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3.28.2008 - 11:00am ET
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Aspen Institute Names Emerging Leaders As 2008 Henry Crown Fellows
(CSRwire) SANTA BARBARA, CA - March 28, 2008 - The Aspen Institute's Henry Crown
Fellowship Program today announced its 2008 Class of Henry Crown Fellows.
The Henry Crown Fellowship is designed to engage the next generation of
leaders in the challenge of community-spirited leadership. It brings
together entrepreneurial young executives and professionals under age 45
who have already achieved conspicuous success in their chosen fields. The
new Henry Crown Fellows will meet four times over a two-year period and
will undertake individual community service commitments.
The Henry Crown Fellows for 2008 are:
Pauline Brown, 41, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group, New York,
NY
Ángel Cabrera, 40, President, Thunderbird School of Global
Management, Glendale, AZ
Chadia El Meouchi, 33, Managing Partner, Badri and Salim El Meouchi
Law Firm, Beirut, Lebanon and Doha, Qatar
Elizabeth Galante, 41, Director, Global Green, New Orleans, LA
Kathleen Gan, 33, Chief Financial Officer, GE Healthcare, Greater
China, Beijing, China
Sunil Garg, 41, Vice President, Commercial Operations Group, Exelon
Corporation, Chicago, IL
Thelma Golden, 42, Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in
Harlem, New York, NY
Nick Grouf, 39, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO, Spot Runner, Inc.,
Los Angeles, CA
Aedhmar Hynes, 41, Chief Executive Officer, Text 100 Global Public
Relations, New York, NY
Kevin Judice, 44, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Achaogen,
Inc., South San Francisco, CA
Eric Li, 39, Founder and Managing Director, Chengwei Ventures,
Shanghai, China
Jennifer McCrea, 41, Founder and President, Sarvada Consulting, New
York, NY
Timothy Noonan, 43, Director, The Boeing Company, St. Louis, MO
Chinwe Onyeagoro, 29, Founder, President and Managing Partner, O-H
Community Partners, Ltd., Chicago, IL
Garth Ross, 37, Director, Performing Arts for Everyone, John F.
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
Ted Sarandos, 43, Chief Content Officer, Netflix, Beverly Hills,
CA
Lisa Shalett, 44, EVP and Head of Alliance Growth Equities,
Alliance Bernstein, New York, NY
Peter Thiel, 40, Founder and President, Clarium Capital Management,
LLC, San Francisco, CA
Omar Wasow, 37, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University, Co-Founder,
BlackPlanet.com, Cambridge, MA
Mary Zerafa, 41, Vice President of Strategy, ImpreMedia Digital,
Los Angeles, CA
(Photos and bios are available)
"We are delighted with this year's class of Henry Crown Fellows," said
Peter Reiling, Executive Director of the program. "For society, they
represent a potent force of talent, ready to focus their energies on some
of the greatest challenges of our times. For them, they are embarking on
a personal journey-a journey 'from success to significance'-that will
change their lives forever. I know. I'm a Henry Crown Fellow too."
The Henry Crown Fellowship Program was established in 1997 to honor the
life and career of Chicago industrialist Henry Crown (1896-1990) and was
initially funded by the Henry and Gladys Crown Charitable Trust Fund. The
Fellowship is the flagship program within the Aspen Global Leadership
Network (AGLN), now comprising over 700 Fellows from 36 countries, all of
whom are committed to applying their entrepreneurial talents to address
the foremost challenges of their organizations, communities, and
countries.
The Aspen Institute is an international non-profit organization founded in
1950. Its mission is to foster enlightened leadership, the appreciation of
timeless ideas and values, and open-minded dialogue on contemporary issues.
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