OFFICERS

Chair

Nathan W. Pearson, Jr.
Management Consultant

President

James H. Gellert
Co-founder & Executive Chairman,
Rapid Ratings International

Vice Chair

Mary Ann Fribourg
Patron

Vice President

Thomas R. Berner
Partner,
Berner & Berner & John Lang 

Secretary

L. Jan Robertson
Chief Executive Officer
Norris Beggs & Simpson

DIRECTORS

Fernando Amaro
Managing Director,
AIM Associates Capital Group

Prateek Aneja
Partner,
Infinitive Capital

James G. Benedict
Co-Founder,
BeDoWin360 Capital

Bettie Minette Cooper
Patron

Dale M. Frehse
Patron

Scott Greenberg
Executive Vice President,
C.V. Starr & Co., Inc.

Marilyn W. Grounds
Patron

Sumit Handa
Managing Director & Partner,
Pennington Partners & Co

Jean C. Hodges
Patron

Marjorie Hyman
(retired) Douglas, Elliman, Gibbons & Ives

Gretchen B. Kimball
Patron

Daphne Kis
CEO,
Worldquant University 

Peter S. Kraus
Chairman & CEO,
Aperture Investors

Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist

Wynton Marsalis
Jazz Musician
Wynton Marsalis Enterprises

Marguerite Moisio
Private Banker,
Hancock Whitney 

Mary P. Nass
Patron  

Samantha Ory
Founder and CIO,
Ouroboros Group 

Guyon Townsend III
President,
Townsend Communications LLC

Jenny James
Executive Director,
Young Audiences of Louisiana

NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Emanuel Ax
Garth Fagan
Richard Goode
Gary Graffman
Lorin Hollander
Yo-Yo Ma
Wynton Marsalis
Zubin Mehta
Murray Perahia

Itzhak Perlman
Shirley Ririe
Leonard Slatkin
Richard Stoltzman
Michael Tilson Thomas
Deborah Voigt
Charles Wadsworth
Susan Wadsworth
Pinchas Zukerman

Founders

Mrs. T. Roland Berner
Mrs. Edgar M. Leventritt
Mrs. Lionello Perera
Rudolf Serkin