C. Gary Gerst is Chairman of the Board of Directors of NumbersUSA Education and Research Foundation. He co-founded and is Chairman Emeritus of Jones, Lang, LaSalle, of Chicago, one of the world's largest real estate investment management and consulting firms. Educated as an engineer, Mr. Gerst's entrepreneurialism early involved him in the process of buying, rehabilitating, and restoring to profitability urban commercial real estate around the country and eventually in foreign cities as well. He was a part of the team that purchased and restored Union Station in Washington, DC as well as many other notable properties. His retirement has consisted of nearly full-time civic involvement, including leadership in one of the country's largest social service charities and the bi-partisan Concord Coalition for fiscal responsibility in government. A lifelong adventure traveler, he especially enjoys bicycle touring around the world.
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Marti Dinerstein is Chairman of the NumbersUSA Compensation Committee and President of Immigration Matters. She has been a pioneer for women in leadership positions for more than three decades. She started her career in the public sector and was named acting director of the New York State Consumer Protection Board before she was thirty. Armed with an MBA when few women had them, she climbed the ladder at several prestigious financial institutions, including The Bank of New York, where she was named the first woman senior vice president in its 200-year history. She left her position as chief marketing officer at U.S. Trust in 2000 to forge a new career in public policy. Mrs. Dinerstein is a widely quoted immigration expert in national publications and broadcasts and author of several immigration studies. Topics on which she writes, speaks and testifies before Congress include the intersection of secure identity documents to homeland security, document fraud by foreign nationals unlawfully present in the U.S. and non-enforcement of U.S. immigration and labor laws.
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Don Weeden is the Executive Director of the Weeden Foundation which supports a wide range of programs that aim to preserve biodiversity, nationally and internationally. Prior to taking that, Don had a nearly 25-year career in the international population and economic development field, serving in various field and management positions for Columbia University, International Planned Parenthood Federation, and other non-governmental organizations devoted to increasing access to family planning services. He is a specialist on South and Southeast Asian population issues, where he lived and worked for nearly 20 years. He has also worked in Mexico, Eastern Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Don has a Masters in Population Planning (Public Health) from the University of Michigan.
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Roy H. Beck is the Executive Director and President of NumbersUSA Education and Research Foundation. One of the nation's first environment-beat newspaper reporters in the 1960s and a journalist for more than 25 years, Mr. Beck became a full-time policy analyst of immigration and U.S. population issues in 1991. He has written four books on immigration, environment and the U.S. labor market, and on ethics, religion and public policy. He is co-author of numerous studies of sprawl and has been published in scores of magazines, academic journals and newspapers. He founded NumbersUSA in 1996. Mr. Beck has annually led teenagers on Habitat for Humanity work trips since 1990, is an enthusiastic guitarist, and has served in nearly all capacities of leadership at Mount Olivet United Methodist Church, Arlington, Virginia.