August Heckscher

Founder

Genie Rice

Chairman

Genie began her professional career in the arts, working in various administrative and managerial capacities for major cultural institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution and The New York State Council on the Arts.

During the 1970s and 1980s she became heavily involved in community advocacy and preservation, culminating in the

co-founding of CIVITAS Citizens, Inc. with August Heckscher in 1981.

Mark Alexander

President

James Tripp served as General Counsel at Environmental Defense Fund with responsibilities for reviewing all of EDF’s legal action initiatives for over 25 years.

He chairs the board of New Partners for Community Revitalization and the Long Island Pine Barrens Clearinghouse Advisory Board.

He is a member of the Civitas Board, and also serves on the Boards of the the Pinelands Preservation Alliance, the Louisiana Governor’s Advisory Commission on Coastal Restoration, Conservation, and Protection, the Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana, and is a member of the Trade Environmental Policy Advisory Group of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

Conrad Foa

Co- Treasurer

• Chairman of Foa & Son Corporation, an international insurance brokerage firm that negotiates insurance coverage on behalf of businesses and consumers.

• Graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

• Received a Master’s Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.

• Member, North American Board of the London School of Economics.

Evgenia Belyavskaya

Co-Treasurer

Evgenia Belyavskaya has 15 years of experience working with multinational businesses and high-net-worth individuals. She provides tax compliance and advisory services on cross-border transactions, corporate international restructuring, U.S. entity formation and dissolution issues, as well as global mobility matters and expatriate tax assistance.

Eve has worked with numerous clients and PKF colleagues around the world on transfer pricing issues and U.S. nexus tax regulations. She has prepared numerous memoranda regarding U.S. tax implications for foreign clients, and she is a contributor to the Firm’s Thought Leadership series.

Currently, Eve is spearheading the Firm’s efforts to grow its client base in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in Eastern European and Asian countries.

Eve is an active member of various international business organizations and chambers of commerce.