The Kravis Leadership Institute Advisory Board

Scott Gilbertson is a Partner at TPG Growth based in San Francisco, where he leads the operations and business building efforts for the fund. Most recently, he served as CEO of Beauty for All Industries (BFA), home to the world's largest beauty subscription brands including IPSY and BoxyCharm, with over $1 billion in revenues. He serves as Chair of the Kravis Leadership Institute Advisory Board at Claremont McKenna College.

Gilbertson joined TPG in 2007 after serving as Senior Vice President of Merchandising (Chief Merchant) at Under Armour. He was previously a member of TPG's operations group from 1998 to 2003, during which he held multiple operating positions within the TPG portfolio, including three distinct executive roles at J.Crew Group: President of eCommerce, interim CEO, and COO. He also served as interim COO of Bally International. Additionally, he was CEO of Ludi Labs, Inc. and CEO of Fender Musical Instruments.

Gilbertson currently serves on multiple boards including CLEAResult, Ideal Image, Greencross, Independent Pet Partners, and Infinidat. He began his career at The Boston Consulting Group from 1991 to 1998, leading case work in automotive, wine and spirits, financial services, and apparel industries, including assignments in Mexico and Venezuela.

He holds a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. A native Minnesotan, he attended Phillips Academy Andover and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.

Michael Barr is Managing Partner at Sterling Investment Partners, a leading middle market private equity firm that recently closed its fourth fund (SIP IV) with $934 million in capital commitments, exceeding the firm's $900 million target. Sterling has partnered with management teams to create value and build middle market companies for over 30 years, making equity investments of $75-250 million.

Barr joined Sterling in 2001 as an associate and over his 24+ year tenure has developed experience across all facets of private equity investing, including sourcing opportunities, negotiating and structuring both buy-side and sell-side transactions, and working with management teams to drive strategy and growth. He currently serves on the board of directors of several Sterling portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Sterling, Barr was a Senior Auditor at Arthur Andersen and an Associate in Corporate Finance at Lehman Brothers. Between Lehman Brothers and Sterling, he served as VP of Finance at Wellsteads, a startup focused on an innovative business model combining technology with retail food delivery.

Barr graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 1993 with a B.A. in Economics and Accounting and received his MBA in 1998 from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Susan and three children.

Cody Chang is a serial entrepreneur and product executive based in New York City with extensive experience spanning AI, fintech, healthcare technology, and financial services. He began his entrepreneurial journey in high school by founding a WordPress development agency in his NYC Chinatown apartment, scaling it to include international teams and Fortune 100 clients. 

After earning an Economics degree from Claremont McKenna College, Chang joined the founding team of an Asia-based pharmaceutical logistics company, where he managed all business operations including Chinese government negotiations and raising over $30 million in funding. He subsequently served as COO of a Singapore-based investment bank before returning to NYC. In the product management space, Chang held senior roles at notable companies including LearnVest (Northwestern Mutual), Vimeo, and Quadency (cryptocurrency trading). He co-founded Product Gym, a leading software product management community helping professionals transition into product roles.

 Currently, Chang serves as President of Tier One AI Labs, a company specializing in AI solutions for nonprofit organizations, helping them automate administrative tasks and generate new revenue streams. His recent product leadership experience includes roles at Freed (an AI medical scribe platform), Elevate (an AI-powered benefits administration), and advisory positions with Silverback Tax Audit Defense and Dime. 

Beyond technology, Chang founded a Land Conservation Easements consultancy focused on directing financial resources toward responsible land use in the United States.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/czchang/

Hiram E. Chodosh became president of Claremont McKenna College on July 1, 2013. He is CMC’s fifth president, and joined the College having already achieved distinction as an educator, an academic administrator, a legal scholar, and an internationally recognized advocate of judicial reform around the world.

Just prior to his arrival in Claremont, Chodosh served as Dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, where he was also the Hugh B. Brown Endowed Presidential Professor of Law and Senior Presidential Adviser on Global Strategy. During his seven-year tenure, he worked collaboratively to establish several new centers on law and bioscience, global justice, educational innovation, global justice, and veterans, and led efforts to begin construction of a new $60 million facility.

