Leaders & Board

Bob Woodruff

Lee Woodruff

Our Board of Directors

• 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.

• Gerry Byrne

  

  Vice Chairman, PMC (Penske Media Corporation)

  Penske Media owns leading digital media brands that include Deadline Hollywood, Hollywood Life, MovieLine, TVLine and India.com (partnered with Zee TV). Additionally, Byrne’s media and entertainment consultancy, Fidelis Global, launched in January, 2010, has partnerships, clients and board seats that include: Black Ocean Investments, a privately held media and technology company that invests in, incubates and operates next generation digital platforms; film financing newco Magic Storm Entertainment (with China based Ricco Capital and Stan Lee’s POW! Entertainment); 212 Media; David Clark Cause; Recognition Media (parent of the Webby Awards); and, Washington Life Magazine where he serves as Executive Chairman. Byrne’s decades of accomplishments as a media executive, entrepreneur and community leader are highlighted by a long time run as publisher of Variety where he dramatically transformed that business into a powerful, diversified, global media brand. The start-up publisher of both Electronic Media and Crain’s New York Business, Byrne also successfully created The Quill Awards for NBC before he led a division of Nielsen that included The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard.

  A staunch believer in “participation”, Mr. Byrne is on the boards of numerous not-for-profits including The Fisher House Foundation, The Intrepid Museum Foundation, VeteransAdvantage, The Veteran’s Healing Initiative, RE-Mind (The Bob Woodruff Foundation), The Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation, The Creative Coalition, The Hamptons International Film Festival, The Reisenbach Foundation (Chairman), The Armory Foundation and The New York City Police Museum. Mr. Byrne was awarded the “Salah M. Hassanein Humanitarian Award” at ShowEast ’96, New York’s Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center’s 2002 Distinguished Service Award and the NYPD Marine Corps Association 2002 “Semper Fi” Award for his work in the community. And in June 2009, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg presented Mr. Byrne the “Made in New York” Award for his support of the Gotham’s entertainment and media industries. Mr. Byrne is a member of The British Academy of Film & Television Arts, The New York Athletic Club, and The Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick.

  A 1966 graduate of Fordham College, Mr. Byrne served as a Marine Officer in Vietnam in 1968/69 and was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal with Combat V.

• 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 in Government.

• Bob Jeffrey

  

  Chairman and CEO, JWT Worldwide

  Bob Jeffrey is the Chairman and CEO of JWT Worldwide, the world’s best-known marketing communications brand for close to 150 years. As JWT’s CEO, Jeffrey is responsible for 200 offices and nearly 10,000 employees in more than 90 countries.

  Jeffrey closely oversees relationships with blue-chip global clients including HSBC, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberly-Clark, Kraft, Nestlé, Nokia, Royal Caribbean, Schick, Shell and Unilever.

  Jeffrey’s mission is to lead JWT into the future by making things inspired by the world. This blending of international imagination and technological innovation is a process he calls worldmade. It is through this process that Jeffrey has delivered a freshly reinvigorated network prepared to guide and build some of the world’s most powerful brands.

  The agency’s growth is well reported under Jeffrey, including undoubted new business success, with two notable recent wins: A global assignment from J&J for its 2014 FIFA World Cup sponsorship and being appointed as the Agency of Record for the Corporation for Travel Promotion (CTP) aka “Brand USA.”

  Top priority for Jeffrey is the ongoing search for the very best talent and, naturally, an absolute focus on creativity. JWT continues to excel at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, picking up a total of 49 Lions in 2011, topping the previous high mark of 42 Lions awarded in 2010. JWT once again made history at this year’s festival by winning the first ever Grand Prix Lion awarded to mainland China.

  Jeffrey is regarded as an ambassador of advertising and is widely respected for his views and achievements. His knowledge and experience of the industry led him to become a regular contributor to Fox Business Network, CNBC and CNN, as well as a frequent source of quotes for leading trade and business publications. He also hosts a new Web series called “Worldmakers," interviewing influencers from the tech, media and brand space. The show airs on JWT's YouTube channel and has been featured on The Huffington Post, Marketing UK, HollywoodLife.com and more.

