Joshua Bekenstein

Joshua Bekenstein is a managing director of Bain Capital LLC, a leading global private investment firm based in Boston. Mr. Bekenstein helped start Bain Capital in 1984 with a number of colleagues from Bain & Company, the management consulting firm. Since then, Bain Capital has grown to more than 600 people and has made private equity investments and add-ons in over 300 companies across a variety of industries. In addition, the firm has expanded into several other asset classes and currently manages several pools of capital including private equity, high-yield assets, mezzanine capital, and public equity. The firm now has over $80 billion in assets under management.

Mr. Bekenstein serves as a board member of several corporations, including Bombardier Recreational Products, Waters Corporation, Dollarama, Toys R Us, Burlington Coat Factory, Michaels Stores, and Bright Horizons Family Solutions, as well as many community and educational organizations, such as the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Horizons For Homeless Children, New Profit Inc., City Year, New Leaders for New Schools, the Yale University President.s Council, and the Yale Corporation Investment Committee. Mr. Bekenstein holds a BA from Yale and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He lives in Wayland, Massachusetts, with his wife and five children between the ages of 12 and 20.

Thomas Steyer

Mr. Steyer is Co-Managing Partner of Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C. Since founding Farallon in 1986, Mr. Steyer has served as its Managing Partner. Mr. Steyer is also a Managing Director of Hellman & Friedman, a San Francisco-based private equity firm.

Prior to Farallon.s inception, Mr. Steyer was an associate in the risk arbitrage department of Goldman Sachs & Co. Previously, Mr. Steyer worked as a financial analyst in Morgan Stanley & Co's mergers and acquisitions department.

Mr. Steyer graduated from Stanford's Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and from Yale University, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude in Economics and Political Science and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Kathryn Taylor

Kathryn Taylor is active in a variety of public benefit and philanthropic ventures in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a Founder and Director of OneCalifornia Bank, Oakland. Since 1986, she has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Good Samaritan Family Resource Center, a nonprofit entity which helps new immigrant families in San Francisco access needed services, stabilize in the country, develop self-sufficiency, and participate in the community. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Insight Prison Project, a nonprofit organization working in collaboration with San Quentin State Prison. The project provides unique rehabilitation programs that help self-selected, motivated prisoners break the cycle of incarceration.

Ms. Taylor served as a member of the Board of Directors of KQED, Inc., a Bay Area-based public radio and television operation. During her tenure with KQED, 1997-2003, she chaired the Development Committee. As a member of the Board of Directors of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 1996-2002, Ms. Taylor served as Chair of the Development Committee. The multidisciplinary art center, located in the Yerba Buena Gardens district of downtown San Francisco, features visual arts, performing arts, film and educational programs. Ms. Taylor graduated cum laude from Harvard College in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She earned a joint JD/MBA degree from the Stanford Law School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, graduating in 1986.

Mohan Uttarwar

Mohan Uttarwar is a co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of BioImagene and a Silicon Valley entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in establishing high technology start-ups. Mohan was the co-founder of Roamware Inc. and was the president and founder of SoftPlus, a leading provider of eCRM software for telecom carriers around the world. In February 2000, SoftPlus was sold to US Interactive for $360 million. Before starting SoftPlus, Mohan co-founded and served as the president of Digital Tools Inc., a leader in enterprise project and resource management software. He has held various software development and management positions with Hewlett Packard and Intel. Mohan holds a Masters Degree in Computer Science from the Florida Institute of Technology and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Bombay University in Mumbai. He is a charter member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs), a Silicon Valley-based forum for entrepreneurs. He is on the board of IDE - a leading non-profit devoted to the eradication of rural poverty worldwide.

Eric Spector

Eric served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia, from 1968 to 1970, in a development program aimed at aiding small businesses in creating jobs, first in Medellin and later in Bogotá. Subsequently he worked for a Latin American development company (ADELA) in Peru, and then worked in Mexico, Venezuela, Sweden, Denmark, Tanzania and the US as a McKinsey & Company consultant on diverse assignments, including marketing strategy, operations and organizational design. As an entrepreneur, he later founded and ran several businesses, including a firm that sold over $100 million in products direct to US consumers, a web-based restaurant reservations service, and a consulting firm that developed and licensed online outreach and fundraising tools for nonprofit clients (including Save the Children). A graduate of the City College of New York with a B.A. in Political Science, he also earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. Eric lives with his wife and two sons in Kensington, California.

Dwight Wilson

Starting with his Peace Corps service in Chile and Honduras (1981-1983), Mr. Wilson has spent almost thirty years in the fields of international volunteerism and international development. His work in international volunteerism, including the founding of Seattle-based EarthCorps, has sent volunteers from over sixty nations to carry out multilateral service programs in many countries, including Armenia, Canada, Ethiopia, India, Nicaragua, Uzbekistan, and various regions of the United States. Launched in 1993 as the world's first international youth conservation corps, EarthCorps annually manages up to 75 full-time corps members and over 10,000 community volunteers to carry out critical environmental restoration work in the greater Seattle area. In 1998, Mr. Wilson co-founded World Corps, an IT-for-development nonprofit that in 2005 became a San Francisco-based company, OneRoof, Inc. Mr. Wilson held positions as the CEO and SVP of OneRoof until the end of 2009, and he continues to serve on the Board.