DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Publicist for WCVB - TV 5
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Senior Executive
Abby Crocker has been supporting Jim Bildner as his Executive Assistant for nearly 20 years. Prior to working for Jim, she was the Executive Assistant to the CEO and President of edu.com, a Boston based education startup, an Executive Assistant to the President and CEO of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Assistant to the President of Emmanuel College in Boston, Massachusetts.
Abby received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
Job Titles:
- Member of DRK 's Operating Committee
- Operating Partner and Chief Organizational Effectiveness Officer and Member, Operating Committee
Anika is a member of DRK's Operating Committee, a leadership team that sets priorities, manages organizational culture, and develops strategies for the Foundation. Anika is responsible for driving organizational effectiveness to maximize impact on DRK's portfolio and optimize team performance, productivity and culture. She also provides principal support for talent recruitment and development. Together with DRK colleagues, Anika developed and sustains board sourcing, executive coaching, leadership and organizational assessments, and strategic engagement programs for portfolio organizations, donor partners and talent, identifies organizational effectiveness opportunities, implements proven best practices, and supports strategic directions of portfolio organizations. Anika currently serves on the board of DRK grantees FreeFrom, Labhya Foundation, Lessonbee, REACH Institute, Teaching Lab, and Worth Rises. She previously served on the board of DRK grantee The Common Market.
Before joining Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Anika was Founding President and CEO of the Warren Group LLC (established in 2011), providing strategic consulting, executive coaching, career counseling, and psychological services to corporations, universities, nonprofits, and individuals domestically and internationally. From 2013 through 2017, Dr. Warren served as Senior Associate Vice President of Foundation and Corporate Relations in the Office of Institutional Advancement at Drexel University. In that position, she led Drexel's philanthropic fundraising and strategic engagement with foundations and corporations - co-raising nearly $100 million for FCR and over $400 million for OIA by working closely with Drexel's president, senior leaders, deans and other academic administrators, faculty, executive directors of centers and research institutions, and external stakeholders.
Prior to working at Drexel, Anika functioned as a Senior Director of Research and Global Member Services at Catalyst Inc., the leading global non-profit organization focused on gender diversity and workplace inclusion. During her nearly eight years at Catalyst, she was responsible for leading path-breaking research and consulting projects in diversity and inclusion, healthcare, academic medicine, women of color in law, global talent management, and strategic career development in North America, Europe, and Asia.
She served as graduate-level faculty in the Department of Counseling and Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University for six years. As a mental health professional, Dr. Warren has worked with hundreds of patients with a broad range of issues and diagnoses. Her investment banking, finance, and for-profit business experience includes positions with Charles Schwab and Gap, Inc., and strategic consulting to senior executives at hedge funds, private equity firms, and multinational corporations including but not limited to Baxter, McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, UBS, PepsiCo, Verizon, Citi, JPMorgan, and Moody's.
Anika has published book chapters, articles, and clinical training videos and served as a board member for non-profits. External to DRK, Anika currently serves on the board of Richard Allen Preparatory Charter School in Philadelphia, PA and as an expert panelist and reviewer of corporate for Healthcare Business Women's Association's (HBA) annual Award. HBA is a global nonprofit organization committed to the advance and impact women in the business of healthcare.
Anika has a B.B.A. in Finance from Howard University; an M.A. and an M.Ed. in Psychological Counseling from Columbia University, specializing in organizational, school, and multicultural psychology; and a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Boston College.
Ashley is an Executive Assistant in DRK's Dallas office, supporting Managing Directors Holly Kuzmich and Oliver Rothschild.
Before joining DRK, Ashley was a Portfolio Manager at Stand Together, driving stewardship and moves management strategies for major gifts fundraisers on the development capability. Prior to that, Ashley held roles focused on project management for organizational operations at the Charles Koch Foundation where she was responsible for the measurement and assessment process across the organization and support of the post-secondary education priority initiative. She also has event project management experience focused on prepping executives and speakers for their responsibilities at each event and coordinating with vendors producing video content for each fundraising event.
Ashley received her Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations from Kansas State University and received her Level 2 certification through the Wine & Spirits Education Trust.
Job Titles:
- Director, Digital Media and Communications
Ashley Plaga manages the DRK website, social media, online application, event planning, and portfolio support projects.
Ashley brings experience in the nonprofit and academic research worlds and adds her 20 years of nonprofit experience to support DRK's mission to drive positive social change. Before joining DRK in 2015, Ashley was the Communications Manager at Seattle Foundation where she increased educational and economic opportunities for low-skilled and low-income adults in Washington State via their SkillUp WA program. Before that, she supported the Dialysis Center of Lincoln, comprised of five nonprofit healthcare organizations, serving as the Events Planner.
Ashley earned her Master of Public Administration from Seattle University and her Bachelor's Degree in Communications from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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- Partnership Associate - Europe
Cheyenne Kooijman works with the DRK team to expand DRK's European sourcing efforts and manages the strategic development of DRK's brand in Europe.
Before joining DRK, Cheyenne was the department head of the Marketing & Communications Department at Erasmus School of Law (Erasmus University Rotterdam). She led a team of fourteen people and was the communications advisor for the management board with an emphasis on brand management.
Cheyenne received her LL.B. from Erasmus University Rotterdam, including an exchange to the University of New South Wales, Australia, specializing in human rights, migration, and international criminal law. She received her LL.M. in Constitutional & Administrative Law from Erasmus University Rotterdam, during which she was the chair of the Rotterdam delegation at the national parliamentary debate.
Craig Lee - Managing Director
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Advisor to Tangible AI
- Managing Director of the Foundation
As a Managing Director of the Foundation, Craig Lee plays a lead role in sourcing new investments and working with the leadership of those organizations as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and achieve their maximum impact. As a member of the Foundation's senior leadership team, Craig also helps to execute the Foundation's strategy and goals and contributes to its thought leadership and external outreach. Craig currently serves on the board of grantee accesSOS.
Craig is an experienced angel investor in software, communications, medical technology, and services. He has focused on funding and supporting innovation and creative disruption to address market inefficiencies. Craig is an investor in GIBLIB, a SaaS video platform for surgeon education; an investor in Propel, a software company helping low-income Americans improve their financial health; and several other early-stage companies.
