About
DartHeart Advisors
JOHN FRANKLIN III, Communications Advisor
John Franklin has nearly two decades of experience building and managing strategic communications programs for a wide variety of organizations across multiple industry sectors, including not-for-profit, technology, manufacturing, financial services, health care, media, fashion and aerospace. Though a generalist, he has particularly deep experience in marketing strategy, public positioning for major global brands and digital communications.
During nearly ten years at Robinson Lerer & Montgomery, an agency specializing in crisis work, Mr. Franklin advised clients including Northwest Airlines, Commerce Bank, Morgan Stanley, the Morgan Stanley Foundation, United Healthcare, AC Nielsen, Diageo, Brera Capital, Union Pacific Resources, Pfizer, Sumitomo Corporation and Becton-Dickinson.
Additionally, as Chief Marketing Officer for Catalyst Group Design, a web consulting firm, Mr. Franklin focused on online communications strategies relating to user-interface design, blogging and search-engine optimization for clients including Boeing, Hearst and JP Morgan Chase. He has also been a consultant for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, GM, Nike, Dell, Microsoft, Yahoo! and MySpace.
Mr. Franklin has a B.A. from Princeton University, where he studied Medieval English and French Literature and received two prizes for his independent academic work.
ANDREW BUKS, Financial Advisor
Andrew Buks has extensive experience in international business and finance. He has spent a significant portion of his life living in Asia Pacific including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. For most of his career, he worked in private banking and institutional brokerage for Prudential Securities, HSBC, and Development Bank of Singapore. His contributions to non-profit organizations include fundraising for the 2004 tsunami victims in Thailand, sustainable energy programs in Africa, and breast cancer research in Taiwan.
Andrew holds a BA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and ALM in International Management from Harvard University. He also holds Mandarin language certificates from Tamkang University and National Taiwan Normal University in the Republic of China.
GRADY LEE, Business Development Advisor
Grady Lee is the co-founder and COO of RockCorps, a pro-social production company that uses branded live music and sports to empower young people to give back to their community. Since 2003, Grady has helped guide RockCorps to reach a global audience in the US and Western Europe with an eye towards Eastern Europe, South Africa and the Middle East. Tens-of-thousands of young people have given back to their community with RockCorps programs and millions more have heard the message the volunteering is cool.
Prior to RockCorps, Grady has led a bit of a wanderer’s life with stints in the mountains of Telluride, Colorado, on a boat off Maui, Hawaii and deep in the film trenches of Hollywood, but these experiences have infused his work with an astute sensibility for diverse social networking. He holds a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Anderson School at UCLA.
FREDRICKA GILJE, Research Advisor
Fredricka Gilje is honored to share her 40 years of experience as a nurse educator and researcher in the U.S. and Scandinavia with DartHeart. Her particular field of interest is psychiatric-mental health nursing. Her research expertise lies in qualitative methods of inquiry. She is currently engaged in collaborative nursing research with colleagues in Norway and Sweden and actively involved with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention-Montana Chapter.
Fredricka holds a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Colorado and served as a Fulbright Fellow in Norway in 1994-95.
DAN CRAMER, Mental Health Advisor
Dan Cramer, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist employed at a community mental health facility where he completes psychological evaluations, provides individual therapy, and is a consultant for clinical staff. Dr. Cramer is additionally employed part-time by a private practice firm where he completes forensic evaluations.
Dr. Cramer completed his Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at Indiana University. He has had a variety of clinical/counseling experience including family based practice and working within a college counseling center. Dr. Cramer has been a contributing author to two published articles and an additional article in press that all involve the identification of protective factors that would serve to reduce the prevalence of acts of targeted violence within schools.
GRETCHEN STEIDLE WALLACE, Global Development Advisor
Gretchen Steidle Wallace is the founder and President of Global Grassroots, an international organization working at the intersection of personal and societal transformation to catalyze the ideas of grassroots change agents working for women's rights and well-being post-conflict. In 2005, she launched Global Grassroots' work in the Darfur refugee camps of eastern Chad, and in 2006 expanded to Rwanda. Gretchen is a producer of the documentary film, The Devil Came on Horseback, which was nominated for three Emmy Awards in 2009. She is also co-author of the memoir, "The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur", published by PublicAffairs, about her brother, Marine Capt Brian Steidle's experience as a military observer in Darfur.
She holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. Gretchen believes that cultivating inner awareness and contributing to the common good are both necessary to advance the greatest level of positive social change. She is also an apprentice practitioner of the alternative healing modality, integrative breathwork, which she hopes to use to help heal trauma from war and sexual violence. In 2007, Gretchen was honored by World Business Magazine and Shell as one of the top International 35 Women Under 35.
