Board

Peter Jungen, Chairman of Peter Jungen Holding GmbH is an Entrepreneur and Angel Investor. He is Co-Founder of several start-ups in Europe and the U.S., including Idealo Internet GmbH, the leading German price comparison shopping platform. He is a partner of the Halo Fund. He is founding president of the European Business Angels Network (EBAN), a member of the New York Angels, founding Board Member of the China Business Angel Network (CBAN), Beijing. He is a Member of the Board of the New York Philharmonic, of the Advisory Council of Deutsche Bank and of the International Advisory Council of Columbia University. He is Founding President of the European Enterprise Institute (EEI).

In September 2000 the leading German business magazine “Wirtschaftswoche” named Peter Jungen one of the 100 most important personalities who shape the future of the “New Economy”. In August 1999 Peter Jungen was awarded the Commander`s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany. He is contributing to the discussion on entrepreneurship culture, innovation, and globalization.

Mr. Kittler is a Managing Director and co-founder of Firelake Capital Management LLC. From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Kittler was the Co-President of Velocity Capital Management LLC, the investment adviser of the Velocity Technology and Communications Fund. Previously, Mr. Kittler spent eleven years at J.P. Morgan Investment Management Inc. There he was a software analyst, semiconductor analyst, and for six years portfolio manager responsible for small capitalization technology and health science investments. 

Mr. Kittler holds an M.A. in Economics from Columbia University and a B.A. in Architecture from Princeton University. He has served on the Visiting Committee for Advanced Technology at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and on the Independent Review Panel of the Public Interest R&D program of the California Energy Commission.

Robert Mundell is University Professor at Columbia University in New York, where he has been since 1974. Prior to that, he spent time at the International Monetary Fund, and taught at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Waterloo (Ontario), among others. He has been an adviser to a number of international agencies and organizations including the Government of Canada, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the European Commission, the Federal Reserve Board, the US Treasury and numerous governments, institutions and companies around the world.

Mundell prepared the first plan for a European currency and is known as the father of the theory of optimum currency areas and the euro. He developed the international macroeconomic model (the Mundell-Fleming model), the theory of growth and inflation (the Mundell-Tobin effect relating monetary expansion, the real rate of interest and economic growth), and was an originator of Supply-Side Economics.

Mundell is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association and past presidents of both the North American Economic and Financial Association and the International Atlantic Association. He is the Honorary Co-President of the Mundell International University of Entrepreneurship in Beijing, China and the Co-Chairman of the Annual International Financial Forum in Beijing. He is the recipient of more than sixty honorary degrees and professorships and the Chairman of the Santa Colomba Group in Siena, Italy on Global Money. In 1999, Mundell received the Nobel Prize in Economics for “his analysis of monetary and fiscal policy under different exchange rate regimes and his analysis of optimum currency areas”.

Karlheinz Muhr is Chairman & CEO of Cenario Capital Management, an asset and risk management firm servicing the institutional market place. Previously, Mr.Muhr was a senior executive with Credit Suisse Group. He served as a Managing Director of Credit Suisse in the Asset Management Division and Head of Credit Suisse Volaris, based in New York. He was also a member of both the Chairman's Board and the Management Council of Credit Suisse. Mr. Muhr was co-founder and Chairman of Volaris Advisors, an alternative asset management business prior to its sale to Credit Suisse in 2003.

Prior to founding Volaris, Mr. Muhr held a variety of senior positions at UBS Warburg. These positions included Head of Global Credit Fixed Income, Head of Corporate Finance for Americas, Member of the Management Committee for the Americas. From 1985 to 1995, he worked in both New York and London for Credit Suisse First Boston, heading Mortgage Derivative Trading, European Credit Fixed Income and Global Asset Swaps. He also served as a member of the European Executive Management Committee and the Global Fixed Income Committee.

A native of Austria, Mr. Muhr has a Master's Degree from Vienna's University for Business and Economics (1982) and an M.B.A. from the Anderson School of Business at the University of California at Los Angeles (1985). He serves on the following not-for-profit boards: The New York Philharmonic, New York , The Institute of International Education (IIE), Washington DC, The Aspen Institute, Washington DC & Aspen, and on the Columbia University Center on Capitalism and Society. Mr. Muhr is also a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Richard Robb is CEO of Christofferson, Robb and Company (CRC), a New York- and London-based fund management company that invests in asset backed securities and renewable energy assets in Europe and emerging markets. He is also Professor of Professional Practice in International Finance at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, where he teaches courses in microeconomics, economic foundations of capital markets and finance.

Before co-founding CRC, he was the global head of the derivatives and securities subsidiaries of the Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank, Ltd. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

Leo M. Tilman is President of L.M. Tilman & Co., a strategic advisory firm that serves governments, financial institutions, corporations, and institutional investors worldwide. Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Tilman held senior positions with BlackRock as well as Bear Stearns, where he was Chief Institutional Strategist and Senior Managing Director.

Mr. Tilman teaches finance at Columbia University. He is the author of Financial Darwinism: Create Value or Self-Destruct in a World of Risk (Wiley, 2008), co-author of The Risk Paradigm (forthcoming from Oxford, 2009), co-author of Risk Management (Wiley, 2000), and editor of Asset/Liability Management of Financial Institutions (Institutional Investor, 2003).

Mr. Tilman is a contributing editor of The Journal of Risk Finance has been honored by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader.