Board Members

Sanford Royce Executive Team - Board Members
Sanford Royce’s board of directors and advisors come from different backgrounds, sectors, expertise, and regions. Collectively, they have more than 36 years of experience which helps us maintain the highest levels of editorial standards and integrity across our media assets and networks. For full list, you may connect with us on LinkedIn.

Danilo Talanskas is an Advisory Board Member at Sanford Royce. He was the CEO for Brazil at GE Healthcare, Rockwell Automation and Otis Elevators. In addition to his successful career, he also worked as a lecturer and professor in postgraduate courses specializing in Strategy, Ethics and International Business. He has served on boards of directors and advisory boards and is a certified Board Member by the Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance (IBGC).

Nedzad Piric is an Advisory Board Member at Sanford Royce. He has over 25 years of experience in the fields of digital transformation and executive management. He is currently Director for Digital Transformation and Director for Smart Cities for the EU Technology Chamber and a member of World Economic Forum.

Mark Spradley is an Advisory Board Member at Sanford Royce. He has over 25 years of senior leadership roles at Mazao Capital, and as a vice president at UBS. His expert insights have been featured in New York Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, and Financial Times. He has also appeared on CNN and FOX. He is a member of the board of the Washington Academy of Sciences and the Plastic Surgery Foundation.

Dr Marcuz Tan Sanford Royce

Dr Marcuz Tan is an Advisory Board Member at Sanford Royce. He has over 25 years of experience in delivering strategically significant end to end solutions in industries relating to digital marketing strategy and partnerships, programmatic ad ecosystems, and digital analytics. He has led global teams at UPS, Media Corp, Blackberry, and Expedia.

Jay Bower is an Advisory Board Member at Sanford Royce. He has 29 years of experience leading teams and initiatives for Fortune 100 and high-growth brands like Intuit, Cigna Healthcare, Crossover Health, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, Invisalign, Bloomberg, Dish Network, Hewlett Packard, and Google where they’ve created 400 integrated campaigns generating over $3 billion in sales. His expert insights have been featured in Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Ad Age, Forbes, Fortune. He is also a guest lecturer at NYU, Stern School of Business.

Jay Bower Sanford Royce
Ravi Shankar Chaudhary Sanford-Royce

Ravi Shankar Chaudhary is an Advisory Board Member at Sanford Royce. He has over 15 years of global experience in strategy, operational excellence, digital transformation and change management from Deloitte Consulting. He has led and been involved in projects funded by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, European Union Development Fund, GIZ, and other global conglomerates. 

Roger G. Powell is an Advisory Board Member at Sanford Royce. Having spent more than 7 years at Deutsche Bank, he has more than 40 years of being adviser to successful leaders, experience in corporate governance and leadership, strategic and tactical business planning, capital planning and private and public capital transactions, investor relations, structured asset transactions and strategic restructuring.

Waleed Alzaabi Sanford Royce

Waleed Alzaabi is an Advisory Board Member at Sanford Royce. He has over 17 years of executive people operations and business development leadership experience for multinational firms based in the United Arab Emirates, including telecommunications giant, du.

Ted Lacey is an Advisory Board Member at Sanford Royce. He has over 25 years of extensive leadership experience for retail giants such as Kroger, Kmart and Academy Sports & Outdoors with focus on site acquisition, market analysis, competitive analysis, financial analysis and lease negotiation. He has successfully executed nearly 2,000 transactions totaling over $1.2 billion in volume combined.

Ted Lacy Sanford Royce