ADVISORY BOARD

Stephen L. Brown is a globally recognized governance expert, thought leader and trusted advisor to corporate boards and C-suites. He is a Managing Director & Senior Advisor at KPMG Board Leadership Center where he advises business leaders on key corporate governance challenges.

Formerly, he was CEO of the Society of Corporate Governance and led the corporate governance group at TIAA/Nuveen. Prior to TIAA, Brown practiced corporate and securities law at WilmerHale and Skadden and was an associate with Goldman Sachs. For the past 16 years, Mr. Brown has been an adjunct professor teaching corporate governance and corporate law at Yale University, McDonough School of Business at Georgetown, and most recently, at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Additionally, he frequently guest lectures at several other academic institutions and regularly speaks at industry group meetings. Mr. Brown is a member of several boards including the National Football League Alumni Association, the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, Black Corporate Board Readiness at Santa Clara University, the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership at Columbia University, and CEOs for Corporate Purpose & CEO Investor Network. He is also an NACD Board Leadership Fellow and was a local elected public official. Mr. Brown received his B.A. with honors from Yale University and his J.D. from Columbia University Law School where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. linkedin.com/in/stephenlbrown

Rana Emerson is Program Director at College Possible Texas where she oversees college access and success programming. Before joining College Possible in October 2022, Rana was Compliance Officer at George Gervin Academy in San Antonio where she ensured that the school followed state and federal education rules, and also presided over the launch of a P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) dual-credit academy. Before returning to San Antonio in the summer of 2019 she spent 14 years as a resident of Brooklyn, New York where she was the Director of Education and College Pathways overseeing an after-school literacy program for young women of color at the Lower Eastside Girls Club. Before that she was a College Now dual-credit program coordinator at the City University of New York. In her spare time Rana writes and talks about race, Blackness and representation, media, culture and society, especially television, film and music.  Her writing has appeared in journals including Gender & Society, the American Journal of Sociology, the websites xoJane.com, Popmatters.com and in The Book of Jezebel. She also enjoys spending time with her family and being engaged with San Antonio community organizations including sitting on the board of directors of the Magik Theatre. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ranaemerson)

Minka attended Boston University and graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts. She taught art in several public schools, and worked for several art camps. She was the director of the Art Department at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington from 1985 to 1992 where she also was the director of Camp New Experiences in Art Together, Camp NEAT. She created and established a camp for children ages 3rd through 6th grades where the camper's put on a performance, did the artwork for the set, created and sang the songs. Minka is currently a Realtor, selling and leasing residential properties. She represents buyers and sellers, landlords and tenants. She has done this for the past 30 years. She is the managing partner of Your Minka Group, LLC. She and her group are licensed in Washington,D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. She worked for Long and Foster Realtors from 1994 to 2012. She then worked for Avery-Hess Realtors from 2012 until 2022. In 2022, she moved to Nexthome Envision, where she is still working.   She has experience in real estate investment and in the rental marketplace. Minka has been on condominium boards and is certified to do so (https://www.linkedin.com/in/minka-goldstein-71448410).

Wendy Maldonado is the Principal of Maldonado Consulting, LLC, a digital marketing and communications firm. Her experience spans both the private and non-profit sector, and she has worked in fields as diverse as management consulting, technology, investment banking, consumer products, economic development, and higher education. Clients have included the Yale Alumni Association, Listen4Good, 1863 Ventures, the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale, The Boston Consulting Group, SAP, MBI Inc., and the Brazelton Touchpoints Center at Boston Children's Hospital. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Yale University, a Master in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is based in Rhode Island. https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendymaldonadodamico/

Cherie Santos-Wuest is the Managing Partner at Celadon Venture Advisors, LLC, a Real Estate Advisory Service that provides investment strategy and real estate portfolio marketing consultation. Prior to this she served as the Principal Investment Officer at the CT State Pension funds, where she managed $2.5 billion in real estate investments in private equity funds, and integrated ESG policies into underwriting for portfolio investments. Previously, she served as Director of Global Social and Community Investments at TIAA-CREF, where she managed a $600 million SRI real estate and a $50M venture capital portfolio. In other positions at TIAA-CREF, Ms. Santos-Wuest served as a Director in TIAA’s Global Private Markets group, responsible for originating over $1.2 billion in large loan investments in various territories across the United States and Canada. A full member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), she was responsible for helping to launch ULI’s Responsible Property Investment Product Council, which she chaired between 2010 and 2012.

