Frank ahimaz | Moderating aileen lee
Frank Ahimaz has spent the past 30 years investing globally for some of the world’s leading financial institutions including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch and Chemical Venture Partners. His experience includes investing institutional capital in equity, credit, real estate, hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital. He most recently served as the chief investment officer at one of the preeminent philanthropic institutions, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), where he invested in and/or frequently served on boards for firms including Ares, Carlyle, Sequoia, Renaissance Technology, ValueAct, and Leonard Green Partners. Frank began his role at MoMA by investing the institution’s more than $1.1 Billion in assets not only in the United States but in G-7 and G-20 countries as well. In 2017, Frank was named one of the top 30 chief investment officers in the United States by Trusted Insight Magazine.
Frank holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a BS in aerospace and aeronautical engineering from MIT.
TED KEITH | moderating pam holding
Ted Keith is a Partner for the Long Path Partners Fund. From 2015 to 2018, Ted was a Senior Investment Analyst at Three Bays Capital, a long/short hedge fund where he was an industry generalist. From 2011 to 2013, Ted was an Associate at Berkshire Partners where he was an industry generalist and member of Berkshire’s investment committee. From 2009 to 2011, Ted was an Analyst at the Blackstone Group’s mergers and acquisitions advisory practice where he worked as an industry generalist.
Ted is also a lecturer at the MIT Sloan School, where he teaches a very popular course on Hedge Funds & Long Term Investing.
Ted received his BA in Management Science and a minor in Economics from MIT and his MBA from Harvard Business School in 2015.
DEBORAH LUCAS | moderating Coimbatore Sundararajan "C. S." Venkatakrishnan
Dr. Lucas is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. Her current research focuses on developing and applying financial economics to evaluate the costs and risks of governments’ financial activities. She is also widely published in the fields of asset pricing and corporate finance.
Lucas is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Senior Fellow at the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics, and a member of the Shadow Open Market Committee. She serves on an advisory boards for the Urban Institute, on the editorial board of the Annual Review of Financial Economics, and as an associate editor and for the American Economic Journal Policy. She is a board member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and consultant for the IMF and Congressional Budget Office. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Public Administration and the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Previous appointments include chief economist, and subsequently assistant and associate director at the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, member Social Security Technical Advisory Panel, senior staff economist for U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, Professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and co-editor of the JMCB. An expert on federal credit programs, she has testified before the U.S. Congress on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, student loans, and strategically important financial institutions.
She received her BA, MA, and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
courtney jacobovits | moderating carla harris
Courtney is a second year MBA at MIT Sloan focusing on finance and sustainability. She has served the Sloan community as Co-President of the student body, Co-VP of Partnerships with the Black Business Students Association and is an active member of many student-admin committees. Courtney left a career in public service to come back to school. She began her career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco and most recently served as the Director of Cultural Planning for the City of Boston. She double majored in International Studies and Religion with a minor Asian American Studies at Northwestern University and she earned her Master’s in Urban Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Courtney is on the Board of Governors for the Harvard Club of Boston, Board of Directors for the Boston Society of Architects, and is an advisor for the Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs