Jennifer selendy

Secretary

Jennifer Selendy, a brilliant and courageous counsel is a founding and managing partner of Selendy & Gay. In August, Jennifer helped launch The Thirty Birds Foundation, which focused on the evacuation of hundreds of at-risk girls and community members affiliated with the Marefat High School in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Jennifer’s leadership has been recognized by Corporate Counsel, which named her 2020’s “Managing Partner of the Year,” and the New York Law Journal, which lists her among 2020’s "Distinguished Leaders."

A seasoned and formidable trial and appellate lawyer, she is recognized as a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation, one of the “Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers in America” by Lawdragon, and noted for her skill in complex commercial litigation by The Legal 500.

In addition to representing plaintiffs in high-stakes disputes, Jennifer also specializes in complex defense work and is frequently tapped for sensitive internal and governmental investigations into antitrust, financial misconduct, and employment-related matters. She has represented private equity and investment companies in precedent-setting litigation, represents renewable energy companies and related interests in cutting edge litigation aimed at protecting competition in power generation for the benefit of consumers, and has extensive expertise in RICO, bankruptcy, domestic and international arbitration, and cross-border disputes.

Jennifer maintains an active public interest practice, focusing on poverty and women’s rights, climate change, and education. In Thompson v. MacDonald, she served as lead trial counsel and won an injunction against the State of Maryland mandating delivery of federal benefits and services to indigent children and families; for this result, she received the Pro Bono Service Award from the Homeless Persons Representation Project of Baltimore.

Since 2012, she has served as the board chairman for the National Center for Law & Economic Justice. Jennifer is also the co-founder and board chairman of The Speyer Legacy School, an independent K-8 school for gifted children that focuses on identifying and educating low-income, high-achieving children in New York City.

At Tufts University Jennifer was an exemplary student enrolled in my 1990 Institute’s EPIIC colloquium and symposium, “The Militarization of the Third World.” She moderated the panel on security and development.

Graduating Tufts, Jennifer received her law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School after completing an M.Phil. in International Relations at Oxford (St. Antony’s) as a Marshall Scholar.

Jennifer was a prominent member of the Institute’s Advisory Board, on which she now sits as Co-Chair to further ensure the Institute’s vitality and continuity.

 In 2011, for the Institute’s 25th anniversary, I was honored when Jennifer spearheaded the Institute’s alumni effort that raised a half-million dollars to endow and name the Sherman Teichman EPIIC colloquium, and thus ensure the continuation of the Institute’s core program as a signature cross-school interdisciplinary initiative.

Jennifer has remained a treasured and respected friend. Most recently she moderated one of our Convisero webinars, “The Constitution on the Edge.”

David Puth

treasurer

David Puth is the CEO of Centre which governs the technology, policy, compliance, audit and reserve standards for USD Coin (USDC), the fastest growing dollar-based digital currency in the world.

Centre was founded with the mission to connect every person, merchant, financial service and currency in the world through the power of digital currency and open public blockchain networks.

He was formerly the Executive Chairman of Kelvin Zero, a Canadian based data security company that enables businesses to safely transform information from analog to digital processes.

Mr. Puth previously served as Chairman of the Advisory Board of Whitney Strategic Services, a technology company empowering decision makers in both the public and private sectors by providing actionable intelligence in a timely manner. He was also a founding member of The Council, an advisory firm that provides advice and counsel to the executive leaders of public and private enterprises.

David is the former CEO of the CLS Group, having stepped down as of September 2018.

David was among my first cadre of Tufts students, when I taught a semester at the university in 1978, and has been a close friend ever since. Incisive, intelligent, and of the highest integrity, I hold him in the highest possible regard - when Bloomberg in their article “The Currency Ethicist: One Man’s Push to Fix a Tarnished Market” asked me to comment for their profile of David’s remarkable effort to reform the corrupt practices of the currency-trading industry, I proudly told them, “This is the right guy. He has a steely, uncompromising sensibility about what’s right and what’s wrong. This is a man who rolls up his sleeves.”

David’s career spans more than three decades in financial markets, including 19 years at J.P. Morgan where he served in a variety of senior global leadership roles with oversight of the bank’s FX, interest rate derivatives, commodities and emerging markets businesses. He also served as a member of J.P. Morgan’s Executive Committee. After leaving J.P. Morgan in 2007, he founded The Eriska Group, a New York‐based risk management consulting organization. From 2008 through 2011, David worked at State Street, where he was head of Global Markets and a member of State Street’s Executive Management Committee. His responsibilities included sales, trading and investment research across multiple asset classes, including FX, and for Currenex, the firm’s electronic FX brokerage business.

Outside of the industry, David serves on a number of boards in support of education and the arts, including the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston and the Berkshire School Endowment Committee. He is also a longstanding board member of the Robin Hood Foundation in New York, one of the country’s leading poverty fighting organizations.