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.

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.

Diana Cantor

Diana Cantor is a partner with Alternative Investment Management, an independent, privately-held investment management firm. Prior to joining the firm, she was a Managing Director of New York Private Bank & Trust, the wealth management division of Emigrant Bank. From 1996 through 2007, Ms. Cantor was the founding Executive Director of the Virginia College Savings Plan, the state agency that created and administers Virginia’s four Section 529 college savings plans. Under her leadership, the plan grew to be the largest in the nation with more than 4 million accounts representing over $27 billion in assets under management. Prior to her state service, she was a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York, serving as chief administrator of their leveraged buyout and internal investment funds and merchant banking operations. She also practiced law in the real estate department of the New York office of Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler.

Ms. Cantor is a C.P.A. and holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Florida’s School of Accounting, an M.B.A from the University of Miami, and a J.D. from New York University. She is affiliated with numerous civic and professional associations including the Bon Secours Richmond Health Care Foundation; the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation; the UNOS (United Network for Organ Sharing) Foundation President’s Council; and the National Chamber Foundation of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Ms. Cantor is also a Director of Media General, Inc. and Domino’s Pizza, Inc., where she serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee, and currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Retirement System, the 22nd largest pension plan in the nation.

Adam Cohn

Adam Cohn is a Partner at Knowledge Universe, where he is head of mergers and acquisitions and business development for Knowledge Universe and its portfolio companies. Mr. Cohn has worked at Knowledge Universe, or related entities, since March of 2000. Previously, he was with Whitney & Co., a leading private equity firm. Prior to that, Mr. Cohn was an investment banker in the Financial Sponsors Group at Bankers Trust Company and Deutsche Bank. In addition to Vistage International, Mr. Cohn serves on the board of directors of Busy Bees Holdings Limited, Embanet-Compass Knowledge Group, Knowledge Learning Corporation, and Milagro Holdings. Mr. Cohn has a B.A. in Business from Skidmore College and a M.B.A. from Columbia University.

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.

Philip B. Simon

Philip B. Simon is President of Lawrence Investments, a private equity investment firm that is controlled by Lawrence J. Ellison. In 2010, Mr. Simon was proposed for membership on Vistage’s board of directors by Mollusk Holdings, a subsidiary of Lawrence Investments and a substantial owner of Vistage.

For 16 years, prior to joining Lawrence Investments in 1997, Mr. Simon was a partner in Howson & Simon LLP, a professional tax and accounting services firm. Mr. Simon serves on the board of directors of a number of privately held companies and is a member of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Simon holds an A.B. from Yale University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.