ABOUT US
BOARD
In order to provide the high-level networking and programming that ADI has become known for, we are guided by an experienced and talented Board of Directors that oversees the organization. These individuals are all accomplished leaders in their fields, and provide the American Democracy Institute with unparalleled insight and guidance
Our Board of Directors includes:
Amy Curtis-McIntyre
Marc Nathanson
Gene Nichol
Mark Patricof
Sarah Quinlan
Judith Zarin
Amy Curtis-McIntyre
Amy Curtis-McIntyre, the founding Chief Marketing Officer for JetBlue Airways, joined the airline in 1998 when it was simply a concept known as NEW AIR Corporation. In her role as head of sales & marketing, she had responsibility for developing the brand platform, advertising, promotion, public relations, web strategy, sales team efforts and other traditional marketing elements. Additionally, and truly in start up form, Curtis-McIntyre took charge of product development and internal communications including the uniform design (and served as the flight attendant prototype), aircraft interior and exterior, implementation of the first-ever DIRECTV system on a plane, recruiting and training communication and even gave JetBlue its name.
During her tenure, JetBlue was named “Marketer of the Year,” by Ad Age Magazine, Number 1 Airline in both the Conde Nast Traveler and Travel & Leisure reader surveys, and took first place every year since 2003 in the aviation industry’s Annual Passenger Survey.
Prior to JetBlue, Amy was the Vice President of Marketing for Virgin Atlantic Airways, and the Director of Marketing for Celebrity Cruises. She began her marketing career in the consumer and travel division of Hill & Knowlton Public Relations.
Amy is currently consulting in marketing and brand management for consumer products and services as well as speaking and teaching in the industry and for university marketing programs. A native New Yorker, she left JetBlue in 2005 to relocate to suburban Chicago and spend more time with her husband and young children.
Marc Nathanson
Marc Nathanson is Chairman of Mapleton Investments, LLC., and Mapleton Communications. He served as Chairman and CEO of Falcon Communications, the nation's tenth largest cable television operator, from its formation in May, 1975 until it was sold in November, 1999 to Paul Allen's publicly traded Charter Communications, where Mr. Nathanson presently serves as Vice-Chairman.
In 1998, President Clinton appointed Mr. Nathanson to chair the Board for US International Broadcasting, which oversees Voice of America, Radio/TV Marti, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Mr. Nathanson is a trustee of the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California, and a member of the Board of Visitors of the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is Chairman of Homeland Security Advisory Council for Los Angeles County Region One and a member of the Los Angeles Mayor’s Committee on Homeland Security. He also serves on the Board of the UCLA Foundation, the Rand Graduate School, the American Democracy Institute, chairs the Center for the Digital Future at USC Annenberg School for Communication, and is vice chair of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
In addition, he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Affairs Council, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. Mr. Nathanson holds a Bachelors degree from the University of Denver and a Masters degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara (USCB) where he was a National Science Foundation fellow.
Gene Nichol
Nichol became the 26th president of the College of William and Mary on July 1, 2005. The College, located in Williamsburg, Virginia, is the second oldest university in the United States. According to U.S. News and World Report, William & Mary is the leading small public university in the nation.
Before returning to Williamsburg, Nichol was Burton Craige professor and dean of the law school at the University of North Carolina. He served as law dean at the University of Colorado from 1988-1995; and as James Gould Cutler Professor and Director of the Institute of Bill of Rights Law at William & Mary from 1985-1988. Nichol has also been a faculty member at the University of Florida and West Virginia University. He founded the Byron White Center of Constitutional Law at the University of Colorado (1990) and the Center
for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina (2001).
Nichol teaches courses in constitutional law and civil rights. He is co-author of FEDERAL COURTS: Cases and Comments (West, 2000)(with Redish) and contributing author of WHERE WE STAND: Voices of Southern Dissent (NewSouth Books, 2004) and AMERICAN CRISIS: Southern Solutions (NewSouth Books 2008). Nichol has published articles and essays in the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the California Law Review, the Duke Law Journal, the Virginia Law Review and an array of leading legal journals. From 1998-1999, he was a political columnist for the Denver-Rocky Mountain News and the Colorado Daily. From 1999-2005, he was a regular op-ed writer for the Raleigh News & Observer. He has also written for the Washington Post, The Nation, and various periodicals. From 1994-1995, he was host of a public affairs television show, Culture Wars, for KBDI, Channel 12 in Denver.
