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Ira Noviarti is President Director at PT Unilever Indonesia Tbk. In the past she held the position of Director-Ice Cream & Marketing Services at PT Unilever Indonesia Tbk. She received an undergraduate degree from the University of Indonesia.

Ira Leon Rennert (born 1934, Brooklyn, New York) is an American investor and businessman. Using junk bonds to finance his acquisitions of companies, often in bankruptcy, Rennert has amassed significant holdings in basic, cyclical industries, such as mining and metals, including lead smelters, coal mines, magnesium producers and vehicle assembly lines. Today he controls one of the nation’s largest privately held industrial empires, and his personal fortune is estimated to be $5.9 billion.

Background and education
Rennert is a graduate of Brooklyn College. He earned his master's degree from New York University's Stern School of Business, where he is currently on the Board of Overseers.
[Rennert house.jpg|thumb|Photograph of Ira Rennert's compound in Sagaponack, New York], as viewed from above

Early career
Rennert started his career as a credit analyst on Wall Street in 1956. He also served briefly as a salesman for a typewriting company and a stock brokerage, before launching his own business, I.L.Rennert & Co. in 1962 based at a Beaver Street office in Lower Manhattan. At this time he was censured by the NASD for operating with insufficient capital. This occurred again in 1963 and as a result, his license was revoked on November 29, 1964, effectively banning him from the securities industry. According to a company spokesman, Jon Goldberg:

'Due to market conditions, the firm found itself in violation of the net capital rule and Rennert raised capital and put it into the firm to bring it into compliance. However, the firm once more fell beneath the net-capital requirements and he shut the company down.'

Rennert was a consultant for the next eleven years (Who’s Who entry) and entered the private equity market. His role was to put together small leveraged buyouts of unwanted companies. In 1975 he bought a sewing machine maker, and a few years later purchased Covert Marine Inc. of Kansas City (forced into bankruptcy in 1992), followed later by a group of hardware stores and lumber companies. In the early 1980s he joined the board of Integrated Resources Inc, a company financed by Michael Milken where he learned the art of raising junk bonds to finance additional acquisitions.

Junk Bond Financing
Milken—as a bond trader for Drexel Burnham Lambert—was successful selling high-risk, high-yield bonds issued by struggling or undercapitalized companies. Before Milken, these were considered ‘junk’ and most investors avoided them, but it was Milken’s innovation that formed a strategy of using these junk bonds to provide capital for corporate raiders to conduct hostile company takeovers. Integrated Resources raised $2 billion in junk bonds financed by Milken but ultimately collapsed amid scandal and defaulted on $1 billion of bond debt in May 1989 (c.f. the 1991 book Den of Thieves about the junk bond scandal). As an outside board member, Rennert was not dragged down by the collapse and began to raise junk bonds on his own behalf to finance acquisitions for Renco.

Rennert's strategy for building Renco was to acquiring all the shares of struggling companies and to finance the acquisition by issuing junk bonds. Along the way, Rennert paid substantial dividends out of the business to himself. In a series of junk bond issues since 1995, Renco’s subsidiaries have borrowed an estimated $1.1 billion and transferred $322 million (29 percent) to Renco Group, according to documents filed with the SEC. Backed by blue-chip mutual funds and hedge funds such as John Hancock Funds LLC and Putnam Investment Management LLC, Rennert now didn’t have to invest much of his own money. His purchase of AM General in 1992 was bought with a down payment of just $10 million. In 1994, Fluor Corp. of Los Angeles sold Doe Run to Renco, with the latter paying $52 million in cash, and approximately $60 million in debt payable over an eight-year period. In 1997, Doe Run went on to pay $247 million for a similarly environmentally troubled lead smelting complex from the Peruvian government, as well as borrowing more money to service its Fluor debt. And in 1998, Doe Run sold $305 million in junk bonds for financing its Peruvian acquisition as well as more lead mines in Missouri (according to Doe Run filings with the SEC). Since 1998 most Renco financings have been bank debt.

WCI Steel
Rennert's first big deal came in 1988 when Renco bought a Warren (Ohio) steel company from its bankrupt parent, LTV Steel Co., for a price tag of $140 million, of which half was paid for with debt. This company then became WCI Steel Inc., and Rennert was able to ultimately sell bonds totalling $300 millon, paying $108 million of the proceeds as a dividend to Renco. Harbinger sold the business to Severstal, a steelmaker based in Russia, which was forced to shut down steel-making operations in the fall of 2008 because of the recession.

