Advisors

Our advisors are comprised of top industry experts who volunteer their time and institutional resources to mentor and support funded companies, evaluate potential investments and advise on pivotal trends.

Advisors

Mikeisha Anderson Jones
Milbank, LLP
Michael Baresich
New York Tech Advisors
Gordon Bell
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
Alissa Bersin
Tishman Speyer
Charles Buaron
Cornell Capital Management, LLC
Andrew Conway
Credit Suisse
Owen Davis
Contour Venture Partners
Richard J. Donoghue
NYU Langone Health
Alan H. Fishman
Ladder Capital Finance LLC
Jonathan Flaherty
Tishman Speyer
Katy Gaul-Stigge
Goodwill Industries of Greater New York
David Gibbs
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Andrew Gordon
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Colvin Grannum
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
Matt Harris
Bain Capital Venture Partners, LLC
Carol Hooper
Marsh McLennan
Gyan Kapur
Surface Ventures
Matthew Katz
Blackstone
Saul Kopelwitz
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Felix Kühlmann
Everly
Diane Kurtzman
The Travelers Companies, Inc.
Chris LaPierre
Marsh McLennan
Thomas Lloyd
CBRE, Inc.
King Look
Con Edison
Lili Lynton
The Dinex Group
Edward Martin
Anthem
Lisa Mauriello
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Jim McMahon
The Travelers Companies, Inc.
Peter Muennig
Columbia University
Ben Myers
Boston Properties
Christine A. Nevin
formerly ConEdison Solutions
Liz Neumark
Great Performances
Lillian Oshva
NYU Langone Health
Daniel Padwa
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Todd T. Pietri
Activate Venture Partners
Wendy Powell
Patina Restaurant Group
Chris Reid
Mastercard
James Robinson, IV
RRE Ventures
Kara Rubin
JUST Goods, Inc.
Todd Schell
Warburg Pincus, LLC
Patrick Smith
Jones Lang LaSalle
Robert Stillman
CBRE, Inc.
Sean Traynor
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
Miljana Vujosevic
The Prudential Insurance Company
John Willinge
Alverstoke Group, LLC
Ward Young
Blackstone
Michael Zimmerman
A.T. Kearney
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
King & Spalding LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Pryor Cashman LLP
Simson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Wachtel, Lipton Rosen & Katz
Additionally, hundreds of volunteers have dedicated their time to our FinTech Innovation Lab and Transit Tech Lab programs to grow New York’s innovation economy.

Urban Resiliency Advisory Board

Eli Aheto
Managing Director, BeyondNetZero
Roy Ben-Dor
Managing Director, Warburg Pincus LLC
Peter Clarke
Managing Director Energy and Sustainability, CBRE, Inc.
Laura D. Corb
Senior Partner, Sustainability McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Daniel Egan
Managing Director, Head of Real Estate ESG for the Americas, Blackstone
Thomas Fioretti
Head of Zurich Resilience Solutions, North America, Zurich
Mary Catherine Fixel
Managing Director, Accenture
Jonathan Flaherty
Global Head - Sustainability and Building Technology Innovation, Tishman Speyer
Ron Gonen
Chief Executive Officer, Closed Loop Partners
Andrew Karp
Head of ESG Advisory & Financing Solutions, BofA Securities
James McIntyre
Senior Managing Director, Moore Strategic Ventures
Cameron McKennitt
Head of Transformation, New York, National Grid
Michele O'Connell
SVP, Customer Operations, Con Edison
Christopher Poirier
Member, Breakthrough Energy Ventures
Jeff Possick
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
Jonathan Schulhof
Managing Partner, FootPrint Coalition
Phil Skalaski
Vice President of Engineering & Energy Service, Durst Organization Inc.
Matthew Slovik
Managing Director, Global Sustainable Finance, Morgan Stanley
Neil Suslak
Managing Director, Braemar Energy Ventures
Jacob E. Susman
CEO & Co-Founder, Ambient Fuels

Health Care Advisory Board

Orlan Boston
Ernst & Young LLP
Noel Brown
RBC Capital Markets, LLC
Barbara Dalton (Chair)
Pfizer Inc.
Howard Fillit
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
Carl Gordon
OrbiMed Advisors, LLC
Anders Hove
Acorn Bioventures
Albert Hwang
Morgan Stanley
Rachna Khosla
Amgen
Jeffrey Krauss
PPC Entreprises, LLC
Joel S. Marcus
Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc.
Sharon L. Mates
Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.
Matthew McAskin
Evercore
Michael McIvor
Incentrum Group
Lillian Oshva
NYU Langone Health
Tycho Peterson
Adaptive Biotechnologies
Todd T. Pietri
Activate Venture Partners
Dennis J. Purcell
Aisling Capital
Amit Rakhit, MD
Sporks Bioventures
Carlo Rizzuto
Versant Ventures
Craig Shepherd
Blackstone
Robert A. Silverman
Alloy Therapeutics
William Slattery
Deerfield
Geoffrey W. Smith
Digitalis Ventures
Bryan Spielman
Verint Systems
Justin Sunshine
General Atlantic, LLC
Sean Traynor
Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe
Martin Vogelbaum
Inning One Ventures