Thomas Lynch is the Founder and Senior Managing Director of Mill Road Capital. Prior to Mill Road Capital he was Founder and Senior Managing Director of Lazard Capital Partners; Managing Director at the Blackstone Group, where he was the first investment professional hired to work exclusively in the private equity group; and a Consultant and Project Manager for the Monitor Company, a management consulting firm founded by Michael Porter. Mr....

John Slavic is the founder, president, and CEO of Slavic401k. He also oversees all functions of the Slavic group of companies, including Slavic Integrated Administration, Slavic Investment Corporation, Slavic Mutual Funds Management Corporation, and PLANRight. Mr. Slavic received a master of science degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor of science degree at Florida State University. He holds numerous specialized licenses...

Kevin Roberts is president of the Heritage Foundation. He previously served as the chief executive officer of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), an Austin-based nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute and the largest state think tank in the nation. Under Roberts’ leadership, TPPF more than doubled in size. He also expanded the Texas think tank’s influence nationwide, opening an office in Washington, D.C., so that TPPF research...

John A. Burtka IV is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He graduated from Hillsdale College with degrees in French and Christian Studies and earned a graduate degree in theology from La Faculté Jean Calvin in Aix-en-Provence, France. Johnny began his career at ISI, where he served as a development officer. He returned to ISI after four years at The American Conservative magazine, where he served as...

Larry Arnn is President of Hillsdale College. Dr. Arnn is on the board of directors of The Heritage Foundation, the Henry Salvatori Center of Claremont McKenna College and The Claremont Institute. Dr. Arnn is also a professor of politics and history at Hillsdale. He teaches courses on Aristotle, Winston Churchill and the American Constitution. Arnn was an ISI Weaver Fellow at Claremont Graduate School.

Alejandro “Alex” Chafuen is Managing Director, International, of the Acton Institute and founder of the Hispanic American Center for Economic Research. He is a past president of the Atlas Network. A graduate of Grove City College and the Argentine Catholic University in Buenos Aires, he also holds a PhD in economics from International College, California. Dr. Chafuen writes a regular column for Forbes on economic policy and international...

Will Long is the Founder and CEO of Numinar Analytics, a political technology startup combining voter data and machine learning to help campaigns win elections. Since its founding in Will’s senior year college dorm, Numinar has been deployed on hundreds of political campaigns and helped reach millions of voters. Before Numinar, he spent time in Silicon Valley building Machine Vision for Amazon Go’s no-checkout stores and then building Big...

Mark C. Henrie is President of the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation. He is the former Chief Academic Officer and former Senior Vice-President of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He was the editor of the Intercollegiate Review and senior editor of Modern Age.  He was educated at Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and the University of Cambridge.

Michael Gleba is Chairman/CEO, Treasurer and Trustee of the Sarah Scaife Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, Mr. Gleba practiced law, first with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP in Pittsburgh and then with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP in Pittsburgh and Jakarta, Indonesia. His practice areas involved various aspects of corporate law. Mr. Gleba received his JD cum laude and MBA with high honors from Duquesne University and his bachelor's...

Christopher Long is Managing Director at Silvercrest Asset Management Group. Before returning to the financial services field, he spent five and a half years as ISI’s President and Chief Executive Officer. He has also served as Managing Director of a global investment bank and asset management firm, as Chief Executive Officer and co-owner of hedge fund advisor Endowment Capital Group LP, and Chief Operating Officer of Friess Associates LLC and...

Alfred S. Regnery has served on the ISI board since 2002. He is the former publisher of the American Spectator, a monthly journal of politics and culture. Previously he was the president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, Inc., the firm founded in 1947 by his father, Henry Regnery, who was formerly Chairman of the ISI Board. Mr. Regnery served in the Department of Justice during the Reagan administration and as counsel to the Senate Judiciary...

Byron W. Smith is Managing Director at Mountain Group Partners (MGP), a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investing in the areas of Human Health, AgTech, and B2B Tech. Before MGP, Byron had a distinguished career in the development of wireless telecommunications and broadband internet. He has taught entrepreneurship at Vanderbilt’s Owen School of Management as an adjunct faculty member. He began his marketing career in brand...