Martin Nesbitt is a longtime
friend of President Obama and served as national treasurer for his two
presidential campaigns. He is the co-founder and co-CEO of private equity firm
The Vistria Group, and serves on the boards of the Noble Network of Charter
Schools, Norfolk Southern Corp and Jones Lang LaSalle, a Chicago-based global
real estate company.
Nesbitt has a Masters of
Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of
Science degree and honorary doctorate from Albion College in Michigan.
John Doerr | Board Member
Since joining venture capital
firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980, John Doerr has backed some
of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, including Jeff Bezos of Amazon,
and Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt of Google. His passion for
helping entrepreneurs launch the “Next Big Thing” has created more than 200,000
new jobs.
Outside of his work at KPCB,
Doerr serves on the boards of Amyris, Google and Zynga, as well as several
private technology ventures. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences and the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He holds
Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Rice University, and an
M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Thelma Golden | Board Member
Thelma Golden is the Director
and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem. During Golden’s tenure as
Chief Curator (2000 to present) and Director (2005 to present) the Studio
Museum has gained international acclaim for its pioneering exhibitions by art
by artists of African descent and role as a cultural anchor in the Harlem
community.
From 1988-98 Golden worked at
the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she organized numerous groundbreaking
exhibitions. Golden was appointed by the President to the Committee for the
Preservation of the White House in 2010, is the 2015–16 Chair of New York
City’s Cultural Institutions Group and serves on the Board of Trustees of
Creative Time. She was named a Ford Foundation Art of Change Visiting Fellow in
2015 and a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute in 2008.
She is a frequent lecturer,
panelist, and juror at arts institutions and colleges and universities around
the world. Golden received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and
African-American Studies from Smith College.
Governor Deval Patrick | Board
Member
Originally from the South Side
of Chicago, Governor Patrick came to Massachusetts at 14, when he was awarded a
scholarship to Milton Academy through the Boston-based organization A Better
Chance. After Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he clerked for a federal
appellate judge and then launched a career as an attorney and business
executive, becoming partner at two Boston law firms and a senior executive at
Texaco and Coca-Cola.
In 1994, President Clinton
appointed Patrick to the nation’s top civil rights post, Assistant Attorney
General for Civil Rights. In 2006, in his first bid for public office, he
became the state’s first African-American governor. In his two terms as
Governor, Patrick oversaw the expansion of affordable health care to more than
98 percent of state residents, launched initiatives stimulating clean energy
and biotechnology, won a national Race to the Top grant, and steered the state
out of recession to a 25-year high in employment.
Patrick currently serves as a
Managing Director of Bain Capital Double Impact, where he focuses on
investments that deliver both a competitive financial return and significant
positive social impact. He is a Rockefeller Fellow, a Crown Fellow of the Aspen
Institute, and the author of two books, A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an
Improbable Life and Faith in the Dream: A Call to the Nation to Reclaim
American Values.
David Plouffe | Board Member
David Plouffe served as senior
advisor to President Obama until January 2013 and as his campaign manager
during the 2008 election. He has managed campaigns at all levels of politics,
served as a consultant to leading Fortune 500 companies, and is a contributor
for ABC News and Bloomberg Television.
Currently Plouffe is Senior
Vice President of Policy and Strategy for ridesharing startup Uber. He holds a
Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Delaware.
J. Kevin Poorman | Board Member
Kevin Poorman is a founding
board member and currently President of The Barack Obama Foundation. He is the
President and CEO of PSP Capital Partners, CEO of Pritzker Realty Group and
Executive Chairman of Vi Senior Living. Additionally, he is the prior Chairman
of the Board of Trustees of the Loyola University of New Orleans, and currently
serves as a director of The New Orleans Jazz Orchestra, Inc.
Previously, Poorman was a
partner in the Dallas-based law firm of Johnson & Swanson, and he is a
member of the American, Illinois and Texas Bar Associations. He received his
Bachelor of Science and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Oklahoma.