In addition to early-stage investing, he has founded and been a part of management teams with several startups. Craig was a Founder and CEO of QuickFire Networks, a provider of SaaS solutions for computing and video processing which was acquired by Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms) in 2015. In addition, he was the Chief Operating Officer of Nocimed, Inc. (now Aclarion, Inc.) where he introduced the company's enhanced MRI diagnostic to the US market under the FDA 21st Century Cures Act.
Craig is an Advisor to Tangible AI, a software developer bringing Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to social sector organizations to scale impact, increase outreach, and improve operations. He received his MBA from Stanford University, and he holds a BA in Economics from Williams College.
Danielle works with the DRK team to identify and support innovative social entrepreneurs.
Danielle recently spent time at the United Nations Foundation on the Digital Impact Alliance team leading the development of a new program on innovative financing and procurement mechanisms for digital goods. As an inaugural team member, Danielle led research projects and advocacy campaigns to scale the use of digital data and mobile distribution channels by the international development sector with a primary focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. She previously served as an analyst at J.P. Morgan where she provided investment, banking, and philanthropic advice to ultra-high net worth families and foundations. Most recently, she worked as an MBA Associate at the Rockefeller Foundation and MCE Social Capital, focusing on strategy, due diligence, and impact measurement & evaluation.
Job Titles:
- Leader
- Managing Director
- Managing Director of the Foundation
As a Managing Director of the Foundation, Dr. Oliver Rothschild plays a lead role in sourcing new investments and working with the leadership of those organizations as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and to achieve their maximum impact. As a member of the Foundation's senior leadership team, Oliver also helps to execute the Foundation's strategy and goals and contributes to its thought leadership and external outreach.
Trained as a medical doctor, Oliver has served as a leader, entrepreneur, and strategist in the healthcare and education spaces. Oliver came to DRK from Gates Ventures, the private office of Mr. Bill Gates, where he served as Director of Health and Life Sciences. In this role, he built a new team to shape strategy and investments for Mr. Gates and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and advise donors and governments on health policy.
Prior to Gates Ventures, he held a range of leadership roles in the health sector, working as Deputy Director of Partners in Health-Rwanda under Dr. Paul Farmer, and leading analytics for the launch of Rwanda's first national pediatric HIV program with the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Domestically he served pharmaceutical and hospital clients as a consultant at McKinsey & Company and led a set of health reform initiatives as Chief of Staff for the State of Massachusetts's $13 Billion Medicaid program.
In the education space, he co-founded a number of innovative organizations across Africa, including Kepler University, Spire Education (acquired in 2017), and Nova Pioneer K-12 Schools, collectively serving thousands of students. He also served as an advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation helping to shape their first global education strategy.
Oliver earned his BA in Computer Science from the University of Chicago and his MD from the Yale School of Medicine.
As a Venture Partner, Liz helps to source new investments and to support the Foundation's portfolio organizations in Africa, Europe, and India. She supports the leadership of portfolio organizations as they grow and build the capacity to achieve their maximum impact. Liz currently serves on the board of DRK grantees Fundi Bots and SmartStart.
Liz has three decades of experience in education and leadership development. She has served as a leader, entrepreneur, and strategist for a variety of organizations in the non-profit, academic, and public sectors. Most recently, Liz served as the founding Executive Director of the Kigutu International Academy (KIA), a transformative secondary school developing a new generation of entrepreneurial leaders in Burundi. Liz led the planning, launch, and initial operations of KIA. KIA is an integral part of Village Health Works, a Burundi-based non-profit where Liz also served as the Chief Strategy Officer.
Liz has also served in senior roles for the African Leadership University and African Leadership Academy (ALA), two institutions that have pioneered the development of ethical and entrepreneurial leaders. Currently, Liz is a Trustee of the African Leadership Academy in South Africa and is Board Chair of the African Leadership Foundation, ALA's US-based 501c3. Earlier, Liz worked at the Mastercard Foundation, assisting with the development of their education strategy for sub-Saharan Africa and with the design and implementation of a major education initiative in Rwanda. Liz also served in leadership roles for USAID. She was the USAID Coordinator for the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), a legacy initiative of the Obama administration. She was also a Senior Education Advisor to USAID in South Africa, working in partnership with the Department of Basic Education and other funders to identify and scale innovative approaches to teacher development. Earlier, as the Executive Director of Global Education Fund, Liz led the establishment of community-based education programs in Kenya and beyond.
Liz currently serves on several advisory boards, including Girl Rising-Global Education Fund and the School of Leadership Afghanistan. Liz is a member of the President's Council on International Activities at Yale University and the Council of Global Advisors at the Yale School of Management. Liz received a BA degree from Williams College and an MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Job Titles:
- Senior Director, Portfolio Fundraising Strategies
Emily supports the portfolio in their efforts to build successful and sustainable fundraising strategies that are tailored to each organization's model and unique strengths. She is a whole-hearted non-profit leader with a lifelong commitment to equity and poverty alleviation. Emily dedicated the first two decades of her career to Summer Search, a national youth development organization that envisions a world where young people can fulfill their potential and lead families and communities to thrive. Emily's interest in working at Summer Search was sparked by her experience attending Central, a Philadelphia public high school, where she watched her classmates break through barriers of poverty, access, and racism to graduate and go onto college. Emily graduated with a BA in African American Studies with a concentration in Sociology from Wesleyan University.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director of the Foundation
As a Managing Director of the Foundation, Holly Kuzmich plays a lead role in sourcing new investments and working with the leadership of those organizations as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and to achieve their maximum impact. As a member of the Foundation's senior leadership team, based in Dallas, Texas, Holly plays a lead role in increasing the Foundation's presence, portfolio investments and donor partnerships in Texas and the Southwest region.
