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IWP Trustees 2024

IWP Board of Trustees

Hon. Mario M. Kranjac, Chairman
Partner, Kranjac Tripodi & Partners LLP

Karla Ahmanson
President, Los Angeles Police Reserve Foundation

RJ Blake
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Blake Willson Group (BWG)

Kelley DeConciliis
Senior Vice President of Integration (M&A), VT Group (VTG)

Jon DuPrau
Managing Partner, Quantum Portfolio Management and Index Technologies Group

Sean Fieler
President, Equinox Partners, L.P.

Carlos E. Fonts
Chairman, HG Partners

Justin Freeh
President and Chief Operating Officer, Intelibits, LLC

John K. Garvey
Partner, Garvey Ventures LLC
President, CEO & Chairman, Petroleum, Inc.

Christopher D. Glass, Sr., President
Captain, USN (Ret.)

Alexander B. Gray
CEO, American Global Strategies
Senior Fellow, American Foreign Policy Council

Garrett Johnson
Chairman and Co-Founder, Foundation for American Innovation

Dr. John Lenczowski
Founder, President Emeritus, and Chancellor, The Institute of World Politics

Heidi LeBaron Leupp
Founder, Enlightened Women

John Lovewell
Partner, Keenan Lovewell Ventures

Hon. Tidal W. McCoy
IronGate Capital Advisors

Burk Murchison
Dallas, TX

Elise Murchison
Dallas, TX

Dr. Tom Nguyen
Adjunct Professor, George Mason University

Hon. Edward F. Reilly
Former Chairman, U.S. Parole Commission

Stephen T. (Steve) Sargeant
Major General, USAF (Ret.)
CEO, Marvin Test Solutions; VP Strategic Development, The Marvin Group

William Shaw
President and CEO, Roxbury Properties, Inc.

Donald V. Smith
Former Senior Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey

Ariane Sweeney, Ex Officio
Executive Vice President, The Institute of World Politics

Dale Timothy White, Ph.D.
Brigadier General, USAF (Ret.)

Jacqueline T. Wieland
Senior Vice President/Investments, Stifel

Amb. Aldona Z. Woś, M.D., Vice Chairman and President Emerita
Former Ambassador to Estonia

 
IWP Advisors 2024

IWP Board of Advisors

Kelley DeConciliis, Chairman
Senior Vice President of Integration (M&A), VT Group (VTG)

Karen Armstrong
Summerfield, NC

Lynn T. Clark II
Vice President, Guy M. Turner, Inc.

Carlos A. Fonts
CEO, SEADAR

Matthew Gensler
Managing Director, Portfolio Management & Chief Investment Strategist
Meld Financial Independent Wealth Management

Russell A. Johnson
Retired Partner with KPLJ Ventures

Harrison Lance
Senior Trade & Investment Officer – Financial & Professional Services
National Lead – Asset Management & Family Office Strategy
British Consulate General Atlanta

David Lichtenger
U.S. Residential Opportunity Fund LP, Intrepid Capital Investments

Cyrus Miryekta
CEO, Ravelin US, LLC

Patty Sue Mozart
Los Altos, CA

Dr. Charles H. Norman
Retired Dentist
Past President of the American Dental Association

Andrew Oliver II
Founder and Chairman, Giantmicrobes, Inc.

Edita Robinson
Stanford, CA

Jenifer Smyth
North Palm Beach, FL

John Smyth
Managing Director, Private Wealth Manager, Merrill

Jasjeet S. Sood
Greenwich Capital Partners, LLC

Elias L. Stamatiades, M.A., M.S., CFE (’15)
Senior Procurement Officer, Department of the Navy

Leigh Sudbrink
Vero Beach, FL

Nora Taylor
NET, LLC

Trustees Emeriti

Terry Balderson
Former President, Capital Formation Counselors

Donald E. Bently (In Memoriam)
Former Chairman and CEO, Bently Pressurized Bearing Company

Kenneth M. Crosby (In Memoriam)
Former Diplomatic Liaison, Merrill Lynch & Company

Beverly Danielson
Miami, FL

Kenneth E. deGraffenreid
Professor Emeritus, The Institute of World Politics
Former Special Assistant to the President of the United States for National Security Affairs

Stephen A. Fausel
Director of The Fausel Foundation
CEO of Fausel Companies

James G. Jatras
Partner, Venable LLP
Former Foreign Policy Counsel, Senate Republican Policy committee
Former Foreign Service Officer

Jeffrey D. Ludwig
Senior Vice President, NAI Michael Companies

Thomas P. Melady (In Memoriam)
Former Senior Diplomat in Residence, The Institute of World Politics
Former President, Sacred Heart University
Former U.S. Ambassador to Uganda, Burundi, and The Holy See

Dr. Long V. Nguyen
Chairman, Movement for the Renaissance of Vietnam

Brig. Gen. Jack Nicholson, USA (Ret.)
Prior, Int’l Order of St. Hubertus

Thomas L. Phillips  (In Memoriam)
Chairman, Phillips International Inc.

Alfred S. Regnery
Publisher and CEO, Regnery Publishing, Inc.

Joseph A. Reyes (In Memoriam)
Chairman Emeritus, Orion Enterprises

Col. Francis X. Ryan, (USMC-Ret.)
Chairman, Semper Finance, Inc.

B. Francis Saul III
Saul Investment Group, LLC

Hon. Peter Schaumber
Former Chairman, National Labor Relations Board

Barry R. Sullivan
Former CEO, RCL Development

Joseph H. Torras (In Memoriam)
Chairman Emeritus, Eastern Pulp and Paper Corporation

Hon. William H. Webster (In Memoriam)
Former Director of the FBI and CIA

Amb. Faith Whittlesey (In Memoriam)
Former U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland

Honorary Trustee

Bernadette Smith
Roslyn, NY

Honorary Advisors

Adam Bak
Chairman and CEO, Adamba Imports International, Inc.

Cathy Barrett
West Palm Beach, FL

Robert Barrett
West Palm Beach, FL

John K. Castle
Chairman and CEO, Castle Harlan, Inc.

Stephen J. Klimczuk
Associate Fellow, Oxford University Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society; Former Vice President, John Templeton Foundation

Michael C. Maibach (’19) 
President and CEO, European-American Business Council (2003-2012)

Amb. J. William Middendorf, II (In Memoriam)
Chairman, Middendorf & Company; former Secretary of the Navy and U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands, the OAS, and the EC

Robert J. Oster
Former CFO, Oracle Corporation

Sen. Larry Pressler
Former U.S. Senator and member, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations

Chris Ruddy
CEO and president of Newsmax Media Inc.

John Train (In Memoriam)
Founder and former Chairman of Train, Babcock Advisors

Admiral Patrick Walsh, USN (Ret.)
Former Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet