Board & Governance
Board of Directors
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Avi Banyasz is a Partner of TPG, Inc. (NASDAQ: TPG) and Co-Head of TPG Real Estate and is based in New York. Prior to joining TPG Real Estate in 2011, Mr. Banyasz served as a Managing Principal of Westbrook Partners. At Westbrook, Mr. Banyasz had primary responsibility for investing in the United States, but additionally spent several years focused on Westbrook’s Western European business. Prior to his 13-year tenure at Westbrook, Mr. Banyasz worked at Bear Stearns & Co. Mr. Banyasz received a BCom degree in Economics and Finance, with High Distinction, from the University of Toronto. Mr. Banyasz serves on the Boards of Directors of TPG RE Finance Trust, Inc. (NYSE: TRTX), Dogwood Properties, B2R Partners, Alloy Properties, and Cinespace Studios and is a Trustee of the Harlem Academy.
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Collette Chilton serves as Senior Advisor to the Investment Committee at Williams College. She previously served as Chief Investment Officer from 2006 until 2023. Prior to joining the Investment Office Ms. Chilton spent eight years as President and Chief Investment Officer at Lucent Asset Management. Prior to Lucent, Ms. Chilton was Chief Investment Officer of the Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, having held a similar position with the Massachusetts State Teachers and Employees Retirement Systems Trust until its merger with the Pension Reserves Investment Management Board. Ms. Chilton began her career with investment banking roles at the First National Bank of Boston and Citicorp Investment Bank.
Ms. Chilton serves as a board member and chair of the investment committee at the Boys and Girls Club of Boston and is also on the board of the Berkeley Endowment Management Company. She also serves as an Advisor to the Investment Committee of the David and Lucille Packard Foundation. In addition, she is an Investor in Residence in the Department of Economics at UCLA.
Ms. Chilton holds an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck Graduate School of Business at Dartmouth College and a B.S. in Political Economy of Natural Resources from the University of California, Berkeley.
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President and Chief Executive Officer at Girls Who Invest.
Previously, Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and the National Director of Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses, Director of Organizational Development and Effectiveness at ONE, and Manager at Accenture.
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Since joining Apollo in 2006, Rob has focused on Apollo’s credit businesses in a variety of capacities including as Co-Head of Liquid Opportunistic Credit, Head of Research for Global Corporate Credit and currently as Co-Head of Opportunistic Credit. He has also led research coverage of a variety of sectors including consumer/retail, technology, telecom/media and chemicals. Rob currently serves as the Co-Chair of the Opportunistic Investment Committee and as a member of several investment committees across the Apollo platform. He co-founded Apollo’s digital asset strategy and is a member of Apollo’s Credit Management Committee.
Rob graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a BA in economics.
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Mr. Golkin is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of public Pension Capital. He is a senior investment professional with 30 years of private equity experience and prior experience as a corporate lawyer. He is also a certified public accountant.
Mr. Golkin was an executive with KKR from 1986-2011 and a general partner or member from 1995 through 2009. During his career at KKR he held various positions with the firm including: (1) serving on KKR's Operating Committee; (2) serving on KKR's Portfolio Management Committee and chairing that committee for 5 years; (3) serving as KKR's New York Administrative Partner; (4) leading KKR's investor relations and fundraising group; and (5) leading KKR's financial services and homebuilding industry' groups.
Mr. Golkin has served on numerous corporate boards, both public and private. Prior to KKR, he practiced corporate law with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, was a staff accountant at Price Waterhouse & Co. and taught financial and management accounting at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.
Currently Mr. Golkin is an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, serves as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and serves on the boards of both its Law School and health system. Additionally, in the spring term he teaches an interdisciplinary course entitled Business Strategy, Private Equity and Corporate Law to law students and MBA candidates at Penn. Mr. Golkin graduated with a B.S., summa cum laude, and M.S. from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and also received a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's Law School.
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Seema R. Hingorani is a Managing Director, Senior Client Advisor, and member of the Operating Committee at Morgan Stanley Investment Management (MSIM). She is also Chair of the Senior Advisory Board of Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners, a Senior Sponsor of Investment Management’s Diversity Council and a member of Morgan Stanley’s Diversity and Inclusion Senior Leaders Advisory Council. As part of the MSIM senior leadership team, Seema is focused on strategic client relationships, investment talent development and diversity initiatives across the platform. Seema joined Morgan Stanley in 2019 and has 30 years of investment experience.
