About Santa Fe World Affairs Forum

Arvid has extensive experience in nuclear export controls, nuclear proliferation intelligence, electronic instrumentation design, and clinical medical physics. Arvid spent thirty one years at Los Alamos National Laboratory as project engineer, group leader, and program manager. His career included over 100 foreign trips for the US government on nuclear issues, especially international nuclear export control.

Lloyd has held an eclectic array of administrative and public relations positions, including at Cornell University where she was administrative manager of the Museum of Art and also Director of Development and Public Affairs for the College of Arts and Sciences, and at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre where she was Director of Public Relations.

Lloyd studied at the University of Colorado, the University of Denver, the New School in NYC, as well as Cornell, and has enjoyed travels around the USA and to Canada, the USSR, China, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Europe. Long interested in learning about the people and cultures of the world, she continues to be an avid student of the arts, sciences, humanities and languages.

Lloyd is also a retired licensed massage therapist, whose special interest in Shiatsu, Chinese, and Thai modalities intensified her already strong interest in the diversity of world cultures. In 2000 she founded Nature of Massage, a unique therapeutic massage center in Cheshire, CT.

William was born and spent his early years in Denver, then later attended high school in Steamboat Springs Colorado. After graduating from high school, he spent a number of years working on oil drilling rigs and mines in Colorado, Wyoming and Alaska. He resumed his education after this period, first learning German, then studying at the Ludwig Maximillians Universitaet in Munich, where he received both undergraduate and PhD degrees in mathematics. After university, he worked for a number of years in Germany, first at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research then in the Central Research Department of Siemens A.G., doing research on various problems in finance, economics, plant control and medical imaging. He then returned to the United States and spent the next twenty years doing financial and economic research at a number of different financial institutions. In 2008 he left the financial world to found, together with one of his brothers, Finnoff Aviation Products, a company that develops, certifies and sells aftermarket components for civil aviation aircraft. William is still an active researcher and has numerous publications in the areas of mathematics, economics, machine learning and statistical methodology.

Steve Irsik, is a Board Chair and CEO of closely held businesses involved in farming, ranching, dairy production and processing, cattle feeding and private equity. Steve has served and continues to serve on private and charitable boards.