Henry Cole

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

Winston S. Churchill

Mr. Cole has served as the Lead Director since August 2015. Mr. Cole draws on over 40 years of successful executive management and implementation of health and medical programs involving innovations in technology, market development and service delivery. Mr. Cole serves as President of Global Development International, LLC, a position he has held since 2007. In this position he has provided development support, management and oversight for companies and varied program initiatives in medical and healthcare programs and products. This has included Instant Labs Medical Diagnostics, Inc. (molecular diagnostics, hospital-based infections); MedPharm, Inc. (global and developing country hospital and clinic support); Global MD, Inc. (global physicians network); MPRC Group, Ltd., Lebanon and US (medical equipment, medical system planning and support throughout the Middle East); Integrated Health Services Ltd., India (health services planning for India); Karishma Health Care Ltd., India (hospital medical systems software for India, US, Africa); and various others. Mr. Cole previously served from 2007–2010 as Vice President for Strategy at Camris International, Inc., with a focus on technologies and services for infectious disease, radiation diagnostics and pulmonary care. From 1981 to 2005 Mr. Cole served as President and Corporate Officer at Futures Group International and Futures Group Holdings. Under his direction, corporate programs expanded to offices in over 40 countries. At Futures, Mr. Cole oversaw programs that included policy, planning, services and facilities addressing public and private sector infectious disease response in over 35 countries. In addition, he was a founder and served as executive for a subsidiary for national health planning and services (Futures Group UK); a subsidiary for US rehabilitation services (Futures HealthCore); and a subsidiary for global medical equipment distribution (North Star Health). From 1971–1979 Mr. Cole was Director of Population Programs at the Center for Advanced Studies of General Electric. Earlier he served on the Faculty of Economics, Tulane University (1969–1972) and the President’s Council of Economic Advisers as a staff intern (1969–1970).

Mr. Cole has served on the boards of numerous organizations. Since June 2018, he has been a Director of Avant Diagnostics, Inc. (AVDX), a cancer diagnostics company. Mr. Cole’s previous board positions have included the Millennium Project from 1996 to 2006; the Futures Institute for Sustainable Development from 2001 to 2005; the Foundation Against HIV and AIDS from 2007 to 2011; Kids Save International from 2006 to 2012; Triple Win International from 2008 to 2013; and others. He has worked in over 28 countries, with in-depth experience beyond the United States in Egypt, Turkey, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Sudan, Sahelian Africa, Haiti, Trinidad, Bahamas, Philippines, China, Indonesia and India.

Mr. Cole holds a BA in Economics from Yale University and an MA from the Johns Hopkins University, where he completed PhD studies (ABD) in Political Economy, including completion of comprehensive written and oral exams.