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OFFICERS
Chairs Emeriti
Mr. Golby has been a Board member since 1975. He was elected President and Chief Executive Officer in 1988 and Chairman in 1993. In 1998, he retired as Chairman and was elected Chairman Emeritus. He attends most Board and Executive Committee meetings and is Chairman of the Investment Committee. Interested in foreign affairs, he is a member of the Foreign Policy Association. He is a retired Senior Vice President of Schering-Plough Corporation where he served as an executive for overseas and then domestic operations. He spent 10 years in Washington, DC where he administered the development bank lending program of the US Agency for International Development. He was previously General Counsel of the Development Loan Fund, a US government lending organization and also served as Counsel for the Export-Import Bank of Washington. Prior to his Washington experience, he practiced law in Portland, Oregon. A native of Portland, Mr. Golby holds a BA from Yale University and a JD from Yale Law School.
Ms. Warner joined the Board in 1997. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Finance at St. John's University and a business consultant. She was formerly a Managing Director of Chase Manhattan Bank. She is a past President of the Executive Advisory Board of Ohio University's College of Business Administration and was the recipient of Ohio University's Medal of Merit (1991), Award for Achievement in Business (1992), an inductee into the YWCA's Academy of Women Achievers (1988), and is also on the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors of the International Center for Research on Women. Ms. Warner received a BS degree in chemistry and an MBA degree in management from Ohio University, completed the Tuck Executive Program at Dartmouth, and earned a CPA certificate from the State of New York (1975).
St. John's University
Chair
Mr. Van Hulst joined the Board in 1996. As an expert on reestablishing business enterprises, Mr. Van Hulst owned and was the President & Chief Executive Officer of Morton Grove Pharmaceuticals (1991-96), Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of A.L. Laboratories (1989-91), and President of PBI, a subsidiary of AKZO (based in Europe and the U.S.) (1968-89). From 1996 untill January 2006 he was the Executive Vice President of MOVA Pharmaceutical in Puerto Rico. Mr. Van Hulst is a member of the Board of several Pharmaceutical Companies. He holds a law degree from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, where he was born, and he became an American citizen in 1989.
President
Mrs. Sperry has been on the Board since 1986 and held various positions in the areas of fundraising, special events, and as Board Secretary. Formerly a member of the Executive Staff at ITT, Mrs. Sperry also held positions as Vice President of Marketing for Estee Lauder and Revlon . In 1985 Mrs. Sperry joined News Corp. as one of the editors of Elle magazine and subsequently as publisher of European Travel and Life magazine. In 1991 Gabriella and her husband started a family business. Gabriella holds a BS in Chemistry and an MBA from New York University.
Treasurer
Mr. Cossaro joined the Board of Directors in October 2010. Mr. Cossaro was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received an undergraduate degree in Accounting from Universidad de la Republica in 1998. He then worked for Deloitte & Touche as an Auditing Assistant and at ABN Amro Bank as a Credit Analyst (1998-2003), before moving to Ann Arbor, Michigan (U.S.) where he completed his graduate studies at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. In 2005 he received a Master of Business Administration degree from that school, with majors in Finance and International Business. That same year he embarked in the CFA Institute's program, which he completed in 2008 when he was designated as CFA Charterholder. In 2005, Pablo was hired as an Associate by Credit Suisse HOLT, an independent equity research boutique within Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, where he has worked on providing unique valuation and corporate performance insights on Latin American companies to Credit Suisse's global buy-side institutional clients. In early 2010, Pablo was promoted to Vice-President of Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC.
Credit Suisse Group
DIRECTORS
Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Joined the Board in 1997. He is a partner in Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP's Corporate and Securities Department and a Vice Chair of the firm's Executive Committee. He is the U.S. law contributor to Peat Marwick McLintock's Guide to Acquisitions in the U.S. and also co-authored Doing Business in Europe: Before and After 1992. He holds a JD from St. John's University School of Law and a BSBA from Georgetown University. He is a member of the American, New York State, New York City and New Jersey Bar Associations. He and his wife Donna live in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and have four children.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Joined the Board in 1996. Born in Paris, she is a graduate of the Institut des Sciences Politiques de Paris. For many years, she was a private art dealer in New York, prior to which she served in the French Diplomatic Service. She has traveled widely throughout the world and reported to French newspapers on United Nations activities. Mrs. Golby sits on the board of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) and serves on the United States Special Events Committee of the Royal Academy of London. She planned and hosted six art shows for The International Center and organized or co-chaired seven theater benefits for the Center, the last being La Cage aux Folles, with a pre-theater dinner at Sardi’s. She lives in New York City with her husband, Ralph. They have two adult children.
