THE AISUSA FOUNDATION DIRECTORS

Ian F. Thomas

Founded in 1979, Ian Thomas is Chairman of Thomas Consultants Inc. in Vancouver, Canada; Brisbane, Australia; and Seoul, Korea, a firm that specializes in the planning and development of large‐scale retail projects around the world. They have undertaken projects in over 60 countries.

Ian Thomas is sought around the world for speaking engagements on retail/shopping center issues. Ian Thomas sits on the Board of Trustees of the International Council of Shopping Centers in New York. This comprises the chief executives of the world’s largest shopping center and retail organizations in the world. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the ICSC Foundation and also chairs ICSC’s important “Global Design and Development Awards” program. In terms of other board positions, Ian Thomas has served as Director of Coast Appliance Ltd., Downtown Parking Corporation, CityXpress.com, Urban Development Institute, Vancouver Opera and Future Shop. He also is the chairman of the Australian Independent Schools USA Foundation.

Ian Thomas attended Newington College from 1958‐1963. In 1971 he was transferred to Toronto, Canada with an international consulting engineering firm. He is a graduate of York University and CPA.

Marisue Taube

Marisue Taube is a graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she enjoyed a varied and successful career until her retirement in 2009. During her 26 year career she served as an administrator, alumni affairs officer, and development director.

She has chaired and managed campaigns for non-profit organizations and served on the boards of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Tompkins County, NY, and The History Center of Tompkins County, as well as participated as a volunteer in other community organizations.

Currently, Marisue serves as a consultant to not-for-profit organizations and is the Secretary/Treasurer of the Australian Independent Schools USA Foundation.

Marisue and her husband, David, reside in Ithaca, New York.

Ian W. Diery

Ian W. Diery became President and Chief Executive Officer of Electronic Scrip, Inc. in 1997. Electronic Scrip Incorporated (ESI) is a California-based corporation dedicated to establishing relationships between commerce and community – to provide resources to organizations and projects that support children. ESI introduced the eScrip program in 1999 and has distributed over $250 million to schools and youth organizations across the United States.

Prior to joining ESI, Mr. Diery was an Executive Vice President at Apple Computer, Inc, and then a self-employed consultant.

Mr. Diery is a graduate of Newington College.

He serves as a director of The Timberland Company and the Australian Independent Schools USA Foundation.

Michael Edye MD, FRCS, FACS

Michael was born in Muswellbrook, the youngest son of Eila and John Edye, in 1953. He was educated at Shore, graduated in Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1977 and trained in surgery at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney and the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital, obtaining his Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in General Surgery in 1985.

After practicing in Manly and the North Shore he undertook fellowship training in Laparoscopic (Minimally Invasive Abdominal) Surgery in Bordeaux, France in 1991, from where he was recruited in 1993 to The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

Apart from his professional activities, Michael refereed rugby union at all levels for 35 years, starting in his teens at Shore controlling schoolboy games and eventually rising to 1st grade level. He finished his career in Australia in 1991 having reached the Australian International Rugby Referees Panel.

He practices surgery in New York where he lives with his wife Isabelle their two children, Alexander, 14, and Marion, 13.

Douglas T. Elix, AO

Doug Elix retired from IBM in July 2008. He was senior vice president and group executive for IBM’s worldwide sales and distribution operations, covering 170 countries and $95 billion of products and services. Prior to that he served as senior vice president and group executive for IBM Global Services where he was responsible for the worldwide operation of IBM’s Services business and its 170,000 professionals.

Doug is an Australian, and from 1969 to 2000 held a number of positions with IBM in Australia and overseas.

He has served on the boards of the Australian Information Industries Association and the Australian Institute of Management, was a member of the Business Council of Australia, and a member of the Prime Minister's National Information Services Council (NISC).

He is a member of the board of directors of the Royal Bank of Canada. In June 2006, Mr. Elix was awarded the rank of Officer of the Order of Australia (AO).

Mr Elix and his wife Robin live in Sydney and have four children also living in Australia.

Charles R. Grant

Charlie grew up in Sydney, Australia and attended both St. Aloysius College and St. Ignatius College.

