Wing Keith, Chair
Former COO, Crestview Partners
Former COO, Oak Hill Capital
Wing Keith is a consultant and board member of both non-profit and for-profit companies. Ms. Keith’s career has centered on finance and banking, building new products, markets, and strategic positions in established and developing industries, markets, and products. She is the former chief operating officer of each of Crestview Advisors, LLC, and Oak Hill Capital Management, Inc., both private equity firms. At these firms, Ms. Keith established and/or enhanced: investor relations and reporting; strategic planning processes; and hiring of key personnel, among other activities. Previously, Ms. Keith was a senior vice president at Lehman Brothers Inc., working as CAO for the Media & Telecom Group, the M&A Dept., Equity Capital Markets, and as a banker in its Media & Telecom Group. Prior to working at Lehman, Ms. Keith developed Riggs National Bank’s Eastern European financial advisory business. She also was a vice president at Bankers Trust Co., where she specialized in distressed companies and LBO lending. Ms. Keith was graduated from Harvard with a degree magna cum laude.
Richard S. Aldrich Jr.
Executive Chairman, Private Export Funding Corporation (PEFCO)
Richard S. Aldrich Jr. spent his career as an international attorney focused on securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and public and private financings for companies and financial advisors in Brazil and the United States. He began his legal career as an associate at Shearman & Sterling before being seconded to Citibank as general counsel for its Middle East/Africa Division (1978 to 1980).
Mr. Aldrich became a partner at Shearman & Sterling in 1982, and headed its Hong Kong office from 1984 to 1987. In 1987, he returned to Shearman & Sterling’s New York office, where he represented the Bank Advisory Committee of Brazil in the country’s $120 billion foreign debt restructuring from 1987 to 1994. In 1992, he represented the Brazilian company Aracruz Celulose in the first SEC-registered, NYSE-listed initial public offering of a Brazilian company. Mr. Aldrich is adjunct professor of law at Vanderbilt University. In addition to IESC, he serves on the advisory board of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce and was its president from 2005 to 2008.
Stuart Fleischmann
Retired Partner, Capital Markets Group, Shearman & Sterling, LLP
Stuart Fleischmann has spent his entire career at Shearman & Sterling and recently retired at year end 2021 as a Senior Partner from the firm’s Capital Markets Group. His career had him in the firm’s New York and São Paolo offices, focusing principally on debt and equity offerings by Latin American companies, sovereign nations, and quasi-government entities. He expects to continue to act as a Senior Advisor to selected companies across Latin America as he transitions from his law firm career. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Georgetown University and subsequently completed his law degree at Villanova University.
Gilbert Gitiche
Executive Vice President and Chief Audit Executive, USAA
Gilbert Gitiche is the Executive Vice President and Chief Audit Executive at USAA. Gilbert is also a member of the USAA’s Executive Council and has over 22 years of Audit, Internal Control, and Risk Management Experience.
In his role as Chief Audit Executive for the USAA enterprise, Gilbert is responsible for establishing the strategic vision of the internal audit function, including oversight of all audit assurance and advisory activities, ensuring the adequacy and effectiveness of enterprise-wide internal controls. This position is specifically responsible for supporting the accomplishment of strategic objectives and helping ensure that established financial, operational, and compliance practices, and the related controls, are designed and operating effectively.
Prior to joining USAA, Gilbert was the Chief Audit Executive at The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, commonly known as Freddie Mac. He has also held various senior audit leadership roles in large financial institutions, including Bank of America, where he was a Senior Vice President and Head of the North American Global Markets Audit; General Electric (GE) Capital, where he served as Head of Enterprise Risk Management and Capital Planning for Internal Audit; and American Express Company (Amex), where he was Head of Audit for Global Risk Management, Latin America & Canada, and Chief Audit Executive for Amex Bank of Canada.
He started his career at PwC in Assurance and Advisory Services, covering Banking and Capital Markets, as well as not-for-profit entities.
Gilbert is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds a Master of Science Degree in Risk Management from the New York University (NYU) Stern School of Business and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree in Finance from the University of Nairobi, Kenya.
Susan Gurley
Executive Director, Anxiety and Depression Association of America
Susan Gurley is an attorney with senior leadership experience in international development, higher education administration, and global membership association management. She has worked in more than thirty countries, and is currently serving as the executive director of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. She also currently serves on the advisory board of Her Wealth and on the Board of Directors of INMED Partnerships for Children.
