Board of Advisors
Delia Cohen
Delia Cohen is a consultant living in Oakland, CA, who works on projects involving the arts, new media, and social justice. She previously was executive director of Goldie Hawn’s education foundation, which provides children with tools to manage their emotions, behavior, and stress. Before then, Delia worked for the TED Conferences as the executive director of Pangea Day, the world’s first global campfire of storytelling, charged with using the power of film to connect the world. She built the organization from the ground up in 15 months — from a staff of one to several hundred all over the world and raised a budget of $10 million. By May 10, 2008 — Pangea Day — millions of people in 180 countries participated in the event.
Previous jobs have included running the communications department for the Clinton Global Initiative, and an 11-office department in the White House handling public communications for President Clinton. She also worked with the NYC Department of Education to establish a US‐China cultural exchange scholarship program for high school students, built a communications campaign for Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, and produced a photo‐essay on democracy with Richard Avedon for The New Yorker.
Darlene Daggett
Darlene Daggett is a 30 year participant in the multi‐channel retail marketspace. She successfully launched an entrepreneurial career at 29 and subsequently during her 18 year tenure at QVC Inc, pioneered the exponential growth of one of the world’s largest e‐commerce retailers, growing the business 20 fold to sales of $5 billion. Most recently as President, QVC U.S. Commerce, she was responsible for its strategic development, new business initiatives and critical customer insight.
Throughout her career, Darlene has been recognized by her peers for integrated social initiatives including the launch and cultivation of QVC’s philanthropic program that involved both large fundraising efforts and on the ground field work. Darlene continues her strong voice in social business ventures as a delegate at both the Clinton Global Initiative and the Skoll World Forum for Social Entrepreneurs. In addition, she is an active member of the Advisory Board for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, and the Board of Overseers at the Peabody‐Essex Museum, in Salem, Massachusetts.
In April 2007, Darlene transitioned into her official second career as a Social Entrepreneur. As the mother of 4 children, 3 of whom are adopted, she frequently thought about what the future would have looked like for her daughters if they segued out of social system without an integrated support system. Given her passion for entrepreneurship, and a belief that employment provides an opportunity for an independent, and dignified future, she founded Ikatu, an operating foundation, to focus on the opportunities surrounding youth employability.
Combining her diverse business acumen and social sensibilities, Darlene hopes to initiate and lead change on transparency, accountability, partnerships, and hybrid business models.
Catherine Dumait-Harper
Catherine Dumait-Harper is a consultant in international humanitarian affairs. She has been involved in this field since she joined the independent emergency humanitarian medical organization, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders in September of 1993. Catherine is also a frequent guest speaker in academic circles, on issues related to international humanitarian laws (IHL), including the Responsibility to Protect Civilians in conflict situations.
As Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)’s Delegate to the United Nations in New York from 1993 to 2005, Catherine represented the international relief organization at the United Nations. As MSF’s main representative, Ms. Dumait-Harper’s role was to facilitate and coordinate all MSF advocacy efforts with UN officials, UN Member States and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). For this purpose, she defined the best strategy to advocate, and closely followed conflict situations in the North Caucasus, East and West Africa, East Timor, ex-Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
In addition to representing MSF to the UN, Ms. Dumait-Harper also served as Vice-Chairperson of the NGO Working Group on the Security Council, which meets regularly with Ambassadors of Member States of the UN Security Council.
Ms. Dumait-Harper has been on several missions in Cambodia, Thailand, Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Cote d’Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Palestinian Territories.
During the Fall Semester of 2004, Ms. Dumait-Harper was an Expert Program Fellow at Tufts University with the Feinstein International Famine Center, where she researched the humanitarian assistance in U.N. peace-keeping missions and the relations between military and humanitarian action. During her stay at Tufts University, she gave seminars to Harvard/MIT/Fletcher School’s graduate students on international humanitarian assistance.
