Board of Directors

Charles Best

DonorsChoose.org

Charles Best leads DonorsChoose.org, a website where everyday people can make a big difference in public schools, one classroom at a time. DonorsChoose.org has been profiled as “the future of philanthropy” by The New York Times and as “a revolutionary charity” by Oprah Winfrey. Charles founded the organization at Wings Academy, a public high school in the Bronx where he was a social studies teacher for five years.

Doug Borchard

New Profit

Doug Borchard joined New Profit as Partner and Chief Operating Officer in January 2005. In addition to managing New Profit's finances and internal operations, Doug works closely with several of New Profit's portfolio organizations.

Doug brings to New Profit diverse experience as an accomplished entrepreneur and senior executive in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. Most recently, Doug was Vice President of Prospecting Solutions at Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business information. At D&B, Doug led a $140mm business unit, with broad P&L responsibility for product strategy, sales and marketing, and product development. Doug came to D&B through their acquisition of iMarket, Inc., aventure-funded provider of sales and marketing software and internet solutions that he co-founded. Doug also spent several years as a consultant at Bain & Company, a leading international management consulting firm, where he worked on assignments in the information services industry.

Doug worked as a program and logistics officer with Save the Children, where he was part of a team that started up field operations in the Sudan, and created and managed a multi-million dollar relief and development operation. He has served on the boards of directors of a number of growing organizations, including Venturcom and iMarket, and currently sits on boards of Computers for Youth and Peer Health Exchange.

Doug graduated from Princeton with a BS in Engineering, and received a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Business School, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Richard Buery

Children's Aid Society

A co-founder of iMentor, and iMentor's first Executive Director, Richard has an extensive background in nonprofit management, youth development, education, and public interest law. He is a co-founder and former director of the Mission Hill Summer Program, an enrichment program for children in the Mission Hill Housing Development in the Roxbury section of Boston. He also taught fifth grade at an orphanage in Bindura, Zimbabwe as a Michael Clarke Rockefeller Memorial Fellow. In his legal work, Richard was a staff attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, and before that was a law clerk for Judge John M. Walker, Jr. of the Federal Court of Appeals in New York City. He has also clerked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, and the DC Public Defender Service. He is an active volunteer and board member for several non-profit community organizations in his native New York City. He is currently the President and CEO of Children's Aid Society. Richard received a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. from Harvard College.

John Delaney

Morrison & Foerster

John F. Delaney is a partner in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster, where he serves as Co-Chair of the office's New Media Practice Group. He is a frequent lecturer and author on legal issues in the interactive media field, and has been quoted in publications such as Newsweek, Advertising Age and The Wall Street Journal on emerging intellectual property law issues. In 1999, he appeared on the cover of the American Lawyer as one of the lawyers for the new economy.

Mark Gerson

Gerson Lehrman Group

Mark Gerson is the CEO of the Gerson Lehrman Group, a Manhattan based investment research company. A 1998 graduate of Yale Law School, he is the author and editor of several books, including In the Classroom: Dispatches from an Inner-City School That Works. His articles and essays have appeared in USA Today, The Wall Street Journal,The New Republic, Commentary and many other magazines and newspapers.

Tim Grant

UBS

Tim Grant is a Managing Director at UBS. After serving as Head of UBS Delta Americas at UBS Investment Bank for the last 8 years, Tim has recently moved to a senior management role at the UBS Group level reporting directly to the Group Executive Board and specifically to the Group Chief Risk Officer, Joe Scoby. He is currently working within the Asset Workout Group which will house and manage theÂ multi-billion dollar distressed asset portfolio related to the ongoing credit crisis. Tim has an M.A. in Materials Science and Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge and underwent a year of research at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne before completing an M.Sc. in Financial Engineering from the University of London.

Lawrence Griff

Ernst & Young

Lawrence Griff is a Partner in Ernst & Young’s New York Office which he joined in 2002. Prior to Ernst & Young, he was a Partner in Arthur Andersen’s New York office. He specializes in audits of media and entertainment clients. He is head of Metro New York inbound work which includes coordinating multidisciplinary teams to serve US subsidiaries of foreign companies. Lawrence Griff graduated from University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Economics and received his MBA in Finance with Honors from New York University. He graduated number one in his Master of Accounting class from New York University. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is a licensed CPA in New York and Connecticut.

John Griffin

Blue Ridge Capital

John Griffin is the founder and President of Blue Ridge Capital, and the founder of Blue Ridge Foundation New York. John also serves on the Board of Directors of The Michael J. Fox Foundation, the Tiger Foundation, the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce, and as a Patron of the Christ the King Elementary School in the South Bronx. John is an Adjunct Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School and a Visiting Professor at the University of Virginia. Before founding Blue Ridge Capital, John was the President of Tiger Management in New York City. John received an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and a B.S. in Finance from the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce.

Kimberley Hatchett

Morgan Stanley

Kimberley Hatchett is an Executive Director in Morgan Stanley's Private Wealth Management Division which she joined in 1991. She graduated in 1991 from Harvard Business School and 1984 from the University of Virginia majoring in Rhetoric and Communications. Prior to business school, Kimberley worked at Chase Manhattan Bank as a middle market loan officer. She was a four time All-American student athlete in both high school and college and qualified for the 1984 Olympic Trials in track and field.

