Advisory Board
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The council of alumni for social enterprise’s advisory council sustains the work of CASE’s fellowship program and oversees the work of the awards committee. CASE’s advisory council is respresented by sustaining members who commit to funding one or more case fellows per year in perpetuity.
Current sustaining members of the advisory council
Olivia Fussell
Olivia is President and founder of Carbon Credit Capital LLC, a company that invests in renewable energy and generates carbon credits. She is also founder of CINCS LLC, a company that will invest in tropical forestry projects that can generate carbon credits. The company is a pioneer in the measurment and monitoring of biomass carbon sequestration in forests and other natural habitats. She is responsible for overall executive management and the direction of both organizations.
She has a lifelong dedication to environmental affairs and has global experience having worked in several developing countries. Olivia is a successful entrepreneur, having founded and managed Fussell Development Corp., a multimillion dollar real estate development and construction company. She is also a co-founder and supporter of the Council of Alumni for Social Enterprise (CASE).
Olivia holds a Bsc from Greenwich University in Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture, a Masters from Harvard University in Land Use Planning and a Masters from Columbia University in International Affairs focusing on environmental finance and policy.
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Francis Finlay
Francis Finlay is non-executive Chairman of Clay Finlay LLC, a New York-based institutional investment management firm with offices in Europe and Asia. Prior to co-founding the firm in 1982, Francis held senior international investment management positions at Morgan Guaranty Trust in New York and Lazard Freres in New York and previously Paris, and was a member of the Investment Policy Committees of both institutions. He is a Director of a number of investment companies and a member of the Oxford University Investment Committee. Educated at Oxford University, where he is an Honorary Fellow of Merton College and a member of the Chancellor’s Court of Benefactors, Francis also served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Business 1981-1986. He is currently a Governor of the London Business School and of the Ditchley Foundation, Chairman of the James Martin 21st Century Foundation, Co-Chairman of the EastWest Institute in New York, a Trustee of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and a member of several international advisory boards. Francis is Chairman of the American Friends of the British Museum.
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Steven M. Benardete
Steven M. Benardete is Chairman is Vice Chairman of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York. He is also a trustee of the Dutchess Land Conservancy and the Foundation for Community Health. Mr. Benardete retired as Managing Director from Morgan Stanley after twenty three years at the firm.
Steven received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1982 and received his undergraduate degree from University of Pennsylvania in 1978 where he majored in Mathematics and Statistics.
Mr. Benardete sits on numerous not for profit boards focusing on the environment and healthcare.
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Judith Benardete
Judith Benardete is Chairman of Boro Networks, a U.S. based provider of internet phones systems (IP-PBXs) to large commercial enterprises in China. Ms. Benardete spent a total of ten years in Venture Capital and Consulting where she worked for Geocapital Partners and McKinsey & Company respectively. Prior to business school Judith worked for ten years in start-up companies in Cambridge and Newton Massachusetts (Gold Hill Computers and Scenario, Inc.)
Judith received her MBA from Harvard Business School in 1995 and received her undergraduate degree from Wellesley College in 1984 where she majored in Political Science with a focus on International Development.
Ms. Benardete sits on the Deans Councils at the Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy.