Manolo Abella, a Filipino economist, was formerly the Director of the International Migration Programme of the ILO in Geneva, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Migration Policy and Society (Oxford University) and of the "Migrating out of Poverty Project" of University of Sussex and the World Bank. He has been actively involved in international efforts to develop a multilateral framework for the management of labour migration and spent many years rendering advice to governments on policies and best practices. He has published extensively on labour migration, and is co-author of Managing Migration in the 21st Century published by Yale University. At present he is working on what various academic disciplines have to offer to improve the management of migration, and how this knowledge can best be organized for training of senior government officials. http://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/people/associates/manolo-abella/
Peter Smith is a founding partner of Dhillon & Smith LLP. After beginning his legal career as a Deputy District Attorney in Alameda County, he has over twenty years in private practice. He also serves on the Head Royce School Board of Trustees (assisting the school in its recent $27,000,000 construction of new facilities) and the Claremont Country Club Board of Directors. Previously, he served on the Oakland Planning Commission, the Oakland General Plan Congress, the Task Force on Community Restoration and Emergency Preparedness, and the University-Oakland Metropolitan Forum Task Force on Downtown Redevelopment. Mr. Smith has served as a faculty member for the Stanford Law School Advocacy Skills Workshop and as a panelist and commentator on transit-oriented development, green technology and planning, and economic development issues. Mr. Smith will work in the capacity of Chairman of the Board. http://www.dhillonsmith.com/attorneys/peter-smith/
Gerardo Ungson is the Y.F. Chang Endowed Chair and Professor of International Business at San Francisco State University. His prior position was the Victor P. Morris Professor of Management at the Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon. He is the author of six co-authored books on management, decision making, Korean management, knowledge-based industries, and global strategy. His forthcoming co-authored book, Rough Diamonds: Four Traits of Successful Breakout Firms in BRIC (with Seung Ho Park and Nan Zhou) will be published by Jossey Bass/Wiley in May 2013. He is also collaborating with development economist Sixto K. Roxas on poverty alleviation and community management in the Philippines. http://userwww.sfsu.edu/bungson/
Edward Leung is the CEO of Secured Environment, an energy and risk management consulting firm in California. He specializes in corporate strategic planning and asset protection against environmental releases. He is Former Executive Management Staff, Nuclear Energy Spokesperson and Radiation Safety Officer, GE Nuclear Energy. He is a three-time recipient of GE General Manager Award and recipient of a GE Invention award for creative solutions and notable contributions in environmental and energy risk avoidance strategies.
Maria Banico is the founder of Food From Thin Air, Inc. She was chief and staff land use planner / environmental review officer at five Bay Area cities including Sunnyvale, San Francisco and Oakland. Ms. Banico has more than 30 years experience in land use and environmental regulations. She has also worked as a project manager for a 35,000 hectare new town development in the Philippines. She will serve as the Chief Executive Officer.
Wendy Andong currently manages her own CPA practice. She has more than 15 years of experience from PriceWaterhouseCoopers in integrated audits, business process reviews, acquisition reviews, assessment of internal controls, implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards, initial public offering, other cross border filings, as well as design of internal control systems financial services industry both in San Francisco and the Philippines. She was also a former CFO of Philippine Savings Bank for four years. Ms. Andong will serve as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer.
