Alan H. Fleischmann
Managing Director
Alan H. Fleischmann has held leadership positions in domestic and global arenas across the private, public and civil society sectors at the state, federal and international levels. Fleischmann has in-depth experience in strategy, communications, negotiation, in business and public policy development.
Fleischmann is co-founder, board member and managing director of ImagineNations™ Group, a partnership-based global network that provides young entrepreneurs with the financial capital, technologies and business/leadership coaching that young women and men need in order to start micro- and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging markets. Fleischmann is the chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Bank-ImagineNations Global Partnership for Youth Investment (GPYI). He accepted the 2008 Goodwin Award in Siena, Italy, on behalf of ImagineNations for its global work.
For several years, Fleischmann has advised corporate, individual and political leaders on strategy, communications, messaging, image and crisis management, positioning, and reputation. He has worked with a wide range of Fortune 500 corporations, their chief executives and top leadership, domestically and globally, as senior director of the international business strategy firm Stonebridge International and as senior vice president of the strategic communications firm Penn Schoen & Berland Associates.
Fleischmann served two terms as the chief of staff to Maryland Lt. Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, having been responsible for directing and overseeing the policy development, management, legislative relations, and the staff of their State House operations. He coordinated the work of six cabinet departments and agencies with emphasis on the development and management of the $31 billion state budget, ranging from business, international commerce, transportation & economic development -- to the state police and criminal & juvenile justice systems. He was a member of the Governor's cabinet.
Previously, he served as a staff director of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. Congress and its Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. In addition, Fleischmann served in an advisory capacity to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and was granted Top Secret (Code Word) D.O.D. Security Clearance. During his tenure, he was instrumental in the development and negotiations of free trade agreements within the western hemisphere and focused on U.S. policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean, including U.S. environmental policy and the protection of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon, the consolidation of the Central American peace processes, U.S.-Cuba policy and the debt crises.
Prior to serving in Congress, he was the vice president of the trade finance company LATCORP, Inc., where he advised multi-national companies on strategic challenges and opportunities in Latin America and designed joint ventures, franchises, and export-import agreements.
Previously, Fleischmann served as senior associate of the Chase Manhattan Private Bank (JP Morgan Chase) in New York and Argentina, where he was a graduate of the Chase senior executive leadership training program and part of the executive team that launched the Chase Vista Latin America Opportunity Fund, one of the first funds that targeted new capital investment in the Americas. Fleischmann also managed a team of operations experts and finance specialists that recommended the reorganization and restructuring of Chase Private Bank's activities and priorities in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Chile.
During the historic period of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Fleischmann served as a policy aide in the German parliament, working with former German Chancellor Willy Brandt's foundation, while receiving a Bundestag Fellowship at the Friedrich Wilhelms Universität.
Fleischmann was awarded a M.A. with honors in 1989 from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he serves as a board member and chairs its Latin America Committee. He received a B.A. and B.S. with honors in 1987 from American University, where he was valedictorian and student body president. Fleischmann was the 2008 Alumnus of the Year, awarded by the School of International Service (SIS) of American University, where he serves as a board member.
He also serves on other boards, including the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Medical Center, School of Public Policy of the University of Maryland, American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) and the World Security Institute (WSI). In 2008, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley appointed Fleischmann to serve on the board of directors of the University of Maryland Medical System, where he serves on its executive committee.
He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a technical consultant to Paramount Pictures on an upcoming film. He has served on the board of directors of Wachovia Bank's flagship wealth management arm, OFFITBANK, an independent private bank with more than $13 billion in assets under management.
Fleischmann is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Alan H. Fleischmann is a graduate of the Gilman School. He is married to Dafna Tapiero, the head of CommDev, a global fund at the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the World Bank Group, which focuses on creating worldwide sustainable community benefits from oil, gas and mining industry investments.They are proud parents of two young daughters. He speaks German and Spanish.
