9/11 - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- CEO
- President
- Executive Director of the National Museum of American Jewish History
As the chief executive, a position she has held since January 1, 2017, Alice Greenwald is responsible for the overall vision, financial well-being, management, and long-term sustainability and relevance of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. Late in 2021, she announced her decision to transition out of this role in 2022 but will remain in place until a successor is named.
From 2006-2016, Greenwald served as executive vice president for the Exhibitions, Collections, and Education departments and director of the Memorial Museum. In this role, she oversaw the articulation and implementation of a founding vision for the 9/11 Memorial Museum, managing its programming, collecting, exhibition, and educational initiatives.
Greenwald previously served as associate museum director of museum programs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Her 19-year affiliation with USHMM began in 1986, when she served as a member of the "design team" for the permanent exhibition.
From 1986-2001, Greenwald was the principal of Alice M. Greenwald/Museum Services, providing expertise to various clients, including, in addition to USHMM, the Baltimore Museum of Industry, the Pew Charitable trusts, and the Historical Society of Princeton.
Greenwald has served as executive director of the National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia (1981-86); acting director (1980), curator (1978-81) and assistant curator (1975-78) of the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum, Los Angeles; and curatorial assistant at the Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago.
She is the author of several articles on museum practice, Jewish ritual art, and various historical topics. Her book, The Stories They Tell: Artifacts from the National September 11 Memorial Museum, co-edited with Clifford Chanin and published by Skira Rizzoli, was cited in the New York Times as one of the best books about New York City published in 2013. She is also the executive editor and primary contributing author of No Day Shall Erase You: The Story of 9/11 as Told at the National September 11 Memorial Museum, the official companion volume to the 9/11 Memorial Museum, published by Skira Rizzoli in August 2016. This book was awarded the bronze prize in the 2016 Foreword INDIES Awards in the category of history (adult nonfiction).
Greenwald currently serves on the boards of the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial Foundation and Central Synagogue in New York City. She holds an MA in the history of religions from the University of Chicago Divinity School and a BA with concentrations in English literature and anthropology from Sarah Lawrence College, where she delivered the commencement address to the class of 2007.
Job Titles:
- Chief Strategy & Operations Officer for the 9 / 11 Memorial & Museum
- Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy & Operations Officer
Allison Blais is the chief strategy & operations officer for the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. She is also coauthor of A Place of Remembrance, the official book of the organization. Her current role combines her past two leadership positions at the institution as chief strategy officer and chief operating officer. Blais is responsible for managing priority institution-wide initiatives and oversees a team focused on the 9/11 Memorial & Museum's ongoing sustainability and relevance as well as its daily operations, leading departments responsible for strategic and operational planning, events and business partnerships, visitor services and retail, buildings and grounds, and security and life safety.
Blais has worked on the World Trade Center rebuilding and operation since 2004. Before her COO and CSO roles, she served as the organization's chief of staff for eight years through the planning, design, building, operational ramp-up, and opening of both the Memorial and the Museum. Prior to her work at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, she worked in the chairman's and president's offices of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the agency charged with planning the rebuilding and revitalization of lower Manhattan in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Before her work downtown, Blais managed capital projects for major cultural institutions and construction companies throughout New York City and worked at the Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.
She graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University, where she serves on the President's Council of Cornell Women, and received a master's degree in American studies from Columbia University.
Billy Crystal has created one of the most versatile and prolific careers in the entertainment industry, finding success in front of the camera, as a stand-up comedian, an actor in film and television, and behind the scenes as a writer, director, and producer. After touring with such stars as Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, and Neil Sedaka, he became a regular on the popular sitcom Soap, playing the first openly gay character on a network television series. During the 1984-85 television seasons, Billy met with phenomenal national success on Saturday Night Live, earning his first Emmy nomination. He created, wrote, and produced the critically acclaimed HBO series Sessions and became the first comedian to perform in the then-Soviet Union with his special Midnight Train to Moscow, one of four one-man specials he has done for HBO. He has hosted the Grammy Awards three times and the Oscars eight times.