Holly has 25 years of public policy and leadership experience, serving in senior positions in the government, non-profit, and private sectors. At the Bush Institute, a solution-oriented nonpartisan policy organization focused on ensuring opportunity for all, strengthening democracy, and advancing free societies, Holly led the team in developing and implementing major policy and programmatic initiatives on key issues of national and global importance. She oversaw the organization's strategy on leadership development, with four leadership programs graduating over 1,000 alumni to date from around the world. Domestically, she led their efforts to push for comprehensive immigration reform and developed key alliances and partnerships in support of that effort. Globally, she shepherded the Bush Institute's public-private partnership on global health that scaled up screening and treatment for cervical cancer for millions of women in sub-Saharan Africa.
She is a veteran of the White House, U.S. Department of Education, and Capitol Hill, where she developed her expertise in education policy. She served on the staff of the White House Domestic Policy Council and then as Deputy Chief of Staff and Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs at the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to that, she worked for two United States Senators on domestic policy issues. She has also consulted on education and workforce issues with major foundations, companies, non-profits, and policymakers.
Holly also served as a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, is a Pahara-Aspen Institute Fellow, and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network. She serves on the boards of the Gates Policy Initiative, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars, and the Dallas Assembly. She is also active in the community as an alumnus of the Texas Lyceum and a member of the Dallas Citizens Council.
Holly is based in DRK's new Dallas office.
Job Titles:
- Executive Assistant
- International Executive Assistant With Administrative
Ingrid is an Executive Assistant in DRK's Netherlands office, supporting Managing Director Lisa Jordan.
Ingrid is an experienced International Executive Assistant with Administrative and Finance expertise and more than 21 years of experience providing C Level support to executives. Before joining DRK, Ingrid was an executive assistant to CEOs and CFOs in large-scale companies and was responsible for coordinating the board office with responsibilities including calendar, travel and event management.
Ingrid received her High School Degree in Management, Organization and Information in The Netherlands. She also served on the board of International Management Assistants for 4 years as the Treasurer and Membership Officer.
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder and CEO of Purpose
- Member of DRK 's Strategic Advisory Board
- Strategic Advisory Board Member
Jeremy Heimans is an inaugural member of DRK's Strategic Advisory Board to provide critical insights and expertise on the challenges facing our global society today, and to help the DRK board and the senior management team align its efforts to support our portfolio entrepreneurs as they tackle some of the world's most complex problems.
Jeremy Heimans is the co-founder and CEO of Purpose, a global organization headquartered in New York that builds and supports movements for a more open, just, and habitable world. Purpose has advised organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Google and UNICEF. He is the co-founder of GetUp!, an Australian political organization with more members than all of Australia's political parties combined, and Avaaz, the world's largest online citizens' movement, now with nearly 50 million members worldwide. Heimans has been building movements since the age of 8 when, as a child activist in his native Australia, he ran media campaigns and lobbied leaders on issues like children's rights and nuclear non-proliferation. He is a recipient of the Ford Foundation's 75th anniversary Visionary Award for his work as a movement pioneer and he chaired the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Civic Participation.
Heimans has been named one of Fast Company's Most Creative People in Business, The Guardian has named him as one of the ten most influential voices on sustainability in the US, and The Monthly has observed that Heimans "might be the most influential Australian in the world". With Henry Timms, Jeremy is the co-author of the 2018 bestseller "New Power", a big idea that is changing the way movements catch fire and ideas spread in our highly connected world. The book was featured as the Big Idea in Harvard Business Review, as one of CNN's "ideas to change the world" and Jeremy's TED talk on the topic has been viewed more than 1.4 million times.
Heimans has been a keynote speaker at venues such as the World Economic Forum at Davos, TED, the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival, the RSA, Chatham House, the United Nations, Blair House, The Economist, Big Rethink, The Guardian Activate and Social Media Week.
Jeremy was educated at Harvard University and the University of Sydney and began his career with the strategy consultants McKinsey & Company. He lives in New York.
Job Titles:
- CEO, DRK and Member, DRK Board
Jim works with the team to expand and manage the portfolio & pipeline, build the donor and talent base, and develop thought leadership for the foundation. He currently sits on the board of DRK grantees JUST Capital, Pérez Art Museum Miami, The Africa Center, and Uptrust. He previously served on the boards of DRK grantees CAST, Collaborative for Fresh Produce, EducationSuperHighway, IDEO.org, Landed, OpenBiome, Open Up Resources, Service Year, SIRUM, StriveTogether, TurboVote/Democracy Works, The Earth Genome, The Empowerment Plan, The GroundTruth Project, and Worldreader.
Jim is also an Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hauser Institute for Civil Society and the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University. At the Kennedy School, his research interests include understanding the role of private capital in solving public problems, extending the capacity of foundations to solve complex societal issues and the sustainability of public and private systems when governments disinvest in these systems. His course load includes Social Entrepreneurship/Social Enterprises 101: How to Go From Start Up to End Up (MLD 836).
Among his other board affiliations, he is a trustee of The Kresge Foundation, The Non Profit Finance Fund, The Public Citizen Foundation, the Health Foundation for the Americas, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, The Newport Festivals Foundation, Trustee Emeritus at Case Western Reserve University, an Overseer Emeritus of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a member of the executive board of WBUR (Boston Public Radio) and an Overseer of WGBH Public TV and Radio. He also serves on the boards of ROCA, Inc., Baroo, Inc., Fox Islands Wind, LLC, the EBSF Loan Fund, the Island Institute and Coastal Innovation Loan Fund, Blueprint Schools and the Lizard Island Research Foundation in Australia. He is a member of Young Presidents/World Presidents Organization and a member of the Chief Executives Organization.
In his board service, Jim serves on the Investment Committees of boards with aggregate endowments in excess of $4B as well as a member of numerous finance, investment and/or audit committees of these boards. In 2010 he was named Chair of Kresge's Social Innovative Capital Committee and in 2014 became Chair of Kresge's Investment Committee.
Jim is a nationally recognized lecturer, panelist, and speaker on nonprofit organizations, social enterprise, capitalization and the institutional role of philanthropy in solving complex societal issues. His prior experience includes 22 years in the private sector including as a consultant at Deloitte and serving as the CEO of two public companies. Jim's government service includes serving as a legislative aide and speechwriter in the United States Senate, a run for the NJ State Assembly, election to two terms as a Selectman in Manchester by the Sea and an appointment by the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to the Advisory Panel on Medicare Education of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the Department of Health and Human Services.
