Yuri Vanetik

Managing Director, Vanetik International LLC

Yuri Vanetik is a private investor and philanthropist. Mr. Vanetik is the principal of Vanetik International, LLC, a management consulting firm. He is also managing director and member of the investment committee of a financial group that in total manages over $9 Billion. engaged in the leadership of Gen Next (and Gen Next Foundation), an organization of executives focused on causes for long term global solutions for: Growth, Education, and International Security (www.gen-next.org), he is committed to encouraging policies that set the state for sustainable future prosperity. In the past, Mr. Vanetik served as executive within the financial sector, and advised boards and principals of public and private companies on capital formation, marketing, acquisitions and dispositions, and other strategic planning matters. Presently, he serves on corporate boards, boards of non-profits, and political organizations. Mr. Vanetik began his legal career, practicing corporate law with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, in Pittsburgh, PA. Subsequently, he served as founding partner of Iger, Koehler & Vanetik, LLP, a law firm specializing in corporate governance, counseling boards of publicly traded companies and representing independent directors, and committees on which they serve. Generally, his legal practice and experience has centered on corporate combinations, and finance. He began his entrepreneurial career in the technology venture capital arena, and subsequently moved into private equity investing. In the finance industry, Mr. Vanetik structures and invests in private equity transactions domestically and abroad. A passionate volunteer and leader, Mr. Vanetik serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Red Cross (Orange County). He was appointed to the Homeland Security Council for Region 1, and serves there on the Board of Governors. Mr. Vanetik is a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute in California, and National Trustee for the Kennedy Center National Symphony in Washington, DC. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Mr. Vanetik to serve on the California Criminal Justice Council. In the last presidential elections, he served as State of California Co-Chair and as All American Vice Chair for Rudy Giuliani Presidential Campaign, and subsequently was selected to serve on Senator McCain’s Kitchen Cabinet. Mr. Vanetik has been appointed as Regional Chairman of the RGA (Inner Circle), CA Vice Chair for the NRCC, and has held leadership roles in RNC. He has also Finance Chair for Gen M, and supporter of Meg Whitman for CA Governor. Mr. Vanetik received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley with Highest Honors, (Phi Beta Kappa) and is an executive graduate of the Anderson Business School at UCLA (Management). Completing further graduate research at Oxford University (Exeter College), where he was a researcher in political philosophy, Mr. Vanetik earned his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings, where he was the President of the International Law Society, and the recipient of the coveted American Jurisprudence Award. Mr. Vanetik is also graduate of the Wharton-Spencer Stuart Directors Institute on Corporate Governance and Stanford Law School’s Directors College, and SEC Institute Reporting and Audit Program. Yuri Vanetik is a wine and art collector, and resides in Orange County California.