John Rogers | Board Member
John W. Rogers, Jr. is Founder,
Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Ariel
Investments in Chicago.
Beyond Ariel, John currently
serves as a board member of Exelon Corporation and McDonald’s Corporation.
Additionally, he is a trustee of the University of Chicago, a director of the
Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, and a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In 2008, John was awarded
Princeton University’s highest honor, the Woodrow Wilson Award, presented each
year to the alumni whose career embodies a commitment to national service.
Following the election of President Barack Obama, he served as co-chair for the
Presidential Inaugural Committee 2009.
In 2013, John was featured in
the distinguished book: The World’s 99 Greatest Investors by Magnus
Angenfelt. John received an AB in
economics from Princeton University, where he was also captain of the varsity
basketball team.
Michael Sacks | Board Member
Michael J. Sacks is Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of Chicago-based GCM Grosvenor.
In addition to his work at
Grosvenor, Mr. Sacks serves as the Vice Chairman of World Business Chicago, as
a member of the Mayor’s Economic Council and as Co-Chair of the Mayor’s Plan
for Economic Growth and Jobs. Mr. Sacks funded the Greater Chatham Initiative
and has been active in neighborhood economic development efforts throughout
Chicago.
A native of Chicago, Mr. Sacks
graduated from Niles West High School in 1980, received a Bachelor of Arts in
Economics from Tulane University in 1984, a general course certificate from the
London School of Economics for work completed in the 1982-1983 academic year, a
Master of Business Administration from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of
Management at Northwestern University in 1988 and a J.D. from Northwestern
University School of Law in 1988.
Julianna Smoot | Board Member
Julianna Smoot is currently a
partner and co-founder of the Smoot Tewes Group, a Washington, D.C.-based
political and public affairs consulting firm. Ms. Smoot has served in senior
roles in President Obama’s Administration and on both of his presidential
campaigns.
During the 2008 presidential
election, Ms. Smoot served as National Finance Director for the Obama for
America campaign. During President Obama’s first term, she served as Chief of
Staff to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, and later, as White House Social
Secretary and Deputy Assistant To the President. In 2011, Ms. Smoot was asked
to serve as a Deputy Campaign Manager for President Obama’s re-election effort.
During both election cycles, she set new fundraising records.
Ms. Smoot’s previous experience
includes work for numerous prominent Democratic senators, including Senators
Dick Durbin, Tom Daschle, and Chris Dodd.
Ms. Smoot received her Bachelor
of Arts degree from Smith College in Massachusetts.
Maya Soetoro-Ng | Board Member
Maya Soetoro-Ng is President
Obama’s sister and a specialist for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace. She is
the co-founder of Our Public School, a non-profit that connects schools to
their communities, and the co-creator of Ceeds of Peace, a peace education
program that has been implemented in schools and communities around Hawaii.
Previously, Soetoro-Ng worked
as an assistant professor at the University of Hawaii and taught in both
private and public settings in New York City and in Hawaii. She also worked at
the East West Center, promoting educational exchange between Asia and the
United States. Soetoro-Ng received a Masters degree in Secondary Education from
New York University and a PhD in Multicultural Education from the University of
Hawaii.
Robert Wolf | Board Member
Robert Wolf is Founder and
Chief Executive Officer of 32 Advisors and the Chairman of Measure – Drone as a
Service®.
Prior to his role at 32
Advisors, Robert was CEO of UBS Americas and President of the UBS Global
Investment Bank. Robert was appointed by President Obama to President’s
Economic Recovery Advisory Board from 2009 to 2011, the Council on Jobs and
Competitiveness from 2011 to 2013, and the Export Council from 2013 to 2016.
Robert serves on the
Undergraduate Executive Board of the Wharton School, on the Athletics Board of
Overseers at the University of Pennsylvania and as Vice Chairman of the Robert
F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights. Robert also sits on the board
of the Partnership for NYC, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and
a graduate member of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. He is a
contributor to Fox News and Fox Business.
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