Board of Directors
Amy Woolever
Amy Woolver is a pediatric attending and assistant pediatric residency director at Elmhurst Hospital as well as an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She has been involved with international healthcare since the inception of her medical career and has worked and studied medicine and public health in Nicaragua, Cuba and Uganda in hospital and community settings. Amy has participated in El Salvador delegations with Basic Health International since 2005 providing pediatric primary care and support to cervical cancer screening. She received her Bachelors of Arts from Yale University and her Doctor of Medicine from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Catherine D'Amato
As President and CEO of The Greater Boston Food Bank, Catherine D'Amato runs New England's largest hunger-relief organization as an extremely efficient and effective nonprofit food distribution business. Under D'Amato's vision and leadership, The Greater Boston Food Bank has transformed into a nearly $50 million charitable business ― an organization that now leads the region in getting nutritious food to more than 600 hunger-relief organizations that annually serve more than 320,000 hungry residents of the nine counties and 190 cities and towns of eastern Massachusetts. D'Amato's work has been recognized with a 2008 Pinnacle Award from the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, and she was also listed as one of the top 50 most powerful people in Boston in the May 2008 issue of Boston magazine. Her professional activities include serving as the Co-Chair of the Massachusetts Nutrition Board, on the Board of Directors of the Boston Foundation and the Massachusetts Food Association, and on the board of America's Second Harvest - The Nation's Food Bank Network. She has served on other boards, including the Newmarket Business Association, the Boston Public Market Association, and the Human Rights Campaign. D'Amato earned a Bachelor of Arts in Theology from the University of San Francisco and Business Management Certificates from Harvard University and Smith College.
Juan Felix
Dr. Felix directs Surgical Pathology at Los Angeles County Women's and Children's Hospital and heads OB-GYN Pathology at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. Among other research interests, he studies the effect of hormone replacement therapy on menopausal women. He also studies the diagnosis and treatment of preinvasive lesions of the uterine cervix, and he is currently collaborating on a women's HIV study. He teaches immunohistochemisty and molecular biology/PCR to graduate students and reviews cases with cytotechnologists. Beyond his professional and academic capacities, Dr. Felix has volunteered in the Los Angeles community, serving as physician in charge of the Fifth Annual Central City Community Health Fair for the homeless, where he directed cervical cancer screenings. While earning his medical degree and completing his residency, he trained for and participated in two Olympic Games for Puerto Rico, competing in the single sculls event.
David Einhorn
David Einhorn is the President and founder of Greenlight Capital, a long-short value-oriented hedge fund, which started with $1 million under management in 1996. Over the ensuing years, Greenlight has generated greater than a twenty-five percent annualized net return for its partners. Einhorn is the Chairman of Greenlight Capital Re, Ltd. (Nasdaq: GLRE) and serves on the boards of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research and Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life. Einhorn graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University in 1991, earning a B.A. in Government from the College of Arts and Sciences.
Rachel Masch
Dr. Rachel Masch attended Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island where she majored in International Relations. Her interest in medicine was sparked when she did volunteer work at the World Health Organization. She returned to Providence and completed her medical school degree at Brown University School of Medicine. She maintained her interest in international health care during medical school, doing clinical work in places as varied as Stockholm, Sweden and Calcutta, India. Her interest in women's reproductive rights and health care issues steered her into a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology, and she did her internship and residency at The Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Reading, Pennsylvania. After completing her training, she joined the faculty at New York University School of Medicine. In keeping with her desire to further women's health care internationally, Dr. Masch obtained a Masters in Public Health from Columbia University. This degree enabled her to further her work in reproductive rights. Dr. Masch became a Fellowship Director in Family Planning at NYU/Bellevue. She has continued her international work, providing medical consultation and clinical care in American Samoa, Vietnam, South Africa and El Salvador. Dr. Masch has recently joined the faculty at Beth Israel Medical Center where she is the Associate Director of the Division of Family Planning and is helping to start another family planning service. She has won numerous teaching awards and continues to do research in contraception, family planning and the culturally sensitive provision of women's health care.
Ricardo A. Sagrera
In 2009, Ricardo founded Viceroy Capital Advisors, a NY-based advisory firm focused on alternative investments. Ricardo has been investing in private equity in Latin America for the last seven years, mostly in the renewable energy sector which provides clean electricity and serves underdeveloped countries. Prior to founding Viceroy Capital, he spent 3 years at a Latin America-focused private equity firm investing in power projects in the region. Ricardo is a founding member of Fundación Sagrera Palomo, a family foundation focused on education, which started a highly successful and replicable initiative called Programa Empresarial Supérate! (Spanish for ³Improve Yourself!²). PES is an academically strict 3-year after-school program for young boys and girls between the ages of 13-18 that teaches English, computer skills & values in a quality setting with modern equipment. PES has now been adopted by several families and corporations in El Salvador and Panama. Fundación Sagrera Palomo is the only family foundation in El Salvador that has been granted a matching funds program ($1.5M) by USAID. This will allow PES to replicate its program within Central America by matching funds up to construct and operate schools, which gives children the tools and motivation to stay in school; go to college; get a higher paying, value added job; and have a better quality of life. Ricardo has a B.A. in Political Science from Boston College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.