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Mark T. Bertolini is president of Aetna Inc., which includes oversight and responsibility for all businesses and service operations across Aetna's broad range of health care products. Since May 2007, he was executive vice president and head of Aetna Business Operations, which was created by combining what was formerly Aetna National and Regional Businesses under one management structure. Prior to taking this position, Bertolini served as head of Aetna Regional Businesses.

Mr. Bertolini joined Aetna as head of Aetna Specialty Products in February 2003 and also served as senior vice president of Aetna Specialty Group, a unit formed in 2004. Mr. Bertolini came to Aetna from Cigna HealthCare, where he served in several senior vice president positions. Before joining Cigna, he was executive vice president of NYLCare Health Plans and chief executive officer of SelectCare, Inc., a multi-lined managed care company in the Greater Detroit metropolitan area.

Mr. Bertolini holds a bachelor of science degree in business administration from Wayne State University and a master of business administration in finance from Cornell University.

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Gerard N. Burrow is president and chief executive officer at the Sea Research Foundation, Inc., Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration, and the David Paige Smith Professor Emeritus of Internal Medicine and Dean Emeritus of the School of Medicine at Yale University in New Haven.

He earned his bachelor’s degree at Brown University in Providence and his medical degree at Yale University School of Medicine, where he also completed his residency and a fellowship in endocrinology and metabolism. Dr. Burrow was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Service Award from Yale University School of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences. He has served in leadership positions for numerous boards and institutions, including the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency; the Institute of Medicine’s Persian Gulf Committee; the Program on Maternal and Newborn Health/Safe Motherhood, World Health Organization; American Thyroid Association; and the Medical School Section, American Medical Association, among others. Dr. Burrow lives in Hamden, Conn.

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Cheryl A. Chase is executive vice president, principal and general counsel of Chase Enterprises. She received her J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1978. Ms. Chase's present affiliations include member of the Board of Directors of Foodshare, Tufts University Board of Overseers to the School of Nutrition Science and Policy, the Bushnell Board of Trustees, a Trustee of the Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration, a Trustee of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and a past director of numerous public and private institutions.

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Michael J. Cicchetti is the deputy secretary of the Connecticut Office of Policy and Management (OPM) and is responsible for providing the governor with information and analysis to formulate public policy goals, and assisting state agencies and municipalities in implementing policy decisions. Prior to his appointment, he was the assistant director of the Capital City Economic Development Authority, where he played a critical role in overseeing the operations of the new Connecticut Convention Center and securing a developer for the Front Street entertainment district. His appointment as deputy secretary marked a return to the OPM, where he once served as the undersecretary for legislative affairs and undersecretary of the Intergovernmental Policy Division.

Mr. Cicchetti is a graduate of Villanova University and the Syracuse University School of Law. After law school, he worked in the Governor’s Office as assistant legal counsel and was later promoted to deputy legal counsel. A Connecticut native, Mr. Cicchetti lives in West Hartford.

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Sanford Cloud Jr. is the chairman and chief executive officer of the Cloud Company, LLC. He is the former president and CEO of the human relations organization National Conference for Community and Justice, which he represented as a member of President Carter’s delegation overseeing the first Palestinian elections. Before coming to the NCCJ, he was a partner at Robinson and Cole in Hartford, and prior to that he was vice present of Aetna’s Corporate Public Involvement, and executive director of the Aetna Foundation. He also helped found National Voices for an Inclusive 21st Century, a collaboration of national human relations and civil right organizations.

Mr. Cloud is a former two-term Connecticut State Senator and was the primary sponsor of legislation creating the State Department of Housing. He has served on a number of boards, and currently is on the boards of Northeast Utilities, the Phoenix Companies, Inc., Ironwood Mezzanine Fund FP, the Joint Center for Political and Economics Studies, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, the Connecticut Health Foundation and the Hartford Courant Foundation.

A Hartford native, Mr. Cloud is a graduate of Howard University College of Liberal Arts and Howard University Law School. He earned a master’s degree in religious studies from the Hartford Seminary. Among his many awards are an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Connecticut, an Honorary Doctor of Social Science from Providence College, and the Outstanding Citizen Award from the Anne Frank Center USA.

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John F. Droney is a founding principal of the Farmington law firm of Levy & Droney, P.C.

A graduate of the College of the Holy Cross, he received his J.D. with honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1973, where he was a member of the Board of Editors of the University of Connecticut Law Review.

A Vietnam veteran, he has served as a Special State's Attorney for the Judicial Districts of Hartford and Waterbury and is a recipient of the University of Connecticut School of Law Distinguished Alumni Award.

He has lectured at University of Connecticut and Quinnipiac Law Schools and has served on the Board of Directors of Hartford Neighborhood Legal Services and the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.

He was the chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee of Connecticut and chairman of the Connecticut Clinton for President campaign.

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David B. Friend is managing director and member of North American Turnaround Management and Healthcare Industry Groups at Alvarez and Marsal, a global professional services firm. Previously, he was a senior partner at Watson Wyatt's Consulting Operations in the United States, where he was a member of the management committee, overseeing company operations worldwide and serving on its Board of Directors and executive and finance committees. Prior to that, he held senior management positions at High Voltage Engineering, an international medical and specialty industrial firm, and at Sanus Corporation, an HMO.

Dr. Friend, who graduated from Brandeis University with a degree in economics, received his medical degree from the University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He was a visiting scientist at the Innovation Center for Information Technology at Harvard Medical School's Brigham and Women's Hospital. Currently, Dr. Friend serves on the alumni board of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of HealthCare.com: Rx for Reform.

