Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, CO-CHAIR

Access Bank PLC, Group Managing Director/CEO,

Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede is Managing Director and CEO of Access Bank, one of Nigeria's largest and fastest-growing financial institutions with an extensive network of branches and subsidiary businesses in nine countries across Africa and the United Kingdom. Aigboje, 44, is widely recognized as a successful business leader and proponent of corporate social responsibility in the African business community. He spearheaded a first-of-its-kind initiative among African businesses, Gift from Africa, aimed at raising funds for the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. In September 2010, along with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Aigboje announced the first pledge of $3 million to that group.

Aigboje, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, Executive Management Programme, holds an LLB and a BL Degree from University of Benin and the Nigerian Law School respectively. He is a fellow of the African Leadership Institute under the auspices of Aspen Institute, Colorado USA. Aigboje is also an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Banker of Nigeria (CIBN).

He has a distinguished banking career of over two decades, 10 years of which were spent at Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank) where he resigned in March 2002 to lead a dynamic crop of accomplished bankers as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Access Bank Plc with the mandate to transform the Bank into a world-class financial services provider.

Aigboje's visionary leadership has inspired Access Bank's rapid and unprecedented growth over the past 8 years which has seen the Bank rank amongst the top 10 banks in Nigeria. In October 2007, Aigboje was ranked amongst the top 10 Most Respected CEOs in the annual PriceWaterHouseCoopers Most respected Companies and CEO Survey, a documented testament of his leadership acuity.

Gary M. Cohen

BD (Becton, Dickinson & Co.) , Executive Vice President

Gary Cohen is executive vice president of BD, a global medical technology company with over $7 billion revenues and 29,000 employees in 50 countries.

He is board chair of the CDC Foundation and a board director of the Perrigo Company, the US Fund for UNICEF and the Accordia Global Health Foundation. He also serves as chair of the CDC/Corporate Roundtable on Global Health Threats and an advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative.

Gary and the BD team are extensively engaged in collaborations across the public, private and NGO sectors to address health needs in developing and emerging countries. He has served as an advocate, speaker and expert panelist on global health, child immunization, HIV/AIDS and health system strengthening, in venues including the United Nations, World Bank, World Economic Forum (Davos) and Council on Foreign Relations. Gary founded Together for Girls, a new partnership to address the human rights and public health impacts of sexual violence against girls, comprised of UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UN Women, the World Health Organization, the CDC, the US Department of State - Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator (PEPFAR) and Office of Global Women’s Issues (GWI), the Nduna Foundation, BD and other partners.

He has been honored with the Corporate Leadership Award by MESAB (Medical Education for South African Blacks), the Distinguished Humanitarian Award by B’nai B’rith International and the Helenka Pantaleoni Award by the US Fund for UNICEF.

He earned a BA from Rutgers College and a MBA from the Rutgers Graduate School of Management, and previously served on the university’s Board of Trustees.

Gilles Pélisson

Accor, Fmr. Chairman and CEO, Director

Gilles Pélisson is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ACCOR. He started his career in the Accor Group in 1983. After six years in the United States, as marketing director of Seafood Broiler restaurants, then as Senior Vice President of Accor for the Asia-Pacific region, he was appointed, in 1988, Chief Executive of Courtepaille restaurants, then Co-Chairman of the Novotel hotel chain in 1993.

In 1995, Gilles was appointed CEO of Euro Disney, then Chairman and CEO in 1997. In 2000, he joined the SUEZ group to head the Suez-Telefonica ST3G consortium, bidding for an UMTS licence, and took over as Chairman of Noos, the cable network operator leader in France. In September 2001, Gilles joined Bouygues Telecom as Chief Executive Officer and was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in February 2004.

He has served as CEO of Accor Since January 9, 2006 and was appointed Chairman of the board in February 2009.

Gilles as serves in a number of other leadership positions, including: director and vice president of the Supervisory Board of Groupe Lucien Barrière SAS; director of the Supervisory Board of Lenôtre; director of Adagio; director of Group Bic S.A; member of the Executive Committee of the MEDEF, French Business Confederation; and director of Group TF1.

Gilles is married with two children. He is a graduate of ESSEC Business School and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. He holds the title of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur and Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite.

John Tedstrom

GBCHealth, President and CEO

John Tedstrom is President and CEO of GBCHealth. John joined GBCHealth in August, 2006, and since that time has steadily expanded the organization’s reach, deepened relationships with key partners and initiated important organizational reforms to make operations more cost-effective and programs more impactful.

Since John took over as Executive Director of GBCHealth in August 2006, membership has continued to grow and now includes more than 230 companies and organizations across the globe. John also led the organization’s growth from an exclusive focus on HIV/AIDS to an agenda that included strong programs on tuberculosis and malaria beginning in 2007. Under John’s leadership, the organization unveiled a broader public health mandate in June 2011.

