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ROBERT A. MOSBACHER, JR.
Former President & CEO, OPIC and Chairman, Mosbacher Energy Company
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IGD’s Partner Network includes business leaders across the United States who are committed to reducing global poverty through public and private investment.

PARTNERS BY LOCATION    
Anchorage Los Angeles Seattle
Boston Minneapolis Tampa
District of Columbia New York At-large
Indianapolis Portland, Oregon  
Kansas City San Francisco  
 
Anchorage

Eleanor L. Andrews
President & CEO, Andrews Group, LLC

Carl Brady
Managing Director, Marsh Alaska

Christopher R. Cooke
Attorney, Cooke, Roosa & Valcarce LLC

Robert J. Hickel
Former President, Hickel Investment Company

David Hoffman
Former President & CEO, Alaska Growth Capital and
Founder, David Hoffman and Associates

 

 

Janie Leask
President & CEO, First Alaskans Institute

Byron I. Mallott
Trustee, First Alaskans Institute

Carl H. Marrs
President & CEO, Marrs and Company

Donald L. Mellish
Former Chairman, National Bank of Alaska

Lloyd V. Morris
President, Alaska Telecom, Inc.

E. Al Parrish
Vice President & Chief Executive, Alaska Region, Providence Health System

 

Edward B. Rasmuson
Chairman, Statewide Advisory Board, Wells Fargo Bank Alaska

William J. Sheffield
Former Governor of Alaska and Director, Port of Anchorage

F. Michael Swalling
President, Swalling Construction Co., Inc.

Ken Thompson
Former Executive Vice President, ARCO and Owner, Pacific Star Energy

Ed Waite
President, Spenard Builders Supply

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Boston

Clark C. Abt
Founder & Chairman Emeritus,
Abt Associates Inc.

Nishith Acharya
Executive Director, The Deshpande Foundation

Craig E. Bentley
Principal, Bates Communications

James Brenner
President & CEO, Broad Cove Partners Inc.

Henk Campher
Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, Cone, Inc.

 

Darryl Chappell
Former Senior Vice President, Premier Performance, Measurement & Incentives, Bank of America

Mark L. Evans
Former Managing Director, Bank of Boston

Michael Greeley
General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

Tom Haslett
Former Chief Investment Officer, Putnam Investments and
Partner, Montgomery Asset Management

Vidar Jorgensen
President, Grameen America

 

Deborah T. Logan
L.E.K.

Kyle Peterson
Managing Director, FSG Social Impact Advisors

David Schmittlein
Dean, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Raj Sharma
Senior Vice President, Merrill Lynch

Dick Simon
Owner, RSI, Inc.

George K. Tarvezian Jr.
President & CEO, The Tarvezian Group

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District of Columbia

Grant Aldonas
Former Under Secretary, International Trade, U.S. Department of Commerce

Christopher Caine
President & CEO, Mercator XXI, LLC and Former Vice President, Governmental Programs, IBM Corporation

David de Ferranti
President and Director of Health Financing Task Force, Results for Development Institute

Yash Gupta
Dean, Carey Business School, The Johns Hopkins University

 

F. Henry Habicht
CEO, Global Environment & Technology Foundation

Paul Meyer
Co-Founder, Chairman & President, Voxiva Inc.

John E. Mullen
Managing Director, AMB International Finance, LLC

Robert J. Murray
President & CEO, The CNA Corporation

Rob Nichols
President & COO, Financial Services Forum

 

Thomas R. Pickering
Former SVP, International Relations, The Boeing Company and Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, U.S. Department of State

William Reinsch
President, National Foreign Trade Council, Inc.

Ermias Sahle-Selassie
Global Life Science Director

Elliot Schwartz
Vice President, Economic Studies, Committee for Economic Development

Daniel M. Zelikow
Former Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

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Indianapolis

Charles R. Bantz
Chancellor, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Gerald L. Bepko
Chancellor Emeritus, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI)

Jean Blackwell
Executive Vice President of Corporate Responsibility & CEO, Cummins Foundation

Caterina Cregor Blitzer
Former Deputy Mayor, City of Indianapolis

Bobby Fong
President, Butler University

Ronald D. Gifford
President & CEO, The Indy Partnership

Earl A. Goode
Chief of Staff, Office of the Governor, State of Indiana

 

 

Martin C. Jischke
Former President, Purdue University

Martha D. Lamkin
Former President & CEO, Lumina Foundation for Education

Catherine A. Langham
President, Langham Logistics Inc.