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J. Robert Galvin is the commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Public Health and is responsible for the state’s public health policy and advocacy programs. Commissioner Galvin was a practicing family physician prior to his appointment. He also served as a consultant in aviation medicine and diving for the Connecticut State Police, and as a senior aviation examiner for the Federal Aviation Administration. He has held a number of long-term medical consulting, health care and training positions in private and state organizations.

A retired U.S. Army Brigadier General, he was the commander of the 804th Hospital Center Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Massachusetts, and the flight surgeon for the Connecticut Army National Guard. He also served as commanding officer of the 133rd medical detachment in Vietnam. He graduated from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, earned his medical degree from Tufts University in Boston, and more than three decades later, earned a master in public health degree from the University of Connecticut.

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A. Jon Goldberg is a professor in the Department of Prosthodontics and Operative Dentistry and director of the Center for Biomaterials at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He has held positions at the University of Connecticut Health Center for more than 25 years.

He earned his bachelor's degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia, and master's and doctorate from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, all in metallurgical engineering. He is a member of the Institute of Materials Science at the University of Connecticut and is the former president of the Dental Materials Group of the American Association for Dental Research. Dr. Goldberg lives in West Hartford.

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Jay L. Haberland is Vice President of Business Controls at United Technologies Corporation. He was previously chief financial officer at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, a multibillion-dollar subsidiary of UTC. He has also served as acting chief financial officer, vice president-controller, and director of internal audit at United Technologies.

Prior to his appointments at UTC, Mr. Haberland held a variety of senior finance positions at the Black & Decker Corporation. He began his career with Price Waterhouse in Boston and later, Hartford. He earned a bachelor's degree from Alfred University and a master's degree from Northeastern University. Mr. Haberland is a certified public accountant, Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He currently serves on the Board of the Mark Twain House and Museum.

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Brian Hehir is a vice chairman of investment banking at Merrill Lynch and a senior advisor to selected clients. He began his career at Merrill Lynch in the corporate finance group working with clients in the energy, health care and retailing industries. He then moved to equity capital markets and was named its co-head, a position in which he was responsible for originating and executing all initial public offerings, common stock and equity-linked new issues.

Mr. Hehir currently serves as chairman of the Board of Visitors for the Georgetown University School of Nursing and Health Studies, and as president of the Friends of Harvard Football. He is also a member of the U.S. Lacrosse Foundation Board and the Harvard Varsity Club Board of Directors. Mr. Hehir received his bachelor of arts degree from Harvard College and a master’s in business administration from Harvard Business School. He and his wife Janet reside in Port Washington, New York, and have four children.

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Michael J. Hogan became the 14th president of the University of Connecticut on September 14, 2007.

Prior to coming to UConn, he was the Executive Vice President and Provost and F. Wendell Miller Professor of History at The University of Iowa. Previously he was at The Ohio State University where he served as chair of the Department of History from 1993 to 1999, as dean of the College of Humanities from 1999 to 2003, and as executive dean of the Colleges of the Arts and Sciences from July, 2001, during which time the position of executive dean evolved into a separate free-standing office with oversight of five colleges and forty-one departments.

Before joining the faculty at Ohio State in 1986, President Hogan was a faculty member at Miami University. His nine years at that institution were preceded by service at Stony Brook University and at the University of Texas, Austin. Born and raised in Waterloo, Iowa, he earned his B.A. degree at the University of Northern Iowa, where he majored in English with minors in history and classics; his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees were conferred by The University of Iowa.

A specialist in the history of American diplomacy, President Hogan is the author or editor of nine books and a host of scholarly articles and essays.

President Hogan and his wife Virginia have four adult children.

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Lenworth M. Jacobs is director of the Emergency Medical Services/Trauma and Rehabilitation Medicine program at Hartford Hospital, and professor and chairman of the UConn School of Medicine Department of Traumatology and Emergency Medicine.

He graduated from the University of West Indies Medical School and earned his master's in public health at Harvard University School of Public Health. He serves as vice chairman of the University of Connecticut Board of Trustees, chairman of its Finance Committee and is a member of its Health Affairs Committee, as well as other board committees. He is currently the president of the Connecticut Chapter of the American College of Surgeons and vice president of the American Trauma Society Board of Directors. He is the author of numerous books, chapters and professional papers on injury and trauma. Dr. Jacobs lives in West Hartford.

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Robert T. Samuels was one of the founders of ABS Development Company, a shopping centers development firm. Prior to forming ABS, he served as president and chief operating officer of First National Supermarkets before selling his interest in 1988.

He attended Adelbert College, Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston and the Board of Chancellors of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation in New York. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Living.
 

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Ann Slaughter is an assistant professor and course director for geriatric dentistry at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in Philadelphia. She received her Doctor of Dental Surgery degree from Meharry Medical College, School of Dentistry, in Nashville, and completed general dentistry and geriatric post-graduate training at the University of Rochester Eastman Dental Center in Rochester, New York. Dr. Slaughter completed a fellowship in geriatric medicine at the University of Connecticut Travelers Center on Aging. She completed a master’s of public health from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Dr. Slaughter developed the “Take Charge of Your Oral Health” educational program and is currently investigating its effectiveness. She was the first dentist to receive a Brookdale National Fellowship award for aging research and was featured in the 2004 African American history calendar “A Look at African Americans in Dentistry,” sponsored by Aetna.

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