Environmental concerns
Rennert was awarded the The Awful Truth Man of Year Award in 1999 by filmmaker Michael Moore, based on a 1996 EPA Report which lists Magnesium Corporation of America as the top single polluting industrial facility in the United States and a second EPA report from the same year which lists Renco Group as the top most polluting parent company (based on total on-site and off-site releases). Doe Run Peru continues to elicit tremendous controversy and criticism. Despite over $100 million of investment in pollution reduction, the site remains heavily polluted and the impact on the local population is severe.

United States

For more detailed information, go to Doe Run Company.

The Renco Group's environmental record has been mixed. In 1998 the EPA placed Renco Group business holdings 10th on the nation's largest polluter list primarily because of emissions from US Magnesium in Utah (formerly MagCorp). (US Magnesium was purchased by Renco in 1989 in the year in which its emissions peaked at 119,000 tons per year.) By 1998, the year the Renco was placed on the EPA list, Renco had reduced emissions at US Magnesium by 50%. By 2005, the most recent year of data released by the EPA, emissions had been reduced by 97%. The suit claimed PCB-laced sludge and dust choked the plant's plumbing, wastewater ponds, landfill and ditches, where contaminants were 12 times the allowed limit for accidental release. The EPA suit, however, remained outstanding until October 2007 when a federal judge ruled against the EPA and the Justice Department and in favor of Renco and MagCorp / US Magnesium.

Today, U.S. Magnesium is the third largest magnesium producer in the world. US Magnesium’s environmental improvements and recent track record have been substantial and include a reduction of emissions by 90% since 2000 (97% since 1989). Also, the energy improvements in US Magnesium’s manufacturing process caused a net reduction of 100,000 tons per year of carbon dioxide emissions. and won an MEP award in 2006 for Environmental Consciousness.

Another US unit of Renco also faced environmental issues in Herculaneum, Missouri and has made substantial improvements. Locals in Herculaneum claimed their children were suffering from lead poisoning traceable to toxic emissions coming from Renco's Doe Run lead smelting plant which had been in operations locally since 1892. In 2000, the EPA and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources tested area lead levels and ordered Doe Run to clean up locations where lead levels exceeded EPA standards. The La Oroya smelter began operations in 1922 and was operated for many years by the Peruvian government until it was sold to Doe Run in 1997.
The Blacksmith Institute has placed La Oroya on its list of ten most polluted places in the world, along with Chernobyl, Ukraine. In August 2007, it was reported that air levels of arsenic levels were 85 times more than the 'safe' level, cadmium 41 times, and lead 13 times more. Water levels of lead exceeded the 'safe' lead level (as established by the World Health Organisation) as well. A study by St. Louis University scientists found that 97 percent of children in La Oroya suffer from mental and physical deficiencies related to their exposure to polluted air. He also ranks #29 on the Jerusalem Post's list of the World's 50 Richest Jews.

Rennert and his wife Ingeborg have made many charitable donations to various organizations. They donated $5 million to establish the Wiesel Center at Boston University and $250,000 to the Lincoln Center. They also gave over $1 million to the World Trade Center Memorial and established the Rennert Entrepreneurial Institute of Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University. They have endowed chairs at several different universities, including a chair in Jewish studies at Barnard College, a Chair in Aging Research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, a Chair in Stem Cell Biology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the Ira Rennert Professorship of Business at Columbia University.
The Rennert family also funded the construction for a new mikvah at the Fifth Avenue Synagogue, which was completed in May 2010.

Personal life

Family
Ira Rennert is married to Ingeborg Hanna Rennert. Ingeborg, a former airline ticket agent, is a convert to Judaism and serves as the Director of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. They have three children:
*Tamara Rennert Winn
*Yonina Rennert Davidson
*Ari Rennert

Rennert is a member of the orthodox Fifth Avenue Synagogue where he is also honorary chairman.