Born in 1962 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Chodosh received his B.A. in history from Wesleyan University in 1985, and his J.D. in 1990 from Yale Law School. He began his law career at the international firm of Cleary, Gottlieb in New York. In 1993, he left the firm to join the faculty of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio.  He is married to Priya Junnar and they have two children, Saja and Caleb.

Jay Conger is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership Studies and Chair of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College. Recognized as one of the world's foremost experts on leadership, he has been ranked by the Financial Times as one of the top management educators globally and named by BusinessWeek as the best business school professor to teach leadership and among the top five management education teachers worldwide. He is also recognized among The Top 50 Coaches and has worked with over 600 organizations in his 25-year career.

Conger has served on the faculties of Harvard Business School, INSEAD in France, London Business School, McGill University, and the University of Southern California. He has published over 100 articles and 15+ books on leadership development, executive leadership, board governance, organizational change, talent management, and communications strategies. His notable works include "The High Potential's Advantage," "Growing Your Company's Leaders," and "Building Leaders: How Successful Companies Develop the Next Generation."

Among his numerous accolades, Conger received the 2005 European Research Award on Leadership and Corporate Governance from the Association of Executive Search Consultants, was selected by BusinessWeek as fifth among the "Top Ten Worldwide Management Gurus," and received the Center for Creative Leadership's H. Smith Richardson Fellowship Award. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College, an M.B.A. from the University of Virginia, and a D.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Heather Cowart is Global Portfolio Manager at 3M Oral Care, where she has overseen award-winning product launches and pioneered new-to-3M business models. She leads global expansion of the 3M-Bioclear partnership with recent launches in China, Brazil, and Western Europe. Previously at 3M, she worked in product commercialization as Global New Procedure Marketing Manager and in 3M Corporate Strategy, where her projects included developing the corporate strategic plan.

Prior to joining 3M, Cowart taught English academic writing at the University of Antwerp, Belgium as a Fulbright grantee, then joined a real estate finance startup where she developed new loan products, managed institutional investor relationships, and built out the company's trade desk.

Cowart graduated as Valedictorian from Claremont McKenna College with a dual degree in French and Government and was a member of the inaugural class of Seaver Leadership Scholars. She earned her MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she served as a Kapnick Leadership Development Facilitator. She serves on the Board of the Junior League of Saint Paul and volunteers as a mentor with BestPrep and as an alumni interviewer for Claremont McKenna College.

Tina Daniels is President and COO of Aquila, an ANA subsidiary developing a cross-media measurement platform designed to provide transparent, normalized data across all audiences and segments. The platform aims to deliver deduplicated reach and frequency reports for advertisers across major platforms including Meta, Google, Amazon, and TikTok, with advertiser trials beginning in 2025 and full launch planned for early 2026.

Previously, Daniels served as Google's Director of Agency & Brand Measurement Analytics, leading marketing analytics sales teams responsible for measuring brand and performance advertising impact for Google and YouTube's largest agencies and clients. Earlier at Google, she was Director of Agency Business Development and ran Google's Advertising Platform and Publisher Marketing team. Before Google, she was Chief Revenue Officer at Syncapse, advising global consumer brands on social media and marketing strategies.

Her earlier career included roles as Director in Microsoft's global advertising sales group, Vice President of Global Client Development at Avenue A|Razorfish, and positions in corporate finance at Arthur Andersen and Oppenheimer Companies, where she earned her CPA. Daniels holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Economics and Government from Claremont McKenna College.

She serves as a Trustee of Claremont McKenna College, President of the Women's Prison Association (NYC's oldest social services agency), and is a member of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's Cycle for Survival Founders' Circle and the Kravis Leadership Institute Advisory Board.

David Day, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College and Academic Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute, Steven L. Eggert ‘82 P’15 Professor of Leadership and George R. Roberts Fellow. Previously he was Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Woodside Chair in Leadership and Management at The University of Western Australia Business School.

David Day is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, International Association of Applied Psychology, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and has core research interests in the areas of leadership, identity, and leadership development. In 2010 he was awarded the Walter F. Ulmer Research Award from the Center for Creative Leadership (USA) for outstanding, career-long contributions to applied leadership research.

