Directors and Associates:

Rev. Douglas Grandgeorge, President

The Rev. Douglas Grandgeorge, President of GlobalShare Resource Foundation, is pastor of the Smithfield Church in Amenia, New York. His previous seven churches have been in New York City. Along with Maria Luarca Reyes, Douglas founded GlobalShare to help children and communities with needy children around the world by providing avenues for individuals to share resources, including financial resources, with worthy organizations and institutions in developing countries. A graduate of Yale University and the New York Theological Seminary, Douglas has served Presbyterian churches for 40 years, and for 27 years he was employed by the City of New York, working with poor, abused, and homeless children in that city. He also serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors of Surgeons of Hope Foundation, which provides open heart surgery to disadvantaged children with heart pathologies around the world.

Marie Luarca-Reyes, Executive Director

Esmeralda O. Lyn, Treasurer
Professor, Hofstra University

Dr. Esmeralda O. Lyn is the Vice Dean and the C.V. Starr Distinguished Professor of Finance and International Financial Services at the Frank G. Zarb School of Business, Hofstra University. Dr. Lyn has been Editor-in-Chief of Corporate Finance Review, Chairperson of the Department of Finance, and Co-Founder/Director of the Merrill Lynch Center for the Study of International Financial Services and Markets at Hofstra. Her areas of specialization include socially responsible investing, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, international finance, and agency theory. She has published numerous articles in international and national journals, and has given executive seminars and workshops in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Lyn was a finance officer at the UN in New York and served on a foreign assignment in Bangladesh; worked for Integrated Resources, Inc. and Smith Barney Shearson; and has done consulting work for various companies. She is involved in various local and international community services. She is currently a Board Director of the Institute for Women's Policy Research, and of the Nassau Educators Federal Credit Union.

Cheryl R. Lehman, Director
Professor, Hofstra University

Cheryl R. Lehman is a Professor of Accounting at Hofstra University Zarb School of Business, receiving her Ph.D. from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration. Dr. Lehman has lectured "far and wide" and her research includes: ethics, public policy, globalization, gender and race, and financial disclosures and regulation.

As a visiting scholar, she has held positions in Australia and England , and her work has been presented at international conferences in over 20 countries. . Dr. Lehman has served on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Women's Policy Research and the Network of East-West Women, and is the recipient of the 2001 KPMG Mentoring Award in collaboration with the American Accounting Association. She is General Editor of Advances in Public Interest Accounting and has published in numerous journals. Her book, Accounting's Changing Role in Social Conflict has been published in English, Japanese, and Korean. She co-edited Multinational Culture: Social Impacts of a Global Economy with Dr. Rusty Moore, and is on the editorial board of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Accounting Forum, Critical Perspectives on Accounting Gender, Work and Organization and Pacific Accounting Review. More recently Dr. Lehman received a Masters in Social Work from Fordham University, and is licensed in the practice.

David Michel, Director
President, DM Communications

David received his BA from Case Reserve University and attended Ohio State University for the MBA. He moved to NYC in 1966 for a career in advertising and marketing. In 1982, he founded DM Communications, a marketing services company serving the financial and tourism industries. David graduated from Auburn Seminary as Certified Lay Pastor.

Philippe Lerch, Director
Executive Director, Surgeons of Hope Foundation, Inc.

Treasurer of Surgeons of Hope Foundation Inc. and the Executive Director of the Chaîne de l'Espoir. Graduated from Paris Business School (École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris), worked at French Foreign Trade Board (CFCE) for the United States and Latin America, was Regional Director for Chargeurs Reunis in Cambodia, and Director of international projects for French banks, Paribas and Société Générale, in charge of transport programmes, hotel and hospital engineering, and project development throughout Africa, South-East Asia and the Middle East. Actively engaged SFPA, a Franco-Armenian solidarity NGO.

Dr. Tahira Homayun, a practicing obstetrician and gynecologist in New York , is the founder and current president of the Organization for the Advancement of Afghan Women (OAAW). Born in Afghanistan where she initially studied medicine, Dr. Homayun finished her medical education in the United States , doing internships at Christ Community Hospital in Chicago and residency at Beth Israel in New York City .

Melvyn P. Lopez, Director, Melvyn P. Lopez is a Senior Database Administrator for Sumitomo Trust and Banking USA, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Sumitomo Trust and Banking Co., Ltd. of Japan, insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Previous to this position, Melvyn was a consultant to IBM Global Services as a Senior SQL DBA for its team in Lucent Technologies (Princeton, NJ), a consultant for KPMG Peat Marwick as a Visual C++ and VB developer for its corporate global network of professional firms, and a consultant for American International Group (AIG-AIU) as a Sybase DBA and Sybase Replication Server programmer.

Associates

Paul-Philippe L Reyes, Legal Counsel

Ira Ruderman, Webmaster, CEO, CJR Media Inc.

Mariechelle Marbella

Jane Orendain