Richard is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Energy Plus, an electricity and natural gas supply company headquartered in Philadelphia and operating in states throughout the U.S.  He was previously co-founder of two credit card companies – First USA, which grew to be the largest Visa issuer in the industry and which was sold to Bank One in 1997, and Juniper Financial, the fastest growing credit card issuer of the past decade, which was sold to Barclays PLC in 2004. He is also managing partner of Gabriel Investments, and early stage investment fund.

Richard currently serves on the corporate boards of Heartland Payment Systems of Princeton, New Jersey, Think Direct Marketing of Tampa, Florida and GoodCents Corporation of Atlanta, Georgia. He is president of the Philadelphia Live Arts and Fringe Festival, and on the boards of the University of Pennsylvania Press, the Franklin Institute, the Dean’s Advisory Council of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, the U.S. State Department’s Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Electricity Advisory Committee. He is also co-founder of the Afghanistan Study Group, and is also editor of the blog and email newsletter service Delanceyplace.com.

John Tintori has edited over a dozen feature length films, including EIGHT MEN OUT directed by John Sayles’ TRUE LOVE’ and DOGFIGHT, directed by Nancy Savoca, and MISTER WONDERFUL, directed by Anthony Minghella. In addition to his feature credits, John has edited numerous TV commercials, music videos, and short films, including TREVOR, which won the Oscar for Best Dramatic Short Film in 1995. He co-directed, with Mary Cybulski, HELLCAB, an independent feature film starring John Cusack, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, and Michael Shannon. John is a member of the Director's Guild of America, the Writer's Guild of America, and the IATSE. He has been a member of the Tisch/Kanbar faculty since 1997. John served as Chair of the Graduate Film Program at NYU from 2005 to 2014, and was Chair of the Graduate Film Program at TischAsia in Singapore during its inaugural year. Joining forces with his colleagues in the Stern School of Business, John and Professor Sam Craig created the Dual MBA/MFA Degree in Producing, which accepted its first class in September 2008. John currently serves as the Director of the NYU Cinema Research Institute.

Based in Brooklyn, Colin is a film industry analyst involved in several separate ventures designed to transform how cinema conducts its global business.

As Editorial Director for Slated, the private online marketplace for film investing and industry introductions, Colin writes the widely circulated “Filmonomics” blog and has hosted monthly film investor discussion forums in both New York and Los Angeles.

As a Faculty Committee member of New York University’s Cinema Research Institute, Colin helps award annual fellowships to new models of financing, producing, marketing and distributing media and entertainment. He also incubates some of those disruptive ideas as part of "The Future of Film" class he teaches to graduate students of NYU Tisch.

A longstanding consultant for the Dubai International Film Festival, Colin recently became a Managing Partner in MAD Solutions, the innovative pan-Arab distribution outfit that is building the first independent film studio to serve the entire Arab-speaking region.

Prior to joining Slated, Colin was an award-winning editor and journalist most closely identified with the trade paper “Screen International”, where he worked for more than two decades. As a film critic, he has served on numerous film festival juries including that of the Sundance Film Festival - where he helped judge the World Cinema Dramatic Competition in 2009.

Allyson GreenDean, Tisch School of the Arts
Dean Allyson Green is a choreographer, visual artist, curator and arts educator. Integrating artistic creative development and education, advocacy for the arts, and service to the local and international community has been the mission of her multi-faceted career. Her creative research has been particularly influenced by two decades of residencies in East and Central Europe, South America, and Mexico;community projects for arts engagement; and ongoing site-specific collaborations with visual artist Peter Terezakis that explores the intersection of art and technology, and environmental issues. 
Dean Green is a full professor in the Department of Art and Public Policy with an affiliation in the Department of Dance, and she will continue to teach in both areas. From 2012 to 2014, she was the Associate Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts Institute of Performing Arts (IPA), overseeing all of the performing arts departments, as well as Art and Public Policy and Tisch Open Arts. She was the Tisch Global Dean leading the integration of Tisch programs and new curriculum initiatives into NYU’s global network. She also served on the University Space Priorities Working Group.
In 2003, Dean Green earned the rank of professor at the University of California, San Diego, and served as the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance in partnership with the La Jolla Playhouse. Additionally, she served as the Artistic Director of Sushi Performance and Visual Art Center. She was named one of the outstanding arts leaders in San Diego for her direction of national and international festivals, with programming in dance, visual art, music, performance art, spoken word and theater.
Based in NYC from 1986 to 2001, Dean Green established a distinguished career as a noted performer in many companies, as a choreographer, and as a graphic designer. Since 1993, she has created over 100 dance theater works that have been presented in 18 countries and throughout the United States. Her bibliography reflects an extensive body of commissioned national and international works in majovenues, universities, companies, and festivals, which have achieved consistent critical acclaim and funding from the top foundations. 
In addition to her work in the performing arts, Dean Green maintained a visual arts career as a painter and an award-winning graphic designer for numerous arts organizations and PBS television. She was the creative director of Allyson Green Design, which received awards including Emmys for her design work in print, television, and dance film. She also has extensive training in music, and creates original sound scores, set, costume, and projection designs for her dance theater works.
Dean Green received a B.F.A. cum laude in Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and her M.F.A. in Choreography as a Jacob Javit’s Fellow from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, where she was named the Fine Arts Graduate student of the decade.

