Liam Casey
CEO PCH International

Liam Casey is the founder and chief executive officer of PCH International. PCH creates, develops, and delivers the world’s best technology products for the world’s best brands. The company is a leader in the accessories market for smartphones, eReaders, and tablets, and employs 1,200 people in China, Ireland, U.K., U.S., and South Africa. PCH reported revenues of U.S.$152.6 million in 2009, and 2010 revenues of U.S.$413 million.

Casey identified the enormous potential and opportunities for growth in China in the mid-1990s, and he founded PCH in Cork, Ireland in 1996.  Casey is widely recognized as a thought leader on international trade and business in China. His entrepreneurial flair and talent for spotting new opportunities has revolutionized international commerce and disrupted traditional supply chain models, contributing to the success of many of the world’s largest technology brands. Casey’s vision for PCH has dramatically shortened the time-to-market for the latest products on the market. He developed a unique end-to-end integrated supply chain solution, including product design through to a fulfillment business that offers customers the longest global reach with the leanest supply chain inventories.

Casey was awarded Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year – Ireland accolade in 2007, Business & Finance International Irish Business Person of the Year in 2009, and All-Ireland Marketing Champion in 2012. He was admitted as a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors in June 2011 and appointed International Start-up Ambassador to China by Enterprise Ireland, an Irish Government agency, in March 2012. Casey was also appointed a member of the Advisory Group for the Global Irish Network by the Irish Government in April 2012. He is currently patron of the Asia Pacific Ireland Business Forum.

 

James Crombie
Editor, Bloomberg Brief

James Crombie has covered emerging market finance, economics, and politics for the last 17 years as a journalist based in London, Mexico City, and New York. He is an editor at Bloomberg Brief responsible for a daily newsletter on leveraged finance.

Prior to joining Bloomberg, he was editor-in-chief at Latin Finance, where he created a daily news service and directed coverage of investment between Latin America and China, the Middle East, and Europe.

Previously, Crombie was senior editor at International Financing Review (IFR) in New York, where he led news and analysis of LatAm capital markets, U.S. structured finance, and U.S. fixed income. He was also product manager of Thomson Financial’s real-time Web-based LatAm joint venture with Dow Jones Newswires.

From 1997 to 2000, he was a correspondent with Reuters in Mexico City and London, specializing in commodities. Crombie joined Reuters from Metal Bulletin in London, where he was senior assistant editor. He has also written for several other financial publications including Lloyd's List and Bloomberg News, and has been featured on Bloomberg TV, FT TV, Sky News, and BBC Radio.

Christian Deseglise
Co-Director, BRICLab, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs ​ ​

Christian Deseglise has more than 20 years of experience in emerging markets finance and capital markets. Prior to rejoining HSBC Global Asset Management in December 2010, he was a partner at BTG Pactual, one of the largest independent investment banks in emerging markets. Prior to BTG Pactual, he was global head of emerging markets and a member of the Executive Committee of HSBC Global Asset Management. In this role, Deseglise helped HSBC become one of the world’s largest managers of emerging markets assets. He also designed and spearheaded the launch of a series of innovative products, notably the first BRIC fund and the New Frontiers fund.

Deseglise began his career in banking at Crédit Commercial de France (CCF), in Paris in 1990 within the Emerging Markets department. In 1998, he became responsible for the bank’s emerging markets activities and moved to the London office to set up a department dedicated to the origination, trading, sales, and research of emerging markets debt. During this time, CCF arranged the first ever securitization of Paris Club debt and managed various emerging markets sovereign issues. In 2000, with the acquisition of CCF by HSBC, Deseglise moved to New York to head the Emerging Markets department of HSBC Securities. Under his leadership, HSBC became one of the main dealers of Latin American debt.

Deseglise is also an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, teaching “Investing in Emerging Markets” and co-teaching a new course on the economies and financial sectors of the BRIC countries. (Brazil, Russia, India, China).

