Robert Faris, Enterprise Investors Corporation

The board of directors sets overall strategy and development goals for the firm. Robert Faris co-founded Enterprise Investors in 1990. He was previously president of Alan Patricof Associates (now Apax), one of the largest private-equity firms in the US and Western Europe. He was awarded the Commander Cross Order of Merit by the President of Poland in 1999 for his exceptional contribution to the development of the Polish economy.