Patricia Bransford
Founder and Executive Director
The National Urban Technology Center

Ms. Bransford is the founder and Executive Director of the National Urban Technology Center. She is a senior marketing executive with over 17 years of experience at IBM where she directed IBM's New York City public sector marketing office. She was the developer of IBM's first "1-800" direct marketing and distribution channel for personal computers, achieving a substantial increase in its market share. She has also served as the chair of Mayor David Dinkins and New York State Comptroller Carl McCall's highly successful finance committees. She is an NYU Business School graduate.

Thomas L. Bransford
Founder and Executive Director
The National Urban Technology Center

Tom Bransford is a senior manager with 30 years experience in information technology, largely with IBM.  His last assignment with IBM was the State Education Advisor to the New York City school system where he oversaw the implementation of technology to assist in the education of over 1 million children.  Mr. Bransford joined UTC in the fall of 1995.  He holds a BA from Dartmouth College.

Faith Grossnickle
Senior Partner, Corporate Finance Group
Shearman and Sterling

Faith Grossnickle represents clients in a wide range of corporate finance transactions, including issuers and underwriters in initial public offerings, high yield offerings, acquisition finance transactions, issuances of investment grade debt securities and medium-term notes and other equity offerings.  She also advises corporate clients and boards of directors on their disclosure and other obligations under Delaware law and the federal securities laws, on negotiated merger, acquisition and joint venture transactions and on a variety of corporate matters.  Ms. Grossnickle joined the firm in 1976 and became a partner in 1984.


David Perlin
Partner
Keel Capital

David Perlin is a founding partner at Keel Capital LLC, a Connecticut-based technology hedge fund.  Recently, David was a Managing Director, Equity Department and Manager of International Sales Trading at Goldman Sachs & Co.  He was previously a US Sales Trader at CS First Boston.  Mr. Perlin received his BS and his MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.  Mr. Perlin is a Student Scholarship Sponsor, a supporter of various arts organizations, and a Member of GlenArbor Golf Club.


Gary Brown
Senior Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager
Black River Asset Management

Mr. Brown joined Black River Asset Management in 2004 after spending the last 7 years as Director and Senior Credit Trader for Credit Suisse First Boston, Managing Director and Head of Investment Grade Trading and Research for Wachovia Securities and Managing Director and Senior Credit Trader for HSBC Securities in New York.  Prior to that, Mr. Brown worked for Cargill Financial Services Corporation as a Senior Trader/Portfolio Manager in their US Fixed Income Group based in Minnetonka, MN.  Mr. Brown began his career in 1984 with Lehman Brothers.  He graduated from Duke University in Durham, NC in 1983 with a Bachelor's degree.


Kathy Zukerman
Senior Vice President
Bass Trading

Kathy B. Zukerman, a Senior Vice President and equity sales trader, joined Bass Trading, LLC in New York City in February 2005.  Ms. Zukerman manages institutional clients, principally US and UK based hedge funds.  Before joining Bass Trading, Ms. Zukerman was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs in the Equities Division, most recently managing international hedge fund relationships.  For nine years at Goldman Sachs, she was based in New York City and for two years she was based in London as a global institutional sales trader.  Ms. Zukerman graduated from Stanford University with a major in Sociology and has an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.

Bruce E. Mosler, one of the most accomplished real estate professionals in the nation, is President of U.S. Operations at Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.  He is responsible for the strategic direction, business growth and development, and profitability of the firm's 56 US offices.  He also works closely with the firm's global operations to ensure Cushman & Wakefield seamlessly conducts it business with US multinationals.  In March 2002, Commercial Property News named Mr. Mosler as co-winner of its national "Property Services Executive of the Year" for his bold and successful initiatives.  Immediately following September 11, 2001, Mr. Mosler became the New York real estate industry's leading spokesman on the need to quickly rebuild lower Manhattan.  He has appeared on ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, CNBC, Good Day New York, and other broadcast and cable media.  As a result of his leadership and articulation of the real estate industry's views after September 11, he was chosen by New York City Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff to be a member of the Professional Services Advisory Council of the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the entity that is overseeing redevelopment.  Mr. Mosler is a two-time (1999 and 2000) recipient of the prestigious Real Estate Board of New York "Deal of the Year" award.  In 1994, Mr. Mosler was voted by Crain's New York Business as one of New York's "40 Under 40" leading executives in the city.