Jim has written numerous articles, op-ed pieces and commentaries for newspapers, magazines and radio including NPR's Morning Edition, The Boston Globe, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Hampshire Daily Gazette and Inc. Magazine. A lifelong sailor and pilot, he has published two recent books, A Visual Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast, published by McGraw Hill in May of 2006 and A Visual Cruising Guide to Southern New England, published in November of 2009.
Jim earned his AB from Dartmouth College, his MPA from Harvard, his J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law and an M.F.A. from Lesley University. He is a member of the Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In 2008, Jim was awarded the Dartmouth Alumni Award for service to the College and to his community.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Regional Managing Director
- Managing Director of the Foundation
As a Managing Director of the Foundation, Kanini Mutooni plays a lead role in sourcing new investments and working with the leadership of those organizations, primarily in Europe, Africa, and India, as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and to achieve their maximum impact. As a member of the Foundation's senior leadership team, she also helps execute the Foundation's strategy and goals and contributes to its thought leadership and external outreach for the African continent from the DRK office in Nairobi. Kanini currently serves on the board of DRK grantees Baobab Circle, Brastorne Enterprises, Friendship Bench, Imagine Worldwide, Kwangu Kwako, People's Pension Trust, VIA Global Health, and Vula Mobile.
Kanini Mutooni was previously MD for Toniic, the global action network for impact investors. Before this, Kanini was the Director for Investment at the USAID-funded East Africa Trade and Investment Hub, a $65M, 8 country initiative to attract investment and increase trade in the East Africa region. Kanini is a UK Chartered Accountant with a record of exceptional leadership gained in East Africa, Europe, and the United States. She is currently the immediate former Board Chair of The Global Innovation Fund, a $250M investment vehicle that has 4 of the G7 countries as permanent shareholders. She also serves as a Board member at MCE Social Capital, a US non-profit that uses a pioneering loan guarantee model for early-stage organizations in emerging economies. She has also recently been appointed as Board advisor for the United Nations Capital Development Fund, the UN's capital investment agency for the world's 48 Least Developed countries.
Kanini has worked at the Board level in leadership positions at investment banks in London and the US, such as Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. In 2014 she was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader for her exceptional leadership in business, the health sector, and global entrepreneurship. She continues to provide strategic advisory support to a number of Africa focused impact funds such as the $100m African Agriculture SME Fund and the $30M AHL Venture Fund, and the $175M Africa Food Security Fund. She is a visiting lecturer at the University of Capetown's Bertha Center for Social Innovation.
Job Titles:
- CEO of Sebelius Resources LLC
- Member of DRK 's Strategic Advisory Board
- Strategic Advisory Board Member
Kathleen Sebelius is an inaugural member of DRK's Strategic Advisory Board to provide critical insights and expertise on the challenges facing our global society today, and to help the DRK board and the senior management team align its efforts to support our portfolio entrepreneurs as they tackle some of the world's most complex problems.
Kathleen Sebelius is one of America's foremost experts on national and global health issues, human services, and executive leadership. From April 2009 through June 2014, Sebelius served in President Barack Obama's Cabinet as the 21st Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, where she worked to pass and implement the Affordable Care Act. At HHS, Sebelius managed 11 operating agencies, 90,000 employees in 50 countries around the world, and a $1 trillion budget. Forbes named Sebelius one of the 100 most powerful women in the world.
Job Titles:
- Chief Communications Officer
As the Chief Communications Officer, Kathryn is responsible for driving DRK's communications strategy, developing media relationships and strengthening the broad DRK community of entrepreneurs, donors, community partners, stakeholders and thought leaders with effective content that enables greater impact.
Kathryn has worked in the television industry as both a publicist and a producer for over 25 years. She most recently served as Director of Communications and Community for the NBC and Telemundo Boston stations since launching in 2016. During her time at NBC10 Boston, NECN, Telemundo Nueva Inglaterra and NBC Sports Boston, Kathryn developed critical community partnerships, nurtured key media relationships, assembled the stations' external diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) council, and led campaign initiatives such as Supporting Our Schools, Clear The Shelters, Project Innovation and Bundle Up New England that raised over $2 million in community funding. She formed and nurtured community partners with The American Red Cross, Boston Children's Hospital, King Boston, Boston Pride, and more. Kathryn also developed, created and was Executive Producer of "This is New England," NBC10 Boston's (WBTS) weekly community affairs program airing Sunday mornings, produced from inside the NBCUniversal Boston Media Center in Needham, MA.
From 2011 to 2016, Kathryn worked for WFXT-TV FOX25 News - a COX Media Company, where she produced morning news segments, special projects and investigative reports for several series, including "Fox Undercover" and "New England's Unsolved." She also worked on everything from the station's "Zip Trips" to community outreach.
No stranger to the market, Kathryn also held the role of station publicist for WCVB-TV 5, A Hearst station and the ABC affiliate in Boston.
She began her career by forming her own boutique entertainment public relations firm, K4PR. Her clients included Fortune 500 private jet charters, Viking Kitchens, The Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation, celebrity chefs, restaurants and the Beijing Olympics, to name a few.
Since 2005, Kathryn has been on the Board of Governors as PR Chair for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS)- Boston/New England Chapter. She currently presides as Chapter President. Her duties include the annual Emmy Gala Awards ceremony, the Silver Circle Awards and the prestigious Governors' award. She is the recipient of twelve regional EMMY® awards for outstanding achievement in the television industry.
Kathryn has received other accolades throughout her career, including the prestigious 2009 Saccone Award for "Exceptional Women in the Industry," 2018 and 2019 GEM recognitions from NBCUniversal for "Employees Who Go Above and Beyond," and was named in 2009 as "One of the Most Powerful Women in Boston" by Boston Common Magazine.
She is a graduate of Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and Political Science and a minor in Sociology.
