Management

Previously, Gluckstern was a general partner of Azimuth Trust Company LLC, an alternative asset management firm that Gluckstern co-founded in 2002 and served as its CEO until 2005.

From 1993 to 1998 and from 2001 to 2002, Gluckstern held a range of executive and financial positions within the Swiss-based Zurich Financial Services Group. In 1998, he co-founded Capital Z Partners. This alternative asset/private equity management firm managed over $4 billion in two global funds. In 1988, Gluckstern also co-founded Centre Reinsurance, the first specialty financial reinsurer, with $250 million of venture capital, making it one of the largest start-ups of its kind.

Prior to Centre Reinsurance, Gluckstern worked for investor Warren Buffett and served as General Manager of reinsurance operations of the Berkshire Hathaway Insurance Group, President of Columbia Insurance Company, and Senior Vice President of National Indemnity Company. Earlier he was Chief Financial Officer of Healthco Inc., the then largest distributor of dental products in the world. He started working in the business world as an investment banker at Lehman Brothers.

Prior to his time in business, Gluckstern spent seven years as a teacher and school administrator.

Gluckstern holds a BA in Psychology and Natural Sciences from Amherst College, an Ed.D in Administration and Organizational Change from The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

During his time as Senior Vice President and Director of Residential Lending at Bank of America in the 1990's, Williams recruited and led a team that improved the bank's national mortgage origination ranking to 5th from 100th in four years. He also created the bank's award-winning low-income housing initiative, "Neighborhood Advantage", and developed credit policy, pricing models, capital markets and portfolio management tools. As CEO of a $4 billion federal savings bank during his tenure with ITT Financial Services, Williams has also managed regulated entities.

While serving as Sr. Vice President of Risk Management at GE Capital, Williams provided leadership, direction and insight necessary to anticipate and monitor the risks associated with an evolving global customer base in a $250 billion portfolio of mortgage assets and insurance products. He also led GECC's prudent growth in mortgage originations, driving annual mortgage production from $5 billion to over $20 billion in just 18 months.

Williams earned an MBA in Finance while attending the University of Southern California on a fellowship. At California Polytechnic University, he graduated cum laude in Finance, Insurance and Real Estate.

He has almost two decades of experience in new business development for the Zurich Financial Services Group, BNP Paribas, and Credit Suisse. He has created new businesses in multifamily tax exempt debt financing, low income housing tax credit financing, and real estate residual value financing.

In addition, Vlahoplus has designed cross border and domestic structured investments in traditional asset classes like public equities and in alternative asset classes like fund of funds and alternative energy.

Prior to working in the financial services industry, Vlahoplus was an attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City.

He holds a B.A. summa cum laude from Washington & Lee University, a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, and a D.Phil. in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, which he attended on a Rhodes Scholarship. Vlahoplus is on the New York City advisory board of The Trust for Public Land.

He served most recently as Chief Technology Officer for the Office of Development and the Alumni Association at Stanford University, where Rosenblatt was responsible for strategic planning and day-to-day operations, ranging from data mining to social media. Previously, he was Vice President of Operations for Nanomix, a leading nano-electronic detection company.

In a consulting capacity, Rosenblatt assisted growth-phase companies over a four year period in both technology implementation and management arenas, also providing consulting and expert witness services for intellectual property issues. Many of these roles included technology leadership for startup companies, such as StubHub who was acquired by eBay.

As Chief Technology Officer with Ask Jeeves, Rosenblatt was responsible for technology strategy and intellectual property across both the Web Properties and Enterprise Solutions business units of this leading natural language search company during its challenging transition to profitability.

Rosenblatt holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.