Houses
Rennert caused controversy among his neighbors by building a beach front home in Sagaponack, New York considered one of the largest occupied residential compounds in the United States. The house outraged locals, who claimed Rennert originally planned to use it as a spa, a hotel, or a religious retreat. Rennert denied such allegations, and the local paper later issued an apology.
Rennert named his home after the adjoining body of water, Fairfield Pond. The house faces the Atlantic Ocean and its grounds measure convert|63|acre|m2. The buildings, which total over convert|110000|sqft|m2, including the convert|66000|sqft|m2|sing=on main house, have an Italianate facade, 29 bedrooms, and 39 bathrooms. The house has a dozen chimneys and a Mediterranean-style tile roof as well as a convert|91|ft|m|sing=on long formal dining room, a basketball court, a bowling alley, two tennis courts, two squash courts, and a $150,000 hot tub. Its property taxes in 2007 were $397,559.00. Based on these taxes, the home is currently valued at $198 million making it the most valuable home in the United States.
Besides his house in Sagaponack, Rennert owns a duplex apartment on Manhattan’s Park Avenue, a home in Israel, and a Gulfstream V jet.

Ira D. Robbins is on the board of Jewish Vocational Service of MetroWest NJ, Inc. and Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of Valley National Bancorp, Member of The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Member of New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants and Member-Leadership Council at Morris Habitat for Humanity. He received an undergraduate degree from Susquehanna University, an MBA from Pace University and an undergraduate degree from Aba Stonier Graduate School of Banking.

Mr. Ira Holtzer is a Chief Technology Officer at Playtika Holding Corp. Mr. Holtzer was previously employed as a Chief Technology Officer by UMOO. He received his undergraduate degree from The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.

Mr. Ira Palti is a Chairman at BladeRanger Ltd., a Chairman at Ceragon Networks AS, a Chairman at Gigaspaces Technologies, Inc. and an Independent Director at PriorTech Ltd.
He is on the Board of Directors at Ceragon (UK) Ltd.
and PriorTech Ltd.
Mr. Palti was previously employed as a Vice Chairman by Ceragon Networks Ltd., a Chief Executive Officer by Seabridge Ltd., a Chief Operating Officer by magicJack VocalTec Ltd., and a Founder by Rosh Intelligent Systems, Inc. He received his undergraduate degree from Tel-Aviv University.

Ira Yaron was the founder of Optonol Ltd.
(founded in 1996) and Optonol AG (founded in 1996) where he holds the title of Chief Executive Officer.
He also worked as a Principal at Orbotech Ltd.
and Medinol Ltd.

Ira Morgenstern is Chief Financial Officer of Shawmut Design & Construction.
He was Chief Financial Officer of ZOOTS Corp.
Mr. Morgenstern received a BA from Temple University and an MBA from Northwestern University.

Ira L.
Rosen was the founder who founded Entertainment On Location, Inc. in 1989 and held the titles of President & Chief Executive Officer.
He has an undergraduate and graduate degree from Montclair State University.

For the past 40 years Ira Mondry has held senior management positions in retail, venture capital, hospitality and commercial real estate businesses.
Ira's primary areas of responsibility with M Group include property acquisition, deal structure, financing, raising of equity and relationship management of M Group's operating partners.
Prior to helping found M Group in 1993, Ira held a variety of executive positions with Highland Superstores, Inc., a chain of consumer electronics stores, including Director of Real Estate, VP of Stores and President and CEO.
When Ira joined Highland in 1980, the Company had 15 stores with revenues of $115 million.
During his tenure with Highland, Ira helped take the company public in 1985, with Goldman Sachs as its lead underwriter, and eventually grew Highland to a chain of 92 stores in 11 states with more than 10,000 employees and with revenues of $1 billion.
Ira serves on the International Board of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel as well as the Board of the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival.
Ira received a B.A.
in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1976 and a J.D.
degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1980.

Ira M.
Fielding is currently a Principal at Stanford University.
Previously, he worked as the President & Chief Executive Officer at Steel Encounters, Inc., Director & Chief-Urology at The Permanente Medical Group, Inc., and Trustee at Group Health Cooperative, Inc. He received his undergraduate degrees from Union College (New York) and New York Medical College.

Ira Downs is the founder of Downs Electrical Constructors, Inc. He is currently serving as the President & Chief Executive Officer of the company, a position he has held since 2011.
Downs Electrical Constructors, Inc. was founded in 1980.