William K. McGowan, Jr.
Vice Chairman, Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association Inc

Mark Miles
President & CEO, Central Indiana Corporate Partnership

James T. Morris
Former Executive Director, UN World Food Program

Ann D. Murtlow
President & CEO, Indianapolis Power & Light Company

 

 

Bart Peterson
Former Mayor, City of Indianapolis

John W. Ryan
President Emeritus, Indiana University

Jerry D. Semler
Former Chairman, American United Mutual Insurance Holding Company

Yvonne H. Shaheen
Former CEO, Long Electric Company, Inc.

Joe Slaughter
President & CEO, Herff Jones

Jeff Smulyan
Chairman, Emmis Communications Corporation

Emily A. West
Executive Director, The West Foundation, Inc.


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Kansas City

P.J. Adam
Honorary Chairman, World Energy Council and Chairman Emeritus, Black & Veatch Holding Company

Richard L. Berkley
Former President, The U.S. Conference of Mayors

Paul DeBruce
CEO, DeBruce Grain, Inc.

 

Jonathan M. Kemper
Vice Chairman, Commerce Bancshares

John P. McMeel
Chairman, Andrews McMeel Universal

William C. Nelson
Former Chairman, Bank of America, Midwest

 

John H. Robinson
Former Managing Partner, Black & Veatch Holding Company

Larry Strecker
Former SVP, Supply Chain & International Operations, Payless Shoesource, Inc.

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Los Angeles

Ron Auer
President & CEO
Ten Asset Management, Inc

Abraham F. Lowenthal
Founding President, Pacific Council on International Policy

 

Adrienne Medawar
President Emeritus, Los Angeles Town Hall

Bill Owens
USN (Ret), Chairman & CEO, AEA Holdings Asia

  Tim Paulson
West Coast Advertisement Sales Manager, The Economist
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Minneapolis

J. Brian Atwood
Dean, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota and Former Administrator, USAID

Kjell Bergh
Chairman & CEO, Borton Volvo and Honorary Consul, United Republic of Tanzania

Peg Birk
Executive Director, The George Family Foundation

Charles M. Denny
Former CEO, ADC Telecommunications, Inc.

Jeff Dykstra
President, Africa Business Development Partners

 

Donald Fraser
Former Congressman, Minnesota

Roger L. Hale
Chairman, Ploughshares Fund

Robbin S. Johnson
Former SVP, Corporate Affairs, Cargill, Incorporated

Geri M. Joseph
Former Ambassador to the Netherlands, U.S. Department of State

Samuel L. Kaplan
Ambassador to Morocco, U.S. Department of State and Former Partner, Kaplan, Strangis & Kaplan

 

Sylvia Kaplan
Owner, Bar Abilene

Jay Kiedrowski
Former Executive Vice President, Wells Fargo & Company

Whitney MacMillan
Chairman Emeritus, Cargill, Incorporated

Jose A. Peris
Senior Vice President, Private Client Group, US Bank

Thomas A. Verdoorn
Vice President, International Division, Land O'Lakes, Inc.
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New York

Robert Annibale
Global Director, Citi Microfinance, Citigroup Inc.

Daniel L. Bond
Former First Vice President, Ambac Assurance Corporation

James M. Brasher
Director, Global Philanthropists Circle, The Synergos Institute

Jay Collins
CEO, Public Sector Group, Citigroup Global Markets Holdings Inc.

Andrew Crockett
President, JPMorgan Chase International

Payal Dalal
Head of Public Affairs for the Americas, Standard Chartered Bank

David Dinkins
Former Mayor, City of New York

Amir A. Dossal
Executive Director, United Nations Fund for International Partnerships

 

Michael J. Dotterer
Former Sales Executive, Eastern Region, Orative Corporation

Rita Foley
Director, Petsmart, Inc. & Former Senior Vice President, MeadWestvaco Corporation

Richard N. Gardner
Professor of Law & International Organization, Columbia Law School

Odo G. Habeck
CEO, Michael Kenwood Consulting, LLC

Maureen Harrington
Director, Corporate & Investment Banking, Standard Bank of South Africa

Jack D. Hidary
Founder, Jack D. Hidary Foundation

Peter H. Johnson
Partner, Developing World Markets, Inc.

Avinash Kaza
Financial Analyst, Global Investment Research, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

 

Bettye Martin Musham
Chair & CEO, Gear Holdings, Inc.

