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Michele A. Kaliski brings three decades of practical experience investing
in students, innovation, and public service. After graduating from
Cornell, Kaliski studied as a General Motors Fellow at MIT. Her master’s
thesis outlined an innovative strategy for empowering employees in
improving factory operations, a basis for her work as a manufacturing
engineer at GM’s Harrison Radiator and a competitive analysis engineer
at A.C. Rochester. After starting a family, Kaliski turned her career attention
to public service, organizing and fundraising for student programs
in the arts and athletics. In the past decade, she’s shifted focus to the
college level, pursuing investment opportunities at MIT’s Division of
Student Life. At Cornell, Kaliski has worked with the ECE Department to
establish and organize its Innovation Award Competition. Now entering
its fourth year, the competition has funded a number of remarkable
student teams, the members of which are well underway in their own
impactful careers.

Aref Lahham is a Managing Director and founding Partner of Orion Capital
Managers, which has invested over €10 billion over the last 16 years. Lahham
serves on the Funds’ Investment Committee and is Chief Investment
Officer, setting the strategy and leading the Funds’ acquisition teams and
activities as well as directing asset management activities on a significant
number of Fund investments. Lahham has 30 years of real estate investment
and development experience in the United States and Europe. He has a BSc
in Engineering from Purdue University, Masters of Engineering in Civil Engineering
from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from INSEAD.

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