BALTIMORE, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- JHPIEGO CEO Leslie Mancuso, Ph.D., R.N., today announced the appointment of four members to JHPIEGO's corporate Board of Directors. JHPIEGO, an international health organization affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md., trains and supports healthcare providers including doctors, nurses, midwives, and health educators, working in limited resource settings throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Europe, and is focused on improving the health of women and children.
The new board members have extensive experience in leadership positions in multinational corporations, financial services and investment companies, and in the pharmaceutical industry. They are Dwight Bush, managing partner of D.L. Bush & Associates, of Chevy Chase, Maryland; Donna Ecton, Chairman and CEO of EEI, Inc., Paradise Valley, Arizona; Robert Mallett, senior vice president for Corporate Affairs for Pfizer, Inc., New York, and C. Cathleen Raffaeli, managing partner of The Hamilton White Group, Pound Ridge, New York. Each has also been involved in international affairs.
"I am pleased that JHPIEGO will benefit from the breadth and depth of international experience and corporate excellence that these four leaders bring to the table," said Mancuso in announcing the appointments. "With the addition of our new Board members, JHPIEGO strengthens its ability to develop into an organization with the leadership and vision to deliver health care in the 21st century to women and families in an increasingly complex world. Building on our 30 years of experience in over 145 countries to deliver health care in women's and neonatal health, reproductive health, infection prevention, cervical cancer, and HIV/AIDS, JHPIEGO will be able to offer more comprehensive services in developing human resources in health."
JHPIEGO, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, builds global and local partnerships to enhance the quality of health care services for women and families around the world. JHPIEGO is a global leader in the creation of successful and innovative approaches to developing human resources for health.
JHPIEGO Board of Directors 2004 Dwight Bush
Dwight Bush is a broadly experienced financial executive. In 2003, Bush founded and serves as Managing Partner of D.L. Bush & Associates, a Chevy Chase, Md.-based private equity investment and financial advisory firm. From 1998 until 2003, Bush was a principal of Stuart Mill Capital, LLC, an Arlington, Va. buyout firm. During this period, Bush also served as Chief Financial Officer of SatoTravel, a major travel services provider. From 1994 through 1997 Bush served as Vice President for Corporate Development for Sallie Mae, the nation's leading provider of education credit. At Sallie Mae, Bush was responsible for credit and business investment policy, mergers and acquisitions, and board oversight of three subsidiaries. Mr. Bush joined Sallie Mae after a successful 15-year career in banking at the Chase Manhattan Bank. After joining Chase as a management trainee in 1979, Bush's tenure at Chase included international corporate finance assignments in Latin America, Asia, and the Middle East. Bush's career at Chase culminated as Managing Director, Project Finance and head of the Public Utilities Group. Bush graduated from Cornell University in 1979 with a B.A. in Government and Economics. He is active in various civic and corporate organizations. Among other things, he is a member of the Board of Trustees of Cornell University, Xavier University of Louisiana, and the National Symphony Orchestra. He is a member of the Board of Directors of EntreMed, Inc., a Rockville, Md.-based biomedical company. Bush is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Vaccine Fund that has been endowed with $750 million from the Gates Foundation to accelerate the rate of immunizations and vaccinations in developing countries.
Donna Ecton
Donna Ecton is founder, chairman, and CEO of management consulting firm EEI Inc., which assists private equity firms in turning around troubled portfolio companies, as well as provides operational due diligence for potential investments. Clients' companies include businesses in retail, consumer products, distribution and manufacturing, food, business services, educational services and e-commerce. Prior to founding EEI in 1998, she served as chief operating officer and board member for PETsMART, Inc., and chairman, president and chief executive officer of Business Mail Express, Inc., a privately held expedited print/mail business. Ecton was president and chief executive officer of Van Houten North America Inc. and Andes Candies Inc. She was senior vice president for franchise and international at Nutri/System, Inc., where she managed US operations and field marketing across 50 states, implemented global franchise strategies and policies, and ran international operations. She has also held senior management positions at Campbell Soup Company as vice president of administration and chairman of Campbell's only non-food division, Triangle. She was a business director and vice president for Citibank N.A. Ecton holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, where she was a Margaret Rudkin Scholar and later a Harvard University Frederick Sheldon Fund Fellow. She has a B.A. in Economics from Wellesley College, where she was a Durant Scholar. Presently, Ms. Ecton serves on the board of directors of H&R Block, and is chairman of their audit committee, and also serves on their executive committee and governance and nominating committee. She is a lifetime board member of the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City.