Job Titles:
- Associate Director, Portfolio Support Initiatives
Job Titles:
- Senior Fellow
- Aspen Fellow
Kristin is a champion of healthy family nutrition and citywide wellness, serving as Founder and CEO of Revolution Foods from 2006 to 2021. As Chairwoman of the Board from 2021 - 2022, her mission was to build lifelong healthy eaters by serving healthy, delicious, and affordable meals in many of our nation's most at-risk communities. Revolution Foods' efforts to tackle the growing food insecurity trend through innovative public-private partnerships expanded access to healthy food across 400 cities nationwide. Revolution Foods has designed, produced, and distributed approximately 800 million culturally relevant, chef-crafted meals to schools and community segments, including school districts, charter networks, food banks, senior centers, homeless shelters, and citywide feeding programs. With over 1,000 employees, Revolution Foods was recognized three years in a row by Harvard's Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) as one of the top 100 highest-growth inner-city job creators in the United States. Revolution Foods has been named as one of Forbes' "Seven World-Changing Companies to Watch," Fast Company's "World's Most Innovative Companies" in 2021, and B Corp's "Best for the World" companies in 2021 and 2022.
Prior to founding Revolution Foods, Kristin was Vice President of Resources for Indispensable Schools and Educators, where she grew the organization to a nationally scalable model working to help school leaders recognize and retain outstanding teachers.
She began her career at Citi in Investment Banking. She was a member of the White House Council for Community Solutions during President Obama's Administration. From 2000 to 2002, she lived in Nairobi and co-founded the Kenya Community Center for Learning (KCCL).
Much of Kristin's life work has been dedicated to helping youth achieve greater academic outcomes, helping drive systems change through innovative municipal partnerships, and championing purpose-driven business as a critical part of next-stage effective, multi-stakeholder capitalism.
Kristin is also an Aspen Fellow, an Ashoka Fellow, and a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. She is on the Board of Directors of Generate Capital, a leading clean energy investment company and sustainable infrastructure operator, Food4 Education in Kenya, and U.C. Berkeley and Ideagarden's Plant Futures Initiative. In 2020, Kristin was recognized as one of Inc.'s "Top 100 Women Entrepreneurs."
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Accounting from Boston College and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
Job Titles:
- Legal and Financial Operations Lead
Kristina is the Legal and Financial Operations Lead based in DRK's Menlo Park office. She supports DRK's deal and portfolio teams with diligence and grant management processes.
Before joining the DRK team, Kristina was a paralegal and office manager in boutique firms around the San Francisco Bay Area. She has assisted attorneys with corporate formations and governance, stock and real estate transactions, civil litigation, insurance subrogation claims, and estate planning. In her time outside of work, she enjoys volunteering as a supervisor for The Taylor Family Foundation, a non-profit organization based in Livermore, California. She also performs in community theater productions.
Kristina graduated with honors from Santa Clara University where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Italian. She also has a Masters of Arts in Educational Studies.
Job Titles:
- Member of DRK 's Operating Committee
- Senior Managing Director and Member, Operating Committee
Lara is a member of DRK's Operating Committee, a leadership team that sets priorities, manages organizational culture, and develops strategies for the Foundation and serves as a Senior Managing Director of the Foundation, where she plays a lead role in sourcing new investments and working with the leadership of those organizations as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and to achieve their maximum impact. As a member of the Foundation's senior leadership team, she also helps to execute the Foundation's strategy and goals and contributes to its thought leadership and external outreach. Lara currently serves on the board of DRK grantees bosWell and Reboot Rx.
Lara brings with her more than thirty years of senior leadership experience at the forefront of traditional finance in impact investing, most recently as a Managing Director and Venture Partner at The Social Entrepreneurs' Fund, an early-stage impact venture capital fund investing in mission-driven companies focused on fintech, healthtech, and Future of Work for low to moderate income populations. Lara also served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at The Engine, a deep-tech venture capital fund launched by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), that bridges the gap between scientific discovery and commercialization by investing in early stage breakthrough technologies across climate solutions, human health, and advanced systems.
Lara played a key role in building the Pay for Success field, a pioneering outcomes-focused public-private partnership finance approach at Social Finance where she led Social Investments as Managing Director. There she led projects deploying $80M in private capital to help evidence-based nonprofits scale their interventions in recidivism, maternal and child health, family stability, teen pregnancy and more.
Previously, Lara served from 2009-2013 as Chief Financial and Administrative Officer (CFAO) and Senior Associate Dean for Operations for Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, helping the institution recover from the financial crisis, increase student financial aid, and transform the campus. Lara started her career spending eighteen years on Wall Street in the fixed income markets, at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Credit Suisse where she was a Managing Director.
Today, Lara serves as guest lecturer on impact investing and startups for MIT, Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Kennedy School; on advisory boards at the Harvard iLab, MIT Solve Innovation Futures, Zeal Capital Partners, Colorful Capital, and Longfellow Investment Management; and volunteers as a judge for MassChallenge. She has been recognized as a 2020 "Kellogg Youn Impact Fellow" from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, Named "100 Women in Fintech" by 100 Women in Finance, and Authored an essay in the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco 2017 publication titled, "What Matters: Investing in Results to Build Strong, Vibrant Communities."
Lara received a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Boston College and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She recently completed her Corporate Directors Certificate at Harvard Business School.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director of the Foundation
As a Managing Director of the Foundation, Lisa Jordan plays a lead role in sourcing new investments and working with the leadership of those organizations as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and to achieve their maximum impact. As a member of the Foundation's senior leadership team, she also helps to execute the Foundation's strategy and goals and contributes to its thought leadership and external outreach. She currently serves on the boards of DRK portfolio organizations Amna, Arpan, Energy Peace Partners, InfluenceMap, Peepul, Safisana and The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP). Lisa plays a lead role in establishing DRK in Europe and sourcing new investments in Europe, Africa, and India.
Lisa is a senior philanthropic executive with a twenty-year career focused on impact and systemic change. She has worked with numerous foundations and family offices on program and portfolio development. She has served as CEO of Bernard van Leer Foundation, Chief Strategy Officer at Porticus Foundation, and in leadership positions at the Ford Foundation. Early in her career, Lisa was a founding director and visionary of what is now the largest parliamentary body in the world focused on the environment, the Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE). She currently sits on the board of Question Mark, Enviu and Orb Media.
