Thomas Lynch is the Founder and Senior Managing Director of Mill Road Capital. Prior to Mill Road Capital he was Founder and Senior Managing Director of Lazard Capital Partners; Managing Director at the Blackstone Group, where he was the first investment professional hired to work exclusively in the private equity group; and a Consultant and Project Manager for the Monitor Company, a management consulting firm founded by Michael Porter. Mr....

John Slavic is the founder, president, and CEO of Slavik401k. He also oversees all functions of the Slavic group of companies, including Slavic Integrated Administration, Slavic Investment Corporation, Slavic Mutual Funds Management Corporation, and PLANRight. Mr. Slavic received a master of science degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor of science degree at Florida State University. He holds numerous specialized licenses...

Michael Abraham is founder and CEO of a privately held venture capital and direct investment company. Previously, he was vice president at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Financial Sponsors Group and spent several years on Capitol Hill at the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. He holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina and a BA in philosophy and economics from the University of Michigan.

Kevin Roberts is president of the Heritage Foundation. He previously served as the chief executive officer of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), an Austin-based nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute and the largest state think tank in the nation. Under Roberts’ leadership, TPPF more than doubled in size. He also expanded the Texas think tank’s influence nationwide, opening an office in Washington, D.C., so that TPPF research...

John A. Burtka IV is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He graduated from Hillsdale College with degrees in French and Christian Studies and earned a graduate degree in theology from La Faculté Jean Calvin in Aix-en-Provence, France. Johnny began his career at ISI, where he served as a development officer. He returned to ISI after four years at The American Conservative magazine, where he served as...

Larry Arnn is President of Hillsdale College. Dr. Arnn is on the board of directors of The Heritage Foundation, the Henry Salvatori Center of Claremont McKenna College and The Claremont Institute. Dr. Arnn is also a professor of politics and history at Hillsdale. He teaches courses on Aristotle, Winston Churchill and the American Constitution. Arnn was an ISI Weaver Fellow at Claremont Graduate School.

Alejandro “Alex” Chafuen is Managing Director, International, of the Acton Institute and founder of the Hispanic American Center for Economic Research. He is a past president of the Atlas Network. A graduate of Grove City College and the Argentine Catholic University in Buenos Aires, he also holds a PhD in economics from International College, California. Dr. Chafuen writes a regular column for Forbes on economic policy and international...

Will Long is the Founder and CEO of Numinar Analytics, a political technology startup combining voter data and machine learning to help campaigns win elections. Since its founding in Will’s senior year college dorm, Numinar has been deployed on hundreds of political campaigns and helped reach millions of voters. Before Numinar, he spent time in Silicon Valley building Machine Vision for Amazon Go’s no-checkout stores and then building Big...

David Durell serves as chairman and president of the George Edward Durell Foundation. Prior to chairing the Durell Foundation, he served as chairman and president of Beck/Durell Creative Dept. Inc., an advertising firm in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Durell received his bachelor of arts from Williams College and his MBA from the University of Virginia. He serves on the board of trustees for Mission Columbus, Hillsdale College, the Acton Institute, and...

Christopher Long is Managing Director at Silvercrest Asset Management Group. Before returning to the financial services field, he spent five and a half years as ISI’s President and Chief Executive Officer. He has also served as Managing Director of a global investment bank and asset management firm, as Chief Executive Officer and co-owner of hedge fund advisor Endowment Capital Group LP, and Chief Operating Officer of Friess Associates LLC and...

Alfred S. Regnery has served on the ISI board since 2002. He is the former publisher of the American Spectator, a monthly journal of politics and culture. Previously he was the president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, Inc., the firm founded in 1947 by his father, Henry Regnery, who was formerly Chairman of the ISI Board. Mr. Regnery served in the Department of Justice during the Reagan administration and as counsel to the Senate Judiciary...

Byron W. Smith is Managing Director at Mountain Group Partners (MGP), a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investing in the areas of Human Health, AgTech, and B2B Tech. Before MGP, Byron had a distinguished career in the development of wireless telecommunications and broadband internet. He has taught entrepreneurship at Vanderbilt’s Owen School of Management as an adjunct faculty member. He began his marketing career in brand...

Bridgett Wagner is vice president for external relations at The Heritage Foundation, overseeing the think tank’s Coalition Relations, Lectures and Seminars, Young Leaders, and Strategic Outreach programs, among other duties. All are focused on spreading conservative principles, policies, and ideas among allies, public audiences, interns and young professionals, and new audiences. Her responsibilities also include advising and consulting with...