Walter B. Kissinger

Mr. Kissinger is the Founder and Honorary Chairman of the Board of the Long Island Research Institute. The Institute is a Consortium of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, who are the founders as well as North Shore University Hospital. Its purpose is to accelerate Technology Transfer from these research institutions into commercial applications. It also, independently, does contract research drawing on the scientific resources and staff of these organizations. He also directs the Kissinger Family Foundation and is President of WBK Associates, an investment and consulting group. He has been Vice Chairman and continues as a member of the Board of Trustees of Hofstra University and has chaired the Academic Affairs Committee. He serves on the Board of the Stony Brook Foundation. He has been a Director of various public and private companies and quasi-public Boards such as the National Council for U.S. /China Trade. From 1969-1988 he was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Allen Group Inc. (Now Allen Telecom). The Allen Group Inc. (NYSE) is an international manufacturer and marketer of automotive products including test and assembly equipment, truck components and mobile communications products. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theater (1943-1945); and he had a brief recall during the Korean War in 1950. For almost two years following military service, he held a position in the Foreign Service of the War Department during the Military Government phase in Korea. He was discharged with a reserve commission of Captain. A graduate of Princeton University (1951); he received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School (1953). Mr. Kissinger is the recipient of a Doctor of Humane Letters Degree from Hofstra University (2001). Mr. Kissinger and his wife, the former Eugenie Van Drooge, have four children and reside in Huntington Bay, Long Island, New York. He is listed in Whos Who in America and Whos Who in the World.