Aileen Leventon
Aileen was previously a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where she was instrumental in growing the Law Firm & Legal Department Consulting Group. For several years she led both the Law Department Spending Survey and the Law Firm Statistical Survey. In addition to over a decade of consulting and operations experience, Aileen practiced law for over 15 years, both in-house in the financial services and insurance industries, and at a major New York law firm.

Aileen received an MBA from Columbia University in 1994 and a JD from Cornell Law School in 1977, where she was managing editor of the law review. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stony Brook University (SUNY) in 1974.

Ojas Desai
After Blaqwell, Ojas went on to attend the University of Michigan 's Ross School of Business. While at Ross, he plans to focus on Finance and Real Estate and aims to return to NY when he is done with school.

Ojas worked at JP Morgan from 2002 to 2003 as a Strategic Project analyst in North American Credit Derivatives. While there, he worked on various projects such as implementation of an inter-entity reconciliation tool. He also worked at Barclay's Capital, supporting the Interest Rates and Credit Derivatives Desks.

Ojas was a Founders' Scholar and graduated cum laude from NYU's Stern School of Business, with a B.S. in Finance and Marketing.

Polina Globerman
Ms. Globerman worked as an Associate Consultant with Blaqwell from November of 2003 through March of 2005. Prior to joining Blaqwell, she attended Columbia Business School where she received her MBA in Marketing. Before Columbia, Ms. Globerman worked at J.P. Morgan for several years. She spent the majority of that time in Acquisition Finance, where she focused on arranging financing for M&A transactions involving companies in various industries. She also worked in Syndicated Finance where she concentrated on bank loan financing for deals including mergers and acquisitions as well as other capital markets transactions. Ms. Globerman now works in Global Color Marketing at Avon Cosmetics.

Martha Clark Goss has more than 30 years of experience as a senior executive, director and consultant. She began her career at Chase, then moved to Prudential to become vice president and corporate treasurer, and later president of PruPower and Prudential Asset Management. In 1995, she joined Booz-Allen & Hamilton as chief financial officer and later moved to The Capital Markets Company, a high-growth start-up. She is a director of Foster-Wheeler Ltd. and was a director of Dexter Corporation before its acquisition by Invitrogen. Her non-profit boards have included Brown University, the Independent College Fund of New Jersey and the Financial Women's Association of New York.

Andrea M. Selak
Ms. Selak currently works as an Associate at the New York office of McKinsey & Company. She worked as an Associate Consultant with Blaqwell from March of 2003 through the summer of 2004. Prior to joining Blaqwell, Ms. Selak worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. From 2002 through 2004, she worked in the Global Investment Research Division, focusing on coverage of consumer products companies. From 2000 through 2002, she worked in Goldman Sachs' Investment Banking Division in the Private Equity Banking group, advising public and private corporations and financial sponsors on a range of transactions including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and other financing products.

Ms. Selak earned an MBA from The Harvard Business School in 2006 and is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a BA degree in Government and International Studies. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Rachel F. Robbins
Ms. Robbins was a founding partner of Blaqwell. In November 2006, she was appointed General Counsel and Executive Vice President of NYSE Group, Inc.

Ms. Robbins spent most of her legal career at J.P. Morgan & Co., where she concluded her 20-years of service as General Counsel and Corporate Secretary from 1996-2001. Most recently, Ms. Robbins served as Strategic Advisor to Axiom Legal Solutions and as a consultant to Citigroup, Inc. on international issues. From 2003-2004, she was General Counsel of Citigroup International. From 1976-1980, she was an Associate at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy, New York.

Ms. Robbins served as chairman of the Board and President of American Bankers Association Securities Association (ABASA) from 1997-2000, where she was instrumental in developing industry consensus on strategic legislative and regulatory issues. She has served on the U.S. Treasury Advisory Committee on Financial Services (1996), Legal Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange (1992-1995), Federal Regulation Committee of Securities Industry Association (1987-2001), and Executive Committee of the Securities Regulation Institute (1994-2001).

Ms. Robbins is Chair, New York Regional Board of the Anti-Defamation League. She is a Member of the Board of Trustees of New York University School of Law, a Member of the Board of Ishmael and Isaac, an Advisory Board Member of Axiom Legal Solutions, and an Advisory Board Member of Legal Momentum.

Ms. Robbins graduated from New York University School of Law, Order of the Coif, and Wellesley College, where she was a Durant Scholar.

Mason Kalfus
Mason is now the Manager of Strategic Planning and Analysis at Steptoe & Johnson LLP in their Washington, D.C. headquarters. He is responsible for a broad range of strategic initiatives at the firm.

While at Blaqwell, Mason worked with several AmLaw 100 law firms on a variety of strategic initiatives, such as improving firmwide profitability, evaluating merger and acquisition opportunities, and yearly planning/budgeting for individual practice groups. He worked in Blaqwell's Washington, D.C. office, but his clients were national firms based in Washington, New York, Chicago and other major cities. He also served corporate legal departments seeking to improve their level of service to business clients and their relationships with outside law firms.

Before his tenure at Blaqwell, Mason worked as both a strategy consultant and a practicing attorney. From 2003-2005, he was a consultant in the Washington, D.C. office of the Boston Consulting Group. His consulting work included various strategy, operations, and branding projects in the consumer goods and retail sectors.

Before joining BCG, Mason was an associate at Wilmer, Cutler, and Pickering in the Washington, D.C. office. His legal practice consisted mostly of antitrust litigation.

Mason received his Juris Doctor with Honors from the University of Chicago Law School in 2000, and served as Comment Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. After law school, he clerked for Judge Robert Bruce King of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Mason received his B.A. in 1997 from the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar with a concentration in government and economics.

Eileen Friedberg
Eileen has over ten years experience in finance, program management, and managing organizational change in global corporations. She brings to Blaqwell a wealth of knowledge regarding process improvement programs for aligning human capital and marketing with business strategy.

Before joining Blaqwell, Eileen worked at American Express Corporate Services providing advisory and analytical consultative services to its corporate clients. Her projects included sales force training and development, product-cross sell strategy, and leading organizational change within the sales force.

Eileen also has five years of experience in structured finance. At Paine Webber, she managed mortgage bond securitizations. As a CPA at Deloitte & Touche, Eileen created financial models valuing securities and managed a team responsible for structuring Freddie Mac transactions.

Eileen received her MBA from The Wharton School in strategic marketing and organizational behavior management and holds an MA in organizational psychology from Teachers College of Columbia University. Eileen graduated with her BS in Business Administration from New York University, majoring in finance and accounting.