Scott Sklar, Of Counsel, with over 30 years of experience in Alternative Energies, is among the world’s leading authorities on the implementation, financing and integration of renewable energy technologies. Mr. Sklar is the founder and president of the Stella Group, a National strategic marketing and policy group based in Washington, DC. For 15 years, he served concurrently as the Executive Director of both the Solar Energies Industries Association and the National BioEnergies Industries Association. Prior to those appointments, he was the Political Director for The Solar Lobby, an advocacy organization founded by the big nine National environmental groups and the Washington Director and Acting RD&D Director of the National Center for Appropriate Technology, a non-profit technical organization created by Congress to provide Technical Assistance in energy efficiency and renewable energy to local communities. Sklar began his energy career as an energy aide to Senator Jacob K. Javits (NY).
          Mr. Sklar is a published author with a number of titles in the Alternative Energies field and a regular contributor of articles and commentary on the subject to the Nation’s press. As one of the Nation’s top experts in Renewable Energies, he is regularly called to testify before Congress and in Statehouses throughout the United States.
          Mr. Sklar acts an advisor to the Pentagon, to the United States Federal Government, to foreign nations, major corporations, and to States and municipalities across the country. partners@hhwinc.com

Beverly Schwartz, M.S. , of Counsel, is Nation’s leading expert in cause marketing, and the woman who both the U.S. Government and Fleishman Hillard (the world’s largest PR firm) chose to manage the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s massive anti-drug campaign Ms. Schwartz serves as Senior Vice President at Fleishman Hillard where she directs their social issues portfolio. She was the Program Director for the Program and Outreach Initiatives of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign for the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Under her leadership, the program won an Awards of Excellence for Public/Service Government Campaigns at the 2000 Silver Anvil Awards and an Honorable Mention for Public Service Campaign of the Year at the 2001 PRWeek Awards. Ms. Schwartz is a member of the Alcohol Advisory Board Committee of the National Association of Broadcasters, a member of the Communications and Dissemination Committee for the Urban Institute’s, Assessing the New Federalism Program, Associate Editor of the Social Marketing Quarterly, (since 1995), a founding steering committee member of the yearly international Innovations in Social Marketing meeting, and was the 1998-1999 Organizing Chair for their Montreal meeting.
          Since 1973 she has held a variety of public education and marketing positions in public health fields ranging from issues as diverse as smoking and lung diseases, to ophthalmology, children’s health, HIV/ AIDS and drugs. Additionally, Ms. Schwartz spent several years as an account executive in an advertising agency, learning the marketing of national and state level products and services while working with TV, radio, print, and outdoor advertising as well as with a variety of product promotions. She merged her private sector marketing and public health skills in her position at the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Ga., where she was the only Social Marketing Specialist so titled in the federal system.
          Subsequent to her job with the National Centers for Disease Control, Ms. Schwartz became Vice President for Social Marketing for the Academy for Educational Development (AED) in Washington, DC. There, she served as one of the primary public voices for the Academy's social marketing program, and helped to define how social marketing strategies can be used to develop new behavioral approaches to solving social, educational, environmental and health problems both domestically and internationally. Ms. Schwartz earned her Masters in Science from the City University of New York, and resides in Washington, D.C.
bschwartz@hhwinc.com

Shalom Flank, Ph.D. Partner. For fifteen years, Dr. Shalom Flank has worked with technology as it evolves from abstract innovation to successful implementation, and he has established himself as one of the Nation's leaders in promoting understanding of and commercial applications for new sciences and technologies. Dr. Flank has served as a visiting scientist at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, has worked for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Stanford University, and the U.S. House of Representatives, and has held appointments at Harvard and M.I.T.
          As a Program Manager for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Dr. Flank managed over $60 million of investment in advanced information technology projects. Presently, he focuses on strategic advising for startups, universities, defense contractors, and investment funds, including AnswerLogic, GlobalWisdom, the University of Maryland, the Information Sciences Institute, Veridian Systems, DevelopmentSpace and the Washington Square Capital Fund. His experience covers software applications and algorithms, including knowledge management, enterprise portals, bioinformatics, natural language processing, e-learning, and on-line travel. He has also worked with user interfaces and human factors, networked sensors, renewable energy, and defense technology. His unique expertise lies at the intersection of business and technology - understanding the potential, the pitfalls, and the path for creating utility and profit out of new technology.
          Dr. Flank is deeply dedicated to giving back to his community, and has held leadership and service roles in a number of high-tech and entrepreneurial organizations, including the M.I.T Enterprise Forum, the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. sflank@hhwinc.com.

