Our Board of Directors

Mr. Seidman is an internationally known expert on business ethics and governance. For more than 10 years, Mr. Seidman has worked closely with Boards of Directors, CEOs and other executive officers of more than 100 global companies to help companies foster winning, “do it right” corporate cultures in which values-based decision making, legal compliance and good governance are a natural and inevitable outcome.

Mr. Seidman founded LRN with the mission of transforming the way legal knowledge is created and managed in a corporate setting. He developed a global network of more than 1,000 legal experts, and since then, LRN has provided expert legal research and analysis to more than 500 corporate law departments.

Under his leadership, LRN expanded its solutions, and now offers legal, ethics and compliance education in over 30 languages to more than seven million corporate employees around the world. Mr. Seidman also spearheaded the development of the LRN Governance and Ethics Management System™ (GEMS™) to help organizations unify and manage real-world governance processes – from assessing a company's risk exposure, to implementing a governance, compliance and ethics management program to benchmarking the program's effectiveness.

He has testified before the United States Sentencing Commission on placing ethics and ethical corporate cultures at the center of compliance programs. He is also a member of the RAND Institute for Civil Justice Board of Overseers, which unites leaders to provide insight and advice on facilitating change in the civil justice system. His thoughts and perspectives have been profiled on major television news programs, such as ABC's Good Morning America and BBC News, and in major business and trade periodicals, such as Corporate Board Member, CFO, The New York Times, The Financial Times, Forbes, and The Wall Street Journal.

Mr. Seidman graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. At UCLA, he earned simultaneous bachelor's and master's degrees in philosophy, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He later received a B.A., with honors, in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University, where he was a Newton-Tatum scholar and captain of the Balliol College crew team.

Senator William W. Bradley, 62 is a managing director of Allen & Company LLC. From 2001-2004, he acted as chief outside advisor to McKinsey & Company's nonprofit practice. He was a senior advisor and vice chairman of the International Council of JP Morgan & Co., Inc. from 1997-1999. During that time, he also worked as an essayist for CBS evening news, a visiting professor at Stanford University, Notre Dame University and the University of Maryland.

Senator Bradley served in the U.S. Senate from 1979 - 1997 representing the state of New Jersey. In 2000, he was a candidate for the democratic nomination for president of the United States. Prior to serving in the Senate, he was an Olympic gold medalist in 1964 and a professional basketball player with the New York Knicks from 1967 - 1977 during which time they won two NBA championships.

Senator Bradley holds a bachelor’s degree in American history from Princeton University and a master’s degree from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has authored five books on American politics, culture and economy. Currently, Senator Bradley hosts American Voices, a weekly show on Sirius Satellite Radio that highlights the remarkable accomplishments of Americans both famous and unknown.

Lee Feldman is the Managing Partner of Twin Lakes Capital which makes private equity investments in technology, media and consumer-branded products. Prior to Twin Lakes, Mr. Feldman was associated with SOFTBANK for over 7 years in various roles including as a Partner in SOFTBANK Capital Partners. He initiated and managed technology and media investments and had responsibility within the fund for transaction execution. Prior to joining SOFTBANK on the investment side, he was Vice President, Corporate Development at SOFTBANK portfolio company Ziff-Davis. Prior to Ziff-Davis, he was a member of the senior management team of two private equity backed leveraged roll-ups. Other outside board memberships include Picsel Technologies Ltd and Gaming VC Holdings S.A. Mr. Feldman began his career at a major New York City corporate law firm and has a B.A and J.D. from Columbia University.

Alan Silverman is a partner in Essaness Partners, a family investment firm that has wide-ranging investment interests in internet companies, technology, biotechnology, and consumer businesses including companies that serve the rapidly growing Hispanic market in the United States. He is a director of numerous corporations including Bodega Latina, Inc., and Keystone Biomedical, Inc. He is on the board of the Naval Postgraduate School Foundation and is a member of the board at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He is also active in charitable organizations including the Lymphoma Research Foundation. He holds a B.S. in business management from the University of Southern California.

Alan Spoon is a managing general partner at Polaris Venture Partners where he focuses on investments in information technology, with emphasis on revenue-stage companies, digital media and e-commerce. Representative investments include TechTarget, Art.com, HealthCentral Network and Silicon Optix.

Mr. Spoon brings more than 20 years of operating, strategy and investment experience to Polaris. He came to the firm from The Washington Post Company, where he worked for 18 years. During his career with The Post Company, he served as president, board member, chief financial officer, president of Newsweek, head of newspaper marketing and head of corporate business development. The Post Company has significant activities in newspapers, educational markets (Kaplan), television, cable and magazines. At The Post Company, Mr. Spoon also was responsible for early stage technology investments in cellular (Cellular One and digital PCS), distance learning and educational software, and information and e-commerce services (including Washingtonpost.com, Exchange.com, Junglee, BrassRing, Cars.com, and WebTV). Prior to The Washington Post, Mr. Spoon was an officer at The Boston Consulting Group, an international management consulting firm specializing in corporate strategy.

Current outside Board seats include Danaher Corporation, Getty Images, and IAC/InterActiveCorp. In his not-for-profit activities, Mr. Spoon is a member of the Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Corporation and The Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Spoon's prior business board service included Human Genome Sciences, Inc., International Data Group (IDG), and American Management Systems, Inc. Prior not-for-profit board service included WETA (Washington, DC public television and radio) and the Norwood School (Bethesda, MD), where Mr. Spoon served as chairman. Mr. Spoon earned his B.S. at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and a J.D., with honors, from Harvard Law School.