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Patricia Bauman
President and Co-Director of the Bauman Foundation

Albert Dwoskin
President and CEO of A.J. Dwoskin & Associates

Robert Hauptman
Special Assistant to the Secretary-Treasurer for Operations, SEIU

Harold Ickes
President, Catalist

Tom Novick
Executive Vice President, M+R

Michael Podhorzer
Deputy Political Director, AFL-CIO

Laura Quinn
CEO, Catalist

Vijay Ravindran
CTO, Catalist

Gerald Rosenfeld
Deputy Chairman of Rothschild North America

Michael Warren
Chief Operating Officer & Managing Director, Stonebridge International

(one positions vacant)

Patricia Bauman

Patricia Bauman is President and Co-Director of the Bauman Foundation. In recent years, the Foundation has supported civic participation through general support of organizations engaged in voter registration and outreach and election protection. She has also led policy efforts to foster public access to government information. She is also a real estate investor, and is active as a donor to Democratic candidates.

She is a Vice-Chair of the Natural Resources Defense Council and serves of the boards of Montefiore Medical Center in New York, the Beldon Fund, and the Trust for America 's Health.
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Albert Dwoskin

Albert Dwoskin is President and Chief Executive Officer and director of A.J. Dwoskin & Associates, Inc. (AJD). Since its founding, in 1967, AJD's operations have been primarily associated with development and management of retail and residential rental properties which are owned by partnerships in which AJD or Albert J. Dwoskin is a partial owner or general partner. Mr. Dwoskin is also active in community and charitable activities that currently include serving as Chairman of the George Mason University Foundation Board of Managers. In past years, he has served in a large number of public and private sector directorships, advisory boards and committees, and public task forces.
Robert Hauptman

Robert Hauptman is currently serving as the Special Assistant to the Secretary-Treasurer for Operations for the Service Employees International Union. He is responsible for compliance and reporting for SEIU COPE and other political funds of SEIU. He is also the co-director of a project to reorganize tools and delivery of membership list and accounting functions for Local Unions throughout the Union. He also coordinates information technology needs and system development for International’s staff and line departments. For over 35 years, Mr. Hauptman has worked to provide accounting, compliance, MIS and other support to various businesses, Democratic organizations and labor unions.
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Harold Ickes, President

Harold Ickes' nearly fifty years of commitment and accomplishments fighting for progressive causes have earned him trust, respect and friendship of unusual breadth and depth in the progressive political community. He is a founding partner of The Ickes & Enright Group, a Washington DC consulting firm. Prior to this, Mr. Ickes served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Political Affairs and Policy to President Clinton, managing a number of the President's key policy initiatives. He was also an architect of the President's 1996 re-election campaign (the first successful re-election campaign of a Democratic president since FDR), the 1996 Democratic National Convention, and the 1997 Presidential Inaugural.

Prior to serving in the White House, Mr. Ickes was a partner in the New York law firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., specializing in election and union-side labor law. He rejoined the law firm as partner in 1998 and serves as co-chair of its thirty-member Labor Law and Government Affairs Departments.
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Tom Novick

Tom Novick, an Executive Vice President at M+R, is a strategist, trainer and consultant who brings 28 years of experience on issue and electoral campaigns to the Catalist board.  Mr. Novick is a former Oregon legislator and, prior to M+R, worked as a Program Director for the Western States Center, a regional progressive organization focused on state issues in the West, and as Executive Director of the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group.  He currently works with a number of organizations, foundations and individual philanthropists providing evaluation services, strategic and political assessments. He also serves as Executive Director of Conservation Strategies, a Northwest regional organization working to increase the electoral clout of the conservation movement. 
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Michael Podhorzer

Michael Podhorzer is the Deputy Director of the Political Department of the AFL-CIO. Since 1997, he has developed and directed the Federation's strategic, targeting, opinion research, communication testing and long term planning programs. He was responsible for designing the strategic and targeting framework that supported the dramatic transformation of the Federation's political program in the 1990s. Mr. Podhorzer most recently designed and managed the AFL-CIO's pioneering 2004 "swing voter program" which combined voter file database analytics and clinical trial-style message testing for direct mail, telemarketing, email and neighborhood canvassing. Mr. Podhorzer has worked in politics for the last twenty five years. As Associate Director of Citizen Action, he managed the organization's extensive electoral activities, including successful congressional, state and local campaigns. He also helped found Advocate Development, a company that was formed to create database fundraising management software for Citizen Action's four million members.

