C. Holland Taylor established
LibForAll Foundation in December 2003, together with his close
friend, the former Indonesian president Kyai
Haji Abdurrahman Wahid (1940-2009), whom the Wall Street
Journal has called “the single most influential religious
leader in the Muslim world” and “easily the most important ally
the West has in the ideological struggle against Islamic radicalism.”
Under their direction, LibForAll has become the leading NGO developing
and operationalizing successful counter-extremism strategies
worldwide.
C. Holland Taylor
 C.
Holland Taylor is co-founder, chairman and CEO of LibForAll Foundation.
An expert on Islam and the process of Islamization in Southeast
Asia, he has lived, studied and worked in the Muslim world, from
Iran to Indonesia, over a period of more than four decades. Educated
at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill and Princeton
University, Mr. Taylor's unique combination of experience in the
fields of international business, strategy and the forging of
cross-cutural relationships has enabled LibForAll to become “a
model of what a competent public diplomacy effort in the Muslim
world should look like” (Wall Street Journal).
An author, speaker and successful entrepreneur, Mr. Taylor is
also the former CEO of USA Global Link, which made telecommunications
history by introducing competition to previously monopolistic
markets, and dramatically lowering the cost of telecom services
to customers worldwide. Numerous business publications
have credited Mr. Taylor as being one of the essential catalysts
in the deregulation of the global telecommunications industry
in the 1990s.
“C. Holland Taylor doesn’t look like a man
radical Muslims should fear. He is trim, unassuming, and speaks
with a faint southern accent. His stylish blond haircut and trim
suit give him the appearance of a fortysomething European businessman.
He possesses no arsenal of weapons, holds no government post, and
operates no intelligence service. Yet he runs the world’s most potent
and innovative anti-extremist network and may hold a key to defusing
the ticking bomb of Islamic terrorism.”
F. Borden Hanes, Jr.
 F.
Borden Hanes, Jr.—Vice Chairman of Bowen, Hanes and Company, Investment
Counsel—serves as Chairman of the John Wesley and Anna Hodgin
Hanes Foundation, and the Thomas S. Kenan Institute for the Arts.
Mr. Hanes is also the immediate past Chairman of the board of
trustees of
Old Salem, Inc., and past president of the Southeastern Center
for Contemporary Art and SciWorks in Winston-Salem, NC.
He is also a long-term board member of the Cancer Center of Wake
Forest University Medical Center, the North Carolina Museum of
Art, the National Development Council of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Friends of the Library at UNC-Chapel
Hill.
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