ACGT® - Board of Directors & Staff

Board of Directors & Staff

Edward Netter
President/Chairman
Board of Directors
Stamford, CT

Mr. Edward Netter is Chairman of Independence Holding Company, a NYSE-listed life and health insurance holding company, and Chairman of the Executive Committee and a director of The Aristotle Corporation, a publicly traded manufacturer and global distributor serving the education, health, medical technology and agriculture markets. Mr. Netter is Chairman and CEO of Geneve Corporation, a private diversified holding company which has a controlling interest in IHC and Aristotle.

In 1971, Mr. Netter, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, organized the predecessor company to Geneve after serving as an Executive Officer, Director and principal of the investment firm of CBWL-Hayden Stone.

In addition to serving on the National Advisory Board of The Netter Center for Community Partnerships at Penn, Mr. Netter is a member of the President’s Advisory Council of The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation which aims to recruit outstanding students to pursue teaching as a career, a trustee of Thanks to Scandinavia, an organization which provides scholarships to international students, and a member of the advisory committee of North General Hospital in New York City.

Mr. Netter and his wife, Barbara, founded Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, Inc. in 2001 as a public charity. ACGT facilitates funding for high-potential research into gene therapy, in hopes of realizing an effective alternative to the current treatment and management of cancer.

Mr. Netter is engaged in a number of other philanthropic activities relating to education, science and human services and, in 2006, was elected to the Business Leader Hall of Fame at Quinnipiac University.

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