EDNA SUSSMAN is a full time independent arbitrator and mediator and is the Distinguished ADR Practitioner in Residence at Fordham University School of Law. Formerly a litigation partner at the law firm of White & Case LLP, Ms. Sussman serves on many institutional arbitration panels in jurisdictions around the world and has served as an arbitrator in over  three hundred complex commercial disputes under various institutional rules.

Ms. Sussman served as the Chair of the New York International Arbitration Center, Chair of the AAA-ICDR Foundation, President of the College of Commercial Arbitrator, and on the Board and the Executive Committee of the AAA, as well as the Board and Executive Committee of the College of Commercial Arbitrators. She serves on the Advisory Council of the ICC’s Task Force on Arbitration and ADR and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She is certified by the International Mediation Institute. Ms. Sussman is a former Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the New York State Bar Association.  She serves as Co-Editor in Chief of the New York Dispute Resolution Lawyer. She was formerly Co-Chair of the Arbitration Committees of the ABA's Section of International Law and Section of Dispute Resolution and served as the Chair of the Renewable Energy Committee and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the AAA's Section of Environment Energy and Resources. Ms. Sussman served as the Chair of the New York City Bar Association's Energy Committee and as the Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee of the Energy Bar Association. A graduate of Barnard College 1970, and Columbia Law School 1973, Ms. Sussman has lectured and published widely on arbitration, mediation, energy and environmental issues.

SHERMAN W. KAHN is an arbitrator and represents clients in international arbitrations presenting complex technical and commercial issues.  He has arbitrated under the ICC, AAA, ICDR, CPR, JCAA, UNCITRAL and other rules. He has sat as chair, sole arbitrator, and wing arbitrator in international and domestic arbitrations on subjects including IT outsourcing, software development, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, mining, patent infringement, standard essential patents, trademark licensing, unfair competition and trade disparagement, and commercial issues.  He has also provided advice regarding clause drafting and pre-dispute issues in connection with major construction and infrastructure projects.  He is on the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR) Panel of Arbitrators, the American Arbitration Association Roster of Commercial Arbitrators and the CPR Distinguished Panel of Neutrals and the Korean Commercial Arbitration Board (KCAB) Panel of International Arbitrators.  He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and a member of the Silicon Valley Arbitration and Mediation Center Tech List.  He also acts as a mediator.  Mr. Kahn has more than twenty-five years of experience in patent litigation including matters involving programmable logic devices, microprocessors and controllers, memory devices, construction equipment, medical devices, supercomputers, LCD & PDP display devices, LED Lighting, computer software, networking technologies and biotechnology. He also litigates outsourcing, trade-secret, trademark, copyright, and antitrust matters.