SEED Board of Directors, Management Team, Special Advisors

Daniel Bloomfield, daniel_bloomfield@merck.com

Dan is currently Senior Director, Cardiovascular Clinical Research at Merck Research Laboratories, in charge of the clinical development programs for compounds being developed to treat high blood pressure and heart failure. After finishing a BA in Chemistry at Haverford College, he studied Social Anthropology at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. Upon return to the US, he attended Harvard Medical School and then did his Internal Medicine and Cardiology training at Columbia before joining the faculty. As an Associate Professor of Medicine, Dr. Bloomfield's academic research career was supported by a number of grants from the NIH and from foundations and he was recognized internationally as an expert in syncope (fainting spells) and in identifying patients at risk for sudden cardiac death. After returning from Oxford, Dr. Bloomfield founded the American-South African Scholarship Association which raises funds in the US to provide university scholarships for under-privileged South African students. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Bloomfield visited South Africa frequently and remains the President of ASASA, which has raised nearly 1 million dollars and has supported ~30 students through their university education. Dr. Bloomfield was recently appointed President of the Friends of Mandela-Rhodes Foundation (USA), he served on the Board of Advisors to the Zimbabwean Democracy Trust (an organization dedicated to bringing democracy back to Zimbabwe), and on the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee in the State of New York. He lives in Westfield, New Jersey with his wife, Elizabeth Jane True, and two daughters.

Ruma Bose,ruma_bose@yahoo.com

Ruma Bose has focused her professional efforts on developing strategies to drive long-term value, working with the boards and senior management of emerging consumer brand/specialty retail businesses as Managing Director of Zuci Capital, Managing Director of Sage Beauty Group and Senior Director at Roseworth Capital. She was also founder and Vice President Business Development at Finish Line Floors, a company providing a high tech alternative to traditional floor treatments. She is a former member of the Young President's Organization, sits on the advisory board of Renaissance 2.0, The Aquaya Institute and Music National Service Initiative. Ruma received her MBA in International Business at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada.

Christopher A. Duda, Christopher.Duda@gs.com

Christopher is a Vice President with Goldman, Sachs & Co., working in the Private Wealth Management Group.  Christopher received his MBA from the Yale School of Management in 2001.  Prior to graduate school, he was employed with ICG Communications as Vice President of Political Affairs.  Previously, Christopher served as Finance Director of the New York State Democratic Committee and as a regional Finance Director for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic National Committee, and the Clinton/Gore 1996 Presidential Campaign.  Christopher also worked in the White House Office of Health Care Reform Policy. Christopher graduated from the University of Maryland where he received both a B.A. in English Literature and a B.A. in Government & Politics in 1994.  Additionally, Christopher serves as a National judge for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Program, and is involved with several non-profits including MicroVest and SEED.  Christopher lives in Greenwich Village in New York City.

Hubie Jones,hjones@cityyear.org

During his fifty years in the Boston area, Hubie has worked to create, nurture, and assist leadership in at least thirty community organizations across Boston. He is well-recognized for his appearances on local television, particularly as a panelist on WCVB’s public affairs discussion show, “Five on Five.” Most recently, in his retirement Hubie founded the Boston Children’s Chorus, which is already performing to great acclaim internationally, with a mission to bridge racial divides. Hubie was a Kellogg National Leadership Program Advisor.

Barry Kibel,kibel@seed-ny.org (SEED DIRECTOR of INNOVATION and CLIENT SERVICES)

Before joining the SEED staff in November 2006, Barry was a Senior Program Officer at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), having joined the institute in 1991 and having created and been director of PIRE'S Results Mapping Laboratory since 1997. Barry brings to SEED his expertise in strategic planning, product design, and program assessment and has been a lead partner in product design and testing at SEED. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in city and regional planning. His earlier academic training was in applied mathematics and operations research. Barry's work at PIRE, which he continues at SEED, focused on the effective use of Internet-based frameworks for self-reflective practice and program tracking and monitoring. He co-creates and supports Internet-based evaluation applications for a wide range of human service organizations and funding sources. His approach has been and is currently being applied to such diverse program areas as community development, youth-focused prevention and health promotion, training and technical assistance, youth and adult fitness and whole-person health, hospital community outreach, parish nursing, adolescent substance abuse treatment, medical resident preparation, and leadership and professional development. Much of this work is done using the unique www.outcome-engineering.com platform that he and his team created. Barry is author of Success Stories as Hard Data and numerous professional publications. His innovative work in evaluation is frequently referenced or featured at national and international conferences. Barry lives in Tucson Arizona.

