Directors' Biographies
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Ian Glenday, President
Since 1999 Mr. Glenday has been associated with Federal City Capital Advisors, LLC in Washington DC, advising private equity and international project developers on cross-border investments, and on multilateral agency and export credit agency support. He has provided bank expert witness services in London on arbitration matters related to projects in Eastern Europe and South America. From 1987 he was in New York with Union Bank of Switzerland, later UBS AG, as a managing director for project and export finance. Earlier, he was with UBS in Zurich, Switzerland, and with the World Bank Group International Finance Corporation in Washington DC in various project financing positions.
Mr. Glenday was a founding director of Friends of South African Schools Fund, Inc., a non-profit organization established in 1995, supporting previously disadvantaged high school students.
Mr. Glenday received a BS (Engineering and Applied Science) from Yale University, and a B.Phil. (Management Studies) from Oxford University, Magdalen College, as a Rhodes Scholar (South African College School.)
Mariette Geldenhuys, Secretary
Ms. Glednhuys is a partner in the law firm of Schlather, Geldenhuys, Stumbar and Salk in Ithaca, New York. Her practice includes collaborative, municipal and transactional law. She served as City Attorney for the City of Ithaca and is the founder of the Ithaca Area Collaborative Law Professionals. She is a member of the National Family Law Advisory Council of the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and a member of the Diversity Task Force of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.
Ms. Gledenhuys obtained her law degree from the University of Pretoria in South Africa, before attending Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar at New College from 1984-86.
Allison Gilmore, Treasurer
Ms. Gilmore is a Ph.D. candidate in mathematics at Columbia University in New York. As a Rhodes Scholar, she studied at Green College, Oxford, and graduated in 2006 with an M.Phil. (with distinction) in sociology. She received a combined B.A./M.A. in mathematics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2004. Her current research interests include low-dimensional topology and geometry, network analysis, social movements, and activism.
David Cohen, Founding director
Mr. Cohen joined Farallon in 1992 and is one of the founders of Noonday Asset Management, L.P., where as a partner his responsibilities include portfolio management, risk management and strategy.
Before joining Farallon, Mr. Cohen was a vice president at Goldman Sachs. For three years he worked in the corporate finance department and for three years in the merger arbitrage department. When Mr. Cohen left Goldman Sachs, he had oversight responsibility for the international risk arbitrage portfolio.
Mr. Cohen was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University where he graduated with a M.Sc. in Economics and a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. Prior to Oxford he was the top graduate in Physiology and Biochemistry with a B.Sc. from the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa).
Richard Stengel
Mr. Stengel returned to Time Magazine as managing editor in May 2006, after having served as national editor until 2004. Prior to his latest appointment, he served as President and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. In addition to his role at Time, Mr. Stengel is an author who has taught at the university level, and has served as a network on-air political commentator.
Mr. Stengel graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 1977, and played on its 1975 NIT-winning basketball team. As a Rhodes Scholar, he studied English and history at Christ Church College, Oxford.
Trevor Norwitz
Mr. Norwitz is a partner in the law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York. He teaches a course in Mergers & Acquisitions at Columbia University Law School, is active on several bar committees and a frequent speaker and writer on matters relating to corporate law and governance. He was an advisor on the recent South African company law reform.
Mr. Norwitz chairs the University of Cape Town Fund and founded (with his wife Shannon) and chairs Friends of Ikamva Labantu, a US nonprofit organization supporting grassroots development work in the South African townships.
Mr. Norwitz received his B.Bus.Sc. degree from the University of Cape Town and read law at Keble College, Oxford, on a Rhodes Scholarship, before completing a Masters in Law at Columbia.