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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Marc A. Thiessen is a columnist for the Washington Post, a New York Times bestselling author, and a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The Daily Telegraph named him one of the "100 most influential conservatives in America." Thiessen had a fifteen-year national security career that took him from Capitol Hill to the Pentagon to the White House, where was chief speechwriter to President George W. Bush. He is a graduate of Vassar...

James Piereson is president of the William E. Simon Foundation, a private grantmaking foundation located in New York City. The foundation has broad charitable interests in education, religion, and problems of youth. He assumed this post as of January 1, 2006. Mr. Piereson is also a senior fellow at The Manhattan Institute in New York where he is director of the Center for the American University.

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...

Michael W. Gleba is Chairman and CEO of the Sarah Scaife Foundation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the foundation, he practiced corporate law, first with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP in Pittsburgh and then with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Pittsburgh and Jakarta, Indonesia. Gleba received his JD cum laude and MBA with high honors from Duquesne University and his BS in Industrial Management with University Honors from...

Edwin J. Feulner is Former Chairman of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Former President of the Heritage Foundation, Washington’s leading public policy organization. In 1989 President Reagan conferred the Presidential Citizens Medal on him as "a leader of the conservative movement." Dr. Feulner was a consultant for Domestic Policy to President Reagan and a member of the President’s Commission on White House Fellows. He has also...

Linda Bean is president of Linda Bean’s Perfect Maine, LLC. A successful entrepreneur, she founded one of the largest Maine lobster empires and has worked as a real estate broker and a newspaper editor and publisher. She is the ancestral daughter of five Mayflower Pilgrims, and her grandfather founded L.L. Bean, Inc., with a $500 loan. More than a century later, L.L. Bean is a billion-dollar business that is still owned by the Bean family. Ms....

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.

Richard V. Allen is an international business consultant in Washington, D.C., and Senior Counselor to APCO Worldwide, Washington. He is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University, and is a Member of the Advisory Board, Center for Strategic & International Studies, Washington; a Member of the Board of Trustees of The Intercollegiate Studies Institute; a Member of the Council on Foreign...

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.

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....

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...