Leadership Council

Roger Barnett, ’86 B.A., ’89 J.D. is the Chairman and CEO of Shaklee Corporation. Founded in 1956, Shaklee is a leading natural nutrition company in the U.S., with more than 2 million members and distributors principally in North America and Asia. In 2000, Shaklee became the first company in the world to be certified to fully offset its carbon emissions so as to leave no footprint on our planet. Mr. Barnett began his career at the investment banking firm Lazard Freres & Co. He then organized an investment group to acquire control of Arcade, Inc., which he transformed into the largest sampling company in the world, expanding from a solely U.S. operation into a global business. He was also the founder and Chairman and CEO of Beauty.com, which was one of the first internet retailers in the cosmetics industry.Mr. Barnett received his undergraduate degree from Yale College (Summa Cum Laude), his...

Priscilla (Penny) F. Canny, ’83 Ph.D., has extensive experience as a nonprofit leader with a particular passion for research and data analysis. She is President of the Board of Data Haven, an online comprehensive source for data about the Greater New Haven area. She has served as Senior Vice President for Grantmaking and Strategy at The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, leading the Foundation’s efforts to build community knowledge and information. Prior to The Community Foundation, she was managing director and director of research at Connecticut Voices for Children, a research-based policy and advocacy organization. Before joining Connecticut Voices for Children, Dr. Canny was assistant dean for the Yale School of Public Health where she also earned a Ph.D. in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and worked for many years as a senior research associate. She...

James B. Crystal, ’86 B.A., has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CV Holdings, Inc., a specialty lender focused on equipment finance and commercial real estate lending, since 2019.  From 2013 to 2019, he was a Managing Director at Tricadia Capital Management, where he was the portfolio manager principally responsible for private equity investments in the financial services sector, overseeing funds with over $450 million in commitments and serving on various portfolio company boards. Prior to joining Tricadia, he was a Managing Director at Rockefeller & Co., one of the largest multi-family offices. Before joining Rockefeller in 2008, Jim was a Senior Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at Bear Stearns Asset Management, a Managing Director at Silverback Asset Management and, from 1997 to 2004, a Senior Managing Director at Bear, Stearns & Co.,...

Thomas Dubin ’19 MPH is a pharmaceutical executive and attorney. From 2001 through 2013 he was the Chief Legal Officer and a member of the core executive team that grew Alexion Pharmaceuticals from development stage to membership in the S&P 500.  At Alexion, Tom led legal, government affairs, pricing and reimbursement, corporate communications, and other functions, and he held commercial responsibility for the company’s Australasia region. Prior to Alexion, Tom served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of ChiRex, Inc., an international corporation providing advanced process development services and specialty manufacturing to the pharmaceutical industry. Tom began his career as a corporate attorney with Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City.  He is a past Director of BioBlast Pharmaceuticals (NASD: ORPN), on the Advisory Board of Mythic...

David Dull, ’71 B.A., ’82 J.D., is a director of Ostendo Technologies, Inc. and OnRamp Wireless, Inc. and a business advisor to several other privately-held electronics, water science and bioscience companies. In 2009, he retired after 11 years as a senior executive and general counsel of Broadcom Corporation, where he was responsible for legal affairs, intellectual property strategy and development, and mergers and acquisitions. Previously, as a partner in the law firm of Irell & Manella LLP, he represented clients in the entertainment and technology industries. For five years before and after law school, Mr. Dull was a staff member of the United Nations Association of the U.S.A., a non-profit research and advocacy organization. Mr. Dull is a trustee of Sage Hill School and Sarah Lawrence College and a former member of the Yale Law School Association Executive Committee. He and his wife reside...

Kathe Fox, ’81 Ph.D., Ex officio serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Association of Yale Alumni in Public Health (AYAPH). Kathe, an Informatics Consultant, has more than 30 years’ experience in healthcare Informatics with a particular emphasis on chronic disease epidemiology, research methods and evaluation, and big data and data integration. Recently retired from Aetna, Kathe is currently devoting her energies to service in support of public health and emerging technology companies that are grounded in healthcare data and insights. She is the President of the Association of Yale Alumni in Public Health and President of the Board of the Health Care Cost Institute. At Aetna, Kathe was a member of the Analytics and Behavior Change organization where she led the Informatics activities that support Plan Sponsor analyses and tools. Recently Kathe led the design and...

Richard Gliklich BA ’83 is CEO of OM1, a data, outcomes and technology company focused on organizing health information to support medical research, outcomes measurement and personalized medicine, especially for chronic diseases. Dr. Gliklich is also the Leffenfeld Professor, part-time, in the Department of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Eye and Ear where he has been a surgeon on the faculty since completing his training. Prior to OM1, Dr. Gliklich was an executive in residence with General Catalyst Partners focused on investments in healthcare companies. Previously, he was founder and CEO of Outcome, which he led from inception through its acquisition by Quintiles. Dr. Gliklich is well known in the areas of registries, outcomes and analytics. He is senior editor of the landmark publication by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality...

Mark Greenwold, B.A. ’66, is an attorney in Washington, D.C. and Senior Consultant to the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, the leading global and national advocacy organization for tobacco control.  Mr. Greenwold advises the Campaign on federal and state regulatory issues and represents a coalition of national public health groups in litigation regarding tobacco control. Mr. Greenwold also represents States and local governments in litigation against the tobacco industry.  Previously, Mr. Greenwold served as the first Chief Counsel for Tobacco for the National Association of Attorneys General, where he represented all the States in the implementation and defense of the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement of 1998.  Mr. Greenwold had previously spent 27 years in private practice in Washington specializing in complex civil litigation.  While in private practice he worked with the...

