Lindsay Ellenbogen is an American communications professional. She most recently served as deputy director and public relations manager for Michael Bloomberg in Washington D.C. and is known for her philanthropic support of children and youth.
Career
As communications advisor, Ellenbogen helped to launch Building America's Future, a bi-partisan infrastructure campaign by Michael Bloomberg, which was co-chaired by Ed Rendell and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
She also served in the private sector for Ruder Finn Public Relations, working on different political campaigns. In 2011 and 2012 she regularly contributed blog articles for The Hill.
Ellenbogen served as adjunct professor at Fordham University and currently serves as adjunct professor of media and politics at the George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management.
Memberships and affiliations
In 2011, Ellenbogen founded the Sara Start Fund for Foster Youth and serves on the board of two non-profits in the same sector. Since 2012, she also serves on the Advisory Council to the Children's Cabinet.
She also serves as Vice-Chair of The Phillips Collection art museum in Washington D.C.
Awards and recognitions
Ellenbogen designed the PR campaign "Infrastructure's Dream Team Makes It Happen" which was listed as Award Finalist for Public Sector Campaign of the Year by PR week several times.
Personal life
Ellenbogen is married and based in Washington D.C.
Career
As communications advisor, Ellenbogen helped to launch Building America's Future, a bi-partisan infrastructure campaign by Michael Bloomberg, which was co-chaired by Ed Rendell and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
She also served in the private sector for Ruder Finn Public Relations, working on different political campaigns. In 2011 and 2012 she regularly contributed blog articles for The Hill.
Ellenbogen served as adjunct professor at Fordham University and currently serves as adjunct professor of media and politics at the George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management.
Memberships and affiliations
In 2011, Ellenbogen founded the Sara Start Fund for Foster Youth and serves on the board of two non-profits in the same sector. Since 2012, she also serves on the Advisory Council to the Children's Cabinet.
She also serves as Vice-Chair of The Phillips Collection art museum in Washington D.C.
Awards and recognitions
Ellenbogen designed the PR campaign "Infrastructure's Dream Team Makes It Happen" which was listed as Award Finalist for Public Sector Campaign of the Year by PR week several times.
Personal life
Ellenbogen is married and based in Washington D.C.
The Kingston Upon Hull Centre for Magnetic Resonance Investigations (CMRI), which opened in 1992, is a magnetic resonance imaging centre located in the city of Kingston upon Hull (Hull) in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK. It is situated in the grounds of the Hull Royal Infirmary hospital in the centre of the city.
The centre carries out both cancer research studies, under the auspices of the University of Hull, and clinical scanning, under the auspices of the local NHS trust, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals.
The centre currently has three MRI scanners; two 1.5 tesla scanners owned by the NHS (a Philips Intera and a GE Signa) and a 3.0 tesla MR 750 GE Signa scanner owned by the University which was installed in January 2009 (one of the first 3.0 tesla whole-body capable systems in Europe).
Research activities
The medical research is carried out under the Directorship of Professor Lindsay W. Turnbull, and is devoted to the application of magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy techniques to the study of cancer.
Current research projects include investigations of cancer of the breast, prostate and cervix. Previous studies have involved investigations of cancer of the brain.
MRI techniques employed include dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI), diffusion-weighted MRI, functional MRI (fMRI, brain activation mapping), image textural analysis, proton spectroscopy and phosphorus spectroscopy.
Funding
The research is wholly funded by the charity Yorkshire Cancer Research.
Research staff
* Scientific Director: Professor Lindsay W. Turnbull, M.D., F.R.C.R. (Radiologist)
* Medical physicist: Peter Gibbs, Ph.D
* Biochemist: Martin Lowry, D.Phil.
* Research scientist: Martin D. Pickles, Ph.D.
* Research Radiographers: Julie Pounder(Superintendent Radiographer); Daniel Siddons, Ph.D.
