President, Windy City, Inc.; Chair, Rheos Medical Corp.; Chair, Black Student Fund; Board Co-Chair, Kennedy Center's National Committee for the Performing Arts; Advisory Board Co-Chair, Johns Hopkins Center For Gun Violence Solutions

Mr. Joel Kanter has served as President of Windy City, Inc., a privately held investment firm, since July 1986.

From 1989 to November 1999, Mr. Kanter served as the President, and subsequently as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Walnut Financial Services, Inc., a publicly traded company (NMS: WNUT). Walnut Financial’s primary business focus was the provision of different forms of financing to small business, by providing equity financing to start-up and early stage development companies, providing bridge financing to small and medium-sized companies, and providing later stage institutional financing to more mature enterprises. The Company was sold to Tower Hill Capital Group in 1999 in a transaction valued at approximately $400 million.

From 1978 - 1980, Mr. Kanter served as a Legislative Assistant to former Congressman Abner J. Mikva (D-Ill.). In that position, Mr. Kanter provided support to Congressman Mikva with respect to activities related to his position on the House Judiciary Committee.

From 1980 - 1983, Mr. Kanter served as Special Assistant to the National Association of Attorneys General. In that position, he represented the interests of the State Attorneys General in Washington, D.C. in the criminal justice and environmental arenas.

From 1983 - 1985, Mr. Kanter served as the Staff Director of the House Rules Committee’s Subcommittee on Legislative Process Chaired by the late Congressman Gillis W. Long (D-La.). He also lent considerable support to the activities of the House Democratic Caucus, which was also Chaired by Congressman Long.

From April 1985 through June 1986, Mr. Kanter served as Managing Director of The Investors’ Washington Service, an investment advisory company specializing in providing advice to large institutional clients regarding the impact of federal legislative and regulatory decisions on debt and equity markets. Clients included Amoco Oil, AT&T, Bankers Trust, Chase Manhattan Bank, General Motors, and J.C. Penney.

Mr. Kanter serves on the Boards of a number of companies including Fibralign Corporation, which has developed and manufactures a collagen-based proprietary scaffolding technology that can mimic human tissue structure in a way that allows repair of tissue, blood vessels, and nerves, which is initially being used to treat lymphedema, predominately in breast cancer patients; Minds Eye Entertainment Ltd. which is a Canadian film production company; Orpheus Biosciences, Inc., a life sciences company that has developed a novel approach to addressing autoimmune diseases by targeting the auto reactive cells that cause the adverse problems; Primal Therapies, Inc., which develops naturally safe, non-toxic biofilm solutions to various health problems in the elder care, home care, animal care, and agricultural markets that arise from the communities of bacteria and viruses that coat most living and nonliving surfaces, which the National Institute Of Health estimates cause 80% of infections; Rheos Medical, which has developed a new combination ventilator for use in hospitals that will provide greater mobility and lower costs in addition to enhanced treatment benefits including thand anesthesiology unit with the ability to treat critical care patients using inhalation therapy rather than narcotic injections, thus eliminating the risk of the patients developing delirium or dementia from their treatment;; and Thesus Health, which has developed a device that ensure much greater compliance for at home patients, in part by tracking that medication is taken, and in part through frequent telehealth vists.

Mr Kanter is also a current Trustee Emeritus and past President of the Board of Trustees of The Langley School in McLean, Virginia, a former Trustee at the Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., and of the Union Institute & University, the Country’s first Online University. He is also the current Board Chair of the Black Student Fund, and the Advisory Board Co-Chair of the Johns Hopkins Center For Gun Violence Solutions; as well as serving as the Board Co-Chair of the Kennedy Center’s National Committee For The Performing Arts. He also serves on the Board of the School of Science & Engineering at his alma mater, Tulane University, as well as on the Advisory Board of Tulane Innovation Institute.