Board Members

Scott Gilbertson ’91
Chairman of Kravis Leadership Institute
Partner, TPG Growth
As Partner at TPG, Scott is focused on business building, talent development, and shareholder value creation within the portfolio of investments made by TPG’s middle market private equity platform TPG Growth. Most recently, Scott swerved as CEO of Beauty for All Industries (BFA), home to the largest beauty subscription brands in the world: IPSY and BoxyCharm, brand incubator Madeby Collective, and personal care brand, Refreshments. Within this role, Scott was an advisor to BFA’s board for the past seven years and had the opportunity to intimately learn and guide the business.
Over the course of his career he has had the honor of serving in a number of leadership positions including CEO of J.Crew, President of Bally of Switzerland, CEO of Fender Musical Instruments, and Chief Merchant of Under Armour. In every role, he brings a love for customer-centric thinking and a passion for growing digital, e-commerce companies. Prior to TPG, Scott spent a number of years living and working in Mexico and Venezuela while at The Boston Consulting Group. In his newly appointed role as CEO of BFA, he is excited about amplifying our beloved brands, deepening the relationship with our customers, and leveraging the power of BFA’s robust data and technology platform.
In his professional capacity, Scott has sat on dozens of corporate Boards and brings a wealth of knowledge from a variety of industries. In addition, he has greatly valued the opportunity to invest in his community through educational organizations and youth empowerment. Scott lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children. The Gilbertsons love to laugh, travel, and play in the great outdoors. Scott Gilbertson is a native Minnesotan. He spent his elementary and middle school years studying and playing hockey in Fargo, ND before attending high school at Phillips Academy Andover. He earned his undergraduate degree from Claremont McKenna College and his MBA from Northwestern University.

Michael Barr ’93
Partner, Sterling Investment Partners
Mike is a Partner at Sterling Investment Partners, a middle market private equity firm with a 25 year track record of investing in and building companies across a number of market sectors. Mike joined Sterling in 2001 as an associate and over 15 years at Sterling has developed experience across all facets of private equity investing including sourcing opportunities, negotiating and structuring both buy-side and sell-side transactions, and working with management teams after Sterling’s initial investment to help drive strategy and growth. Mike currently serves on the Board of Directors of several Sterling portfolio companies. Prior to joining Sterling Investment Partners, Mike was a senior auditor at Arthur Andersen and an associate in Corporate Finance at Lehman Brothers. In between Lehman Brothers and Sterling, Mike was VP, Finance of Wellsteads, a start up focused on an innovative business model combining technology with retail food delivery.
Mike graduated Claremont McKenna in 1993 with a BA in Economics and Accounting, and received an MBA in 1998 from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mike lives in CT with his wife Susan and three children.

Cody Chang ’13
Head of Product, Quadency
Cody Chang is a serial entrepreneur based in New York City. He started a wordpress, web development agency in his NYC Chinatown apartment during his high school years, and scaled the business to multiple teams in India, recurring contracts, and landed a Fortune 100 client. After obtaining an Economics degree from Claremont McKenna College, he joined the founding team of an Asia-based pharmaceutical logistics company and was directly responsible for all facets of the business operation, including direct negotiation with the Chinese Government and fundraising over $30 mil. He later relocated to Singapore as the COO of an Investment Bank. After exiting financial services, Cody returned to NYC as a Senior Product Manager at Learnvest by Northwestern Mutual (life insurance), and later Vimeo (video-streaming) and co-founded Product Gym, a software product management community dedicated to helping working professionals transition into the product management industry. Currently, he is the Head of Product at Quadency, a cryptocurrency trading platform. In addition to overseeing business operations at Product Gym, he recently started a Land Conservation Easements consultancy, whose mission is to responsibly direct financial resources for better land use in the US.

Hiram E. Chodosh
President, Claremont McKenna College
Hiram E. Chodosh became president of Claremont McKenna College on July 1, 2013. He is CMC’s fifth president, and joined the College having already achieved distinction as an educator, an academic administrator, a legal scholar, and an internationally recognized advocate of judicial reform around the world.
Just prior to his arrival in Claremont, Chodosh served as Dean of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, where he was also the Hugh B. Brown Endowed Presidential Professor of Law and Senior Presidential Adviser on Global Strategy. During his seven-year tenure, he worked collaboratively to establish several new centers on law and bioscience, global justice, educational innovation, global justice, and veterans, and led efforts to begin construction of a new $60 million facility.
Born in 1962 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Chodosh received his B.A. in history from Wesleyan University in 1985, and his J.D. in 1990 from Yale Law School. He began his law career at the international firm of Cleary, Gottlieb in New York. In 1993, he left the firm to join the faculty of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. He is married to Priya Junnar and they have two children, Saja and Caleb.

