Dr. David A. Thomas is President Emeritus of Morehouse College. He took office as the 12th President of Morehouse on January 1, 2018, ushering in a new era of progressive leadership at the nation's largest and most prestigious liberal arts institution for men. With more than 30 years of experience in the business of higher education, Dr. Thomas is a visionary leader nationally respected as an expert in organizational change. He is the former Dean of Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business and is Professor Emeritus of Harvard Business School. He also served as a business school professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Under his leadership, Morehouse increased both enrollment and philanthropic giving. The college made history in higher education in May 2019, when the CEO Dr. Thomas had invited to serve as commencement speaker surprised the graduating class by offering to pay off their student loans. Dr. Thomas is a member of the Board of Directors of DTE Energy Company and Vanguard, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Yale Corporation and the Urban Institute. Dr. Thomas holds a doctorate in Organizational Behavior Studies and a Master of Philosophy degree in Organizational Behavior, both from Yale University, as well as a master's degree in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Administrative Sciences degree from Yale College. He is the co-author of three books.

Mark Anson is the Chief Executive Officer of the Commonfund and Chair of the Boards of CF Private Equity and Commonfund OCIO. Previously, he was the President and Chief Investment Officer for the Bass Family Office of Ft. Worth, Texas which was recognized as Family Office of the Year for 2014 & 2015. He was the President and Global Head of Investment Management at Nuveen Investments, a full-service asset management company with over $900 billion in assets under management. Prior to Nuveen, Mark served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer for the British Telecom Pension Scheme (BTPS), the largest institutional investor in the UK with assets of £55 billion. In addition, Mark was the CEO of Hermes Pensions Management in London, a £60 billion asset management company that is wholly owned by the BTPS. Prior to joining BTPS, he served as the Chief Investment Officer of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest institutional investor in the United States with over $400 billion in assets. Mark is currently a Trustee, member of the Committee and Chair of the Investment Committee of the $65 billion UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust. He also serves on the Law Board of the Northwestern University School of Law, Board of PanAgora Asset Management and the Board of Directors of the Toigo Foundation. He is the only person to serve on the Board of Governors for both the CFA Institute and the CAIA Association. He was an inaugural member of the SEC Investor Advisory Committee and the Chairman of the Board for the International Corporate Governance Network. Mark has published over 90 investment articles in professional journals and has won three Best Paper Awards. He is the author of five financial textbooks including the Handbook of Alternative Assets, which is the primary textbook used for the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst program. Mark earned a B.A. in Economics and Chemistry from St. Olaf College, a Ph.D. and Masters in Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, all with honors. He has also received several industry awards in recognition of his leadership in asset management including the Lifetime Achievement Award in Pension Fund Management from Plan Sponsor and the CAIA Leadership Award from the CAIA Association. Last, Mark has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, Certified Public Accountant, and Chartered Global Management Accountant professional degrees, and he is a Member of the Law Bar of New York and Illinois.

Ms. Nicole Arnaboldi is currently a Partner at Oak Hill Capital, a mid-market private equity firm, and an independent director of Manulife Financial Corporation (MFC), Commonfund, NextEra Energy, Inc., and Merit Hill Capital. She previously served as Vice Chairman of Credit Suisse Asset Management and, earlier, as Head of Credit Suisse's Illiquid Alternatives businesses, which included a wide range of private equity, real estate, and credit products. She also served on the boards or investment committees of private equity joint ventures in the U.S., Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Ms. Arnaboldi joined Credit Suisse in November 2000 when it merged with DLJ, where she was a Managing Director in the Merchant Banking area. Before the merger, she spent 15 years at DLJ, primarily in the private equity and venture capital groups. Ms. Arnaboldi is a member of the Dean's Advisory Board at Harvard Law School and a member of the Advisory Board for Harvard's Office of the Vice Provost for Advances in Learning. She serves as Investment Committee Chair and Vice President of Prep for Prep and is a member of the board of the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC). She also serves on the Finance Committee of the Lost Tree Club and as a Governor of the club. She previously served on other boards, including the Harvard University Corporation Committee on Finance, the New York Federal Reserve Bank's Investor Advisory Committee on Financial Markets, and New Yorkers for Children. Ms. Arnaboldi holds a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard College, a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, and an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar.