* Ph.D. students: Lawrence Kenning, Nina Louise Purvis, Michael Fox
Recent publications
1. Liney, GP; Bernard, CP; Manton, DJ; et al.
Age, gender, and skeletal variation in bone marrow composition: A preliminary study at 3.0 Tesla.
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, 26 (3): 787-793 September 2007
2. Bernard, CP; Liney, GP; Manton, DJ; et al.
Bone marrow quantification using 3.0 tesla magnetic resonance imaging.
JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH, 22 (7): 1140-1140 July 2007
3. Sreenivas, A; Lowry, M; Gibbs, P; et al.
A simple solution for reducing artefacts due to conductive and dielectric effects in clinical magnetic resonance imaging at 3 T.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY, 62 (1): 143-146 April 2007
4. Pickles, MD; Gibbs, P; Lowry, M; et al.
Diffusion changes precede size reduction in neoadjuvant treatment of breast cancer.
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, 24 (7): 843-847 September 2006
5. Liney, GP; Sreenivas, M; Gibbs, P; et al.
Breast lesion analysis of shape technique: Semiautomated vs. manual morphological description.
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, 23 (4): 493-498 April 2006
6. Kneeshaw, PJ; Lowry, M; Manton, D; et al.
Differentiation of benign from malignant breast disease associated with screening detected microcalcifications using dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging.
BREAST, 15 (1): 29-38 February 2006
7. Pickles, MD; Gibbs, P; Sreenivas, M; et al.
Diffusion-weighted imaging of normal and malignant prostate tissue at 3.0 T.
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, 23 (2): 130-134 February 2006
8. Gibbs, P; Pickles, MD; Turnbull, LW
Diffusion imaging of the prostate at 3.0 tesla.
INVESTIGATIVE RADIOLOGY, 41 (2): 185-188 February 2006
9. Manton, DJ; Chaturvedi, A; Hubbard, A; et al.
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer: early response prediction with quantitative MR imaging and spectroscopy.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER, 94 (3): 427-435 FEB 13 2006
10. Manton, DJ; Chaturvedi, A; Hubbard, A; et al.
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer: early response prediction with quantitative MR imaging and spectroscopy. (vol 94, pg 1554, 2006)
BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER, 94 (10): 1554-1554 MAY 22 2006
11. Pickles, MD; Lowry, M; Manton, DJ; et al.
Role of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI in monitoring early response of locally advanced breast cancer to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT, 91 (1): 1-10 May 2005
12. Balan, P; Turnbull, LW
Dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy in diabetic mastopathy.
BREAST, 14 (1): 68-70 February 2005
The centre carries out both cancer research studies, under the auspices of the University of Hull, and clinical scanning, under the auspices of the local NHS trust, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals.
The centre currently has three MRI scanners; two 1.5 tesla scanners owned by the NHS (a Philips Intera and a GE Signa) and a 3.0 tesla MR 750 GE Signa scanner owned by the University which was installed in January 2009 (one of the first 3.0 tesla whole-body capable systems in Europe).
Research activities
The medical research is carried out under the Directorship of Professor Lindsay W. Turnbull, and is devoted to the application of magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy techniques to the study of cancer.
Current research projects include investigations of cancer of the breast, prostate and cervix. Previous studies have involved investigations of cancer of the brain.
MRI techniques employed include dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI), diffusion-weighted MRI, functional MRI (fMRI, brain activation mapping), image textural analysis, proton spectroscopy and phosphorus spectroscopy.
Funding
The research is wholly funded by the charity Yorkshire Cancer Research.
Research staff
* Scientific Director: Professor Lindsay W. Turnbull, M.D., F.R.C.R. (Radiologist)
* Medical physicist: Peter Gibbs, Ph.D
* Biochemist: Martin Lowry, D.Phil.
* Research scientist: Martin D. Pickles, Ph.D.
* Research Radiographers: Julie Pounder(Superintendent Radiographer); Daniel Siddons, Ph.D.
* Ph.D. students: Lawrence Kenning, Nina Louise Purvis, Michael Fox
Recent publications
1. Liney, GP; Bernard, CP; Manton, DJ; et al.
Age, gender, and skeletal variation in bone marrow composition: A preliminary study at 3.0 Tesla.
