Faculty, Practitioners and Mentors
S. Todd Brown
Professor; Vice Dean for Academic Affairs
University at Buffalo School of Law
Philip Halpern
Professor
University at Buffalo School of Law
Stuart Lazar
Professor; Co-Director, New York City Program in Finance and Law
University at Buffalo School of Law
Philip R. Perry
Associate Professor
UB School of Management
John Schlegel
Professor and Floyd H. and Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar
University at Buffalo School of Law
David Westbrook
Louis A. Del Cotto Professor; Co-Director, New York City Program in Finance and Law
University at Buffalo School of Law
Thomas J. Amico - Partner, Bingham McCutchen
Jane Azia - Chief of the Consumer Frauds Bureau, New York State Attorney General’s Office
Daniel M. Baich ’00 - Of Counsel, Skadden Arps
Kevin Baldwin - Director of Education, Institute for Financial Markets
Richard Bernhard, Retired Executive Vice President and General Counsel of the New York Stock Exchange
Stephen A. Blumenthal - Principal, Williams and Jensen
Alexander Bouganim ‘12 - Managing Attorney, Cellino & Barnes
Jennifer Buchner ‘08 - Medici Technologies, LLC
John W. Butler, Jr. - Retired Partner, Skadden Arps
Ellen Buxbaum - NYS Department of Financial Services
Joseph Choi '91 - Managing Director, Citi Global Commitment
Gerard S. Citera '80 - Legal, Regulatory & Compliance Consultant
Colin G. Clark - Vice President, Competitive Analysis, NYSE Euronext
Adam C. Cooper - Senior Managing Director and General Counsel, Citadel Investment Group
Jeffrey P. Crandall ‘82 - Partner, Davis Polk
Gary A. DeWaal ’80 - Special Counsel, Katten Muchin Rosenman, and Retired Senior Managing Director and Group General Counsel, Newedge USA
Mark A. DeWeaver - Principal, Quantrarian Capital Management
Edward M. Dreyfus - Managing Director, Project Management, Office of the President, Republic of Guyana
James Everett ‘83 - Capital Markets Counsel, N.Y. State Insurance Department
Ronald H. Filler - Former Managing Director at Lehman Brothers, and Director of the Center on Financial Services Law at New York Law School
Kenneth Forrest ‘76 - Of Counsel, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Eric Foster - Partner, Patton Boggs
David E. Franasiak ‘78 - Principal, Williams and Jensen
Naomi Friedland-Wechsler - Former Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Reich & Tang Asset Management
Michael Fruchter ’97 - Senior Counsel, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Dora Galacatos, Director, Fordham Law School Center for Social Justice
Vitor Gaspar - Finance Minister of Portugal and Former Head of the Bureau of European Policy Advisors at the European Commission
Barry Ginsberg ‘80 - Retired Executive Director and General Counsel, NYS Commission on Public Integrity
Jeremy Gold - Principal, Jeremy Gold Pensions
James A. Gouwar - Partner, Clifford Chance LLP
Justin Greatorex ‘11 - Associate, Finn Dixon & Herling
Nathan J. Greene - Partner, Shearman and Sterling
Alan Grigoletto - Vice President of Education, Options Industry Council
Dr. Alfred Gusenbauer - Former Chancellor of Austria
Caitlin Higgins ‘13 - Assistant United States Attorney, United States Attorney’s Office, WDNY
Enam Hoque ‘06 - Vice President, Moody’s Investors Services, Inc.
Jacob Inwald - Director of Foreclosure Prevention, NYC Legal Services
Harvey L. Kaminski ‘77 - President/CEO, Prestige Capital Corporation
Bruce Karpati ‘96 - Member, Global Chief Compliance Officer, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
James Kim - Partner, Ballard Spahr LLP
Barbara D. Klippert ’75 - Senior Counsel with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Sachin Kohli ‘06 - Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Jason Lee ‘07 - Founder & CEO, Celant Innovations
Robert J. Lemons - Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Erik D. Lindauer ‘81 - Of Counsel with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Jay Lippman ‘87 - Executive Director, UBS Bank USA
Michael Mann ‘06 - Partner, Sidley Austin
Adam S. Miller - Bureau Chief, Major Financial Crimes, New York County District Attorney’s Office
Harvey Miller - Partner, Weil Gotschal & Manges
Ryne Miller - Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
Chad Moutray - Chief Economist & Director of Economic Research, U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy
Christopher Nagy, CEO, KOR Trading
Stephen J. Obie ’91 Partner, Jones Day, and Former Counsel and Regional Administrator at the New York City Office of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Mark Olson, Co-Chair, Treliant Risk Advisors
Matthew Parham - Attorney, Western New York Law Center
Matti Peltonen - Bureau Chief, Capital Markets Bureau, N.Y. State Insurance Department
Stephen L. Ratner - Partner, Proskauer Rose
Michael Rodriguez ‘06 - Partner, Purrington Moody Weil
Joanne Rose - Former Executive Director, Global Structured Finance Ratings at Standard and Poor’s
William Ryan, Managing Director, New York State Exchange AMEX Operations
Thomas M. Salatte ’93 - Managing Director, Secretary and Executive Director, Nomura Global Financial Products, Inc.