He is also the co-founder and director of Columbia University’s BRICLab, a center established to study the rise of Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Deseglise has taught at Sciences Po in Paris and at the Institute for High Studies for Development in Bogotá, Colombia.

Deseglise received a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs in New York. He is also a graduate of Sciences-Po in Paris and holds a master’s  degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies from La Sorbonne Nouvelle. He has written numerous articles on emerging markets.

In 2003, Deseglise established Foundation Caring for Colombia, a not-for-profit organization that provides assistance to the victims of violence in Colombia.

Timothy Frye
Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy; Director, The Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Timothy Frye is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy and the director of The Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Professor Frye received a BA in Russian language and literature from Middlebury College in 1986, an  MIA from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs in 1992, and a PhD from Columbia in 1997. His research and teaching interests are in comparative politics and political economy with a focus on the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. He is the author of Brokers and Bureaucrats: Building Markets in Russia, which won the 2001 Hewett Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and Building States and Markets after Communism: The Perils of Polarized Democracy. Among other projects, he is working on a book manuscript, Property Rights and Property Wrongs: Institutions and Economic Development in Russia. He has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the U.S. Agency for International Development. He is also director of the Center for the Study of Institutions and Development at State Research University-Higher Economics School, Moscow.

Mark A. Gyetvay
Chief Financial Officer, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, and a Member of the Board of Directors of OAO NOVATEK

Mark Gyetvay is the chief financial officer and deputy chairman of the Management Board as well as a member of the Board of Directors of OAO NOVATEK and chairman of the Board’s Strategy and Investments Committee. Gyetvay’s main areas of responsibility include external financial reporting and control, treasury, corporate finance, investor relations, and capital market activities, as well as corporate oversight of NOVATEK Overseas (Switzerland) and NOVATEK Representative Office (London).

Prior to joining NOVATEK in June 2003, Gyetvay was an audit partner in the Global Energy, Mining and Utilities practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers based in Moscow and responsible for providing overall project management, financial and operational expertise, and maintaining and supporting client service relationships, as well as serving as concurring partner on transaction services and consulting engagement partner to the petroleum sector.  He previously held various financial and economic positions at a number of independent oil and gas companies upon graduation from university in 1981 until joining the Strategic Energy Advisory Services practice of Coopers & Lybrand in 1994.  

Mr. Gyetvay is a Certified Public Accountant, a member of American Institute of CPA, an associate member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, and a former member of PwC’s Petroleum Thought Leadership Council. He is a recognized expert in the oil and gas industry, a frequent speaker at various industry and investor conferences, and has published numerous articles on various oil and gas industry topics.  He has been recognized by Investor Relations Magazine as one of the best CFO’s in Russia and the CIS, and more recently by Institutional Investor magazine as one of the Top Five CFO’s in Europe’s Oil and Gas sector.

 

Stephen King
Chief Economist, HSBC

Stephen King is HSBC’s group chief economist and the bank’s global head of economics and asset allocation research. He is directly responsible for HSBC’s global economic coverage and co-ordinates the research of HSBC economists all over the world.

King joined HSBC in 1988. From 1990 to 1993, he was responsible for HSBC’s views on the Japanese economy. From 1993 to 1998, he was responsible for the bank’s views on Europe. He became the bank’s chief economist in 1998. He has been consistently highly ranked in the various investor surveys.

King  has written on a wide variety of economic topics: recent examples include a report on China’s role in the world economy, an analysis of the U.S. economy and housing market, and a study of the growing influence of the emerging economies on the developed world.

Since 2001, King  has been writing a weekly column for The Independent, one of the UK’s leading newspapers. He appears regularly on both television and radio. He has given written and oral evidence on the economic effects of globalization to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee. He has also given oral evidence to the House of Lords Committee on UK monetary policy. Between 2007 - 2009, he was a member of the European Central Bank Shadow Council, and most recently a member of The Financial Times Economist’s Forum.