Ms. Gurley has held numerous other senior-level positions, including senior legal reform advisor at the United States Agency for International Development, assistant dean of international and graduate programs at the Georgetown University School of Law School, deputy executive director of Equal Justice Works, director of legal reforms for the East West Management Institute, and executive director of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives.
Ms. Gurley graduated phi beta kappa and is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law. She is a member of the Virginia Bar and speaks four languages.
Jean Lange
Finance and Development Consultant
Jean Lange is currently an International Finance and Development consultant having worked at the US Treasury, USAID, and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). She has thirty years of experience in international economic policy and development assistance, financial and private sector assessments, monitoring and evaluation, coordination with international financial institutions, and public representation.
Ms. Lange has a strong record of achievement as: (1) a leader of economic growth program assessment and design teams for countries emerging from conflict and crisis; (2) program monitoring and evaluation specialist; and (3) an architect and manager of comprehensive USAID economic growth projects in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (CEE/FSU), with a focus on banking sector reform, access to finance, private sector development, economic governance, and public financial management. Recent consulting assignments have been in Vietnam, Tunisia, Jordan, Nepal, and Egypt. Also, she has been a trainer at numerous USAID programs for economic officers and Foreign Service Nationals.
Ms. Lange has a B.A. from Brown University and Masters from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She has experience in serving on non-profit Boards, most recently the Foreign Policy Discussion Group. She speaks French.
Roger Lawrence
Former Vice President of Global Quality Assurance & Regulatory, McCormick & Company, Inc.
Roger Lawrence, former Vice President of Global Quality Assurance & Regulatory for McCormick & Company, Inc., has played a major role in the agribusiness industry over the past 40 years. At McCormick, he was responsible for quality, food safety, and regulatory strategic direction and operational guidance, and he provided functional oversight throughout the corporation’s worldwide operations and supply chain, as well as functional support to retail, food service, and industrial customers.
Mr. Lawrence held additional leadership roles for 38 years at McCormick including Operations and Technology for the Asia-Pacific Zone, Vice President of Quality and Product Development for US Consumer Products, Director of Product Development and Quality Assurance (QA) for the International Group, and Director of Technical Services for Europe. Mr. Lawrence serves on a number of business and non-profit boards and brings a valuable, strategic perspective and business acumen that enriches the dialogue, enhances public private cooperation, and supports strategy development and global engagement.
Donald H. Layton
Senior Industry Fellow, Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies
Retired CEO, Freddie Mac
Retired Chair and CEO, E*TRADE Financial
Retired Vice Chair, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Donald H. Layton has been on IESC’s board since 2004. Most recently, from 2012 to 2019, he was chief executive officer of Freddie Mac, a U.S. government-sponsored enterprise chartered by Congress to provide liquidity, stability, and affordability to the U.S. housing market. He is currently a Senior Industry Fellow at Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.
Layton has more than 40 years of experience in financial services and as a corporate leader. He worked for nearly 30 years at JPMorgan Chase and its predecessors, starting as a trainee and rising to vice chairman and member of the three-person Office of the Chairman, retiring in 2004. Then from 2007 to 2009, he served as chairman and then CEO of E*TRADE Financial, which he shepherded through the financial crisis. Additionally, Layton has been a member of the boards of several financial services firms.
He served as a senior advisor to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association from 2006 to 2008. He also serves on the non-profit Boards of the Children’s Health Fund and Enterprise Community Partners, along with being chairman emeritus of the Partnership for the Homeless, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing homelessness in New York City, after having been its chair for nearly a decade.
Layton received simultaneous B.S. and M.S. degrees in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard.
Carole Wamuyu Wainaina
Chief Operating Officer, Africa50
A citizen of Kenya, Carole Wamuyu Wainaina is a well-respected senior executive with global experience in the private and public sectors at senior levels, including strategy formulation, leading multi-disciplinary teams, and driving organizational change. As Chief Operating Officer of Africa50, the pan-African infrastructure investment platform capitalized by the African Development Bank, 23 African countries, and two African Central Banks, she leads a multi-disciplinary team across Investor Relations, Strategy, Communications, Human Resources and Administration, and Environmental and Social Governance.
Before joining Africa50, she served as the Assistant Secretary General for Human Resources of the United Nations, leading transformational initiatives for the Secretary General and member states and prior to joining the United Nations in 2014, Ms. Wainaina held senior positions for more than two decades at multinational corporations in Turkey, the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Kenya.
She served for three years on the Executive Committee of Royal Philips in the Netherlands as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer. She worked for 13 years at Coca-Cola in senior roles, including Chief of Staff of the Chairman and CEO, Group Human Resources Director Eurasia and Africa, and President of the Coca-Cola Africa Foundation. She started her career at Price Waterhouse Coopers in Kenya.
