ABOUT

Our Board

Farhang Mehregani

Board Member

Mr Mehregani is a Founding Partner of Silver Ridge Asset Management, responsible for Risk, Marketing, Silver Mine development, Recruiting and Business Development. Prior to Silver Ridge AM, Mr Mehregani spent the majority of his career at Citi where he most recently ran the CEEMEA Equities business from 2008 until 2011. During this time, he took the business from seventh-ranked to a market-leading position. Mr Mehregani was head of Trading Risk & Capital Allocation for Citi’s Global Equities Division from 2004 until 2008 and oversaw Risk & Capital Allocation across the business. Whilst in this role, he invested & managed a $1 billion hedge fund portfolio and helped build out proprietary trading units in Europe & Asia. Mr Mehregani holds a BS from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Heather Ibrahim-Leathers

Heather founded Global Fund for Widows following the passing of her grandmother in 2009. Since then, the Global Fund for Widows has raised over $1,000,000 for economic empowerment programs in Egypt, India, Tanzania, Nigeria, Bolivia, and the Dominican Republic.

Jennifer Wu

Jennifer joined the Global Fund for Widows in 2012 as a board member and is responsible for the Fund’s social media strategy. With over 20 years of work experience in financial services and strategic consulting, she has held numerous positions at global institutions across the United States, Europe and Asia.

Sandy Debbas

Sandy Debbas serves as Underwriting Counsel for TitleVest where she focusses primarily on New York Commercial transactions. She is also responsible for overseeing the 1031 Exchange division at TitleVest.

Pierre Debbas

Pierre E. Debbas is a partner and founding member of the Romer Debbas firm. Pierre has extensive experience in the areas of real estate and general business law.

Elena Yoon

Elena is the Head of Global Markets at Haitong International Securities’ in New York, overseeing the US institutional equities and equity capital market efforts for the firm.

Nancy Youssef

Ms. Nancy Youssef currently serves as Chief Business Development Officer for Soles 4 Souls, a not for profit social enterprise based in Nashville, TN focused on sustainably repurposing apparel and footwear.

Olena Malynska

Olena Malynska made a stellar career in financial institutions in Ukraine. Olena has more than 20 years of experience in top executive positions in Ukrainian and international banks operating in Ukraine. Over the last twelve years, Olena has been CEO and has led as Chair of Management Board of large and medium Ukrainian banks. As an early career, Olena had been an auditor in Andersen offices in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Los Angeles, US offices.

Angela Stulley

Angela was an original employee and Head of Sales at quant trading platform Archipelago/ Arca, which became the first US electronic stock exchange. Arca IPO’d, and then was acquired by the NYSE, where Angela was an SVP and Head of Global Sales, as well as CEO of Arca Europe.

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