Blacksmith Board of Directors
Richard Fuller
President, Blacksmith Institute
Born in Australia, Mr. Fuller graduated with a degree in engineering from Melbourne University and was employed by IBM. He left Australia in 1988 to work directly on global environmental issues. For two years in the rainforests of Brazil with the United Nations Environmental Programme, he created forest reserves promoting the preservation of both the rainforest and its inhabitants. He then headed to New York City, establishing Great Forest Inc., now one of the most successful sustainability consulting companies in the U.S. Great Forest was one of the first to bring sustainability practices to the business world, helping to pave the way for the rise of corporate social responsibility. Mr. Fuller founded the not-for-profit Blacksmith Institute in 1999.
On a global scale, Mr. Fuller believes that pollution is still one of the most serious problems the earth faces--and developing countries bear the brunt of it. Up until now, very little support has been given to local institutions to solve these problems in their communities, a crucial gap Blacksmith is filling. Behind Mr. Fuller's driving determination is the know-how to solve these problems and save lives at risk. Working with scientists, public health experts, environmental engineers, academics and other experts from local and governmental agencies, Mr. Fuller has assembled a comprehensive database of knowledge and information that is being used by Blacksmith's network of project managers around the world to clean up the worst polluted sites efficiently and effectively.
Paul Brooke
Managing Member, PMSV Holdings LLC
Mr. Brooke has been the Managing Member of PMSV Holdings LLC, a private investment firm, since 1993. He was also a Senior Advisor to Morgan Stanley from 2000 to 2009; Chairman of the Board of Alsius Corporation, a medical device company, from 2007 until its sale in 2009; Venture Partner of MPM Capital, a venture capital firm specializing in the healthcare industry, from 1997 through 2006; Managing Director and the Global Head of Healthcare Research and Strategy at Morgan Stanley, from 1983 until 1999; Managing Director at Tiger Management LLC, from 1999 until 2000.
Mr. Brooke became a member of WebMD's board of directors in October 2009, upon completion of its merger with HLTH Corporation; and was a member of HLTH's board from November 2000 until the HLTH merger. He also serves on the board of directors of Incyte Corporation, a drug discovery company, and Viropharma Inc., a pharmaceutical company.
Joshua Ginsberg
Senior Vice President, Global Conservation Program, Wildlife Conservation Society
Mr. Ginsberg was born and raised in New York and is currently the Senior Vice President, Global Conservation Program, at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). At WCS, Dr. Ginsberg has served as the Vice President for Conservation Operations (2004-2009), Director of the Asia and Pacific Program (1996 -2004), and Acting Director of the WCS Africa Program for 10 months in 2002. He received a B.Sc. from Yale, and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton in ecology and evolution.
Dr. Ginsberg spent 17 years as a field biologist/conservationist working in Asia and Africa. He serves on the NOAA/NMFS Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery Team and was Chair of the Team from 2001-2007. Dr. Ginsberg has held faculty positions at Oxford University and University College London, and is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, where he teaches conservation biology and has supervised 16 masters and four doctoral students. He is an author of over 50 reviewed papers and has edited three books on wildlife conservation, ecology and evolution.
Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Community & Preventive Medicine; Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Children's Environmental Health Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Dr. Landrigan is a pediatrician, epidemiologist, and international leader in public health and preventive medicine. After graduating from Harvard Medical School and completing his residency in pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital, Dr. Landrigan served for 15 years as an epidemic intelligence service officer and medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. He has been a member of the faculty of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine since 1985 and Chairman of the Department of Community and Preventive Medicine since 1990. He has been a leader in developing the National Children's Study, the largest study of children's health and the environment ever launched in the United States.
Dr. Landrigan is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is editor-in-chief of the "American Journal of Industrial Medicine" and previously was editor of "Environmental Research." He chaired committees at the National Academy of Sciences that produced the reports "Environmental Neurotoxicology" and "Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children," the latter instrumental in securing passage of the Food Quality Protection Act of 1996, the major federal pesticide law in the United States. From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Landrigan served on the Presidential Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veteran's Illnesses. In 1997-1998, Dr. Landrigan was senior advisor on children's health to the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and he was instrumental in helping to establish a new Office of Children's Health Protection at the EPA.
