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Retired Founder and Chairman of Boston Scientific Corporation a 16,000 employee, $6 billion world-wide company that is a leader in the field of “Less Invasive Medicine.” As one of the pioneers of less invasive medicine, he holds numerous patents and has published and lectured extensively on the technology of various medical devices and on the technical, social, economic, and political trends and issues affecting healthcare. His major interests are science literacy for children, education, and the process by which new technology is invented, developed, and introduced to society. Chair, Governance Committee, Rocky Mountain Institute; investor, artist, farmer, philanthropist; President, ARIA Foundation; Director, Natural Resources Defense Council, Redefining Progress; Worldwatch Institute; Futures for Children, Population Communications International, Kripalu Yoga Fellowship. Veterinarian. Trustee of Merck Family Fund, Burr and Burton Academy, The Farm School. Chairman and founder (1973), Interface, Inc. Millennium Award, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of Year for the Southeast Region, Sustainability Leadership Award 2001; Mitchell Award 2001. Co-chair, President's Council on Sustainable Development; author, Mid-Course Correction. Artist, fine art painting, exhibited widely in U.S. and Japan with works owned by numerous private and public collections. Trustee of The Ayrshire Foundation. Chair, Development Committee; Artist, philanthropist, lead investor in one of the largest residential and solar community project in the nation following the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Homes (LEED-H) guidelines, in Mosier, Oregon. Director of the Caulkins Family Foundation. Held an apprenticeship at the Public Art Project at Penn. Station, New York City. Former founder, CEO and Chairman of PowerLight, a leading and global supplier of PV products and systems. Author of numerous papers and holds over 30 patents on building-integrated photovoltaic and related products. Engineering Director, Hydrodynamics Lab, University of Chicago; Mechanical and Optical Engineer and Project Manager, various aerospace companies; Founder and former President, Alphametrics, Ltd., manufacturer of precision light measuring equipment; Co-founder and former Chairman of Computers for Kids Foundation; Board member of Aspen Center for Physics and Independence Pass Foundation; Member of National Council of NPR and Anderson Ranch Arts Center; Co-author, with wife, Judith Barnard, of eleven contemporary novels. Chair, Finance Committee; Former executive director, Aspen Art Museum, 1992-1999; Director of Development and Public Relations, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, 1990-1992. Trustee of Denver Art Museum and Spiritual Paths Foundation and Chair and Trustee, Aspen Art Museum Foundation. Founder and Managing Partner of Telesoft Partners, a special situations venture capital firm. Over the last fifteen years, he has overseen investing in and helping build 61 companies, of which 33 companies have gone public or been acquired. Earlier in his career, Arjun was a Strategy Consultant for high-tech clients with McKinsey, where he led top management projects for Apple, AT&T, AMD, Siemens/ROLM and Vodafone. Arjun serves on the boards of Calient Networks, LogLogic, Nexant and Validity Sensors. He is a Henry Crown Fellow and Trustee of the Aspen Institute Chair, Audit Committee; President of the German Marshall Fund since 1995; President of the Joyce Foundation from 1986 to 1992; employed with Richard J. Dennis, a Chicago investor and philanthropist; created a consulting firm working with nonprofit and public sector clients including the City of Chicago and the Environmental Defense Fund; serves on the Board of the nonprofit Thomas B. Fordham Foundation and as an independent trustee of the Van Kampen mutual funds. Cofounder and Chief Scientist of RMI Chairman of Bright Automotive, an RMI spin-off company. Founder and Managing Partner of Vision Ridge Partners, L.L.C. Former Managing Director at The Baupost Group, L.L.C., a $15 billion investment firm. Mr. Munger's responsibilities included oversight of the firm's European equity investments and participation on the Trading Room Operations Committee. Chair of the Governing Board of Edvestors and Chairman of the Massachusetts Advisory Board of Stand for Children. Executive Director and General Counsel of RMI;President, Windstar Land Conservancy; member of Advisory Board to Catawba College’s Center for the Environment. CEO of RMI;Former CEO of American Fundware; Vice President of the Public Sector Solutions division at Intuit; member of Advisory Board of the University of Colorado-Denver Business School; serves on the Board of Directors of the Kripalu Yoga Foundation, and the Curious Theater Company. Partner at Alston & Bird since 1985, specializing in corporate governance, real estate and conservation issues. Former Chairman of the Board for the Trust for Public Land; Chairman of the Chattahoochee River Coordinating Committee. Serves on the Board of Directors of Industrial Developments International and of EDAW, one of the largest land consulting firms in the world. Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Yale Divinity School. Lead Trustee, Rocky Mountain Institute; Chief Communications Officer of The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Serves on boards of the German Marshall Fund, Van Kampen Mutual Funds, the Colorado College, Neurogen Corporation and Intelligent Medical Devices LLC, and the Institute for Defense Analyses; Former Associate Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget; consulting partner, Coopers and Lybrand; member, Washington Post editorial board; Chief Operating Officer, The National Academies.