Executive Board Biographies

ERIC BECK

Eric Brandon Beck grew up in DeKalb and Evanston, Illinois, where he earned a B.A. in economics from Northwestern University. He also earned an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business with a full scholarship from Deutsche Bank.

Eric began his career in private client wealth management in 1996 at Merrill Lynch in Chicago. He later became an officer at Deutsche Bank and spent several years working in Frankfurt, Germany, before moving to their New York office in 2003. Eric joined UBS Financial Services, Inc. in 2004. In addition to his role as Account Vice President at UBS Financial Services, he serves as the Branch Office Annuity Coordinator for the Park Avenue office. He was awarded a Certified Financial Planner designation in 2007.

Eric has been involved with the NYOS since its inception. He resides in New York City and enjoys spending time with his wife, daughter and son.

MICK BEEKHUIZEN

Mick Jochem Beekhuizen is a vice president in the Merchant Banking division of Goldman Sachs in New York. Mick has been with Goldman Sachs since April 2000. Prior to joining the company’s New York office in August 2004, he worked for Goldman Sachs’ Frankfurt office as a financial advisor in the Investment Banking division.

Mick grew up in the Netherlands and is fluent in Dutch, English and German. He holds an M.S. degree from the University of Twente, the Netherlands. He is an avid cyclist, cineaste and has a passion for the performing arts.

EDWARD BOYER

Edward Boyer was born in Mexico, grew up in Cuba and lives in New York City. Since 1987, he has been President of Edward Boyer Associates, Inc., a firm that straddles the worlds of business and the arts, providing consulting and coaching services to individual clients, groups, global corporations and not-for-profit institutions. The Coaching practice entails executive and leadership coaching for professional and personal development with a specialization in communication, creativity, innovativeness and diversity/inclusion. The Fine Art Advisory practice for institutions and high net worth individuals includes collection management, curatorial services and the design and implementation of strategies for acquiring, selling and investing in works of fine art. Since 1993 the firm has acquired, sold and managed about 5000 works of fine art with an estimated fair market value of $300 million. The Management Consulting practice focuses on the evaluation and/or development of marketing communications and public relations strategies. Clients include American Express, Burlington-Northern, Citigroup, Deloitte Touche, Dentsu, IBM, Istituto Mobiliare Italiano, Lehman Brothers, Martha Graham Dance Company, NYNEX, Salomon Brothers and Toyota, among others.

Prior to 1987, Edward worked as a writer for Fortune Magazine, focusing on economic forecasts and middle-of-the-book articles about international trade and finance, public policy and corporate performance. Prior to that, in his first career out of graduate school, Edward worked as an Account Executive in the International Division of Chemical Bank (now J.P. Morgan Chase), servicing the U.S. subsidiaries of Japanese multinationals and developing a strategic marketing plan for expanding the bank’s business in Latin America.

Edward has a B.A. in European History and Literature from Columbia University in New York and completed coursework for a PhD in Comparative Modernization at Princeton University and the University of Tokyo. Edward speaks several languages fluently including English, Spanish, French, Hungarian and Japanese. He has served on the boards of the Big Apple Circus, Art Party, Atlantic Theater Company, C.G. Jung Foundation and the Keidanren’s Keizai Koho Center.

LANTY McCARTNEY, Esq.

Lanty McCartney, Esq., of Estes Park, Colorado, served as JAGC (Judge Advocate General’s Corps) officer with the U.S. Marine Corps for three years. As an attorney in a predominantly family/domestic relations practice, he volunteered as a Court Master for three years during which time he adjudicated over 500 cases. From 1994-1996 he served as an Attorney Advisor to the Honorable Administrative Law Judge Richardson with the Office of Hearings and Appeals, a branch of the Social Security Administration.

Following his retirement in 1996 and given his fluency in several languages (English, Spanish, French and German), Lanty was appointed Executive Director of Estes Valley Multi-Cultural Connections. Subsequently he was appointed to the Larimer County (Colorado) Latino Issues Task Force. Furthering his community involvement, Lanty was sworn in as President of the Estes Valley Community Services Coalition, a group involved in health, human services and community development coordination in the Estes Valley, Additionally, he has served as court interpreter, community member and Facilitator for the Estes Valley Restorative Justice Partnership, a United Way partner.

Lanty received his B.A. in History and Political Science from the University of North Texas and his J.D. from the University of Houston, Bates College of Law.