Jeff Livingston, Partner, is widely recognized as one of the most innovative and successful young entrepreneurs in the knowledge services industry. As the co-founder, co-owner, and former Chief Strategy Officer of Achieva.com, Mr. Livingston has been at the forefront of the movement to bring the Internet and recent advances in information technology to the public school arena. At Achieva, he led the roll-out of the largest chain of brick and mortar college prep centers in the world and then successfully migrated that business model to the Internet by creating the largest online college prep course provider.
          After raising over $40 million for his company and orchestrating the successful sale of Achieva.com to a division of the Washington Post Company in 2002, Mr. Livingston joined Haft, Harrison, and Wolfson. At Haft, Harrison and Wolfson, he oversees the firm’s Education Practice Area. In addition to his corporate responsibilities, Mr. Livingston represented Achieva.com and the E-learning industry in general as a wildly popular keynote speaker at dozens of conferences and conventions. In the past year alone, he has keynoted the Texas Commission on Education’s Midwinter Conference, the Georgia Compensatory Education Leaders Conference and the Annual Convention of the National Alliance of Black School Educators. Mr. Livingston has a strong background in finance and business, having been a trader for Merrill Lynch and having earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard. partners@hhwinc.com

Stuart Horowitz, J.D., Managing Partner of our Human Resources Division, brings to Haft, Harrison, and Wolfson’s clients over ten years of business operations experience in human resources management, acquisition integration, executive assessment & selection, executive and sales compensation, organizational development, high-growth recruitment, staff relations & communications, compensation and benefits strategy.
          Contributing to his business expertise and leadership skills, Mr. Horowitz has held executive level positions at divisions of Fortune 50 and start-up business ventures. His focus is in assisting early-stage companies in achieving fast and effective starts, and competitive advantage, through effective execution. Client engagements and affiliations have included the following organizations: Jet Blue Airways, Crane Co., the Mohegan Tribe, and MacDermid Inc.
          Prior to joining Haft, Harrison & Wolfson, he served as a Consultant with Watson Wyatt Worldwide, where he developed client relationships serving start-up IPO needs, compensation review. benefits audits, and HRIS vendor selection and implementation. He has also served as the head of Human Resources for McDATA Corp. (MCDT), a leader in the storage area networking industry (with a market cap of six billion dollars). Mr. Horowitz served through McDATA’s initial public offering, its spin-off from the parent company (EMC), and its high-growth stages.
          Prior positions include working with Autolink.com and New Era of Networks, Inc., (NEON), and five years as a practicing attorney. While at NEON, a leader in the application integration software industry, Mr. Horowitz was the Director of Human Resource, and served through the firm’s start-up and high-growth stages. He was intimately involved in the eight international and domestic acquisitions that NEON completed. NEON is now the eBusiness Division of Sybase Corporation.
          Mr. Horowitz earned his J.D. from the University of Miami and his Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College. He has been a guest lecturer in the MBA program at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. partners@hhwinc.com

Lori Winthrop, Of Counsel, brings to HHWinc over fifteen years of experience in Marketing Communications for the world’s largest corporations, including MCI, IBM and Citibank. Most recently she managed global consumer public relations for Citibank where she was in charge of all Y2K-related communications. Her experience in Marketing Communications includes product launch and promotion, event management, branding, and advertising. Ms. Winthrop graduated with high honors from Ohio Wesleyan University with a dual Bachelors in Economics and Journalism. partners@hhwinc.com

Associates and Of Counsel:

Washington, D.C.

