Lawrence C. McQuade, Executive Chairman/Partner

• Asst. Secretary of Commerce during Kennedy/Johnson administrations
• CEO of Procon Incorporated where he oversaw the building of the largest LNG facility in the world at that time
• Executive VP and Board Member at W.R. Grace & Company
• Vice Chairman of Prudential Mutual Funds
• Founding Partner of River Capital, a hedge fund focused on investments in Russia
• Served on the Board of Directors at Qualitas International, Prudential Mutual Funds, NNRF, Laredo National Bancshares, Bunzl PLC, Applied Bioscience, and many others
• Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Director, Overseas Development Council; Director, International Management & Development Institute; Director, Foreign Policy Association; Expert Advisor, UN Commission on Transnational Corporations; Co-Founder & Director, Asian Programs Foundation
• Graduate of Yale University (Phi Beta Kappa), Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar), and Harvard Law School