  Jeffrey sits on the boards of the CDC Foundation, the International Center of Photography and the Atlantic Council.

  Raised in Rhode Island, Jeffrey is the oldest of seven children. His 15 nieces and nephews help keep him on the cutting edge of pop culture and emerging media.

• 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.

• Martha Raddatz

  

  Senior Foreign Affairs 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."

• Marian Salzman

  

  CEO, Havas PR North America

  Named one of the world’s top five trendspotters, Marian was PRWeek’s 2011 PR Professional of the Year. Before heading Havas PR, she was CMO at Porter Novelli, CMO at JWT Worldwide and CSO at Euro RSCG Worldwide. Since she took over at Havas PR (at that time known as Euro RSCG Worldwide PR) in late 2009, the agency has become one of the most awarded of its size. Among Marian’s many personal awards, she won a 2011 Bronze SABRE for Speech or Bylined Article for the series on the brain that she wrote for the Huffington Post, plus other blogging awards. In 2012, she was a PR juror for the CLIO Awards and the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

• 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.

• Anthony Viceroy

  

  Chief Financial Officer at WESTMED Practice Partners

  As CFO, Mr. Viceroy is responsible for WPP’s business functions including Finance, Revenue Cycle Management, Human Resources, Contact Center, Centralized Services and Marketing.

  Previously, Mr. Viceroy spent 10 years at Omnicom Group, Inc., a Fortune 200 holding company in advertising and marketing communications. Within Omnicom Group, Viceroy was first senior vice president of financial management and client partnership in its largest unit, Diversified Agency Services (DAS). He then went on to become global president and CFO of Porter Novelli, a public relations firm within the DAS unit.

  Prior to joining Omnicom Group, Mr. Viceroy served as the North American treasurer of the Danish biopharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk. Earlier in his career, he held various financial and consulting positions within the Big 4 public accounting firms.

  Mr. Viceroy is a certified public accountant who received his MBA in global management and corporate finance from Fordham University and his BBA in public accounting from Iona College.

• Richard Wilde

  

  Development and Partnerships executive, ABC

  Richard Wilde is a Development and Partnerships executive at ABC News in New York. Previously, Wilde managed editorial policy and news practices for "ABC World News with Diane Sawyer," "Good Morning America," "Nightline," and the ABC News Brian Ross Investigative Unit.

  In 2007, Wilde lead an internal ABC team which helped secure safe transit and an ST-1 Immigrant Visa for Omar Aljaff, the 23-year-old Iraqi military translator credited with helping save Bob Woodruff’s life in the moments after an IED attack outside Taji, Iraq on January 29, 2006. Aljaff and his family now reside outside Lexington, Kentucky where Aljaff serves as a Social Media Analyst for the United States Army Recruiting Command (USAREC).

  Wilde first joined ABC News in the Washington bureau as a Desk Assistant in 1986. In 1988 he was hired by Ted Koppel to join his Emmy Award-winning documentary production company "Koppel Communications, Inc." where he helped produced "ABC News Koppel Report" prime time documentaries in Russia, Eastern Europe, and throughout the United States.

  Wilde is an attorney with a JD from the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford, an LL.M. in International Law from the University of Leiden in The Netherlands, and a BA in English from Williams College in Williamstown, MA. He is an active supporter of the University of Connecticut School of Law and its Asylum & Human Rights Law Clinic.

  He and his partner Dr. Steven D. Smith reside in New York City and Duchess County, NY.

• William Winkenwerder, Jr.

  

  Founder and Chairman, MD, MBA

  Dr. Bill Winkenwerder is the Chairman and Founder of The Winkenwerder Company, a nationally respected healthcare consulting firm based in Alexandria, Virginia. Dr. Winkenwerder is also an expert on national health policy and healthcare reform, and has extraordinary experience as a thought leader in the health industry, having served at senior levels in both the private and public sector.