Seema is also the Founder and Chair of Girls Who Invest, a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the number of women in portfolio management and executive leadership in the asset management industry. Previously, Seema was the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of SevenStep Capital, an opportunistic investment platform focused on seeding women portfolio managers. Seema served until June 30, 2014 as Chief Investment Officer for the New York City Retirement Systems which had assets of $160 billion. Previous to this appointment, Seema was Interim Chief Investment Officer and before that Head of Public Equities & Hedge Funds for the pension funds. Under her leadership, the pension fund was named Hedge Fund Manager of the Year - Large Public Pension Plans by Institutional Investor. Prior to Seema’s four years of public sector experience, she served as Global Director of Fundamental Research at Pyramis Global Advisors; a Partner, Portfolio Manager and Senior Equity Analyst with hedge fund Andor Capital Management; a Partner and Senior Equity Analyst at hedge fund Pequot Capital Management; Co-founder of hedge fund Mirador Capital Management; and an Equity Analyst with T. Rowe Price.
Seema has worked with several organizations focused on issues concerning women and girls and is a prolific speaker on the topic of a more robust inclusion of women in the corporate sector. In 2024, she was recognized by Forbes on its list of “50 over 50: Investment” for her industry leadership. She was awarded in 2021 the insignia of Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honor) by France, the country’s highest civil and military award. She was also recognized in 2021 as one of the 100 most influential women in U.S. finance by Barron’s, honored as the 2019 Bloomberg 50 “Ones To Watch”, the 2016 Woman with Impact by the Connecticut Women's Business Development Council, and Wall Street Women Entrepreneur of the Year in 2015 by Traders magazine. Seema served as a member of the National Finance Committee of Secretary Clinton’s 2016 Presidential Campaign. She is a Board Director of the non-profit organization Women’s World Banking, a Senior Advisor for The Wharton School Stevens Center for Innovation in Finance Cypher Accelerator, and an active member of The Economic Club of New York.
Seema earned a B.A. in psychology/philosophy from Yale College and an MBA in finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Managing Director at Vista Equity Partners. Previously, Vice President of Portfolio Company Operations at Garnett & Helfrich Capital, Chief Financial Officer of OSIsoft, Inc., Vice President in the High Technology Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and member of the High Technology Investment Banking Group at Alex. Brown & Sons.
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Mr. Das serves as Chairman of BGD Holdings, LLC, a New York based holding company for operating and investment businesses.
Mr. Das' commitment to Tikun Olam (leaving it better than you find it) in all his strivings is life-long, steadfast and passionate.
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Lisa McGowan is head of Enterprise Data and Technology Sales in the Americas at Bloomberg, overseeing the business across the U.S., Canada, and Latin America. She began her career at Bloomberg 25 years ago in the Analytics department and has held various roles in Sales and Enterprise Data. Lisa has led teams in London and the US, focusing on expanding the use of Bloomberg's order management system and solving business content and data needs for clients around the world. In 2022, she became the Head of Sales, bringing her extensive knowledge of Bloomberg's desktop, trading, and enterprise businesses across the Americas. Lisa holds a B.S in Finance and Economics from Syracuse University.
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Heather Kennedy Miner joined Advent in 2022 as Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director,
responsible for driving Advent’s operations globally, including executing the firm’s strategic growth
initiatives, overseeing marketing and communications, and delivering on talent development priorities.
Ms. Miner joined Advent from Goldman Sachs, where she held a number of leadership positions during
her nearly two-decade tenure at the firm. Most recently, she served as Partner and Chief Operating
Officer as well as Global Co-Head of Client Solutions and Capital Markets for Goldman Sachs’ $2.4 trillion
Asset Management business. She also previously served as Goldman Sachs’ Global Head of Investor
Relations. Ms. Miner began her career in the Financial Institutions Group at UBS.
Ms. Miner earned a B.S. in Finance from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and an
MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
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Anna Nikolayevsky is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Axel Capital Management, a fundamentally-driven alternatives firm specializing in global equities. Prior to founding Axel in 2002, Ms. Nikolayevsky was an analyst at Zweig-DiMenna Associates, LLC, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund where she was responsible for sourcing and managing long/short equity investments in multiple industries. Before Zweig, Anna was an analyst at Goldman Sachs Asset Management covering autos, semiconductors, software, and utilities for the Growth & Income and Large Cap Value funds. Ms. Nikolayevsky graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York. She holds a BS from the Leonard Stern School of Business at New York University in Economics and International Business, and an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School.
Anna is a 2009 recipient of Institutional Investor's Rising Stars of Hedge Funds award. Under her leadership in 2010, Axel received a Lipper Hedge Fund Award for North American Hedge Fund: Best Long/Short Equity Fund over the past 3 years. It also won the 2010 HFM Best Long/Short Equity Fund under $500m award. In 2011, Anna was named one of 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds by Ernst & Young LLP. She accepted the Investor’s Choice awards for Emerging Fund of 2015 and the Emerging Global Equity fund of 2015.
Anna serves as a trustee on the board of The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts where she sits on the Investment and Finance committees. She is on the board of the Alumni Association of Stuyvesant High School. She is a member of the President’s Circle of the Economic Club of New York. She is also a member of Columbia’s Center for Global Energy Policy, a think tank.