Melinda Lackey,mklackey@seed-ny.org (SEED EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Melinda has 17 years experience in non-profit start-ups. After leaving professional ballet at age 28 to attend college, during the course of her undergraduate and graduate studies, Melinda co-founded two successful non-profits. Iris House is a Harlem-based, multi-service support center created by and for women affected by HIV/AIDS. Welfare Rights Initiative is a grassroots leadership training and student advocacy organization. Melinda helped to expand a group of six women living with HIV to a network of 600 women doctors, lawyers, service providers, students and caregivers and cultivated the fertile ground for collaboration that created Iris House, Inc: the first multi-service support center in the country designed by and for women affected by HIV/AIDS, located in Harlem, New York. She assisted this group, early in the epidemic, to lobby the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and they succeeded to change the CDC definition of AIDS to include the symptoms of women. More recently she helped establish the Hunter College Welfare Rights Initiative and developed a Community Leadership program at its core that provides college credit for low income students to become effective agents of empowerment and systemic change. WRI is now staffed and driven by women who perceive and utilize their experiences of poverty as an asset rather than a deficit. The women of WRI have spearheaded campaigns and passed important legislation in the City and State of New York. Like SEED, these organizations embody Melinda's belief in the creative powers of all people, her passion for "moving as one" to realize shared visions, and her deep commitment to widespread social and economic well-being.

Carlos Monteagudo,cmonteagudo@seed-ny.org (SEED TECHNICAL DIRECTOR)

Carlos Monteagudo has 19 years of clinical experience in medicine, psychiatry, and public health. He has dedicated his life toward the preferential service to the poor, and has a lifelong commitment to discovering ways the public sector can be better served. As a Cuban refugee, Carlos grew up in poverty. He has intentionally worked in public institutions; County Cook Hospital in Chicago, Boston City Hospital and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center in Boston. For 10 years prior to co-founding SEED, Carlos was an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry for Dartmouth Medical School, working at New Hampshire Hospital. There he developed and chaired the hospital Ethics Committee to promote care that values the inherent dignity of all patients. He also taught medical students and trained teams committed to the most vulnerable patients in our society. Prior to SEED, As Kellogg National Leadership Program fellows, Carlos and Melinda co-founded the Cross Fellowship Gatherings, a groundbreaking, collaborative program co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Fetzer Institute to encourage integral leadership among fellows and alumni of national leadership programs. Carlos currently supplements his living as a psychiatric attending at the North Central Bronx Hospital.

Jim Stuart,JStuart902@mac.com

Jim is Co-founder of Noble Purpose Partners, which offers workshop and coaching programs for individuals who want to connect deeply with their personal and noble purpose. The work is based on the book by Jim’s partner, Dr. Barry Heermann: Noble Purpose: Igniting Extraordinary Passion for Life and Work. Jim has a wealth of firsthand experience in executive leadership—having served as Executive Director to create the Tampa Bay Florida Aquarium, President and Chief Executive Officer of Val-Pak, President and Chief Executive Officer of Needlecraft Corporation, and Vice President, Sales and Marketing, the Quaker Oats Company of Canada. Jim holds a BA, from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard University. He served as an officer in the US Naval Reserve during the Vietnam War.

Susan Nichols Wagner (Sukey),sukeyrod@gmail.com

Sukey is SEED’s board chair. First supporting SEED as a major donor, she now leads the effort to build this Phase II, Growth Board focused heavily on business and fund development to insure SEED’s financial stability over the coming years. Sukey is the widow of Rodney Wagner, former international financier and Vice Chairman of the Board of JP Morgan. She and her husband supported numerous causes related to education and poverty throughout the world. She currently serves on the board of a school in South Africa, Wheaton College in Massachusetts, Robert College in Istanbul, and the Colebrook, Ct. Land Conservancy. She was the founding president of Iris House, and recently stepped down from that board after nearly 20 years of service. Sukey received an MA at American University of Beirut. One of her proudest volunteer achievements was setting up a learning center/library in the Brooklyn House of Detention in the early 70's. She has taught and tutored disadvantaged kids in many extra-school venues, including a settlement house in Brooklyn and extra-public school settings in NYC.