Dr. Gastón Espinosa did graduate work at Princeton, Harvard, and the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he received his Ph.D. in American History. He arrived at CMC in 2017 and is the Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Espinosa has been a visiting Fellow at Dartmouth College, Northwestern University, an NEH Fellow at the National Humanities Center Institute for Advanced Studies (NC), and he was named the 2016-2017 William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and Public Life in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He served two-terms as President of La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion at the American Academy of Religion and is the co-editor of The Columbia University Press Series in Religion and Politics. Dr. Espinosa is the author/editor of nine books, including Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action (Harvard), Religion, Race, and Barack Obama’s New Democratic Pluralism (Routledge), Religion, Race, and the American Presidency (Rowman & Littlefield), Religion and the American Presidency: George Washington to George W. Bush (Columbia), Mexican American Religions: Spirituality, Activism and Culture (Duke), and U.S. Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States (Oxford). He is currently finishing Latino Religions and Politics in American Public Life and has started research on The Spiritual Impulse of the Civil Rights Movements. He teaches a number of classes (some funded by KLI) that deal with leadership, including Visionaries, Prophets and Transformational Leadership, Religion, Race and the Civil Rights Movement, Religion and the American Presidency, American Religious History, U.S. Latino Religions and Politics, Religion and American Politics, Mystics, Prophets and Social Change, Religion, Politics & Global Violence, and Religion & Film.

Hector Fernandez recently concluded his tenure as CEO of Aristocrat Gaming in December 2024 and will join the combined IGT Gaming and Everi enterprise as CEO in Q4 2025, following the completion of Apollo Global Management's $6.3 billion acquisition. During his leadership at Aristocrat Gaming, he oversaw the end-to-end delivery of the company's land-based business across over 300 gaming jurisdictions globally.

Fernandez joined Aristocrat in November 2018 as CFO for the Americas, was promoted to President of the Americas and EMEA in June 2019, and became CEO of Aristocrat Gaming in March 2022. Under his leadership, Aristocrat Gaming achieved a 41% increase in profits, with a remarkable 61% increase in the North American market.

Prior to entering the gaming industry, Fernandez built extensive experience across multiple sectors, including senior finance roles at Western Digital (Senior Director of Strategy, Pricing and Planning), Amgen (Finance Director for US Commercial Operations), Cydcor (Director of Finance and Accounting), Procter & Gamble (Finance Manager), and Deloitte (Senior Auditor). He holds an MBA in Finance and Marketing from USC's Marshall School of Business and a BA in Economics, Accounting, and Government from Claremont McKenna College. He is a certified public accountant.

Laura M. Grisolano is President and CEO of Bridge Mediation & Leadership Solutions, where she serves as an attorney-mediator, conflict management consultant, and organizational development expert serving clients nationwide. She is also a Hogan Certified Executive Coach. Grisolano designs leadership development programs and conflict management solutions for clients who want to maximize team performance and help individuals achieve their full potential.

Grisolano earned her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and holds a Mediation Certificate from Northwestern University. She completed additional mediation and conflict consulting training with the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law. A Truman Scholar and Rhodes Scholar finalist, she was recognized as the 2013 Woman of the Year in Dispute Resolution by the National Association of Professional Women and as the inaugural Donald Egan Scholar by the University of Chicago Law School.

Grisolano serves as a trustee of Claremont McKenna College, served on the MBA Advisory Board for North Central College in Illinois, and is a member of the Inaugural Chicago Women's Leadership Committee for the University of Chicago Law School. As a visiting professor and guest speaker, she has delivered courses and lectures on The Law and Ethics of Higher Education, Dispute Resolution, Theories of Negotiation, and Women's Leadership.

Shamil Hargovan is a Managing Director at STS Capital Partners, a global sell-side M&A firm, where he leads sell-side M&A deals supporting business owners and founders on their journey to strategic exits. He co-chairs STS's Success to Significance™ pillar, focused on generating billions in new philanthropic and impact capital, and serves as CEO of Altruvest Charitable Services, a global nonprofit that provides training and tools to improve governance of community-based charities.

Hargovan is an accomplished entrepreneur who has built award-winning products and services generating over $4 billion in direct revenues. He co-founded Wiivv Wearables and as CEO grew the company 68x in three years to become the largest supplier of custom 3D printed footwear worldwide, leading commercial partnerships with brands including Dr. Scholl's and Lululemon before exiting his stake in 2020. Previously, he spent several years at HP Inc. on an executive team defining the company's additive manufacturing strategy, which led to the formation of its 3D printing business unit, and managed highly profitable product lines across the $60 billion printing and personal systems global business.

