BOARD
Michael Donlan, Microsoft Corporation
Mr. Donlan is Microsoft Asia Pacific’s Managing Director and General Manager for Public Sector. Michael leads a team of regional sales, technical, and marketing staff that holds responsibilities in the Government, Education and Healthcare sectors. Prior to arriving in Singapore in September 2007, Michael was the General Manager for Microsoft Technology Incubation & Programs based in Washington, D.C. Before taking on the leadership role in the U.S. Public Sector team, Michael was the National Technology Officer for Microsoft Public Sector in the United States. Before joining Microsoft in 2003, Mr. Donlan served as Managing Director of Managed Services/Outsourcing at BearingPoint and served as Managing Technologist at Oracle Corporation’s Government, Education and Healthcare business unit. Mr. Donlan also was CEO and founder of CRM technology firm, Advenix Communications. Prior to Oracle, Mr. Donlan was Chief Architect for a U.S. Government financial regulator and designed database systems and enterprise networks for Fortune 500 corporations and financial regulatory organizations. He has presented software technologies and concepts at numerous seminars and tradeshows and is active in various industry associations and institutes. He serves on the executive advisory board of the College of Business at James Madison University in Virginia. Michael lives in Singapore with his wife and two children.
Harry Greene, Cornell University
Dr. Greene is a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Faculty Curator of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Museum of Vertebrates at Cornell University. Prior to Cornell, he spent fourteen years as a Professor and Curator at University of California Berkeley. Dr. Greene’s research focuses on the behavioral ecology, evolution, and conservation of predators, especially snakes in deserts and tropical rain forests. Fieldwork has taken him to North, Central, and South America as well as Europe, Africa, and Asia. He now works mainly in the borderlands of Arizona, Texas, and Mexico. He is the author of over 165 publications, and his book Snakes: the Evolution of Mystery in Nature won a PEN Center West Literary Award for nonfiction. Dr Greene’s honors include the Edward Osborne Wilson Award of the American Society of Naturalists, and his an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the California Academy of Sciences. He has also won numerous distinguished awards for his teaching of natural history and biology. Dr Greene is the consulting editor for University of California Press’ Organisms and Environments Series. His latest book Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology As Art is due out in 2009. Harry lives in Ithaca, New York with his wife and two dogs.
Karl W. Lohwater, Buck Consultants
Mr. Lohwater is the General Counsel & Secretary of Buck Consultants, an international actuarial and human resources consulting firm. He manages the Legal and Risk Management & Compliance departments at Buck Consultants and also serves as the Chief Financial Officer of Buck Kwasha Securities, an NASD-member broker-dealer. Karl is a member of the Consulting Leadership Council at Buck Consultants and periodically consults with clients on matters involving international equity programs, the tax aspects of international compensation and benefit programs, and fiduciary responsibility and retirement governance. Karl received his LLM (Taxation) from New York University Law School; J.D. from Columbia University Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; and B.A. from The College of Wooster, where he was a mathematics major. Karl is a Certified Compensation Professional, a designation awarded by World at Work (formerly the American Compensation Association). He is co-author of Communicating Total Rewards, which is one of the booklets in World at Work’s How-To Series for the Human Resource Professional. Karl is also an FAA-certified Airline Transport Pilot who is type rated on Cessna Citation jets and Bell JetRanger helicopters, a commercial blimp pilot, and a Gold Seal Flight Instructor who holds all seven flight instructor ratings issued by the FAA.
Bernie Tershy, University of California
Dr. Tershy is an Assistant Adjunct Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California at Santa Cruz. His research focuses on the ecology and conservation of seabirds and the restoration of island ecosystems. Dr. Tershy is the co-founder of the non-profit Island Conservation, and served as the Executive Director for ten years. He is a member of the World Conservation Union’s Invasive Species Specialist Group, the Galapagos Island Invasive Species Technical Advisory Group, and has consulted on island conservation issues to the US, Mexican, and Costa Rican Governments. Dr. Tershy co-directs a research lab at the University of California Santa Cruz with Don Croll, and has published over fifty papers on seabirds, marine ecology, and the conservation of island ecosystems. He lives in Santa Cruz, California with his wife Erika and three boys.