Jay A. Conger
Henry R. Kravis Chaired Professor of Leadership Studies, Claremont McKenna College
Jay Conger is the Henry R. Kravis Chaired Professor of Leadership Studies at the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College in California. He is one of the world’s experts on leadership. You will see him quoted in the Wall Street Journal and other business periodicals analyzing people and trends in the executive suite and in the boardroom. In recognition of his extensive work with companies, Business Week named him the best business school professor to teach leadership and one of the top five management education teachers worldwide. He has published over one hundred articles and 14 books on the topics of leadership development, corporate boards, influence and communications strategies for leaders, executive leadership, and organizational change.

Heather Cowart ’12
Senior Global Portfolio Manager, 3M
Heather Cowart is a Senior Global Portfolio Manager in 3M Oral Care. In her current role, she has overseen award-winning product launches and pioneered new-to-3M business models. She also leads global expansion of the 3M-Bioclear partnership with recent launches in China, Brazil and Western Europe. Heather previously worked in product commercialization as a New Product Marketer and in 3M Corporate Strategy where her projects included developing the corporate strategic plan.
Heather also brings global and start-up experience from her pre-3M career. As a Fulbright grantee, she taught English academic writing at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She then joined a real estate finance start-up where she developed new loan products, managed institutional investor relationships, and built out the company’s trade desk.
Heather graduated from Claremont McKenna College as Valedictorian with a dual degree in French and Government and was a member of the inaugural class of Seaver Leadership Scholars. She earned her MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where she was a Kapnick Leadership Development Facilitator. Outside of work, she volunteers as a mentor with BestPrep and as an alumni interviewer with Claremont McKenna’s Admissions Office, and she serves on the Board of the Junior League of Saint Paul.

Tina Daniels ’93
Past Chair, ex-officio, KLI Advisory Board
President & COO, Aquila | Association of National Advertisers
Tina Daniels is the President and COO of Aquila | Association of National Advertisers. Before joining Aquila, Tina Daniels served as Google’s Director of Agency & Brand Measurement Analytics, leading marketing analytics sales teams responsible for measuring brand and performance advertising impact for Google and YouTube’s largest agencies and clients. Tina was previously Director of Agency Business Development at Google. Prior to joining the sales team, Tina ran Google’s Advertising Platform and Publisher Marketing team responsible for industry marketing of Google’s adtech, programmatic and mobile solutions. Before joining Google, Tina was the Chief Revenue Officer at Syncapse, leading their sales, account management and service teams advising many global consumer brands on their social media and marketing strategies. Her previous roles as a Director in Microsoft’s global advertising sales group and as Vice President, Global Client Development at Avenue A|Razorfish have given her unique experience managing large-scale client relationships and driving digital marketing strategies across a wide variety of advertiser verticals. She is a graduate of Harvard Business School and Claremont McKenna College. After college, Tina earned a CPA while working in the audit division of Arthur Andersen and worked as a corporate finance analyst in the investment banking division of Oppenheimer Companies. She serves as President of the board of the Women’s Prison Association and Home, the oldest social services agency in NYC. She is a member of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Cycle for Survival Founders’ Circle, and the Kravis Leadership Institute Advisory Board. Additionally, Tina serves on the board of trustees at Claremont McKenna College and the Women’s Prison Association.

David Day
Academic Director, Steven L. Eggert ‘82 P’15 Professor of Leadership, George R. Roberts Fellow
David Day, Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychology at Claremont McKenna College and Academic Director of the Kravis Leadership Institute, Steven L. Eggert ‘82 P’15 Professor of Leadership and George R. Roberts Fellow. Previously he was Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Woodside Chair in Leadership and Management at The University of Western Australia Business School.
David Day is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, International Association of Applied Psychology, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and has core research interests in the areas of leadership, identity, and leadership development. In 2010 he was awarded the Walter F. Ulmer Research Award from the Center for Creative Leadership (USA) for outstanding, career-long contributions to applied leadership research.

