Board of Directors

Kurt L. Davis

President

Kurt Davis Jr. is an investment banker and philanthropist with over a decade of experience. He advises companies, their directors and officers as well as creditors across the globe on a range of transactions, including debt and equity financings, financial restructurings, and mergers & acquisitions (M&A). Currently with Houlihan Lokey, Kurt has worked at various investment banks and private equity firms across the globe. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Kurt graduated with a BA in Political & Social Thought Interdisciplinary (Distinguished Major) and a BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law, and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

James Giuliani

Vice-President

James is the Chief Accounting Officer for GreenSky, a highly successful point of purchase financing platform. Previously, he worked in Ernst & Young’s financial services practice as an auditor for several years. James has a successful track record working on a variety of complex accounting and finance matters. He also volunteers his financial expertise to a not for profit organization, Hands of Love U.S.A, wherein he ensures their annual tax and financial statement compliance. He is a CFA Charterholder, CFP®Certificant and licensed CPA in the state of Georgia. James earned his M.B.A. with a focus in Strategic Management from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, where he was an Amy and Richard F. Wallman Scholar. He earned his B.B.A. with a focus in Accounting from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

Dr. Sharon Chan

Board Member

Dr. Sharon Chan is the Head of JLABS @ Shanghai at Johnson & Johnson. In 2021, Sharon was given a Social Impact Leadership Award Honorees by Serica. In 2020, Sharon was recognized by Forbes China as one of the 50 Top Women in Science and Technology. Prior to joining Johnson & Johnson, Sharon was Head of Asia at Aeras, where she established its Beijing office for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and focused on tuberculosis (TB) vaccines. Sharon has a business development background with a proven track record of establishing operations, building networks and translating organizational vision and mission into actionable and results-driven plans.  Sharon received a MPH at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA; an EMBA at IE Business School, Madrid, Spain; a Doctorate Degree in Biochemistry and Cardiovascular Medicine (DPhil) at University of Oxford, UK; and a Master in Molecular Biology and Cellular Biochemistry (MBioChem) at University of Oxford, UK

Warwick Simons

Board Member

Warwick is the founder & director of Cogent Capitalism, an independent investment research services firm. Prior to starting Cogent in 2017, Warwick was an Executive Director in the Investment Research Division at Goldman Sachs, where he co-led the GS SUSTAIN team with a mandate to identify the highest quality and most sustainable businesses globally. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Warwick worked as a Research Director at GaveKal Research in Hong Kong, as an investment analyst at London-based hedge fund Pendragon Capital, and as a Consultant at Bain & Company in both London and Sydney. Warwick holds an MBA (with Distinction) from INSEAD, and Bachelor degrees in Commerce & in Law (with Honors) from The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Warwick has traveled extensively, and in addition to his native country New Zealand he has also lived in Australia, the United Kingdom, France, Singapore, Argentina, Hong Kong and the United States of America.

Taylor S. Cable

Board Member

Taylor is the Chief Operating Officer at AiX, a fintech firm intent on disrupting the Inter Dealer Broker market.  Prior to that, Taylor spent over sixteen years at Moore Capital Management, a Global Macro Hedge Fund founded in 1989.  He held a variety of positions there from FX Execution Trader to Macro Portfolio Manager, to his most recent role as Senior Trader and Project Manager for the CEO/Founder. Currently based in London, England he has also spent many years living and working in New York and has traveled between the two cities extensively.  Taylor has an MBA from Columbia Business School, which he completed at London Business School via exchange.  He earned a BBA from the College of Business at James Madison University, majoring in Finance while also having studied abroad at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.  He was a member of the Madison Investment Fund, a student lead equity investment fund which manages a portion of the university’s endowment.