The advisory board at Dynamic Diagrams includes distinguished professionals in the fields of science, publishing, business administration, and graphic design. Twice annually this group meets with our team to help us review our mission and plan for the future. Thanks to the expertise and depth of experience of our advisory board, we are uniquely equipped to anticipate the needs of our clients.

Dr. Davidoff was director of the Diabetes Unit at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts for 8 years. In 1987 he was appointed senior vice president for Education of the American College of Physicians and served until March 1995 when he was appointed editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine. He received his ABIM in 1966, and is a fellow of both ACP-ASIM and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. He is a founding member of the Society of General Internal Medicine. Dr. Davidoff has served on Study Sections of the NIH, and advisory panels of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, American Board of Internal Medicine, and the National Board of Medical Examiners.

Ms. Kelly is the founder and managing partner of Meaning Maker ( http://www.meaningmaker.com/), a high-technology marketing consulting firm that develops positioning and communications strategies that cut through the clutter and deliver the "aha factor" needed to more quickly achieve sales and marketing goals. She focuses on developing creative, logical approaches that deliver quantifiable results, ranging from shortening sales cycles to increasing brand equity.

Prior to Meaning Maker, Lois was the CEO and co-founder of Thunder House, a pioneering Internet marketing agency that was acquired by McCann-Erickson. She was also senior vice president of Weber Group, one of the largest public relations firms in the world. Early in her career she was a CEO speechwriter for Fortune 500 companies and a corporate communications specialist for AT&T.

Mr. Lenk is a professor of graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design, specializing in information design and typography. He founded Dynamic Diagrams with Paul Kahn in 1990 and served as its creative director until 2000. Lenk and Kahn have created many seminars and tutorials on the visual aspects of information design for the computer environment, presenting at conferences and for corporate clients. They published Mapping Web Sites (2001), printed in five languages by RotoVision, London. Lenk studied graphic design and graduated with an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland. Before coming to the United States, he worked as a designer, art director, and consultant for clients in Poland, France, and Germany.

Dr. Wallace is founder and Principal of Wallace Consulting (www.wallaceboardconsulting.com), a firm providing board advisory services to corporate as well as non-profit organizations. The firm’s services include Board Recruitment, Orientation and Assessment, Governance, Succession Planning, Strategy Development, and Risk Management. Its objective is to improve boards’ understanding and effective execution of their continually changing fiduciary responsibilities and to improve director professionalism.

Prior to establishing Wallace Consulting, Dr. Wallace was a Senior Consultant at Watson Wyatt Worldwide where she introduced board consulting as a specialized service offering. Dr. Wallace also worked as a Senior Consultant at Innovation Associates, a boutique firm founded by Peter Senge, who developed the concept of the Learning Organization and who is currently Director of the Society for Organizational Learning at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. She has two graduate degrees from Harvard University and is an active member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), BoardSource (formerly the National Center for Nonprofit Boards) and Corporate Women Directors International.

Ms. Waltham founded her own consulting company ( www.MaryWaltham.com) in 1999 to help scholarly publishers confront the rapid change that the networked economy poses to their traditional business models and to develop new opportunities to build publications that deliver outstanding scientific and economic value. Waltham was most recently president and publisher for Nature and the Nature family of journals in the United States, and formerly managing director and publisher of The Lancet. She has worked at a senior level in science and medical publishing companies across a range of media including textbooks, magazines, newsletters, journals, and open learning materials.