Board of Directors

Richard Schulze

Secretary

Richard grew up in a rural area near Buffalo, NY, the son of a German emigrant. He earned an engineering degree from Princeton University where he developed an interest in classical music, served afloat in the Navy, and earned an MBA from Northwestern University. Working for US Steel, Mobil Chemical, and Core Laboratories he developed new products and markets. In 1974 he launched Trinity Consultants, Inc. that became the nation’s leading air quality consulting and compliance firm. When he sold controlling interest in 2007, it employed 270 staff in 23 offices serving industry. He has published 30 technical papers, delivered numerous lectures, and co-authored a 400-page academic textbook. He then launched a family foundation that makes grants to cultural and educational organizations. Richard serves on various boards including the Dallas Symphony Foundation, the Dallas Opera Foundation and the Executive Advisory Board of the Engineering School at Southern Methodist University.

Timothy Molnar

Treasurer

Every member of Tim’s family in Bergen County, NJ, played an instrument. Growing up in a musical family, Tim was introduced to the piano at age 7, performing at various concerts throughout his childhood and young adult life. Graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in piano performance from the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music, and attaining a Master’s degree in conducting from the University of Southern California, Tim defined his career path several years after his adventures in music performance by joining a New York Stock Exchange firm. There, he utilized his analytical and social skills developing a long-term clientele over the ensuing 36 years. Today he is a founding/managing partner of a 26 member investment and financial planning firm – DJM Financial.

With music in his DNA, Tim is an avid pianist, having a particular knack for improvising. He continues to serve, as he has for many years, on the Board of Directors of the Pacific Symphony in Orange County, California. He also is the founder and emcee of a concert venue, the Emerging Artist Series, in Newport Beach, California, now in its eighth year, which features the most talented young musical artists in the area, several of whom have gone on to professional careers in music.

In addition to his music ventures, Tim enjoys the southern California coastline – kayaking, hiking the lowland hills and surrounding mountain ranges, and continually working on finding the fairway off the tee.

Molly E. Pyott

Board Member

Molly Pyott serves as a Board Member and the Immediate Past Chairwoman of the Board of Easterseals of Southern California, a 100-year old U.S.-based charity with a $240 million annual budget to provide life-changing services to people with disabilities. She is Director of the David and Molly Pyott Foundation a private charity registered in Colorado which is focused on philanthropy in a few areas: improving care for disabled individuals; enabling disadvantaged youth secure employment; teaching and educating ophthalmologists worldwide to provide better eyecare; and advancing the performing arts. Ms Pyott leads development and operational strategy for significant grants to classical music and the performing arts; The Prince’s Trust, a charity in the United Kingdom founded by HRH Prince of Wales; and ORBIS International, a U.S. eyecare charity addressing preventable blindness in Africa and other developing nations. She is an Officer in the Order of St. John, a humanitarian charity supporting the work of the St. John of Jerusalem Eye Hospital Group.

Previously, Ms. Pyott served as Vice President of Business Development and Secretary to the Board of Directors for California Healthcare Institute (CHI), a non-profit public policy research and advocacy organization for California’s life sciences industry. While at CHI, she held successive positions of responsibility in event management, public relations, publishing, marketing, operations and fundraising. She was publications manager, and a medical and science editor for ScrippsHealth, an integrated healthcare delivery system that included Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, Scripps Memorial Hospitals and an independent physician’s network in La Jolla, California. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her hobbies include classical piano, downhill skiing, pilates, and hiking.

Geoffrey Cone

Board Member

Geoffrey Cone is a leading international trust and tax planning attorney, and the founder and Senior Principal of Cone Marshall Limited. Cone is a respected authority in his industry, and as such, has shared his vast knowledge and expertise in publications such as Trusts & Trustees, Rothschild Trust Review, New Zealand Law Journal, among many others.

Additionally, he has been a contributing author to the World Trusts Survey and International Trust Disputes (both Oxford University Press), Law of Offshore Jurisdictions, International Trusts Guide, and Trident Guide to International Trusts. Cone began practicing commercial litigation as well as tax and trust advisory work in 1980. As Partner and Chairman of Partners at a leading Christchurch law firm, his tenure was marked by cases at all levels of the New Zealand courts as leading counsel and the Privy Council in London.

Later, Cone took his comprehensive litigation and advisory experience and further applied it by serving as a litigator in the British West Indies for two years. In 1998, he returned to New Zealand to establish his own firm, Cone and Co., which would later be transformed to Cone Marshall Limited in 2007. Cone’s long and illustrious career has made him a foremost international trust and tax planning figure, which is why some of the world’s wealthiest families, most prominent banks, and respected lawyers and advisors entrusted his firm their work and assets.