Don Mario Bosco

a native of New York City and the founder and President of CINN, brings almost thirty years of experience as an international corporate attorney and project manager to CINN. Among his private law clients in Asia and Europe, Bosco currently serves as General Counsel to an international telecom company based in NY. Bosco served as Counsel for Latin America and the Caribbean for Alcatel in 2000-2001. He has lectured by invitation of the United Nations in Thailand and other countries on the development of major infrastructure projects financed by private investment. He has experience managing financial services and trading firms in Hong Kong, Taipei and Beijing. He served as branch manager for Spike Trading, LLC, a futures trading firm and member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and the Chicago Board of Trade, licensed in Hong Kong and Taiwan, from 1994-1998. During 1990-1994, Bosco was New York Counsel to Quotron Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Citicorp, Inc., and went on to become a Senior Counsel in Citicorp’s legal department in New York City, which he left to dedicate more time to the Dry Canal project in Central America. From 1989-1990, he was Branch Manager for all European business and trading operations for Thomas McKinnon, Inc., based in London. He served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Shearson Lehman Trading Company and a Vice President of Shearson Lehman/American Express in New York from 1984 - 1988. He was a consultant to the U.S. Trade & Development Program in Beijing in 1984, and was minority counsel to the Special Subcommittee on U.S. Trade with China of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1983-1984. He served as a Captain in the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps and became Counsel for International Development at the Headquarters, Chief of Engineers, US Army Corps of Engineers, in Washington, DC. Bosco is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Washington and Fordham University School of Law in New York, and holds an L.L.M. degree in international and comparative law from Georgetown University Law Center. He is married with five children to Kimberly Taylor. He is an avid antique auto collector and a private pilot.

Lawrence Cichanowicz, Vice President for Maritime Affairs

Anthony W. Frost, Vice President for Risk Management

has over forty years of experience as a Lloyds of London insurance broker, with expertise in all types of marine insurance and reinsurance. During the last 25 years he has been a managing director of London marine insurance brokerages, including C.E. Heath and Citicorp, and is currently managing director of Frost & Co. Insurance Services in London. His range of business experience includes ship and hull machinery, protection and indemnity, charterer’s liability, stevedore’s liability, ports and terminal operators and physical loss liability, and canal operations liability. Frost has been chairman of the insurance brokerage team that worked to design the Panama Canal’s liability and physical damage policy. Mr. Frost also has experience in risk analysis and underwriting for strike, war, terrorism, confiscation, and expropriation scenarios

John Jay, P.Eng., Vice President for Port Planning & Operation

is the President of Novaport International Consultants Limited, the consulting engineering practice with which he has been associated for the past 40 years. The firm specializes in the planning, design and construction supervision of port and harbour installations and marine terminals on an international basis. He has provided consulting services to port authorities and terminal operators in 20 countries around the world and, in addition, has been a consultant to the World Bank, the Caribbean Development Bank, the UNDP, Kuwait Fund, and the Organization of American States. Mr. Jay is a civil engineering graduate of Dalhousie University. He is a Life Member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Nova Scotia, a Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering and a Member of a number of other professional societies.

Francisco d’Escoto Brockmann, Corporate Secretary

Ambassador d’Escoto serves as CINN’s corporate secretary and as a vital liaison with important sectors of the Nicaraguan political community. Bilingual and bicultural with roots in Nicaragua and California, Amb. d’Escoto brings a truly international perspective to the Dry Canal project. He has served in the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington, and as Nicaragua’s Ambassador to London and Tokyo.

Jaime Incer Barquero, Ph.D., Senior Advisor for Environment and Ecology

Born in Boaco, Jaime Incer studied at the Instituto Pedagógico de Managua, and graduated with a degree in Pharmacy and Chemistry from the Universidad Autónoma de Leon in 1959. He completed postgraduate studies at the University of Michigan, in the United States, receiving his doctorate in Biological Sciences in 1963. Dr. Incer went on to receive international recognition as a distinguished biologist, having explored, catalogued, and fought hard to conserve the country’s variegated natural habitats for four decades. Dr. Incer has recorded, observed, and photographed Nicaragua, by land, sea, and air, and has worn the dual professional hats of professor and policymaker. As an educator, he was a research professor in the Fulbright Program in the Geography and Anthropology Department at Louisiana State University, and a visiting professor in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences at the Universidad Centroamericana in Managua. As Nicaragua’s Minister of the Environment under President Violeta Chamorro from 1990-1994, Dr. Incer expanded the country’s nature preserves and championed environmental issues. Currently, Dr. Incer serves as President of the Nicaraguan Institute of Geography and History; the President of the Nicaraguan Foundation for Sustainable Development (FUNDENIC); and Vice-President of the Nicaraguan Foundation for Nature Conservation (COCIBOLCA).

K. Michael Cline, Director of Environmental and Geo-Engineering Sciences

Mr. Cline is a professional geologist with 31years of experience in projects that require field investigations, site evaluation, environmental and regulatory compliance, and construction. He has served as a project scientist and manager for a multitude of projects in the Americas. Mr. Cline initiated his professional career in 1973 in Nicaragua on a bilateral aid program to evaluate the effects of the 1972 Managua Earthquake. He was one of the key authors of the Managua Study, a micro-zonation earthquake hazard map and planning matrix for the Managua Metropolitan area. He has continued to provide consulting services in Nicaragua over the years including his support to the CINN project. Mr. Cline's experience includes site evaluations, geologic hazard assessments, and environmental assessments for critical facilities, high occupancy facilities, and metropolitan areas in the Americas. He also has experience in economic geology and mine development in the U.S., Nicaragua, and Colombia. Mr. Cline has a Masters of Science degree in geology and is a registered professional geologist in the U.S. He has more than 20 professional publications related to his areas of expertise.

Joseph X. Tangredi, Director of Public Affairs and Communications

Joe Tangredi has had over ten years’ experience working on Capitol Hill in legislation and political communications, and as an attorney in the private sector. A graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and the University of San Diego’s School of Law, he has been employed as a legislative aide in the U.S. House of Representatives, and as assistant counsel to the ranking minority member of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Government Information (now the Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security) of the U.S. Senate’s Judiciary Committee in Washington. Mr. Tangredi has also worked in the defense contracting industry serving U.S. Navy clients in Crystal City, Virginia, as an economic and financial research analyst for organized labor in Las Vegas, as a non-profit manager, and most recently as corporate counsel representing real estate developers in Nevada and southern California.