Gastón Espinosa, Ph.D.
Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religious Studies, Claremont McKenna College
Dr. Gastón Espinosa did graduate work at Princeton, Harvard, and the University of California at Santa Barbara, where he received his Ph.D. in American History. He arrived at CMC in 2017 and is the Arthur V. Stoughton Professor of Religious Studies at Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Espinosa has been a visiting Fellow at Dartmouth College, Northwestern University, an NEH Fellow at the National Humanities Center Institute for Advanced Studies (NC), and he was named the 2016-2017 William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and Public Life in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. He served two-terms as President of La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion at the American Academy of Religion and is the co-editor of The Columbia University Press Series in Religion and Politics. Dr. Espinosa is the author/editor of nine books, including Latino Pentecostals in America: Faith and Politics in Action (Harvard), Religion, Race, and Barack Obama’s New Democratic Pluralism (Routledge), Religion, Race, and the American Presidency (Rowman & Littlefield), Religion and the American Presidency: George Washington to George W. Bush (Columbia), Mexican American Religions: Spirituality, Activism and Culture (Duke), and U.S. Latino Religions and Civic Activism in the United States (Oxford). He is currently finishing Latino Religions and Politics in American Public Life and has started research on The Spiritual Impulse of the Civil Rights Movements. He teaches a number of classes (some funded by KLI) that deal with leadership, including Visionaries, Prophets and Transformational Leadership, Religion, Race and the Civil Rights Movement, Religion and the American Presidency, American Religious History, U.S. Latino Religions and Politics, Religion and American Politics, Mystics, Prophets and Social Change, Religion, Politics & Global Violence, and Religion & Film.

Hector Fernandez ’01
CEO, Aristocrat Gaming
Hector Fernandez serves as the CEO of Aristocrat Gaming, overseeing the end-to-end delivery of Aristocrat’s land-based business on a global scale. Prior to assuming the role of CEO, he served as President of the Americas and EMEA as well as the Chief Financial Officer for the Americas. Leading the land-based organization across the globe for over 300 gaming jurisdictions, Hector is a Guatemalan immigrant to the United States whose dual fluency in English and Spanish continues to set him apart from other executives.
A leader that rose to success from humble beginnings, his over 15 years of progressive finance, strategy and accounting experience serve as guiding principles to Aristocrat’s ongoing track record of success.
Furthermore, his continued dedication and investment in the organization’s employees and the company culture further demonstrate his exemplary leadership. A certified public accountant, he holds an MBA with a concentration in Finance & Marketing from the University of Southern California. He also has a BA in Economics with a minor in Accounting and Government from Claremont McKenna College.
Hector and his wife Lesley have 2 children, Sofia and Mateo. Additionally, he loves to travel and has been to 5 of 7 continents. When he’s not leading the Aristocrat business, he can be found spending time with his family and friends as well as staying up to date on sports news and exploring new cities.

Laura M. Grisolano ’86
President & CEO, Bridge Mediation & Leadership Solutions
Laura is an Attorney-Mediator, Conflict Management and Organizational Development Consultant serving clients nationwide. She is also a Hogan Certified Executive Coach. Laura designs leadership development programs and conflict management solutions for clients who want to maximize team performance and help individuals achieve their full potential. Bridge Mediation and Leadership Solutions also offers neutral mediation and facilitation services to help parties resolve disputes, identify shared goals, and move forward. Laura believes conflict is an invitation to invent a solution. Neuroscience, civility, higher education, innovation, and individual empowerment are among Laura’s personal and professional passions.

Shamil Hargovan ’10
Managing Director, STS Capital Partners
Shamil Hargovan currently serves as a Managing Director at STS Capital Partners. He is also a co-chair of the Success to Significance™ pillar, a group dedicated to generating billions in new philanthropic and impact capital. He is also the CEO at Altruvest Charitable Services, which focuses on growing the nonprofit sector capacity. He serves on several advisory boards at Beyond Capital Ventures, Eden Rift Vineyards, Oui Will, Industrie Africa, TENZR Biointeractive Technologies, and in/PACT. Mr. Hargovan majored in PPE at CMC. During his time at CMC, he was involved in the ASCMC Executive Board and was the President of the Claremont International Relations Society.