In June 1999, Ms. Dumait-Harper was a Fellow in the United Nations/International Peace Academy’s Program in Peacemaking and Preventive Diplomacy.
Prior to MSF, she worked with the Scientific Mission of the French Embassy in Washington, and later with the Delegation of the European Union to the United Nations in New York.
Ms. Dumait-Harper is currently a Member of the Advisory Boards of Action Against Hunger, the Sanam Vaziri Quraishi Foundation and the French Heritage Language Program of New York. She previously served on the Boards of the U.N. “Lessons Learned Unit” of the Department of the Peace-Keeping Forces and the “Global Policy Forum”.
Ms. Dumait-Harper is married, has one son, and lives in New York City.
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Al Hegyi
Al Hegyi is Chairman of 1st Financial Bank USA. The Bank serves its primary communities in the State of South Dakota as well as individuals throughout the United States. It has subsidiary offices in New York, California, Connecticut, the Netherlands, and India. 1st Financial Bank USA was established in 1910.
David Martin
David S. Martin is a managing director at Barclays Capital in the fixed income division running a proprietary trading group involved in the US mortgage and asset‐backed markets. Prior to joining Barclays in 2008 he worked for UBS AG for 18 years in a variety of roles ultimately running the global interest rate business and serving on the board of directors of the investment bank. David spent time on the board of the Bond Market Association and served as the chairman of the MBS/ABS executive committee for a number of years.
David was born and raised in New Jersey and has been married to his wife Jacqui since 1991. Jacqui, David and their two sons now live in Scarsdale, NY after spending 16 years living in Manhattan. They are very involved in supporting the education of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and helping inform the public about this rapidly spreading disorder.
David graduated from Carnegie‐Mellon University in 1987 with a BS in Applied Mathematics and Industrial Management.
Henry Morriello
Henry G. Morriello is Co‐Chair of the Structured Finance Group and the Head of the Transportation Asset Finance Group at Kaye Scholer LLP. He has devoted the principal part of his career to representing clients in structured finance and asset/mortgage securitization transactions. Recently, Mr. Morriello has focused on representing clients in “whole company securitization” transactions in various industries on an international basis. He also represents clients in domestic and international structured finance and asset/mortgage securitization transactions involving CLOs and CBOs, equipment leases, intellectual property royalties, automobile loans and leases, healthcare receivables, entertainment receivables, trade receivables, government receivables, commercial mortgages, tax liens and tax‐exempt housing bonds. Mr. Morriello also has significant experience in all types of real estate securitized financings involving residential mortgages, commercial mortgages and home equity loans.
Mr. Morriello also has extensive experience in structuring fixed income derivatives of all types. Recently, a significant amount of his work has focused upon the use of credit derivatives and synthetic securities in capital markets transactions.
Mr. Morriello is a frequent lecturer at conferences across the country and abroad on topics which include asset/mortgage securitization, transportation finance, real estate finance and alternative investments.
Marie Samuels
Marie Samuels was graduated from SRU in 1990 with a BA in Philosophy and Art History, which led her to working in several Soho art galleries in NYC. In 1992 she became a public relations executive at Giorgio Armani Le Collezioni until the summer of 1995. Ms. Samuels married and became a mother in 1996, as well as attending and graduating with a design degree from NYSID. Since then Ms. Samuels has been working in the residential interior design business and recently started a small accessories business, Everyday Tiaras. Her charitable interests include creating a new board at Lincoln Center named “Opus” …young people for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Since 2004 she has been raising capital for the Armory Arts Center of Palm Beach with an event she created 6 years ago. Both Ms. Samuels and her husband have been board members and major fund raisers on behalf of The National Arts Club in NYC since 1999.
Jennifer Sinclair Schiff
Jennifer Sinclair is an Interior Designer and President of J Sinclair Interior Designs. Prior to that she worked at Deutsche Bank and ING Barings in Latin American Sales and Research in both London and Brazil. Ms. Sinclair received a Bachelor of Economics degree from the London School of Economics.
