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• Richard N. Foster

  Managing Partner, Millbrook Management Group LLC

   

   

  Mr. Foster is managing partner of Millbrook Management Group LLC. Prior to forming Millbrook Mr. Foster was a senior partner and director of McKinsey and Company, where his most recent position was as managing director of McKinsey's Private Equity practice. Mr. Foster joined the Firm in 1973, was elected partner in 1977, and senior partner in 1982. Mr. Foster has written two best selling business books, Innovation: The Attacker's Advantage (1986) and Creative Destruction (2001), that focus on the relationship between innovation, capital formation and destruction, and risk. Mr. Foster is a member of the following boards: Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital, where he is chairman of the Operations and Policy Committee; the W. M. Keck Foundation, the Council for Aid to Education, where he is chairman of the Strategy Committee, the Trust Company of the West, Athenahealth, Cardax Pharmaceuticals, and Innosight. He is based in New York, NY.

  
  
  

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  November 30, 2005

  An Exponentially Expanding Future from Exponentially Shrinking Technology

  Speaker:	Ray Kurzweil, Chairman and chief executive officer, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.; author, The Singularity is Near
  Presider:	Richard N. Foster, Managing partner, Foster Health Partners, LLC

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  November 30, 2005

  An Exponentially Expanding Future From Exponentially Shrinking Technology (audio)

  Speaker:	Ray Kurzweil, Chairman & CEO, Kurzweil Technologies, Inc.; Author, "The Singularity is Near"
  Presider:	Richard N. Foster, Managing Partner, Foster Health Partners, LLC

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  November 16, 2005

  Council on Foreign Relations Conference on the Global Threat of Pandemic Influenza, Session 4: The Business Community’s Role [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]

  Speakers:	Richard N. Foster, Managing partner, Foster Health Partners, LLC Gerald Komisar, Senior vice president, global risk assessments, American International Group William Kinane, Vice president, international division,, Guardsmark LLC
  Presider:	Kathryn Pilgrim, Anchor and correspondent, CNN

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  November 16, 2005

  Council on Foreign Relations Conference on the Global Threat of Pandemic Influenza, Session 4: The Business Community’s Role (audio)

  Speakers:	Richard N. Foster, Managing partner, Foster Health Partners, LLC Gerald Komisar, Senior vice president, global risk assessments, American International Group William Kinane, Vice president, international division, Guardsmark LLC

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