Jessica Hoffman Brennan is a seasoned executive and independent board director with over two decades of experience leading strategic growth, capital formation, business development, and investor engagement across premier global financial institutions. She currently serves on the board of Siddhi Acquisition Corp, and serves on the Executive Board of the Wharton School and the Dean's Advisory Council of the University of Michigan's College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. Ms. Brennan most recently served as Partner and Head of Strategy and Investor Relations at Kohlberg & Co., a $15 billion private equity firm, where she rebuilt the firm's global fundraising platform, led enterprise-wide strategic initiatives, and closed more than $5 billion across flagship and first-time strategies. Prior to Kohlberg, she was a Partner and Managing Director at The Carlyle Group, responsible for leading capital formation for the firm's most significant global clients, including sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, and insurers. Her earlier roles include serving as Head of Client and Product Solutions at Onex Corporation, where she built a 20-person global capital formation team and led product strategy across private equity and credit. She also spent over a decade at Credit Suisse's Private Fund Group (formerly DLJ), helping raise capital for more than 200 private market funds. Throughout her career, Ms. Brennan has raised tens of billions of dollars in capital across 400+ investment strategies and is recognized for her ability to build and lead high-performing teams, develop institutional partnerships, and drive innovation in alternative investment distribution. She holds an M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics and Literature from the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Kent Daniel is the Jean-Marie Eveillard/First Eagle Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. In 2017–18, Professor Daniel served as Chair of the Finance Division, and from 2019 through 2022 he served as Senior Vice Dean of Faculty Affairs at Columbia Business School. He is also a member of the academic advisory board of Martingale Asset Management. From 1996 to 2007, Professor Daniel was on the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was the John and Helen Kellogg Distinguished Professor of Finance (on leave from 2005–2007). He also served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and the University of British Columbia. His work, both theoretical and empirical, has been primarily in the areas of asset pricing and behavioral finance. Between 2004 and 2010, he was with the Quantitative Investment Strategies group at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where he became a Managing Director and head of the equity research effort in 2005, and co-Chief Investment Officer in 2009. Among other honors, his papers received the 1997 and 1999 Smith-Breeden awards for the best paper in the Journal of Finance, and have been reprinted in several books. He received the Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award for 1996–97 and 2000–01 at the Kellogg School, and the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence at Columbia Business School in 2016. Professor Daniel is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Finance, and as a director of both the American Finance Association and the Western Finance Association. Professor Daniel holds a B.S. with honors in physics from the California Institute of Technology, an M.B.A. from UCLA, and a Ph.D. in Finance from UCLA.

