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Paul Gennis, M.D.
Founding President of the Jacobi-NCB Medical Alliance, and Chairman of the Emergency Departments at Jacobi Medical Center and North Central Bronx Hospital.
For over 20 years, Paul Gennis has practiced emergency medicine in not-for-profit hospitals. He is the leading force behind and Founding President of the Jacobi-NCB Medical Alliance, a multi-specialty physician group and is currently responsible for an $80 million annual operating budget. Paul has been a skillful leader, manager and entrepreneur throughout his career. Recently, he has become active as a private investor in several Internet and medical information services businesses. In addition to his role as President of the Jacobi-NCB Medical Alliance, Paul is Clinical Professor and Chairman of the Emergency Departments at Jacobi Medical Center and North Central Bronx Hospital in the Bronx. In those capacities he oversees the work of 450 medical professionals.
Paul is the recipient of numerous grants and has overseen extensive research in emergency medicine. He received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.D. from New York University.
Steve Haworth
Former Vice President of Real Networks, Inc.
For the last 15 years, Steve Haworth has worked as a public relations and marketing consultant in leading traditional and Internet media companies. Steve is adept at managing strategic media relations and crisis communications and is knowledgeable about the changing technology of international communication. He actively maintains strong relationships with the media.
Steve served as Vice President of Communications for RealNetworks for the past two years. Between 1987 and 1999, Steve served first as Director, then as Vice President of Public Relations of the CNN News Group.
Previously, Steve was Vice President of A. Brown-Olmstead Associates, an Atlanta public relations firm; taught political science at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA and Emory University in Atlanta, GA; and was an economist at the World Bank in Washington, DC.
Steve holds a B.A. in economics from Yale University, an M.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University and a Ph.D. in Government and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.
John Eric Nelson
Director, Corporate Partnership Program for The National Congress for Community Economic Development
John Nelson has 23 years of national experience as an independent consultant in business development and non-profit project start-ups and management. John currently manages a Ford Foundation funded program which links companies to community-based organizations and small businesses in market-driven joint ventures located in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. One of the projects in this program includes a partnership with several large national firms in the creation of an e-commerce Internet portal for community economic development. John specializes in early stage planning and the building of strategic alliances.
John has served as consultant or partner in a variety of Washington, DC venture capital firms including Kimberly, Brunell and Lehman; Rock Creek Partners, and Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc., and was the non-profit liaison for the Chevrolet Environmental Program of General Motors. John served as development director for a national franchise operation in the home electronics industry. During his tenure the franchise grew from three to ten stores. John also was the executive vice president of a national newspaper consulting company that grew to $4 million in annual revenue in its first 18 months.
John has served as a consultant to large and small businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. John founded the land trust and urban programs for the Trust for Public Land, was the first staff director for the Alliance for United Nations Sustainable Development Programs, and founded the urban tree council for the District of Columbia. He managed a two-year program for the National Park Service related to the conversion of three military forts in San Francisco and conducted a pro bono management audit of the White House unit of the Park Service.
He is on the boards of the Joy of Sports Foundation, the Fairfax County Arts Commission and International Communications Initiatives.
John received his B.A. from Yale College and his master's degree from the University of Michigan where he also taught social psychology.
Dennis N.T. Perkins, PhD
President, The Syncretics Group, Inc.
Dennis Perkins is President of The Syncretics Group Inc., a consulting organization focused on effective leadership in demanding environments, including conditions of rapid change, economic adversity, innovation, and growth. He has worked extensively as a consultant to chief executive officers and senior managers on issues of leadership, teamwork, organizational effectiveness, and cultural change.
Dennis' clients have ranged from Fortune 100 corporations to not-for-profit organizations and include: Bose, Chase Manhattan, Citicorp, Connecticut College, Corning, Eli Whitney Museum, GTE, Hartford Life, Hughes, Johnson & Johnson, Leadership Maine, Norwalk Hospital, PacifiCare Health Systems, Quest Diagnostics, State of Connecticut, Union Bank of Switzerland, Yale-New Haven Hospital, United Technologies, Weyerhaeuser Company, and Xerox Corporation.
Dennis has written extensively on individual and organizational effectiveness. He is the author of Managing Creation: The Challenge of Building a New Organization; Teaching Organizations to Learn and Leadership at the Edge.
Dennis holds a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, and an MBA from Harvard University. After graduation from Harvard, he worked for the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and served as a Deputy Director of the National Institute of Education. He subsequently joined The University of Michigan as a staff member of the Institute for Social Research. While at Michigan, he earned a Ph.D. in psychology.
Michael Rabin, PhD
President, Direct Perception, LLC
Michael is the President of Direct Perception, a firm specializing in customer-centered product and service innovation and providing user experience strategy, information architecture, and interaction design services. Previously, Michael served as head of information architecture at Rare Medium (Nasdaq: RRRR) one of America's leading web design firms. As a recognized expert in user experience design, Michael was responsible for Rare Medium's user-centered design discipline. Earlier in his career, he served as Vice President of Information Architecture at IF! Interactive, a top-25 interactive agency.
Before joining the web development industry, Michael enjoyed a 10-year career with Bell Laboratories and AT&T Internet Services. Michael has extensive experience managing the prototyping and design of advanced multimedia applications and has done pioneering user experience design work, which won him the Jerome H. Ely Award, on advanced speech processing technologies, interactive television, and web design. While at AT&T, he was also director of product development and business strategy for intranet, e-commerce and web-hosting services and Director of AT&T's Internet2 program and was responsible for managing participation in this national technology initiative, the purpose of which is to define the future of Internet applications.
Michael holds a patent in speech verification. He is an active member of numerous industry organizations, including the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, and has chaired and participated in numerous industry summits.
Michael received his BA magna cum laude from Clark University, and his MS, M.Phil, and Ph.D. degrees in experimental psychology from Yale University.
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