ANH-TUYET NGUYEN

Anh-Tuyet Nguyen (a.k.a. A.T.), a native of Vietnam who now resides in New York, left her country with her parents and six younger siblings at age 19, three days before Saigon fell to the Communists. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire with a major in Mathematics and a minor in French. She then obtained an M.A. in International Management from the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.

A.T. worked for Fortis, Inc. (now Assurant, Inc.) for 18 years in a variety of roles. Among the many highlights of her career was a three-year assignment as the first American to be sent to then corporate headquarters in the Netherlands to promote cross-cultural corporate synergies. Her last assignment was as Information Technology Officer and entailed managing cross-strategic business unit technology projects.

A.T. is fluent in several languages including English, Vietnamese, Dutch and French. A great lover of the performing arts, she describes herself as a theater junkie. She is also passionate about traveling, cooking, dancing and cross-cultural philanthropy. When she first lived in New York, she served on the Board of Trustees of the Westfield Symphony Orchestra, an organization in whose annual fund raising efforts she and her husband Rob continue to be involved. A.T. is currently on the Board of Directors of the Joyce Theater and on the Steering Committee of the United Way chapter of New York’s Women United in Philanthropy.

LESLEY SILVESTER

Lesley Silvester served as an Executive Vice President of Human Resources & Development at Assurant Inc. from January 2001 to July 1, 2009. From 1996 to 1999, she served as Director of Group Management Development for the Fortis Group in Brussels. Lesley's professional career spans more than two and a half decades in the insurance industry in human resources management, organization development and strategy. Her experience includes 15 years with different parts of Assurant Inc. in the United States and with Fortis in Europe, focusing on world-wide senior management development, company learning, human resources strategy and post-merger integration. She has been a Director of Union Security Insurance Company since 2001. She serves as a Director of Union Security Life Insurance Company. Lesley is a Graduate Member of the Institute of Personnel Management in the United Kingdom and holds both her F.L.M.I. and American Compensation Association Certification.

NANCY STEVENS

Nancy Stevens, a resident of Estes Park, Colorado, has had extensive professional experience in university and arts administration including: Director of International Studies at Barat College; 10 years at Oxford University’s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies affiliated with Keble College. During this tenure, she was the American Representative for the Centre, coordinating visits by American faculty and undergraduate students. Nancy was also Dean of Women Students and Counter-Culture Shock Counselor for summer programs at the Centre.

After returning stateside, Nancy served as Senior Management Consultant for Paragon, Inc. in Lincoln, Nebraska, training staff for excellence in hospitality and customer relations in the airline and hotel industries. She moved to Kansas City and became Executive Director and Director of Development for the Kansas City Camerata Chamber Orchestra. Nancy is a board member and officer of several community and academic organizations. She is currently Director of Development for the Estes Park Music Festival.

Nancy received a B.A. in Management and Business from Barat College in Lake Forest, Illinois and an M.A. in Psychology and Adult and Continuing Education from the University of Nebraska. She also pursued undergraduate and post-graduate studies in Philosophy and Medieval Studies at Oxford University, post-graduate study in the Funding and Administration of Non-Profit Organizations at the University of Chicago and the University of Missouri, in Kansas City. Nancy is listed in the Who’s Who of American Colleges and Universities.

MIRIAM WARNER

After graduating from Oberlin College, Miriam Warner lived in Paris for four years where she began her career as Secretary-Girl Friday to journalist Theodore H. White, then foreign correspondent for The Reporter magazine. She then worked for Newsweek magazine where she wrote back-of-the-book articles from the Paris office and carried out research assignments for the bureau chief. Upon leaving Paris, she spent the next three years in Jerusalem working as editor and jack-of-all trades for the Weizmann Science Press, recently established to publish science books and journals.

Returning to New York, Miriam became publicity director for the American Branh of Cambridge University Press, and, a few years later, after developing marketing strategies and procedures for promoting new books, was appointed Acquisitions Editor. She initiated and developed numerous editorial projects approved for publication by the Syndics of the Press; oversaw their promotion; visited major universities and attended academic conventions as editorial scout. She was the first American editor to be transferred to England for six months to collaborate with the staff in Cambridge.

After 10 years at the Press, she worked for the Committee on the Academic Program in the Chancellor’s Office of City University. Miriam was married to Aaron W. Warner, Dean of Columbia University’s School of General Studies. Her love of music began in childhood, and she attends a wide range of musical events in New York City.