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, 26 (3): 787-793 September 2007
2. Bernard, CP; Liney, GP; Manton, DJ; et al.
Bone marrow quantification using 3.0 tesla magnetic resonance imaging.
JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH, 22 (7): 1140-1140 July 2007
3. Sreenivas, A; Lowry, M; Gibbs, P; et al.
A simple solution for reducing artefacts due to conductive and dielectric effects in clinical magnetic resonance imaging at 3 T.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF RADIOLOGY, 62 (1): 143-146 April 2007
4. Pickles, MD; Gibbs, P; Lowry, M; et al.
Diffusion changes precede size reduction in neoadjuvant treatment of breast cancer.
MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, 24 (7): 843-847 September 2006
5. Liney, GP; Sreenivas, M; Gibbs, P; et al.
Breast lesion analysis of shape technique: Semiautomated vs. manual morphological description.
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, 23 (4): 493-498 April 2006
6. Kneeshaw, PJ; Lowry, M; Manton, D; et al.
Differentiation of benign from malignant breast disease associated with screening detected microcalcifications using dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging.
BREAST, 15 (1): 29-38 February 2006
7. Pickles, MD; Gibbs, P; Sreenivas, M; et al.
Diffusion-weighted imaging of normal and malignant prostate tissue at 3.0 T.
JOURNAL OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, 23 (2): 130-134 February 2006
8. Gibbs, P; Pickles, MD; Turnbull, LW
Diffusion imaging of the prostate at 3.0 tesla.
INVESTIGATIVE RADIOLOGY, 41 (2): 185-188 February 2006
9. Manton, DJ; Chaturvedi, A; Hubbard, A; et al.
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer: early response prediction with quantitative MR imaging and spectroscopy.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER, 94 (3): 427-435 FEB 13 2006
10. Manton, DJ; Chaturvedi, A; Hubbard, A; et al.
Neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer: early response prediction with quantitative MR imaging and spectroscopy. (vol 94, pg 1554, 2006)
BRITISH JOURNAL OF CANCER, 94 (10): 1554-1554 MAY 22 2006
11. Pickles, MD; Lowry, M; Manton, DJ; et al.
Role of dynamic contrast enhanced MRI in monitoring early response of locally advanced breast cancer to neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT, 91 (1): 1-10 May 2005
12. Balan, P; Turnbull, LW
Dynamic contrast enhanced magnetic resonance imaging and magnetic resonance spectroscopy in diabetic mastopathy.
BREAST, 14 (1): 68-70 February 2005
Charles William Prast (born 1966) is an American media investor and investment banker. He was the president and CEO of Private Media Group from 2012 to 2017 and from May 2002 until November 2003. Previous to moving to Private, Prast was a corporate financier based in London.
Early life and education
Charles William Prast was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He attended Greens Farms Academy in Greens Farms, Connecticut and double majored in Economics and French at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
Banking career
Early Career in Paris
Shortly after graduation from college in 1987, Prast began his financial career with Dean Witter Reynolds in Paris France where, at 21, he was appointed as Operations Manager of their Paris branch. In 1989, Prast moved to Drexel Burnham Lambert’s Paris office as an Associate Director. Following Drexel Burnham’s closure in 1990, Prast and several colleagues co-founded a hybrid asset management and institutional equity sales operation for Legg Mason and Banamex in Paris.
Investment Banking
In 1993, Prast moved to London to join former colleagues from Drexel Burnham Lambert who had created NatWest Markets USA, the US broker dealer and investment banking arm of National Westminster Bank. In 1997 Prast left NatWest to join Furman Selz’s London office as a Director and equity holder. Shortly after his joining, Furman Selz agreed to be acquired by Dutch banking giant ING Group for $600 million and was integrated into ING Barings, ING Group’s investment banking arm.