King’s career began at H.M.Treasury, where he was an economic adviser within the civil service.

His  first book, Losing Control, was published by Yale University Press on May 4, 2010. The book examines the impact of the emerging nations on western economic prosperity.

King studied economics and philosophy at Oxford.

 

Robert C. Lieberman
Interim Dean, School of International and Public Affairs; Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Robert C. Lieberman is one of the nation’s foremost experts on American political development, race and politics, and social welfare policy and the welfare state.

Lieberman has served as interim dean of SIPA since February 2012. He previously served as vice dean (2009-2010 and 2011-2012), and chairman of the Department of International and Public Affairs (2007-2012). Lieberman has taught at SIPA and in Columbia's Department of Political Science since 1994.

A focal point of Lieberman’s work at SIPA has been a reimagining of global public policy education – crafting a new category of intellectual endeavor and new styles of policy instruction for the 21st century. In 2011, Lieberman convened an international conference on the future of global public policy education to consider its core mission as a field, focusing on intellectual foundations, curriculum, and research.

Lieberman has been instrumental in the recruitment and appointment of internationally accomplished faculty to SIPA. They are the foremost scholars, researchers, and practitioners in their fields, coming from the highest levels of academic, government, nonprofit, nongovernment, and private-sector organizations. He also co-chaired the 2009 restructuring of SIPA’s curriculum, which added new public, nonprofit, and financial managerial courses.

Lieberman is the author of Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State (Harvard University Press, 1998) and Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective (Princeton University Press, 2005), and the co-editor of Democratization in America: A Comparative-Historical Analysis (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005). His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Studies in American Political Development, as well as numerous other journals and edited collections.

His many awards include the American Political Science Association’s Leonard D. White Award, the Social Science History Association’s President’s Book Award, Harvard University Press’s Thomas J. Wilson Prize, Columbia University’s Lionel Trilling Award.

Lieberman has served as a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the American Philosophical Society.

Lieberman earned his BA from Yale University and his MA and PhD from Harvard University.

 

Marcelo Lyra
Vice President, Braskem

Marcelo Lyra is vice president for institutional affairs and sustainable development of Braskem. Previously, he has worked as the director of TV Globo in São Paulo, being responsible for  relations with affiliated stations. Also, he worked as the business and sales director for the Bahia Network Communications. His educational background includes a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the Federal University of Bahia and postgraduate diplomas in General Management from Harvard Business School and Marketing from Unifacs, Bahia.

 

Marco Maia
Speaker, Brazilian House of Representatives

Current president of the Chamber of Deputies, Marco Aurélio Spall Maia was born in Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul (south of Brazil). He began his political career in the union movement. In 1984, he was elected leader of the Steelworkers  Union of Canoas. During the 15 years he served in unionism, Maia gained international experience by attending conferences and meetings in several countries, which discussed issues related to labor relations and other social issues.

In 2001, Maia was appointed head of Secretary of Administration and Human Resources of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. He extended his administrative experience in 2003, when he became the chairman of Trensurb - Company of Urban Trains of Porto Alegre.  During this period, his management has ensured over 95 percent approval for the quality of services offered to users.

Maia has been affiliated with the Workers' Party (PT) since 1985. He took his first term as deputy in 2005 and was reelected in 2006. In the 2010 elections, he won his third term, placing among the ten most voted congressmen from the state of Rio Grande do Sul.

In the Chamber of Deputies, Maia was vice-chairman of the Committee on Labor, Public Service, and Administration, member of the Committee of Roads and Transport, rapporteur of the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee of Air Traffic, deputy vice-leader of PT, coordinator of the Rio Grande do Sul bench in National Congress, and coordinator of External Committee of Drought in his estate. In 2009, he was elected first vice-president of the Chamber of Deputies, where he distinguished himself as a skilled political operator among the various parties.

He has been the president of the Chamber of Deputies since February 2011, leading debates and votes of national importance.