David Hartingh
President and Chief Executive Officer, IESC
Ex Officio
Serving as President & CEO since 2018, David Hartingh is responsible for the strategic, programmatic, financial and management operations of IESC. David is an entrepreneurial international development executive with more than 23 years of experience in international economic development, small and medium enterprise development, and international trade. Prior to becoming IESC’s President & CEO, he was IESC’s Chief Operating Officer/Executive Vice President. He previously served as IESC’s Vice President of Global Programs and Associate Vice President and practice lead for trade and enterprise development. During his tenure at IESC, David has been instrumental in transforming IESC’s operating model and systems and competitively winning and successfully delivering results on numerous large-scale economic development projects around the world. His experience prior to joining IESC headquarters in 2005 includes managing a USAID-funded international trade and investment project operating in 37 countries, advising private sector clients with an international trade policy consulting firm, launching and selling his own franchised small business, and advising businesses as a consultant. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in International Economic Affairs from George Washington University.
John Rolls, Chair
Chair of the Board, Fuel Cell Energy
Partner, Core Capital Group
John A Rolls is chairman of the board of Fuel Cell Energy and a partner at Cove Harbor Partners, a private investment partnership. Previously he served as president and CEO of Deutsche Bank North America, executive vice president and CFO of United Technologies, senior vice president and CFO of RCA; treasurer of Monsanto and CFO of Monsanto Europe in Brussels. Earlier in his career, he was an instructor at General Motors Institute and a financial analyst at Ford.
A native of Canada, Mr. Rolls was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1941, lived in Mexico City from 1948 to 1955 and Cincinnati until 1962, when he was naturalized a U.S. citizen. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Ohio State University and an MBA from Columbia University. Mr. Rolls’ father, James Rolls, completed several volunteer assignments for IESC, as did Mr. Rolls’ uncle, George Kirkendale.
Wing Keith – Vice Chair
Former COO, Crestview Partners
Former COO, Oak Hill Capital
Wing Keith is an owner and director of CA Partners, Inc., a family partnership. Ms. Keith’s career has centered on finance and banking, building new products, markets, and strategic positions in established and developing industries, markets, and products. She is the former chief operating officer of each of Crestview Advisors, LLC, and Oak Hill Capital Management, Inc., both private equity firms. At these firms, Ms. Keith established investor relations and reporting, strategic planning processes, and hiring of key personnel, among other activities. Previously, Ms. Keith was a senior vice president at Lehman Brothers Inc., working as CAO for the Media & Telecom Group, the M&A Dept., Equity Capital Markets, and as a banker in its Media & Telecom Group. Prior to working at Lehman, Ms. Keith developed Riggs National Bank’s Eastern European financial advisory business. She also was a vice president at Bankers Trust Co., where she specialized in distressed companies and LBO lending. Ms. Keith graduated from Harvard with a degree magna cum laude.
Amb. (Ret.) Thomas J. Miller
President and CEO, IESC
Tom has served as president and CEO since 2010. Before joining IESC, he was president and CEO of the United Nations Association of the United States and CEO of Plan International. Prior to that, Tom had a three-decade career as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service. He was ambassador to Greece (2001-2004) and to Bosnia and Herzegovina (1999-2001) and the U.S. Cyprus negotiator (at rank of Ambassador). In 2011, Tom was appointed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to chair the board of the International Commission on Missing Persons. Tom also serves on the boards of Partnership for a Secure America and Greek hotel company Lampsa and is a member of AARP’s National Policy Council. A native of Chicago, Tom has five degrees from the University of Michigan: a Ph.D. in political science (1975), two master’s degrees, a B.A. in political science (1969), and an honorary doctor of law degree (awarded when he was graduation speaker in 2003).
Richard S. Aldrich Jr.
Partner, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP
Richard S. Aldrich Jr. spent his career as an international attorney focused on securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and public and private financings for companies and financial advisors in Brazil and the United States. He began his legal career as an associate at Shearman & Sterling before being seconded to Citibank as general counsel for its Middle East/Africa Division (1978 to 1980).
Mr. Aldrich became a partner at Shearman & Sterling in 1982, and headed its Hong Kong office from 1984 to 1987. In 1987, he returned to Shearman & Sterling’s New York office, where he represented the Bank Advisory Committee of Brazil in the country’s $120 billion foreign debt restructuring from 1987 to 1994. In 1992, he represented the Brazilian company Aracruz Celulose in the first SEC-registered, NYSE-listed initial public offering of a Brazilian company. Mr. Aldrich is adjunct professor of law at Vanderbilt University. In addition to IESC, he serves on the advisory board of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce and was its president from 2005 to 2008.
