Our Board of Directors

Dov Seidman is an internationally known expert on business ethics and governance. For more than 15 years, Dov has worked closely with Boards of Directors, CEOs and other executive officers of more than 400 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.

Dov is frequently invited to speak at leading industry events, and to senior corporate managers and boards of directors. Recent presentations include The World Economic Forum, The World Business Forum, The National Press Club and The Aspen Ideas Festival. He has also been the keynote speaker at University of California Los Angeles's annual commencement.

Dov's views on business behavior, success and corporate culture have been quoted in dozens of print broadcast media, and online, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, The Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, Charlie Rose and ABC's Good Morning America. Each month, Dov shares his views on human behavior as the ultimate source of competitive advantage in a monthly column for BusinessWeek.com.

Dov testified in 2004 before the U.S. Sentencing Commission arguing that corporations must move from a check-the-box-compliance-only approach to instead focus on fostering ethical cultures and behaviors. His proposals were adopted and today are the very standards by which companies, cultures and programs are judged.

Dov earned simultaneous bachelor's and master's degrees, summa cum laude, in philosophy from UCLA. He later earned a B.A. with honors in philosophy, politics and economics from Oxford University. He graduated with honors from Harvard Law School.

Lee Feldman is the Managing Partner of Twin Lakes Capital which makes private equity investments in technology, media and consumer-branded products. He is also the Chief Executive Officer of MacKenzie-Childs LLC and Chairman of the Board of Gaming VC Holdings S.A. 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. 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 or has been a director of numerous corporations both public and private including: Teletech (NASDAQ) Bodega Latina, Inc., and Keystone Biomedical, Inc. CommsFirst, Inc. He is on the board of the Naval Postgraduate School Foundation and is a member of the Board of Advisors at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He also is or has been active in charitable organizations including the Lymphoma Research Foundation, The American Cancer Society, The Children’s Welfare Society. 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.

Senator William W. Bradley, 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.