Board of Directors

Edward W. Scott
Chairman of the Board

Founder of Friends of the Global Fight, Ed Scott also serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for International Economics, and is also is the founder of the Center for Global Development. In 2002, he and three other founders, worked alongside Bono and Bobby Shriver to create DATA (Debt AIDS Trade Africa).

In 1995, Ed Scott founded BEA Systems, Inc, where he served both as President and Executive Vice President for World Wide Field Operations, supervising BEA’s sales, marketing and service operations.

Prior to founding BEA, Mr. Scott was executive vice president in charge of worldwide sales and marketing at Pyramid Technology. Mr. Scott also was one of the founders of Sun Microsystems Federal Division, Sun Federal. Mr. Scott was an executive in the U.S. government for 17 years, where he served under seven Attorneys General and three Secretaries of Transportation. In his last government assignment he served as an Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of Transportation. He holds a Masters degree from Michigan State University, and is a graduate of the University of Oxford and Michigan State University.

Mr. Scott serves on the Board of the Florida Institute of Technology, Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy and the King Center for the Performing Arts in Melbourne, Florida. He also is the Chairman of the Florida Beer Company and is the owner and operator of the Kiwi Tennis Club in Indian Harbour Beach, Florida.

Jack Valenti (in memoriam)
President and Board member

For 38 years, Jack Valenti served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Motion Picture Association of America. He resigned as CEO in 2004, but continues to serve as a senior consultant to the MPAA. He has a B.A. from the University of Houston and an M.B.A. from Harvard. In 1952, he co-founded in Houston the advertising/political consulting agency of Weekley & Valenti where he met the man who would have the largest impact on his life, Lyndon B. Johnson. Valenti’s agency was in charge of the press during the visit of President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson to Texas. Valenti was in the motorcade (six cars back of the President) in Dallas on November 22, 1963. Within an hour of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Valenti was aboard Air Force One flying back to Washington with the new President as the first newly hired Special Assistant to the President.

On June 1, 1966, Valenti resigned his White House post to become President and Chief Executive Officer of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), the third man in its history to guide the MPAA (founded in 1922). In 2004, he stepped down as CEO of the MPAA to become president of Friends of the Global Fight.

T. Davis Bunn
Board Member

Before becoming a full-time novelist, Davis Bunn was Director of an international business advisory group based in Dusseldorf, West Germany that operated in eleven countries. Raised in North Carolina, he left the United States after completing his undergraduate studies at Wake Forest.  He first took a Masters in international economics and finance in London, then began assignments that took him to more than thirty countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.  Since his first book, The Presence, was released in 1990, Davis has had more than nineteen national bestsellers.  His books have sold in excess of four million copies in sixteen languages.  His books have been Featured or Main Selections with Doubleday Bookclub, Literary Guild, Mystery Guild, Compass Bookclub, Word Bookclub, and Crossings Bookclub.  Davis currently serves as Writer In Residence at Regent’s Park College, Oxford University.


Peter Chernin
Board Member

Peter Chernin for the last ten years has been the President and Chief Operating Officer of News Corporation, one of the world’s largest media enterprises. He oversees a vast diversified global portfolio: production and distribution of films and television programs, sports programs, television, satellite and cable broadcasting and News Corp’s expansion into digital media and Internet space. Under his leadership, Fox has seen enormous growth in cable and satellite, its film studio has experienced four consecutive years of record profitability and its television production unit has become Hollywood’s most prolific. Mr. Chernin sits on the boards of News Corporation, DIRECTV, Gemstar TV Guide and American Express.


Jonathan Klein
Board Member

Jonathan Klein, co-founder and CEO of Getty Images, is an outspoken advocate for the role of imagery in communications and media as a catalyst for change. Mr. Klein guided Getty Images from its inception in 1995 to its position as the global leader in visual communications. In 2005, he received top honors on American Photo's list of the "100 Most Important People in Photography," and he was recently named in the March 2006 Fast Company issue as one of "The Fast 50 - The people who will change the way we work and live over the next ten years." Mr. Klein also serves on the Corporate Advisory Board of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, the Board of Trustees of the Groton School and on the boards of Getty Images, Real Networks and Getty Investments.


Dale Mathias
Board Member

Dale Mathias is the co-founder of a private equity fund of funds focused on the emerging markets, whose purpose is to provide a flow of equity capital to emerging market investment funds that provide private capital to high growth companies around the world. 

Dale served as a pro bono advisor to a bipartisan Presidential Commission focused on U.S. foreign aid practices and policies (The HELP Commission).  Her work was focused specifically on private sector development, employment creation, and the role of investment capital in impoverished countries.

She has been an officer or principal of three private equity funds, initially, with Alan Patricof at APAX’s-related venture capital and investment banking arms.  Subsequently, she was a Vice President and Principal with two Lazard Frères & Co.-affiliated funds, Corporate Partners, L.P., a partnership which invested in large minority stake equity positions in public and private companies, and Centre Partners, L.P., a middle market buyout fund.

Dale was an Associate Dean of Columbia Business School for more than seven years.  She has lived and worked in Southern Africa, and has a B.A. from Harvard University. Currently she sits on the boards of the Harvard Business School (Dean’s Board of Advisors), Refugees International and the Lyme Disease Research Foundation of Maryland.

David Valentine
Board Member

David Valentine is currently the Chief Operating Officer and Principal of Victory Park Capital, a private investment firm. Prior to co-founding Victory Park, Mr. Valentine served as the Portfolio Manager of Private Investments for a Chicago-based hedge fund as well as the Global Head Private Placements for UBS Investment Bank.

Mr. Valentine currently serves on the Board of Directors for Innovomed, Inc., Advanced Biomedica, Inc., Lime Energy, Inc. and Trustwave, Inc. He graduated from Washington and Lee University.

Adam Waldman
Board Member

Adam Waldman is the Co-Founder and President of The Endeavor Group, a boutique, Washington, DC based firm that represents the business, philanthropic and other personal interests of a select group of individual clients. He serves on the Board of Directors of several privately held companies in which clients hold significant equity interests, as well as on the boards of NGO’s and other non-profit organizations he helped create. From 1994-1999, Mr. Waldman was a corporate lawyer in the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He served in the United States Department of Justice from 1999-2001.

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