Hargovan was named a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree in Manufacturing and Industry in 2016, and again to the Forbes 30 Under 30 All-Star list in 2017. He has also been featured as one of Inc Magazine's "50 Emerging Global Entrepreneurs to Watch". He holds a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from Claremont McKenna College and has been recognized by Rotary International with Paul Harris Fellowships for his contributions to international service.

Matthew (Matt) Horvitz is Managing Director at Moreland Management Co., a Cleveland, Ohio-based Single Family Office. Matt works with the executive team on investment sourcing, due diligence and oversight, and he also helps manage and oversee the various other administrative functions and services of the organization.

Matt was previously a Partner at Aspen Grove Capital LLC, a $4BN multi-family office, where he developed and was responsible for managing the firm’s alternative investment program.

Matt is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College (BA). Matt serves on the BOD of Moreland Management Co. and the Kravis Leadership Institute.

Matt lives in Gates Mills, Ohio with his wife, Elizabeth, two young daughters, Judith and Meredith, and his dog, Fozzie. Matt is a Porsche enthusiast and enjoys skiing and summers with his family at their lake house in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.

Daniel Kan is an American entrepreneur and technology executive who co-founded Cruise Automation in 2013 with Kyle Vogt, developing autonomous vehicle technology that was acquired by General Motors for over $1 billion in 2016. He served as Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Cruise through November 2023, helping build the company into a leader in autonomous vehicle technology. Kan and Vogt were named number 7 on Fortune's 2016 40 Under 40 list and became the youngest senior directors at General Motors following the acquisition.

Currently, Kan is Co-Founder of "Something New," a stealth-mode venture he launched in 2025. Prior to Cruise, he co-founded Exec in 2011, an on-demand personal assistant service primarily used for house cleaning, which was sold to Handy in 2014. Earlier in his career, he worked in business development at UserVoice and served as a Research Fellow at Claremont McKenna College.

Kan graduated from Claremont McKenna College in 2009 with a bachelor's degree in Economics and Psychology and a minor in Leadership. He was a member of the Kravis Fellows at the Kravis Leadership Institute and currently serves as an Advisory Board Member. He is the younger brother of Justin Kan, founder of Justin.tv (which became Twitch) and Socialcam.

Henry R. Kravis is co-founder, co-chairman, and co-chief executive officer of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR), a leading global investment firm.

Mr. Kravis is a leader in the social enterprise and social entrepreneur movement. The eponymous donor to and founding member of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College, Mr. Kravis believes in the positive change that can occur in the world through funding the ideas of responsible and innovative leaders. In 2005, he founded the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership.

Mr. Kravis currently serves on the boards of First Data Corporation, China International Capital Corporation, and ICONIQ Capital, LLC. He also serves as a director, chairman emeritus, or trustee of several cultural, professional, and educational institutions, including the Business Council (vice chairman), Claremont McKenna College, Columbia Graduate School of Business (co-chairman), Mount Sinai Hospital, the Partnership for New York City, the Partnership Fund for New York City (founder), Rockefeller University (vice chairman), Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (chairman), and the Tsinghua School of Economics and Management.

Mr. Kravis earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Claremont McKenna College and a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

http://www.kkr.com/ 

John-Michael Lind is the CEO and Managing Director of Strategic Partners Group and Chairman of the SPL Group of Companies, which provide corporate finance services and private equity management with offices in Mumbai, India and Silicon Valley. SPL manages a proprietary venture capital fund in India and serves as general partner of a leveraged buy-out fund in the United States.

Lind is a serial entrepreneur and investor with over thirty-nine private equity and venture investments across healthcare, life sciences, telecommunications, information technologies, energy, renewable energy, and infrastructure sectors, primarily in the US and emerging markets. He has more than twenty years of on-the-ground asset management and investment banking experience in India, South Asia, and Hong Kong, including serving as CEO and Managing Director of Ashmore India. His previous roles include Senior Partner at Samena Capital and Founder & Managing Director of Strategic Partners International (Holding) Ltd.

Lind is a founding member of ACCESS Health International, a nonprofit think tank focused on improving access to high-quality, affordable healthcare globally, which was co-founded in 2007 by Dr. William A. Haseltine. He currently focuses on purposeful value investing with emphasis on positive social impact and sustainability, including affordable healthcare services, renewable energy, and affordable housing.