Caryn Seidman Becker‘s vision to build a safer, more secure world to live, work and play came to life in 2010 when she and co-founder Ken Cornick launched CLEAR. CLEAR, the secure identity platform, makes it simple to be you by using biometrics to create secure, connected and frictionless experiences, while obsessing over every aspect of the customer experience. Caryn leads over 2,000 passionate CLEAR team members across the country committed to bringing CLEAR's vision to life every day.
Job Titles:
- Special Advisor to President & CEO
- Special Advisor to President & CEO, 9 / 11 Memorial & Museum
Catherine Blaney, Esq., joined the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in the fall of 2006. Along with Chairman Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, she has helped spearhead fundraising for the 9/11 Memorial & Museum for both the capital campaign and for operational and program development.
Most recently, Blaney is continuing fundraising and developing partnerships with several different initiatives that are partnered with Bloomberg Philanthropies.
She received her law degree from St. John's University and a BA in political science and sociology from Fordham University.
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Family Member / Owner, Vidicom / Citybuzz
Christy Ferer leads Vidicom, which creates branded content and unique digital distribution. The company pioneered award-winning and game-changing interactive live programming for brands and their outlets. Its subsidiary, Citybuzz, is a travel channel that broadcasts on the web, in hotels, and in-flight. Ferer began her career as an Emmy Award-winning political news reporter and as a lifestyle contributor for the network morning news shows. She currently serves as a special assistant to former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on 9/11 issues. Ferer served as a commissioner of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey for five years, and she currently serves on the boards of the Jacob Javits Center, the 92nd Street Y, American Corporate Partners, Global Green, and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan. In 2010, she was awarded the French Legion of Honor.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President and Deputy Director for Museum Programs
- Executive Vice President and Deputy Director for Museum Programs at the 9 / 11 Memorial Museum
- Founder of the Legacy Project
Clifford Chanin is executive vice president and deputy director for museum programs at the 9/11 Memorial Museum, where he oversees the museum's exhibitions, collections, and public programs.
For the museum, Chanin coedited The Stories They Tell: Artifacts from the National September 11 Memorial Museum (Rizzoli, 2013). He curated the museum's fifth and tenth commemoration exhibitions: 9/11 and the American Landscape: The Photographs of Jonathan Hyman and Memory Remains: 9/11 Artifacts at Hangar 17 by Francesc Torres. He was the editor of exhibition catalogs for each.
Chanin produced two films, Facing Crisis: America Under Attack and Facing Crisis: A Changed World, based on interviews he conducted with key 9/11 decision-makers. The films are shown throughout the day in the museum auditorium.
For ten years, Chanin was associate director of arts and humanities at the Rockefeller Foundation, where he developed programs on pluralism and development in the Muslim world.
Chanin is also founder of the Legacy Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to documenting the long-term consequences of historical conflicts in societies around the world. Based on this work, Chanin curated a permanent art collection for the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. He is coeditor of Blooming Through the Ashes: An Anthology on Violence and the Human Spirit (Rutgers University Press, 2007).
Previously, he worked as a journalist and as a spokesman for the mayor of New York. He received a BA from Wesleyan University and master's degrees in journalism and international affairs from Columbia University.
Job Titles:
- Senior Advisor at Stone Point Capital
Craig R. Stapleton is a senior advisor at Stone Point Capital in Greenwich, Connecticut. He is a director of Tenax Aerospace and Vivino Inc. He is a co-owner of the St. Louis Cardinals. He was president of Marsh and McLennan Real Estate Advisors of New York from 1982 until 2001.
Stapleton was born in Kansas City, Missouri. His grandfather Benjamin F. Stapleton served five terms as mayor of Denver. He received his secondary school education at Phillips Exeter Academy. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
During the administration of former President George H. W. Bush, Stapleton served on the Board of the Peace Corps. From 2001-2003, he served under former President George W. Bush as ambassador to the Czech Republic, where he received the Jan Masaryk Medal. In June 2005, he was appointed ambassador to France, serving until January 2009. Stapleton was decorated as commandeurs de la Légion d'honneur.
