkin also sits on the board of the Purchase College Foundation.

Vivian Kuan is an architect and designer with a strong interest in developing arts in education programs for children. Ms. Kuan previously worked at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates in New York City, and at Sun Hung Kai Properties in Hong Kong.

After receiving a joint MA/MBA from the University of Pennsylvania/Wharton School, Vivian developed expertise in cross-channel and online marketing at Estee Lauder, and as a marketing director at L'Oreal. Ms. Kuan received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University. She also sits on the advisory board at The Chege Orphanage dedicated to helping children and women affected by HIV/AIDS in Kenya.

Jan Rothschild is Vice President of Communications and External Affairs for Cambridge Information Group, a family owned management and investment firm, primarily focused on education, research and information services companies. CIG owns eleven companies including Sotheby's Institute of Art, a Master's Degree program in Art Business, Contemporary Art, Fine and Decorative Arts, East Asian Art, Photography and Contemporary Design, based in New York, London and Singapore, and Bach to Rock, a music education program for students of all ages based in Bethesda, MD with schools in Maryland and Virginia.

Most recently Ms. Rothschild served as the Vice President for Communications and Marketing at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, where she oversaw media relations, marketing, messaging and branding, online communications and Preservation Magazine. Previously she was Associate Director for Communications and Marketing at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, overseeing communications, marketing, new media, visitor services, community and government affairs. Before joining the Whitney she served eight years as Chief Communications Officer at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Ms. Rothschild also worked as an associate producer for Talk of the Nation at National Public Radio, directed communications and public affairs for the American Planning Association, and the American Society of Landscape Architects, and managed special events and public relations for two divisions of the May Department Stores Company. She is a founding board member of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, and serves on the Board of the Washington Project for the Arts. She has also served on the board of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Washington, Washington Review of the Arts, Pushing the Limits, and the steering committee for Cultural Tourism, DC. Ms. Rothschild is a member of Art Table, the American Association of Museums and the College Art Association.