EACCNY Board

EACCNY Board

Structure & Responsibility

Our Board Members:

  • Support the EACC by sharing relevant information about the EACC with their networks and initiating and/or facilitating connections with relevant companies/organizations.
  • Contribute targeted business activities and networking to the EACC, in accordance with the EACC strategic priorities and its overall mission
  • Actively help raise the profile and visibility of the EACC locally, nationally, and internationally
  • Meet at least every 6 months as a group to identify, plan, and accomplish programs and activities for the EACC and with the support of the EACC staff
  • Participate in annual meetings and on occasion at annual EACC strategic meeting.

Profile of Our Board Members

Our Board Members are:

  • Experienced business leaders and professionals who are committed and connected to deliver on the mission of the board and the EACC
  • Responsible for leading the organization’s vision and advising the staff on strategic actions.
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James D. Rosener, Partner, Troutman Pepper LLP [President]

James Rosener is a partner in the Commercial Department of Troutman Pepper LLP. Mr. Rosener heads the firm’s International Practice Group, is managing partner of the New York office and has served as a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. His practice is devoted primarily to international transactions, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and corporate financing.

Mr. Rosener has represented domestic and foreign private equity funds in transactions in over 70 countries throughout the world, including platform and follow-on acquisitions, distressed buyouts, including in bankruptcy, corporate carve-outs and restructurings. He also has represented U.S.-based companies in transactions throughout Europe, Latin America and Asia (particularly, India and China), as well as several European, Indian, South American and Japanese companies in merger and acquisitions, financing and licensing transactions involving the United States. In addition, he also has represented management-led groups in the acquisition of businesses from divesting corporations.

Within the corporate financing practice area, Mr. Rosener has represented domestic and foreign issuers, in public offerings (both U.S. and foreign listings), venture and mezzanine capital raising, and traditional bank financing transactions. In addition, he has represented a number of issuers and bondholder groups in debt restructuring, recapitalization and work-out plans. Mr. Rosener regularly acts as international legal counsel to issuers and underwriters on off-shore public offerings in India, the U.K. and Europe. 

Mr. Rosener worked in the corporate finance field for nine years before becoming a lawyer. His experience in senior financial positions included the initial and subsequent public offerings of equity and debt securities of a major international integrated oil producer and a health care company, the acquisition of several publicly held companies and the financing of several stand-alone projects.

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James Newlands, Americas Trade Leader, EY [Vice President]

James works with our teams serving accounts headquartered in the Americas providing enablement and connectivity with key regions across the globe to ensure that we bring the best of EY across the world to support our clients in navigating the increasingly complex global landscape. He is also responsible for ensuring that we deliver on that promise to global clients headquartered in other markets with operations in the Americas.

James also leads EY’s Americas-Africa Business Center based in New York. In this role he works with key EY accounts in the Americas, across a range of sectors, to assist them in developing, stress-testing and executing their Africa growth strategies, bringing to bear the practical experience he has gained in building EY’s business in Africa.

Previous experience
James was a senior partner in the South African firm, having more than 35 years’ experience in providing assurance and advisory services to a number of the firm’s leading clients in the Oil & Gas, Consumer Products and Retail, and Life Insurance sectors. He has also held several leadership positions in the firm, including Africa Oil & Gas Sector Leader and Cape Town Office Managing Partner.

From 2010 to 2014 James was responsible for leading the execution of EY’s Africa Investment Plan, a multi-year plan focused on building capacity, expanding the firm’s footprint and enhancing EY’s brand across 28 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Credentials and community activities
James is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and a CPA (New York) and has degrees in Accounting and Commerce from the University of Cape Town.

He is a Board member of the European-American Chamber of Commerce (New York) and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. He was previously a Board member of the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) and a member of the Education Committee of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA)

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Chris Monteleone, Partner, Trust Solutions International Markets Leader, PwC [Director]

Chris is the Leader of PwC’s Trust Solutions International Markets practice. Trust Solutions covers audit, tax, ESG reporting, digital assurance and transparency services for our clients. Chris works closely with PwC’s foreign business networks to ensure that the firm is providing seamless collaboration and service to our cross border clients. He also serves as an audit partner for a number of multinational audit clients operating in the US and headquartered overseas.

