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OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
BIAC has assembled a distinguished Board of Directors, made up of experienced international arbitration practitioners and neutrals dedicated to promoting Boston as a leading center for international disputes.
CONNA A. WEINER, ESQ.
Conna A. Weiner, Esq. serves as the Vice Chair of BIAC’s Board of Directors. Ms. Weiner is a JAMS neutral with over 20 years of experience handling diverse, complex issues for multinational life sciences companies in the U.S. and abroad, including as a General Counsel. Most recently, Ms. Weiner has served as an independent arbitrator and mediator on a number of well-known national and international cases, with a complex case specialization in biotech, life sciences (pharmaceuticals, devices, diagnostics), health care and other commercial matters.
MERRIANN PANARELLA, ESQ.
Merriann Panarella, Esq. serves as a Director on BIAC’s Board of Directors. Ms. Panarella is an independent arbitrator, mediator and consultant who practices in Boston and New York City and focuses on complex commercial and intellectual property disputes. She has arbitration training from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the American Arbitration Association (AAA), and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and is a member of the AAA, CPR, ICC, WIPO, AHLA, FINRA, and Massachusetts Fee Arbitration Board (FAB) arbitration panels. She is a member of the American Bar Association’s Women in Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Committee and the International Chamber of Commerce, as well as a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
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CHARLES L. SOLOMONT, ESQ.
Charles (Carl) Solomont serves as a Director on BIAC’s Board of Directors. A partner at Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Mr. Solomont’s litigation, international arbitration, and trial-focused practice focuses on complex commercial disputes and crisis management. His public and private clients include companies in the health care, biopharmaceutical, energy, real estate, automotive, and sports industries.
MALGORZATA A. MROZEK, ESQ.
Malgorzata (Mal) Mrozek serves as a Director and the Secretary of BIAC. An associate at Fitch Law Partners LLP, Ms. Mrozek focuses her practice on commercial litigation and arbitration, representing clients in state and federal courts, in arbitral proceedings, and before municipal boards and committees. Ms. Mrozek also teaches international arbitration as an adjunct professor at a Boston law school.
PHILIP D. O'NEILL, ESQ.
Philip D. O’Neill, Esq. serves as the Chair of the BIAC Board of Directors . Mr. O’Neill is an active international and domestic arbitrator with decades of experience, as well as a longtime adjunct professor of international arbitration at top national law schools. He is highly experienced and well recognized around the globe, having been selected as a neutral or party nominated arbitrator on over 120 large, complex cases; presided over more than fifty trials; and adjudicated billions of dollars in claims arising in the USA and elsewhere around the world.
DANIEL V. WARD, ESQ.
Daniel V. Ward, Esq. serves as a President of BIAC. Mr. Ward focuses his practice at Ropes & Gray on complex commercial disputes and securities litigation, including trials and appeals, investigations and international arbitration. His clients include public and private companies, investment advisers (including private equity sponsors, hedge funds and mutual funds) and individual officers and directors.