Matt Horvitz ’08
Managing Director, Moreland Management Co.
Matthew (Matt) Horvitz is Managing Director at Moreland Management Co., a Cleveland, Ohio-based Single Family Office. Matt works with the executive team on investment sourcing, due diligence and oversight, and he also helps manage and oversee the various other administrative functions and services of the organization.
Matt was previously a Partner at Aspen Grove Capital LLC, a $4BN multi-family office, where he developed and was responsible for managing the firm’s alternative investment program.
Matt is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College (BA). Matt serves on the BOD of Moreland Management Co. and the Kravis Leadership Institute.
Matt lives in Gates Mills, Ohio with his wife, Elizabeth, two young daughters, Judith and Meredith, and his dog, Fozzie. Matt is a Porsche enthusiast and enjoys skiing and summers with his family at their lake house in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.

Daniel Kan ’09
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Cruise Automation
Daniel Kan is co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Cruise Automation, a San Francisco based developer of autonomous vehicle technology. In March 2016, the 40 person startup was sold to General Motors but continues to operate as it’s own entity where Kan remains the company’s COO. Kan was number 7 on Fortune’s 40 under 40 list in 2016. Previously, he co-founded Exec, a company that provided fully vetted professional and trained cleaners, which was sold to Handy (Handybook at the time) in 2014. Kan graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a bachelors in Economics and Psychology and a minor in Leadership. He served as a member of the Kravis Fellows at the Kravis Leadership Institute and now serves as an Advisory Board Member. He currently resides in San Francisco.

Henry Kravis ’67
Co-Founder, Co-Chairman, and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
Founding Chair, KLI Advisory Board
Henry R. Kravis is co-founder, co-chairman, and co-chief executive officer of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR), a leading global investment firm.
Mr. Kravis is a leader in the social enterprise and social entrepreneur movement. The eponymous donor to and founding member of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College, Mr. Kravis believes in the positive change that can occur in the world through funding the ideas of responsible and innovative leaders. In 2005, he founded the Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership.
Mr. Kravis currently serves on the boards of First Data Corporation, China International Capital Corporation, and ICONIQ Capital, LLC. He also serves as a director, chairman emeritus, or trustee of several cultural, professional, and educational institutions, including the Business Council (vice chairman), Claremont McKenna College, Columbia Graduate School of Business (co-chairman), Mount Sinai Hospital, the Partnership for New York City, the Partnership Fund for New York City (founder), Rockefeller University (vice chairman), Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (chairman), and the Tsinghua School of Economics and Management.
Mr. Kravis earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Claremont McKenna College and a master’s degree in business administration from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

John-Michael Lind ’86 P’26
Chairman & CEO, SPL Group
John-Michael is the founding Principal of the SPL Group of Companies and is a trustee of The Lind Family Trust and the Lind Family Office. JM is also a Director and co-Founder of ACCESS Health International. John-Michael divides his time between California, New York, and Mumbai. JM received his Bachelor’s Degree from Claremont McKenna College and a JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (Editor of the International Law Review). JM is also fluent in Dutch, English and German and conversant in French.

Mike Nutting ’97 P’24
Chief Capital Markets Officer, Marlin Equity Partners
Mike Nutting is the Chief Capital Markets Officer for Marlin Operations Group, Inc., an affiliate of Marlin Equity Partners. In this role, Mike oversees corporate finance and capital markets activities for Marlin Equity Partners’ portfolio companies, and manages the firm’s capital markets relationships. Mike also leads Marlin Credit Opportunities Fund, L.P., an affiliate of Marlin Equity Partners which acquires and manages investments in credit.
Previously, Mike was Managing Director, Head of Capital Markets & Corporate Finance at Glendon Partners (an affiliate of The Gores Group) where he served in a similar capacity. Prior thereto, he spent over 12 years in investment banking, most recently at Credit Suisse, and prior to that at Merrill Lynch and CIBC Oppenheimer. As an investment banker, Mike advised private equity firms and their portfolio companies in executing capital markets transactions and merger & acquisitions, and in other corporate finance matters.
Mike earned a BA in Economics-Accounting, cum laude, from Claremont McKenna College, where he was a member of the NCAA Baseball and Football teams and active in Army ROTC. Mike also earned an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management, and is a CFA charter holder. He lives in southern California and has been an active volunteer in his parish church and in youth sports in the community. Mike enjoys spending time with family and friends, live sports and music, skiing and being outdoors.

