Advisory Board

Dr. Joan Fallon | Curemark

Dr. Joan Fallon, Founder and CEO of Curemark, is considered a visionary scientist, champion and advocate for the health and well-being of children worldwide. Curemark is focused on the development of novel therapies to treat diseases for which there are no or limited treatments. Curemark’s first drug CM-AT is targeted to treat autism and is still in clinical trials. CM-AT has received Fast Track status from the FDA. Joan holds over 200 patents worldwide. She served on the ADA Board of Advisors for the new Yankee Stadium. She holds appointments as a Senior Advisor to the Henry Crown Fellows at The Aspen Institute, is a Distinguished Fellow at the Athena Center for Leadership at Barnard College. She is a board member of DREAM the charter school in Harlem, formerly known as Harlem RBI. She is a proud alumna and Trustee of Franklin & Marshall College. In 2017, Joan was named EY Entrepreneur of The Year NY in Healthcare and in 2018, she received the Creative Entrepreneurship Award by The New York Hall of Science.

Stacy Grant | Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Mangement

Stacy Grant is a managing director and private wealth advisor with Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management in San Francisco. She provides advisory and asset management services for many of the nation's most influential families and corporate executive focusing on estate and financial planning, investment management and philanthropic strategy. Stacy is a member of Morgan Stanley’s prestigious Chairman’s Club, which recognizes the firm’s top wealth advisors. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Stacy spent 8 years with the Private Banking and Investment Group at Merrill Lynch, and also worked at H & Q and Alex Brown. She serves on the Advisory Board for Orange Harp, an ecommerce start-up in San Francisco for sustainable and socially conscious products. She is also a mentor at Fast Forward, a start-up accelerator for nonprofit technology enterprises. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Colorado. Stacy has completed executive education and leadership courses at the following institutions: The Harvard Kennedy School of Government, The Design School at Stanford University, The London School of Economics, and Columbia Business School. Stacy is a Fellow of the inaugural class of the Finance Leaders Fellowship and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Donna Greenfield | Greenfield/Belser

A pioneer in the field of professional services marketing, Donna Greenfield helped invent the category of law firm marketing communications. As early as 1989, she was voted “Creative Legal Marketer of the Year” by the California Lawyer in recognition of the body of work produced for law and law-related firms for over a decade. While in law school (Rutgers University, 1974), she wrote for the Women’s Rights Law Reporter. Donna found her true calling as a professional services marketer while working as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission. As a recognized authority on legal marketing, she has spoken on marketing communications topics to the American Bar Association (ABA), the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA), and the Legal Marketing Association (LMA). She has written on law firm marketing topics for profession- al publications such as Law Practice Management and The American Lawyer. She served on the Board of Directors of the Legal Marketing Association and was elected a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. She also contributed a chapter to Law Firm Marketing by Robert Denney. Greenfield/Belser was the recipient, in 1991, of a Presidential Design Award from President Bill Clinton for the design of the FDA’s Nutrition Facts food labeling system. In 2007, with her partner and husband, Burkey Belser, she co-authored 25 Years of Legal Branding, the only history of legal marketing. As a name partner in Greenfield/Belser, Donna managed client projects, participated in the creative development of client work and played a key role in the financial and human resources operation of the business as the firm’s general counsel. She directed the firm’s numerous pro bono contributions to SMYAL, ICRW and the Sasha Bruce Foundation. In 2016, she engineered the acquisition of the firm by Finn Partners. She served on the board of SMYAL (Supporting and Mentoring Youth Advocates and Leaders). Today, she serves on the Advisory Boards of the Aspen Institute Artisan Alliance and Fresh Farm Markets.

Jacquelyn Mayfield | Mayfield Consulting

Jacquelyn Mayfield is the founder and president of Mayfield Consulting Ltd. She brings a range of experiences in business, government, health care, and legal settings to her work as a career and leadership consultant to the legal, private wealth management, entrepreneurial startup, and nonprofit sectors. Over the last 18 years, she has designed and implemented a series of effective approaches to attorney recruitment, development, and outplacement. Ms. Mayfield also consults with senior leaders in design and execution of programs for women that empower and enhance leadership in the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. She currently consults with Evercore Wealth Management, Roar Africa LLC, and Omega Institute. She is a current board member of the U.S. Board of Women Without Borders, the International Center for Research on Women, Roar Africa LLC, and serves on the Stewardship Council of the Omega Institute. 

Kate O’Brian | O’Media Strategies

As the founder and CEO of O’Media Strategies, Kate consults with media companies on content development, strategy, and management. Now an experienced media executive, Kate started her career at an entry-level position at ABC News in New York and worked her way producer positions at ABC News in Washington, DC, Rome, London, and Atlanta including work on high-visibility programs: “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings”, “This Week with David Brinkley”, and “Good Morning America”. Later roles at ABC News included: General Manager for ABC News Radio, Vice President of NewsOne and ABSAT, and overall SVP for News, where she led the transformation of the news division into an agile, multi-platform organization.Kate joined Al Jazeera America as President just as the news channel made its high-stakes launch in 2013. With her core passion for supporting and promoting women at all levels in media, Kate works with women individually and collectively to help them navigate the media industry. She serves on the advisory board of Press Forward, an independent initiative to change culture in newsrooms. Kate also sits on the boards of the Turkey Land Cove Foundation, which provides working residencies for women, and the Partnership for After School Education, a child-focused organization supporting quality after school programs in New York City. A graduate of Smith College, Kate is the mother of two grown daughters and resides in New York City with her husband.