Stuart Fleischmann
Partner, Capital Markets Group, Shearman & Sterling, LLP
Stuart Fleischmann has spent his entire career at Shearman & Sterling and is currently a partner in the firm’s Capital Markets Group. He spends time in the firm’s New York and São Paolo offices, focusing principally on debt and equity offerings by Latin American sovereign nations and quasi-government entities.
Fleischmann regularly represents underwriters and issuers, primarily in the oil and gas, steel, telephone, electricity and financial institution industries, on a wide range of private placements of debt and equity securities. He is also regularly involved in such novel transactions as toll road financings and securitizations involving credit cards, residential mortgages, international oil payments, money transfers and electronic remittances, loan pools, auto and farm equipment loans and leases and franchise revenues.
Outside of Shearman & Sterling, Fleischmann speaks at selected continuing education seminars, and is a member of the New York City Bar Association’s Committee of International Affairs and Committee of Structured Finance.
Fleischmann earned his bachelor’s degree at Georgetown University and subsequently completed his law degree at Villanova University.
Susan Gurley
Executive Director of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America
Susan Gurley is an attorney with senior leadership experience in international development, higher education administration, and global membership association management. She has worked in more than thirty countries, and is currently serving as the executive director of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.
Ms. Gurley has held numerous other senior-level positions, including senior legal reform advisor at the United States Agency for International Development, assistant dean of
international and graduate programs at the Georgetown University School of Law School, deputy executive director of Equal Justice Works, director of legal reforms for the East West Management Institute, and executive director of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives.
Donald H. Layton
CEO, Freddie Mac
Retired Chair and CEO, E*TRADE Financial
Retired Vice Chair, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Donald H. Layton is currently the chief executive officer of Freddie Mac, a U.S. government-sponsored enterprise chartered by Congress to provide liquidity, stability, and affordability to the U.S. housing market. Layton has more than 40 years of experience in financial services
and as a corporate leader.
He worked for nearly 30 years at JPMorgan Chase and its predecessors, starting as a trainee and rising to vice chairman and member of the three-person Office of the Chairman, retiring in 2004. Then from 2007 to 2009, he served as chairman and CEO of E*TRADE Financial, which he shepherded through the financial crisis. Additionally, Layton has been a member of the boards of several financial services firms.
He served as a senior advisor to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association from 2006 to 2008 and serves as chairman emeritus of the board of the Partnership for the Homeless, a nonprofit dedicated to reducing homelessness in New York City, after having been its chair for nearly a decade.
Layton received simultaneous B.S. and M.S. degrees in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from Harvard.
Amb. (Ret.) Shaun Donnelly
Vice President, Investment and Financial Services
U.S. Council for International Business
Ambassador (Retired) Shaun Donnelly had a distinguished 36-year career in the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service. Ambassador Donnelly served as assistant U.S. trade representative in charge of Europe and the Middle East, as U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives, as deputy U.S. ambassador in Tunisia and Mali, and in a series of senior economic policy positions in Washington. He served three separate tours (totaling eight years) as a deputy assistant secretary of state, at various times leading the department’s teams on international trade, energy, economic sanctions, and European economic policy.
After his government service, Amb. Donnelly served as senior director at the National Association of Manufacturers and as vice president for the Middle East at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Donnelly is also a board member of ASTM International and the Ambassadors Advisory Board of the Executive Committee on Diplomacy.
A native of Culver, Indiana, Shaun Donnelly earned a B.A. in economics from Lawrence University and an M.A. in economics from Northwestern University.
Elizabeth K. Lavach
President and Founder, E.L.S. and Associates
Elizabeth K. Lavach is the president of E.L.S. and Associates, a Washington, D.C.-based consulting consortium that focuses on strategic business planning and related legislative issues. She is a former vice president of government operations for Colt’s Manufacturing Company, a member of the lobbying division of the law firm of Gadsby and Hannah, former legislative director and senior staff member for several members of Congress. She has served on commissions and study groups of the Rand Corporation, the National Defense Industrial Association, and has chaired committees of associations. She is a member of the board of the National Safe Haven Alliance and Congressional Schools of Virginia. Ms. Lavach has been a frequent speaker before national associations, providing insight on policy and trends in government and private industry.
