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Carter Hertzberg
Mr. Hertzberg is currently partner and CFO of a rapidly growing Washington, DC based office productivity and IT services company, Nauticon Imaging Systems. Prior to joining Nauticon, Mr. Hertzberg successfully led the early stage development and capital formation efforts of several companies in the telecommunications and energy sectors. A business leader and serial entreprenuer, Mr. Hertzberg is equally accomplished in the boardroom and the warehouse. Mr. Hertzberg holds a BA from Duke University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He and resides in Bethesda, MD with his wife and children and is active with education related charitable causes.
Russell L. Hewit
Russ Hewit is a lawyer and founding partner of Dughi & Hewit, P.C., in Cranford and Mount Laurel, New Jersey, where he serves as director of the firm’s complex and commercial litigation section. His practice areas include mass tort defense, multi-jurisdiction and other complex litigation, pharmaceutical and products liability defense, environmental litigation, insurance coverage disputes and litigation and commercial and contract disputes and litigation, including restrictive covenants.
Hewit is married to Nan Hewit and has four children. He is a member of the Parents Committee at Princeton University and is a former member and president of the Board of Trustees of the Fathers and Friends of Delbarton School (Morristown, NJ), a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Wardlaw Hartridge School (Plainfield, NJ) and past president of the New Jersey Alumni Association of Washington & Lee University.
Hewit received his BA degree from Washington & Lee University in 1974, and his JD degree from the Washington & Lee University School of Law in 1977.
Sherman Joyce
Sherman Joyce is President of the American Tort Reform Association (ATRA), a national coalition of more than 300 nonprofit organizations, professional societies, trade associations and corporations working through in-state coalitions to bring fairness and efficiency to the civil justice system. As President of ATRA, Mr. Joyce is the Association's Chief Executive Officer and a member of its Board of Directors. Mr. Joyce assumed his current position in 1994.
Upon graduation from Princeton University, Mr. Joyce served as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator John C. Danforth (R - MO) until 1984. Following graduation from Catholic University Law School, he served as minority counsel to the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation from 1987 to 1989.
Mr. Joyce then moved within the Commerce Committee staff to become minority counsel to the Subcommittee on the Consumer. In that capacity, he was the lead Republican staff member on legislation to establish uniform rules for product liability law. In addition, he advised Senators on issues pertaining to product safety, antitrust law, advertising, and consumer and telemarketing fraud.
Mr. Joyce has appeared on numerous television and radio programs to discuss civil justice issues and he has been quoted extensively in newspapers across the country. In 1995 The National Law Journal recognized Mr. Joyce as one of its "40 under 40," its compilation of the 40 leading lawyers in the nation under age 40.
In early 2004, Mr. Joyce joined the Advisory Board of the National Federation of Independent Business Legal Foundation, and in late 2005, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Texas Civil Justice League. Last year, Mr. Joyce was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland.
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