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Joe Dawson
Joe Dawson is the director of private equity for the New York Common Retirement Fund (CRF). He is responsible for facilitating the management as well as strategic planning and development of the private equity portfolio across all sub-asset classes, including primary funds and co-investments. He has been instrumental in growing and expanding the private equity…
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Isela Bahena
Isela Bahena is the managing director of infrastructure investments at Nuveen, a TIAA Company. Bahena brings over 20 years of investment and portfolio management experience across a variety of sectors and asset classes. She leads deal teams that originate, structure, and invest across the infrastructure spectrum, including renewable, digital infrastructure, transportation, and energy transition assets.…
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William (Bill) Costigan
William (Bill) Costigan joined Guggenheim in 2013. He serves as a managing director of the Institutional Client Group. Previously, he was a senior member of the portfolio management team focused on active fixed income strategies, specifically core plus, multi-asset, and structured credit mandates. Costigan, a regular speaker at national investment conferences who has over 15…
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Gabriel de Alba
Gabriel de Alba is the co-founder and managing partner of GDA Luma Special Opportunities Fund. De Alba has more than 25 years of experience in investing and in operating and leading corporate boards. He specializes in control and/or influence of investments in distressed and undervalued situations, formulating a strategy around recapitalization, cash flow generation, and…
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Vivienne Ming
Dr. Vivienne Ming explores maximizing human potential as a theoretical neuroscientist, serial inventor, entrepreneur, author, and AI humanist. Over her career, she has founded eight startups, been chief scientist at two others, and launched what she calls the “mad science incubator” at Socos Labs, where she explores seemingly intractable problems—from a lone child’s disability to…
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Valerie Jarrett
Valerie Jarrett is chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of the Obama Foundation, as well as a senior distinguished fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. From 2009 to 2017, Jarrett was the senior advisor to President Barack Obama, making her the longest-serving senior advisor to a president in…
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Thomas P. DiNapoli
Thomas DiNapoli is the 54th comptroller of the State of New York. In 1972, he won his first election and served as a trustee on the Mineola Board of Education, becoming the first 18-year-old in New York State to hold public office. He attended Hofstra University, graduating magna cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in…
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Beth Van Schaack
Beth Van Schaack was sworn in as the State Department’s sixth ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice (GCJ) on March 17, 2022. In this role, she advises the secretary of state and other department leadership on issues related to the prevention of and response to atrocity crimes, including war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Van…
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Jason Lamin
Jason Lamin is founder and CEO of Lenox Park Solutions, Inc.. He started the company as a consulting and advisory company in 2009, and has overseen its transition into a leading financial technology firm that provides collaborative software, data aggregation tools and analytics geared toward fair and democratized access to opportunities. The firm’s clients include…
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