Board

Advisory Board

Angela A. Aidala, Ph.D.
Dr. Angela Aidala is a faculty member at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences. Her primary interest is the intersection of economic, social, and cultural influences on health and illness among disadvantaged populations. Dr. Aidala’s recent work focuses on research, teaching, and service delivery strategies to work effectively with hard to reach or ‘hidden’ populations in urban settings including the homeless, mentally ill, substance users, runaway or street youth and/or persons living with HIV/AIDS. Dr. Aidala also directs the Multiple Diagnoses Initiative (MDI), which works with housing providers to better understand the reciprocal relationship between housing and health care among persons living with HIV/AIDS who also struggle with mental illness and/or chronic substance abuse problems. Angela A. Aidala received a PhD in Sociology from Columbia University.

Peter Figueroa, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Peter Figueroa is Chief of Epidemiology and HIV/AIDS at The National HIV/STI program in Jamaica. He is a leader in HIV/AIDS care, practices, and treatment. Dr. Figueroa is committed to making HIV/AIDS care and treatment available in the public sector, while also paying close attention to HIV/AIDS prevention activities. Because of Dr. Figueroa’s dedication, HIV prevalence in Jamaica is among the lowest in the Caribbean region and stands as a great success in the face of predictions that called for the Jamaican and the eastern Caribbean HIV/AIDS epidemic to spiral.

Michael Mutter
With over 30 years of experience in design, architecture and urban planning, Michael Mutter has worked with communities implementing appropriate urban development and regeneration in demanding developing country environments. As a Senior Architectural and Urban Planning Adviser with the DFID, he has provided guidance to the Infrastructure and Urban Development Department resulting in the central DFID strategy for meeting the challenge of poverty in urban areas. It is under his able guidance and direction that a philosophy of “The Inclusive City” has been developed and innovative community-led approaches are currently being implemented. Mutter is also a senior advisor with United Nations HABITAT.

Kenneth Yeang, Ph.D.
Dr. Kenneth Yeang has over 30 years of experience in ecological building and passive low-energy design. He is the Director of Llewlleyn Davies Yeang (UK) and principal at T.R. Hamzah & Yeang, an internationally-renowned architecture and planning firm headquartered in Malaysia. Yeang is credited with achieving high levels of success in Asia with cutting-edge, environmentally responsive skyscrapers. He built the Menara Mesiniaga building in Malaysia in 1992. This building is a reflection of his bioclimatic techniques, including “vertical landscaping”, extensive natural ventilation and lighting, external louvers to reduce solar heat gain, and an “active Intelligent Building” system for saving energy. Born in Penang, Malaysia, Dr. Yeang attended Cheltenham College in Gloucestershire, England and went on to receive a doctorate in ecological design from Cambridge University.

Governing Board:

Caterina Della Mora
Caterina Della Mora is the Chief Investment Officer at A2F Consulting, a global microfinance institution. Prior to this she was Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer of GalloInvest, a Luxembourg based private equity firm with USD 300 million under investment. She was responsible, among other things, for executing financial transactions (mergers, acquisitions, business integrations, spin-offs, etc.), overseeing due diligence and deal negotiations, as well as verifying pricing models used by transaction teams for valuation. Caterina also worked several years as Vice President for Meliorbanca, an Italian Investment Bank based in Milan. She has attended a program in Risk Management at Wharton (Pennsylvania), holds a Masters of Finance from The London Business School as well as a Degree in Political Economics from Università degli Studi di Trento (Italy). A native of Italy, she speaks fluent Italian and English, as well as intermediate French.

Albert J. Foreman
Al Foreman is an Executive Director in the Financial Sponsor Group (FSG) in J.P.Morgan’s Investment Banking Division.  For private equity sponsor clients, FSG provides M&A advisory services, equity underwriting, and debt financing for financial sponsor-backed leveraged buyouts.
Al joined J.P.Morgan in 2005 as a Managing Director and Global Head of Business Development for the Private Equity Fund Services group, responsible for sales and product development for private equity firms and institutional investors. Prior to J.P.Morgan, he served as Director and Global Head of Business Development for Vitech Systems Group (Equitrak), where he was responsible for the private equity division’s enterprise class software sales and consulting engagements. He has also served as a senior business development executive at Virtual Growth Incorporated and has worked in private banking at Citigroup. Al is on the board of directors for the charitable organizations Get Together Foundation for the Children, and the Ashley Stewart Stores Community Foundation.
He holds a Juris Doctorate from the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Connecticut School of Business where he was a United Technologies Finance Scholar and a Scholar Athlete award recipient. He is also a member of the Connecticut Bar Association.

Denise Williams, Ed. D.

Dr. Denise Williams is a highly experienced coaching consultant who has worked to improve the effectiveness of employees in a range of industries including financial services, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals. Currently, Dr. Williams manages a private coaching firm while working as an Adjunct Professor at the New York University. She was previously a Vice President and Training Consultant at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in New York. Dr. Williams holds a Bachelors degree in Computer Information Systems from Baruch College, a Masters of Science degree in Education from Northwestern University and a Doctorate of Education in the field of Adult Learning and Leadership from Columbia University.

Peter Williams – Founder/Executive Director
Peter Williams is an architect and social entrepreneur prioritizing the link between housing design and health as a means for improving the lives of the world’s poor. He has worked on building projects in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East and North America. Peter holds two Masters degrees in African Studies and Architecture respectively from the University of Oxford and Columbia University, a first class honors degree from the City University of New York and a diploma from the University of Technology in Jamaica.

Peter has been the recipient of academic awards to pursue research in six countries and has taught at universities in Jamaica, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. In 2003, he was awarded the Kinne Fellowship from Columbia University and used the resultant research to establish ARCHIVE. Peter subsequently served as a visiting researcher at the UNAIDS Secretariat in South Africa where he also worked for the World Bank.

In the UK, he has worked within a UN Consultancy team on global land tenure policies and was a visiting scholar in the Healthy Infrastructure Research Centre at University College London. In 2009, Peter was named among the 22 best emerging social entrepreneurs in the world by Echoing Green and in 2010 was invited to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Sweden to contribute to a policy document on Tuberculosis in Europe. Peter continues to lecture widely and is a member of the American Public Health Association and a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health.