Ms. Santos-Wuest currently serves as a Vice Chair and Board Trustee for the NHP Foundation, a not-for-profit affordable housing development firm, with offices in NYC and Wash., D.C.; and has served on the Board of Directors for CREW DC, a women’s association that promotes women in the commercial real estate industry. Ms. Santos-Wuest was the recipient of the 2018 Vanguard Leader Award from the Council of Urban Real Estate. (CURE), for her work in fostering diversity and social equity in the Real Estate industry. Cherie holds a BS in Architecture from the University of Virginia, an MS in Architecture from Yale University, and an MS in Real Estate Development from MIT.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cherie-santos-wuest-1152363

For over 25 years, David Sneed has served as a trusted business advisor and corporate attorney for global, national and regional organizations based in Basel, Switzerland, New York City, Washington, DC and Savannah, GA.  He has advised senior executives at Jet Aviation, Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, Nextel Communications n/k/a Sprint and clients of Hunter Maclean, a prominent Savannah-based law firm, in the fields of aviation, commercial real estate, telecommunications, commercial contracts and corporate law. Service is an extremely important part of David's life. He is proud to have served as an Assistant District Attorney in Savannah, GA, and as a board director or advisory council member for various non-profit organizations, including Leadership Georgia, Mercy Housing Southeast, the Savannah Music Festival, the Hodge Foundation, Hospice Savannah, the Georgia Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, Go South, the Judicial Council of Georgia‘s Access, Fairness, Public Trust and Confidence Committee, StepUp Savannah, Employability, the West Broad Street YMCA, and the Savannah Economic Development Authority.  David is also a local advisory board member for Truist Bank. Born in rural Georgia as a 5th generation Georgian and raised in rural South Carolina where his HBCU graduate parents were educators, David proudly claims both states and is deeply committed to improving the lives of all people in the South. He is a graduate of Yale University and Cornell University Law School. linkedin.com/in/david-s-468a47156

Alan Supple has been involved in real estate investing and finance for the past 25 years.  Most recently as Managing Director and Head of Global Real Estate Securities at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, he formed and led a team investing in listed REIT strategies across both developed and emerging markets.  Before joining J.P. Morgan in 2016, Alan spent 8 years with CenterSquare Investment Management where he built and headed a team responsible for the European portion of global real estate securities strategies. Prior to investment management, Alan held senior positions in corporate finance and acquisitions within two listed real estate companies in Brussels and New York, and from 1999 to 2003 was a real estate investment banker with Salomon Smith Barney (Citigroup) in New York.  Before his real estate career, Alan was an environmental consultant, advising a variety of private sector and government clients on environmental risks and liabilities.  Alan holds a BA in Geology from Oxford University, an MS in Geophysical Sciences from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he graduated with Beta Gamma Sigma honors.  He lives in the Fort Lauderdale area with his wife and twin daughters.  www.linkedin.com/in/alan-supple

Mr. Zabierek is the Founder and CEO of Sugi Capital Management. He has 25 years of professional experience in real estate finance and investment. Prior to founding Sugi, he was the CEO of Presima, a global real estate investment manager that grew from $500m to $2.1b under his leadership from 2013 to 2018.  From 2003 to 2013, he was Managing Director and Co-Head of Global Real Estate Securities at Center Square Investment Management, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon Asset Management.  In that role, he launched and served as Senior Portfolio Manager for $4.5b of global real estate securities and served on the firm’s management committee. During his ten-year tenure there, the business grew from $250m to $7.0b. He has also held real estate investment banking roles at Morgan Stanley and Citigroup in New York. Mr. Zabierek holds a Masters’ degrees in both business administration and civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He is also a registered professional engineer and CFA® charterholder. He currently serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board of Harlem Lacrosse – Philadelphia. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterzabierek/