Fellow Profiles
Governing Board Members
Robert Reffkin (Founder and Chair)
Robert Reffkin is the Founder and CEO of Urban Compass. Previously he worked at Goldman Sachs as Chief of Staff to the President & COO following five years working in the firm's private equity arm. Prior to joining
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Andrew Marks (Co-Vice Chair)
Andrew Marks is a Managing Director at Blue Ridge Capital, LLC, a New York-based hedge fund. Prior to joining Blue Ridge, he was an Analyst at GSO Capital Partners, the credit investing arm of The Blackstone
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Roland Merchant (Co-Vice Chair)
Roland Merchant is a Director of Eastdil Secured, LLC, a wholly owned Real Estate Investment Bank of Wells Fargo, and is responsible for the marketing and valuation of secondary commercial mortgage
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Kimberly A. Harris (Secretary)
Kimberly A. Harris is an Associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, where she represents some of the leading Fortune 500 Companies in a variety of industries, including healthcare, insurance,
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Sebastian Arango (Treasurer)
Sebastian Arango is a Director at King Street Capital Management. Previously he was a Vice President in the Restructuring & Reorganization Advisory group at the Blackstone Group. Since joining Blackstone in 2006, Mr. Arango
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Alexandra Berry
Alexandra Berry recently relocated to New York City and began working with K-12 teachers as an Instructional Fellow at Relay Graduate School of Education. She was previously a Learning Specialist at KIPP
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Ron Bezoza
Ron Bezoza is Global Head of Goldman Sachs Option Advisory Services and oversees portfolio management, trading, business development and account management. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2007 and was named
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Cindy Helen Brea
Cindy Helen Brea is a Vice President in the Fixed Income Division at Morgan Stanley responsible for institutional clients in Central America and the Caribbean. Her focus to date has been financial institutions, providing both
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Howard W. Buffett (Director Emeritus)
Howard W. Buffett is Executive Director of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. Previously, he served as Special Assistant in the Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In this role, Mr. Buffett
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Elizabeth Edelman
Elizabeth Edelman is an Associate in the New York office of Meadow Partners and is responsible for assisting with investor relations and marketing. Prior to joining Meadow Partners, Elizabeth worked as a Deputy Finance Director for
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Daron Greene
Daron Greene is a Director and member of BlackRock's Fixed Income Portfolio Management Group. His primary responsibility is managing agency mortgage backed securities across BlackRock’s multiple fixed
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Mustafa Humayun
Mustafa Humayun is an Associate in the Multi-Strategy Investing group at Goldman Sachs, where he makes public and private investments across a variety of sectors. Mustafa is an active member of his alma mater
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Yusef Kassim
Yusef Kassim is a senior member of the Investor Relations group at Eton Park Capital Management, a $13 billion multi-disciplinary investment firm. He shares responsibility for the global marketing and client service
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Joshua Kushner
Joshua Kushner is the Managing Partner of Thrive Capital. As a Junior in college, Joshua co-founded Vostu, which has grown to be the largest social gaming company in Latin America with approximately 40M registered
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Stephanie Mann
Stephanie Mann is a Director in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Citi. Since joining Citi she has since worked on a broad range of both public and private transactions out of the New York
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Frank Sanchez
In January 2011, Dr. Frank D. Sanchez was appointed as the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the City University of New York (CUNY). Today, CUNY is the largest urban, public university in America serving over 500,000 students
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Ian Schwartz
Schwartz is a Corporate Partner at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP, where he advises clients on multibillion-dollar and middle-market private investment fund-raisings for institutional and boutique sponsors
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Jamie Sholem
Jamie Sholem is a Vice President in TPG Capital's Real Estate Group, focusing on opportunistic real estate investing. He is based in TPG's New York City office. Previously, Jamie was an Associate with Goldman, Sachs & Co
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Sam Sidhu
Sam Sidhu is a Senior Associate at Providence Equity Partners in the firm’s New York office. Sam originally joined Providence in 2007 in their Providence office, relocated to New Delhi in 2008 and joined the New York
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Alex Sloane
Alex Sloane is an Associate at Apollo Global Management, a New York-based private equity firm. Prior to joining Apollo, he was an Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs, focusing on the industrial sector. Alex received an
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Dan Smith
Dan Smith is Managing Director and SVP of Operations with the NYC-based executive search firm Raines International Inc., where he is responsible for new business development efforts as well as the firm’s internal
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Alexander Taubman
Alexander Taubman is an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School. Previously he was an investment analyst for Goldman Sachs’ Multi-Strategy Investing team, within the firm's Special Situations Group. He received an A.B. degree in
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Ben Tisch
Ben Tisch currently works at Loews Corporation. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group, responsible for managing a portfolio across a variety of asset classes including international
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Juan Uribe
Juan Uribe is a Principal at The Boston Consulting Group where he serves clients primarily in the financial services industry. Juan has advised clients on issues related to general corporate strategy, marketing effectiveness,
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