William E. Mayer
Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners

Ruth W. Messinger
Former Borough President of Manhattan

Clarence E. Pearson
Former Senior Advisor, World Health Organization

Ricardo J. Rodriguez
Vice President, Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated

S. Bruce Schearer
Former Executive Director, Millennium Promise

Richard Socarides
Former Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, New Line Cinema Corporation

Ashok Subramanian
Former Consultant, McKinsey & Company

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Portland

Paul Abel
Managing Partner, Blue Research

Deniel W. Banks
Former President, Rotary Club of Portland

Brian G. Booth
Founding Partner, Tonkon Torp LLP

Tim Boyle
President & CEO, Columbia Sportswear Company

Paul E. Bragdon
President Emeritus, Reed College

Duncan Campbell
Founder & Chairman Emeritus, The Campbell Group, LLC

Douglas A. Crane
Executive Director, Crane Family Foundation

Katy Crane
Former President, Coremedia Training Solutions

Gun Denhart
Board Chair, Hanna Andersson Children's Foundation

Colin S. Diver
President, Reed College

Sho Dozono
President & CEO, Azumano Travel Service Inc

Bill Early
Trustee, JELD-WEN Foundation

Ed Epstein
Partner, Stoel Rives LLP

John Eskildsen
Former President & CEO, US Bank of Oregon

Mark Frandsen
President & CEO, New Season Foods, Inc.

 

Don C. Frisbee
Chairman Emeritus, PacifiCorp

Elizabeth Goebel
CFO, Precision Strip Inc. and Mercy Corps Board

Steve L. Griffith
Partner, Stoel Rives LLP

Jeffrey T. Grubb
Executive Vice President Wealth Management & Regional Managing Director, Wells Fargo & Company

Greg Hansen
President & Managing Director, GQG

Irving J. Levin
CEO, Genesis Financial Solutions, Inc.

Donald S. McClave
Corporate Affairs, Office of the President, Portland State University

Paul McCracken
Former Chairman, Tumac Lumber Co., Inc.

Randolph L. Miller
Chairman, The Moore Company

Robert D. Newell
Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Jon Nickel
Retired Partner, Tonkon Torp LLP

Peter Nickerson
CEO, Growth-Link Overseas Co.

Eric E. Parsons
Chairman, President & CEO, Standard Insurance Company

Norma Paulus
Former Secretary of State, State of Oregon

 

David M. Pollock
Former President & CEO, Stormwater Management Inc.

Steven D. Pratt
Chairman, President & CEO, ESCO Corporation

Jim Rudd
CEO & Principal, Ferguson Wellman Capital Management, Inc

Ron Saxton
Senior Vice President, External Affairs, JELD-WEN, Inc.

Ralph R. Shaw
President, Shaw Management Co.

Doug Stamm
Executive Director, Meyer Memorial Trust

N. Robert Stoll
Partner, Stoll Stoll Berne Lokting and Shlachter P.C.

William D. Thorndike, Jr.
Chairman & President, Medford Fabrication, CSC, Inc.

Roderick Wendt
Chairman & President, JELD-WEN, inc.

Craig Wessel
Publisher, Portland Business Journal

Michael Wray
Former CEO, Harvest Natural Resources

Maria Wulff
President, World Affairs Council of Oregon

Duncan Wyse
President, Oregon Business Council

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San Francisco

Gerald Baldwin
Former Chairman, Peet's Coffee & Tea, Inc.

Marc Benioff
President & CEO, Salesforce.com

Douglas Bereuter
President, The Asia Foundation and Former Member of Congress

Robert J. Birgeneau
Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley

Tom Clausen
Former Chairman & CEO, Bank of America and Former CEO, The World Bank

Neal Dempsey
Managing Partner, Bay Partners

Suzanne DiBianca
Executive Director, Salesforce Foundation

Chris A. Eyre
Managing Director, Legacy Venture

Paul Fulton
Senior Director, Mobile Unified Communications, Cisco Systems, Inc.

 

William G. Green
Gen. Counsel & Corp. Secretary, CPO-Environment, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation

Ryland Kelley
President, Hare, Brewer & Kelley, Inc.