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Chief Executive Officer at Columbia Investment Management Company, board chair of Stevens Cooperative School, mutual fund director of Ariel Investments, board member of The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF), investment committee member of ACLU and Wesleyan University. Previously, Chief Investment Officer of Carnegie Corporation of New York. She is a CFA charter holder.
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Ms. Stack is a managing director in the Newport Beach office and head of PIMCO's client management group across the Americas. She is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. In her previous roles at PIMCO, she managed the U.S. institutional client management team, the U.S. corporate team, and the endowment and foundation team.
She has worked with a diverse set of institutional clients since joining PIMCO and also serves as a board member and vice president of The PIMCO Foundation and as a board member for the nonprofit organization Girls Who Invest, focused on increasing gender diversity in the investment management industry. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2006, Ms. Stack was at Goldman Sachs. She has 21 years of investment experience and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. She received her undergraduate degree in economics from Duke University. She is a CFA charterholder.
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Tina Byles Williams is Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer and Founder of Xponance®, a $16 billion multiple strategy investment company which is one of the largest diverse and woman-owned investment firms in the United States. She founded FIS Group, the predecessor firm to Xponance®, 25 years ago and has over 36 years of investment experience. Tina is the Chief Investment Officer and Lead Portfolio Manager for the firm’s active global equity strategies and a member of the Investment Committee for the firm’s Private Market Strategies. As Chief Investment Officer, she chairs the firm’s Investment Committee and oversees the firm’s fixed income and equity platforms. As lead portfolio manager for the firm’s active global equity multi-manager strategies, she oversees all investment strategy, manager search and disposition decisions. Tina is widely regarded as a trailblazer in the field of identifying and investing with talented entrepreneurial investment management firms, many of which are diverse and women-owned.
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Wharton Private Equity Professor and Director, Joshua J. Harris Alternative Investments Program. Prior to his current appointment, he was a faculty member at Stanford University. Dr. Yilmaz received his PhD in economics from Princeton University and an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and physics from Bogazici University in Turkey.
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Senior Advisor at Marathon Asset Management. Previously, President of Angelo, Gordon & Co., New York City Deputy Comptroller for Asset Management and Chief Investment Officer for the New York City Retirement Systems, Chief Executive Officer and co- founder of private equity firm Diamond Castle Holdings, Global Head of CSFB Private Equity, and Chairman of DLJ Merchant Banking.
Advisory Board
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Erin Browne
Managing Director, Head of Asset Allocation, PIMCO
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Gail Burlant
Chief Human Resources Officer, Oak Hill Advisors
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Dianna Carr-Coletta
Managing Director & Partner, PGIM Private Capital
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Hui-Chien Chang, CFA
Head of Trading and Investment, Google
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Rachel Clivaz
Associate Director, Commonfund
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Kristin Custar
Partner, The Jordan Company
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Steven Dupré
Executive Director - Diversity Officer, Morgan Stanley
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Collete English Dixon
Executive Director, Marshall Bennett Institute of Real Estate, Roosevelt University
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Jonathan Grabel
Chief Investment Officer, Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association
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Olivia Griffian
Chief of Staff to Serena Williams, Serena Ventures
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Deirdre Guice
Vice President, U.S. Institutional Sales, T.Rowe Price Group, Inc.
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Brooke Harlow
Chief Global Affairs Officer, Balyasny Asset Management
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Monica Issar
J.P. Morgan Global Head of Multi- Asset & Portfolio Solutions
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Stephanie Ivy Sanford
Co-Head of the Americas Institutional Client Business within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Goldman Sachs
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Katherine Jollon Colsher
President and Chief Executive Officer, Girls Who Invest
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LeAnne Larrañaga-Ruffy
Deputy Chief Investment Officer, Public Employee's Retirement Association of New Mexico
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Rosie Lucchesini-Jack
Director of Fixed Income, California State Teachers Retirement System
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Sarah Maynard, ASIP
Global Head, External Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, CFA Institute
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Stephanie Niven, CFA
Global Sustainable Equity Portfolio Manager, Ninety One
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Lindsay Rosner
CFA, Head of Multi-Sector Investing @ Goldman Sachs Asset and Wealth Management
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Sarah Samuels
Partner, NEPC
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Kelly Sangimino
Director of Business Development, Capital Advisors Group
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Jenna Sheehan
Senior Managing Director, Harrison Street
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Scottie Wardell
Partner, Apollo Global Management
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Timothy T. Yates
President and Chief Executive Officer, Commonfund OCIO
Governance and Transparency
Girls Who Invest is committed to ethical principles, transparency, and accountability. To illustrate this commitment, we have provided links to the following board and governance documents.