BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Carolyn Asbury, ScMPH, PhD, Board Chair, is Senior Consultant at the Dana Foundation, where she supports clinical research in immunology and in neuroscience, including addiction. She is also Senior Fellow of the University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute where she conducts research on orphan medical drugs. Dr. Asbury is formerly of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and a former Director of The Pew Charitable Trusts’ Health and Human Services Program.

Mary Esteves is President of Nova Consulting, Inc., an organization that helps well-run firms become extraordinary companies based on over 30 years of management and organizational consulting to heads of major corporations. A counseling psychologist with extensive management experience, Ms. Esteves is dedicated to helping executives attain excellence in their marketplace by optimizing their leadership and employee talent for greater productivity and profitability. Her expertise in organizational and job competency assessment; motivation and management training; and career planning, appraisal and development, spans national and international markets ranging from pharmaceutical, chemical, transportation and consumer products to telecommunication, computer, financial and advertising. Other distinguished consulting organizations she has led include Integra Consulting (President), a research-based organization dedicated to improving individual, group and organizational functioning; the Hay Group (Owner-Partner and Managing Director of its North and South America Human Resources Planning and Development Business Unit), dedicated to helping public and private sector groups attain competitive advantage through selection, appraisal and development of human resources; and McBer and Company (Officer and Senior Vice President) where she helped clients in numerous industries reduce product development cycle time and improve bottom-line results.

A published author on entrepreneurial innovation, organizational competencies, life and career planning, goal setting, values clarification, and organizational effectiveness for women, Ms. Esteves has also served as a psychologist and consultant to a community hospital and social services agency. She holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology and has pursued advanced education with National Training Laboratories and the Institute of Social Research at the University of Michigan, among other institutions.

Mathea Falco, Esq. is President of Drug Strategies, a nonprofit research institute that identifies effective approaches to substance abuse. The author of The Making of a Drug-Free America: Programs That Work, Ms. Falco comments frequently on drug policy in the media and in public speeches across the country. Until 1993, she was Director of Health Policy, Department of Public Health, Cornell University Medical College in New York City. From 1977 to 1981, Ms. Falco was Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters. In earlier positions, she served as Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee, and as Special Assistant to the President of the Drug Abuse Council. Ms. Falco has been a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, a Trustee of Radcliffe College, and the Chair of the Visiting Committee on Harvard University Health Services. She also has served on the national boards of Girl Scouts, USA; Big Brothers of America; the International Women's Health Coalition, the Ploughshares Fund; and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Ms. Falco is a graduate of Radcliffe College and Yale Law School.

Y. Jae Kim, Esq. is an intellectual property attorney with Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel, LLP, a Philadelphia based intellectual property law firm. Mr. Kim’s practice focuses on patent procurement, patent litigation, and counseling, but extends to licensing, trademarks and copyrights. Prior to joining Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel, Mr. Kim was an intellectual property attorney at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld in Philadelphia, PA and Darby & Darby in New York. He also has over a decade of experience working in the medical device industry designing, developing, and managing medical device products worldwide. Mr. Kim received his B.S. in chemical engineering and J.D. from Rutgers University, and is a member of the New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania State Bars.

Herbert D. Kleber, MD is Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Division on Substance Abuse at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Until 2001, he was Executive Vice-President and Medical Director of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), a policy center he and Joseph Califano founded in 1992. He previously served for more than two years as the Deputy Director for Demand Reduction at the Office of National Drug Control Policy in the White House. He has received numerous awards, is listed as one of the "Best Doctors in America" and "Best Doctors in New York," was elected in 1996 to The Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, and serves on the National Advisory Council to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

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