IECG Directors

Mark Sinclair is a Partner with the regional accounting firm of Whitley Penn LLP and is the Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance at the UT Dallas. Mark is also Vice Chairman of the Board of the North Texas Regional Center for Innovation and Commercialization. Mark is a retired Partner with Ernst & Young where he spent 38 years and was the Strategic Growth Markets Leader and Venture Capital Advisory Group Leader for the southwest area.

Mark’s experience comes from auditing and advising public and private corporations, generally with global operations, ranging from very large conglomerates, to high growth venture capital and private equity backed companies. His primary focus has been working with the management and Boards of companies in the technology, life sciences, manufacturing, mining and service industries as they strive to minimize the execution risks of their high growth strategies.

Mark has been active in the community having been on 30 non-profit Boards in the Dallas area and serving as Chairman of 10 of them. The Boards ranged from civic Boards with an economic development focus, to Boards of charitable and professional organizations. Mark has chaired two capital campaigns for non-profits. Mark has also been involved in numerous political campaigns, generally issue oriented, serving as Treasurer for nine and Chairman of one.

David is a Principal with Roach Howard Smith & Barton in Dallas, a specialty insurance broker focused on serving the needs of public and private middle‐market companies. His responsibilities include leading the Directors and Officers Liability Practice and International operations. David started his insurance career as an underwriter and then moved into various executive positions working for national insurance companies. 20 years later, he joined Roach Howard and in 2009 & 2010 was recognized by Risk & Insurance Magazine as a finalist in the annual Power Brokers listing for exceptional client service in the Global Broker category. David holds the designation of Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter and is an active member of the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations. He sits on several private company boards and serves as a Director and Advisor to the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance at the University of Texas, Dallas.

Anthony J. LeVecchio is President and Owner of The James Group, Inc., a general business consulting firm that has advised CEOs across a wide range of industries in both public and private companies. He currently serves as the Audit Chairman and financial oversight executive for UniPixel, Inc. (UNXL) and ViewPoint Financial Group (VPFG.) His prior public company boards include Microtune, Inc., DG FastChannel, Inc., and Maxum Health, Inc. As a public company director, he has experience with IPOs; secondary offerings; Sarbanes Oxley preparedness and qualification for 404 accelerated filers; NASDAQ de-listing and relisting; SEC stock option backdating investigations and class action lawsuit resolution. He has served on the board of over 15 private companies ranging from pre-revenue startups to companies with over $50 million in annual revenues. In this capacity, he has guided companies through all phases of corporate growth including startup operations; achieving profitability; asset, debt and equity financing; and merger and acquisitions.

Prior to forming The James Group in 1988, Mr. LeVecchio was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for VHA Southwest, Inc., a regional healthcare system. Previous to that, Mr. LeVecchio held financial management positions with Phillips Information Systems, Exxon Office Systems and Xerox Corporation.

Mr. LeVecchio received a Bachelor of Economics from Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida and an M.B.A. in Finance from the same institution where he remains an active alumnus and member of their alumni board of directors.

Angelina Kwan is the Managing Director at Stratford Upon Avon Finance Limited. Prior to that she was the Chief Operating Officer – Asia Pacific for Cantor Fitzgerald and was responsible for all operating aspects of the company’s existing businesses and future ventures in the Asia Pacific region. Before joining the Group, she was with the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission. There she was a Director of the Supervision of Markets Division as well as a Director of Enforcement. Ms. Kwan has over 23 years of experience in Management, Regulation, Compliance, Audit and Internal Audit across a wide range of businesses in both Asia and the U.S.

A Certified Public Accountant both in Hong Kong and the United States, Ms. Kwan holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Accounting), an M.B.A. (Finance) and a Bachelor of Laws.

Alan Stein is a Development Executive for Pricewaterhouse Coopers in Dallas. He is a career management professional with extensive experience in staffing, recruiting, outplacement and coaching/counseling.

Stein founded and facilitates Career Continuum and the Women’s Boardroom Initiative. Career Continuum is a networking group for senior financial professionals in career transition. The Women’s Boardroom Initiative promotes women’s involvement in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. He also co-facilitates Drake Beam Morin’s Executive Forum, a networking group for senior executives in career transition. Alan currently serves on the boards of The Board Connection and the Sammons Center for the Arts, and is a Career Services Director for FEI.

Daniel Burrus is considered one of the world’s leading technology forecasters and business strategists. He is the founder and CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients better understand how technological, social and business forces are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities.

Over the past quarter century, he has established a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of accurately predicting the future of technological change and its direct impact on the business world.

He is a strategic advisor to executives from many Fortune 500 companies, helping them to develop successful competitive strategies based on the creative application of leading-edge technologies. His client list includes companies such as Microsoft, GE, American Express, Google, Toshiba, Procter & Gamble, Honda, ExxonMobil, and IBM.

He is the author of six books, including The New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-sellerFlash Foresight: How To See The Invisible and Do The Impossible, as well as the highly acclaimed Technotrends. He is also a featured blogger on the topics of innovation, change and the future for CNBC, Huffington Post, and Wired Magazine to name a few.

He has been the featured subject of several PBS television specials and has appeared on programs such as CNN, CNBC, and Bloomberg, and is quoted in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Fortune, and Forbes. The New York Times has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus in the nation.

He is a highly innovative entrepreneur who has founded and managed six businesses, three of which were national leaders in the United States in the first year.

Richard Leblanc is an Associate Professor, Law, Governance & Ethics, at York University in Toronto, Canada. He is the founder of the LinkedIn Group Boards and Advisors, with over 2,500 members, blogs for Canadian Business, has taught governance at leading business, law and professional faculties (including Harvard University during the summer of 2012), and is a former recipient of “Canada’s Top 40 Under 40.™” His research and teaching are in the areas of boardroom dynamics, leadership and competencies, as well as executive compensation, risk and regulatory compliance. He is the lead author of “Inside the Boardroom: How Boards Really Work and the Coming Revolution in Corporate Governance.”

A lawyer in Ontario Canada and Certified Management Consultant, Richard holds a PhD from the Schulich School of Business, an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, and an LLM from the Osgoode Hall Law School. He regularly advises NYSE, TSX and Nonprofit boards.

A director of NYSE and NASDAQ listed companies, as well as private companies, John Roeder was the IECG’s first director in residence. He is a certified public accountant and spent more than 30 years with the firm of Arthur Andersen, where he was an office managing partner.

His wide range of experience includes managing rapid change related to deregulation, technology, bankruptcy, litigation and acquisitions. He was asked to serve a second year as an IECG director in residence because of his outstanding contributions to the UT Dallas School of Management and the IECG.