David Post, Of Counsel, boasts over twenty years of experience in health, law, government, and business. He is currently the Chairman and President of MedExpress, a pharmaceutical mail service serving the HIV/AIDS community and has served as Senior VP and Director of Research in the Hospitality Industry Division of GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corporation, the nation's largest commercial mortgage banker, where he originated, underwrote and closed $600 million in financings, including debt financing for IPOs, as well as conducted research, corporate mortgage credit analyses, wrote press releases, and developed marketing materials. He was the Senior Vice President, CFO, and Counsel (served as Chairman 1995-1996) of Lexington Mortgage Company. As Legislative Counsel to US Senators Joseph Lieberman and Terry Sanford, as well as serving on the Government Affairs Subcommittee on Regulation and Information, Mr. Post managed and drafted legislation on economic, tax, trade, budget, banking and troubled financial institutions, securities, bankruptcy, government reorganization, litigation reform, antitrust, and insurance issues. He managed legal, government relations, and fund raising efforts with the Citizens Democracy Corps, and served as a Corporate Financial and Management Consultant and advisor to financially distressed companies with Arthur Andersen & Co (and other firms). Mr. Post is an Assistant and Adjunct Professor of Finance at American University MBA program, and has been a assistant and adjunct professor of accounting, finance, business law, and professional review courses at George Washington University, University of NC at Chapel Hill, Greensboro, Charlotte, and North Carolina State campuses. dpost@hhwinc.com

Nina Planck, Associate, has an extensive background in politics, media, business development, community development, television, and publishing, on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In London she was a reporter for TIME Magazine and speechwriter for the United States Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Philip Lader. In Brussels she researched European economic and security issues for the North Atlantic Assembly. Following her tenure with the British Ambassador, Ms. Planck founded the first producers-only farmers’ market in London. Today her organization, London Farmers' Markets, runs eleven weekly farmers' markets in the British capital ( www.lfm.org.uk ). Media organizations including the Washington Post, The New Yorker, the Financial Times, and the BBC have profiled Ms. Planck's work on behalf of British farmers. She starred in a British television series on farmers' markets and published The Farmers' Market Cookbook. Ms. Planck developed a farmers' market nutrition food stamp program that is unique in the UK. She served on the Prince of Wales's Rural Task Force.
          Ms. Planck worked for Representative Richard Gephardt when he was House Majority Leader, and for The New Yorker’s Washington Office when it was run by Sid Blumenthal. Today she is organizing a farmers’ market in her Washington, D.C. neighborhood, planning a unique housing development in Loudoun County, Virginia, and writing a book on (American) Southern politics. Her specialties include the political process, media, sustainable agriculture, public health, rural development, environmentally sensitive design, and urban planning. nplanck@hhwinc.com

Jyl Hall, Associate, has worked for the last seven years in the humanitarian world as an advocate and developer. This work has included travel to Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Croatia, Israel, Jordan, Greece, and various places in Europe. Last year she organized a fundraiser to benefit Ethiopia at the Ethiopian Embassy. Six members of the Senate, fourteen members of the House, and several media figures (including Martin Sheen and GianCarlo Esposito) hosted the fundraiser. The profits of the fundraiser are going towards the building of a hospital in a remote part of Ethiopia where she lived for four months.
          She has an actively political outlook, which comes in part by being raised in a political family. Her father has been in the Congress for twenty-three years, which has taught her a great deal about the Washington inside track from the White House to policy makers world-wide. Ms. Hall has been published in The World & I of the Washington Times and in PRISM magazine. She is also the editor for the quarterly newsletter of the Congressional Hunger Center, where she has worked as Program Director. Ms. Hall received her fine arts degree from Marymount University, where she won several first place awards for her paintings. jhall@hhwinc.com

Chris Abraham , Associate, Chris Abraham, formerly Managing Director of Beehive, N.A. Inc, the North American subsidiary of Beehive Elektronishe Medien GmbH, a software development company based in Berlin, Germany, is president of zdev Corporation, a service provider of content management solutions for organizations and non-profit.
          Some of Mr. Abraham's clients include National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA); e-Mergo; AKQA; Porter Novelli; Haft, Harrison, and Wolfson, Inc; Johns Hopkins University, , the College of Exploration, The Nature Conservancy, and Space Telescope Science, IBM, HP, Merck, Warner Lambert, John Snow Inc (JSI), LO-I-L, Howard Rheingold's Brainstorms, and Pfizer Global Research and Development (PGRD).
          Mr. Abraham brings ten years of IT and Internet community building experience from his long-time focus on developing Virtual Online Events and Communities of Practice. Mr. Abraham taught one of the first accredited distance-learning high school courses, in creative writing, to over 60 students who logged in from Kalamazoo, MI, and vicinity - EFA.
          Mr. Abraham has worked at Caucus Systems as a Linux SA after having spent much of the 90's developing web sites, including, among others, sites for Proxicom, The Treasury Department, Pacific Rim Productions, and Shadow Conventions. His skills include HTML, JavaScript, Zope, PHP4, MySQL, Plone, Site Architecture and usability requirements. Mr. Abraham has been facilitating Virtual Online Communities since 1993 when he became a member of ArtsWsire and then The Meta Network, the Well, and finally Brainstorms. In 1999, Mr. Abraham launched his own full-featured virtual community named MemeSpace, which has a membership of over 800 'members' and is open, free, self-supported, and self-supporting. Mr. Abraham also runs Coelaboration.com, Memes.ORG and The Caffeinated Magazine, as well as working in a support role to Frank Burns' The New MetaNet. As an employee of Caucus Systems, Inc, Mr. Abraham has been hosting Professional Virtual Events since 1999, and worked as an organizer for Virtual Civic Net 1998 and 1999. Before the Internet, Mr. Abraham was (and still is) a professional photographer. He still shoots editorial and travel stock photography for The Stock Market Photo Agency. cabraham@hhwinc.com