Vinod Khosla
Former CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Robert B. Kozma
Director Emeritus, Center for Technology in Learning, SRI International

John P. Morgridge
Chairman Emeritus, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Andre Nakaso
Vice President, Business Development, Orative Corporation

Sara Olsen
Founding Partner, SVT Consulting

William J. Perry
FSI Senior Fellow, CISAC, Stanford University and Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Defense

Arthur Rock
Principal, Arthur Rock & Company

 

Herbert M. Sandler
Former Co-Chairman & Co-CEO, Golden West Financial Corporation and World Savings Bank

Marion O. Sandler
Former Co-Chairman & Co-CEO, Golden West Financial Corporation and World Savings Bank

Tamsin S. Smith
Former President, (PRODUCT) RED

Marcus Strenk
Northern California Sales Manager, Microsoft Corporation

Sebastian Teunissen
Former Executive Director, Clausen Center for International Business and Policy, University of California, Berkley

Jane Wales
Co-founder, Global Philanthropy Forum and Former Associate Director, White House Office of Science & Technology Policy

Laura T. Wallace
General Manager, New York Metro District, Microsoft Corporation

Alice Waters
Executive Chef & Owner, Chez Panisse Restaurant and Café

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Seattle

Dean C. Allen
President, McKinstry Co.

William Ayer
Chairman & CEO, Alaska Air Group, Inc.

Akhtar A. Badshah
Senior Director, Community Affairs, Microsoft Corporation

Charles K. Barbo
Former Chairman, Shurgard Storage

Stanley H. Barer
Chairman Emeritus, Saltchuk Resources Inc.

Rick Beckett
Former Partner, McKinsey & Company

Doug Boyden
Former Managing Director, Mercer Human Resource Consulting

Barbara Braun
Former Vice President, Strategic Change Office, Hewlett-Packard Company

Jeffrey H. Brotman
Chairman, Costco Wholesale Corporation

Phyllis J. Campbell
Chairman, Pacific Northwest, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Bill Center
Former President, Washington Council on International Trade

Burnill F. Clark
Former President & CEO, KCTS Television

Philip M. Condit
Former Chairman & CEO, The Boeing Company

Patricia Davis
Former Commissioner, Port of Seattle

Steve B. Davis
Former CEO, Corbis Corporation

M.R. Dinsmore
Former CEO, Port of Seattle

George A. Duff
Senior Advisor, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce

Karl J. Ege
Senior Counsel, Perkins Coie

Christopher J. Elias
President & CEO, PATH

Rich Ellings
President, National Bureau of Asian Research

Jim Ellis
Chairman Emeritus, Washington State Convention & Trade Center

Stan Emert
Former Managing Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, Symetra Financial Corporation

Jack Faris
Former President, Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association

Anne V. Farrell
President Emeritus, The Seattle Foundation

Michael E. Flynn
Former Publisher, Puget Sound Business Journal

Bill H. Foege
Senior Advisor, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Michael T. Galgon
Former Chief Advertising Strategist, Microsoft Corporation

Booth Gardner
Former Governor, State of Washington

Peter Gishuru
President & CEO, African Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest

Nick Hanauer
Partner, Second Avenue Partners

Scott L. Hardman
Managing Director, Alexander Hutton Incorporated

Lee Hartwell
President, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Ada M. Healey
Vice President, Real Estate Development, Vulcan Inc.

Jon F. Hemingway
President & CEO, SSA Marine and Carrix, Inc.

 

Mack L. Hogans
Former Senior Vice President, Weyerhaeuser Company

Leroy Hood
President, Institute for Systems Biology

John M. Kaestle
President & CEO, HaloSource, Inc.

Jeff Keenan
Former Strategic Initiatives Program Manager, Global Supply Chain Management, Adobe Systems Incorporated

Kevin C. Kelley
President & CEO, DUX Area, Inc.

Douglas R. Kemper
Former Director, Trade Services, The Commerce Bank

Janet Ketcham
Former Director, West Fraser Timber, Ltd and President, Janet Ketcham Foundation

Richard Klausner
Chairman & Managing Director, The Column Group

Steve Leahy
Former President & CEO, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce

Paul Maritz
Founder & CEO, PI Corporation

Sylvia M. Mathews Burwell
Former President, Global Development Program, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Brian McGee
Worldwide Partner, Mercer Human Resource Consulting

Herman L. McKinney
Vice President, Urban Affairs, Urban Enterprise Center

Chris E. McNeil
President & CEO, Sealaska Corporation

Mary McWilliams
Executive Director, Puget Sound Health Alliance

Nate Miles
Director, Government Affairs, Western U.S., Eli Lilly and Company

John Morse
Former CEO & Founder, Fratelli's Ice Cream

Colin Moseley
Chairman & CEO, Simpson Investment Company

Ralph D. Munro
Former Secretary of State, State of Washington

William H. Neukom
General Managing Partner & CEO, San Francisco Giants

Tom T. O'Keefe
Chairman, Tully's Coffee Corporation

Dave Olsen
Senior Vice President, Culture & Leadership Development, Starbucks Coffee Company

John Oppenheimer
President & CEO, CRG/Columbia Hospitality

Diana Pallais
Managing Director, Partnerships for Technology Access, Microsoft Corporation

H. Stewart Parker
Former President & CEO, Targeted Genetics Corporation

Pamela Passman
Vice President, Global Corporate Affairs, Microsoft Corporation

Jeff D. Pinneo
Former President & CEO, Horizon Air Industries, Inc.

