anuary was a month of excitement at the Bogliasco Foundation. Among other things, we held the first meeting of our new Board of Trustees at the Liguria Study Center. This special edition of BF News contains profiles of our new board members, five dedicated persons who, together with our Founding Trustees, will help us as we continue to expand our board and initiate new fundraising efforts.

In 2007, the Bogliasco Foundation held a number of special events, both in Italy and New York. Among them was an eight day spring tour of Liguria organized by Jane Garmey and Mitchell Wolfson to benefit the Bogliasco Foundation and the Wolfsonian museum. A highlight of the trip was a festive dinner at the Study Center’s Villa dei Pini, when guests had the opportunity to dine with resident Bogliasco Fellows. In October, the Foundation held a dinner in the VIP Green Room of the New York State Theater with guest of honor Bogliasco Fellow Richard Danielpour to celebrate the New York City Opera premier of his opera Margaret Garner. In November, Foundation Trustee Gabriella De Ferrari held a cocktail party in her beautiful Tribeca loft for Foundation friends and supporters. Please click here for images of these events.

The next issue of BF News should arrive in your inbox in May and will include information about some of the recent awards, milestones and accomplishments of our Fellows. I encourage our Fellows to be in touch with us to share such good news for inclusion in this next issue.

Last, but certainly most important, are my sincere personal thanks to all of you who have contributed to the Bogliasco Foundation this past year, through both your financial generosity and your gifts of time and expertise. I cannot begin to express my appreciation for all you have done, and continue to do, to help us ensure that the Bogliasco Foundation maintains its mission, supporting future generations of artists and scholars.

I wish you and your loved ones a very happy and healthy 2008.

Warm regards,

James S. Harrison
President

We welcome submissions from Fellows to BF News and would be delighted to include news of your accomplishments and activities in our next (spring) issue. Please email us at development@bfny.org.

Page Ashley

Before going into book publishing, Page Ashley worked at the Council on Foreign Relations. Page was the Director of Subsidiary Rights at GP Putnam's, the Publisher of Berkley (paperback division of Putnam's), and the Editorial Director of Avon Books (paperback division of the Hearst Corporation). She served on the board of the National “I Have a Dream” Foundation for many years, and was the Chair of the New York Foundation for ten years.

Page is currently on the Board of the Collegiate Chorale and the Friends of Horticulture at Wave Hill.

Jorge Amador

For the past six years, Jorge had been working at the law firm of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Scholman LLP. As Director of Forensic Accounting, Jorge was responsible for identifying and researching various fraudulent accounting practices and has worked on cases involving Enron, Tyco and Xerox. Jorge recently established his own litigation consulting firm, Axia Advisors LLC, with offices in New York City.

He received his B.S. in Business Administration from Norwich University and his J.D. from Concord School of Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the State Bar of California. His prior board service includes the Wilton Montessori School in Wilton, CT and Community Aid and Accounting Services in Hartford, CT. Jorge is fluent in Spanish.

Reginald Chambers

Reggie is a Vice President in the Global Energy Investment Banking Group of Citigroup Global Markets Inc. During his time with Citi, Reggie has worked on a variety of domestic and international mergers and acquisitions within the Energy sector. Prior to working with Citi, Reggie practiced corporate law as an Associate with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in the Mergers and Acquisitions group, where he helped to negotiate complex cross-border transactions, and as an International Associate in the Corporate group of Uría y Menéndez in Madrid.

Reggie has prior experience serving on non-profit boards, having spent time as a board member of Stages of Learning, where he served as Treasurer. Currently, Reggie serves on the board of the Teachers Network and is a member of its finance committee.

Reggie earned his Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School and his undergraduate degrees in Political Science, Spanish and Markets & Management from Duke University. He lives in New York with his wife, Tiffani, a Vice President at Lehman Brothers.

Gabriella De Ferrari

Gabriella was born in Peru and moved to the United States to attend university. She served as Curator and Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Curator of Harvard’s Busch Reisenger Museum, and Assistant Director of the Harvard University Art Museums. Gabriella serves on the board of Harvard University Art Museums. She is chair of the Advisory Board for the Art Gallery at the Graduate Center (CUNY) in New York, a member of the Visiting Committee for the Department of Nineteenth, Twentieth and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a member of the International Council of MoMA.

Gabriella published a novel, A Cloud on Sand, with Knopf in 1990 and a memoir, Gringa Latina, with Houghton Mifflin in 1995. A contributing editor for Travel and Leisure, she also writes for BOMB and The New York Times. She holds degrees from Saint Louis University, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts, and Harvard University. She is currently at work on a new book about New York.

Michèle Gerber Klein

Michèle is the founder of Joan Vass USA and vice president of the Liberman Foundation. A writer for Quest and C magazines and a contributing editor for Hamptons Cottages and Gardens magazine, she graduated from the Brearley School and Bryn Mawr College.

Current board affiliations include the New Museum, BOMB magazine, Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum and the Alliance Française.

Michèle is co-chair of the Library Committee at the Whitney and on the photography acquisition committee of the MoMA. A native French speaker, she lives in New York with her husband, Jeffrey Klein.

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