About Us

David Duncan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OOSKAnews. David founded the company in August 2006, after 14 years in publishing, mostly in business-to-business news.

 

"OOSKA" is a phonetic spelling of the Scottish Gaelic word "uisge", which means "water".

Before founding OOSKAnews, David was Chief Executive Officer of NewsBase Limited, in Edinburgh (Scotland,UK) and Warrenton (Virginia,USA). NewsBase is a publisher of international business news and analysis, with primary focus on the oil, gas and power generation sectors. Regions covered included the Middle East, Africa, China, Central and Southern Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. As Chief Executive, David launched seven new publications, increased revenues, and broadened the company's subscriber base.

 

He previously held other senior management positions in news organizations in Europe and the United States.

 

David holds a law degree (LLB) from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

 

Anne Gordon is a partner in the private investment firm of Dubilier & Company. There, she has primary responsibility for buying, investing in, and building media firms for Dubilier & Co.’s portfolio. She joined Dubilier & Co. in May, 2007 after having worked for daily newspapers for almost 25 years, in a wide variety of management roles. Her career has also included a two-year stint in the competitive Denver television market, as a top newsroom executive for KCNC-4.

 

In addition to her investment role at Dubilier & Co., Anne heads up the media consulting practice for the firm with partner Daphne Kis.

 

Prior to joining the investment firm, Anne was responsible for all aspects of the day-to-day operations of The Philadelphia Inquirer in its print and online versions for a little over five years. As managing editor and vice president, she oversaw a budget of $48 million and worked with four deputy editors to oversee the newspaper’s journalistic operations as well as broader operational issues, including daily work with its newsroom union on issues from work rules and downsizing to contract negotiation and more broadly directing the news organization’s positions on a variety of First Amendment and personnel issues. Anne regularly appears on national talk shows, speaks on political and media issues, and testified before Congress in October 2005 on the importance of a federal Shield Law for journalists. As managing editor for the Inquirer, Anne was one of only a handful of women editors at large metro dailies in America.

 

Anne is a 2001 Eisenhower Fellow who studied media issues in Finland and Sweden, with a special emphasis on wireless research and development with Nokia and Ericsson. She was a Pulitzer Prize juror in 2003, serving as chairwoman, and in 2002 was a juror in the Public Service category. In addition to her board role at OOSKAnews, she is a board member of San Diego-based Verve Wireless, a mobile content provider, and an advisory board member of Good Magazine, based in Los Angeles.

 

James Wu joined Dubilier & Co. in 2002, where he assists early-stage and middle-market companies by securing investment, managing operations and introducing operating partners at the Board or management level. He is also currently President of ODC Nimbus, a high-tech operating company in the Dubilier portfolio. Prior to joining Dubilier & Co., Mr. Wu co-founded Lab Econometrics, a Harvard-University-based fixed-income hedge fund, where he was the managing partner. Mr. Wu led the fund raising, development and eventual sale of a minority interest in Lab Econometrics to Atlantic Asset Management, where the fund has been trading since 2003. Prior to founding Lab Econometrics, Mr. Wu was the president and founder of Clairvergent Technology Group formerly Revbox, which provided Internet-based technology solutions to the insurance industry. From 1992 to 1999, Mr. Wu was active in the direct investment business for McCown De Leeuw, a private equity fund. Prior to this, Mr. Wu was an associate at a strategy consulting firm, L.E.K. and also a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley.

 

Mr. Wu is currently on the Board of Directors of Covario, LAB Econometrics, and ODC Nimbus. He previously served on the Board of Directors of DIMAC Corporation, a $400-million-in-revenue leader in direct marketing, and on the Board of Nimbus CD International which was publicly traded on the NASDAQ.

 

Mr. Wu is a Guest Lecturer at the Harvard Department of Economics. He earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1991, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. During his senior year, Mr. Wu received the Danforth Prize for Excellence in Teaching. In 1997, Mr. Wu earned his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

 

Michael Dubilier in 1994, formed Dubilier & Co., which has successfully invested in and overseen more than 30 different investments. Prior to starting Dubilier & Co., Mr. Dubilier was a partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, where, from 1989 through 1994, he was active in its direct investment business and took part in or initiated numerous acquisitions, recapitalizations, and dispositions of CD&R portfolio companies. Mr. Dubilier entered the investment field in 1983, with Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he specialized in utilities, energy and telecommunications and became a partner in the Corporate Finance Department in 1988. Prior to his investment banking experience, Mr. Dubilier was an operations manager for a Houston-based oil service company.

 

Mr. Dubilier has served on the corporate Boards of numerous companies—including Phoenix Packaging Company, Magnetic Data Technologies, HEM Pharmaceuticals, APS, and Old London Foods—and is currently on the Boards of Berlin Industries, Inc., Systech Solutions, DC Safety Sales Company and Valor Equity Partners.

 

Mr. Dubilier was educated at Connecticut College and Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management, where he received his M.B.A. in 1982. He also completed a post-graduate program in finance at New York University Graduate School of Business Administration. He is a frequent lecturer on private equity and alternative investing at Harvard College and the University of California, Berkeley. He is also a member of the endowment investment committees of Connecticut College and the Loomis Chaffee School.