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Paul Anselmo
Paul Anselmo is a founder and now serves as Director of NCC Services, a division of New Century Careers. For many years, he worked at Steel Center Vo-Tech as director of the school's co-op and adult education programs. He started his career as a special education teacher in the McKeesport Area School District.
William J. Axtman
William J. Axtman is a senior corporate associate with the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP in Pittsburgh. Mr. Axtman practices in the corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and securities groups. He earned his law degree at Northwestern University Law School in Chicago.
John Blood
John Blood is the Chief Financial Officer of National Rehab Equipment. Previously, he was a private equity investor for firms including AEA Investors and Madison Dearborn Partners. In addition, he was also an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston. He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and a MBA from London Business School.
Tom Canfield
Tom Canfield most recently was an investment banker, running Equity Catalysts LLC (EC), which he founded in 1999. EC matched local "angel" investors to start-up technology firms. Prior to that, he was president of The Enterprise Corporation of Pittsburgh. Enterprise was a non-profit firm founded in 1983 that was dedicated to building more successful entrepreneurial firms in southwestern Pennsylvania. He also founded the Western Pennsylvania Adventure Capital Fund and the Pittsburgh Seed Fund. He earned an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a MBA from Harvard University.
Bernard E. Carter
Bernard Carter is a derivatives analyst with The Bank of New York Mellon. Previously, he was self-employed as a private investor. From 1992 to 2005, he worked as a Financial Advisor, specializing in SEC Rule 144 transactions at Morgan Stanley Inc. He is a volunteer for the Allegheny County Special Olympics and the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council and is a member of the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project.
Mark DeSantis
Mark is President and Co-founder of Mobile Fusion, Inc., a technology firm that builds portable sensor platforms for the military, law enforcement, and the US intelligence community. He was previously the US Managing Director of ANGLE Technology, PLC, a publicly traded venture capital and consulting firm.
Prior to joining ANGLE, Mark co-founded several technology-based and is a director to several technology firms in the US. He was also a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute and Carnegie Mellon Research Institute. Prior to moving to Pittsburgh, Mark was the Director of Government Relations for Texas Instruments, Inc. in Washington DC and, in that capacity, was responsible for managing their public sector relationships in the US and abroad. Prior to TI, Mark served in a number of policy positions in the US federal government including as a Senior Policy Analyst in both The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Administration of George H. W. Bush. He was also on the staff of the late U.S. Senator John Heinz and, prior to that, was a management consultant with Booz Allen and Hamilton.
Mark is a frequent lecturer and published author on general management, strategy, and entrepreneurship. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and has lectured at the Katz School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh and The Tuck School at Dartmouth. He is also an instructor in the Veterans Entrepreneurship Program Robert Morris University. Mark holds a BA and MBA from the University of Dayton, an MS in Technology Management from The American University and a Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason University.
Mark is very active in the Pittsburgh community, serving on the board of the Veterans Leadership Program of Western Pennsylvania, the advisory board of Sustainable Pittsburgh and the board of the Opera Theater of Pittsburgh. He is also the host of local monthly radio program on Leadership Radio focused entrepreneurship and public policy and a columnist for ("The Citizen") Pittsburgh Quarterly Magazine. He also co-founded local non-profit organizations and advocacy groups whose mission is to improve the performance of local government and promote economic development in western Pennsylvania.
Wendy Etheridge Smith
Wendy Etheridge Smith, Ph.D. is the Director of Community Initiatives and Partnerships at United Way of Allegheny County. Prior to serving this position, she served as the Director of Policy and Planning in the Departments of Education and Public Welfare Office of Child Development and Early Learning. Dr. Smith is a developmental psychologist with expertise in evaluation and strategic planning. She is leading efforts to launch United Way's initiatives, which focus on identifying gaps in critical need areas and finding evidence-based programs to address those gaps.
Kristin Hughes
Kristin Hughes is an Associate Professor in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon. Recurring themes in her research and professional practice focus on utilizing design methods as a catalyst for community and civic engagement. She is currently looking at the design of products that allow participants agency over their own learning space. They are invited as co-creators in the design process, a process that they may eventually engage and sustain on their own. Most recently, this question has led her to explore game design, examining learning processes and ways that play spaces provide a powerful platform for uninhibited learning.