He graduated from University of New South Wales with a BComm (Accounting and Finance) in 1980. He joined KPMG and qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1983. Later that year, he moved to London and joined the First National Bank of Boston. In 1987, he was transferred to Boston and began a career in private equity, initially in the bank’s LBO lending group and, shortly thereafter, at BancBoston Capital, the bank’s private equity group.

In the early 1990’s, he began focusing on the developing secondary market for private equity fund interests. He continued this investment strategy with BancBoston Capital until the end of 2002 when he joined Lexington Partners, one of the largest managers of secondary private equity funds.

He is a partner in the Boston office of Lexington Partners and is primarily engaged in the origination and evaluation of secondary purchases of buyout, mezzanine, and venture capital fund interests.

He is a fellow of the Financial Securities Institute of Australia and is on the board of the American Australian Association.

He lives in Boston with his wife and three children.

Peter H. R. Green, M.D.

Peter H. R. Green, M.D. is Professor of Clinical Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University and Director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University, New York, New York.

Dr. Green was born in Sydney and attended Newington College. He received his medical degrees, MB BS (Hons), MD from the University of Sydney. After internship, residency and training in gastroenterology at the Royal North Shore in Sydney he went to Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts for a research fellowship in gastroenterology, followed by a visiting fellowship in medicine at Presbyterian Hospital in New York, and a position on faculty of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has remained and prospered professionally on the Columbia faculty ever since.

Dr. Green has been involved in basic science and clinical research his entire career. Beginning with the study of intestinal lipoproteins, he branched out to early gastric cancer, peptic disease, gastrointestinal infections, and Barrett’s esophagus. About a decade ago he began investigating celiac disease and has become one of the world’s authorities on this ubiquitous condition, authoring numerous papers on clinical, endoscopic, genetic, epidemiologic, and immunologic aspects. He has been invited to present his findings at many institutions and national and international meetings, including the NIH Consensus Development Conference on Celiac Disease in 2004.

Dr. Green has been honored for his teaching of medical students, residents, and fellows. The American Gastroenterological Association Foundation honored him with a Mentors Research Scholar Award, and the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy presented him with its Master Endoscopist Award.

Richard Southby

Dean Richard Southby joined The George Washington University faculty in 1979. He had previously been a faculty member at Monash University and The University of Sydney, Australia. In 1975 he was a Full-Time Commissioner on the Australian Hospitals and Health Services Commission.

At The George Washington University he has served as the Gordon A. Friesen Professor of International Health and Department Chair; Associate Dean for Health Services; Ross Professor of Global Health and Dean of the School of Public Health and Health Services; and Executive Dean and Distinguished Professor of Global Health in the Medical Center. As Chairman of the Department of Health Services Management and Policy he was instrumental in establishing the Center for Health Policy Research and as Dean he implemented the recommendation of the faculty to create the Department of Health Policy.

Dean Southby is Director of the Interagency Institute for Federal Health Care Executives, a continuing education program for senior health care executives from the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, Department of Veterans Affairs and the US Public Health Service; President of the Royal Society of Medicine Foundation and Immediate Past President of the Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health. He is also a Board Member and Senior Fellow in the Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Dean Southby attended Geelong Grammar School from 1948 to 1956. In 2005 he and his wife, Dr. Janet Southby, established ‘The Richard and Janet Southby Visiting Fellows Programme’ at the school.

Robert C. Young

Mr. Young is Director of Technical Operations for JiffyCrisp, a patented microwave technology for food preparation. He also serves as a director for Hydrive Engineering, Adelaide, and for Coursemaster Hydrive USA, New York.

Mr. Young was born and educated in NSW Australia. He attended Newington College, Sydney and was a member of their teaching staff in the early 1960’s. Mr. Young lived and worked in Switzerland before an appointment as the New Zealand Consulate General in New York and then served on the New Zealand Mission to the United Nations.

He resides in Greenpoint, N.Y. with his wife Loraine Lai-Young and son Thomas Chan Young. For recreation, Mr. Young enjoys sailing, skiing, shooting, and travel.