Nichol has been significantly involved in public affairs. He has testified before committees of the United States Congress and various state legislatures. In 1991, he was appointed special master by a three-judge federal court in Colorado to mediate a redistricting dispute between the governor and the legislature. The accord was ratified by statute. A year later he helped head the Colorado Reapportionment Commission. In 2004, Nichol led the North Carolina Bi-Partisan Commission on Lobbying Reform.
Legislation was passed enacting commission recommendations. He ran unsuccessfully for national political office while in Colorado. He has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation Fellows.
In 2003, Nichol won the American Bar Association's Edward R. Finch Award for delivering the nation's best Law Day Address. Two years later, Governor Michael Easley inducted Nichol into the Order of the Long Leaf Pine - the state of North Carolina's highest civilian honor; and Equal Justice Works named him pro bono law school dean of the year. In 2007, he received
Oklahoma State University's Distinguished Alumnus Award.
Nichol attended Oklahoma State University, where he received a degree in philosophy and played varsity football. He obtained his J.D. from the University of Texas, graduating Order of the Coif, in 1976. He is married to Glenn George. They have three daughters: Jesse (20), Jennifer (18), and Soren (14).
Mark Patricof
Mark serves as Managing
Director of Media & Entertainment Strategy Advisors (MESA), bringing
extensive leadership and operational experience in the media industry. Most
recently, Mark was President and Chief Operating Officer at the Rockwell Group,
which he joined in February 2003 as part of Coca Cola's investment in the
company.
Prior to Rockwell, Mark
was President and CEO of <kpe>, a renowned provider of digital solutions
for media and entertainment companies. In the years following the company's
inception, <kpe> guided some of the biggest names in the entertainment and
media industries on the development of their earliest digital initiatives and
new business ventures. Additionally, and in partnership with Grey Advertising,
the Endeavor Agency and Wasserstein Perella, the company invested in over 20
digital media companies.
Mark's career in the entertainment industry began
in the mailroom at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in Los Angeles. As he moved
in to creative positions at CAA, Mark worked with many of the agency's most
important clients, as well as assisting with the launch of the company's
theatrical division.
As a recognized leader
in the media industry, Mark has been featured in publications such as Variety,
The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Industry Standard, The New York
Times, Adweek and Ad Age. Mark, a 1999 Clio Award winner, was selected as a
judge for the 2001 Clio Awards, the highest honor in both new media and
advertising. That same year, he was honored as one of the finalists for the
prestigious 2001 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
Currently, Mark serves
as a member of the Board of Directors of Rockwell Group, the American Democracy
Institute, New
Heights, and the New Media
Committee of the New York Public Library. He is an active advisor for various
political campaigns, business schools and charities. Mark holds a degree from
Emory
University.
Sarah Quinlan
Ms Quinlan joined Saad in 2006. She was previously an
Executive Director at UBS and prior to that led the Alternative Investments
Group for Lloyds TSB. She was co-founder of TwentyFirst Century Advisors, a
small and mid-cap long/short hedge fund and was a member of the small and
mid-cap team at Bankers Trust in New
York. Her career began at Salomon Brothers Inc,
before moving to Weiss, Pecker & Greer. She received her BA and MBA from
the University of
Chicago in Politics,
Economics, Rhetoric and Law.
Judith Zarin
Judith Zarin is a champion of women’s rights, serving as a board member of the National Naral Pro-Choice America Foundation and a member and supporter of the Democratic National Committee Women’s Leadership Forum and Emily’s List, a political network for pro-choice Democratic women. A supporter of the Eleanor Roosevelt Girls’ Leadership Workshop, Zarin helped create a New York mentorship program which exposes girls to strong female role models working in New York City. From 1988 through 1995, Zarin was a member of the Board of Trustees of The Calhoun School in Manhattan. From 1998 through 2005, she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Horace Mann School in Riverdale, New York, having served on the Finance committee as well as the Education committee.
Along with her husband, Gerald Rosenfeld, CEO of Rothschild North America, Zarin has established the first two undergraduate scholarships at The Stern School of Business at New York University specifically dedicated to New York minority women. In addition, they have also established the first scholarship dedicated to female rabbinical students at The Jewish Theological Seminary. Zarin holds a PhD in Psychology from the Graduate Center of the New School for Social Research and a J.D. from the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.
