Stephen Modzelewski serves as the board chairperson. He has been active in the field of finance for decades. At Salomon Brothers, now part of Citicorp, he created mathematical models for valuing fixed income securities and developed the framework for “option adjusted spread,” now a standard analytical metric for complex fixed income securities. In 1988, he established the hedge fund Parsec Trading Corp. Then Modzelewski established his own firm, Maple Engine L.P., a private multi-strategy investment and trading fund focusing on speculative trading and venture investment. He serves on the boards of the Reason Foundation and the Institute for Justice. He serves as an independent, voting member of the Moving Picture Institute’s board of trustees.