Ambassador Carl Spielvogel is a board member of iconic institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art (chair of the widely-emulated Business Committee), Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York, and the Asia Society. His remarkable career includes Founder/Chairman/CEO of the advertising firm of Backer & Spielvogel, which became Backer Spielvogel Bates Worldwide, one of the world's largest marketing and advertising communications companies, operating in 55 countries. Currently, he is Chairman and CEO of Carl Spielvogel Associates, an international investment, management and marketing company and serves on the board of Apollo Investment, Inc. Ambassador Spielvogel was a founding director of the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors, named to the position in 1995 by President William J. Clinton, who also appointed him Ambassador to the Slovak Republic in 1999. In 2008, Ambassador Spielvogel was named to the board of trustees and Executive Committee of the State University of New York (SUNY) – the largest state university system in the United States.