Tracey Kemble

A graduate of University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a degree in Journalism and Art History, Tracey Kemble has 13 years of experience in the entertainment industry. With a passion for developing diverse stories that elicit poignant emotion from audiences, Tracey has honed her skills as both a film executive and producer throughout her career. She was named creative executive of Hollywood Pictures, a Walt Disney Company, in 1993, where she oversaw Dead Presidents, directed by the Hughes Brothers and starring Chris Tucker and Larenz Tate. Drawn to provocative, character driven dramas, she joined Russell Simmons’ company, Def Pictures, as Vice President of Development and Production. During her tenure there, she produced Gridlock'd starring Tupac, and Tim Roth. The film marked Vondie Curtis Hall’s directorial debut.

In 1996, Kemble became Vice President of Production at HBO NYC. While there, she developed several films including the Emmy award winning, A Lesson Before Dying starring Don Cheadle and Mekhi Phifer, and Disappearing Acts directed by Gina Prince Bythewood starring Wesley Snipes and Sanaa Lathan (both book adaptations), as well as the film Cheaters produced by Suzanne de Passe.

In 2004, Kemble joined Edmonds Entertainment as Senior Vice President of Production. Kemble worked closely with Tracey Edmonds and developed projects that were set up at various studios, including the comedy His And Hers written by Shonda Rhimes (Disney), Welfare Queen starring Queen Latifah (Universal) and Ollie written by Preston Whitmore (New Regency).

Currently based in New York, Tracey has been developing various projects as an independent producer, as well as consulting as a development executive for The N, a teen network under MTV Networks umbrella.

Matthew Klein

Blue Ridge Foundation

A co-founder of iMentor and the Executive Director of Blue Ridge Foundation New York, Matt works intimately with the iMentor team to develop the organization. Matt is a co-founder of Leadership, Education, and Athletics in Partnership (LEAP), a nationally recognized youth development agency operating in high-poverty neighborhoods throughout Connecticut. In his legal work, Matt focused on issues of equal opportunity, clerking for such organizations as the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. and the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as a law clerk for federal judge Robert L. Carter in New York. Matt graduated from Yale Law School and Yale College.

Rafael Mayer

Khronos LLC

Rafael Mayer is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Khronos LLC, an investment management firm responsible for managing $1.5 billion in Alternative Investment Products. Prior to his founding of Khronos in 1996, Rafael spent 3 years as Manager of Investment Research at Asset Management Advisors an investment consulting group out of Jupiter, Florida. Rafael was responsible for coordinating all of the firm’s investment research activities with particular emphasis on outside managers and alternative investments. Prior to joining Asset Management Advisors, Rafael spent 5 years as Director of Software Development at Franklin Electronic Publishers in Mt. Holly, New Jersey. Rafael led a software development team specializing in reference software for hand-held electronic platforms. Rafael graduated Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania, receiving a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School. Rafael serves on the Investment Committee of the Dalton School in New York City. He is also a board member of KIPP AMP charter School in Brooklyn.

Karen Pavlin

Xerox Corporation

Karen L. Pavlin is a Global Alliance Director at Xerox Corporation within Xerox Global Services supporting the Worldwide Alliance Operation. She oversees the strategic global relationship between Dell and Xerox through leading the development of bringing new channels and services to market through IT and business process outsourcing to enable top line growth, entry into new markets and offerings that are innovative and differentiate in the market place.

Karen joined Xerox in 1988 as a Account Representative selling office/production services and technology to Tier 2 Major Accounts in New York City. She held several positions within direct sales from office to production product specialist to Sales Manager to one of Xerox’ top Financial Services Account Teams in the NYC Downtown District in the early 1990’s.

Karen transitioned into the Major Account Organization in 1997 where she was responsible for strategically leading and implementing global solutions within Xerox’ top 10 major accounts across several industries to include Financial Services, Professional Services, Entertainment and Public Sector. In 1999 she became one of the first Global Account Mangers to build and implement a business integration solution in the office at one of the top 5 Account Firms.

In 2000 Karen became the GAGM (Global Account General Manager) for Citigroup where she managed a $60M global revenue stream. Several successes included: An Alliance Managed Print- Print Optimization solution with Dell within the Global Comsumer Group, Citigroup Investment Bank (CIB) Print-to-Copy-Center Hubs globally deploying Xerox Color Production Technology, and Services in the US and Asia and The Global Document Portal- first web based “end-to-end” closed loop communication solution to create and distribute personalized and static documents for Smith Barney Financial consultants to name a few.

Karen attended the University of Virginia where she graduated earning her BA followed by her MA in Marketing Communications/ Business in 1986. During her 6 years at UVA Karen was an All-American Track & Field Athlete participating on the US Team in the Pan American Games and the Olympic Trials. She is presently on the Board of Directors for iMentor and The Learning Project in NYC.

Karen resides in NYC with her husband, Rob and two children Zuri and Marley.

William Richards

UBS

William B. Richards is Managing Director for UBS, a global financial services firm. He served as Infantry Lieutenant for the U.S. Army during Vietnam when he was awarded a Bronze Star, Army Commendation for Valor, and a Combat Infantry Badge. He is a 1976 graduate of Denison University with a B.A. in History and attended the American Graduate School of International Management from 1970-1971. He currently serves on a number of boards including The Vietnam Childrens Fund, The Veterans Corporation, The Mental Health Foundation, The Urology Advisory Board, The Vestry, The Church of the Incarnation, and The Children of War Advisory Board.

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