At the end of his buy-out related contact, Prast left ING Barings to join Commerzbank AG in London where he helped build the media banking group and played a key role in raising over $1bn in equity and equity-linked financing for US and European interactive entertainment companies including Ubisoft SA. Building on Commerzbank’s successful IPO of $300m European erotic retailer Beate Uhse AG, Prast also began to provide investment banking services to adult entertainment companies, believing that the Internet would become a disruptive technology for adult content providers and create challenges that would require consolidation and capital.
Corporate Roles
In early 2002, Prast left Commerzbank to join Barcelona based Private Media Group, Inc. as President and CEO. At Private, Prast restructured $4m in short-term debt and raised over $2m in equity-linked financing. At Private, Prast bid for the Napster brand which was in bankruptcy.
In late 2003, General Media, Inc. the parent company of Penthouse filed for protection under Chapter 11. From 2004 until 2005 Prast worked to maximize the value of the portion of Penthouse acquired by Interactive Brand Development, Inc. At Interactive Brand Development, Prast structured an investment in XTV, Inc. an IPTV provider for which Prast helped obtain a NASDAQ listing and ultimately joined as CEO.
Under Prast and his partners’ tenure LA-based XTV was rebranded as Interactive Television Networks and its relationships grew to include Universal Studios, Major League Baseball, Liberty Starz and Setanta Sports among others.
Angel investor: 2008 - present
Since 2008, Prast has acted as an early stage investor and adviser. He served as an SVP of New Frontier Media, Inc. as well as adviser to the Board of Beate Uhse and numerous public and private company Boards, creditors and shareholders on a confidential basis. After a shareholder and creditor rights battle, Prast was elected to the Board of Directors of Private in January 2012.
Personal life
He is based in Cyprus and Barcelona, Spain.
Early life and education
Charles William Prast was born in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He attended Greens Farms Academy in Greens Farms, Connecticut and double majored in Economics and French at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
Banking career
Early Career in Paris
Shortly after graduation from college in 1987, Prast began his financial career with Dean Witter Reynolds in Paris France where, at 21, he was appointed as Operations Manager of their Paris branch. In 1989, Prast moved to Drexel Burnham Lambert’s Paris office as an Associate Director. Following Drexel Burnham’s closure in 1990, Prast and several colleagues co-founded a hybrid asset management and institutional equity sales operation for Legg Mason and Banamex in Paris.
Investment Banking
In 1993, Prast moved to London to join former colleagues from Drexel Burnham Lambert who had created NatWest Markets USA, the US broker dealer and investment banking arm of National Westminster Bank. In 1997 Prast left NatWest to join Furman Selz’s London office as a Director and equity holder. Shortly after his joining, Furman Selz agreed to be acquired by Dutch banking giant ING Group for $600 million and was integrated into ING Barings, ING Group’s investment banking arm.
At the end of his buy-out related contact, Prast left ING Barings to join Commerzbank AG in London where he helped build the media banking group and played a key role in raising over $1bn in equity and equity-linked financing for US and European interactive entertainment companies including Ubisoft SA. Building on Commerzbank’s successful IPO of $300m European erotic retailer Beate Uhse AG, Prast also began to provide investment banking services to adult entertainment companies, believing that the Internet would become a disruptive technology for adult content providers and create challenges that would require consolidation and capital.
Corporate Roles
In early 2002, Prast left Commerzbank to join Barcelona based Private Media Group, Inc. as President and CEO. At Private, Prast restructured $4m in short-term debt and raised over $2m in equity-linked financing. At Private, Prast bid for the Napster brand which was in bankruptcy.
In late 2003, General Media, Inc. the parent company of Penthouse filed for protection under Chapter 11. From 2004 until 2005 Prast worked to maximize the value of the portion of Penthouse acquired by Interactive Brand Development, Inc. At Interactive Brand Development, Prast structured an investment in XTV, Inc. an IPTV provider for which Prast helped obtain a NASDAQ listing and ultimately joined as CEO.
