Board of Directors
Fedcap is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors.
Chair
Mark O’Donoghue is a partner in the law firm of Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle. He has experience in project finance and energy infrastructure projects, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, privatizations, cross-border commercial contracts, and international litigation. Mr. O’Donoghue’s accomplishments include the sale of a minority interest in a major U.S...
Vice Chair
Diane Shaib is Executive Vice President at Orbiscom, Inc., a MasterCard Worldwide Company, responsible for global marketing and management of U.S. operations for the provider of innovative payment solutions to the global payments industry. Current clients include Citibank, Bank of America, and Discover Financial Services. Prior to joining Orbiscom in 2002, Ms. Shaib worked for Digitas, a leading marketing consulting company...
Treasurer
Laurence Ach is a Senior Vice President with Klingenstein, Fields & Co., with more than 30 years of investment management experience. Prior to joining Klingenstein, he was at First Republic Investment Management from 1999 to 2008 as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, including serving as Chief Investment Officer from 2001 to 2005...
Secretary
Judy Bergtraum is Deputy to the Vice Chancellor of the Office of Facilities Planning, Construction and Management at CUNY – The City University of New York. Her office is responsible for overseeing the University’s capital construction projects from inception to completion, and execution of a capital construction budget of more than $3 billion for 23 colleges and professional schools. ..
Peter Aschkenasy has been active in the municipal and cultural life of New York City for over 40 years. He joined the administration of Mayor John Lindsay as an assistant to Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving, and then was Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs under August Heckscher. He also served as Executive Director of the Mayor’s Commission on Youth and Physical Fitness. ..
Neeraj Bewtra most recently was a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase, where he worked in the Proprietary Positioning Business. He was a successful trader at JP Morgan for 15 years where he specialized in trading relative value and arbitrage strategies within the fixed income markets...
Anoop Dhakad, CFA, is a partner of the firm and Head of Marketing for MKP Capital. Mr. Dhakad has more than 10 years of hedge fund manager due diligence experience, having worked at several funds of hedge funds during his career. From 2002 until joining MKP in June 2007, Mr...
David Edwards
David Edwards is Managing Director and Head of the Global Corporates, North America office of Standard Chartered Bank. The team is responsible for the bank’s U.S. and Mexican Multinational Client relationships. He is also the senior executive overseeing four of the bank’s largest U.S. Fortune 100 customers. ..
Richard Fursland serves concurrently as Chief Executive Officer of BritishAmerican Business and of the British-American Business Council. He was actively involved in the establishment of British American Business in 2001, from the merger of the American Chamber of Commerce (UK) and British American Chamber of Commerce (US), and has served as its Chief Executive ever since...
Diana Glass was a teacher with the New York City Department of Education. Over the course of many years, she has been steadfast in her support of Fedcap’s mission and program participants, serving as a volunteer and coach to encourage employees in their endeavors. She credits Fedcap with helping her to realize her altruistic spirit...
Félix Matos Rodriguez is President of Eugenio María de Hostos Community College of The City University of New York. Trained as a social scientist, Dr. Matos Rodríguez previously held leadership positions in foundations, universities, policy centers and branches of government in which he combined his scholarship with social policy, advocacy and change...
Lynn Morgen is a founding partner of MBS Value Partners, a New York-headquartered investor relations and financial communications firm. Ms. Morgen specializes in advising C-Suite executives and board members on corporate positioning and strategic and investor-related communications. She frequently advises U.S. and European chairmen and CEOs. An experienced thought leader in investor relations advisory, Ms...
Janice Oursler is Program Director, Rehabilitation Counseling in the Department of Psychiatric and Counseling Professions at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. She also teaches and provides clinical supervision to master’s level rehabilitation counseling students and is a consultant on psychiatric rehabilitation implementation to the Pennsylvania Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services...
Past Chair
Peter Panken is a member of the law firm Epstein, Becker and Green, representing management in a wide range of industries on all aspects of employment and union-related matters. Mr...
Gerry Prothro is Managing Director and owner of IKT Investments Ltd., a technology consulting and investment services firm. Previously, Mr. Prothro was Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at BroadStream Communication Corporation, where he was responsible for the architecture, design and development of the company’s wireless Next Generation Network...
Kenneth Raisler is head of Sullivan & Cromwell’s Commodities, Futures and Derivatives Group. The Group is responsible for a full range of regulatory, transactional and litigation advice in the commodities, securities and banking areas to its brokerage, investment banking, banking and commercial clients. Mr. Raisler was an assistant U.S...
Michael Rendel is the Medical Director, Health Services at Goldman Sachs, responsible for all health-related services including on-site medical services, case management services, and medical consultation. He has wide experience in pandemic planning across global organizations. Dr...
Peter G. Samuels is a Partner in the Corporate Department of Proskauer, and has served as co-head of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Mr. Samuels works on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and other complex transactions, and has broad experience in serving as outside counsel for public companies...
Martha Sproule had a 35-year career in the investment business, with a primary focus on cross-border mergers and acquisitions. In 1986 she joined Rothschild, Inc., where she was a managing director and a member of the investment committee of a fund investing in distressed securities, positions she left in 2000 to pursue various projects in the non-profit sector...
Ann Thayer, a daughter of The Way to Work founder Walter Thayer, worked for 25 years in residential mortgage lending and private banking...
Alan Towbin currently manages family-related investments. From 2002 to 2008, he was a partner at Longnook Capital, a hedge fund investing in financial companies. He worked in equity research at ING Barings from 1997 to 2001 as research associate covering the insurance industry and then as senior analyst covering leading property-casualty insurance stocks. Prior to joining Furman Selz, (the predecessor to ING Barings), Mr...
Jeanne Townend is Senior Vice President of Health, Education, and Social Programs and a member of the Executive Team at ICF International, the global professional services consulting firm. She has more than 20 years’ experience in consulting management in the government, commercial, and nonprofit sectors. Ms...