Board of Visitors

 

Mr. Richard C. Hartnack

Director

Freddie Mac

Rick began his career in banking in 1971 at First National Bank of Oregon, which became a subsidiary of First Interstate Bank.  He rose from Management Trainee to Executive Vice President and head of Corporate Banking.  In 1982 he moved to First Chicago where he headed Community Banking.  In 1991 he was elected Vice Chairman and Director at Union Bank and was in charge of Community Banking.  Retiring from Union in 2005, he joined US Bank in Minneapolis as Vice Chair and head of Consumer and Small Business Banking.  He retired from US Bank in March, 2013.

 

Today he serves as a Director of Freddie Mac and has been elected Non-Executive Chairman of Synchrony Financial (NYSE-SYF) the spin out of the North American consumer finance business from GECC.   He also serves as a Director of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, the Marines Memorial Association and is active with the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.

 

During his banking career he served as a Director of the 12th Federal Reserve District, was a long time Director of MasterCard’s US Region, and served on the Boards of the Consumer Bankers Association, Bank Administration Institute, and several state banking associations.

 

He received a BA in Economics from UCLA and an MBA from Stanford University.

 

He is a veteran of the US Marine Corps and flew 220 combat missions in SE Asia during the Vietnam War aboard the F-4B aircraft.

 

He lives with his wife, Dail, at Black Butte Ranch in Central Oregon.  They have 3 grown children and 6 grandchildren.

Board of Visitors

 

Mr. Terry D. Kramer
Lecturer/Faculty Advisor, UCLA Anderson School
Former U.S. Ambassador

Terry has a 30 year career in telecommunications. For 18 of the 30 years, Terry worked for Vodafone Group Plc/AirTouch Communications in a variety of roles domestically and internationally including Group Strategy and Business Improvement Officer and Regional President, Vodafone Americas which included oversight of Vodafone’s 45% interest in Verizon Wireless and Vodafone’s venture capital activities. Terry also sat on the Executive Committee of Vodafone Group Plc.

In June 2012, Terry received an appointment by President Obama to serve as Ambassador, Head of U.S. Delegation for the World Conference on International Telecommunications which. This 100 person delegation comprised of members of U.S. Government, industry and civil society, formulated and communicated the U.S. policy regarding the criticality of a free and open internet, the criticality of inclusive, multi stakeholder governance, the need to proactively address cybersecurity threats and the need for liberalized, open markets which encourage accelerated broadband access globally.

Terry is currently a full time Adjunct Professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management teaching two courses—a foundational technology management course covering the impact of disruptive innovation on products, services, markets and competition and another course on the evolution and innovation in the global mobile communications industry and promising areas of innovation. Terry is also a Faculty Advisor in the Global Access Program and Strategic Management Research Programs. From 2011-13, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Harvard Business School.

Terry sits on the Boards/Advisory Boards of TeleSign, TangoCard, RapidSOS and TextPert and also sits on the Boards of the Harvard Business School California Research Center, UCLA Economics Department Board of Visitors and Larkin Street Youth Services.

Terry holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from UCLA and MBA from Harvard University and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Board of Visitors

Mr. Robert M. Ettinger
President
Flaherty and Crumrine Inc.

Bob Ettinger has over 25 years of experience managing preferred securities, twenty-two of those having been spent with Flaherty & Crumrine. Prior to joining F&C, he also worked at Scudder Stevens & Clark with Bob Flaherty and Don Crumrine on developing strategies to hedge preferred securities. Bob has developed a number of sophisticated tools for analyzing preferred securities. He serves as the primary liaison between Flaherty & Crumrine and the brokerage community. Bob also serves as President of the U.S. Flaherty & Crumrine funds. Bob has a BA in Economics from UCLA and was honored as the department’s Commencement Speaker in 2001. He received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Board of Visitors

 

Mr. Kevin K. Albert
Partner
Pantheon Ventures

Kevin Albert, Partner and Global Head of Business Development joined Pantheon in 2010 and has 35 years of private equity experience. Kevin is a member of Pantheon’s Partnership Board and is responsible for business development activities globally at Pantheon. Kevin previously worked at Elevation Partners where he was in charge of fundraising and investor relations. For the 24 years prior to joining Elevation, Kevin ran the Global Private Equity Placement Group at Merrill Lynch. He has a BA in economics and an MBA in finance from the University of California, Los Angeles. Kevin is based in New York

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Board of Visitors

 

Mr. Andrew J. Demetriou
Partner
Lamb & Kawakami LLP

Andy Demetriou is both a lawyer and consultant to institutional health care providers and other companies involved in the delivery of healthcare services on corporate matters.  In his law practice he has been lead counsel in merger and acquisition, joint venture and financing transactions for these clients.   As a consultant he has served as a strategic advisor to health care institutions in transactions as well as an expert witness in litigation matters involving healthcare transactions, corporate governance and fiduciary duties.  Andy has focused over the past 15 years on the governance obligations of nonprofit organizations, corporate fiduciary responsibility, special committee and audit committee responsibilities, development of committee charters, conflict of interest and ethics policies and corporate compliance work.  He is regularly called upon to address major conferences of lawyers and trade associations on topics including merger and acquisition transactions, corporate governance, non-profit management and the ethical responsibilities of lawyers.

He has served on governance committees or acted as corporate governance advisor to a number of nonprofit organizations, including Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Facey Medical Foundation, Presbyterian Healthcare Services, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the UCLA Foundation, the Junior Statesman of America Foundation and the Saint Sophia Foundation.

Andy is active in the American Bar Association, having served as Chair of the Health Law Section in 2007-08 and a member of the Section Officers Conference. He is a past Vice-Chair of the American Health Lawyers Association Sarbanes-Oxley Task Force, responsible for monitoring governance developments of interest to healthcare lawyers and institutions. He was Co-Editor of the AHLA Corporate Governance Quarterly in 2007-08. He has also held leadership positions in Sections of the State Bar of California and Los Angeles County Bar Association. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Life Fellow the Los Angeles County Bar Foundation. His service to UCLA has included being a member of the UCLA Foundation Board of Trustees and Board of Directors, serving as Co-Chair of the UCLA Fund for four years, membership on the Board of Visitors of the Department of Economics and service on the UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame Selection Committee.

Andy received his JD from UC Berkeley and his BA in Economics from UCLA.