Under Prast and his partners’ tenure LA-based XTV was rebranded as Interactive Television Networks and its relationships grew to include Universal Studios, Major League Baseball, Liberty Starz and Setanta Sports among others.
Angel investor: 2008 - present
Since 2008, Prast has acted as an early stage investor and adviser. He served as an SVP of New Frontier Media, Inc. as well as adviser to the Board of Beate Uhse and numerous public and private company Boards, creditors and shareholders on a confidential basis. After a shareholder and creditor rights battle, Prast was elected to the Board of Directors of Private in January 2012.
Personal life
He is based in Cyprus and Barcelona, Spain.
Kulsoom Lakhani (September, 1982 )is a Washington based Pakistani-American entrepreneur, the Founder/CEO of Invest2Innovate, an accelerator that aims to support young entrepreneurs in Pakistan. She is also a Partner at i2i Ventures, Invest2Innovate’s investment fund for Pakistan, which is the country’s first female-led fund. She has also trained young entrepreneurs, changemakers, and civil society leaders in various countries, and has spoken at numerous international forums, including the World Economic Forum, Aspen Ideas Festival, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, U.S. State Department, the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, and the Global Entrepreneurship Congress.
She has also won a number of entrepreneurship and leadership awards during his career.
Education
Lakhani holds a graduate degree in International Affairs and Conflict Resolution from The George Washington University. Her undergraduate degree was in Foreign Affairs, Middle East from University of Virginia.
Career
Lakhani is the Founder and CEO of , a Pakistan based accelerator that selects & vets impact entrepreneurs. I2i runs an annual four-month program that provides business support and access to mentors and investment. Since 2012, i2i has accelerated 41 startups in Pakistan, which have gone on to raise over $6M in capital, scaled their businesses.
Lakhani is also a partner at , Pakistan’s first women led investment fund that invests exclusively in technology enabled early stage businesses in Pakistan.
Lakhani’s interest in Pakistani political and development space came to the digital space in 2008, with a blog called , a website that was dedicated to increasing awareness of socially and politically pertinent issues facing Pakistan. The blog started at a time where blogs were still new in Pakistan.
Her writings have also appeared in, the Huffington Post, Foreign Policy Magazine, NextBillion and Pakistan's Dawn Newspaper.
Honors
• In a Washington, D.C. co-ambassador for Sandbox, a global network of innovators under 30.
• Lakhani was also World Economic Forum Global Shaper
• In 2012, Lakhani was featured in Diplomatic Courier's Top 99 Foreign Policy Leaders under 33 in 2012
• In 2013, she was named an Ashoka Changemakers/ American Express Emerging Innovator.
She has also won a number of entrepreneurship and leadership awards during his career.
Education
Lakhani holds a graduate degree in International Affairs and Conflict Resolution from The George Washington University. Her undergraduate degree was in Foreign Affairs, Middle East from University of Virginia.
Career
Lakhani is the Founder and CEO of , a Pakistan based accelerator that selects & vets impact entrepreneurs. I2i runs an annual four-month program that provides business support and access to mentors and investment. Since 2012, i2i has accelerated 41 startups in Pakistan, which have gone on to raise over $6M in capital, scaled their businesses.
Lakhani is also a partner at , Pakistan’s first women led investment fund that invests exclusively in technology enabled early stage businesses in Pakistan.
Lakhani’s interest in Pakistani political and development space came to the digital space in 2008, with a blog called , a website that was dedicated to increasing awareness of socially and politically pertinent issues facing Pakistan. The blog started at a time where blogs were still new in Pakistan.
Her writings have also appeared in, the Huffington Post, Foreign Policy Magazine, NextBillion and Pakistan's Dawn Newspaper.
Honors
• In a Washington, D.C. co-ambassador for Sandbox, a global network of innovators under 30.
• Lakhani was also World Economic Forum Global Shaper
• In 2012, Lakhani was featured in Diplomatic Courier's Top 99 Foreign Policy Leaders under 33 in 2012
• In 2013, she was named an Ashoka Changemakers/ American Express Emerging Innovator.