Profile Type: Board of Trustees
Diler Erdengiz
Diler Erdengiz has spent the past decade working for the United Nations, including, most recently, as a team lead in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General, coordinating high-level decision-making mechanisms and supporting integrated strategic planning initiatives. Prior to her current role, she served as part of the UN Operations & Crisis Center in New York,…
Rachel Hughes
Rachel Hughes is a product executive at Kustomer, an AI-powered customer experience company, where she leads product management, product design and technical writing. She has spent the past decade in tech working with early and mid-stage startups across CX, healthcare, e-commerce and adtech. Earlier in her career, Rachel practiced as a tax lawyer for almost a decade, advising startups to…
Philippe Derimay
Philippe Derimay is an accomplished finance leader with deep experience in quantitative development, risk management, and strategic technology initiatives in the investment industry. He currently serves in senior leadership at Citadel, where he has driven impactful projects to enhance risk and analytics platforms and foster cross-functional collaboration across complex business units. Prior to joining Citadel, Philippe built…
Elizabeth Howell
Liz is a community volunteer with a professional background in community affairs, membership development and government. While raising her three children, she has been an active volunteer in her children’s schools and with various organizations throughout Brooklyn and NYC, with her work focusing primarily on community building, development and events. She served on the Board…
Mae Hsieh
Mae Hsieh is a lawyer, business professional and non-profit volunteer and board member who believes in expanding access to opportunity. Mae’s early career involved serving as a corporate lawyer at Skadden and Arnold & Porter and in-house at Donna Karan’s fashion house and an internet start-up. She has advised hedge funds and media companies as an independent legal consultant. Mae’s…
Jonas Nie
Jonas grew up in a family of music lovers. He woke up to songs his mom played every morning, practiced piano for 8 years, sang in choirs, and was never shy performing anything music-related in front of crowds. He came to the U.S. for graduate school in 2012 and has stayed ever since. Professionally he has been in investment…
Lauren Bresler
Lauren Bresler is associate counsel and compliance officer at Tiger Global Management, a New York-based investment firm. Prior to Tiger Global, she was an associate in the investment management group at Seward & Kissel LLP, where she was also a member of the firm’s Women’s Initiative. A life-long New Yorker, Lauren received her BA from…
Dawn Bradford-Watt
Dawn Bradford-Watt is a graduate of Bowdoin College and Columbia University School of Social Work. She served as a Peace Corps volunteer and for sixteen years worked in supportive housing at the Center for Urban Community Services, a nonprofit social service agency. Dawn is currently a stay-at-home parent, is on the Board of Trustees at her…
Alex Lines
Alex Lines is a software engineer and investor based in Brooklyn. He is a co-founder of Notation Capital, a venture firm that invests in early-stage tech startups and works closely with companies on technical strategy, team building, product, and fundraising. He grew up in Atlanta, GA but has been in New York since 2001 and currently…