Michelle Oden ’94
Partner/Principal, People Advisory Services, EY
Michelle Oden is a Partner/Principal in People Advisory Services at EY, with 20 years’ experience planning and implementing large-scale transformational change to enhance organizational performance. Michelle’s core experience includes IT and business transformations. Michelle also held key positions in Media & Entertainment at a large television and film production/distribution company, where she managed organizational readiness for a global SAP implementation and helped establish the company’s internal change management methodology among other key contributions.

Sean Rawson ’00
Co-Founder, Waterford Property Company
Sean Rawson is a recognized leader in the multifamily development and investment industry. An expert in affordable housing, Rawson has a deep understanding of tax credit financing and housing policy. Rawson is an expert in working with local governments to create a diversity of housing types to meet their public policy goals. Since forming Waterford with John Drachman in 2015, Rawson has acquired and developed nearly 6,000 residential units in California totaling approximately $3.5 billion. In 2021, Rawson led Waterford to be the largest owner and operator of Essential Housing units in the State of California with over 4,000 units.
Prior to forming Waterford Property Company and its predecessor companies, Rawson was the Southern California President for St. Anton Partners, a leading privately-owned multifamily development company where he led the firm’s expansion into Southern California. Prior to his time working in the multifamily development industry, Rawson began his career with The Concord Group, a national economic market advisory firm, where he conducted market and financial feasibility analysis for homebuilders, developers, private equity groups and lenders.
Rawson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Claremont McKenna College in Government, Economics and History where he graduated with honors. While at Claremont McKenna College, Rawson was a four-year letterman on the men’s varsity basketball team. He also earned an MBA from the University of California, Irvine Merage School of Business with a concentration in real estate finance where he has been a guest lecturer and is on the Board for the UCI Center for Real Estate. Mr. Rawson is an avid sports enthusiast, runner and summited Mt. Kilimanjaro. Mr. Rawson is a resident of Long Beach, CA with his wife and three children where he is very civically engaged.

Ronald Riggio P’10
Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology, LSS Faculty Advisor
Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D., CMC P’10 is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology at Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Riggio’s research interests center on charismatic and transformational leadership, nonverbal and verbal communication skills, and the development of leadership potential across the lifespan. He has published over two-dozen authored or edited books and more than 200 articles and book chapters. He has also served as a consultant to dozens of organizations, large and small, across the business, education, and non-profit sectors. He is the editor of the Routledge/Taylor & Francis book series: Leadership: Research and Practice and Cambridge University Press’s Elements in Leadership. In 2020 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Leadership Association, and he is a fellow in the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association.

Mitzi Reaugh ’99 VP, Studio Strategy & Analysis, Netflix
Mitzi Reaugh is a versatile executive, entrepreneur, and public company board member. Her career spans 20 years in digital media, consumer internet, and technology with experience building new businesses and $7B+ in deal transactions.
Most recently as CEO & Board Member for Jaunt XR, Mitzi led the company in the creation of immersive AR content based on machine learning and computer vision software with marquis clients and partners including Snapchat, NTT and PWC. Mitzi successfully led the exit to Verizon in September 2019 and currently serves as a Strategic Advisor to Verizon.
In addition, Mitzi currently serves on the board of Harmonic (Nasdaq: HLIT) since 2012 and Chairs the Compensation Committee. She previously served as an NED for Entertainment One (LON: ETO) until the acquisition of the company by Hasbro.
Mitzi is the co-founder and advisory board member to the non-profit FEME (Female Executives in Media & Entertainment).