Boston

Jonathan C. Bloch, Ph.D., Senior Associate, brings to HHW a deep understanding of a broad range of technologies gained through more than fifteen years of professional experience. He is an accomplished researcher, project manager and product developer. He has worked at the world-renowned MIT Lincoln laboratory, consulted for the BrookHaven National Laboratory, and recently worked for Sycamore Networks, a telecommunications systems provider. Dr. Bloch's work has been central to a number of advanced Defense research initiatives, including the Air Force's Airborne Laser (ABL) Program. While at at Lincoln Laboratory, he was instrumental in the Air force securing over $1 Billion in funding for the ABL program. He is an expert in spectroscopy, chemical and biological sensors, statistical and numerical analysis, optical turbulence, and optical telecommunications. Dr. Bloch received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.A. cum laude from Cornell University. He and has been granted one patent and has published more than ten peer-reviewed journal articles.

Seattle and San Francisco

Gavin Hewitt, Associate, specializes in attaining competitive intelligence in the energy and construction sectors, including electricity, oil, coal and gas markets -- as well as pulp and steel commodity research. Mr. Hewitt began his career with a leading energy research firm, then became a Client Service Representative at Cambridge Energy Research Associates, before becoming Director of Business Development for CG/LA Infrastructure, a firm focused on power and water/wastewater in Latin America. His experience and work has received attention and patronage from the largest energy companies in the country, and his abilities are in high demand. Mr. Hewitt received his B.A. from Seattle University, with a major in Political Science, and is currently working on publishing a book with a SU professor. ghewitt@hhwinc.com

Vancouver and New York

Lisa R. Wartur, Associate/Media Consultant, offers unique insight, perspective and talent, having had corporate, private, public and non-profit professional experience in the fields of business, development, entertainment, health care and social work. As Founder and President of NoodleHead Productions, Ms. Wartur has been involved in a variety of projects over the past seven years, including consulting, writing, web design, internet research, convention and television talk-show booking, event-planning, publicity and promotion. She acts as publicist, writer, web designer and consultant for several high-profile Vancouver-based television/film actors, actresses and musicians in Canada and several visual artists and small busnesses in the U.S., having designed official websites for many of those clients, which she also maintains. Ms. Wartur has conducted and published several online celebrity interviews and facilitated numerous live online chats.
         Her previous early employment at Rainbow Advertising Sales Corporation, the ad-sales division of Cablevision, Inc. (now a subsidiary of Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc.) and CBS Records (aka Sony Music) provided a strong beginning foundation in media, marketing and promotion, as well as an insider's knowledge of each industry. In addition, Ms. Wartur has over 16 years experience as a licensed clinical social worker, including a position as Supervisor at a New York City hospital, dealing with the multi-faceted needs of patients, many of them new immigrants, and complex issues of the human condition, facilitating support groups, as well as providing discharge-planning, grief services, crisis-intervention, counseling and concrete services involving outreach and referral to community resources. Ms. Wartur has served as Patient Program Coordinator for The Bone Marrow Foundation, for whom she budgeted, organized and chaired their inaugural Medical Advisory Board meeting in Orlando, Florida, as Marketing & Outreach Manager for ICD, a non-profit outpatient integrated healthcare facility in New York City, and as as Marketing & Communications Assistant for Women’s American ORT. These non-profit organizations provided Ms. Wartur with extensive experience in fundraising, event-planning and the marketing of non-profits. She has written and facilitated countless workshops on Effective Communication. Her writing has been nationally published in Glamour Magazine & The ORT Reporter, as well as internationally online. She also has extensive e-newsletter writing and marketing experience.
          Ms. Wartur received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications (specializing in Television Production) from Kings College in Pennsylvania. Her Bachelor Thesis was written about Censorship of the Media in a Democracy. She has experience in radio broadcasting and holds an FCC License. A member of the NASW's Academy of Certified Social Workers, Ms. Wartur holds Master's degree in Social Work from Adelphi University in New York, and as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker is a trained psychotherapist licensed to practice in the State of New York. Most recently, Ms. Wartur was accepted by the Board of Registration for Social Workers in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.
lisa@noodleheadproductions.com