Clarion E Johnson, ‘76 M.D., Council Vice-Chair retired from ExxonMobil as its Global Medical Director. He is presently Co-Chair of the Public Private Partnership at the National Academy of Sciences. He serves as Vice Chair on this Council and is a member of the Yale Healthcare Conference Advisory Board.He sits on the Boards of the Milbank Memorial Fund, the de Beaumont Foundation, Bon Secours Mercy Hospital System, Arch Diocese of New York’s Care health system and Friends of the National Library of Medicine. In January of 2020 he was honored with a lifetime appointment as a National Associate of the National Research Council.Clarion is past chair of The Joint Commission’s International and Research Boards, The Virginia Health Care Foundation and City Lights School. He was a HHS secretary appointee to the NIOSH (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health) Advisory...

Rebecca Katz, M.P.H. ’98, Ph.D. is a Professor and Director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security, and holds joint appointments in Georgetown University Medical Center and the School of Foreign Service. She teaches courses on global health diplomacy, global health security, and emerging infectious diseases in the Science, Technology and International Affairs, Security Studies, and Global Infectious Disease Programs. Prior to coming to Georgetown in 2016, she spent ten years at The George Washington University as faculty in the Milken Institute School of Public Health. From 2004 to 2019, Dr. Katz was a consultant to the Department of State, working on issues related to the Biological Weapons Convention, pandemic influenza and disease surveillance. She returned to the Department of State in January 2021 as a senior advisor on the global COVID-19 response and...

Mary G. Lawrence, M.D., ’98 M.P.H., is the Deputy Director of the Department of Defense/Veterans Affairs Vision Center of Excellence in Washington, DC.  The center focuses on research, clinical care integration, education, information systems, and advocacy related to vision trauma, especially injuries and diseases of the eyes and visual system incurred while on Active Duty.    Previously, Dr. Lawrence was a member of the faculty at University of Minnesota where she served on the Glaucoma Service and directed the Visual Rehabilitation Service.  While in Minnesota, she was also the Associate Chief of Ophthalmology at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center.  Prior to this time, Dr. Lawrence served at Harvard Medical School where she received the Residents Teacher of the Year Award and the Dean’s Commendation for her teaching.  Later she was awarded a Clinical Epidemiology...

Dr. Omar Edward Njie, MD, MPH is a Healthcare Principal at AlleyCorp, one of the most active early-stage venture funds and incubators in New York dedicated to healthcare. Prior to his work at AlleyCorp, he held positions at Deloitte Consulting, Clover Health, and Rock Health as well as advisory roles at some of digital health’s most transformative startups such as Cityblock, Equip, and RubiconMD. In 2019 he co-founded the Mount Sinai Diversity Innovation Hub, a nationally recognized venture working to address social determinants of health and improve minority representation in healthcare innovation. Omar is a recipient of the 2021 Genentech Diversity Innovation Fellowship, the 2020 National Medical Fellowships/Wayne Anthony Butts Scholarship, and 2018 Mount Sinai Leaders as Scholars Merit Scholarship. He received his medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount...

Rock G. Positano, DPM, MSc, MPH, DSc has been on staff at the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) since 1991 and is internationally known for his non-surgical approach for the treatment of foot disorders. He serves in the capacity of Founder and Co-Director of the Non-Surgical Foot and Ankle Service and the Joe DiMaggio Heel Pain Center at HSS. In addition to being a faculty member of Yale University’s School of Public Health, he is also on staff at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, and Lenox Hill/Northwell Health. Dr. Positano was featured on the front page of The New York Times in an article concerning the dangers of cosmetic foot surgery, and was recently featured in the Times as a contributing physician on the harsh impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on feet and ankles. It was in this article that he coined...

William B. Schultz, ‘70 B.A., is a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm Zuckerman Spaeder, where he focuses on complex regulatory litigation and provides strategic advice to companies and public interest organizations. He has worked for many years on reducing the use of tobacco products and controlling prescription drug prices. He also represents small biotechnology and generic drug companies, and individual scientists. Between 2011 and 2016, he was General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services.  He is a member of the Committee on Science, Law and Technology, National Academy of Sciences, and for 10 years he taught at Georgetown University Law Center. He also is on the Board of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Board of the National Health Law Program and the Board of Trustees of Partners in Health.  He was Deputy Assistant Attorney...

Sam Silverlieb, M.B.A. '14, is passionate about helping people and teams be their best. Sam serves as SVP of HR for ZoomInfo Technologies (NASDAQ: ZI), a go-to-market tech and intelligence platform enabling sales, marketing, and recruiting to "hit their number." There, he oversees employee experience as well as HR systems and analytics for 3,500 global employees. Prior to ZoomInfo, Sam was Head of Organizational Effectiveness for Coinbase, the most trusted hub to access crypto-powered financial services. Before joining Coinbase, he was a Partner at McChrystal Group, a boutique consulting firm specializing in building effective and agile organizations at scale. There, he specialized in working with executive teams across the healthcare ecosystem. His diverse professional experience also includes roles in venture capital at SineWave Ventures, technology investment banking...