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Tom Joseph
Tom Joseph is the President and CEO of Bookminders, which provides outsourced accounting and information management services to businesses and non-profit organizations. Bookminders has been listed six times in the last seven years as one of the Pittsburgh 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies by the Pittsburgh Business Times. In 2000, Bookminders received the People Do Matter Award: Recognizing Innovation in Human Resources from the Pittsburgh Human Resources Association.
Karl Krieger
Karl Krieger is retired from Choptank Holdings. He grew the business and its predecessor, TransTech, from a single small plant in East McKeesport to a manufacturing and holding company with 400 employees. He is a general partner in the Pennsylvania Growth Fund and serves as an emeritus trustee of Shady Side Academy, as well as a partner is Pittsburgh Social Ventures Partnership.
Kathleen McCauley
Kathleen McCauley is a program officer for the Staunton Farm Foundation, which makes grants to nonprofit organizations working to improve mental health in the region. Prior to her work for the Foundation, she was an owner-operator of McCauley & Washburn, a firm specializing in program development and grant writing for community organizations, hospitals, universities and government agencies. Ms. McCauley previously served as a coordinator, grants and research, at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh where she designed and implemented evaluations of programs to improve the health of children and families in Western Pennsylvania, and raised funds to launch new programs. She also has served as executive director of the Private Industry Council in Pittsburgh and Allegheny County.
Karen S. McIntyre, Ph.D.
Karen S. McIntyre is Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Education at Point Park University. Before returning to the University, Dr. McIntyre served as Director, Early Education Initiative and Senior Advisor on Education at the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and Affiliates. Previously, she served as President of the Education Policy and Issues Center in Pittsburgh (formerly the Allegheny Policy Council for Youth and Workforce Development). Dr. McIntyre served as Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment in School Support Services for the Pittsburgh Public Schools. She also served as Director of Early Education there. Following the completion of her Doctoral Program at the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. McIntyre was appointed Chairperson, Associate Professor of Education at Point Park College where she also served as Executive Director, Point Park Children's School and advocate for children and families in early childhood education. She is a former vice principal and elementary and middle school teacher in the Diocese of Pittsburgh: Catholic Schools.
Sean W. Moran
Sean W. Moran is an attorney with Buchanan Ingersoll P.C. in Pittsburgh. He also has worked as an associate attorney in the Corporate and Securities Group at Pepper Hamilton LLP in Pittsburgh. He earned his law degree at University of Pittsburgh School of Law and his master of business administration degree from the University of Pittsburgh Katz School of Business.
Ron Porter
Ronald D. Porter is the founder and President of RDP Consulting Services since 1983. Since 1992 he has served as an adjunct instructor of multicultural management at Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz School of Public Policy and Management. He services on many boards including the Pressley Ridge Schools; Transitional Services, Inc., and the Homeless Children's Education Fund. He is currently (2008) serving as a senior consultant to the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team, with a primary focus on strategic planning and community relations.
Aleta Williams Richards
Aleta Williams Richards is Vice President, Coatings Marketing and Sales at Bayer MaterialScience, LLC in Robinson Township. She has been with Bayer in various roles since 1990. Prior to that, she served as assistant to the executive director at the Allegheny County Private Industry Council, where, among other things, she evaluated and assisted local government and area non-profit organizations in the development of youth programs.
Frank C. Walker II
Frank C. Walker II is an associate attorney with Strassburger, McKenna, Gutnick & Gefsky concentrating in civil & criminal litigation, civil rights claims, first amendment issues, medical malpractice & personal injury. Frank formally served as Senior Counsel with the Allegheny County Office of Conflict Counsel and as an auditor for Chubb Insurance. Frank is a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, selected to the American Inns of Court and serves on the Board of Directors for West Virginia University College of Law, Black Student Alumni. Frank earned his B.S. in criminal justice from West Virginia State College; M.A. in Education/Leadership Studies from Marshall University and J.D. in Law from West Virginia University.
Michelle Jackson-Washington
Michelle Jackson-Washington has been Deputy Executive Director for the Housing Authority of Pittsburgh since 1995. Under her leadership, the department presents the nationally acclaimed and HUD awarded Clean Slate, a drug prevention program for youth of Pittsburgh public housing. Ms. Jackson-Washington also sits on the board for YouthWorks and has previously served on the board for the Big Brothers and Sister organization in several communities.
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