Board of Advisors
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Michael Raftis
Vice President of Corporate Taxation at Erie Insurance Group
Michael Raftis is the Vice President of Corporate Taxation at Erie Insurance Group, where he oversee...
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Bruce Katz
Co-Founder and of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab
Bruce Katz is the Co-Founder and inaugural Director of the Nowak Metro Finance Lab. Katz regularly a...
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Steve Glickman
Develop LLC, Co-Author of Opportunity Zone Legislation
- Co-author of Opportunity Zone legislation
- Co-founder of Economic Innovation
- Group and Develop, LLC
- Senior Economic Advisor to the Obama Administration
- JD Columbia University, LLM LSE
- BA/MA Georgetown University
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Mayor Michael Nutter
Former Mayor of Philadelphia
- Former Mayor of Philadelphia
- Former President of the United States Conference of Mayors
- Professor at Columbia University’s School of Int’l and Public Affairs
- B.S. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
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Steven Grossman
Massachusetts State Treasurer and CEO, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC)
- Former State Treasurer, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- CEO of Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (www.icic.org)
- CEO of Grossman Marketing
- MBA Harvard Business School
- AB Princeton
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Beverly Norman-Cooper
Former Executive Director of National Supplier Diversity at Kaiser Permanente
- Former Executive Director of National Supplier Diversity at Kaiser Permanente
- Named Top 100 Leaders in Supplier Diversity by Women’s Enterprise USA
- MBA, Columbia University
- ABJ, University of Georgia
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Secretary Ray Mabus
Former U.S. Secretary of the Navy
- Former U.S. Secretary of the Navy
- Governor of Mississippi
- U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- JD Harvard Law School
- MA Johns Hopkins University
- BA University of Mississippi
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David Evans Shaw
Founder and CEO of IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX)
- Founder and CEO of IDEXX Laboratories (IDXX)
- Founder of Covetrus (CVET)
- Partner at Venrock
- MBA, University of Southern Maine
- BA, University of New Hampshire
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Kerry Duggan
Former Deputy Director for Policy to Vice President Joe Biden
- Former Deputy Director for Policy to Vice President Joe Biden
- Former Deputy Director of President Barack Obama’s White House Detroit Federal Working Group
- M.S. in Natural Resource Policy & Behavior from the University of Michigan
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Kevin Prokop
Co-Founder, Rockbridge Growth Equity
- Managing Partner, Rockbridge Growth Equity
- Questor Management Corp
- MBA University of Chicago
- BA Georgetown
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Jeremy Katz
Co-Founder SegTel
- Co-Founder segTEL (acq’dby Riverside)
- Co-Founder IRBNet (acq’dby Arsenal)
- Private Investor
- BA DartmouthCollege
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Geoff Davis
CEO Sorenson Impact Center
- CEO, Sorenson Impact Center
- CEO, Unitus
- Investment Committee, MIT Solve Fund
- Board Director, Summit Social Impact Fellows
- MPP, Harvard University
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Wallace Mathai-Davis
International Asset Manager and Merchant Banker
- Partner, Managing Director and COO of OFFITBANK
- International Asset Manager and Merchant Banker
- PhD/MA Princeton University
- BA The University of Notre Dame
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Paul Brown
Michigan e-Lab, Managing Director
- Former VP Capital Markets; Michigan Economic Development Corporation
- Attorney, Skadden Arps
- JD Wayne State University
- MBA/BA University of Michigan
CDE Board
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James Bason
President - Trufund Financial
James Bason has been the President of Trufund Financial for over 10 years and has nearly 30 years of...
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Alma Roberts
Director - Kaiser Permanente (Retired)
Alma Roberts serves as community health and economic opportunity and impact director for Kaiser Perm...
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Vanessa Otero
Executive Director - Healing Racism Institute
Vanessa Otero is currently the Executive Director of Healing Racism Institute and was the Director o...
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Rebecca Davidson-Wagner
Director of CDFI Investments - Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh
Rebecca Davidson-Wagner has 19 years of experience and is the Director of CDFI Investments in the Co...
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Kenneth Surrat
Chief Community Investment Officer for United Way of Greater Cleveland
Kenneth (Ken) Surratt is an experienced community leader who currently serves as Chief Community Inv...
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