Robert Mallett
Robert Mallett is senior vice president for corporate affairs at Pfizer, Inc., where he is responsible for management and direction for corporate policy and strategic management, media relations and communications. He also coordinates policy development in intellectual property, healthcare access and Medicare reform for the global company. In 2001, Mallett was a visiting professor of Practice at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He served as deputy secretary of Commerce during the Clinton administration, overseeing day-to-day administrative and programmatic operations for the Department, promoting American business abroad through foreign trade missions and fostering economic growth in developing countries through private U.S. investment. He was a partner in the legislative, energy and environmental practice groups of the Washington law firm Vernor, Liipfert, Bernhard McPherson & Hand and, prior to that, City Administrator and Deputy Mayor for Operations for the District of Columbia. Mallett holds a law degree from Harvard University and a B.A. from Morehouse College. He also attended the London School of Economics. Mallett is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administrators, and Chairman of the U.S.-South Africa Business Council.
C. Cathleen Raffaeli
Cathleen Raffaeli is managing partner of the Hamilton White Group, an advisory firm dedicated to assisting companies grow their businesses and pursue new markets. Prior to joining Hamilton White, she was president and chief executive officer of ProAct Technologies, Inc., an enterprise software technology firm focused on financial, health, and human resource software applications. Earlier Raffaeli was CEO of Consumer Financial Network (CFN) where she developed and launched the 18-product line financial company, later sold to ACE insurance. Raffaeli joined CFN from Citigroup where she was executive director for the Global Commercial Card Division, managing the MasterCard and Visa commercial brands worldwide. While at Citicorp, she also served as executive marketing director for Global Transaction Services Bank and Senior Vice President of the Mortgage Banking Division running national marketing and the east coast lending division. Raffaeli joined Citigroup from Chemical Bank where she was a Senior Vice President. Raffaeli holds an M.B.A. from New York University and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Baltimore. Raffaeli serves as a board member of E*Trade Financial where she chairs their Compensation Committee and is a member of the Corporate Governance Committee. She is also a Director of American Home Mortgage Holdings, Inc., chairman of their Audit Committee and member of the Compensation Committee. She also serves on the board of directors for World Hunger Year, a non-profit focused on eliminating root causes of poverty and hunger, icouldbe, a non-profit dedicated to e-mentoring underprivileged youth, and St. Luke's Lifeworks, a non-profit that serves people in crisis with housing, education, direct care and advocacy.
Dr. Leslie Mancuso, Ph.D., R.N.
Leslie Mancuso, Ph.D., R.N., is Chief Executive Officer of JHPIEGO, the Baltimore-based not-for-profit international public health organization affiliated with Johns Hopkins University. Mancuso's career in public health has been defined by commitment to improving women's and family health worldwide. In 2003, she received the Maryland International Business Leadership Award from the World Trade Center Institute for her pioneering work in neonatal and maternal health care. Mancuso, who is an adjunct faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, received the 2003 Lillian Sholtis Brunner Award for Innovative Practice in Nursing from the University of Pennsylvania in recognition of her inspirational leadership for nurses. Mancuso also was awarded the 2001 Pediatric Humanitarian Award from Janetti Publications in the journal Pediatric Nursing. Prior to joining JHPIEGO, Mancuso was the acting chief executive officer, and senior vice president and chief operating officer of Project HOPE, a $100 million not-for-profit organization active in the training of health care professionals and the provision of medicines and medical supplies in more than 30 low-income countries worldwide. Mancuso received her undergraduate degree in nursing from Southern Connecticut University and her Masters in Nursing Sciences from the University of Pennsylvania where she also earned a doctorate in Education in Organization Leadership. Mancuso recently completed the Executive Leadership Certificate Program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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