Lisa is a well-known speaker and author on democracy and globalization. Along with blog posts, chapters and shorter articles, she publishes in peer-reviewed journals in Dutch, English, and Spanish. She is deeply committed to strengthening civil society. In 2018 she was named in the Netherlands as one of the top ten influencers in civil society.
Lisa holds degrees from the University of Michigan and graduated cum laude with a Master's Degree in Development Studies from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, Netherlands.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director of the Foundation
As a Managing Director of the Foundation, Margo Drakos plays a lead role in sourcing new investments and working with the leadership of those organizations as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and to achieve their maximum impact. As a member of the Foundation's senior leadership team, she also helps to execute the Foundation's strategy and goals and contributes to its thought leadership and external outreach. She currently serves on the board of DRK portfolio organizations Ameelio, Citizen Data, Intelehealth, Public Rights Project, Rocket Learning, Shelters to Shutters and Tarjimly.
Margo spent the past fifteen years as a founder of social enterprises, working with private and public sector institutions to leverage technology and to realize revenue potential, scale, and sustainability. She has recruited, led, and motivated matrixed and dispersed organizations of engineering, product, marketing, strategy, and growth teams. During this time, Margo was Chief Technology Officer and Partner at McChrystal Group, LLC, a global advisory services firm. Margo also founded and served as CEO of ArtistYear, the first National AmeriCorps program dedicated to the arts. In 2007, Margo co-founded and led her first start-up, InstantEncore, the world's leading provider of web and mobile technology to the performing arts. In that role, she launched the first mobile applications and live web/mobile concert streaming and download events from Carnegie Hall to the Sydney Opera House.
Margo began working as a professional musician at age four, performing on national radio and television commercials. Over the course of her career as a cellist, she performed as a soloist, chamber, and orchestral musician on the world's preeminent stages on five continents. Margo entered music conservatory at fifteen as a double major in cello and composition and graduated from Curtis Institute of Music in 1999. She served as Artist-in-Residence and faculty member at the Aspen Music Festival and School and Manhattan School of Music from 2002-2008. Margo's positions included cellist of the American String Quartet, Principal Cellist of the Oregon, San Diego, and Seattle Symphonies, and Associate Principal of the Pittsburgh Symphony. She has recorded for Sony Classical and produced for Naxos.
Margo is an alum of the Young Global Leader program of the World Economic Forum. She is a frequent guest speaker at events including the Global Competitiveness Forum of Saudi Arabia, TechVenture in Singapore, and the World Economic Forum at Davos.
Margo received a master's in human rights from Columbia University. She has also completed executive degrees in global leadership and public policy from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore. Her publications have appeared in The Cornell International Law Journal, The International Affairs Review, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Margo serves as a Trustee of the Marlboro Music Festival & School and the National Humanities Center. She is a proud U.S. Military spouse and resides in North Carolina.
Mary is responsible for the accounting and financial reporting at Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.
A licensed Certified Public Accountant, Mary has over 20 years of progressive experience in the accounting and finance fields. She began her career in public accounting at one of the largest international accounting and profession services firms, Coopers & Lybrand. For several years Mary held management positions in public, hi-tech software companies including Remedy Corporation and Interwoven, Inc. Finding more personal fulfillment working for charitable causes, Mary made the switch from private to not-for-profit accounting in 2013. Prior to joining Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation in 2016, Mary served as Controller for Myelin Repair Foundation, a collaborative medical research not-for-profit entity dedicated to accelerating the identification and development of new drug therapies for multiple sclerosis.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director of the Foundation
As a Managing Director of the Foundation, Matthew Denn plays a lead role in sourcing new investments and working with the leadership of those organizations as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and to achieve their maximum impact. As a member of the Foundation's senior leadership team, Matthew also helps to execute the Foundation's strategy and goals and contributes to its thought leadership and external outreach.
Matthew served as the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Delaware from 2009 to 2015, and the 45th Attorney General of Delaware from 2015 until 2019. He also previously served as the Insurance Commissioner of Delaware from 2005 to 2009.
As Attorney General, Matthew oversaw attorneys who represented all state agencies and boards, prosecuting all criminal and juvenile delinquency cases and enforcing consumer protection, data privacy and other statutes. He worked with the General Assembly to reform the state's criminal justice laws, including elimination of the state's "three strikes" minimum mandatory sentencing law, and to promote early intervention and prison re-entry programs. As Lieutenant Governor, Matthew helped lead reforms to the state's public education programs, including the state's efforts to educate students with disabilities.
Matthew is a graduate from the University of California, Berkeley. He received his JD from Yale Law School. In addition, Matthew is an active community advocate appointed Co-Chair of Redding Consortium on Educational Equity, Vice President of Action for Delaware's Children and a member of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Exceptional Citizens.
Meg works with the DRK team to identify and support innovative social entrepreneurs.
Prior to joining DRK Foundation, Meg spent six years developing and scaling education programs at Purpose in Motion 益启未来, a China-based social enterprise with a mission to empower young people as changemakers. Most recently, Meg worked with a Minneapolis-based tech recycling social enterprise to develop its scaling strategy as a REDF Farber Fellow. She has also worked as an Impact Investing Fellow at CapShift, focused on the sourcing and due diligence of a range of impact investment opportunities for donor-advised funds.
Meg received her MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business, where she co-chaired the CASE Impact Investing Initiative and led a project for a community development bank focused on expanding growth capital investments in BIPOC-led small businesses in the southeast. She has a bachelor's degree in History from Grinnell College.
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- Managing Director of the Foundation
As a Managing Director of the Foundation, Michelle De La Isla will lead DRK's Midwest presence building partnerships, sourcing new investments, and working with the leadership of those organizations as an operating partner and board member as they grow to build capacity and achieve their maximum impact. As a member of the Foundation's senior leadership team, she also helps execute the Foundation's strategy and goals and contributes to its thought leadership and external outreach. Michelle currently serves on the boards of DRK grantees Brilliant Detroit and Partners for Justice.