New York

Shahana Medina, Director of Strategic Development, brings her experience in film publicity and project management in the entertainment fields. She is Founder and CEO of Violet Spiral, an entertainment consulting company formed to develop and market artists in the music industry. She has coordinated film screenings, events and premieres for both Twentieth Century Fox Films and PolyGram Films, and has been involved in the marketing and promotion of blockbuster films such as "There's Something About Mary". She has worked with The Marshall Firm, whose senior partner, Paul Marshall, is a legendary music lawyer with clients such as Mary J. Blige. Working closely with Marilyn G. Haft, Ms. Medina has been a client liaison for film producers, new media entrepreneurs and corporate executives. She is a writer and published poet, and as freelance photographer has done promotional work for up- and-coming musicians and comedians in New York City. shahanam@hhwinc.com

Steven Wolfson, M.D., Associate, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Cardiology at Yale University, the founder and President of Cardiology Associates of New Haven, P.C., and a columnist for the New Haven Register. The former head of the Yale Catheritization Laboratory and the author of over fifty published works of medical scholarship, Dr. Wolfson has forty years of leadership in his profession. He has long been active politically as well, having co-authored the first bill laying the groundwork for Universal Health Care in 1981 with then-Congressman Bruce Morrison. Dr. Wolfson who is also an avid ornithologist, earned his BA from Columbia, his M.D. from NYU, and completed two Fellowships at Harvard. swolfson@hhwinc.com

Paul Suh, Associate, was most recently Director of Corporate Development for About.com, and served in a number of roles including M&A analysis, strategic partnership development, and wireless business development. After Primedia acquired About.com, Paul served in a primary business development role focused on wireless initiatives for both companies. He forged a number of relationships in the wireless sector with Verizon Wireless, Qualcomm, Froghop, MySkyWeb, and Inphonic, among others. Mr. Suh's experiences include the diversification of About's revenue stream, increasing the company's reach, developing an e-mail marketing campaign,and adding new products to enhance the experience of About's users. During his two year tenure at About, Mr. Suh worked on a series of projects that increased the reach of About from the twenty-seventh to the fifth largest property on the Internet (as reported by Media Metrix). Before joining About, Mr. Suh was an associate focused on e-commerce in the Equity Research division for ING Baring Furman Selz. He drafted initiating coverage reports for Priceline, CDnow, Amazon, and Beyond.com, and created industry models for the online book, music, and movie industries. Mr. Suh spent two years as an analyst in the Investment Banking division of ING Baring Furman Selz before joining their research team. He worked on several public and private financings, leveraged recapitalizations, and mergers and acquisitions for companies such as Safeway, Movado, Lithia Motors, Gerber Childrenswear, and The North Face. Mr. Suh graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Finance and Operations and Information Management. psuh@hhwinc.com

Patricia Blythe, Associate, has worked as a publicist and event coordinator for the last six years in both the publishing and non-profit sector. In her current position she serves as the media liaison and event planner for an international best-selling author. Her extensive background in book publicity has afforded her the opportunity to work on a number of highly visible publicity campaigns including such notables as John Grisham, Susan L. Taylor, and Tavis Smiley. Ms. Blythe was instrumental in helping develop the strategic publicity campaign that helped to skyrocket former IBM salesman E. Lynn Harris to the New York Times bestseller list. Since 1996 Patricia has been putting her people, public speaking, and communications skills to work as a guest speaker and mistress of ceremonies at a number of local events where the topic is usually focused "Survival Tips for Today's Teens." In addition to her work as a publicist/event planner, Ms. Blythe is currently working with two partners on a publishing project that she hopes to launch in the spring of 2002 that will benefit Black teen girls across the nation. Ms. Blythe holds a B.A. degree from Hampton University in Hampton, VA. pblythe@hhwinc.com