Dean Green is a full professor in the Tisch School of the Arts Department of Art and Public Policy, with an affiliation in the Department of Dance, and will continue to teach in both areas. From 2012 to 2014, she was the Associate Dean of the Tisch School of the Arts Institute of Performing Arts (IPA) and oversaw all of the performing arts departments, as well as Art and Public Policy and Tisch Open Arts. She began shaping the vision for the IPA with new programming ideas for cross-department collaborations and artists-in-residence, and continued Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell’s decade-long plans for a new performing arts center. She served as the Tisch Global Dean for Curriculum, and led the integration of Tisch study abroad programs into NYU’s global network. Dean Green, in collaboration with the departments, developed new curriculum initiatives that allow Tisch students to study within NYU’s global locations. She also served on the university-wide Space Priorities Working Group and the Distinguished Teaching Award committee.

Previously, Dean Green served as the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego, in partnership with the La Jolla Playhouse. She earned the rank of Full Professor in Dance at UCSD in 2003. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor of Dance at San Diego State University from 2001 to 2003. She has developed B.A., B.F.A., M.A., M.F.A. and Ph.D. curriculum that included the launch of a new graduate program in dance theater, as well as new courses for the study of aesthetics and criticism, arts citizenship, arts management and entrepreneurship, art and technology, collective creation, and somatic arts workshops with medical leaders, neuroscientists, and community organizers.

Additionally, she served as the Artistic Director of Sushi Performance and Visual Art, a contemporary interdisciplinary arts center in San Diego from 2003 to 2005. She was named one of the outstanding arts leaders in San Diego for her work in the direction of national and international festivals, with programming in dance, visual art, music, performance art, spoken word and theater; and for developing cross-cultural arts events in the San Diego/Tijuana border region. Recent projects included the creation of the Cal-Laboratory Kitchen for international artists, the Arts in Action Festival, and the Wonderland International Dance Festival with Martin Wolleson, UCSD ArtPower!.

Based in NYC from 1986 to 2001, Dean Green established a distinguished career as a performer, choreographer, and graphic designer. She was a noted performer in the companies of Yoshiko Chuma SOHK, Charles Moulton, Doug Varone, Randy Warshaw, and Bill Young, as well as with numerous independent choreographers. A frequent international collaborator, she created projects with choreographers José Navas and Dominique Porte (Montreal, Canada); Meg Stuart (Brussels, Belgium); Ben Wright (London, Great Britain); Iskra Sukarova (Skopje, Macedonia); Cosmin Manolescu (Burcharest, Romania); Olga Zitluhina (Riga, Latvia); and Lux Boreal Contemporanea Danza (Tijuana, Mexico).

As a choreographer, she has created over 100 dance theatre works that have been presented in 18 countries and throughout the United States since 1993. Her bibliography reflects an extensive body of commissioned national and international works in major venues, universities, companies, and festivals, which have achieved consistent critical acclaim and funding from the top foundations. Her company, Allyson Green Dance, has been supported by the Joyce Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals, the U.S. Department of State, The National Endowment for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts, CEC ArtsLink, and 10 fellowships from The Suitcase Fund, with major funding from The Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Rockefeller Foundation.

In addition to her work in the performing arts, Dean Green maintained a visual arts career as a painter and an award-winning graphic designer for numerous arts organizations and PBS television. She was the creative director of Allyson Green Design from 1983 to 2001, which received awards including Emmys for her design work in print, television, and dance film.  

Dean Green also has extensive training in music, and creates original sound scores, set, costume and projection designs for her dance theater works. In her creative projects, she regularly collaborates with composers, most notably Alan Stones, Paul Dresher, Guy Yarden, and Mio Morales.

Dean Green received a B.F.A. cum laude in Visual Art from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She was awarded the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for graduate studies by the National Department of Education and received her M.F.A. in Choreography from the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, where she was named the Fine Arts Graduate student of the decade.