Chris has been with PwC for 33 years and is currently based in the Washington DC area. He previously worked in PwC’s Central and Eastern European (CEE) firm in the Warsaw, Poland and Moscow, Russia offices where he served many European and US companies. While in CEE, he was the clients & markets leader overseeing 29 countries. Chris started his career in New York City and graduated from St. John’s University in New York. He is a Certified Public Accountant in New York and Virginia. Chris and his wife Kasia have three children and reside in McLean, Virgina.

Chris has worked with the European American Chamber of Commerce in New York since 2019 bringing a number of the firm’s specialists to provide insights to its members.

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Sean Dowd, Managing Director, AlixPartners [Director]

Sean Dowd is an AlixPartners Managing Director in the Financial Advisory Services practice. He joined the firm’s New York office in 2007. Sean has spent more than 25 years performing a wide array of consulting services for Fortune 500 companies, as well as private-equity and law firms, across such industries as banking, defense, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, and securities. Those services have included global investigations, litigation support, expert-witness testimony, restructuring, valuation, strategy, due diligence, and operational and financial improvement.

Sean brings solutions and services to clients—primarily law firms and corporate legal departments. He advises corporate counsel and their outside attorneys in identifying and selecting the right expert or investigative resources relevant to particular matters—specifically, complex commercial litigation and corporate investigations. Sean frequently works with corporate executives, investors, and attorneys of leading law firms to help them develop innovative solutions to complex problems in both domestic and international matters, including government enforcement actions, major securities litigation, bankruptcy litigation, international arbitration, and situations that call for interim management. Prior to joining AlixPartners, he was with Ernst & Young, and he has held accounting, finance, and strategy positions at Fortune 500 and privately held companies.

Sean has a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Providence College and is a board member of the European American Chamber of Commerce.

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James M. Gallagher, Senior Vice President, US Head of Coverage East, HSBC [Director]

Jim is the US Head of Coverage, East, in the Multinational Corporate Banking business at HSBC. Jim manages a team of senior bankers and associates that oversee relationships with subsidiaries and affiliates of multinational corporates, spanning many geographies abroad. Jim and his team provide strategic advice to clients navigating the ever-evolving banking and economic landscape.

Jim has nearly 15 years of banking experience, with his career beginning in HSBC’s Retail Banking and Wealth Management division.  Jim worked in US Corporate Banking for over 5 years, covering  a diversified industries portfolio of clients, including a concentration in professional service firms.  He transitioned to HSBC’s Multinational Banking team in late 2012, managing the NYC-based team from 2015, with continued focus on multinational clients across all sectors.  He expanded his responsibility to include the eastern half of the US in 2017; teams include Buffalo, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, D.C., Charlotte, Atlanta, and Miami.  Jim has advised corporates, firms, and organizations on a wide variety of financing and banking topics through focusing on value-added client solutions.

Jim graduated Cum Laude from Georgetown University with a Bachelor’s in History.  Although a banker, Jim has long enjoyed international interconnectivity, and looks forward to continuing this focus as a board member of EACC NYC.

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Guillaume Martinez, Managing Director, Transaction Advisory Group, Alvarez & Marsal  [Director | President, EACC Paris]

Guillaume Martinez has recently joined Alvarez & Marsal in Paris as a Managing Director in the Transaction Advisory Group. Mr. Martinez has over 22 years of experience in professional services, including more than 16 years in transaction services for both strategic and private equity clients. He has been working on over 200 buy-side, sell-side and financing engagements.

Mr. Martinez has extensive cross-border transaction experience globally in countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Nordics, Brazil, South-East Asia, Japan, and North Africa. His industry experience focuses on aerospace & defense, hoteling & leisure and TMT sectors. Mr. Martinez has worked on numerous large and complex transactions involving both multinationals and large cap financial investors.