John has also led the expansion of GBCHealth's geographical reach through a merger with Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS (TPAA), an organization he founded and led prior to joining GBCHealth. TPAA operated in Russia and Ukraine, two countries at significant risk for HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. TPAA developed several highly effective programs that continue today. One of the major programs, the Russian Media Partnership (RMP), reached millions with information about HIV/AIDS and has a high success rate in spurring people to take action to know their status and protect themselves.The Russian Parliamentary Working Group on HIV/AIDS advances policy reforms relevant to public health.

John served as director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasian Affairs for the U.S. National Security Council from 1999-2000, where he provided policy advice and strategic planning for President Bill Clinton. He also managed inter-agency coordination on priority foreign policy issues in the region, with a focus on commercial, economic, and social policy toward the Newly Independent States.

John worked for nearly a decade at the RAND Corporation as economist and senior economist. In those positions, he focused on the intersection among economics, development, and international security and he led the policy analysis work of the first presidentially-mandated National Defense Panel.

John held the Jacyk Chair at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in 2000-2001.

Malva E. Rabinowitz

Deloitte Consulting, Principal, Director

Malva Rabinowitz is a principal of Deloitte Consulting. She has served as the associate managing director of the Americas, the managing director of the New York Consulting office and the national director of Reorganization Services.

She currently focuses on working with non-profit organizations. Her non-profit clients include the American Red Cross, the United Way and others. For many years Malva served clients in troubled situations, where her clients included lenders, vendors, counsel and investors as well as the troubled companies themselves.
Malva joined Deloitte Consulting in 1976. She previously served as a member of the Deloitte & Touche LLP Board of Directors. She serves on the boards of the American Heart Association, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center and GBCHealth.

Malva graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1974 with bachelor's degrees in Management Engineering and in Anthropology and Sociology; and in 1975 with an MBA in Management Engineering.
She and her husband, Steve Abrams, live on Long Island, New York and have three children— two daughters, ages 23 and 16, and a son age 19.

Muhtar Kent, CO-CHAIR

The Coca-Cola Company, Chairman and CEO

Muhtar Kent is GBCHealth's Co-Chairman. Mr. Kent is also Chairman and CEO of The Coca-Cola Company.

Mr. Kent joined The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta in 1978 and has held a variety of marketing and operations roles throughout his career. In 1985, he was appointed general manager of Coca-Cola Turkey and Central Asia. From 1989 to 1995, he served as president of the Company's East Central Europe Division and senior vice president of Coca-Cola International, with responsibility for 23 countries. Between 1995 and 1998, Mr. Kent served as managing director of Coca-Cola Amatil-Europe, covering bottling operations in 12 countries.

From 1999 until his return to The Coca-Cola Company in May 2005, he served as president and CEO of the Efes Beverage Group, the majority shareholder of Turkish bottler Coca-Cola Icecek. Headquartered in Istanbul and listed on the London and Istanbul Stock Exchanges, Efes is a publicly traded beverage enterprise whose Coca-Cola and beer operations extend from the Adriatic to the Pacific Ocean. Under Mr. Kent's leadership, Efes experienced extraordinary growth, with triple-digit revenue growth and a 250 percent increase in market capitalization. During that time, in addition to taking Efes Breweries International public on the London Stock Exchange, Mr. Kent also served as a board member of Coca-Cola Icecek.

Mr. Kent was named president and chief operating officer of The Coca-Cola Company's North Asia, Eurasia and Middle East Group from 2005 until early 2006, where he was responsible for the operations across a broad and diverse geographic region that included China, Japan and Russia. Mr. Kent served as president of Coca-Cola International through most of 2006, responsible for operations outside of North America, until his appointment as president and chief operating officer of The Coca-Cola Company, overseeing all operations of the business, including Bottling Investments. He succeeded Neville Isdell as chief executive officer of the Company on July 1, 2008, and as chairman of the Board of Directors on April 23, 2009.

Mr. Kent holds a bachelor of science degree in economics from Hull University, England, and a master of science degree in administrative sciences from London City University.

Rhonda I. Zygocki

Chevron Corporation, Executive Vice President

Rhonda I. Zygocki is Executive Vice President of Policy and Planning for Chevron Corporation. In this capacity, she oversees U.S. and international government relations, all aspects of communications and the company's worldwide efforts to protect and enhance its reputation.

After serving in positions of increasing responsibility, Zygocki moved to the company's headquarters as Manager of Strategic Planning for Chevron Corporation in 1999. Shortly thereafter, she became responsible for overseeing the Chevron and Texaco merger integration planning office. After the merger, she was named Managing Director of Chevron Australia Pty Ltd. In 2003 she was named Vice President of Health, Environment and Safety (HES) for Chevron Corporation.

Zygocki was born in St John's, Newfoundland, Canada. She earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Upon graduation in 1980, she joined Chevron Canada Resources (CCR) as a petroleum engineer.

Zygocki serves on the Boards of Directors of the Bay Area Council, the San Francisco Ballet and the United States Energy Association.