Mark Machin
President, CPPIB Asia Inc.
Mark joined the CPP Investment Board in March 2012 and is responsible for leading the organization in Asia. Prior to joining CPPIB, Mark had a 20-year career at Goldman Sachs, where he was most recently Vice Chairman of Asia ex-Japan, based in Beijing. Mark has been based in Asia since 1994 where, among other roles, he ran the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs in Asia ex-Japan for six years. Previously, he also ran Goldman Sachs' Equity Capital Markets and Financing businesses in Asia. Mark was a member of Goldman Sachs' Asia Management Committee and the Firmwide Capital Committee. Mark holds a BA from Oriel College, Oxford, and BM BChir from Downing College, Cambridge.
Joshua Mailman
President, Sirius Business Corporation
Mr. Mailman is one of the founding trustees of the Rausing Trust. He is also a trustee of the Mailman Foundation in New York and an advisor to the Pema Fund in San Francisco. He has played an instrumental role in the founding of numerous organizations focused on business and social responsibility, including Social Venture Network (1987), Business for Social Responsibility (1992) and Social Venture Network Europe(1993). He is also the founder of the Threshold Foundation (1981) and a cofounder of the Network for Social Change U.K. (1983). He currently serves on the boards of Afropop Worldwide, Business for Social Responsibility, Fund for Global Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, Sierra Madre Alliance and Witness. He is also a co-founder of Grameen Telecom, the largest cellular operator in Bangladesh and the only phone company in the world one-third owned by a bank that represents the interests of the poor.
David Mechner
David Mechner cofounded Pragma in 2002 and led the development of Pragma's flagship product, TradeEngine. Before founding Pragma, Mr. Mechner developed and implemented short-term trading strategies as director of research at Pragma Hedge Fund. He entered the field of finance from academia; he was a doctoral fellow at New York University's Center for Neural Science. His interest in intelligent systems began during his computer-science undergraduate years, when he led a research effort to develop a strong Go-playing program. Mr. Mechner participated in the Japanese professional promotion system for Go and is now among the strongest non-Asian Go players in the world.
Conrad Meyer III
Chair, Blacksmith Board of Directors
During his 25-year career on Wall Street, Mr. Meyer was a founding member of Lehman Brothers' Mergers and Acquisitions Department and went on to run the global M&A new business development efforts of Morgan Stanley and Gleacher Partners. In retirement, he has been involved with a variety of not-for-profit institutions and is currently an active member of the board of the American Red Cross in Greater New York. Mr. Meyer holds an undergraduate degree from Trinity College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Ronald H. Reede
Managing Director, Equity Sales, Lazard Capital Markets
Mr. Reede is a managing director at Lazard Capital Markets in the equity group. Originally from New York, he studied at Drew University and the Australian School of Management in Sydney, before receiving his M.B.A. from New York University. He has been a member of the Blacksmith Institute board since 2003.
Ken Rivlin Esq.
Partner, Allen & Overy LLP
Mr. Rivlin received his B.A. from Brown University and graduated cum laude with a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. He is head of the Global Environmental Law Group, U.S. Environmental and Regulatory Law Group and U.S. Pro Bono Program. A member of the New York City Bar's Committee on International Environmental Law, he is also Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia University School of Law and an Adjunct Professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Mr. Rivlin writes and speaks frequently on environmental and regulatory matters. He previously worked at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP (1996-2001) and McCarter & English LLP (1994-1996).
Colin Stewart
Head of Client Services, CLSA
Born in Liverpool, England, Mr. Stewart graduated from Bradford University, U.K., in 1990 after which he went to work in Tokyo, Japan, initially for Pioneer Electronics as a business analyst and subsequently for Goldman Sachs as a Japanese equities stockbroker. After 10 years at Goldman in Tokyo and New York, he moved to Nomura and finally CLSA. Presently he heads client services at CLSA for the Americas.
