Patricia Bauman
President and Co-Director of the Bauman Foundation

Albert Dwoskin
President and CEO of A.J. Dwoskin & Associates

Harold Ickes
President, Catalist

Tom Novick
Executive Vice President, M+R

Michael Podhorzer
Deputy Political Director, AFL-CIO

Laura Quinn
CEO, Catalist

Vijay Ravindran
CTO, Catalist

Sheldon Seevak
Partner, Goldman Sachs (ret.)

Juan Marcos Vilar
Political Director, Service Employees International Union

Michael Warren
Chief Operating Officer & Managing Director, Stonebridge International

(one position vacant)

Patricia Bauman

Patricia Bauman is President and Co-Director of the Bauman Foundation. In recent years, the Foundation has supported civic participation through general support of organizations engaged in voter registration and outreach and election protection. She has also led policy efforts to foster public access to government information. She is also a real estate investor, and is active as a donor to Democratic candidates.

She is a Vice-Chair of the Natural Resources Defense Council and serves of the boards of Montefiore Medical Center in New York, the Beldon Fund, and the Trust for America 's Health.
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Albert Dwoskin

Albert Dwoskin is President and Chief Executive Officer and director of A.J. Dwoskin & Associates, Inc. (AJD). Since its founding, in 1967, AJD's operations have been primarily associated with development and management of retail and residential rental properties which are owned by partnerships in which AJD or Albert J. Dwoskin is a partial owner or general partner. Mr. Dwoskin is also active in community and charitable activities that currently include serving as Chairman of the George Mason University Foundation Board of Managers. In past years, he has served in a large number of public and private sector directorships, advisory boards and committees, and public task forces.
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Harold Ickes , President

Harold Ickes' nearly fifty years of commitment and accomplishments fighting for progressive causes have earned him trust, respect and friendship of unusual breadth and depth in the progressive political community. He is a founding partner of The Ickes & Enright Group, a Washington DC consulting firm. Prior to this, Mr. Ickes served as Assistant to the President and Deputy Chief of Staff for Political Affairs and Policy to President Clinton, managing a number of the President's key policy initiatives. He was also an architect of the President's 1996 re-election campaign (the first successful re-election campaign of a Democratic president since FDR), the 1996 Democratic National Convention, and the 1997 Presidential Inaugural.

Prior to serving in the White House, Mr. Ickes was a partner in the New York law firm of Meyer, Suozzi, English & Klein, P.C., specializing in election and union-side labor law. He rejoined the law firm as partner in 1998 and serves as co-chair of its thirty-member Labor Law and Government Affairs Departments.
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Tom Novick

Tom Novick, an Executive Vice President at M+R, is a strategist, trainer and consultant who brings 28 years of experience on issue and electoral campaigns to the Catalist board.  Mr. Novick is a former Oregon legislator and, prior to M+R, worked as a Program Director for the Western States Center, a regional progressive organization focused on state issues in the West, and as Executive Director of the Oregon State Public Interest Research Group.  He currently works with a number of organizations, foundations and individual philanthropists providing evaluation services, strategic and political assessments. He also serves as Executive Director of Conservation Strategies, a Northwest regional organization working to increase the electoral clout of the conservation movement. 
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Michael Podhorzer

Michael Podhorzer is the Deputy Director of the Political Department of the AFL-CIO. Since 1997, he has developed and directed the Federation's strategic, targeting, opinion research, communication testing and long term planning programs. He was responsible for designing the strategic and targeting framework that supported the dramatic transformation of the Federation's political program in the 1990s. Mr. Podhorzer most recently designed and managed the AFL-CIO's pioneering 2004 "swing voter program" which combined voter file database analytics and clinical trial-style message testing for direct mail, telemarketing, email and neighborhood canvassing. Mr. Podhorzer has worked in politics for the last twenty five years. As Associate Director of Citizen Action, he managed the organization's extensive electoral activities, including successful congressional, state and local campaigns. He also helped found Advocate Development, a company that was formed to create database fundraising management software for Citizen Action's four million members.