Ambassador Stapleton serves on the boards of the Vaclav Havel Foundation, the American Friends of Compiegne, the United Way Tocqueville of France, the World War I Commission, and the Trust for the National Mall. He is a trustee of the American University in Paris and the Fishback Foundation. He has served on the visiting committee for Harvard College Athletics and the committee on university resources and athletics.
Stapleton and his wife, Debbie, reside in North Palm Beach, Florida, and Greenwich, Connecticut. They have two children and six grandchildren. His son Walker Stapleton was elected Colorado state treasurer in 2010 and 2014.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board of the Natural Resources Defense Council
- Chairman of the Board of Tishman Construction
- Chairman, Tishman Construction Corporation
Daniel R. Tishman is chairman of the board of Tishman Construction. He is also vice chairman and a member of the Board of Tishman Hotel & Realty LP. Tishman has a quarter-century of experience in construction and real estate development. As CEO of Tishman Construction, he is responsible for setting the company's strategy and direction, as well as for overseeing its national operations.
Tishman was a major force in propelling the green-building movement to the forefront of the industry. Under his guidance, Tishman Construction managed the construction of 4 Times Square, the first green skyscraper in New York City, and 7 World Trade Center, the first office tower in the city to be certified under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system. Under Tishman, Tishman Construction recently completed construction on One Bryant Park, a green skyscraper seeking LEED Platinum certification, and the Henry Miller's Theater, the first Broadway Theater to seek LEED Gold certification.
Tishman serves on the boards of the Real Estate Board of New York, the Real Estate Roundtable, and the New York Building Congress. In 2006, he was appointed by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg to New York City's Sustainability Advisory Board, which advised in the creation of PlaNYC 2030, the blueprint for greening New York City and reducing carbon emissions from buildings through retrofitting and the use of sustainable technologies in new construction.
Tishman is chairman of the board of the Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the world's leading environmental advocacy organizations. He also serves on the boards of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and UJA-Federation of New York. As a conservationist, he has worked to protect land throughout the United States.
He holds a BS in ecology and planning from Evergreen State College and an MS in environmental studies from Lesley College.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at the 9 / 11 Memorial & Museum
David Sheehan is the executive vice president and chief financial officer at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, where he leads the work of the Finance and Information Technology departments.
Before joining the Memorial, he was the deputy chief operating officer at 100 Resilient Cities, a global nonprofit, where he led their internal finance, IT, operations, and grant management functions. Sheehan served as managing director of administrative services and the director of fiscal operations at the New York City Mayor's Office for more than 10 years. He also held positions at various public and nonprofit organizations including the Guggenheim Museum, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York City Office of Management and Budget, and Metropolitan Transit Authority.
He received a M.P.A degree in public and nonprofit management from NYU's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and a B.A. from the State University of New York at Oswego.
Sheehan currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Karen, and their two children.
Debra Burlingame is the sister of Captain Charles F. "Chic" Burlingame, III, pilot of American Airlines Flight 77, which was hijacked and crashed into the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
Burlingame was formerly a producer at Court TV, where she covered dozens of civil and criminal legal proceedings ranging from the OJ Simpson trial and the Clinton impeachment hearings to the Microsoft anti-trust case. She wrote pieces for broadcast on constitutional appellate cases, consumer law, and legal news, and helped launch a documentary series involving cold criminal cases.
Before her career in television, she worked as an attorney in New York City.
Burlingame is a graduate of New York University, Cardozo School of Law, and serves on the board of the Medal of Honor Museum Foundation.
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Chief Medical Officer, FDNY ( Ret. )
- Founding Trustee
Dr. Kerry Kelly served as a Medical Officer with the New York City Fire Department (FDNY) for 37 years, until her retirement in 2018. She held the position of Chief Medical Officer for the last 24 of those years. In that role, Dr. Kelly oversaw a staff of physicians, nurses, and civilians in the FDNY Bureau of Health Services. After 9/11, Dr. Kelly and her staff provided health screening and treatment for FDNY First Responders exposed through their efforts in rescue and recovery. She has co-authored numerous articles on the health consequences of the World Trade Center attacks on surviving first responders.