Prior to Alvarez & Marsal, Mr. Martinez was a transaction services partner in a big four firm in Paris where he headed the practice development toward corporates. He also did a secondment in New York where he specialized in assisting French clients investing in the US, as well as US corporates and PE funds investing across Europe. He started his career with Arthur Andersen in the audit practice.  Mr. Martinez has a Masters of Science in Management from ICN Business School. He serves as Chairman of the Board of the European American Chamber of Commerce.

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David Doherty, Partner, EY [Proxy]

David is a Partner in EY’s Strategy and Transactions practice in New York and has over 17 years of experience in providing Transaction and Corporate Finance advice to a number of EY’s largest clients. David has extensive cross-border M&A experience particularly with clients transacting between US and Europe, enhanced by his career including periods in both New York and UK and Ireland.

Amongst various non-profit activities David is a USA Board member for Co-operation Ireland, a not-for-profit organization of leaders focused on all-island peace building in Ireland.

David is a Chartered Accountant (ICAI) and is a graduate of the University of Manchester and University of Glasgow. David and his wife Martina have two children and live in New York City.

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Mitch Cohen, Retired Vice-Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers [Director]

Mitch is a  retired Vice-Chairman of PwC. During his 36 year career he served as the client service partner on a number of the Firm’s largest clients. In addition to his clients, Mitch had a variety of management responsibilities including the Firm’s strategy, M&A, public relations and communications, innovation and corporate responsibility.

Mitch is co-author of a groundbreaking study and book on self-made billionaires. Since the publication of The Self-Made Billionaire Effect  Mitch has been a frequent speaker in the media and at colleges and universities on innovation and entrepreneurship.

Since retiring from PwC Mitch has concentrated on investing and working with various venture backed emerging companies. Mitch also serves on the Advisory Board of a wealth management firm.

Mitch is a graduate of Penn State University and serves on the Board of Visitors of the Smeal Business School. He also serves on the Board of Directors of DonorsChoose and Chairs the Audit Committee.

Mitch and his wife Carri have two children and live in New York City.

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Brian Jenkins, Director, AlixPartners [Proxy]

Brian Jenkins is a Director in the Financial Advisory Services practice of AlixPartners.  As a trusted advisor, Brian is adept at applying his strong foundation in accounting and financial concepts to the strategic review, analysis and synthesization of complex financial information.

He advises and counsels clients on a broad range of high-impact matters specializing in forensic accounting, financial investigations and dispute services.  Brian has consulted in a variety of international and domestic corporate investigations, litigation and regulatory matters, arbitrations and disputes, white-collar-prosecution and defense efforts, monitor and receiver roles, bankruptcy proceedings, and provided related financial advisory services.

Prior to joining AlixPartners, Brian was in the audit practice of Ernst & Young, servicing both public and private clients.  Brian holds a Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Villanova University. He is a Certified Public Accountant, a Certified Fraud Examiner, and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

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Daniela Menghi, Managing Director, Co-Head of Coverage, East, HSBC [Proxy]

Daniela Menghi is currently a Senior Relationship Manager for Multinational Corporate Banking at HSBC USA. In this role Daniela is responsible for advising and supporting all banking needs for a portfolio of subsidiaries of large multinationals clients. Daniela also acts as the Professional Services Industry Champion, supporting other bankers and growing this industry coverage for HSBC in the Americas.  She joined HSBC in June 2016 and is based in New York.

Prior to joining HSBC, Daniela spent four years at Morgan Stanley in Corporate Treasury and Equity Research in New York. Daniela held prior positions at JP Morgan in Investment Banking in the Financial Institutions M&A Group in New York and at Citibank, where she spent almost six years in Corporate & Investment Banking in Brazil.   Daniela has also worked for Columbia Business School, where she helped establish a Value Investing Learning Center.

Daniela holds an MBA in Finance & Economics from Columbia University, where she graduated with High Honors, and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Fundação Getulio Vargas, FGV.  Daniela was an Executive Board Member and Treasurer for over three years for the Allendale Foundation for Education Excellence and held numerous volunteering positions for the Calhoun School in New York and for the Allendale School District. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children. Her favourite activity is travelling with her family.