Kwame N. Yankson ’04
Managing Director, Wells Fargo Corporate & Investment Banking
Kwame N. Yankson is a Managing Director in Wells Fargo’s Corporate & Investment Bank’s Technology, Media & Telecom group.
Kwame leads Technology Services investment banking coverage, consisting of companies in the Human Capital Management, Consulting & Outsourcing, and IT & Digital Services sectors. Kwame started his career at Deloitte & Touche and worked as a certified public accountant.
Kwame serves as Chairman of 100 Foundations in Education and Founding Board Member Emeritus for El Paso Leadership Academy. Kwame is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Kravis Leadership Institute and was appointed as the KLI Community Outreach intern while he attended CMC.
Kwame received an undergraduate degree in Economics-Accounting and Psychology with a Leadership Sequence at Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.
Life Members

Jean I. Cox P’92
Former Board of Directors, Communities in schools of the Nation's Capital
Jean Cox has a professional background in broadcast journalism and now devotes her time to philanthropy and community service. She serves on the Advisory Council of the Harvard Medical School Department of Neurobiology and is Trustee Emerita at Deerfield Academy.
Ms. Cox served on the CMC Board of Trustees from 1997 to 2001. Her former husband, Archie, served on the CMC Board of Trustees from 1992 to 1997. Their son, Christopher, is a CMC graduate.
Ms. Cox has been helpful to CMC in facilitating introductions. For instance, she introduced Pamela Gann to the head of the Posse Foundation. As a result, CMC was selected as the first college on the West coast to partner with that foundation. (Recently, the Starr Foundation of New York City awarded CMC a $1 million grant in recognition of the College’s need blind admission policy and its partnership with the Posse Foundation.)
Ms. Cox is an alumna of Sweet Briar College.

Stephen L. Eggert ’82 P’15
Owner, Anton Development Company, LLC
Steven L. Eggert is Founder of Anton DevCo, Inc., based in Sacramento, California. Anton DevCo develops, constructs, owns, and manages multifamily rental apartments throughout California. He has developed over 10,000 rental apartments in over 60 projects in 25 years.
Mr. Eggert is a trustee of Claremont McKenna College. He serves on the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and is a member of the Policy Advisory Board of Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics at U.C. Berkeley. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and has previously served as a publicly elected official of a local water district, as a planning commissioner, and on the board of the California Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Eggert earned a bachelor’s degree from Claremont McKenna College and a law degree from U.C. Berkeley. He served as a U.S. Army officer and Airborne Ranger, stationed in Germany patrolling the Iron Curtain. He and his wife Pam live in Sacramento and Newport Beach. They have three grown daughters including a CMC graduate.

Michael Grindon ’76
Past Chair, ex-officio, KLI Advisory Board
Legendary Entertainment, President, Worldwide Television Distribution
Michael Grindon currently manages Grindon Media, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in media distribution and television production. Grindon Media advises a variety of companies, domestic and international, who are seeking to exploit new opportunities in the rapidly changing media landscape.
For 15 years, from April 1995 to March 2010, Michael Grindon served as president of Sony Pictures Television International (SPTI), a Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) company. SPTI is responsible for all of SPE’s television production, distribution and networks businesses outside of the United States. Grindon managed the distribution of all SPE feature films and television programming to television, mobile and digital content delivery outlets outside the United States; local television production in all international markets; and the establishment and growth of all Sony’s international television networks. Annual division revenues grew from less than $100 million to over $2.0 billion under Grindon’s leadership at SPTI, with a team of over 1200 people working together around the world.
Michael Grindon joined Columbia Pictures, now a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, in 1986 and served in several executive positions in the international television division before being named President of SPTI in 1995. Previously, Grindon spent six years at HBO, first as manager, special markets, then as director of national accounts. Prior to HBO, he served as a marketing analyst in the consumer video division of Time Life Films.
Grindon received a BA degree in economics from Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Michael Grindon serves on several boards and charitable foundations, including the Vijay Amritraj Foundation. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College.

E. David Hetz ’80 P’10
Past Chair, ex-officio, KLI Advisory Board
Managing Director & CEO, Prager & Company
David Hetz is a Managing Director and the Chief Executive Officer of Prager & Company. Mr. Hetz has over 40 years of investment banking, private equity, venture capital, and boardroom leadership experience. Prior to joining Prager in 2018, he was Vice Chair of Cain Brothers & Co., a leading healthcare investment banking firm.
In 2001, Mr. Hetz co-founded and was managing partner of Cutlass Capital, a venture capital and growth equity fund focused on investing in healthcare services and medical technology companies. From 1987 until 2000, he served as co-head of investment banking, and member of the management committee of Robertson, Stephens & Co. As head of its Mergers & Acquisitions department, he led its emergence as one of the preeminent M&A advisors to the information technology and healthcare industries and executed/oversaw over 300 transactions exceeding $50 billion in enterprise value.
Since 2002, Mr. Hetz has served on the Board of Trustees of Claremont McKenna College in many leadership positions, including vice chair of the board, chair of the Board Affairs Committee, chair of two Strategic Planning Committees, chair of the Advancement Committee, and co-chair of two capital campaigns that to-date have raised over $1.3 billion. Over the past two decades, he has served on over a dozen other public and private corporate and not-for-profit boards, including the Board of Trustees of the Middlesex School, the Kravis Leadership Institute, and the Cathedral School for Boys.
Mr. Hetz received his undergraduate degree in economics from Claremont McKenna College and his MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Hetz is a FINRA Registered Securities Principal.

