Christopher R. King is a real estate broker based in Boston, M.A. who was the first Program Director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Moscow. Beginning in the late 1990s, he worked to successfully expand the presence of the chamber within the American business community in Moscow. He has also worked on commercial real estate ventures in Russia with...
James Franklin Collins served as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation from 1997 to 2001. His long career in the U.S. Foreign service included two prior posts in Moscow, from 1973-1975 and 1990-1993. His expertise in Russia predates his diplomatic career, having earned a master’s degree in history and Russian studies from Indiana University and with research and teaching experience...
Mark O. Henry is co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of Boston-based Bach Pharma. An accountant by training, he has worked as a CPA for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., a vice president at State Street Bank in Boston, and in numerous business ventures. Much of his career in the pharmaceutical industry has been aimed at establishing a market in the...
Robert E. Langer is an American attorney and partner at Becker, Glynn, Muffly, Chassin & Hosinski, LLP. His legal career has included advising on venture capital investments, technology start-ups, and international education. A fluent Russian speaker, he has advised clients in the former Soviet Union and Russia since the late 1980s and was one of the first lawyers to work...
Daniel M. Satinsky is an attorney, author, and international business consultant specializing in technology and entrepreneurship in countries of the former Soviet Union. His career has involved work in Russia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, and elsewhere, with particular expertise on Russian regional business and government. He holds a law degree from Northeastern University, a Master’s degree from the Fletcher School of Law...
Christopher G. Senie is an American attorney specializing in land use and land litigation. He has represented private, commercial, and residential clients on a broad range of planning, zoning, and other land use matters. Based in Brewster, MA, he is an alum of Hampshire College and the University of Bridgeport School of Law. In the early 1980s, he became active...
Michael Rex Waller is an American lawyer and specialist in energy policy and regulatory law, corporate law, and international law. He has held positions as Special Counsel at Hunton Andrews Kurth, LLP and as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary of Delhaize America. His extensive philanthropy has included past support for the Strauss Center. In the mid-1990s, he relocated...
Tito Pontecorvo is internationally renowned for his more than thirty-year career breeding Akhal-Teke horses in Russia and the United States. Having bred approximately nine hundred pureblood Akhal-Tekes in total, he is chiefly responsible for the development of the population of these horses that live in the United States today. In 1997, facing growing threats to his family’s safety, he fled...