Leadership Team
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, 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 and frontier markets. He is the chairman of the Executive Committee of the World Bank-ImagineNations Global Partnership for Youth Investment (GPYI). He accepted the 2008 Goodwin Award from the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz in Siena, Italy, on behalf of ImagineNations for its global work to promote entrepreneurship throughout the developing world.
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 and foundations, their chief executives and top leadership, domestically and globally, as senior counselor to the international strategy firm Albright Stonebridge Group and as senior vice president of the global strategic communications firm Penn Schoen & Berland Associates.
From 2008-2009, Fleischmann served as a team lead of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition. Within the Economy and International Trade Cluster, he led the team reviewing the international financial institutions and regional development banks. During this time, as an outgrowth of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition, Fleischmann also became a co-founder of the Coalition for Green Capital - a consortium of leaders in the energy development enterprises dedicated to the stimulus of green energy assets for clean and sustainable energy, jobs and economic development.
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, Fleischmann served as a staff director of the U.S. Congress Committee on Foreign Affairs, its Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, and in an advisory capacity to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He was Vice President of LATCORP (Latin American Trade Corporation), the private trade finance company, where he designed joint ventures, franchises and export-import agreements. He was a senior associate of Chase Manhattan Bank (JP Morgan Chase) in the Americas and is a graduate of the Chase Manhattan Senior Management Training Program.
Fleischmann served as a policy aide in the German parliament, working with former German Chancellor Willy Brandt's foundation for development and peace, while receiving a Bundestag Fellowship at the Friedrich Wilhelms Universität.
He is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a technical consultant to Paramount Pictures on a film. He served on the board of directors of OffitBank, an independent private bank with more than $13 billion in assets under management.
He serves on the board of directors of the World Security Institute (WSI), the University of Maryland School of Public Policy, the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Medical Center, the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies (AICGS) and the School of International Service (SIS) at American University. 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.
Fleischmann is a member of the Robert F. Kennedy Center Leadership Council and an original member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). In 2010, Fleischmann was selected by the Obama Administration to serve as a Delegate to the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship. He was also a speaker at the 8th Annual Global Philanthropy Forum in 2009.
Mr. Fleischmann earned his M.A. as a Chase Scholar with honors from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he serves on its board of directors and chairs the Global Development Committee. He received a B.A. and B.S. with honors from American University, where he was the valedictorian, student body president, and the Charles W. Van Way Scholar. He was the 2008 Alumnus of the Year, awarded by the School of International Service (SIS) of American University.
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. They are parents of two children. He speaks Spanish and German.