FAIRFAX, VA (December 8, 2023) – NVMS Conflict Resolution Center is pleased to welcome three remarkable leaders on its Board of Directors. Amy Dawson, Nathan Jenner, and Michael Solomon each bring to NVMS diverse skills, experience, and expertise that will support NVMS’s 2022-2026 strategic directions focused on marketing and visibility, service expansion to under-resourced and diverse communities, and organization capacity development. Their nominations were unanimously approved at the Board’s December 7, 2023, meeting.
Amy Dawson launched d’nitiatives® in 2010 to help nonprofit leaders and organizations become more visionary and effective. The name d’nitiatives® highlights the importance of designing initiatives that convert vision to action, investable opportunities, and impact. Previously, Amy served Georgetown University as assistant vice president in the office of advancement to help to shape and build capacity for a $1.5 billion philanthropic campaign. She also served as a senior program manager at the Academy of Educational Development. Early in her career in San Francisco, Amy helped to start up the Miriam and Peter Haas Fund’s operations and programs, then served as a consultant to help local leaders plan forward-looking initiatives that secured public and private funding. Amy earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Biology from Stanford University and a Master in Public Policy degree from The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Amy’s real-world heroes are many, including a diverse array of leaders and colleagues whom she has served and collaborated with in California, North Carolina, and the Washington, DC region. Their dedication to mission, courage to imagine, resilience through change, and ethical integrity are among the lasting impressions that inspire Amy and countless other people in their spheres. Amy grew up in Sacramento, California. Her sense of purpose is rooted in her parents’ example.
Nathan Jenner is a Senior Principal at ghSMART where he advises boards and CEOs on executive assessment and development, senior team effectiveness, and organizational leadership. Earlier in his career, Nathan was Chief Operating Officer for Electronic Markets at Bloomberg LP and a Vice President in derivative markets at JPMorgan. He helped lead industry transformations arising from shifts in market structure and regulation. He was appointed a member of the Market Risk Advisory Committee, created by the government’s financial markets regulator (CFTC), to advise on technology and financial market functioning and structure.
Nathan also served as a mediation & conflict resolution practitioner at the New York Center for Interpersonal Development and led restorative justice interventions as a Peacemaker at the Center for Court Innovation.
Nathan earned an MA in Organizational Psychology & Change Leadership from Columbia University in New York and a BSc in Psychology and Business from Aston University in Birmingham (UK). He studied Executive Coaching at The College of Executive Coaching in Santa Barbara (CA) and Advanced Mediation at the New York Center for Interpersonal Development.
Michael D. Solomon brings over three decades of experience as a senior advisor, counsel, policymaker, and manager in the supervision of federal financial institutions, including extensive regulatory and legislative expertise and negotiation of complex disputes. While at the Federal Reserve Board, Michael led development of regulation and policy regarding “living wills” to address “too big to fail” financial companies. He also led the development of new standards for accountability and performance by boards of directors at financial firms, and for setting parameters for incentive compensation for senior officers of those firms. At the Federal Reserve Board, Michael also led administration of the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering laws, including compliance programs related to terrorism financing. Earlier in his career Michael was a chief legal counsel to a 200-person nationwide division in the FDIC charged with resolution of failing and failed banks. He personally negotiated a 2-year settlement and resolution of the then-largest financial dispute recovery in the history of the FDIC. Michael has deep experience advising agency heads on policy concerning risk management, regulatory capital, credit, liquidity, and interest rate risk affecting regulated financial companies. Before that, he worked for several years for the House of Representatives, as both counsel to the House, and counsel to a committee on banking. Michael began his career in the private practice of law working on matters that included constitutional litigation on voter redistricting through the Supreme Court of the United States. Michael is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College and the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.
Click here for the full Board of Director List. https://nvms.us/board-of-directors/
For more information about volunteer board service, contact Arleen Ramirez Borysiewicz, executive director, at aborysiewicz@nvms.us. NVMS is developing a pipeline for new board prospects who can support the organization’s new strategic direction.
About NVMS Conflict Resolution Center
NVMS Conflict Resolution Center, a 501(c)(3) organization, is the leading mediation service serving Northern Virginia. It provides individuals, organizations, and communities with the broadest array of conflict management and resolution offerings. It offers specialized referral-based programs, customized services, and conflict/ mediation skills training and certification. NVMS has been transforming conflict into successful outcomes since 1990.
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