 

Arvind Panagariya
Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy, International and Public Affairs and Economics, Columbia University

Arvind Panagariya is the Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy in the Department of International and Public Affairs and of Economics. He was formerly a professor of economics and codirector of the Center for International and Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the chief economist of the Asian Development Bank. He has also advised the World Bank, IMF, WTO, and UNCTAD in various capacities. Panagariya has written or edited more than a half-dozen books, including The Economics of Preferential Trade Agreements with Jagdish Bhagwati (1996); The Global Trading System and Developing Asia with M.G. Quibria and N. Rao (1997); and Lectures on International Trade with J. Bhagwati and T.N. Srinivasan (1998). A collection of his essays on regionalism appeared under the title Regionalism in Trade Policy: Essays on Preferential Trading (1999). Panagariya is the founding editor of the Journal of Policy Reform, which he edited with Dani Rodrik (1996–2001). He is currently an associate editor of Economics and Politics. His technical papers have appeared in the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of International Economics, and International Economic Review, while his policy papers have appeared in the World Economy, Journal of International Affairs and Finance and Development.

Panagariya writes a monthly column in the Economic Times, India's top financial daily. He has also written guest columns in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, India Today, and Outlook. He has appeared on the Jim Lehrer Newshour (U.S.), CNN (Asia), CNBC (Asia), CNBC (India), Reuters TV (Asia), Bloomberg TV (Asia), NDTV (India), Aaj Tak (India), Door Darshan (National-India), Chicago Public Radio, Minnesota Public Radio, and BBC Radio.

Panagariya holds a BA from Rajasthan University (1971) and a PhD in Economics from Princeton University (1978).

 

Gregory Stoupnitzky
Principle, CIS Capital LLC

Gregory Stoupnitzky has more than 25 years of experience in various investment and merchant banking roles, with significant sector expertise in extractive industries, particularly oil and gas, and base metals. He is currently managing partner of CIS Capital, senior advisor to Renaissance Capital, and non-executive director of Rialto Energy Ltd.

Previously, Stoupnitzky had senior management positions with Renaissance Capital and Morgan Stanley, where he was a member of the Capital Commitment Committee and co-head of Global Emerging Capital Markets, variously posted in New York, London, and Moscow. He was a partner in Merchant Banking at Imag International and managing director at Bear Stearns.

Stoupnitzky has a Master of International Affairs from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs (1980), Certificate in Language Arts from Moscow State University (1978), and Bachelor of Arts from Columbia College (1978). He has been actively involved in multilateral global energy policy issues through the Center for Energy, Marine Transportation and Public Policy at Columbia University, and has been a member of its Advisory Council.

Jan Svejnar
James T. Shotwell Professor of Global Political Economy; Director, Center on Global Economic Governance, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs,

 Jan Svejnar focuses on the effects of government policies on firms, labor, and capital markets; corporate and national governance and performance; and entrepreneurship.

Professor Svejnar previously served as director of the International Policy Center at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He is also a founder and Chairman of CERGE-EI in Prague (an American-style PhD program in economics that educates economists for Central-East Europe and the Newly Independent States). He serves as the chairman of the Supervisory Board of CSOB Bank and co-editor of Economics of Transition. He is also a fellow of the European Economic Association and research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (London) and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn).

From 1996 to 2004, Professor Svejnar was the executive director of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. From 1992 to 1997 he served as the founding director of the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. He also served as co-director of the Transition Programme at the Center for Economic Policy Research in London, president of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, president of the International Association for the Economics of Labor-Management, associate editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, governing board member of the European Economic Association, and advisor to numerous policy makers, institutions, and firms.

He is the author and editor of a number of books and has published widely in academic, policy, and practitioner-oriented journals in advanced and emerging market economies, including the American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economica, Economics of Transition, European Business Forum, European Economic Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of the European Economic Association, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Labor Economics, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and Review of Economics and Statistics.

Professor Svejnar also taught at the University of Pittsburgh and at Cornell University. He received his BS from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and his MA and PhD in Economics from Princeton University.