Lind holds a J.D. in International Law and Legal Studies from UC Hastings College of the Law (1986-1989), where he served as Editor of the International Law Review, and a Bachelor's degree from Claremont McKenna College. He has been a member of the Young President's Organization (YPO) since 2009 and serves on the board of its Doing Business with India Network.

Michael Nutting is a Partner at Revelstoke Capital Partners, a healthcare-focused private equity firm with approximately $5.0 billion of assets under management, where he joined in February 2024. At Revelstoke, he focuses on capital markets activities for the firm and its portfolio companies, overseeing credit investments and managing relationships with financing partners.

Previously, Nutting served as Chief Capital Markets Officer at Marlin Equity Partners, where he led capital markets activities for the firm and its portfolio companies while overseeing credit investments. Before that, he was Managing Director, Head of Capital Markets & Corporate Finance at The Gores Group. Earlier in his career, he spent over 12 years in investment banking at Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, and CIBC Oppenheimer, advising private equity firms and their portfolio companies on capital markets transactions and M&A.

Nutting earned a B.A. in Economics-Accounting, cum laude, from Claremont McKenna College, where he was a member of the NCAA Baseball and Football teams and active in Army ROTC. He also holds an M.B.A. from UCLA Anderson School of Management and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charter holder. 

Michelle Oden is a Principal in People Advisory Services at EY, with over 20 years of experience planning and implementing large-scale transformational change to enhance organizational performance. She has been with EY since 2010, advancing from Manager to Senior Manager before becoming Principal in 2020. 

Prior to joining EY, Oden held key positions at Warner Bros. Entertainment Group, where she served as Director of Change Management from 2004 to 2010. During her tenure, she managed organizational readiness for a global SAP implementation and helped establish the company's internal change management methodology. She began her career at Ernst & Young (before it became EY) as a Consultant, advancing to Senior Consultant from 1997 to 2001.

Oden graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a B.A. in Psychology and Economics, where she was active in Psi Chi and Omicron Delta Epsilon honor societies.

Sean Rawson is a recognized leader in the multifamily development and investment industry. An expert in affordable housing, Rawson has a deep understanding of tax credit financing and housing policy. Rawson is an expert in working with local governments to create a diversity of housing types to meet their public policy goals. Since forming Waterford with John Drachman in 2015, Rawson has acquired and developed nearly 6,000 residential units in California totaling approximately $3.5 billion. In 2021, Rawson led Waterford to be the largest owner and operator of Essential Housing units in the State of California with over 4,000 units.

Prior to forming Waterford Property Company and its predecessor companies, Rawson was the Southern California President for St. Anton Partners, a leading privately-owned multifamily development company where he led the firm’s expansion into Southern California. Prior to his time working in the multifamily development industry, Rawson began his career with The Concord Group, a national economic market advisory firm, where he conducted market and financial feasibility analysis for homebuilders, developers, private equity groups and lenders.

Rawson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Claremont McKenna College in Government, Economics and History where he graduated with honors. While at Claremont McKenna College, Rawson was a four-year letterman on the men’s varsity basketball team. He also earned an MBA from the University of California, Irvine Merage School of Business with a concentration in real estate finance where he has been a guest lecturer and is on the Board for the UCI Center for Real Estate. Mr. Rawson is an avid sports enthusiast, runner and summited Mt. Kilimanjaro. Mr. Rawson is a resident of Long Beach, CA with his wife and three children where he is very civically engaged.

Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D., CMC P’10 is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology at Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Riggio’s research interests center on charismatic and transformational leadership, nonverbal and verbal communication skills, and the development of leadership potential across the lifespan. He has published over two-dozen authored or edited books and more than 200 articles and book chapters. He has also served as a consultant to dozens of organizations, large and small, across the business, education, and non-profit sectors. He is the editor of the Routledge/Taylor & Francis book series: Leadership: Research and Practice and Cambridge University Press’s Elements in Leadership. In 2020 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association, and he is a fellow in the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association.

Mitzi Reaugh is a versatile executive, entrepreneur, and public company board member. Her career spans 20 years in digital media, consumer internet, and technology with experience building new businesses and $7B+ in deal transactions.

