Board of Directors

Christopher Rapcewicz

Christopher Rapcewicz is Director of Risk and Operations at the Helmsley Charitable Trust.  He is part of the development and implementation of the overall investment strategy and is principally responsible for the risk management of Helmsley’s investments across all asset classes and for ensuring the integrity and effectiveness of the investment operations.  He has previously worked as chief risk officer and global head of quantitative solutions at UPB Asset Management, as vice president of risk at Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, and was managing director responsible for the development and operation of the core risk factory at Measurisk.

Christopher holds a PhD in theoretical physics from Cornell University, a B.Sc. (summa cum laude) from McMaster University in Canada, and is also an adjunct professor in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

Michel Accad

Michel Accad holds an MD from the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the areas of cardiology and interventional cardiology, and holds a certification in bioethics with distinction from the National Catholic Bioethics Center.  He has practiced medicine for over 20 years, contributed to research in therapeutic device development, publishes regularly in peer-reviewed journals, and has written a book examining some uncritical presuppositions in the world of medicine, Moving Mountains: A Socratic Challenge to the Theory and Practice of Population Medicine (2017).

Jose Dominguez

Jose Dominguez is a tax manager with 30 years of business experience in government, corporate, and public accounting roles.  He has extensive experience in compliance issues as a tax auditor (California Board of Equalization) for 12 years and in his roles in corporate tax positions (Dow, AbbVie, US Cellular).  He has a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Loyola University Chicago, where he also developed his interest in philosophy.  He has been an active member of the Lyceum community since 2021.

Kirk Kanzelberger

Kirk Kanzelberger holds a PhD in Philosophy (Fordham University), an undergraduate degree in Biology (California Institute of Technology), and a master’s degree in Philosophical and Systematic Theology (Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology). He previously worked in Silicon Valley during the 1980s tech boom, working as lead engineer for a successful software startup, Netrics Inc., which brought to market best-in-class scalable inexact matching and machine learning components (“AI” before it became ubiquitous). In 2010, Netrics was acquired by a Silicon Valley firm (TIBCO).

His philosophical interests lie in Peircean semiotics, moral psychology, and metaphysics. He is an advisor to a startup (Peircy, Inc.) on basic technology involving the application of Peirce’s logic of the sign.

Daniel Wagner

Daniel Wagner received a PhD in Philosophy from the Center for Thomistic Studies, at the University of St. Thomas, TX.  Currently, he is Chair of Philosophy and Director of Catholic Studies at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids, MI.  His research focuses on the philosophy of nature and science, philosophical anthropology, and the principles of ethics in Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, as well as the synthetic development of Aristotelian and Thomistic philosophy with phenomenology.  With John P. Hittinger, he co-edited Thomas Aquinas: Teacher of Humanity (2015), and he worked alongside Hittinger and Michael W. Tkacz on a volume of essays by the late Thomist and philosopher, William Wallace: The Intelligibility of Nature: The Wallace Reader.