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PERC Board |
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President of the Board |
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| Thomas E. Beach, Beach Investment Counsel, Inc., West Conshoshocken, Pennsylvania. Beach is a private investor with Beach Investment Council. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and his career has entirely focused on various sectors of investment research and management industry. He sits on the board of several organizations including the Reason Foundation and the Pennsylvania Lumberman’s Mutual Insurance Company. |
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Board of Directors |
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| Thomas J. Bray, Columnist, Detroit, Michigan. Bray writes a bimonthly column on political, economic and social issues for the Detroit News, where he served as editorial page editor from 1983 to May 2000. He also writes columns for the New York Sun and RealClearPolitics.com. Bray is a trustee of the Earhart Foundation and is the author of Soaring High: New Strategies for Environmental Giving, published by the Philanthropy Roundtable in 2005. |
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| Jean A. Briggs, Forbes, New York, New York. Briggs retired as assistant managing editor of Forbes in June 2007. She helps expose fellow New York journalists to PERC ideas and also brings a journalistic perspective to PERC’s board. As a board member, she seeks to help spread the word about PERC’s thorough research and fresh ideas. |
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| David G. Cameron, Dana Ranch Co., Inc., Cascade, Montana. Cameron is a retired professor of biology and genetics at Montana State University and currently manages his family ranch near Cascade, Montana. |
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| Robert C. Clement, Independent Consultant, Atlanta, Georgia. Clement is an independent consultant in the areas of business strategy, business operations, project management, and antitrust economics. Previously he had a 15 year career at Accenture, one of the world’s largest technology consulting companies, from which he retired as a partner in 2004. Clement is a member of the Advisory Board of the Boys and Girls Club of Metro Atlanta. |
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| Tyler Dann, Harlem Valley Investing Co., Inc., Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. Dann has been an insurance broker and president of Wesfair Agency, Inc. in Chappaqua, New York since 1970. He is co-trustee of the Helen I. Graham Charitable Foundation which supports organizations or similar organizations selected by Mrs. Graham prior to her death. Dann is on the board of directors of Factory Point Bancorp, on the regional advisory board of M & T Bank, and on the Investment Committee of the Community Foundation of Dutchess County, New York. |
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| Kimberly O. Dennis, Searle Freedom Trust, Washington D.C. Dennis is president of the Searle Freedom Trust. Her writings on philanthropy have appeared in USA Today, Policy Review, Private Asset Management, Imprimis, the Indianapolis News, and other publications. Dennis is also president of the board of Donors Trust, a trustee of the Earhart Foundation, and a member of the board of the Philanthropy Roundtable. |
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| William A. Dunn, Dunn Capital Management, Inc., Stuart, Florida. Dunn owns a successful capital management firm in Stuart, Florida, and actively supports free market ideas. He is also on the board of directors of the Reason Foundation and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. |
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| Joseph Ignat, Blackburn Consultants, LLC, Denver, Colorado. Ignat is managing director of Blackburn Consultants, LLC. He was formerly executive vice president of American Deposit Corp., a Colorado-based developer of new products for the financial industry, and serves as president of the Nord Family Foundation, a grant-making foundation located in northern Ohio. |
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| Frank-Paul A. King, Managing Partner, King/Strategic, Dallas, Texas. King’s background includes over twenty years of investment banking and private equity industry experience. He has been actively involved in transactions valued in excess of $10 billion involving public and private parties. King serves on the Board of Directors of Republic Energy, Inc.; Primexx Energy Partners, Ltd.; 2D2C, Inc.; Potoco, L.L.C.; Paseo de la Resaca; and he is the Chairman of the Board of the Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas. He has a BS in Economics, a BS in Management and an MBA in finance. |
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| Dwight E. Lee, Gagnon Securities LLC, New York, New York. Lee is a partner at Gagnon Securities, a New York-based investment firm. He has been a director or trustee of public and private corporations and many charitable organizations. Lee is currently Chairman of the Board of The Alliance for Young Artists and Writers (Scholastic Art & Writing Awards), and is a Member of the board of Governing Trustees of The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. |
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| Paula Venuto Leuschen, West Pass Ranch, Parkman, Wyoming. Leuschen owns and operates the West Pass Ranch located 35 miles north of Sheridan, Wyoming, at the base of the Big Horn mountains. The ranch runs about 500 head of mother cows and 40 head of quarter horses. Leuschen comes to ranching by way of Wall Street. From 1982 to 1993, she was an investment banker with mergers and acquisitions at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and the Union Bank of Switzerland in New York. She is a 1978 graduate of Princeton University with a B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a 1982 graduate of the Harvard Business School. |
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| Andrew S. Martzloff, Bitterroot Capital Advisors LLC, Bozeman, Montana. Martzloff is managing director and founder of Bitterroot Capital Advisors, LLC, an independent wealth management firm dedicated to providing comprehensive financial advice to a select group of private clients. From 1995 until 2000, he served as Board Chairman of Juma Ventures, a San Francisco based not-for-profit that started and financed private businesses to create jobs for the purpose of teaching individual enterprise and responsibility for at-risk youths. Martzloff is a graduate of Stanford University and Dartmouth College. |
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| William H. Mellor, President and General Counsel, Institute for Justice, Washington, D.C. Mellor co-founded the Institute Justice and litigates cutting-edge constitutional cases nationwide protecting economic liberty, property rights, school choice and the First Amendment. He has been described by Inc. magazine as one of Washington entrepreneurs’ best friends. Mellor is former president of the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy and has served in the Reagan Administration as Deputy General Counsel for Legislation and Regulations in the Department of Energy. |
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| George FitzGerald Ohrstrom, Private Investor, New York, New York. Ohrstrom is a private investor in New York City. His professional background is in manufacturing, investment banking, private equity, and foundation administration. Ohrstrom is a board member of numerous privately held companies, and of the Museum of the Rockies, Yellowstone Park Foundation, Reason Foundation, the American Council on Science and Health, and the International Policy Network. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Booker T. Washington Learning Center. |
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| Vernon L. Smith, Proessor of Economics and Law, George Mason University, and research scholar Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science, Fairfax, Virginia. Smith was awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics for his pioneering work in experimental economics. He was formerly a Regent's professor of economics and research director of the Economic Science Laboratory at the University of Arizona. He will join the Economic Science Institute, Chapman University in 2008. Smith is a distinguished fellow of the American Economic Association and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. |
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| John F. Tomlin, Conservation Forestry, LLC, Exeter, New Hampshire. Tomlin is a founder and managing member of Conservation Forestry, LLC, an entity formed to align private equity with conservation capital for the purpose of acquiring, managing and disposing of forestland properties. Prior to forming Conservation Forestry, Mr. Tomlin was involved in several entrepreneurial endeavors, including founding partner and co-manager of a group of venture and private equity funds known as The Vista Group. |
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| Christopher A. Wright, Founder/Chairman, Pinnacle Technologies, San Francisco, California. Wright founded Pinnacle Technologies in 1992 and developed specialized technologies for mapping the motion of fluid deep underground. It now provides services, consulting, and software to the energy and geotechnical industries around the world. Wrights sits on the board of LeMond Fitness and Travanti Pharmaceuticals. He is also on the board of the Foundation for Teaching Economics and has worked with other free market groups such as the Milton and Rose Friedman Foundation and the Hoover Institution. |
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