Ira Kreindel worked as a Principal at Autohaus West LLC.

Ira H.
Fuchs is currently a Director at The Philadelphia Contributionship.
He was previously a Director at Ariel Corp.
and a Trustee at Ithaka Harbors, Inc.

Mr. Ira Silverman is Senior Vice President-Professional Services East at FutureLink Corp.

Ira J.
Perlmuter was the founder of Cove Capital Advisors, Inc. (founded in 2000) and T5 Equity Partners LLC (founded in 2005) where he held the title of Managing Director.
Currently, he is the Chairman of Community Federal Savings Bank and Admiral Filter Co. LLC.
In the past, he worked as Vice President-Restructuring Group at The Chase Manhattan Bank NA and as Secretary at Lexington Healthcare Group, Inc. He received his undergraduate degree from Brandeis University in 1985 and his MBA from The Leonard N Stern School of Business in 1991.

Ira Berger worked as Head-Investor Relations at RailAmerica, Inc. from 2011 to 2012.
He also worked as Vice President-Finance at Web.com Group, Inc. from 2015 to 2018.
Mr. Berger completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia and his graduate and MBA degrees at Duke University.

Ira N.
Targoff currently works at Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, as Principal from 1981.

Ira J.
Jaffe is currently the Chairman at Redico LLC and a Senior Principal at Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss PC.
Previously, he held positions as Director at Cignet LLC, Director at The Detroit Zoological Society, and Director-Governing Board at Cranbrook Institute of Science.
He received his undergraduate degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961 and his graduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1963.

Ira Melnitsky is currently the Chief Executive Officer at Tourneau LLC and also holds the position of President & Director at Baron & Leeds, Inc. He previously worked as the Chief Merchandising Officer at 1075 First Global Associates LLC (Pennsylvania) and Rue La La.

Ira Duane Frericks is currently the Director at Upper Midwest Automated Clearing House Association.
Previously, he worked as the Chief Operating Officer at Pathward Financial, Inc. in 2013 and as the Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice President at Pathward NA.
Frericks completed his undergraduate degree at the University of South Dakota and also completed an undergraduate degree at the Graduate School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mr. Ira S.
Gerstein joined Kelso in 2011 and is the Director of Tax.
Prior to joining the Firm, he was a Director with 16 years experience at Deloitte & Touche LLP.
He is a Certified Public Accountant and earned an M.B.A.
in Taxation from Hofstra University in 1994 and received a B.S.
from State University of New York at Oneonta in 1992.

Ira Gerstein worked as a Director at the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County, Inc.

Ira Gabriel worked as a Vice President at Automobile Protection Corp.
in 2011 and as an Executive Vice President-Consumer Media Group at Source Interlink Media LLC.

Ira Sago is currently a Member-Tribal Council at Mescalero Apache Tribe since 2010 and a Principal at Mescalero Apache Tribal Gaming Association since 2005.
Previously, he worked as a Director at Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort Casino.
He completed his undergraduate degree from The University of Colorado in 2004.

Prior to joining ICV, Mr. Moreland was most recently Managing Director and Group Head of the Financial Sponsors Group at a regional investment bank where he oversaw the firm’s investment banking and leveraged finance efforts with private equity firms.
Previously, Mr. Moreland was a Managing Director at Banc of America Securities, providing capital raising and mergers and acquisitions advice to midsized companies.
Before Banc of America Securities, he spent six years at Citigroup in the Financial Sponsor and Real Estate Finance Groups.
Mr. Moreland previously served on the Advisory Board of Seidler Equity Partners, LLC and has served on a host of non-profit boards including the Board of Trustees of the Latin School of Chicago.
Mr. Moreland currently serves on the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Foundation Board of Trustees.
Mr. Moreland holds a BA degree in accounting from Morehouse College and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

Ira Sheldon Rapp is currently the Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Westcity Properties Ltd.
since 2006.
He is also a Director at Lucca Ltd., Northhill Ashford Ltd., and Barnet Youth Zone.
Previously, he was the Executive Chairman at Westcity Ltd.
in 2009.