 

Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira
Deputy Minister of Development, Industry, and Trade of Brazil

Alessandro Golombiewski Teixeira holds a PhD in Technological and Industrial Competitiveness from the University of Sussex (England), a master’s degree in Latin American Economics from the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and an undergraduate degree in Economics from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil).

He took part in the creation and later presided at the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development – ABDI – was coordinator of industrial, technological and foreign trade policy of the Brazilian Federal Government, and executive secretary of the Brazilian Council for Industrial Development – CNDI.

In 2007, Teixeira took office as president of the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency – Apex-Brasil. In 2010, the agency was considered the best agency in the world for foreign trade promotion by the International Trade Center – ITC-UNCTAD. In May 2009, it was appointed by the World Bank as one of the top agencies in investment attraction in the world and the best in terms of commercial promotion in the Americas.

Since 2008, he has held the presidency of the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies – WAIPA – an association of investment that has 249 members from 157 countries. From 2009 to 2011, Teixeira was the President of the Iberian-American Network of Commercial Promotion Organizations – REDIBERO – an association of commercial promotion agencies of Latin American and Caribbean countries (affiliated to the Inter-American Development Bank).

Teixeira has wide international experience, having been a consultant for the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), as well as for the National Health System (NHS) of the British Government, and an economic consultant for the Academy of Sciences, in Paris.

He has presented more than 1000 lectures on five continents — covering themes such as Brazilian, international, and industrial economies — in forums such as the World Economic Forum, The Economics Analysis, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Teixeira also worked as director of economic and market survey for Division Ltd. (an IT company in England) and an economic consultant for the Foundation for Economic Studies (FIPE), in Brazil. He started his professional career as a trainee for economic analysis in the Brazilian communication company Grupo RBS.

In the academic field, he worked as a professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, and as lecturer and researcher of International Marketing, E-Commerce and Industrial Economy at the University of Sussex, England.

In 1998, Teixeira was nominated for “Young Leader” by Sasakawa Foundation, from Japan. In April 2007, Teixeira was granted the Comenda da Ordem do Rio Branco, an award that the Brazilian government gives to those who made relevant contributions to the country.

In 2008, he was nominated for “Personality of the Year 2008 - Latin America” by the prestigious British newspaper The Financial Times.

In January 2011, Teixeira took office as Deputy Minister at the Ministry of Development, Industry, and Foreign Trade, in Brazil.

Currently, Teixeira is executive secretary of the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum, the UK-Brazil Forum, the India-Brazil Forum, and the Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO Brazil-UK), as well as a member of the World Economic Forum. He is also counselor of the Brazilian Bank for Economic and Social Development – BNDES, counselor of the Brazilian Service of Support for Micro and Small Enterprises – SEBRAE, and chairman of several Brazilian institutions, such as Apex-Brasil and Suframa (Superintendency of Manaus Free Trade Zone).

Teixeira is 40 years old and was born in Porto Alegre, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

 

Thomas J. Trebat
Director, Columbia Global Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Professor Trebat is the director of the new Global Center in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is also the former executive director of the Institute of Latin American Studies and of the Institute’s Center for Brazilian Studies. Trebat joined Columbia after a lengthy career on Wall Street dedicated to economic research on Latin America. Prior to joining ILAS in February 2005, he was managing director and head of the Latin America team in the Economic and Market Analysis department of Citigroup. He joined Citicorp Securities in 1996 as the head of Emerging Market Research. Previously, he worked at Bankers Trust, the Ford Foundation, and Chemical Bank. As a senior international economist at Bankers Trust, Trebat was involved in many aspects of country debt negotiations in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and elsewhere in Latin America during the 1980s. At the Ford Foundation, he served for four years as the regional director for Latin America and Caribbean Programs. At Chemical Bank, he organized and directed the emerging markets research group. Trebat has a PhD in economics from Vanderbilt University and remains active in teaching and publishing. He is also a member of the Council of Foreign Relations. His book, Brazil's State-owned Enterprises: A Case Study of the State as Entrepreneur, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1983.