After retirement, Dr. Kelly has continued to work for the FDNY in the World Trade Center Health Program. Her work involves assisting active and retired members experiencing serious medical issues following 9/11.
In addition to her current work at the FDNY, Dr. Kelly maintains a family medicine practice on Staten Island with Northwell Health.
Dr. Kelly received her medical degree from Brown University after graduating from Vassar College.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Council
- Vice Chairman, JPMorgan Chase & Co
E. John Rosenwald Jr. was born in New York and is a graduate of Deerfield Academy, Dartmouth College, and the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth. He joined the Bear Stearns Companies Inc. in 1954. In 1962, he was elected a general partner and shortly thereafter was elected to the Bear Stearns Executive Committee. When Bear Stearns went public in 1985, Rosenwald was elected a member of the office of the president.
He was elected vice chairman of the Bear Stearns Companies Inc. in 1988 and vice chairman of J.P. Morgan in 2008.
Rosenwald serves as a member of the board of trustees of the following nonprofit organizations:
Brandeis University (trustee emeritus)
Central Park Conservancy (life trustee)
Dartmouth College (chairman of the board emeritus)
Environmental Defense Fund (advisory trustee)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (trustee emeritus, member of executive committee, and executive chair of the Fund for the Met)
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University
National Organization on Disability
National 9/11 Memorial & Museum
New York University (life trustee)
New York University Langone Medical Center
Teachers College at Columbia University
Rosenwald is a member of the following clubs:
Century Country Club, Purchase, New York
Harmonie Club, New York City
Palm Beach Country Club, Palm Beach, Florida
Rosenwald is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In June 2002, he was awarded an honorary doctor of laws at Dartmouth College.
Rosenwald resides in New York City, Rye, New York, and Palm Beach, Florida. He and his late wife, Patricia, have five children and 10 grandchildren.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- President Emerita of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Served for 40 Years in a Progression of Leadership Roles at the Nation 's Largest Art Museum
- President Emerita, the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Principal, Emily K. Rafferty & Associates
Emily Kernan Rafferty, President Emerita of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, served for 40 years in a progression of leadership roles at the nation's largest art Museum: as Chief of Institutional Advancement, Senior Vice President of External Affairs, and as President of the Met from 2005 to 2015. As President, she was the Museum's chief administrative officer, supervising a staff of 2,000 full- and part-time employees and volunteers, and founding the Met's first multicultural outreach, diversity, and inclusion program. In addition to serving as a cultural leader in New York City, Ms. Rafferty's global responsibilities took her to more than 50 countries, where she worked with government and private sector officials on initiatives involving funding, marketing, international art loans, legislative affairs, patrimony, and cultural exchange. Currently, Ms. Rafferty is a Vice Chairman of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum (board member 2005-present); a Board member of Carnegie Hall (October 2018- ), the Asia Society, (2021-); Civitella Ranieri, an Artist Residency Program in Italy (2018- ); the Hispanic Society Museum and Library (2019- ); and the Association of Art Museum Curators (2019- ). She also serves on the corporate boards of PJT Partners (2015- ) and Koç Holdings, Istanbul (2018- ). A member of the eight Women, a bipartisan Congressional Commission to study the feasibility of an American Museum of Women's History in Washington, D.C. (2015-2016), she continues to serve as an advisor to the project, which has received Congressional approval to proceed as part of the Smithsonian Institution. She is also a member of the Advisory Council of the American University of Beirut.
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Fiserv, Inc
- President and Chief Operating Officer in 2019 As Part
Frank Bisignano is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Fiserv, Inc. (NASDAQ: FISV), a global leader in financial services and payments technology solutions. The company serves clients in more than 100 countries, and has been recognized as one of FORTUNE World's Most Admired Companies® for 11 of the past 14 years.
Bisignano joined Fiserv as President and Chief Operating Officer in 2019 as part of the company's transformative combination with First Data. He became Chief Executive Officer in July 2020 and Chairman of the Board in May 2022.
