W. Thomas Haynes is Chairman of the CEI Board of Directors and is the Founder and Chief Administrative Officer of Eagle Health Plans, a newly formed company which specializes in the development of self-funded benefit solutions for employers with 25 to 200 employees, as alternatives to traditional fully insured small group programs and other Obamacare solutons. Eagle’s business is founded on the success of Haynes and his colleagues in building the largest self-funded program targeting smaller employees in the industry. Previously, Haynes served as consultant at Hamilton Landing Beverage Advisors, LLC, which provides consulting and merger and acquisition advisory services in the beverage industry and the CEO of The Coca-Cola Bottlers' Association, Inc, where he built a $100 million health care benefits business, which was sold to National General Insurance. He served as the CEO of that benefits business for a transition period. Previously he was general counsel of Coca-Cola North America. He is a veteran of the insurance, healthcare and beverages industries and testified before Congress on healthcare reform on four separate occasions.
James R. Curley is Chief Executive Officer of Financial Consortium International, LLC. In addition to serving on CEI’s board, he serves on the board of Reason Foundation.
Michael W. Gleba is President and Trustee of the Sarah Scaife Foundation and Treasurer and Trustee of the Carthage Foundation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Prior to joining the Foundations, Mr. Gleba was a lawyer, practicing first with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP in Pittsburgh and then with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Pittsburgh and Jakarta, Indonesia. His practice areas involved various aspects of corporate law. Mr. Gleba received his JD cum laude and MBA with high honors from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and his BS in Industrial Management with University Honors from Carnegie Mellon University, also in Pittsburgh.
Mr. Gleba is: Chair of the Board of Directors of the Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy Alternatives (Harrisburg, PA); a member of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; a member of the Board of Directors of the Allegheny Institute for Public Policy (Pittsburgh, PA); a member of the Advisory Council of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (Washington, D.C.); Co-Chair of the International Organizations Subcommittee of the International and National Security Law Practice Group of the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies (Washington, D.C.); a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center for Policy Analysis (Dallas, TX); on the Council of Advisors of Saint Vincent College’s Alex G. McKenna School of Business, Economics, and Government (Latrobe, PA); and a member of the Board of Directors of the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh.
Michael S. Greve is a professor at George Mason University School of Law and a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Before moving to George Mason, Professor Greve was the John G. Searle Scholar at AEI. He has taught at a number of universities, including Cornell and Johns Hopkins, and has been a visiting professor at Boston College since 2004. Greve was a co-founder of the Center for Individual Rights, a public interest law firm, which he directed from 1989 to 2000. He has written widely on constitutional and administrative law, federalism, environmental policy, and civil rights. His publications include numerous law review articles and books, including most recently The Upside-Down Constitution (Harvard University Press, 2012). Greve holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in government from Cornell University, and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Hamburg. He is a frequent contributor to the Liberty Law Blog.
Jean-Claude Gruffat is Managing Director of Galileo Global Advisors in New York. He was posted in New York as a Managing Director for Citigroup since April 2011.
Jean Claude Gruffat is a Governor of the American Hospital of Paris, a Director of the American Hospital of Paris Foundation, a Trustee of the New York French Institute Alliance Francaise, and a Founder of Institut des Libertes. He was recently nominated for a 3 years term effective May 2014 to the Board of Trustees of United Way Worldwide headquartered in Alexandria, VA.
He is a member of the Economic Club of New York and of the Union League Club, of the Hong Kong Club, and Cercle de l’Union Interalliee,
Jean Claude Gruffat has a PhD in public law and a master in political science from the University of Lyon, France. He attended in 1987 the Stanford Executive Program, GSB, Stanford University, CA.
Kerry Halferty Hardy has extensive experience in both the healthcare and the nonprofit sectors, particularly in strategic planning and development. Currently a principal and consultant at Alcuin Advisors LLC, she was previously the Chief Development Officer at the American Hospital of Paris, Director of Development at the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) at the Johns Hopkins University, worked in the startup phase as the managing director of Altermind, a strategic consulting company with a classical liberal orientation, and also worked at the Cato Institute and the Texas Legislature.
Kerry also currently serves on the board of the the board of the Institute for Economic Studies Europe (IESE), Institut de Formation Politique (IFP), and is active in the Comité Paris-Chicago. Faithful to her Lone Star roots, she is also a member of the Texas State Society and a Texas-Ex.
She is often invited to speak on topics related to healthcare, the free market, and the nonprofit sector, and is an annual speaker at the Free Market Road Show and the European Resource Bank. Kerry also lectures in the Business & MBA program at INSEEC and was previously a guest lecturer at the Université Paris-Dauphine.
Kerry received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin and obtained her Master of Science in Management, with an emphasis on Nonprofit and Association Management, from the University of Maryland University College. She speaks French, German, and Spanish, as well as Texan.
Kent Lassman is president and CEO of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, where he oversees strategy for the free market organization, including management of a team of policy, communications, and fundraising staff.
Prior to joining CEI, Lassman spent eight years as vice president at a public affairs firm in Washington, DC, counseling clients on campaign approaches to issues ranging from telecommunications to privacy to biotechnology and state licensure. His past experience includes a variety of policy work both inside and outside Washington, including testimony before Congress, state legislatures, and in regulatory proceedings.
From 2003 to 2008, he served on the President’s Advisory Council for the State Policy Network. From 2001 to 2006, he served as an advisor to the Task Force on Telecommunications & Information Technology at the American Legislative Exchange Council.
Fred L. Smith, Jr. is founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market public policy group established in 1984. Mr. Smith combines intellectual and strategic analysis of complex policy issues ranging from the environment to corporate governance with an informative and entertaining presentation style. Mr. Smith is also a frequent guest on national television and radio programs to discuss and debate regulatory initiatives and topical policy issues. A prolific writer, Mr. Smith’s works have been published in leading newspapers and magazines such as the Wall Street Journal, National Review, Economic Affairs, and the Washington Times. His academic articles have appeared in journals such as Harvard Journal of Law and Economics, CATO Journal, and Economic Affairs, and he is a contributing editor to Liberty magazine. Before founding CEI, Mr. Smith served as Director of Government Relations for the Council for a Competitive Economy, as a senior economist for the Association of American Railroads, and for five years as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency. Currently, he sits on the Institute Turgot in Belgium.
Bill Dunn (member emeritus) served on CEI’s Board of Directors for 15 years. He is the founder and chairman of DUNN Capital Management, Inc., in Stuart, Florida, and a pioneer in the application of computer technology to portfolio management. Founded in 1974, DUNN Capital Management is one of the most prominent and successful managers of futures-based portfolios today. In addition to running his asset management business, Dunn is actively involved in overseeing the research and development of new quantitative-trading models.
Prior to founding his own company, Dunn was employed by several contract research organizations in Washington, D.C., where he conducted operations research and systems analysis for the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Department of Defense. He held research and faculty positions with the University of California and Pomona College in 1965 and 1966. Dunn received a Bachelor of Science degree in engi¬neering physics from the University of Kansas, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in theoretical physics from Northwestern University.