Elizabeth Ingrassia
Elizabeth Ingrassia serves as the Executive Director of the Fordham Institute for Family & Private Enterprise and Fordham Twaalfhoven Center for Entrepreneurship.
In addition, she manages her own private consulting firm, Harvard Management Group, Inc.
Ms. Ingrassia holds an MBA from Harvard University and a BA from Boston College.
Ms. Ingrassia is an enterpreneur herself, having founded and run several startups including her most recent startup funded by venture capitalists and LVMH: www.eluxury.com
Ms. Ingrassia has also taught entrepreneurship at several east coast graduate business schools include: Columbia University, Georgetown University, NYU.

Dr. Bert Twaalfhoven
Dr. Twaalfhoven graduated from Fordham University in 1952 with a B.S. and received his MBA at Harvard Business School in 1954. In 1993 Dr. Twaalfhoven received an honorary doctorate from Fordham University for his achievements in the area of education and as an international entrepreneur. Dr. Twaalfhoven is former chairman of Harvard Business School Alumni and on June 2, 2001 he received the Annual Alumni Award from Harvard Business School for his activities stimulating entrepreneurship in Eastern and Western Europe. Indivers started 50 companies in 11 countries including Italy, France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Holland, Belgium, England, U.S.A. and China. Most companies were successful, 17 ventures failed. The company sold its major turbine related activities in 1997 to United Technologies in the U.S.A., and in 2000 to Sulzer of Switzerland. Indivers was also co-founder of the first venture capital company in the Netherlands (Gilde) and has participations in several venture capital companies. In addition to being an entrepreneur, Dr. Twaalfhoven is active in many capacities in international networks of universities and entrepreneurs, especially the promotion of dynamic growth entrepreneurs. He is Founder of the European Foundation for Entrepreneurship research (EFER) and Initiator of EASDAQ. He is Founding Member and board member of Europe’s 500, now Growth Plus – the Association for Europe’s fastest growing entrepreneurs. Dr. Twaalfhoven is board member of the Fordham Graduate School of Business in New York and board member of the International Advisory Board of The Netherlands business school: Nyenrode. He is board member of United World College India and board member of the GEA College of Entrepreneurship in Portoroz, Slovenia.

Pieter Kodde
He joined Lincolnshire Management ( LMI) as a Managing Director in July 2005 and serves as a member of the Origination Team. Before joining LMI, Mr. Kodde was Managing Director of the Financial Sponsors Group for North America at Rabobank International, headquartered in New York. Rabobank is one of the world’s largest agribusiness lenders. Rabobank International focuses on offering specialized products and services for the food, beverage and agribusiness sectors. While at Rabobank, Mr. Kodde was responsible for arranging financing for approximately fifty buy-out transactions in the food and beverage industry. Mr. Kodde is regarded as a highly experienced investment professional with considerable expertise in the food and beverage industries. Prior to joining Rabobank in 1993, Mr. Kodde was with ABN in Brazil in Treasury and Corporate Finance. Mr. Kodde is a graduate of HES Amsterdam School of Business (1987) in the Netherlands.

Marc Minker
Marc is the Director of CBIZ Mahoney Cohen’s Family Office and Private Client Services Group. He specializes in providing tax, personal advisory and financial planning services to high net-worth individuals, corporate executives, closely held businesses and families.
Prior to joining CBIZ Mahoney Cohen, Marc was a tax partner with the international accounting and consulting firm of Ernst & Young. During his 16 years with Ernst & Young, Marc was responsible for Affluent Client Services in the New York metropolitan area as well as national leadership of the Executive Planning Services group. Marc has extensive experience in individual tax, family wealth transfer, investments, estate and retirement planning, and charitable giving.

Marc has lectured frequently on Personal Tax and Financial Planning at public programs and employer-sponsored events. He has written articles for the New York Journal of Taxation, Boardroom Reports, The Ernst & Young Financial Planning Reporter and The Rockland Journal News, authored the chapter on “Losing your Spouse or Life Partner” in the Ernst & Young Guide to Financial Planning, has appeared on CNN and CNBC and has hosted “Tax Chat” on Barnes & Noble’s internet website.

Marc is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, and the International Association of Financial Planners and holds his CPA license in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as well as the Personal Financial Specialist designation issued by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of the AICPA’s Personal Financial Planning Division and is a board member on the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants Personal Financial Planning division.

Andrew Peskoe
Mr. Peskoe is an active private investor in early stage companies, principally in the media and technology area.  In addition, he is an investor in a number of venture capital and private equity funds, and is a principal in Israeli Cleantech Ventures L.P., a $75 million venture capital fund. 

Mr. Peskoe is co-head of the corporate practice group at the New York City law firm Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP.  He represents private and public emerging growth companies, venture capital funds, private equity funds and strategic investors in international and domestic mergers, acquisitions, equity and debt financings, technology transfer and licensing, and complex financing transactions, including leverage buyouts, venture capital and “growth equity” financings, and other private equity transactions.  

Mr. Peskoe has served as an economic consultant to The National Bureau of Economic Research, The National Academy of Sciences, and the Antitrust Division of the Office of the New Jersey Attorney General.  He is a graduate, with honors from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Steven Chill
Mr. Chill is a partner of the firm practicing in the areas of Estate Planning and Administration and Charitable Organizations. His clients include high net-worth individuals, professionals, business owners, individual and corporate fiduciaries and charitable organizations. Mr. Chill's Estate Planning and Administration practice includes: the development of creative estate plans to minimize estate, gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes to provide for the preservation of family wealth; handling all aspects of the administration of estates and trusts, including post mortem tax planning; counseling families on estate-planning opportunities available with respect to closely held businesses and the transfer of such businesses to younger generations; handling matters before the Internal Revenue Service and the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance, including audits, appeals and ruling requests; handling Surrogate's Court matters; analysis of the appropriateness of the use of various insurance products as part of an estate plan; advising clients on the use of estate planning techniques that provide benefits for the family as well as for charitable organizations; and advising executors and trustees in the discharge of their fiduciary duties.

Mr. Chill's Charitable Organizations practice includes: formation of not-for-profit organizations; obtaining and maintaining Section 501(c)(3) recognition; and counseling public and private charitable organizations on fundraising and administrative matters. Mr. Chill serves as an officer and/or director of several not-for-profit organizations.