Susan E. Manske formerly served as Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a position she held for 22 years. In this role, she was responsible for managing the Foundation's $8.9 billion endowment and served on the senior management team that advised the President on strategic and policy matters. Ms. Manske joined the Foundation in May 2003, after serving as Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Trust Investments, at the Boeing Company since 2001, where she managed the firm's defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans. Prior to Boeing, she spent 13 years at the Ameritech Corporation in Chicago, joining in 1987 as Manager, Fixed Income, and advancing through successive roles in Ameritech's investment group — including Director, Capital Markets, and Director, Risk Management — before serving as Chief Investment Officer from 1998 to 2000. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Portfolio Manager for the Ford Motor Company. Ms. Manske's board service has included the United Way/Crusade of Mercy, The Chicago Academy for the Arts, the Pritzker Family Foundation, The Chamberlin Group, and the District 181 Foundation, with her most recent board positions at the Pritzker Family Foundation and The Chamberlin Group. Ms. Manske is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and holds an MBA from Marquette University. She is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Tobias "Toby" Moskowitz holds the Dean Takahashi '80 B.A., '83 M.P.P.M. Chaired Professorship in Finance at the Yale School of Management, having served as its inaugural chair holder since 2016. He was previously the Fama Family Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he taught from 1998 to 2016. Professor Moskowitz was recognized by the American Finance Association with its 2007 Fischer Black Prize, awarded biennially to the top finance scholar in the world under age 40 in years when one is deemed deserving; the award cited his innovative use of newly available data to address fundamental questions in finance. He also won the 2012 Ewing Marion Kauffman Medal for top research in entrepreneurship among scholars under 40. His papers have received numerous additional honors, including the Smith-Breeden Prize and the Brattle Prize (Journal of Finance), two Fama-DFA Prizes (Journal of Financial Economics), two Michael Brennan Awards (Review of Financial Studies), the Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award, the Bernstein-Fabozzi and Jacobs-Levy Award (Journal of Portfolio Management), two Harry Markowitz Prizes (Journal of Investment Management), the Whitebox Prize, and multiple Q-Group Best Paper Awards. His work has been cited in major outlets including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Financial Times, and a 2005 speech by then–Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, and he has appeared on CNBC, CNN, Fox, Bloomberg, ESPN, and HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. Professor Moskowitz is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a former editor of the Review of Financial Studies, as well as a former associate editor at the Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics. His research examines financial markets and investor behavior, spanning topics such as momentum in stock returns, biases in investment portfolios, returns to private business ownership, commercial real estate financing, mutual and hedge fund performance, the political economy of financial regulation, and the economics of sports. He has presented his research at academic, corporate, and government institutions worldwide. Professor Moskowitz spent the 2007–08 and 2014–15 academic years on leave at AQR Capital Management, a hedge fund in Greenwich, CT, with which he maintains an ongoing consulting relationship; he was named a principal at the firm in 2015, where he contributes to asset pricing and investment research for AQR's domestic and international strategies. Working with the late David F. Swensen, former Chief Investment Officer of the Yale Investments Office, Professor Moskowitz founded the Yale School of Management's Master's program in Asset Management, where he serves as Academic Director; the one-year program trains students in the theory and practice of asset management through a tailored curriculum. In 2011, he co-authored the New York Times best-seller Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports Are Played and Games Are Won (Crown Archetype, Random House) with L. Jon Wertheim of Sports Illustrated, and the two later co-authored the children's book The Rookie Bookie (Little, Brown, 2015). Born in West Lafayette, Indiana, Professor Moskowitz earned a bachelor's degree in industrial management and industrial engineering, with distinction, from Purdue University in 1993, a master's degree in management from Purdue in 1994, and a Ph.D. in finance from UCLA in 1998. 

Michael J. Warren is a Partner at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group (ASG), a co-founding member of the DGA Group, and is based in Washington, D.C. He draws on decades of leadership in financial services, international business, and government policy to advise clients on international growth strategies, stakeholder management, and the economic and geopolitical issues affecting global markets. Mr. Warren serves as a board director of the DGA Group, Brookfield Business Corporation, and MAXIMUS, and as Chairman of Oak Creek and QP Global, a family office providing bespoke services to single-family offices. He is a former Trustee of Yale University, where he chaired the Audit Committee and served on the Investment Committee of the Yale Corporation Endowment. He is a member of the Yale School of Management's Board of Advisors and Yale's President's Council on International Activities. He formerly served on the boards of Brookfield Property Partners, Ripple, the District of Columbia Retirement Board (as Chairman), and Walker & Dunlop. Mr. Warren has served in the Clinton, Obama, and Trump Administrations, including as Executive Director of President Clinton's National Economic Council; Senior Advisor in President Obama's White House Presidential Personnel Office; co-lead of the Treasury and Federal Reserve agency review teams for the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition; and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC, now the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation) during the Obama and Trump Administrations. He co-founded the Albright Stonebridge Group and served as its Managing Partner from 2013 to 2017. From 2004 to 2009, he was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Stonebridge International. He began his career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Mr. Warren holds degrees from Yale University and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.