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HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS
Julien Jourdes, founder
Susanne Neunhoffer, founder
Jamie Wellford, founder
FOVEA BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2011-2012
Ronald Aubert is Vice President of Advanced Analytics at Medco Health Solutions in the Department of Advanced Clinical Services and Research. Dr. Aubert is also an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) School of Public Health, and in the Family Medicine Department at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. He serves on the External Advisory Committee for the UMDNJ School of Public Health and the Peers for Progress Advisory Board. Prior to joining Medco, Dr. Aubert was a Commander for the U.S. Public Health Service, a Senior Health Care Analyst at the Aetna Center for Health Care Research, and Chief of the Epidemiology Section, Division of Diabetes Translation the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Aubert received a B.A. in biology from Oberlin College, an MSPH and PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and completed the Epidemic Intelligence Service fellowship at the CDC.
John Gilvey is a Master Glass blower and a founding partner of Hudson Beach Glass, with locations in Beacon New York, and Philadelphia. Trained at the School of Visual Arts he received a BA in Fine Arts. A native of Mahopac, Gilvey started working in glass in 1975 and opened a glass blowing studio in Wingdale New York in 1977, named the Webeatuck Glass Studio. Working with Michael Benzier they founded Hudson Beach Glass, eventually restoring the 1890 Tompkins Hose Company Building in Beacon. Mr. Gilvey is a founder and former board member of Beacon Arts Community Association and is an active volunteer with the Community Foundation of Dutchess County. He is also on the advisory board of the New York Gift Show, and a consultant for the Linblad Expeditions/National Geographic Artisan Development program.
Stephanie Heimann is co-Director and founder of Fovea, and a veteran photography editor. Her most recent position is photo editor for Al Gore, as part of the team producing his iPad book, well as the physical book "Our Choice" which is the twin companion to "Inconvenient Truth". In New York, she has worked at many national & international magazines including Newsweek, Fortune Small Business, Luxury SpaFinder Magazine, New York Magazine, Scientific American and more. She spent 8 years living as an expatriate in Hong Kong and Moscow, where she worked as a photojournalist and photo editor, covering post-Soviet culture and the first war in Chechnya.
John Hockridge is a Senior Manager in the Capital Markets group of Deloitte. Based in New York, Hockridge works with national and international investment management and investment banking clients who request assistance with their business strategy, people, process, and technology. Hockridge trained as a Chemical Engineer, with internships at Unilever and Proctor & Gamble, and graduated with a Bachelor and Masters degree from the Imperial College, London University in 1989. After a five-year stint with Accenture, he won a scholarship to the Cardiff Business School, UK where in 1996 he gained a second masters Economics in International Banking, Finance and Economics.
Nancy Hull is Fovea's Volunteer Director. She studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, and art history at Columbia University. She is the former Art Director of Contemporary Pediatrics, Contemporary Oncology, Internal Medicine, and RN Magazines, and Senior Designer for Medical Economics Magazine. She currently is working on her own drawings and works on paper. She has had a longtime interest in both photojournalism and human rights.
Sabine Meyer, Co-Director of Fovea, was born in France and obtained a Maitrise in Journalism in 1986 from the Centre Universitaire d’Enseignement du Journalism in Strasbourg. She started her career in print media in Strasbourg in 1987 and moved to the US in 1989 to pursue a Masters in Journalism. She has been a photo editor since 1992, and has worked for New York Magazine, Worth, Conde Nast Traveler, and National Geographic Adventure where for 10 years she held the position of Director of Photography. Most recently she has worked for Time Magazine, and for AARP’s online magazine. She has lectured for the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design and reviews portfolios regularly for Review Santa Fe, Review New York, and the International Center of Photography. She has been teaching photo editing at ICP since the fall of 2004.
James Austin Murray is a fine artist who makes wall sculptures and paintings, which he exhibits nationally and has shown internationally, including solo shows at Dam-Stuhltrager in New York. He also has exhibited with Bettcher Gallery in Miami and Soho Myriad in Atlanta. He opened and directed a gallery in Tribeca for three years called the Markham-Murray Gallery. He has worked for Bloomberg TV doing television graphics before working in the New York Fire Department for 11 years. As a member of the FDNY he produced exhibits to raise funds for the New York Firefighters Burn Center, including the “September 11 Photo Project” which became a nationally released hardback book.
Rob Penner is an accomplished photographer. Rob studied photography at the School of Visual Arts and found work as an assistant to many of the top photographers. Between 1994 and 2005 Rob worked in the advertising, design and branding industries as a Director of Production. In 2005 he returned to photography shooting diverse genres including portraiture, food, and event photography. In 2007 he opened and directed a photography gallery in Beacon called “400 Square”. There he specialized in exhibiting local and national photographers. As a Fine Art photographer Rob's work has been shown at a number of Hudson Valley galleries and has been selected for numerous accolades and exhibitions.
Anna Pomykala is an attorney and the 2004 Rockefeller Brothers Fellow in Non-Profit Law at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York City where she addresses a range of legal issues affecting not-for-profit organizations. Her professional experience has focused on international human rights and health, and she has worked with organizations such as The Legal Aid Society, Doctors of the World USA and the Council of Europe with the aim of increasing access to care for marginalized populations. Ms. Pomykala holds a J.D. from New York University, a B.A. in Humanities from Yale University, an M.A. in Humanities from the University of Chicago.
Advisory Board
Stuart Alexander Christies
Cecelia Bohan New York Times
Christina Cahill Getty Images
Alice Gabriner The White House
Julien Jourdes Wall Street Journal
Deanna Lowe Freelance Designer for Glamour Magazine
Alison Morley International Center for Photography
Jamie Wellford Newsweek Magazine