Brandon Robinson, Chair

Brandon Robinson is a Managing Director at Neuberger Berman and is head of Financial Planning & Analysis and the Co-Lead of the multi-year Neuberger Berman “Strengthening Our Core” Global Initiative. Brandon is a member of the Neuberger Berman Operating Committee.  He earned a BA from Brigham Young University in political science with a minor in philosophy and holds an MBA from Brigham Young University where he received the top honor of the Hawes Scholar Award. He is chair of the Black Diversity Task Force at Neuberger Berman and is a senior sponsor of the Neuberger Berman partnership with Frederick Douglass Academy II, a public school in Harlem.

Roger Blissett

Roger Blissett is Managing Director & Deputy General Counsel at MUFG. He was previously Vice President and Branch Manager of the U.S. licensed offices of Royal Bank of Canada, primarily focused on institutional clients and capital markets activities.

Randolph Nelson

Randolph Nelson is President of Sanguine Gas Exploration LLC. Prior to working at Sanguine, he was a Senior Account Officer at Citibank in the Leveraged Lending Group.

Mimi Clarke Corcoran, Secretary

Mimi Corcoran is President of the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Ms. Corcoran was previously Vice President of Talent Development at New Visions for Public Schools, and before that she was the director of the Special Fund for Poverty Alleviation at The Open Society Foundations, and served as the Executive Director of the Beginning with Children Foundation, Inc.

Kevin Brandmeyer, Treasurer & Vice Chair

Kevin Brandmeyer co-runs a seven-person coverage team in Goldman, Sachs & Co.’s Investment Management Division and heads up many of the team’s strategic relationships with Endowments, Foundations, Family Offices and owners of private companies.

Saskia Traill, PhD

President & CEO

Prior to leading policy and research efforts at ExpandED Schools, Saskia worked to build state systems for early care and education. She has authored and co-authored articles for peer-reviewed journals, policy briefs, reports on a range of issues, and an essay on voter registration in a book about civic service (which included being recorded on a CD with Al Gore). Saskia earned a BA from Columbia University and a PhD in research psychology from Stanford University, and credits winning the Baltimore Science Fair in middle school with bolstering her love of science. She currently enjoys passing along that love of science to her twins.

Pam Bingham

Pam Bingham is an independent art advisor at Bingham Art Advisory and former Director of Business Development for Bonhams. Pam has mentored many of the next generation of art specialists and been a supporter of young people interested in the arts. Pam attended Yale University, where she graduated with a BA in History of Art.

Joseph D. Borrero

Joseph Borrero is a Vice President in Global Compliance at Goldman Sachs & Co. He manages a team that conducts compliance testing of the firm’s Private Wealth Management division. Previously, he was an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, specializing in antitrust and securities litigation. He is also a Deputy Regional President of the Hispanic National Bar Association and is an advocate for the advancement of minorities within the legal profession.

Leon Botstein

Leon Botstein is the President of Bard College. He is also the music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra and the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the radio orchestra of Israel.

Esther Dyson

Esther Dyson is Executive Founder of Way to Wellville, a 10-year nonprofit project which operates in five small U.S. communities, helping them to improve their own health. Its mission is "to demonstrate the social and economic benefits of investing in health and resilience, versus trying to fix things with expensive health care when it's too late."

Greg Farrell

Greg Farrell is the founder and President Emeritus of EL Education (formerly Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound). He came to work at Outward Bound in 1990, after nearly 20 years on the national Outward Bound Board of Directors, during which time he was Executive Director of the Fund for the City of New York, a foundation established by the Ford Foundation to help improve the quality of life in New York City. He graduated from Princeton with a B.A. in English in 1957, and did graduate work at the Rutgers Urban Studies Center and the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Eloner Habtezghi

Eloner is Managing Partner at 2020 Global Ventures, LLC, an independent advisory and consultancy group specializing in energy and related sectors for Africa & Latin America regions. Previously, she held leadership roles at BNP Paribas Securities and KPMG Corporate Finance. She earned her BS in Petroleum Engineering at University of Oklahoma and MBA from Southern Methodist University. Eloner has been involved with tutoring and mentoring youth and participated in Financial Women’s Association of NY's mentoring program.

