Finance Committee
The Finance Committee ensures integrity of the financial reporting process for the Bulletin. The committee shall provide assistance to the board of directors in fulfilling their oversight responsibility to the organization’s financial statements, legal compliance, and ethics policy as established by management and the board. It is the responsibility of the committee to maintain free and open communication between the committee, independent auditors and staff. The committee is empowered to investigate any matter brought to its attention with full access to all books, records, facilities and staff and shall have the power to retain outside counsel or other experts for this purpose, with the approval of the Board. The Committee shall report to the board in writing and maintain lines of communication with management and the independent auditor.
Members of the Finance Committee
Misho Ceko (Chair)
Ceko is the chief operating officer (COO) and senior associate dean of business operations at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. Prior to Harris, Ceko was the COO for the Chicago Children’s Choir (CCC). He also worked for the United Nations in Mozambique on the Delivering as One initiative under former Secretary General Kofi Annan and as a senior strategy consultant in Accenture’s public sector practice in Washington, DC. Prior to business school, Misho worked as an engineer for St. Jude Medical. In addition, he served as a mayoral fellow in the office of Mayor Richard M. Daley and was a fellow at the National Institutes of Health. He holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, and a BS in bioengineering from the University of Illinois.
Bryan Bacon
Bacon is a senior vice president and senior portfolio manager at Northern Trust, where he advises high net worth families. He is a past board member of Beyond OCD and a current board member of Synapse House. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Wheaton College and a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.
Virginia Berkeley
Berkeley served as Executive Vice President of CoBiz Bank from 2009-2012 after performing numerous other leadership roles at the organization. She previously served as Senior Vice President and Manager of Business Banking of Bank One, Denver and held several positions with Colorado National Bank. Berkeley’s extensive community involvement includes work with numerous Boards of Trustees, most recently with Colorado Public Radio, where she served as board chair, and the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. Berkeley holds a BS degree in economics from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Oklahoma.
Rachel Bronson
Bronson is the president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, where she oversees the publishing programs, management of the Doomsday Clock, and a growing set of activities around nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, climate change, and disruptive technologies. Before joining the Bulletin, she served for eight years at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in a number of capacities including: vice president of studies, vice president of programs and studies, and senior fellow, global energy. She also taught “Global Energy” as an adjunct professor at the Kellogg School of Management.
David Kuhlman
Kuhlman is senior partner and chair at Lotis Blue Consulting (formerly Axiom Consulting Partners), a consulting firm that helps clients identify pathways to profitable growth and align their organizations for long-term success. For over 30 years, he has worked with people-intensive/asset-light businesses including accounting and law firms to establish and realize transformative strategies. Previously, Kuhlman was managing partner of Sibson Consulting, a leading HR consultancy and global head of Human Resources for Russell Reynolds Associates, a premier executive recruiting firm. As chair of the Governing Board, Kuhlman is a member of the Science and Security Board, ex officio.
Michael Lee
Michael Lee is a partner in Reed Smith’s Global Corporate Group and serves as a member of Reed Smith’s Executive Committee, the Firm’s global governing board. Lee focuses his practice on acting as corporate counsel to businesses and investors. His practice includes mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing transactions, complex joint ventures, recapitalizations and restructurings, licensing transactions and general corporate counseling. With a J.D. from the University of Chicago (1998) and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University (1991), Lee applies his technical background in the representation of technology companies in intellectual property and information technology agreements.
Giovana Rodrigues Manfrin
Giovana Rodrigues Manfrin is a Master of Arts Candidate in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). At MIIS, she focuses on nuclear nonproliferation, counter proliferation financing, and nuclear-cyber security. Prior to MIIS, Manfrin was a Research Fellow on human security at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she conducted evidence-based analysis for policy design and delivery. In this capacity, she helped advise policymakers on evidence-driven interventions for gender equity, inclusive security, political participation, and economic opportunity.
William Revelle
Revelle is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Northwestern. He is he past president of the International Society for Intelligence Research; former president of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences as well as the Association for Research in Personality and the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association. He has served on the board of the Federation of American Scientists. Revelle’s research in personality integrates findings from biological, cognitive, and social psychology with a specialization in psychometrics. In addition to his academic interests, he is the chairman of the board of Calcomco, an information company that published the San Diego Daily Transcript (on the web at sddt.com) and the Columbus Business Journal. He served on the board of directors and is the former chairman of Ocean Design, Inc., a company that specializes in electrical and fiber connectors in harsh (e.g., subsea) environments.
Dimple Shah
Shah is the president and CEO of Gamma Technologies (GT), a global engineering software company that helps accelerate sustainable innovation with predictive compute and advanced simulation technologies traversing scales and physics. For over 25 years, he has collaborated with pioneers across diverse industries transforming the state of the art for the digital development of complex products and systems. He is passionate about solutions that make our planet more habitable and sustainable for future generations. Shah is committed to the uplifting power of education and is associated with organizations that drive long-lasting societal change with increased access to knowledge and networks. He holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering from COEP Technological University and a MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stony Brook University.