Bisignano previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of First Data Corporation where he led the world's largest traditional payment processor to become a technology innovator, industry collaborator and commerce enabler. He also led its $2.6 billion initial public offering in 2015, the largest U.S. IPO of the year.
With more than 30 years of executive leadership experience in banks and global financial institutions, Bisignano's background includes serving as Co-Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Mortgage Banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co., and multiple leadership positions at Citigroup, including Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Executive Officer of the company's Global Transaction Services unit.
Among a number of non-profit commitments, he serves on the boards of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, the Mount Sinai Health System, and The Battery Conservancy.
Job Titles:
- Honorary Trustee
- President
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Senior Chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
- Trustee of New York Presbyterian Hospital
H. Rodgin Cohen is senior chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, having served as chairman from 2000 to 2009. The primary focus of Cohen's practice is regulatory, enforcement, acquisition, and securities law matters for U.S. and non-U.S. financial institutions and their trade associations, and corporate governance matters for a wide variety of organizations.
Cohen advises the financial services industry on the full range of regulatory, merger and acquisition, governance, compliance, and enforcement matters, including multiagency investigations relating to compliance with anti-money laundering and sanctions issues. He frequently works with all the bank regulatory agencies as well as multiple other governmental agencies. Key recent matters include the Volcker Rule, numerous other provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act, capital and liquidity standards, resolution, and resolution planning. He provides corporate governance advice to a large number of institutions, both regular clients and as special assignments, and is also a frequent advisor on the rise of strategic and corporate governance activism.
He has played a singular role in the market events that have changed the face of the financial services industry and economy, for which he has been recognized by organizations such as The American Lawyer, The Clearing House, and the Financial Times. He has received lifetime achievement awards from Who's Who Legal, Chambers, the New York Law Journal, and the M&A Advisor. Most recently, Cohen was inducted into Legal500's Hall of Fame and was the recipient of the Burton Awards inaugural Law Firm Leadership in Law Award. William Burton, founder and chair of the Burton Awards, said, "Rodgin Cohen is an icon in law and is known and respected widely. His qualities and attributes far exceed the highest standards which could ever be set for a law firm leader. He has established an impressive record of success for Sullivan & Cromwell, and is the finest example for every leader to follow."
Cohen is or has been a member of the FDIC Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee, the National Security Agency Cyber Awareness Panel, the Treasury Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession, and the New York State Commission to Modernize the Regulation of Financial Services. He is or has also been vice chairman of the Economic Studies Council of the Brookings Institution and a member of the Bipartisan Policy Center Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative, the Pew Financial Reform Project, the IIF Special Committee for a Strategic Dialogue for Effective Regulation, and the Financial Services Roundtable's Blue Ribbon Commission on Enhancing Competitiveness.
Cohen is a trustee of New York Presbyterian Hospital, The Rockefeller University, Hackley School, Lincoln Center Theater, New York City Partnership and, formerly, Deerfield Academy (as president of the board), Hampton University, Harvard Law School Visiting Committee, and the Economic Club of New York.
Job Titles:
- Trustee Emeritus
- Chairman, New York Private Bank & Trust / Managing Partner, Milstein Properties
- Member of the Executive Committee of the Real Estate Board of New York
Howard Milstein is chairman of New York Private Bank & Trust, the largest privately owned bank in the country. Milstein is a managing partner of Milstein Properties, an investment builder active in both residential and commercial development primarily in New York City, and founding chairman of the investment firm FriedbergMilstein. He chairs MB Real Estate, a national commercial leasing and management company.
Job Titles:
- Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald L.P
- Family Member / Chairman and CEO, Cantor Fitzgerald L.P
Howard W. Lutnick is the chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald L.P., one of the world's leading financial services firms, and chairman and CEO of BGC Partners Inc., a global brokerage company primarily servicing the wholesale financial and real estate markets.