Jenny Au, Associate, a Web designer and developer, got her start in new media and e-commerce six years ago creating high traffic volume catalog sites for major US brands like thecompanystore.com, internationalmale.com, and improvementscatalog.com. She has also created and developed mirror sites in Spanish and Chinese for local and overseas clients. Ms. Au's B.F.A. (Magna Cum Laude) is from SUNY Purchase, New York, with a major in Art History and Painting. jau@hhwinc.com

Elana Mayerfield, HHWinc intern, will be entering her freshman year of college in fall of 2001. After achieving many academic honors, Ms. Meyerfield became a member of the National Honors Society. In addition to her academic honors, Ms. Meyerfield is the president of a community service club as well as a literary club. Before spending a summer studying human development and evolution at Cornell University, she lived in Paris for eight weeks. Ms. Meyerfield aspires to graduate school and, perhaps, a law degree. emayerfield@hhwinc.com

Toronto and Montreal

Mounir Bashour, M.D., Associate, is one of the foremost experts in medical technology in the world. He is the Medial Director for Lasik Vision Canada, Director of Ophthalmic, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Director of Pediatric Ophthalmology for the Department of Ophthalmology of Sherbrooke University. He also serves on the faculty of McGill University in Montreal in the Departments of Ophthalmology and Psychology. He has a deep and extensive background in technology based in his degrees in Engineering (Johns Hopkins) and Medicine (McGill), and his current PhD. work in Medical Technology at McGill Univerisity. His studies, professional experience and present research establish him as uniquely capable of commanding complex technical and computer-related issues both inside and outside the medical field. mbashour@hhwinc.com

Sao Paulo

Beth Popp, Associate, is an expert in Environmental Education and Non-profit Leadership Training for Travel and Tourism with a large number of publications on the subject to her name under the auspices of the University of São Paulo. She was responsible for the development of curriculum and training methods of Brazil’s new nation-wide Travel and Tourism Academy Program funded by the American Express Philanthropic Program. She has organized and conducted over one hundred educational conferences on Travel & Tourism and Environment throughout Brazil. Ms. Popp has an M.S. in Sociology and an M.S in Education, both from the University of São Paulo. Bpopp@hhwinc.com

Paulo Somlanyi Romeiro, of Counsel, is a nationally-recognized attorney and legal scholar with a specialty in Environmental Law, Municipal Management, and Human Rights. He has served with the University Human Rights Consortium of Columbia University, the University of São Paulo, and Pontifícia Catholic University of São Paulo. He is the co-author of the “Estatuto da Cidade (The Incorporating Article of Cities): Implementation Guide for Municipalities and Citizens” and served in Brazil’s First State Congress on Environmental Law. Psromeiro@hhwinc.com

Andres Vianna, of Counsel, is a São Paulo-based attorney with a specialty in the administration of social institutions and non-profit law. He advises various social projects and non-profit environmental groups in the areas of strategic planning and management. He is a recognized advocate for the guarantee of indigents’ legal rights and was central to the creation of a public/private partnership to protect the legal rights of the poor established by the OAB-SP (Brazilian National Bar Association-São Paulo) and the Sao Paulo Public Prosecutor’s Office. Avianna@hhwinc.com

Lilian Sola Santiago, Associate, is an award-winning Afro-Brazilian Producer and Director with extensive experience in content licensing, securing of clearances, 3rd-sector fundraising and negotiations, and Brazilian Entertainment and Cultural law. She comes from a family with extensive experience and connections in the entertainment industry and lives with a deep dedication to the improvement of the societal and economic conditions of Brazilians of African descent. Ms. Santiago has directed, produced, and consulted on a number of award-winning films, including "Zero Latitude" and "Terra Incognita", taking prizes in Miami, Berlin, Sao Paulo, Brazilia, Toronto, Fortaleza, Rio de Janiero, and Sundance. lsantiago@hhwinc.com

Berlin

Frank Merfort, partners@hhwinc.com

Tokyo

Yoshitaka Toyosu, partners@hhwinc.com