Lanny Schwartz, Partner, Davis Polk
Robert C. Schwenkel ’82 - Partner, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Susan Shin, Attorney, Neighborhood Economic Development & Advocacy Project
David A. Starr - Principal, Williams and Jensen
Jeffrey L. Tanenbaum ‘76 - Retired Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Linda Chatman Thomsen - Partner, Davis Polk, and Former Director of the SEC Division of Enforcement
James Tierney - Associate, Graham and Borges
Daisy Tomaselli ‘13 - New York University, Office of Equal Opportunity
Tess Weil - Partner, Purrington Moody Weil
Mark J. Weinstein ’81 - Partner, Hogan and Lovells
Steven Weiss ’91 - Managing Partner, Cannon Heyman & Weiss
George M. Williams, Jr. ’78 - Counsel, King & Spalding LLP
Gregory Zerzan - Deputy and Principal Deputy Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior
Joshua Zinner - Co-Director, Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project
Joshua Agins ’10 - Partner, Ward Greenberg Heller & Reidy
Jason Almonte ’07 - Special Counsel, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Northeast District
Joseph Barker ’00 - Counsel, John Wiley and Sons Publishers
Jennifer Buchner ’08 - Medici Technologies, LLC
Britten Cosgrove ’09 - Counsel, Sandler O’Neill & Partners
Robert Crawford ’87 - Partner, Kenney Shelton Liptak Nowak LLP
Joshua Dilk ’09 - Associate, White & Case
Patrick Fitzsimmons ’09 - Senior Associate, Hodgson Russ
Justin Greatorex ’11 - Associate, Finn Dixon & Herling
Rob Gutowski ’99 - General Counsel, Legal and Compliance, MSCI, Inc.
Darice Hickey ’09 - Legal Counsel, HSBC Bank USA N.A.
Enam Hoque ’06 - Vice President, Moody’s Investors Services, Inc.
Charles Kacherski ’01 - Associate Counsel, Masterworks Development Corporation
Naz Kahn - Associate, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Benjamin Kallos ’05 - Attorney, Carlisle Capital
Sachin Kohli ’06 - Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Elliot Kowalski ’08 - Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions, AIG
Jason Lee ’07 - Founder & CEO Celant Innovations
Michael Mann ’06 - Partner, Sidley Austin
Tatiana Markel ’08 - Partner, Baker & Hostetler LLP
Noel Mendez ’09 -
Jennifer Pacella ’08 - Assistant Professor, Indiana University Kelley School of Business
Amol Pachnanda ’03 - Partner, Ingram, Yuzek, Gainen, Carroll & Bertolotti
Anshu Pasricha ’07 - Shareholder, Koley Jessen P.C
Yadira Ramos ’05 - Dean of Students, Columbia Law School
Regina Readling ’08 - Special Counsel, Sullivan & Cromwell
Patrick Reinikainen ’12 - Associate, Davis Polk & Wardell
Larry Rosenthal ’07 - Associate, Ostrolenk Faber LLP
Aparnaa Saini ’09 - Manager of Professional Development, McKinsey & Company
Patricia Sandison ’07 - Partner Hodgson Russ LLP
Luis Segura ’09 - Kings County District Attorney’s Office
Ryan Seher ’11 - Director, Global Markets Documentation Group, TD Securities
Sarah Sprague ’08 - Executive Director, Legal, Morgan Stanley
Rachel Sun ’07 - Attorney, Legal Services of New York
Brenna Terry ’09 - General Counsel, Dollar Shave Club
Daisy Tomaselli ’12 - Associate, Bond Schoeneck & King
David Turner ’08 -
Ann Zhu ’08 - Director, UBS Investment Bank