Marcos Troyjo
Co-Director, BRICLab, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs ​

Marcos Troyjo is the co-director of the BRICLab at Columbia University, a SIPA special forum on Brazil, Russia, India, and China. He teaches The Rise of BRIC at SIPA.

Troyjo is the founder of the Center for Business Diplomacy, an independent think-tank on global entrepreneurship. He holds a PhD in the sociology of international relations from the University of São Paulo and pursued postdoctoral studies at Columbia University. An economist and political scientist, he is an alumnus of The Rio Branco Institute (Instituto Rio Branco), the graduate school of international relations and diplomatic academy of Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He undertook additional graduate studies at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Troyjo is a lecturer in the graduate programs at IBMEC University, a visiting professor at the Centre d`Études sur l`Actuel et le Quotidien, Université Paris Descartes (Sorbonne), and a member of the International Schumpeter Society. He worked as a career diplomat and was press secretary at the Brazilian Mission to the United Nations in New York and chief of staff of the Science and Technology Department of Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He is a regular op-ed contributor and commentator for print and electronic media outlets in Brazil and around the world. He serves on the Advisory Board of numerous for-profit as well as not-for-profit institutions. Troyjo has been chosen one of “The Outstanding Young Persons of the World – TOYP” by the Junior Chamber International in 2004. Troyjo was the winner of the “Latin America Fellowship-2005” awarded by the Rt. Hon Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand.

He is the author of such books as: Technology & Diplomacy, Brazil: Competitiveness in the Global Marketplace, Manifesto of Business Diplomacy, Trading Nation: Power & Prosperity in the 21st Century (chosen by Americas Quarterly as one of the best new books on policy, economics, and business in the hemisphere in 2007). He has lectured at Yale University, Harvard University, University of Washington, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), IE-Instituto de Empresa (Spain), IVA-The Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (Sweden), Tsinghua University (China), University of Auckland (New Zealand), and Canning House (UK).

Jonathan Wheatley
Deputy Emerging Markets Editor, The Financial Times

 Jonathan Wheatley has been the Financial Times’ deputy emerging markets editor since January 2011. He spends most of his time working on the beyondbrics emerging markets blog on FT.com, where he writes and commissions news and analysis of events across the emerging markets universe, with a particular interest in Latin America. He was the FT's Brazil bureau chief from 2005 to 2010, based in São Paulo, where he lived from 1992 until his return to London last year. Apart from the FT, he has written about Brazil and Latin America for Business Week, Latin Finance, the Economist Intelligence Unit and many others. He previously worked in television news and current affairs.

Mark Zeffiro
Chief Financial Officer, TriMas Corporation

Mark Zeffiro joined TriMas in June 2008 as chief financial officer and is responsible for the overall leadership within the financial function of TriMas, including financial planning, external reporting, business analysis, treasury, tax, and corporate capital. Zeffiro has more than 20 years of financial, operational, and business leadership experience with companies such as Black & Decker and General Electric. During his four-year tenure with Black and Decker, Zeffiro most recently served as vice president of finance for the Global Consumer Product Group, where he was responsible for financial and operational activities within the United States, Europe, Latin America, and China, including growth, profit improvement, and cost reduction initiatives. From 2003 to 2004, Zeffiro served as CFO of First Quality Enterprises, a producer of consumer products distributed through health care management and retail channels, both domestically and globally. During the previous 15 years, he held a series of operational and financial leadership positions of increasing responsibility at General Electric, concluding his service there as chief financial officer of its $3 billion medical imaging manufacturing division. Zeffiro also has leadership experience in mergers/acquisitions, business process improvement, audit, and financial planning and analysis.

Zeffiro holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Quantitative Analysis from Bentley College. He currently serves of the Board of Trustees of Walsh College.