Byron Georgiou

Byron Georgiou is president of Georgiou Enterprises with wide ranging interests, including a portfolio of carbon emission reduction projects in China that generate carbon credits under the Kyoto protocol; environmental cleanup of deep coal mining sites; residential and commercial real estate and golf course management and development; and the provision of customer services at regional shopping centers throughout America.

Mr. Georgiou was recently appointed as one of 10 national members to the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, which will report to the Congress in December 2010 its conclusions as to the causes of the global financial crisis.

He also has served since 2005 on the advisory board of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance, which hosts the leading blog on corporate governance and financial regulation.

Since 2000, he has been affiliated of counsel to the national law firm of Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins, the world's largest plaintiffs' securities practice, serving as liaison to many of the firm's primary institutional investor clients and in a leadership role in the historic litigations prosecuting financial fraud on behalf of defrauded investors at Enron, WorldCom, Dynegy, AOLTimeWarner, and UnitedHealth.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Georgiou served as legal affairs secretary to California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., responsible for litigation by and against the governor, judicial appointments, liaison with the Attorney General, Judiciary and State Bar, legal advice to the governor and members of his cabinet, and exercise of the governor's powers of extradition and clemency.

Mr. Georgiou received his undergraduate degree with Great Distinction from Stanford University, attending on a full Alfred P. Sloan academic scholarship, and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.

He and his wife, Thérèse, live in Las Vegas, NV, with their daughter, Ariadne Christina.