Ira Stuar Outerbridge worked as a Corporate Manager at Conyers Corporate Services (Bermuda) Ltd.
from 1986 to 2015.
He also worked as a Secretary at China Yuchai International Ltd.
from 2001 to 2015, as well as Co-Secretary at Kingboard Copper Foil Holdings Ltd.
and Joint Secretary at OM Holdings Ltd.
He was also an Assistant Company Secretary at PlastoForm Holdings Ltd.
Mr. Outerbridge obtained an undergraduate degree from The University of North Carolina at Asheville.

Mr. Hersh is an independent consultant and financial advisor, who has had his own practice for more many years.
Mr. Hersh has analyzed numerous venture capital opportunities, served as JEGIs tax and financial advisor for many years, and has performed the same role for JEGI Capital since its inception.

Ira Gamm is currently the Vice President-Investor & Public Relations at International Energy Group LLC (Missouri).
Previously, he worked as the Director-Investor Relations at NACCO Industries, Inc.

Ira Z.
Leiderman is the founder of Long Trail Advisors LLC.
He is currently the Managing Director-Healthcare at Cassel Salpeter & Co. LLC and the Director at Camp Ramah In The Berkshires.
Previously, he was the Chairman at Apthera, Inc., Managing Director at Punk Ziegel & Co., Managing Director at Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc. (Broker), Director at CollPlant Ltd., and Independent Director at CollPlant Biotechnologies Ltd.
He was also a Vice President at Gerard Klauer Mattison & Co., Inc. Mr. Leiderman received his undergraduate degree from City University of New York.

Ira P.
Kerker worked as the Chief Executive Officer at Vitacost.
Com, Inc. from 2005 to 2010.
He also worked as a Director at the same company in 2010.
Prior to that, he was a Principal at Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. in 2005.
From 1995 to 2004, he worked as a Managing Partner at both MetLife, Inc. and New England Financial.
Kerker received his undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and his graduate degree from Whittier College.

Ira Gloe-Semler is currently the Chairman-Federal Insurance Group at Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft since 2002.
She previously worked at Allianz SE as a Member-Supervisory Board.

Ira L.
Zecher is currently an Independent Director at Chuy's Holdings, Inc., a Member of The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a Professor at Rutgers State University of New Jersey, and the Managing Member of ILZ LLC.
He has formerly served as a Director at The Habit Restaurants LLC, an Independent Director at Norcraft Cos., Inc. and The Habit Restaurants, Inc., a Partner at Ernst & Young LLP (Missouri), and a Senior Advisor at Fairhills Capital Management LLC.
He received his undergraduate degree from Queens College.

Ira Sawitri formerly worked at PT Salim Ivomas Pratama Tbk, as Corporate Secretary from 2009 to 2011.
Ms. Sawitri received her graduate degree in 1999 from the University of Leiden.

Ira R.
Dolich is Director at The Fox Chase Cancer Center.

Mr. Ira Mirochnick, CPA, is Vice President & General Manager-Display Imaging at Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc. Mr. Mirochnick was previously employed as President by Ascender Corp., Senior Vice President by Agfa Monotype Corp., and President by Monotype Typography Ltd.
He received his undergraduate degree from DePaul University.

Ira Kaufman worked as a Finance Director at Arxcis Global Wealth Management Ltd.

Ira Prager founded Empire Bancorp, Inc. (New York) in 2013.
Mr. Prager received his graduate degree from Brooklyn Law School.

Ira Don Brown was a trustee at Glimmerglass Opera Theatre, Inc.

Mr. Ira W.
Miller is a Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Zone Capital Partners LLC and a Chairman at FESports Games LLC.
He is on the Board of Directors at Naples Soap Co., Inc. He began his financial services career began in 1987 at the investment banking firm of Drexel Burnham Lambert.
Mr. Miller capitalized and co-founded IW Miller Group, a boutique corporate consulting firm, in 1992.
The firm's core focus was in the wireless and technology industries.
During the firm’s tenure Mr. Miller represented Globalink, a language translation company which became the third largest percentage gainer on the American Exchange and eventually sold to Lernout & Hauspie in 1998.
He received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and an undergraduate degree from the University of California, Irvine.

Ira Cutler worked as a Vice President-Policy & Strategic Planning at Metis Associates, Inc.

Ira B.
Brown served as a trustee for the Houston Ballet Foundation.