Harry T. McMahon ’75 P’08 P’09
Past Chair, ex-officio, KLI Advisory Board
Senior Advisor, G100 Network
Executive Vice Chairman, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (retired)
Harry McMahon has been an Investment Banker for substantially all of his career, providing innovative strategic solutions, financial advice and transaction execution for corporations and institutions worldwide. He has served in many leadership roles, including: Executive Vice Chairman of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Vice Chairman and Co-Head of Global Corporate Finance of Merrill Lynch and ran Investment Banking for the firm’s Western Region for 25 years. His broad base of experience has included leading deal teams on more than 400 projects involving Mergers and Acquisitions or Corporate Finance advisory work.
After 32 years at Merrill Lynch and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, McMahon decided in April 2015 to leave the firm and move into a variety of new activities. These include acting as Senior Advisor to the G100 Network, a consortium focused on CEO and Board Development; serving as Independent Director in both the For-Profit and Not-for-Profit sectors; and finding other innovative ways to create value.
McMahon joined Merrill Lynch in 1983 and held senior leadership positions including Co-Head of the Global Corporate Finance group from 1996-2003 and Vice Chairman of Merrill Lynch from 2003 to 2008. Following the merger with Bank of America in 2009, McMahon became the firm’s first Executive Vice Chairman. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, McMahon worked for the Northern Trust Bank of Chicago in commercial banking and corporate finance from 1975-1983.
From 2006-2014, McMahon served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Claremont McKenna College where he remains a Trustee. He also serves on the Board of Advisors of the Henry R. Kravis Leadership Institute; on the Selection Committee of the Kravis Prize in Social Entrepreneurship; on the National Council of the American Enterprise Institute; and on the Board of Directors of Cottage Hospital.
He holds an Honorary Doctorate and a BA from Claremont McKenna College and an MBA from University of Chicago Booth School. He and his wife Jacquie have four children.

Douglas Peterson ’80 P’14 P’15
Past Chair, ex-officio, KLI Advisory Board
Senior Advisor at S&P Global
Douglas L. Peterson is President and Chief Executive Officer of S&P Global.
S&P Global is a leading provider of transparent and independent ratings, benchmarks, analytics and data to the capital and commodity markets worldwide. The Company’s divisions include S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices and S&P Global Platts.
S&P Global was created in April 2016 after shareholders approved changing the Company’s name from McGraw Hill Financial.
Mr. Peterson was elected President and CEO of McGraw Hill Financial, effective November 2013 and he joined the Company in September 2011 as President of Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services.
Previously, Mr. Peterson was the Chief Operating Officer of Citibank, N.A., Citigroup’s principal banking entity that operates in more than 100 countries. Mr. Peterson was with Citigroup for 26 years, during which time he transformed businesses and drove performance in investment and corporate banking, brokerage, asset management, private equity, and retail banking. His prior roles include CEO of Citigroup Japan, Country Manager for Costa Rica and Uruguay, and Chief Auditor of Citigroup.
Mr. Peterson is co-chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Financial Services Governor’s Committee and the Forum’s Global Strategic Infrastructure Initiative. Additionally, he co-chairs the Bipartisan Policy Center’s CEO Council on Infrastructure. He serves on the Boards of Directors of S&P Global, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee, the Institute of International Finance’s Market Monitoring Group and the Partnership for New York City. Mr. Peterson is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Kravis Leadership Institute and the Boards of Trustees of Claremont McKenna College and the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
Mr. Peterson received an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree in mathematics and history at Claremont McKenna College.