Job Titles:
- Chairman Emeritus
- Adjunct Professor and Chair of the Millstein Center for Global Markets
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Life Trustee and Former Chairman of the Board of the Central Park Conservancy
- Senior Partner at the International Law Firm Weil
- Senior Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Ira M. Millstein is a senior partner at the international law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, where, in addition to practicing in the areas of government regulation and antitrust law representing General Electric, Matsushita, and others, he also has counseled numerous boards on issues of corporate governance, including the boards of General Motors, Westinghouse, Bethlehem Steel, WellChoice (formerly known as Empire Blue Cross), the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), Tyco International, the Walt Disney Company, the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Ford Foundation, the Nature Conservancy, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America, among others.
In addition to his active legal practice, Millstein is an adjunct professor and chair of the Millstein Center for Global Markets and Corporate Ownership at Columbia Law School and an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School. He was formerly the senior associate dean for corporate governance and the Theodore Nierenberg adjunct professor of corporate governance at the Yale School of Management, adjunct professor at New York University School of Law, and fellow of the faculty of government at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Millstein was appointed by former Governor George Pataki as chairman of a New York State Commission on Public Authority Reform, which led to the 2009 Public Authorities Reform Act, and, serving at the request of Governors Pataki, Paterson, and Cuomo, as chairman of various task forces charged with overseeing successful implementation of the new public authorities laws.
Millstein is chairman emeritus, having served as chairman from 1999-2005 of the Private Sector Advisory Group to the Global Corporate Governance Forum founded by the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He served as chairman of the OECD Business Sector Advisory Group on Corporate Governance from 1997-1998 and co-chair of the Blue Ribbon Committee on Improving the Effectiveness of Corporate Audit Committees (sponsored by the New York Stock Exchange and the National Association of Securities Dealers) from 1998-1999. In 1997, he was appointed by former Vice President Al Gore and former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin to the U.S.-Russia Capital Markets Forum working group on investor protection. In 1996, Millstein chaired the National Association of Corporate Directors' Blue Ribbon Commission on Director Professionalism. He formerly has served as chairman of the Board of Advisors of Columbia University's Center for Law & Economic Studies' institutional investor project and chairman of the New York State Pension Investment Task Force.
Millstein formerly served as a member of the Advisory Council of Transparency International, the Yale School of Management Advisory Board, the Board of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), and as former chairman of the NACD's Center for Board Leadership. Millstein is a former chairman of the Antitrust Law Sections of both the American Bar Association and the New York State Bar Association.
In 2014, Millstein received Columbia Law School's most prestigious award, the Medal for Excellence. In 2007, the Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association awarded him the inaugural Samuel Johnson Medal for Distinguished Achievement. In June 2006, the National Law Journal named Millstein to its list of "100 Most Influential Lawyers in " In 2001, he received the first Award for Excellence in Corporate Governance by the International Corporate Governance Network. In 1998, Columbia Business School awarded Millstein the Benjamin Botwinick Prize for Ethical Practice in the Professions for his pioneering work in the corporate governance movement. Millstein was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters by Yeshiva University in 1988, and in 1980 he was awarded by the French government the rank of "Chevalier" (Knight) of the National Order of Merit.
Millstein is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a frequent lecturer and author on corporate governance, antitrust, and government regulation. Included among his many publications are: The Activist Director: Lessons from the Boardroom and the Future of the Corporation (author, Columbia University Press, December 2016); The Recurrent Crisis in Corporate Governance (co-author, Palgrave, 2003; paperback by Stanford University Press, August 2004); a trilogy of articles published in The Business Lawyer: "The Evolution of the Certifying Board" (1992), "The Professional Board" (1995), and "The Responsible Board" (1997); The Limits of Corporate Power (co-author, MacMillan, 1981); The Impact of the Modern Corporation (co-editor, Columbia University Press, 1984); The Battle for Corporate Control: Shareholder Rights, Stakeholder Interests, and Managerial Responsibility (contributing author, New York University, 1991); and "Can the Board of Directors Help the American Corporation Earn the Immortality It Holds So Dear?" in The U.S. Business Corporation: An Institution in Transition (contributing co-author, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Ballinger Publishing Co., 1988).