  Dr. Winkenwerder served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs in the U.S. Department of Defense from October 2001 through April 2007 where he was the leader of the Military Health System and the principal medical advisor to the Secretary of Defense. With a $40 billion budget and over 130,000 personnel, the Military Health System provides care for 9.4 million people through a national network of physicians and hospitals known as TRICARE and through more than 70 military hospitals worldwide.

  During his tenure Dr. Winkenwerder lead the implementation of the world’s largest electronic health record system (AHLTA), guided the merger of Walter Reed Army and Bethesda Naval Medical Centers, and overhauled the TRICARE program. He was also deeply involved in initiating the national effort for electronic health records, working with two successive secretaries of Health and Human Services.

  Prior to government service, Dr. Winkenwerder worked as a senior health executive at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Prudential Healthcare (now part of Aetna) and Emory University. He also served in the Reagan Administration as a senior leader at Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), formerly HCFA, and he practiced primary care medicine for several years.

  Dr. Winkenwerder is a regular contributor to the Fox Business Network and other media outlets. He is also Chairman of the Board of C-Change, a philanthropic alliance of organizations fighting cancer that was founded by George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush. Dr. Winkenwerder has been honored by many institutions for his work. He is a graduate of Davidson College, the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and is board certified in internal medicine and received an MBA from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.

• 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 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. Appearing together on national television and radio since the February 2007 publication of their book, the couple has helped put a face on the serious issue of traumatic brain injury among returning Iraq war veterans, as well as the millions of Americans who live with this often invisible, but life-changing affliction.

  They have founded the Bob Woodruff Foundation (ReMind.org) to assist wounded service members and their families receive the long-term care that they need and help them successfully reintegrate into their communities.

  Woodruff is a contributing reporter for “CBS This Morning,” reporting on a variety of home, current events and family related topics. Her best-selling book “Perfectly Imperfect – A Life in Progress,” will be followed by her first novel, “Those We Love Most” which will be published in September 2012.

  A freelance writer, Woodruff has penned numerous personal articles about her family and parenting that have run in such high-profile magazines as Ladies Home Journal, Health, Redbook, Country Living and Parade.

  In addition to freelance writing, Woodruff ran her own public relations and marketing consulting business for 16 years. Before that, she was senior vice president of public relations firm Porter Novelli.

  At present, Woodruff lives in Westchester County, New York, with her husband and four children.

Our Team

• Anne Marie Dougherty

  

  Executive Director, Bob Woodruff Foundation

  Anne Marie Dougherty assumed her role as executive director of the Bob Woodruff Foundation in December 2011. Dougherty brought a strong corporate consulting, marketing and communications background to the nonprofit sector when she joined the Bob Woodruff Foundation in 2008. As the deputy director of marketing and communications where she served prior to her appointment as executive director, she spearheaded the initial brand, messaging, communications, fundraising and marketing strategy of the foundation. Dougherty has worked to build a brand and an organization that stands strongly on the reputation and credibility of the Woodruff family name.

  Currently, Dougherty is aiming to ensure that the Bob Woodruff Foundation is aggressively targeting the challenges military families face after their service member has been injured in Iraq or Afghanistan. Dougherty strives to ensure that BWF stretches dollars and maximizes impact in all that it does. She is working to make the foundation the hub of a strong and growing collaborative network so that efforts are not duplicated and funding has impact. Dougherty’s focus for the foundation in 2012 will be to galvanize the new board of directors, grow the organization in New York City and continue to provide service to the beneficiaries of the funds that the foundation raises and distributes.

  A Philadelphia native and graduate of Drexel University, Dougherty is the spouse of an active-duty Marine combat veteran.

• Ashley Bunce

  

  Public Awareness and Education Director

• Kirsten Neville

  

  Executive Assistant

• Barbara Lau

  

  Charitable Investment Program Director

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

• Shelia Casey

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

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