Most recently as CEO & Board Member for Jaunt XR, Mitzi led the company in the creation of immersive AR content based on machine learning and computer vision software with marquis clients and partners including Snapchat, NTT and PWC. Mitzi successfully led the exit to Verizon in September 2019 and currently serves as a Strategic Advisor to Verizon.

In addition, Mitzi currently serves on the board of Harmonic (Nasdaq: HLIT) since 2012 and Chairs the Compensation Committee. She previously served as an NED for Entertainment One (LON: ETO) until the acquisition of the company by Hasbro.

Mitzi is the co-founder and advisory board member to the non-profit FEME (Female Executives in Media & Entertainment).

Kwame N. Yankson is a Managing Director in Wells Fargo’s Corporate & Investment Bank’s Technology, Media & Telecom group.

Kwame leads Technology Services investment banking coverage, consisting of companies in the Human Capital Management, Consulting & Outsourcing, and IT & Digital Services sectors. Kwame started his career at Deloitte & Touche and worked as a certified public accountant.

Kwame serves as Chairman of 100 Foundations in Education and Founding Board Member Emeritus for El Paso Leadership Academy. Kwame is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Kravis Leadership Institute and was appointed as the KLI Community Outreach intern while he attended CMC.

Kwame received an undergraduate degree in Economics-Accounting and Psychology with a Leadership Sequence at Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Jean Cox has a professional background in broadcast journalism and now devotes her time to philanthropy and community service. She serves on the Advisory Council of the Harvard Medical School Department of Neurobiology and is Trustee Emerita at Deerfield Academy.

Ms. Cox served on the CMC Board of Trustees from 1997 to 2001. Her former husband, Archie, served on the CMC Board of Trustees from 1992 to 1997. Their son, Christopher, is a CMC graduate.

Ms. Cox has been helpful to CMC in facilitating introductions. For instance, she introduced Pamela Gann to the head of the Posse Foundation. As a result, CMC was selected as the first college on the West coast to partner with that foundation. (Recently, the Starr Foundation of New York City awarded CMC a $1 million grant in recognition of the College’s need blind admission policy and its partnership with the Posse Foundation.)

Ms. Cox is an alumna of Sweet Briar College.

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Steven L. Eggert is Founder of Anton DevCo, Inc., based in Sacramento, California.  Anton DevCo develops, constructs, owns, and manages multifamily rental apartments throughout California.  He has developed over 10,000 rental apartments in over 60 projects in 25 years.

Mr. Eggert is a trustee of Claremont McKenna College.  He serves on the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and is a member of the Policy Advisory Board of Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at U.C. Berkeley.  He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and has previously served as a publicly elected official of a local water district, as a planning commissioner, and on the board of the California Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Eggert earned a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College and a law degree from U.C. Berkeley.  He served as a U.S. Army officer and Airborne Ranger, stationed in Germany patrolling the Iron Curtain.  He and his wife Pam live in Sacramento and Newport Beach.  They have three grown daughters including a CMC graduate.

Michael Grindon currently manages Grindon Media, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in media distribution and television production. Grindon Media advises a variety of companies, domestic and international, who are seeking to exploit new opportunities in the rapidly changing media landscape.

For 15 years, from April 1995 to March 2010, Michael Grindon served as president of Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI), a Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) company. SPTI is responsible for all of SPE’s television production, distribution and networks businesses outside of the United States. Grindon managed the distribution of all SPE feature films and television programming to television, mobile and digital content delivery outlets outside the United States; local television production in all international markets; and the establishment and growth of all Sony’s international television networks. Annual division revenues grew from less than $100 million to over $2.0 billion under Grindon’s leadership at SPTI, with a team of over 1200 people working together around the world.

Michael Grindon joined Columbia Pictures, now a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, in 1986 and served in several executive positions in the international television division before being named President of SPTI in 1995. Previously, Grindon spent six years at HBO, first as manager, special markets, then as director of national accounts. Prior to HBO, he served as a marketing analyst in the consumer video division of Time Life Films.

Grindon received a BA degree in economics from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Michael Grindon serves on several boards and charitable foundations, including the Vijay Amritraj Foundation. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College.

David Hetz is a Managing Director and the Chief Executive Officer of Prager & Company. Mr. Hetz has over 40 years of investment banking, private equity, venture capital, and boardroom leadership experience. Prior to joining Prager in 2018, he was Vice Chair of Cain Brothers & Co., a leading healthcare investment banking firm.