Will Poole
Co-Chairman, NComputing, Inc. and Former Senior Vice President, Windows Client, Microsoft Corporation

John Powers
Former Senior Managing Director, Colliers International Seattle

Llewelyn Pritchard
Partner, Helsell Fetterman

Steve P. Reynolds
Chairman, President & CEO, Puget Energy, Inc.

James W. Rice
Chairman, DUX Area, Inc.

 

 

Martha Ries
Vice President, Intellectual Property Management, The Boeing Company

John Rindlaub
CEO, Pacific Northwest Region, Wells Fargo Bank

Richard J. Robbins
President, The Robbins Group LLC

William T. Robinson
Attorney At Law, Law Offices of William T. Robinson PLLC

Steve Rogel
Former Chairman, President & CEO, Weyerhaeuser Company

Stuart Rolfe
President & CEO, Wright Hotels, Inc.

Craig Rominger
President & CEO, NanoICE

Stephen Rothrock
Senior Vice President & Executive Director, Colliers International Seattle

James E. Rottsolk
Former Chairman & CEO, Cray Inc.

Jill Ruckelshaus
Director, Costco Wholesale Corporation

H. Jon Runstad
Chairman & CEO, Wright Runstad & Co

Judith M. Runstad
Former Chair, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce

Stanley D. Savage
Chairman, President & CEO, The Commerce Bank of Washington, N.A.

Cheryl Scott
President Emerita, Group Health Cooperative and COO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Boyd E. Sharp
Former Chairman, Rigel Capital Management

Frank A. Shrontz
Chairman Emeritus, The Boeing Company

Orin Smith
Former President & CEO, Starbucks Coffee Company

David Smukowski
CEO, Sensors in Motion

Dale R. Sperling
Former President & CEO, Unico Properties, LLC

Ken D. Stuart
Former President, Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

Stephen V. Sundborg, SJ
President, Seattle University

Mark Suzman
Director of Policy & Advocacy, Global Development, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Paul C. Suzman
President, OfficeLease

Randall H. Talbot
President & CEO, Symetra Financial Corporation

David K. Y. Tang
Partner, K&L Gates

James F. Vesely
Former Editorial Page Editor, The Seattle Times

Thomas D. Waldron
Partner, Waldron & Company

Douglas Walker
Former Chairman & CEO, WRQ, Inc.

Robert C. Wallace
CEO, Wallace Properties

James E. Warjone
Chairman & General Partner, The Port Blakely Companies

Bob Watt
Former Vice President, Government & Community Relations, The Boeing Company

Kathy Wilcox
Former CEO, WSA

Bruce W. Williams
Former Chairman & CEO, HomeStreet Bank

Kate Wilson
Former Principal, Carson Group

H. S. Wright III
CEO, Seattle Hospitality Group

Robert R. Wright
President & CEO, Matthew G. Norton Co.

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Tampa

Robert L. Anderson
Former Dean, College of Business Administration, University of South Florida

Arthur (Chip) F. Diehl
Brigadier General, USAF (ret), President, Diehl & Associates

John J. Fernandes
President & CEO, AACSB International

 

William J. Flynn
Chairman, International Department, Fowler White Boggs Banker

Edward Kelly
President, Dosatron International, Inc.

 

Jefferson C. Knott
Chairman & President, Tintagel Holdings LLC

Joseph E. McCann
Dean, Davis College of Business, Jacksonville University

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At-large

Joe Cerrell
Director, Europe Office, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Dolores T. Connolly
CEO, Sterling Engineering, Inc.

 

 

Magatte Diop
Founder and Managing Partner, Peacock Investments

George Gichengi
President & CEO, Mbegu Tamu Coffee Company LLC

Rajat Gupta
Managing Director Emeritus
McKinsey & Company, Inc.

 

Vance Roley
Dean, College of Business, University of Hawaii

Robert B. Shapiro
Former Chairman & CEO, Monsanto Company

 
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