Ivan Obolensky

Mr. Obolensky has over 40 years of experience in investment banking as a supervisory financial analyst, with specific expertise in the defense, aerospace, oil and gas, nuclear power, metals and mining, publishing and high technology industries. He has also been a Senior Executive of several investment banks, including Sterling Grace & Co., Jesup, Josephthal & Co., Dominick and Dominick, Inc., Middendorf Colgate, CB Richard Ellis Moseley Hallgarten and Wellington Shields & Co. LLC, from November 1990 to April 2014. As the 21-year President of the Josephine Lawrence Hopkins Foundation, he served as a 33o Master Mason and a Past Grand Treasurer of the Grand Lodge of the State of New York, where he presently serves as Chairman of its watchdog Financial Oversight Committee for the Masonic Brotherhood Foundation. Mr. Obolensky is also a pro-active board member of several charitable organizations: The Children's Cancer & Blood Foundation; The Bouverie Audubon Preserve of Glen Ellen California; The Police Athletic League of New York City; and General Blackjack Pershing's Soldiers', Sailors', Marines', and Airmen's Club, where he is also Chairman and CEO. He is a graduate of Yale University, attended Law School at the University of Virginia, and is a Lieutenant (Jg) US Naval Air Corps, USNR (Ret.).