Millstein is a life trustee and former chairman of the Board of the Central Park Conservancy (1991-1999) and is currently chairman of the Central Park Conservancy Institute for Urban Parks. He is chairman emeritus and member of the Board of Overseers of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1977-present), chairman emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the American Red Cross of Greater New York (2008-present), and emeritus director for New Yorkers for Parks. Millstein currently serves as pro bono counsel to the Board of Directors of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the agency overseeing the redevelopment of lower Manhattan, and is a dedicated member of the Board of Trustees of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. He serves as a member of the Board of Governors of the City Center of Music and Drama, Inc., is an honorary founding co-chair of the American College of Governance Counsel and is a founding member of the Board of the Systemic Risk Council.
Millstein is a graduate of Columbia Law School and holds a BS in engineering from Columbia School of Engineering.
Job Titles:
- Senior Executive Vice President & General Counsel, the Bank of New York Mellon
- Senior Executive Vice President and General Counsel of BNY Mellon
Kevin McCarthy is a senior executive vice president and general counsel of BNY Mellon. A member of the company's executive committee, McCarthy heads BNY Mellon's legal department and also has overall responsibility for government affairs, the corporate secretarial function, and global corporate security. He is the executive committee sponsor for VetNet, an employee resource group that supports employees who are former military or have family members who have served. VetNet is one of six ERGs that reflect BNY Mellon's commitment to diversity and workplace excellence by supporting employees with shared interests.
McCarthy was appointed to his current position in April 2014. He joined BNY Mellon in 2010 as deputy general counsel and led the litigation, enforcement, and employment law functions. In 2013, he was appointed senior deputy general counsel and assumed additional responsibility for the legal teams supporting the company's asset servicing businesses and corporate center functions.
Prior to joining BNY Mellon, McCarthy was general counsel of Cowen Group, Inc., a diversified investment bank and financial services firm. From 2004 to 2007, he was a partner at Wilmer Hale, focused on securities and litigation matters. From 1996 to 2004, McCarthy was at Credit Suisse First Boston in a variety of roles, most recently as managing director and global head of litigation. McCarthy began his legal career as an associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
McCarthy received a BA from Siena College and his JD from Albany Law School of Union University.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder, CEO, and Chairwoman of Tribeca Enterprises
- Co - Founder, Tribeca Productions / Co - Founder and Executive Chair, Tribeca Enterprises / Co - Founder and Co - Chair, Tribeca Film Festival
- Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts
Jane Rosenthal is co-founder, CEO, and chairwoman of Tribeca Enterprises, a global media company that encompasses the Tribeca Film Festival and award-winning branded content division Tribeca Studios.
Rosenthal and Robert De Niro established Tribeca Productions and the Tribeca Film Center in 1989. Rosenthal has since established herself as a leading producer of critically and commercially acclaimed film and television. Rosenthal and De Niro founded the Tribeca Film Festival in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks to revive lower Manhattan through the healing power of film and storytelling. The inaugural festival stood as a powerful symbol of resilience and showed how the creative community could play an impactful role in the economic revitalization of the city. Tribeca has since gone on to become one of the world's leading film festivals and will welcome its 19th year in April 2020.
Rosenthal most currently produced the Emmy-nominated Netflix limited series When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman, starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, and Al Pacino. Other recent credits include Academy Award-winning Bohemian Rhapsody and the Grammy Award-winning documentary Quincy, which is about the legendary music producer Quincy Jones. She also produced A Bronx Tale: The Musical, which is currently following its two-and-a-half year Broadway run with a national tour, as well as the Queen musical We Will Rock You, the tenth longest-running musical in West End history.
Past credits include producing one of the highest grossing comedy franchises of all time: Meet the Parents (2000), Meet the Fockers (2004), and Little Fockers (2010). Other credits include the Emmy-nominated Wizard of Lies (2017); Oscar-nominated Wag the Dog (1997); De Niro's directorial debut, A Bronx Tale (1993); Analyze This (1999); Analyze That (2002); The Good Shepherd (2006); About a Boy (2002); and Jason Katims' accompanying television spinoff About a Boy (2014). She has also worked with the artist JR on numerous documentaries, including viral short Ellis (2015).
