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.

Brian D. Starer is senior partner and National Practice Leader for the Maritime Group at Holland & Knight LLP.

Mr. Starer is a member of the American Bar Association Committee on Tort and Insurance Practice, the International Bar Association, and the Maritime Law Association. Mr. Starer is Vice President of the United States Merchant Marine Academy Alumni Association and a trustee of the American Merchant Marine Museum, as well as past Vice Chairman of the United States Merchant Marine Academy Foundation. Mr. Starer was inducted into the International Maritime Hall of Fame at the United Nations in May 2002.

He has lectured widely and written extensively on all aspects of maritime law relating to the prevention and resolution of maritime disasters. His articles have appeared in the Oil & Gas Journal, the Financial Times, Fairplay International, Seatrade, the Journal of Commerce and The Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Starer is an honors graduate of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and earned his law degree from Union University - Albany Law School where he served as managing editor of the law review. He holds an unlimited U.S. master's license.