Leaders & Board

Bob Woodruff

Lee Woodruff

Our Board of Directors

• Colin Heffron

  

  President, GFI Group Inc.

  Colin Heffron, President and Director, GFI Group Inc. has been GFI's President since February 2004. Mr. Heffron is responsible for all brokerage, data and analytics businesses. He joined GFI in 1988 as a broker of foreign currency options in New York, before moving to London to assist in the establishment of the GFI London office. From 1991 until 1994, Mr. Heffron headed the currency options business. From 1994 until 1997, Mr. Heffron ran the day-to-day operations of all of our European businesses. From 1998 until February 2004, Mr. Heffron was head of all operations in Europe and joint-head of Asian operations. Mr. Heffron has been a director since November 2001. Mr. Heffron graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1985 with a BA inGovernment.

• Martha Raddatz

  

  Chief White House Correspondent, ABC News

  Martha Raddatz was named ABC News Chief White House Correspondent in November 2005. As White House Correspondent, she reports on all aspects of the Bush administration for "World News with charles Gibson," "Nightline," and other ABC News broadcasts. She has also traveled to Iraq nearly twenty times since 2003, spending weeks embedded with US Forces.

  Raddatz joined ABC News in January, 1999 as the network's State Department correspondent. There she covered the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, as well as traveled to Africa, Pakistan, and India with the U.S. Secretary of State. Her coverage at the State Department after the attacks of September 11th was recognized, along with other ABC News recipients, with a Peabody Award as well as an Emmy Award.

  In May of 2004, Raddatz was named senior national security correspondent. During her time at the Pentagon, Ms. Raddatz reported exclusively on a number of stories, including the near capture of al-Zarqawi in April 2005, plus the discovery of his laptop computer. She also broke the story that the attack on a U.S. military dining hall in Mosul, Iraq in December 2004 was the work of a suicide bomber.

  In the early hours of June 8, 2006, Ms. Raddatz was the first correspondent to report that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq, had been killed in a US air strike north of Baghdad. Al-Zarqawi's death is considered a major development in the fight against the insurgency, and Ms. Raddatz broke the story more than thirty minutes ahead of any other network.

  Raddatz has also been awarded two Emmys for coverage of kosovo and the Elian Gonzales case in the news program "Weekend World News." In addition to her work for ABc News, Raddatz is a frequent guest on PBS's "Washington Week" and "charlie Rose." From 1993-1998, she was the Pentagon correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR), where she reported on foreign policy, defense, and intelligence issues. During her tenure at NPR, she made numerous trips to Eastern Europe to cover the war in Bosnia.

  Prior to joining NPR in 1993, Raddatz was the chief correspondent at the ABCNews Boston affiliate WCVB-TV. In addition to covering several presidential campaigns, she reported from the former Soviet Union, Africa, the Middle East, the Philippines and Europe. Raddatz has been honored for her journalistic contributions many times, including a 1996 Overseas Press Club award for her live coverage of theassassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Her reporting was also recognized with the National Headliner Award for team coverage of the 1988 presidential campaign, and two Radio and Television News Director Association first-place awards.

  Raddatz is also the author of "The Long Road Home-a Story of War and Family." The highly acclaimed book was released in March of 2007 making both the New York Times and Washington Post bestseller lists. The Washington Post described the book as "a masterpiece of literary non-fiction that rivals any war -related classic that has preceded it."

• Edward Toptani, Esq.

  

  Toptani Law Offices

  Edward Toptani has operated a boutique law firm in New York city for the past eighteen years. His practice focuses primarily on transactional matters pertaining to complex securities and derivatives, hedge funds, private finance and start-up ventures. In addition, Mr. Toptani also litigates federal securities civil actions and frequently serves as an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. He also advises various not-for-profit organizations, including the kilimanjaro Education Fund and the NYPD Gaelic Football Club.

  From 1987-1992, Mr. Toptani was associated with the international law firm of Shearman & Sterling, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions, structured work-outs and highly leveraged transactions. Mr. Toptani received his undergraduate degree (Magna cum Laude) and law degree (Honors) from the University of Michigan.

