Board of Directors

Donald M. Wolf

Founder, Chairman of the Board

Mr. Wolf, a founding shareholder of ARC, is a business executive and venture capital investor who has had senior level/founder responsibilities in many different businesses. He is the founder of Societe TIGRE SARL (France) and of European Property Partners LLC (U.S.), a real estate private equity business based in Paris and Washington, DC. His firms have funded and closed over $700 million in property transactions internationally, including the purchase/development of over 50 office/light industrial buildings and over 1,100 residential apartments.

Prior to founding the TIGRE/EPP venture, Mr. Wolf was a general partner in The Holladay Group, a real estate development company operating in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. He was President of Brandywine Enterprises, a building materials, construction and solid waste business with over 100 employees, and President of Mid-Atlantic Hotel Group, a hotel management company with over 250 employees. Mr. Wolf was also a lawyer with Coudert Bros., an international law firm, where his work focused on mergers and acquisitions. He began his career as an analyst in the Systems Analysis Group of the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, a group created by Robert McNamara that provided planning, programming, budgeting and other analytical functions for the Secretary of Defense.

Mr. Wolf earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University, an MBA from Stanford Business School, and a JD from Harvard Law School.

C. Paul Robinson, PhD

Vice Chairman of the Board

Dr. Robinson, a U.S. Ambassador, experimental physicist, nuclear arms control negotiator is currently the Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of ARC. Formerly, he was the President and Director of Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia).

For the last 40 years, Dr. Robinson has made significant contributions to U.S. national security, arms control, proliferation prevention, and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy throughout the world. After earning a PhD in Physics from Florida State University in 1967, he joined the Experimental Test Division at Los Alamos. After a variety of assignments in national security and energy programs, he led the laboratory’s efforts in nuclear weapons R&D, defense support, and verification technologies. He joined an industrial firm, Ebasco Services in New York in 1985, where he led the Advanced Technology sector, including the redesign and reconfiguration of a number of U.S. nuclear power plants, and other power systems worldwide.

In 1987, he was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to be the U.S. Ambassador and Chief Negotiator for the nuclear testing talks in Geneva, Switzerland, and also served in this post under President George H.W. Bush. He completed the Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the Treaty on Explosions for Peaceful Purposes, both of which were unanimously ratified by the U.S. Senate in 1990, and remain in force today between the U.S. and the inheritor states of the former Soviet Union. His extensive work with the Russian laboratories during the Joint Verification Experiment of 1988 and 1989 laid the foundations for technical cooperation, which have continued to expand during the past decade.

Dr. Robinson joined Sandia in 1990 and became its President and Director in 1995. Under his leadership at Sandia from 1995 to 2005, he led the strategic expansion of the laboratory’s work in counter-terrorism and security, including major R&D support for the defense and intelligence communities. Dr. Robinson organized several working sessions between 15 U.S. and Russian nuclear laboratories to examine nuclear technology advances and opportunities for cooperation in improving the safety, performance, and utilization of nuclear energy worldwide.

While serving as Sandia President, Dr. Robinson pioneered innovative strategies for creating partnerships between national laboratories and the U.S. industry. This effort grew to include more than 575 cooperative research and development agreements, 925 non-federal entity agreements, 925 commercial licenses of Sandia-developed intellectual property, and federal assistance to over 3,000 small businesses. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1998, and has served on many of the Academy’s studies and committees.

Dr. Robinson is perhaps best known as a world-renowned resource on nuclear energy and fuel cycles, including innovative systems for minimizing proliferation risks. Among his public service activities, he currently serves on the Strategic Advisory Group for the Commander of the U.S. Strategic Command. He is the recipient of many medals and awards from government and industry, including from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the American Nuclear Society, the American Physical Society, the U.S. DOE, and NASA.

Scott L. Campbell

Founder, Board Member

Mr. Campbell, a founding shareholder of ARC, is an international energy policy expert, former CEO of an international energy consulting firm, and a former senior U.S. Department of Energy official. Mr. Campbell is currently a Senior Public Policy Advisor at the Baker Donelson law firm in Washington, D.C, and coordinates the Howard Baker Forum for the firm. He also chairs the U.S. – Japan Roundtable on Nuclear Energy Cooperation. Mr. Campbell is also the President of the American Council on Global Nuclear Competitiveness, a non-profit corporation formed to promote an American-led global nuclear revival.

Previously, Mr. Campbell co-founded and served as CEO of Washington Policy & Analysis Inc., an international energy-consulting firm, for eighteen years before its sale to the Informa Group, a business information and publishing company traded on the London Stock Exchange. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Campbell originated and led the development team for the vigilance vessel profiling system, a terrorism risk management system employed by the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Navy, Scotland Yard and other government entities to reduce the risk of terrorism presented by commercial shipping. He also originated and developed with the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St. Andrews University, an internet-based distance learning program in counter terrorism studies for law enforcement and military used around the world today. Additionally, Mr. Campbell served as a consultant to the senior management team at Sandia National Laboratories, and to its Global Nuclear Energy Futures program. He also served as Director of Policy, Planning and Analysis at the U.S. DOE.

Prior to coming to Washington in 1987, Mr. Campbell served as president of an oil and gas consulting firm, an executive vice president of an independent oil and gas company, a lawyer specializing in energy law and litigation, and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Houston and in Dallas.

Mr. Campbell holds a BA in History from Texas Christian University, an MA in Political Science from George Washington University, and a JD from Southern Methodist University School of Law.

Irfan Ali

President & CEO, Board Member

With an extensive record in the field of technology, Mr. Ali offers a unique combination of executive management, technical and marketing skills. A professed technologist, he has a passion for bringing new, innovative technology to the market in the form of products and solutions that address complex, contemporary problems. Mr. Ali prides himself on his ability to bring together diverse, talented individuals into a single, focused, effective team with a common purpose. He has a proven track record of building global businesses and organizations, involving a number of innovative, emerging technologies.

Prior to joining ARC, Mr. Ali was President and CEO of Lambda OpticalSystems, a late-stage, venture-backed startup building high-end optical networking systems. The company successfully raised funds in three rounds of venture financing, had contracts with the US Navy and the U.S. Department of Energy, and at its peak employed over 75 engineers.

Before Lambda, Mr. Ali was President of CommWorks Corporation, a 3Com company. At CommWorks, Mr. Ali had complete responsibility for all aspects of the business, growing its revenues to $770 million per year, improving profitability from a loss to 20% net operating margin, and expanding the organization to over 1,700 employees globally.

Mr. Ali received an MS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. He was also a founding member of the ATM Forum.