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Laura Quinn, Chief Executive Officer

Laura Quinn is a founding partner of QRS Newmedia, Inc., which specializes in communication technology design and integration services. Founded in 1996, QRS clients have included the Democratic Presidential campaigns in 1996, 2000 and 2004; a wide of range of progressive political campaigns, organizations and non-profits; and other corporate and academic institutions. QRS's technology renovation for the Democratic National Committee in 2003-04 included complete IT, telecom and media system overhauls, as well as construction of a national voter file and new internet marketing systems, that helped the DNC increase their donor base more than five-fold and to out-fundraise the Republican National Committee for the first time in history.

Prior to these endeavors, Ms. Quinn served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Vice President Gore, as Director of the Democratic Technology and Communications Committee for the Democratic Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate, and in a variety of senior Senate and campaign positions.
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Vijay Ravindran, Chief Technology Officer

Vijay Ravindran, an Amazon.com veteran, is an experienced innovative technical leader with proven high-profile delivery. Immediately prior to joining Catalist, Mr. Ravindran was Director of the Ordering Services group at Amazon.com. He led a technical organization of over 130 engineers responsible for website consumer purchasing and order management across all of Amazon.com's websites, which included such well known features as "1-Click", "Checkout", "Shopping Cart", "Your Account", and "Super Saver Shipping". He also was a principal in the conception, delivery and ongoing management of the Amazon Prime membership program. Previously, Mr. Ravindran held a series of software management positions with Amazon.com, having joined the company as a software development engineer in 1998.

Prior to joining Amazon, Mr. Ravindran was a software consultant at American Management Systems (now CGI-AMS) in Fairfax, Virginia, and in Düsseldorf, Germany. 
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Gerald Rosenfeld

 Gerald Rosenfeld is currently Deputy Chairman of Rothschild North America. He previously held the position of Chief Executive Officer to the organization. Prior to joining Rothschild he was President of G Rosenfeld & Co LLC, an investment banking firm.

Prior to founding GR Co in 1998 he was Head of Investment Banking and a member of the Management Committee of Lazard Freres & Co LLC. Mr. Rosenfeld joined Lazard in 1992 after holding significant management positions at Bankers Trust Company, Salomon Inc. and its Salomon Brothers subsidiary and McKinsey & Company.

Mr. Rosenfeld has worked extensively on investment banking advisory issues in the industrial and technology sectors, including representation of General Motors, Chrysler, United Technologies, ITT Corporation, Tenneco, TRW, Lucas Varity PLC and Case Corporation. He has also worked on many airline transactions including for United Airlines, TWA, US Airways and Northwest Airlines. He has also advised on several of the largest technology mergers done including IBM's acquisition of Lotus Corp.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Mr. Rosenfeld was a member of the faculty of the City College of New York, New York University and the University of Maryland. Mr. Rosenfeld is a member of the Board of Directors of Resources Connection, ContiGroup Companies, and also serves on the Board of Overseers of New York University's Stern School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in applied Mathematics from New York University and is an Adjunct Professor of Finance at the New York University Stern School of Business.
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Michael Warren

Michael Warren is the Chief Operating Officer of Stonebridge International LLC. He is a member of Stonebridges Management Committee. Mr. Warren also serves as Chairman of Limbic Systems, an information technology services firm. Prior to joining Stonebridge, led corporate development at Horne Engineering Services and served as President of two technology companies, Limbic Systems and Appfluent Technologies. Mr. Warren serves on the Board of Directors of the District of Columbia Retirement Board, Civitas, a homeland security advisory and private equity firm and Riptopia, a digital music technology company.

Mr. Warren previously worked at McKinsey & Company, both as a strategic consultant in the technology and financial institutions industries and as a fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute, advising corporate leaders in the U.S. and Asian semiconductor industries. Before McKinsey, Mr. Warren served within the White House as Executive Director of the President's National Economic Council. In this role, he oversaw the preparation and dissemination of policy and political information both within and outside of the Council. A Rhodes Scholar, Mr. Warren earned degrees from Yale University and Oxford University.
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