Heath Golden
Heath Golden joined Hampshire Group, Limited as Vice President of Business Development and Assistant Secretary in August 2005. In May 2006 he assumed the additional position of General Counsel and in June 2006 he also assumed the role of Vice President of Administration and Secretary. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Golden was an attorney with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP from March 2003 through July 2005 and prior to that with Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. from April 2000 until March 2003. Mr. Golden began his career in the private practice of law in 1999 with Pepper Hamilton LLP.
Hampshire Group Limited
Ms. Kent is a global licensing executive with 23 years of experience in the fashion industry, focusing on brand development and management of international business partnerships.
She was an original member of Tommy Hilfiger licensing department, and key contributor in building the domestic and international licensing program to a $1.2B wholesale division with 37 licensees, leading the vision for international licensing expansion and brand initiatives. Before working at Tommy Hilfiger, Ms. Kent was Director of Commercial Operations for Polo Ralph Lauren. She holds a BA in French/Studio Art from Hamilton College.
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Mr. Nakagawa joined the Board in February 2002. Mr. Nakagawa is Senior Vice President at Brother International Corporation. He was born in Tokyo and moved with his family to the U.S. in 1963, and lived and attended high school in Long Island. He graduated from Hiram College in 1968 with a BA degree, and in 1971 from Syracuse University, where he earned his MBA. Mr. Nakagawa was on the Board of The George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ, and is a member of the Japan Society.
Brother International Corporation
Mr. Ostry joined the board in 2006. He is a Managing Director at Credit Suisse Group in Manhattan, where he runs a team of portfolio consultants that work with institutional investors. Mr. Ostry holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Illinois and a Master’s degree in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.
Credit Suisse Group
Has been a Board member since 1990, and was the Board’s Secretary from 1993 to 1999. As Secretary, she served on the Executive Committee of the Board. Ms. Schoon was Marketing Director for Retail Bank, and Senior Vice President of The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. Joining Chase in 1982, Ms. Schoon held positions in the wholesale side of Chase managing global businesses such as cash management, custody and institutional trust. Before joining Chase, she held management positions with Citibank and the City of New York. Born in Grinnell, Iowa, Ms. Schoon holds a BA from the University of Iowa and an MBA from New York University. She was Vice President of the WMS School Board, where she spearheaded the financing of a new building. Ms. Schoon is Vice President of the Board at the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute and President of the TLC Investment Club. She is also a Board Member of the Gunn Memorial Library in Washington, CT.
Mrs. Scott joined the Board in 1970 at the invitation of Maud and Eustace Seligman, who had started the Center. Mrs. Scott served as Chairman of the Theater Benefit and Awards Dinner Committees for more than ten years and Chairs the International Advisory Council. She originally took an interest in international exchange when English children were sent to the United States and to other parts of the English-speaking world for the duration of World War II. Afterwards, she interacted with some of the displaced young people who came to live in the New York area from countries that were taken over by the U.S.S.R. They did not know a word of English and they had to adapt to American culture in an abrupt period of transition to new lives. Other Boards with which she has long been active are: The English-Speaking Union (past president of the New York Branch), Sir John Soane’s Museum Foundation (past president), Friends of Canterbury Cathedral in the U.S. (trustee), The Church Club of New York (past trustee), Washington National Cathedral Association (past trustee), American Priory of The Order of Saint John (Dame and Member of the Chapter), American-Scottish Foundation (trustee), Black Watch Council, Colonial Dames of America (former Board member), DAR (past Regent), Friends of the Collections of Mount Vernon, American Museum in Britain (trustee), as well as historical associations, rare book libraries and museums in England and in America, such as The Royal Academy of Arts and the British Museum. Mrs. Scott has served as Chairman, President and active Volunteer of several charitable foundations and committees and is an enthusiastic world traveler.
Mr. Totten has been a Board member since 1988. He is a Senior Vice President at CBRE where he has worked since 1980. He was Vice President of Real Estate at McGraw Hill (1962-80), and worked at Union Carbide (1956-62) as Manager of Employee Relocation. He received his BS at Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, and an L.L.B. from Fordham Law School. He is a member of the New York State Bar, and is on the Board of Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic.
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