• Dave Woodruff

  

  Group Advertising Director, Hearst Integrated Media

  Dave Woodruff is chairman of the Board of the Bob Woodruff Foundation. In January of 2006 Woodruff's brother, ABC News Anchor Bob Woodruff, suffered a severe traumatic brain injury while covering the war in Iraq. A year after his brother's injury and as his recovery continued, Woodruff and his family established the Foundation in thanks for the remarkable care Bob received from the military and civilian caregivers he encountered through his injury and recovery. Woodruff is committed to growing the Bob Woodruff Foundation into a nationally recognized leading military charity.

  Woodruff is also Group Advertising Director for the Hearst Integrated Media and Hearst Digital Media divisions of Hearst Magazines overseeing all corporate accounts in the Detroit territory. Woodruff has been very active in the Detroit advertising community and has been a member of the Adcraft club of Detroit since 1984 and a member of its Board of Directors since 2002. He just completed his term as the organization's 101st President in 2007.

  He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Detroit Magazine Representatives Association from 1998-2001, serving two consecutive terms as the organization's chairman in 2000 and 2001. He is also a member of the Detroit Advertising Association.

  In addition, Woodruff founded the children's Hospital of Michigan Jeep claybird classic charity sporting clays tournament which ran for over 10 years and raised nearly $1,000,000, establishing an endowed chair in Pediatric Rehabilitation at Wayne State University and children's Hospital.

  Woodruff lives in Birmingham, Michigan with his wife Lee Ann and children kyle and Ellie. He is an avid outdoorsman and golfer and serves as an Episcopal Eucharistic Minister at Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

• Lee Woodruff

  

  Freelance Writer and Public Relations Executive

  As co-author of the best-selling book, In An Instant, Lee Woodruff garnered critical acclaim for the compelling and humorous chronicle of her family's journey to recovery following her husband Bob's roadside bomb injury in Iraq. Her second book, Perfectly Imperfect: A Life in Progress was published in April 2009.

  As a freelance writer, Woodruff has penned numerous personal articles about her family and parenting that have run in such high-profile magazines as Health, Redbook and country Living. She also works as a contributing editor and spokesperson of Family Fun.

  Woodruff is currently a contributor for ABC's Good Morning America, reporting on a variety of home and family related topics.

• Anthony Viceroy

  

  Global President and CFO, Porter Novelli

  Anthony Viceroy is global president and CFO of Porter Novelli. He is a partner and a member of the executive committee, where he helps drive strategic development and ensure delivery of the agency's value proposition for new and existing clients. He heads Porter Novelli's financial and operational groups to support the global focus of driving profitable growth and developing talent.

  Before joining Porter Novelli, Anthony served as senior vice president of financial management and client partnership for Omnicom's Diversified Agency Services (DAS) group. In this role, he engaged with Fortune 500 clients on integration, growth opportunities and fee negotiation. Prior to joining DAS in 2002, Anthony served as the North American finance director and treasurer of the Danish biopharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk A.S. Earlier in his career, he held various financial and consulting positions within the Big 4 public accounting firms, where he worked on mergers and acquisitions and business development.

  Anthony is a certified public accountant who holds an MBA from Fordham University with specialization in global business management and corporate finance. He earned his undergraduate degree in accounting from Iona College.

  Anthony sits on the board of directors for ReMind.org/The Bob Woodruff Foundation, which provides resources and support to service members, veterans and their families so they can successfully reintegrate into their communities and thrive physically, psychologically, socially and economically. Anthony is also a board member of The Torch Program, which works to transform the lives of underserved New York City public high school students by providing intensive exposure to career training and opportunities in communications and the arts, all while facilitating a meaningful way of increasing the diversity of the workforce in those industries.

