Vistage International
Board of Directors

Vistage International Board of Directors

Rafael Pastor

Rafael Pastor is CEO and Chairman of the Board of Vistage International. He has a wide-ranging background in both leading and advising business enterprises. Before joining Vistage in 2004, he was co-founder of Sonenshine Pastor and Co., the New York-based investment banking firm, and its private equity affiliate, SP Capital.

Prior to that, Mr. Pastor held several senior executive positions at global media companies, including CEO and President of Hoyts Cinemas Corporation; President of USA Networks International; Executive Vice President, International, of News Corporation and of Fox Television International; and President of CBS/Fox Video International. In these capacities, he dealt with all aspects of the film, television and publishing businesses in the United States and throughout the world.

Mr. Pastor started his career as an attorney, first at the Wall Street law firm of Hawkins, Delafield and Wood and then as Associate General Counsel at CBS Inc. He holds a BA from Columbia University and a JD from New York University School of Law. Mr. Pastor serves on the boards of several not-for-profit institutions, and speaks several languages. He lives in the San Diego, California area with his wife, Marina, and their two children.

Steven Fink

Steven B. Fink is the former Chief Executive Officer of Lawrence Investments, LLC, a venture with Larry Ellison that owns and manages Mr. Ellison’s non-Oracle investments. Lawrence Investments has invested in numerous technology, medical, and biotechnology companies, many of which are now public.

Mr. Fink was also a founding partner, Managing Director, and Vice Chairman of Knowledge Universe, a company formed to acquire, build, incubate, and manage companies in the education industry. Most of Knowledge Universe’s investments have been distributed to its partners. Mr. Fink was also formerly Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Anthony Manufacturing Company, a specialty glass and coatings company with plants in the United States, Japan, Italy, and Venezuela.

Mr. Fink serves as the Vice Chairman of Heron International, a European real estate company, and is a member of the boards of directors of K-12, a NYSE Exchanged-listed virtual charter school company, and Nobel Learning, a NASDAQ-listed education company that operates elementary and pre-schools. Mr. Fink formerly served as Chairman of the Board of LeapFrog Enterprises, a NYSE Exchange-listed company that is the designer, developer, and marketer of innovative technology-based educational products and related proprietary content; Spring Group, PLC, a London Stock Exchange company that is one of the largest information technology service companies in the U.K.; C-COR, a NASDAQ-listed company providing infrastructure for cable and VOIP services world-wide; and NetSuite, a NYSE-listed company that provides SAS, ERP, accounting, and other application software for small and mid-sized businesses. In addition, Mr. Fink serves, or has served, on other private company boards of directors, including Quark Bioscience, Pillar Data, nCUBE, and Zumbox.

Mr. Fink is a member of the UCLA Foundation Board, and was previously a member of The American College of Physicians Foundation Board.

Steven Jay Green

Steven Jay Green served as the twelfth United States Ambassador to the Republic of Singapore from 1997 to 2001. During his tenure, he spearheaded strategic programs that greatly enhanced U.S.-Singapore alliances in economic development, intellectual property, immigration and national security. Many of his accomplishments expanded American business opportunities in Singapore and other ASEAN markets. Ambassador Green directly led the effort to commence bilateral negotiations for a free trade agreement between the U.S. and Singapore.

Prior to this appointment, he compiled a 25-year record of success as an international industrialist, leading major corporate restructurings and expansions for manufacturing, housing, consumer products, retail and real estate enterprises. He presently serves as Chairman and CEO of Greenstreet Partners, a private merchant bank.

Ambassador Green is a board member of the University of Miami and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He is also a board member of Knowledge Universe Holdings, KLC Knowledge Learning Centers, and Greenstreet Realty, a company managing a large portfolio of education-related real estate. He was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of K1 Ventures Limited, a publicly traded investment company in Singapore. Ambassador Green also serves as Honorary Consul General of Singapore in Miami, Florida. He and his wife, Dorothea, have two daughters.

Mike Milken

Mike Milken is chairman of the Milken Institute. When Fortune magazine put him on its cover, they called him “The Man Who Changed Medicine” for his three decades of work to accelerate medical research. In 1982, he formalized his previous philanthropy with the establishment of the Milken Family Foundation, which has been a leader in support of education and medicine. He also heads FasterCures, a Washington-based think tank dedicated to accelerating progress against all life-threatening diseases, and the Prostate Cancer Foundation. He helped organize the Melanoma Research Alliance to advance research on the most deadly skin cancer.

As a financier, Mike is often said to have revolutionized modern capital markets, making them more democratic and dynamic by innovating a wide range of financing techniques previously unavailable to most companies. The Washington Post said he “helped create the conditions for America’s explosion of wealth and creativity,” a process that Business Week said “shook America’s defeatist Establishment out of its gloom.” Starting on Wall Street in 1969, he financed more than 3,000 companies that created millions of jobs. The former editor of the Harvard Business Review wrote, “Much of the strength and resilience of the economy today – including its ability to rebound in times of adversity – is due to the way people using Milken’s financing vehicles remade ailing companies or put their entrepreneurial zeal to work.”

A summa cum laude graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Mike earned his MBA at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. He and his wife of 41 years, Lori, have three children and four grandchildren. Further details are at www.mikemilken.com.

John Bellizzi

John Bellizzi is Senior Vice President of Thomson Reuters Professional Division, a leading global provider of integrated information-based solutions to business and professional customers based in Stamford, Connecticut. Before assuming this position in 2006, he served as Senior Vice President, Business Operations for Thomson Learning.

From 2001-2005, Mr. Bellizzi was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Manning, Selvage & Lee, a worldwide public relations firm. Prior to this, he was Vice President, Financial Planning & Analysis, at Thomson Financial, and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Thomson Learning International.

Mr. Bellizzi’s career includes other senior-level positions at Paramount Publishing, Inc., Pepsi-Cola International and Eli Lilly & Co. He is a graduate of Queens College, City University of New York, and has an MBA from the New York University Graduate School of Business.