Gardner, Seth

Class of '94
Cerberus Capital Mgmt., L.P., Managing Director

Seth Gardner joined the alumni council in 2007. Seth is a Managing Director in the private equity group at Cerberus Capital Management in New York City, where he has worked since 2003. Prior to that, Seth was an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a New York City law firm. Seth and his wife, Jill, received their undergraduate degrees from Duke University. Jill serves on the executive committee of the Duke Annual Fund. They have three children.

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Gilstrap, Allen

Class of '86
OpenRevolution, LLC, Chief Executive Officer

Allen Gilstrap is the CEO of OpenRevolution, LLC. Based in Washington, DC, OpenRevolution is in the business of creating, financing and network enabling mobile banking ventures that target ‘unbanked’ and ‘underbanked’ populations in developing countries in eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America. Prior to OpenRevolution, Gilstrap served as General Manager of American Express’ London-based Smart Solutions business which provided chipware-enabled solutions and marketing programs for American Express card issuing and merchant acquiring partners, worldwide. Previously, Gilstrap served on the Board of Directors of Interactive Transaction Solutions Ltd. (UK), as Chairman of the Smart Card Alliance, the North American industry association, and on the Proton World Advisory Board based in Brussels. Previously, Gilstrap served as Director of Business Planning for NYCE Corporation. Prior to NYCE, he was contracted by First Union National Bank to serve as overall manager of smart card related business initiatives. Prior to these experiences, he was a partner in a marine biotechnology business spawned out of the Duke University Marine Laboratory. Raised in Kansas, Gilstrap is married to Julia Schesnovich, a Russian national, and has two children that reside in Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Gonzalez-Moreno, Lauro

Class of '86
MexAm Advisors, Managing Director/Founder

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Grund, Karen

Class of '90
American Express Company, Director of Field Effectiveness

Vice Chair, Alumni Council

As a Director of Field Effectiveness at American Express, Karen leads strategic projects to optimize process management for Global Business Travel. During her eighteen-year career at American Express Karen has held positions in account management as well as consumer and business-to-business marketing in the credit card and travel service divisions. Karen is a 2004 recipient of the American Express Presidents Club Award for performance. She also received the Fuqua School Alumni Leadership Award in 2002. Early in her career, Karen worked in portfolio management in the private banking division of Bank of New York as well as on the trading floor at First Chicago Bank. She holds a BA in Political Science as well as a MBA in Marketing and Finance from Duke University. In addition Karen is a member of Board of the New York Junior League where she has championed community service initiatives serving the people of New York City. Karen was honored as a NYJL Outstanding Volunteer in 2008. Karen was born in Greenwich, Connecticut and she currently resides in New York City.

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Gulinson, Shel

Class of '69
Gulinson & Associates, President

Sheldon Gulinson is a results-oriented health care executive with nearly forty years of health care experience. Throughout his expansive career that includes working in and with hospitals, outpatient services, post-acute services, and managed care, he has gained an unusually broad understanding of the health care industry and the interrelationships of its many components. Besides his operational experience, and serving for many years as an advisor to hospitals, he has been a senior executive for a start-up and has managed turnarounds, new product development, and marketing strategy development and execution. Prior to QHR, Gulinson held positions as: Vice President/Enterprise Clients, Leading Post-Acute Healthcare Services Management Company; Vice President/Healthcare Corporate Partnerships, Top Outsourcing Company with 1200 Hospital Customers; Executive Vice President, Healthcare Services Management Firm; Group Vice President/Marketing and Business, National Hospital Association; President, Regional Hospital Association, California; Senior Vice President, Metropolitan Hospital Council, Midwest; Administrator, Comprehensive Outpatient Center, Midwest; Senior Executive/Chief Financial Officer, U.S. Air Force Hospital. Gulinson is a member of: American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE); Regent’s Advisory Council (ACHE); past President, Duke University Hospital and Healthcare Alumni Association. Gulinson’s varied interests include: Music (played in a beach music band while at Duke); fast cars, value golf (lots of strokes for the money); and boating in Door County, Wisconsin. He and Gail have two sons: Brent and Gregg.

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