Directors & Advisors

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Battery Dance Company's illustrious Board of Directors provides crucial assistance to the Company in charting its course. The Board brings to this task a breadth of experience and a range of voices. They have come to the Company through many avenues including the Arts and Business Council, the City Bar Association of New York City, and the Volunteer Consulting Group's Boardnet/USA. Their leadership, innovation, and dedication have made possible the Company's rapid recovery from the devastating effects of September 11, 2001 and guiding the Company in its new initiatives in Tribeca and around the Globe.

Cynthia M. Heelen, Board Chair
Cynthia M. Heelan & Associates

Jody Rasch, Vice Chair
Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances at Moody's Research Labs

Audrey Rohan, Secretary
Attorney

Henry Shilling , Treasurer
Senior Vice President, Moody’s Investors Service

Jonathan Hollander, Board President
President & Artistic Director, Battery Dance Company

Lester Nelson, Esq.

Michele Clarke-Ceres
Vice President, WorldCeres, Inc.

Dr. Patricia Donohue
President, Mercer County Community College

Stephen Dwyre
Managing Director, Corporate Banking, North America
Lloyds Banking Group

Dr. Helena Kane Finn
Vice President & Director of Programs, American Council on Germany

Shea Gopaul
Special Adviser, World Health Organization, Geneva Switzerland

Judi R. Kilachand
Asia Business & Strategy Consultant

EMERITUS BOARD

Molly Heines, Chair Emerita

Harsha Murthy, Chair Emeritus

Zachary Snow, Chair Emeritus, Third Point

Susan Sullivan, Chair Emerita, Verizon Foundation

Robert Anker, Attorney-at-Law

Robert Cohn, Bonnier Corporation

Lyle Landon, Cameron Company

Angelina Painter

Vishaka Hussain Pathak

Johannes Van de Pol, Van de Pol & Partners

David Walden, Smythe, Masterson & Judd

Daniel Weiner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL

Swati Apte

Holger Backhaus-Maul, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

Francine Berkowitz, Smithsonian Institution

Amit Bhattacharyya, International Institute for South Asian Affairs

Curtis S. Chin, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Asian Development Bank

Steven Lawry, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Jacek Luminski, Silesian Dance Theatre, Poland

Shalini Mimani, Columbia University

Robert Satloff, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Dr. Milena Savova, New York University

Aroon Shivdasani, Indo-American Arts Council

Steven Sokol, World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh

Sundaram Tagore, Sundaram Tagore Gallery

Morris Zand, Zand International Inc., Geneva

AMBASSADORS

Christy Dietrich, Wharton School

Keren Lipnowski, Morgan Stanley Smith Barney

Ameena Meer, Take-Out Media

Aretha Miller, New York Charter Schools

Kedar Oak, New York Hospital Queens

Erik Patton, Museum of Modern Art

Linda Rebbel, Moody’s Foundation

Emad Salem

Komal Shah-Kapoor

Tessie Shih, Harvard University

Allison Strouse

Marlo Tablante

Hans-Jakob Wilhelm, New School University