Michelle is currently the Mayor of the City of Topeka, Kansas, and she will complete her term in December 2021. Her experience and passion for service are evident from her career trajectory. From CFO of a nonprofit financial assistance program for low-income families to Executive Director of Topeka Habitat for Humanity and Supplier Diversity Manager of a Fortune 500 public utility, De La Isla will bring proven leadership and a deep perspective of how to bring strong solutions for government adoption and knows what it means to drive impact at scale. She incorporates voices and perspectives of the public sector and will bring to the DRK portfolio organizations a unique insight into how their solutions are best adopted by governments, municipalities, and local communities.
In addition, her broad network will bring new communities and insights to DRK including her participation on the U.S. Conference of Mayors and the Chair of the Youth Involvement Taskforce, as the Tri-Chair of Momentum 2022 and Co-Chair of Joint Economic Development Organization, her role as a MANA National Board Member and Co-Chair of Hermanitas Leadership Conference, as an alumna member of Leadership Kansas and Leadership Greater Topeka, and as a Rodel Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Michelle earned a BS in Biology from Wichita State University.
Job Titles:
- Chief of Staff
- Consultant
- Senior Advisor
- CEO and Member, Operating Committee
- Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the CEO and Member, Operating Committee
- DRK 's Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor
Nancy Huang is DRK's Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the CEO. In her role as Chief of Staff, she supports the Foundation's growth and scale from 60 portfolio organizations to over 220 organizations. She is a part of the leadership team that sets priorities, manages organizational culture and develops strategies for the Foundation. Her responsibilities include managing portfolio support programs and convenings, partnerships, communications, team growth, and operations.
Before joining Draper Richards Kaplan, Nancy was Executive Director of Harvard Business School Community Partners of Northern California where she mobilized teams of Harvard Business School Alumni to deliver pro bono consulting to assist Bay Area nonprofits with strategic business challenges. She managed over 55 consulting projects and recruited more than 300 volunteers, doubling the number of volunteers recruited and nonprofits served each year. She also expanded the program by launching a new format for advising nonprofits and created a program for alumni to be high impact nonprofit board members.
Nancy's previous experience includes corporate development, strategic planning, and finance roles in the for-profit sector at ESPN, Bank of America, and Gap Inc. Early in her career, she worked at the White House for President George H.W. Bush and as a Personal Aide to Barbara Bush.
Nancy has served as a consultant to a variety of nonprofits and was on the founding board of Positive Coaching Alliance, a member of Hillsborough School District's Parent Executive Board and Site Council, and the Treasurer for Burlingame Mothers' Club. She also served on the board of Girls Leadership, on the Advisory Council for Greenlight Fund Bay Area, and on the Advisory Board of the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference (SECON).
Nancy received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Business from Georgetown University.
Job Titles:
- Board Chair of Democracy Works and Is a Board
- Venture Partner
Nicco is a Venture Partner supporting DRK portfolio organizations as a board member on several boards. He was previously a Managing Director at DRK and a part of the leadership team. Nicco currently serves on the boards of DRK portfolio organizations City Bureau, Code2College, Driver's Seat, News Revenue Hub, and Recidiviz.
Nicco's prior experience includes founding technology companies, working on political campaigns, and a stint as Senior Vice President and Deputy Publisher in charge of digital media and products at the Los Angeles Times. He advises several startups, including Blueprint Robotics (on-demand manufacturing), Optimus Ride (autonomous vehicles), Plympton (publishing), and Cignify (data analytics). Nicco's book, "The End of Big: How The Internet Makes David The New Goliath," published in 2013 explores the consequences of living in a socially-connected society, drawing upon his years of experience as an innovator in politics and technology. The book has been translated into Japanese and Korean.
Born to Foreign Service parents, Nicco spent his early years in Asia and Africa before graduating from the College of William and Mary in Virginia with a bachelor's degree in government. He then worked for several high-profile advocacy organizations where he pioneered the use of social media as a galvanizing force for fundraising. As webmaster for Governor Howard Dean's 2004 presidential bid, Nicco and the campaign team popularized the use of technology and social media that revolutionized political fundraising and reshaped American politics. Subsequently, he co-founded Echo & Co, a company that designs and builds digital experiences, products, and services to connect important causes with people who care.
Most recently, Nicco was the Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he started new programs focused on understanding misinformation on social networks; sustainable models for local journalism; institutional anti-racism in media and algorithms; and platform accountability. He continues to teach classes at the Kennedy School on technology's impact on media, politics, and public policy.
Nicco serves as the board chair of Democracy Works and is a board member of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Nicco co-founded the Massachusetts Poetry Festival and in 2014 he co-produced a documentary about the poet W.S. Merwin, "Even Though The Whole World Is Burning."
Norbert works with the team to identify and support innovative social entrepreneurs.
Prior to joining DRK Norbert spent ten years working as an investment analyst at Carlson Capital, where he focused on evaluating and structuring privately negotiated transactions across insurance and specialty finance. Most recently he worked as an MBA Investment Associate at Acumen America, focusing on sourcing, diligence, financial valuation, and post-investment support, most keenly focused on the team's financial inclusion efforts.
Norbert received his MBA from the Yale School of Management, where he worked with a local non-profit focused on serving adults living with mental illness and co-led the MIINT program, an experiential global impact investing competition. He has a bachelor's degree from Southern Methodist University, where he majored in Finance.
Pam is an Executive Assistant, providing support to Managing Directors Lara Metcalf, Margo Drakos and Craig Lee, and Senior Director Rob Tashima.
Before joining DRK, Pamela was the Office Manager and Executive Assistant at Centerline Capital. In that role, she assisted multiple company executives and worked on various projects with Investor Relations, Research, and Information Technology. Prior to that, Pam worked at Elliott Management as an IT Help Desk Analyst, helping to support 350+ employees and as an Administrative Assistant providing support to senior members of the firm up to the COO. She also worked at Target Corporation in various administrative assistant roles, from receptionist to an assistant to the Director of Enterprise Strategy.
She graduated from St. Cloud State University with a Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies.
Job Titles:
- Principal and Africa Lead, Sourcing and Diligence
Rachel works with the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation team to identify and support innovative social entrepreneurs.
