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Allen Andersson
Allen Andersson is chairman of Paperboy Ventures LLC, a merchant bank that brings underappreciated scientific discoveries to commercial maturity. Allen studied mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1960s, taught calculus at the Universidad Nacional in Honduras. He co-founded Interleaf, a word-processing software developer that went public in 1986, and LightSpeed International, a telecom software company acquired by Cisco Systems in 1997. His other initiatives have included software applications in high-energy physics, medical imagery, typography and linguistics.
Henry W. Riecken
Henry W. Riecken, a psychologist, is the Boyer Professor Emeritus from the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior appointments include associate director for education at the National Science Foundation, and associate director for planning and evaluation at the National Library of Medicine. His experience in the private sector includes service for many years on the boards of directors of the Foundation for Child Development and the William T. Grant Foundation, both in New York. He is one of the charter members of the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences.
Susan Riecken
Susan Riecken co-founded the Riecken Foundation with Allen Andersson in 2000. A graphic designer, illustrator and publisher for many years, her illustrations have appeared in more than 40 publications, including The New York Times and Gourmet magazine. Printed pieces of her work have been featured in the design periodical PRINT Regional Design Annual, and she was included in “Women Illustrators of New England,” an invitational exhibition at Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library. Susan has a degree in art from Antioch College.
Malcolm Butler
Malcolm Butler, president of the Riecken Foundation, has extensive experience in Latin America. The former president and CEO of Partners of the Americas also worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development as mission director in Bolivia, Peru, Lebanon and the Philippines. At USAID, he guided reconstruction aid to Lebanon, famine relief in Ethiopia and U.S. economic support for the Philippines' return to democracy; he also served as interim assistant administrator for Latin America and the Caribbean and created the Bureau for Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States. Previously, he was at the Department of State, Office of Management and Budget and on staff with the National Security Council. He is a past president of Pax World Services, a subsidiary of Mercy Corps, and former program director of Outward Bound.
Robert E. White
Robert E. White, a former U.S. ambassador to Paraguay and to El Salvador, is president of the Center for International Policy, a Washington, D.C.-based incubator that promotes international cooperation, demilitarization and respect for human rights. He has led the organization since 1989. White retired from the U.S. Foreign Service after a 25-year career that specialized in Latin American affairs, with a focus on Central America. Additionally, he served as Peace Corps director for Latin America, deputy permanent representative to the Organization of America States and was a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Robert leads an ongoing effort to reform U.S. intelligence agencies.
Matthew Colburn
Matthew Colburn is vice president of Prosperity and Democracy, LLC, a private direct investment firm nurturing innovation and entrepreneurship throughout Central America, with a special emphasis on initiatives linked to renewable energy and media. Previously, Matthew was the Riecken Foundation’s first Honduras country director and, then, regional director for Central America. He helped establish one of the Foundation’s earliest libraries. From 1999-2001, Matthew was involved in business development work for the Peace Corps in Honduras, providing cooperatives with business training and teaching information technology to high school students. He holds a degree in international business administration from the University of Connecticut.
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