In 2001, Mr. Hetz co-founded and was managing partner of Cutlass Capital, a venture capital and growth equity fund focused on investing in healthcare services and medical technology companies. From 1987 until 2000, he served as co-head of investment banking, and member of the management committee of Robertson, Stephens & Co. As head of its Mergers & Acquisitions department, he led its emergence as one of the preeminent M&A advisors to the information technology and healthcare industries and executed/oversaw over 300 transactions exceeding $50 billion in enterprise value.

Since 2002, Mr. Hetz has served on the Board of Trustees of Claremont McKenna College in many leadership positions, including vice chair of the board, chair of the Board Affairs Committee, chair of two Strategic Planning Committees, chair of the Advancement Committee, and co-chair of two capital campaigns that to-date have raised over $1.3 billion. Over the past two decades, he has served on over a dozen other public and private corporate and not-for-profit boards, including the Board of Trustees of the Middlesex School, the Kravis Leadership Institute, and the Cathedral School for Boys.

Mr. Hetz received his undergraduate degree in economics from Claremont McKenna College and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Hetz is a FINRA Registered Securities Principal.

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Harry McMahon has been an Investment Banker for substantially all of his career, providing innovative strategic solutions, financial advice and transaction execution for corporations and institutions worldwide. He has served in many leadership roles, including: Executive Vice Chairman of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Vice Chairman and Co-Head of Global Corporate Finance of Merrill Lynch and ran Investment Banking for the firm’s Western Region for 25 years. His broad base of experience has included leading deal teams on more than 400 projects involving Mergers and Acquisitions or Corporate Finance advisory work.

After 32 years at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, McMahon decided in April 2015 to leave the firm and move into a variety of new activities. These include acting as Senior Advisor to the G100 Network, a consortium focused on CEO and Board Development; serving as Independent Director in both the For-Profit and Not-for-Profit sectors; and finding other innovative ways to create value.

McMahon joined Merrill Lynch in 1983 and held senior leadership positions including Co-Head of the Global Corporate Finance group from 1996-2003 and Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch from 2003 to 2008. Following the merger with Bank of America in 2009, McMahon became the firm’s first Executive Vice Chairman. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, McMahon worked for the Northern Trust Bank of Chicago in commercial banking and corporate finance from 1975-1983.

From 2006-2014, McMahon served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Claremont McKenna College where he remains a Trustee. He also serves on the Board of Advisors of the Henry R. Kravis Leadership Institute; on the Selection Committee of the Kravis Prize in Social Entrepreneurship; on the National Council of the American Enterprise Institute; and on the Board of Directors of Cottage Hospital.

He holds an Honorary Doctorate and a BA from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School. He and his wife Jacquie have four children.

Douglas L. Peterson is President and Chief Executive Officer of S&P Global.

S&P Global is a leading provider of transparent and independent ratings, benchmarks, analytics and data to the capital and commodity markets worldwide. The Company’s divisions include S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices and S&P Global Platts.

S&P Global was created in April 2016 after shareholders approved changing the Company’s name from McGraw Hill Financial.

Mr. Peterson was elected President and CEO of McGraw Hill Financial, effective November 2013 and he joined the Company in September 2011 as President of Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services.

Previously, Mr. Peterson was the Chief Operating Officer of Citibank, N.A., Citigroup’s principal banking entity that operates in more than 100 countries. Mr. Peterson was with Citigroup for 26 years, during which time he transformed businesses and drove performance in investment and corporate banking, brokerage, asset management, private equity, and retail banking. His prior roles include CEO of Citigroup Japan, Country Manager for Costa Rica and Uruguay, and Chief Auditor of Citigroup.

Mr. Peterson is co-chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Financial Services Governor’s Committee and the Forum’s Global Strategic Infrastructure Initiative. Additionally, he co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Center’s CEO Council on Infrastructure. He serves on the Boards of Directors of S&P Global, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee, the Institute of International Finance’s Market Monitoring Group and the Partnership for New York City. Mr. Peterson is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Kravis Leadership Institute and the Boards of Trustees of Claremont McKenna College and the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Mr. Peterson received an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree in mathematics and history at Claremont McKenna College.