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Laura Quinn, Chief Executive Officer

Laura Quinn, a proven political technology entrepreneur, is a founding partner of QRS Newmedia, Inc., which specializes in communication technology design and integration services. Founded in 1996, QRS clients have included the Democratic Presidential campaigns in 1996, 2000 and 2004; a wide of range of progressive political campaigns, organizations and non-profits; and other corporate and academic institutions. QRS's technology renovation for the Democratic National Committee included construction of a national voter file, new database-driven website and bulk e-mail systems, new Internet marketing strategies, a complete IT and telecom overhaul, and design and construction of new television and radio studios. The renovations helped the DNC increase their donor base more than five-fold and to out-fundraise the Republican National Committee for the first time in history.

In 2004, Ms. Quinn and a small group of investors launched Copernicus Analytics, a data mining firm focused on providing improved donor and voter analytics for progressive political clients. Prior to these endeavors, Ms. Quinn served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications in the Office of the Vice President, as Director of the Democratic Technology and Communications Committee for the Democratic Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate, and in a variety of senior Senate and campaign positions.
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Vijay Ravindran, Chief Technology Officer

Vijay Ravindran, an Amazon.com veteran, is an experienced innovative technical leader with proven high-profile delivery. Immediately prior to joining Catalist, Mr. Ravindran was Director of the Ordering Services group at Amazon.com. He led a technical organization of over 130 engineers responsible for website consumer purchasing and order management across all of Amazon.com's websites, which included such well known features as "1-Click", "Checkout", "Shopping Cart", "Your Account", and "Super Saver Shipping". He also was a principal in the conception, delivery and ongoing management of the Amazon Prime membership program. Previously, Mr. Ravindran held a series of software management positions with Amazon.com, having joined the company as a software development engineer in 1998.

Prior to joining Amazon, Mr. Ravindran was a software consultant at American Management Systems (now CGI-AMS) in Fairfax, Virginia, and in Düsseldorf, Germany. 
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Sheldon Seevak

Sheldon Seevak is a retired General Partner of Goldman Sachs & Co. He is a private investor and philanthropist and has served as a board member for a number of educational and charitable organizations. After completing law school, Mr. Seevak served as an officer in the Coast Guard during the Korean War. After his military service, Mr. Seevak became a trial attorney for the Internal Revenue Service, and was involved in a number of tax case trials focusing on notorious mobsters of the New York/New Jersey underworld. Ultimately he moved to Goldman Sachs, where he established and oversaw the firm's real estate department, recognized as the premiere real estate firm within the investment banking field.
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Juan Marcos Vilar

Juan Marcos Vilar is the Political Director of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).  He previously served as leader of the largest nonpartisan voter registration program in the country, America's Families United. Vilar helped lead a national effort that registered more than 3.5 million new voters for the 2004 election, and implemented a state-of-the-art technology infrastructure to see that twenty seven-partner organizations as well as projects outside of the AFU funding circle met the highest accountability standards.

Before joining America 's Families United, Mr. Vilar led the community-based voter registration program that registered over 200,000 new Latino voters in 10 states from 2002 to 2003, operated by the DC-based Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA), Que Nada Nos Detenga. For 14 years before arriving in Washington DC, Mr. Vilar was a committed educator and respected community leader in the Chicago neighborhood of Humboldt Park, working with community members to run as a slate in local school council elections and establish the first ever pro-community school administration.
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Michael Warren

Michael Warren is the Chief Operating Officer of Stonebridge International LLC. He is a member of Stonebridges Management Committee. Mr. Warren also serves as Chairman of Limbic Systems, an information technology services firm. Prior to joining Stonebridge, led corporate development at Horne Engineering Services and served as President of two technology companies, Limbic Systems and Appfluent Technologies. Mr. Warren serves on the Board of Directors of the District of Columbia Retirement Board, Civitas, a homeland security advisory and private equity firm and Riptopia, a digital music technology company.

Mr. Warren previously worked at McKinsey & Company, both as a strategic consultant in the technology and financial institutions industries and as a fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute, advising corporate leaders in the U.S. and Asian semiconductor industries. Before McKinsey, Mr. Warren served within the White House as Executive Director of the President's National Economic Council. In this role, he oversaw the preparation and dissemination of policy and political information both within and outside of the Council. A Rhodes Scholar, Mr. Warren earned degrees from Yale University and Oxford University.
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