Rosenthal is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and has been honored by the Museum of the Moving Image, New York University Tisch School of Arts, the Matrix Award, and the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. In 2011, she was presented with the Jane Jacobs Medal for Lifetime Leadership from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Monteblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award for her commitment to arts and culture. Rosenthal serves on the boards of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, the Child Mind Institute, Global Citizen, and interactive media company Eko. She is also co-founder and co-chair of the non-profit Tribeca Film Institute. Rosenthal attended Brown University and graduated from New York University.
Rosenthal's two most cherished productions are her daughters, Juliana and Isabella.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President for Government & Community Affairs at the 9 / 11 Memorial & Museum
Jay Weinkam currently serves as the Executive Vice President for Government & Community Affairs at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum. He is responsible for the foundation's strategy and management of legislative affairs, stakeholder and constituent relations, strategic partnerships, community engagement, and dignitary visits. He is also responsible for developing relationships across all external parties including city, state, and federal government agencies and officials, and community partners that serve to enhance the institutions standing and reputation across the globe.
Prior to joining the 9/11 Memorial, Jay served for over a decade as a senior advisor for two New York City mayors and worked on both mayoral and presidential campaigns. He also has prior experience in the advertising industry as well as operations for the FIFA World Cup.
Jay received his B.A. in political science from Fairfield University where he played Division I soccer on an athletic scholarship. He resides in Brooklyn with his wife and two children and coaches youth soccer and flag football on most weekends.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer, New York Mets
- Founder, Executive Vice President, and Partner of Sterling Project Development
With nearly 30 years of experience actively overseeing major construction projects, Jeff Wilpon serves as founder, executive vice president, and partner of Sterling Project Development. Wilpon has an extensive history of involvement with leasing management construction operations, as well as supervising sports facility construction. He has also been involved in major school, entertainment, and tenant installations, as well as the transactional aspects of such projects.
Wilpon's most relevant endeavors include the planning, design, and construction of projects such as Citi Field, MLB headquarters, and NHL headquarters in New York City, a 45-acre, master-planned development at Titletown in Green Bay, and facilities for the New York Mets in Port St. Lucie, FL, the Dominican Republic, and Kingsport, TN. In addition to SPD, Wilpon served as chief operating officer of the New York Mets and the Brooklyn Cyclones for more than 18 years. His development responsibilities in Brooklyn included working in partnership with the City of New York to oversee the planning, design, and construction of MCU Park.
Wilpon currently sits on the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) Board of Governors, The Association for a Better New York (ABNY), and TitletownTech Board of Advisors. Additionally, he was recently appointed to Governor Andrew Cuomo's newly formed New York Forward Re-Opening Advisory Board in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Partner at the Law Firm of Paul
Jeh Johnson is a partner at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP in New York City and the former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security (2013-2017). Johnson is now also on the board of directors of Lockheed Martin, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Center for a New American Security. Since leaving public office in January 2017 Johnson has been asked to testify before Congress four times on the subject of homeland security and cybersecurity, and he is a regular commentator on national and homeland security matters on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, MSNBC, FOX, CNN, CNBC, and other networks.
Job Titles:
- Honorary Trustee
- President
John C. Whitehead was born in Evanston, Illinois, and died at the age of 92.
He graduated from Haverford College in 1943 and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Whitehead received his MBA from Harvard in 1947 and began at Goldman Sachs & Co. He became partner in 1956 and senior partner in 1976.
In 1985, Whitehead was asked by former President Ronald Reagan to become deputy secretary of state. He was sworn into office in July 1985 and served until January 1989.
He was the former chairman of such diverse organizations as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Harvard Board of Overseers, the International Rescue Committee, the United Nations Association, Haverford College, the Asia Society, and the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund. He was chairman of the Boy Scouts of America/GNY.
In late 2001, he was appointed as chairman of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the organization responsible for the rebuilding and revitalization of lower Manhattan. He served in that position until May 2006. He was also the founding chairman of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum.
Job Titles:
- Executive Vice President & Chief Advancement Officer
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chairman, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
Job Titles:
- General Counsel
- Secretary of the Board
Job Titles:
- Honorary Trustee
- President