Ira S.
Strassberg worked as a Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President at Federal National Mortgage Association from 2008 to 2012.
He was also the Chief Financial Officer and Executive MD at Berkeley Point Capital LLC from 2012 to 2018.
Strassberg served as the Deputy CFO and Senior Managing Director at Cantor Fitzgerald LP from 2018 to 2021.
He was an Executive Treasurer at Cantor Commercial Real Estate Co. LP from 2014 to 2021.
Strassberg was a Senior Director at Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.
from 2003 to 2008.
He also worked as the Chief Financial Officer at Walker & Dunlop, Inc. from 2006 to 2008.
Strassberg served as an Independent Director at Continental Building Products, Inc. from 2017 to 2020.
He will be the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at NRX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in 2022.
Strassberg completed his undergraduate degree at Georgetown University.

Mr. Ginsburg joined Energy Investors Funds in 1999.
He is the Portfolio Manager for the Caribbean Basin Power Fund and holds day-to-day responsibility for the investment and management of that fund.
He has over 20 years of related work experience as a project lender, developer, and consultant.
From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Ginsburg was Vice President and Team Leader, Project Finance, of Fuji Bank where he was involved in several transactions in Central America and the Caribbean Basin region.
From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Ginsburg was President of Ginsburg & Associates, L.L.C., a consulting firm, where his responsibilities included work as an energy project financial and development advisor.
From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Ginsburg was President and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Power Funding Corp.
From 1985 to 1991, he was Senior Vice President and Manager at G.E.
Capital, arranging financing for energy companies and facilities.
From 1981 to 1985, Mr. Ginsburg was an Account Manager for the Bank of Montreal, where he was involved with both Latin American transactions and U.S.
utility financings.
He received an M.B.A.
from the University of Toronto and a B.A.
from New York University.

Ira L.
Young served as Secretary & General Counsel at Learning Care Group, Inc. from 2002 to 2012.
Prior to that, he was General Counsel at Tutor Time Learning Systems, Inc. from 1998 to 2002.
Young received his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, and his graduate degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Cornell University.

Ira L.
Tochner is currently a Director & Manager at YC Holdings LLC, a Director at CEIVA Logic, Inc., Allied Holdings Ltd., Wild Oats Marketing LLC, and O'Gara Coach Co. He previously held Director positions at Simon Worldwide, Inc., Pathmark Stores, Inc., Dominick's Supermarkets, Inc., TDS Automotive, Inc., Golden State Foods Corp., Aloha Airlines, Inc., Fresh & Easy LLC, TDS Logistics, Inc., AQUAhydrate, Inc., and TEN Media LLC.
He was also an Audit Manager at Arthur Andersen LLP from 1983 to 1989.
Tochner is a Trustee at Americold Realty Trust, Inc. and was the Chief Operating & Financial Officer at Yucaipa Acquisition Corp.
Tochner received an undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California.

Ira M.
Millstein is associated with various organizations such as American Red Cross in Greater New York, New Yorkers for Parks, New York Structural Biology Center, Inc., Central Park Conservancy, Inc., and Citizens Budget Commission, Inc. He is the Chairman-Emeritus of American Red Cross in Greater New York, Emeritus Director of New Yorkers for Parks, Director of New York Structural Biology Center, Inc., Trustee of Central Park Conservancy, Inc., and Trustee-Emeritus of Citizens Budget Commission, Inc. Additionally, he is currently associated with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

Ira Wayne McConnell's current jobs include being a Director-Governing Board at Houston City Club, Inc. since 2012, a Director at American Heart Association, Inc. since 2003, a Director at Center for Houston's Future, Inc., a Director at Greater Houston Partnership Inc since 2001, a Director at United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast since 1996, a Director at The Black & Gold Foundation since 2005, a Member of The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, a Member of Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants (Houston), and a Trustee at United Way of Greater Houston since 2011.
He is also the Managing Partner at McConnell Jones Lanier & Murphy LLP.
Formerly, Mr. McConnell was a Director-Governing Board at ClubCorp, Inc. from 2011 to 2014, an Independent Director at Erin Energy Corp.
from 2011 to 2017, and a Director at Houston Museum of African American Culture in 2010.
Mr. McConnell's education includes an undergraduate degree from Grambling State University and an MBA from Louisiana Tech University.