Prior to joining DRK, Rachel served as Senior Program Officer with the OCP Group, a global fertilizer producer headquartered in Morocco. As an inaugural team member of the Group's North American subsidiary, Rachel led corporate engagement initiatives with a focus on U.S.-Africa partnerships for agricultural development. Rachel previously served as a portfolio manager at John Snow, Inc., a public health research and consulting firm, where she managed programs to strengthen civil service capacity and health systems across Africa. Rachel has worked as an independent consultant for organizations such as the International Growth Centre in London, UNDP, and the West African Rice Company, and has supported business development at Accordia Global Health Foundation (acquired by Africare).
Originally from Liberia, Rachel is passionate about leveraging business, innovation, and investing to benefit society. Rachel holds a master's degree in Economic and Political Development from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.
Reneè Hall is a seasoned law enforcement professional with more than 20 years of experience in crime reduction, prevention, and policy change.
She is the former Chief of Police for the Dallas Police Department serving from 2017 through 2020, and was the first woman ever to lead the organization. During her tenure as Police Chief, Dallas she saw a 5.7% reduction in overall crime in 2017, and a 5.97% reduction in violent crime in 2018. Reneè spearheaded 64 separate policy changes in pursuit of Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). She closed with a 97% compliance rate. In addition, she implemented quick response protocols, modified orders surrounding "use of force," initiated intelligent technology improvements and innovations, including the Starlight surveillance program and Text to 9-1-1 in the City of Dallas, and created a Real-Time Crime Center for crime analysis, and criminal intelligence units that improved data collection, coordinated analysis, and information sharing. Reneè also pushed to increase diversity in the police and Dallas police leadership positions and has touted the work of her leadership team members as well as the other officers that served in the Dallas police. Her police force represented the community more.
Prior to that, Reneè was Deputy Chief of the Detroit Police Department where she directed the city's Neighborhood Policing Bureau, developed and implemented comprehensive community policing and mentor programs, forged partnerships and established trust within minority communities while also building strong relationships between officers of all ranks and community stakeholders. Under her leadership, the City of Detroit experienced a 40-year low in homicides and double-digit reductions in violent crime for three consecutive years.
Reneè is a proven strategist who builds collaborative community partnerships and effective communication. Her extensive knowledge of the criminal justice system and significant experience in law enforcement have hailed her as a transformational leader with viable solutions to challenges.
She is a graduate from Grambling State University, holds a Master of Science from the University of Detroit Mercy and was named a 2022 Social Impact Fellow in the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Reneè holds several advisory board memberships and personal affiliations, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy Associates (FBINAA), International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP), and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement (NOBLE).
Job Titles:
- Senior Director, Pipeline and Partnerships
Rob Tashima plays a lead role in expanding DRK's sourcing efforts and collaborating with mission-aligned partners and funders to identify new investment opportunities.
Prior to joining DRK, Rob served as Chief Growth Officer at Village Capital, an early-stage impact investor and accelerator, overseeing efforts to develop and design new ways of supporting entrepreneurs and investors, in new markets, and with new partners.
Rob joined Village Capital in 2017 after a decade at an emerging markets consultancy, where as the managing editor and head of research for Africa he led field studies on investment issues across the continent. Previously, he lived in the Middle East, analyzing investment competitiveness across regional markets, and before that, worked on business and regulatory policy for the State of California.
Rob serves on the board of directors of Capitol Area Asset Builders, a US-based economic empowerment nonprofit, and as a trustee for Social Tech Trust, a UK-based impact investor and foundation. He also served as an advisor to Issue Voter, a US-based democratic engagement nonprofit, and Asoko Insight, a UK-based datatech startup.
He holds an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a CEP from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Bordeaux, France. He received his BA in both French and Political Science from UC Berkeley.
Robert Steven Kaplan served as the President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 2015 until 2021. In this role he managed the 1,300 employees of the Dallas Fed and represented the Eleventh Federal Reserve District on the Federal Open Market Committee in the formulation of U.S. monetary policy.
Kaplan was previously the Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice and a Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining Harvard, Kaplan was Vice Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group with global responsibility for the firm's investment banking and investment management divisions.
He serves as Chairman of Project A.L.S. and Co-Chairman of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation. He is a board member of Harvard Medical School, St. Mark's School of Texas and is a member of the Advisory Council of the George W. Bush Institute. Previously he served as Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee at Google and a trustee of the Ford Foundation. Kaplan was appointed by the Governor of Kansas as a member of the Kansas Health Policy Authority Board.
Kaplan has authored three books, titled What You Really Need to Lead: The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner; What You're Really Meant To Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential; and What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential.
He received a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Kansas and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
Robin Richards Donohoe has nearly thirty years of experience in domestic and international venture capital. She is a Founder and Managing Director of the Draper International and Draper Richards Funds. The Draper International India fund was the first western Venture Fund to go into India. The Fund (1994 to 2000) gave a 15 times return to its investors. The domestic fund, Draper Richards, invested in over 75 companies over ten years with 9 IPOs and 33 acquisitions, including Hotmail and Skype.
Prior to managing the Draper funds, she served for four years as Managing Director of Seaboard Management Corporation, a venture capital firm based in Atlanta, Georgia investing in media and technology companies. Ms. Donohoe has also worked in Prague, Czech Republic for a venture capital fund and in Paris for an investment bank.
Robin is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina and holds a Master of Business degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She currently serves on the boards of the UCSF Board of Overseers, the Stanford Graduate School of Business Advisory Council and the SugarBowl Ski Corporation. She is the founder and Chairman of the Board of the Bluefield Project to Cure Frontotemporal Dementia.
Job Titles:
- Administrative Assistant
- Project Coordinator
Roshni works with the DRK team to coordinate projects, plan events, and provide administrative support to the Chief of Staff, Nancy Huang.
Before joining DRK, Roshni spent two years as the Director of Operations for a design firm in Los Angeles. She worked closely with clients and contractors, managing and streamlining large-scale residential and commercial projects. She has also worked in the media and legal services industries, as well as with Arts for LA, an arts advocacy non-profit.
Roshni graduated with honors from Pizer College with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. She was the Chair of the Pitzer College Events Board and a Resident Assistant.
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- Strategic Advisory Board Member
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- Strategic Advisory Board Member
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- Administrative Assistant
- Receptionist
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- Portfolio and Investment Strategist