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Michael K. Rozen is President and CEO of the boutique alternative investment company, and the founding partner of Rozen Law Firm, LLP. Michael is recognized as a leading strategist and negotiator of complex, multi-party disputes, having resolved many thousands of cases in a wide variety of litigation settings. Michael has been appointed by Courts around the country as a Special Settlement Master, and served as Deputy Special Master of the United States government’s September 11th Victim Compensation Fund of 2001, Deputy Administer of BP’s Gulf Coast Compensation Fund, and Court-appointed Mediator in the Upper Big Brand mine disaster, among others. Michael is also a member of the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics.

Michael is a graduate of Tufts University and Georgetown University Law School.

Ms. Bowyer has served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs since June 2022. She has spent her career working at the intersection of communications, politics and law. Previously, she was global co-head of Brand and Content Strategy at Goldman Sachs, responsible for the firm’s strategy to engage with the public and other key stakeholders through content related to markets, industries, and the global economy.

Ms. Bowyer has been a crisis communications strategist to corporate leaders across industries, helping to navigate the political, legal and media crosscurrents of crisis management. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, she practiced law at Boies Schiller Flexner in New York, specializing in complex civil litigation. She was also a producer for Tom Brokaw in his documentary unit at NBC, Tom Brokaw Reports, and helped with Brokaw’s bestselling books, The Greatest Generation and Boom: Voices of the Sixties.

Ms. Bowyer is a veteran of two presidential campaigns and was a researcher and speechwriter at the White House. She is a graduate of the University of Florida and Columbia Law School.

Lynda Clarizio serves as co-chair of Human Rights First’s Board of Directors.   

Lynda Clarizio has over 20 years of experience in the media industry growing and scaling businesses with a focus on data and technology. She is currently the Co-Founder and General Partner of The 98, an early-stage venture fund investing in tech-enabled businesses led by women.

Lynda previously served as President of U.S. Media at Nielsen Holdings, the global measurement and data analytics company, where she worked from 2013 to 2018.  Prior to joining Nielsen, she served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Development and Operations of AppNexus, a leading programmatic advertising platform.  From 2009 to 2012, Lynda served as Chief Executive Officer and President of INVISION, a provider of multi-platform advertising solutions.  From 1999 to 2009, she held a variety of executive positions with AOL, including President of AOL’s global advertising business (then called Platform-A) and President of Advertising.com (then the industry’s largest online advertising network).  Prior to joining AOL, Lynda was a partner in the Washington, DC law firm Arnold & Porter, where she practiced law from 1987 through 1999.

Lynda is a recognized leader in advertising and media, having been named one of 2017’s “50 Most Powerful Women in New York” by Crain’s, one of 2011’s top 100 “Tech Titans” in the Washington, DC region by The Washingtonian, one of 2009’s “25 Executives to Watch in Digital Entertainment” by Digital Media Wire, and one of 2008’s “Women to Watch” by Advertising Age.  She also was selected as one of 1998’s “Top 40 Lawyers Under 40” by The Washingtonian.

Lynda has held numerous board seats and currently sits on the boards of CDW, Intertek Group, Taboola, Emerald, Simpli.fi and Cambri and is the Vice-Chair of Human Rights First. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and of Princeton University.

Ms. Sutphen has over 20 years of experience working at the intersection of politics, policy and financial markets.  She is a Partner at The Vistria Group, a Chicago-based private equity firm. Previously, she was a Partner at Macro Advisory Partners (MAP), where she led the firm’s US practice advising clients on emerging risks and opportunities across a range of sectors including energy/environment, technology and financial services. Prior to joining MAP, Ms. Sutphen was Managing Director at UBS AG, where she developed new tools for political risk evaluation impacting capital markets.

From 2009-2011, she served as White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy for President Obama, where she advanced the policy and regulatory agenda on a range of issues including technology, small business, energy, education and the Affordable Care Act.  Previously, Ms. Sutphen was Managing Director at Stonebridge International, and earlier led regulatory strategy for Currenex, the first Internet-based institutional foreign exchange trading platform.  From 1991-2000 she was a career diplomat, serving on the staff of the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration and the U.S. Mission to the UN, among other posts. She also served on the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board from 2013-2016.

Ms. Sutphen serves on the Boards of Spotify, Pattern Energy, Unitek Learning, and is a Trustee for Putnam Mutual Funds.  She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and also serves on the Board of the International Rescue Committee.  Ms. Sutphen also serves on the advisory boards of the Warner Music Social Justice Fund and the Center for Global Energy Policy at Columbia University and joined the Munich Security Conference Innovation Board in 2021.  She is a Trustee of Mount Holyoke College, co-author of The Next American Century (Simon & Schuster 2008) and is Executive Producer of Battleground (PBS 2020) and Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union (HBO Summer 2021). She holds BA from Mount Holyoke College and an MSc from the London School of Economics.