Advisory Board/Banking Team

ADVISORY BOARD

Carol Booker, Washington, D.C., is an attorney and former journalist who served for over 30 years as legal counsel to national nonprofit organizations and federal agencies. She recently retired as General Counsel to US international broadcasting. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the City College of New York.

Barbara Feuer, Bethesda, MD, is an organizational psychologist whose company, The Catalyst Group, helps companies achieve optimal performance and productivity by creating a healthy workplace. As a life coach, she helps people realize their life goals. The employee assistance program (EAP) she helped create received a President's Volunteer Action Award from President Clinton and the Point of Lights Foundation.

Lillian Hagen, Potomac, MD, is an attorney at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. She specializes in federal securities law and has broad experience in the corporate finance and financial services areas, particularly with securities trading and distributions, broker-dealer regulation and corporate disclosure. Prior to her service at the SEC, she was a litigator in private practice. Her previous involvement in non-profit work has included serving on the Steering Committee of the Homeless Children's Tutorial Project in Washington, DC and providing pro bono legal representation through the D.C. Prisoners' Project. She is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and Ithaca College.

Bonnie Holcomb, Bethesda, MD, has a master's degree from George Washington University. She has a lifelong interest in African Social and cultural issues and has special expertise on the Ethiopian Famine. Her major area of interest is the impact of social structures on human agencies. She is the head of Global Mission Outreach for Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church.

Robert Israelite, Chicago, IL, graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Currently he works at CUNA Mutual Group as a Services Specialist for Credit Unions in the Midwest. He traveled to Uganda in 2005 on a non-profit volunteer mission, and continues to work both in the U.S. and in Uganda to increase the capacity of the communities in and around Mbale.

Denise Kalule - Kampala, Uganda, is Business Manager and Personal Assistant to the Head of Audley Limited, a diversified holding company operating numerous businesses in Uganda. She grew up in the United States, obtained a B.S. in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management. She is also currently a Board Member of the Vienna College Namugonogo and helped transform the boarding school into the largest Cambridge International Education center in Eastern Africa. Prior to moving to Uganda in 2005, Denise was Manager of Business Development for UTC Fuel Cells in Connecticut, where she developed business strategies and determined opportunities for new high-volume fuel cell businesses. She also served as an internal audit leadership associate for Untied Technologies in Connecticut and as a sales leadership associate for Carrier Corporation in South Africa and the U.S.

Sally Kelly, Chevy Chase, MD, is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and received her M.Arch from Washington University, St. Louis. After working full time as an architect, she has combined a solo practice in residential remodeling with service to schools, church, and civic associations in D.C., Maryland, and Michigan. She has organized and chaired numerous community events and committees, fundraisers and building projects. She has served on boards for the Decade Society (a DC non-profit supporting local charities), PTAs in DC and Montgomery Co., Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, the Castle Park Association, and the Town of Chevy Chase. Her daughter, Erin, whose gap year took the family to Tanzania, has inspired her interest in helping women and families in East Africa.

Harris Recht, Ridgewood, NJ, is an attorney specializing in emerging technologies in the medical field, as well as other issues impacting the medical practice. His clients include a number of companies that are engaged in a number of cutting edge research and development projects. He attended Rutgers University and the National Law Center at George Washington University.

Katherine Staudaher, Bethesda, MD, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. degree in Occupational Therapy. She worked in the DC tri-state area for 10 years and developed a specialty in pediatrics. She opened a Pediatric Occupational Therapy private practice in 1988. Since retiring from her O.T. practice, Ms. Staudaher has directed numerous volunteer projects.

Al Tetrault, Vienna, VA, is a real estate development consultant running his own company, Tetrault and Associates. He attended American University and received a masters degree from the University of Virginia. He has developed a particular expertise in public policy and planning related to urban development, neighborhood revitalization, grant programs, and community development planning. Previously he was an instructor and department head at the Kiambu Institute of Science and technology in Kenya, while serving in the Peace Corps.

Beth Tomasello, Chevy Chase, MD, is an attorney who spent 12 years with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, specializing in cost recovery issues and advising regional case teams on complex litigation. She clerked with both U.S. District Court and MA Supreme Court justices. She served on the Executive Committee of National Cathedral School's Parents Association and on the Organizing Committee of St. Patrick's Day School's Gifts for Good. Beth heads up grant writing for WMI.

Christine Uzzell, Bethesda, MD, serves as United Educators' Associate Vice President, Information Technology with responsibility for the corporate-wide management of information resources. She oversees strategic information planning, business process re-engineering, project management, applications development, hardware and software acquisition, vendor negotiations and relationships, and budget preparation. Ms. Uzzell received her M.S. degree from the George Washington University.

Thierry van Bastelaer, Bethesda, MD, is a principal associate and economist on International Health for Abt Associates, Inc. in Bethesda, MD. Abt Associates is a global research and program implementation firm in the fields of health, social and environmental policy, and international development. Mr. van Bastelaer provides leadership on a broad set of issues involving household risk management; develops, supports and tests innovative solutions to health finance problems; and, provides quality assurance and strategic advice on the role of financial services in access to private sector health care. Previously, Mr. van Bastelaer was a senior director in the Livelihoods Department of the Save the Children Foundation, an associate vice-president and director in the Economic Opportunities Office, and the director of the Enterprise Development Group at the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland. He is currently an associate faculty member at American University, teaching graduate and under-graduate courses in microfinance. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland and MA and BA from Facultés Notre-Dame de la Paix, Belgium.

Carol van Oudenaren, Bethesda, MD, is the librarian at Westbrook Elementary School and is a native of the Washington DC area. She has a B. A. in English from Oberlin College, a Masters in Management from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a Masters of Science in Instructional Technology from Towson University. Before returning to school for her library degree, she worked in international banking and served as Vice President of a start-up high technology company in Cambridge MA.

Bill Wilhelm, Charlottesville, VA, is the William G. Shenkir Eminent Scholar and professor of finance at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce. Prior to joining the University of Virginia, he held the American Standard Companies Chair at the Said Business School, University of Oxford and was a member of the finance department at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College. His teaching and research focus on the financial intermediary functions of investment banks. His most recent work, elaborated in "Investment Banking: Institutions, Politics, and Law" (Oxford University Press, 2007), examines the historical role of investment banks in economic development.

Mona Yacoubian, Bethesda, MD, works as a Senior Advisor for the Middle East at the Henry L. Stimson Center. Previously, she was a Senior Program Officer for the Middle East at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Ms. Yacoubian also served as the North Africa analyst for the U.S. Department of State. She received a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy from Duke University. Ms. Yacoubian is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Legal Counsel: Baker & McKenzie is an international law firm, operating with more than 3,600 lawyers spread over more than 70 offices in 38 different countries.

BANKING TEAM

Barry Metzger is a partner at Baker & McKenzie and former counsel to the Asian Development Bank.

Robert Israelite is a Services Specialist for Credit Unions at CUNA Mutual Group, the largest financial services provider to credit unions worldwide.

Bill Wilhelm is the William G. Shenkir Eminent Scholar and professor of finance at the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce.

Denise Kalule is Business Manager of Audley Ltd, a diversified Ugandan holding company. She holds a B.S. in Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and an MBA from MIT.