Timothy L. Harrod

Tim Harrod is Vice President and Senior Credit Officer at Moody’s. He is responsible for a portfolio of companies in the automotive supplier sector for which he assesses industry, company, management, and corporate financial wherewithal in the evaluation of credit risk. Prior to joining Moody’s he was a Managing Director/Senior Portfolio Manager at HVB Credit Advisors where he was responsible for the risk/return and operational performance of a collateralized loan obligation and co-headed the approval and monitoring process of the company’s assets under management. In addition, he held positions at TD Securities (USA), and Credit Lyonnais (New York) in various leveraged finance and credit roles. He holds a BS in Operations Research from Cornell University and a MBA in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Andrew Kaufman

Andrew Kaufman is a Vice President of Leveraged Loan and High Yield Syndication at Macquarie Capital, where he is a senior member of a five-person team focused on structuring, pricing, and executing leveraged loan and high yield financing transactions. He has executed transactions in a variety of sectors and his current focus sectors include Industrials, Infrastructure & Energy, Consumer & Retail, and Gaming. Andrew holds a BA in History and Economics from Yale.

Michael Levine

Michael Levine is the Enterprise Sales Manager at LinkedIn. He has worked in media sales across print, digital, mobile, and social platforms for a number of industry leading organization such as EMEA, APAC, and now North America. He specializes in digital in social networking media, along with consulting on creative marketing solutions for advertisers. Michael holds a Bachelor’s in Communication and Media Studies from the University of Melbourne.

Erin McBride

Erin McBride is the Head of Display Specialists within the gTech Professional Services organization at Google. In that capacity, she focuses on providing technical support to Google’s display advertising partners. Previously, Erin held multiple roles at Bridgewater Associates in the client service department. Erin has a BA in Economics from Hamilton College and a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Justin Peagram

Justin Peagram is a Director at Barclays in the Investment Banking Division, working in the Global Natural Resources group. He has spent his career at Lehman Brothers/Barclays, starting out as an analyst in 2007. Justin has worked on numerous M&A, Equity and Debt transactions across the Energy space. Justin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Babson College in Massachusetts.

Shael Polakow-Suransky

Shael Polakow-Suransky became the 8th president of Bank Street College of Education on July 1, 2014. Prior to this role, he was the second-in-command at the New York City Department of Education, serving as Chief Academic Officer and Senior Deputy Chancellor. In the nation’s largest school system, he oversaw teaching and learning across more than 1,600 district schools and was a strong advocate for teacher and principal autonomy, balanced accountability, and reforms designed to improve learning experiences for the City's most vulnerable students. Earlier in his career, he worked as a teacher and founding principal of Bronx International High School. He holds a BA from Brown University, and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Bank Street.

Richard Roberts

Richard Roberts is Principal and Managing Director of Acquisitions for Red Stone Equity Partners,. He is the founding Managing Director of the Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group and Chair of the Board for Global Kids. Richard is a graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School.

Stella Safo

Dr. Stella A. Safo is the Chief Medical Officer of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health in the Mount Sinai Health Partners and program lead for the Health System Design portfolio; in that capacity, she leads a multidisciplinary team in the design and implementation of population health care models that are cost-efficient and achieve improved health outcomes for high-risk populations. After completing a dual undergraduate degree in History and African American Studies from Harvard College, she received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a master’s degree in public health at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Rachel Skaistis

Rachel Skaistis is a partner with Cravath, Swaine & Moore’s Litigation Department. She serves on the board of New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) and the advisory board for the National Women’s Law Center. In 1999, she served a one year clerkship with Hon. Shira A. Scheindlin of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Rachel Steinberg

Rachel Steinberg is an Account Executive of Marketing Solutions at LinkedIn. She has over 7 years’ experience as an integrated account executive, managing hundreds of boutique and blue-chip client accounts across a wide variety of verticals, with a focus on digital/social content marketing and ad-tech. Rachel holds a BA in Journalism & History from New York University.

Herbert Sturz, Founding Chair

Herbert Sturz is a senior advisor of the Open Society Foundations, where he helped establish NURCHA, which has facilitated the construction of over 300,000 houses in South Africa. Mr. Sturz has served as founding director of the Vera Institute of Justice; New York City Deputy Mayor for Criminal Justice; Chairman of the New York City Planning Commission and founding Chairman of the Center for New York City Neighborhoods.