Dennis Heffernan - Strategy and Engagement

Chairman Dennis Heffernan is a principal and co‐founder of Van Zorge, Heffernan, and Associates. He has over twenty years of experience in business and consulting in Indonesia, and has recently provided commentary for CNBC, Al Jazeera, the New York Times, the Economist, and other media.

Mr Heffernan has served on the Board of Directors of Penril Datacomm – then a publicly‐listed company on the NASDAQ. For nine years, he served as Trustee and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Ohio University, an 18,000‐student institution and his alma mater. In 2005, he volunteered as the chief advisor to Coordinating Minister Alwi Shihab, who was responsible for the tsunami emergency disaster relief. For the past ten years, Mr Heffernan has participated as one of three partners in the development of a commercial farming business (strawberries, blackberries, blueberries) which is located high in the mountains of West Java. The fruit is sold in supermarkets throughout Indonesia and exported to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan and Dubai. Since 2009, Mr Heffernan has served as Governor of the American Chamber in Jakarta, where he resides. He is married to Indriena Basarah, a television executive, and they have five children.