• Eileen Lynch

  

  Global Head of Brand Strategy, Advertising, and Marketing, Thomson Reuters

  Eileen Lynch is Senior Vice President and head of Global Brand Strategy, Advertising and Marketing at Thomson Reuters. In this role, she oversees brand strategy and marketing for this leading provider of Intelligent Information to the professional marketplace. Thomson Reuters was recently recognized by Interbrand as the 40th Best Global Brand.

  Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Eileen was Managing Director, Corporate Marketing at Merrill Lynch responsible for brand strategy, advertising, global sponsorships and online marketing. While at Merrill Lynch, she was selected as one of the first group of high potential women leaders in the firm. Eileen started her career in advertising, having worked at several leading agencies including Foote, Cone and Belding, Scali McCabe Sloves, and Bozell Worldwide.

  Eileen is on the Board of Directors of The Bob Woodruff Foundation, the national nonprofit that helps ensure our nation's injured service members, veterans and their families return to a home front ready to support them. She has also served on the Board of Trustees of the King Low Heywood Thomas School, The Ad Council and was a Police Commissioner in Stamford, CT.

  Eileen graduated from St Michael's College.

• Cynthia M. Blumenthal

  

  A Connecticut native, Cynthia M. Blumenthal attended local schools. She received her B.A. from Harvard College in 1982, and subsequently studied photography at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan. She worked during the next four years both as a free-lance photographer, and at "Jobs for Connecticut's Future" - a foundation funded project that focused on advancing a model of public-private partnership to support economic growth in the state.

  In addition to her active involvement in her husband's eleven successful campaigns for elected office, she has served on various community Boards including: Meals on Wheels of Stamford, the YWCA of Greenwich Advisory Board, the Research and Grants Committee of the Fund for Women and Girls, as well as working on specific events to benefit the Breast Cancer Alliance, and Planned Parenthood of Connecticut. She currently serves on the Board of the Bob Woodruff Foundation. She and her husband, Richard, have four children at whose schools she has also been an active volunteer. Their eldest son, 2nd Lieutenant Matthew S. Blumenthal, is currently deployed with the 1/25th Marines in Afghanistan.

• Marian Salszman

  

  Named one of the world's top five trendspotters, Marian Salzman—CEO of Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, North America, an entrepreneurial agency network now ranked ninth in the world—is currently PRWeek's PR Professional of the Year, among other top honors. Before heading ERWW PR, she was CMO at Porter Novelli, CMO at JWT Worldwide and CSO at Euro RSCG Worldwide. Among her most famous consumer campaigns are the launch of the metrosexual to create a marketplace for SAB Miller's Peroni, Pepsi's "It's Like This," and "It's America Online." She co-founded Cyberdialogue—the world's first online market research company—in 1992. (Marian was named to New York magazine's first "Cyber 60" list, in 1995, the same year she was honored by Crain's New York Business as a "40 Under 40"; the following year, Fast Company said she was keeper of one of the best job titles on the planet: Director, Department of the Future.) Marian has executed thought leadership, reputation management and social media programs, including heading up the creation of Porter's pop-up agency Jack + Bill, which in one year won the top awards from PRWeek, SABRE and Bulldog Reporter. Her most notable campaign in the past two years was Wyclef Jean's short-lived run for president of his ravaged homeland; despite 70 percent approval ratings and more than 10 billion media impressions, the musician-turned-philanthropist was disqualified by Haiti's ruling cast of characters.

Our Honorary Board Members

Our Military Leadership Council and Advisory Board

• Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.

  United States Navy, Retired Seventh
  Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff

• Dr. William Winkenwerder, Jr.

  Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Department of Defense
  Chairman, The Winkenwerder Company LLC

• Shelia Casey

  United States Army, Spouse of the Chief of Staff of the Army

• Vice Admiral Donald C. Arthur

  United States Navy, Retired
  Former Medical Corps
  United States Navy Surgeon General
  Chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

• Rocco Armonda, MD

  Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army
  Director of Cerebrovascular Surgery, Interventional Neuroradiology and Neurocritical Care
  National Naval Medical Center

• Elizabeth Chiarelli

  United States Army
  Spouse of the Vice Chief of Staff of the Army

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