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The Honorable H.R. Crawford is the current Chairman of the Authority. He is the President of Crawford Edgewood Managers, Inc., a real estate firm that develops and manages residential properties throughout the District of Columbia. Mr. Crawford served as an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (1973-1976), President and Chairman of the Greater Washington Council of Governments (1977-1979), and a member of the Council of the District of Columbia representing Ward 7 (1980-1992). He is active in the Federal City Council, Access Housing Inc. (housing for veterans), Gilda's Club Greater Washington and the national Alzheimer's Association. Mr. Crawford is an appointee of the Mayor of the District of Columbia.
Mame Reiley is the Immediate Past Chairman of the Authority, and Chairman of the Board’s Dulles Corridor Committee. She is President of The Reiley Group, a consulting, fundraising and events communication firm in Alexandria, Virginia. She serves as a senior advisor to Virginia Governor Tim Kaine and former Governor Mark Warner. Previously, she was the Senior Political Advisor for Governor Warner and the Director of his OneVirginia PCA. Over the years, Ms. Reiley has served as the director of PGI/Washington, Inc, an events and communications agency, as Chief of Staff to Congressman James Moran (D-VA), and as a senior staff member of the House Committee on Appropriations. She was elected to the Democratic National Committee from Virginia in 1992 and is currently the Chair of the Women's Caucus of the DNC. She also serves on the DNC’s Executive Committee, as well as its Rules and Bylaws Committee, and is a member of the Economic Club of Washington and the Federal City Council executive committee. Ms. Reiley is an appointee of the Governor of Virginia.
Charles D. Snelling, Vice-Chairman of the Authority, is an inventor, the holder of 20 patents, a venture capitalist, a real estate developer and an independent businessman. He has founded a number of businesses, most of them in the high-tech area. He currently serves on the boards of Cedar Crest College, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Society and the National Museum of Industrial History, and is a member of the Republican State Committee of Pennsylvania. He has served on many other boards, including the Allentown City Council, the Allentown Art Museum, the Lehigh Valley Hospital, the Lehigh Valley International Airport, and the Lehigh Valley United Way. Mr. Snelling is an appointee of the President of the United States.
James L. Banks, Jr., Chairman of the Public Safety Committee, is a partner in the law firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP, where his practice focuses on counseling and litigating, chiefly on labor and employment matters. He has served as a member of the City Council and as Vice Mayor of the City of Richmond (1996-1998). He also has served on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including the Eisenhower Institute and Gettysburg College, and is a member of the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board. Mr. Banks is an appointee of the Governor of Virginia.
Robert Clarke Brown, Chairman of the Finance Committee, is the Treasurer of Case Western Reserve University. Previously, he served as capital markets advisor at the U.S. Department of Transportation, as a senior investment banker in public finance at Key Capital Markets, the investment banking subsidiary of KeyCorp, and at Lehman Brothers, as the State of Ohio's Assistant Director of Transportation, and as counsel to two Congressional investigating committees. Mr. Brown is an appointee of the President of the United States.
The Honorable William W. Cobey Jr., Chairman of the Strategic Development Committee, was a Member of Congress from the Fourth District of North Carolina in the 99th Congress (1985-1987). He then served in North Carolina as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Transportation, as Secretary of the Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources, as City Manager of Morrisville, and two terms as Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party. Mr. Cobey is an appointee of the President of the United States.
Anne Crossman, Chairman of the Information Technology Committee, is the President of Vertical Jobs, Inc., a temporary staffing firm providing services to the federal government, and Completed Systems, Inc., a software development firm she founded in 1996. She also sits on the Board of the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce. She was named 1998 Bloomingdale's Woman of the Year, and co-founded MindShare, the NVTC Emerging Business Committee and the NVTC Hot Ticket Awards. Ms. Crossman is an appointee of the Governor of Virginia.
Mamadi Diané is the President/Chief Executive Officer and founder of AMEX International. He is active in the planning, promotion, development and management of several business enterprises in the U.S., Europe and Africa, as well as worldwide import and export trade of agricultural and manufactured goods. He currently serves on the boards of a number of international finance, insurance and export/import companies. Mr. Diané is an appointee of the Mayor of the District of Columbia.
Michael David Epstein, Chairman of the Planning and Construction Committee, is the Managing Director of Willow Asset Management LLC. He is also a partner in BECO Management, which owns over 3 million square feet of commercial and medical buildings in Northern Virginia, suburban Maryland and the Baltimore area. He was recently appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, which is the governing body of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, by President Bush. He has served on the Maryland Economic Development Commission, and now chairs both the National Gaucher Foundation and the Prime Minister’s Club of Israel Bonds, Washington Region. Mr. Epstein is an appointee of the Governor of Maryland.
Weldon H. Latham, Chairman of the Legal Committee, is a Senior Partner in the law firm of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP and Chair of the firm's Corporate Diversity Counseling Group, advising Fortune 200 CEOs, General Counsel and senior executives faced with diversity issues and disputes. He chairs the Deloitte & Touche Diversity Advisory Board, serves on the Corporate Advisory Council of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, is a member of the Economic Club of Washington, and is an Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Latham is an appointee of the Governor of Maryland.
Leonard Manning, Chairman of the Business Administration Committee, is the Chairman and CEO of Lottery Technology Enterprises, a joint venture that has operated the on-line lottery for the District of Columbia since 1983. He is also Founder and President of New Tech Games, Inc., a company that provides a range of gaming-related services to states and contractors operating lottery systems and bingo games. Mr. Manning is a board member of Southeastern University's Center for Entrepreneurship and has served on the D.C. Convention Center Board, the D.C. Bicentennial Commission, the Greater Southeast Community Hospital Foundation, Washington Urban League, DC Chapter of the NAACP and the D.C. Recreation Wish List Committee. Mr. Manning is an appointee of the Mayor of the District of Columbia.
Michael L. O’Reilly, Chairman of the Audit Committee, is the principal in The O'Reilly Law Firm. He has served as Mayor of Herndon (2004-2006), on the Herndon Town Council (2000-2004), and as Chair of the Town's Architectural Review Board and its Heritage Preservation Review Board (1991-1995). In addition, as a representative of Herndon, he was a member of the Northern Virginia Regional Partnership, the Virginia Municipal League’s Transportation Steering Committee and its Transportation Policy Committee, and the Dulles Corridor Rail Association Advisory Board. Mr. O’Reilly is an appointee of the Governor of Virginia.
The Honorable David G. Speck is a Managing Director for Investments at Wachovia Securities. He has served as a member of the Alexandria City Council (1991-1994 and 1996-2003), and a member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1980-1982). Currently, he serves as a director of the Alexandria Community Trust, the Alexandria Capital Development Foundation, Carpenter's Homeless Shelter and the Northern Virginia Conservation Trust, and is a founding trustee of the Robert S. Rixse Foundation. Mr. Speck is an appointee of the Governor of Virginia.
