Leadership and Staff
Board of Directors
Board Chair, Upwardly Global
Managing Director, Chief Operational Risk Officer and Global Head of Non-Financial Risk Frameworks, Morgan Stanley
Vice Chair, Upwardly Global
Founder, OneRefugee
Board Treasurer
Executive Vice President – Chief Financial Officer, Equity Residential
Board Member, Upwardly Global
Senior Manager, Merchandise, Weee
Board Member, Upwardly Global
Partner, DLA Piper
Board Member, Upwardly Global
Principal, Deloitte Consulting
Board Member, Upwardly Global
Chief Marketing and People Officer, O.C. Tanner
Board Member, Upwardly Global
Executive Director, Center for Immigrant and Refugee Health
Visiting Professor, University of California, Davis
Board Member, Upwardly Global
Vice President of Marketing, LinkedIn Talent Solutions
Board Member, Upwardly Global
Group Senior Vice President, Chief People and Culture Officer, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Board Member, Upwardly Global
Founder and CEO, The Evrose Group
Board Member, Upwardly Global
Co-Founder, super{set}
Co-Founder and CEO, MarkovML
Board Member, Upwardly Global
Managing Director, Head of Integration, Goldman Sachs
Board Member, Upwardly Global
Senior Managing Director, Data and AI, Accenture
Board Trustee Emerita, Upwardly Global
Founder, Upwardly Global
Board Trustee Emeritus, Upwardly Global
Retired Managing Director, Accenture
Board Trustee Emerita, Upwardly Global
Former Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, AIG
*Resigned in Q4 2024
Leadership Councils
Bob Bissen
Shorena Megrelishvili
Hannah Pace
Sarah Jackson-Han
Tori Travers
Derek Li
Adeniyi Balogun
Lauren Evans
Mackenzie Sheldon
Sheila Tricia
Marina Ter Sargsyan
Viboosh Chandrasekar
Olena Tkachuck
Adam Hecktman
Liz Miller
Maria Ptouchkina
Andy Gush
Ynah Parker
Nitida Wongthipkongka
Amrit Bedi
Peter Kim
Archana Rajan
Bryan Li
Liz Meyer
Ishan Gurg
Yvonnie Phan
Linda Spataru
Yoga Acharya
Mike Diamond
Christine Savino
Rohit Prasad
Eric Pan
Avni Patel
Josh Jelonek
Andriana Diez
Andrew Martin
Sasha Sidel
Sabrina Hodjati
Matthew Quinlan
Fiona Goodwillie
Nate Lee
Jeremy Ross
Arika Allen
Caroline Luzze
Busra Akdogan
Rumsha Siddiqui
Varun Jain
Mohamed Mahmoud
Subur Khan
Liza Dingle
Melina Wyatt
Puneet Brar
Lena Mackey
Maria Charles
Michael Kiever
Sheldon O’Brien
Ashrita Prasad
Lester Chen
Simona Alexander
Gita Patel
Sameer Ziaee
Amie Vu
*Italics are no longer active
Upwardly Global Staff
Jina Krause-Vilmar
Chief Executive Officer
Joshua Winter
Chief Operating Officer
Maha Ali
Vice President of People and Culture
Christine Ginsburg
Vice President of Finance and Administration
Khalid Osman
Vice President of Technology
Avigail Ziv
Vice President of Programs
Ahmed Kamal Abdel-Rasoul
Tahmina Afroz
Ahmad Afzali
Lillian Agbeyegbe
Stephanie Alman
Fahad Alnimah
Manizha Amiri
Sofia Oline Arnold
Bethany Atkins
Adedjobi Attere
Kahlil Bagatsing
Aizhan Baibolot
Chiquita Baldwin
Molly Balk
Afrika Brown
Audra Brown
Lily Bukshpan
Emily Chien
Gabriella Cipriani
Kimberly Cohen
Oana Orietta Cosa Lirtsman
Kierra Craig
Isabelle Darling
Whitney Destine
Jessica Deters
Augustine Egan
Gonca Egilmez Inegol
Alissa Exner
Michelle Celeste Ferrell
Tamar Frolichstein-Appel
Ying Fu
Meredith Fuentes
Lourena Gboeah
Grant Gigot
Esmeralda Gjongecaj
Abdul Hadi Hazrat Shah
Diana Hellali
Farzaneh Hozourbakhsh
Maria Molly Ricare Ibarra
Nazik Khalafyan
Jillian Kite
Bonnie Kone
Zena Latef
Bea Nicole Leal
Ana Leon
Michelle Kit Po Lim
Kiki Lin
Ming Liu
Ruth Llanos-Vos
Emily Logo
Jenna Lue
Elizabeth Madjlesi
Mahlet Mamo
Sylvia Christine Manalo
Shabnam Manati
Seyed Marashi
Camilla Jordan Maroket
Ana Camille van Heukelom McGough
Teletha McJunkin
Joanne Michaud
Kara Miller
Ahmad Shakib Mohsanyar
Andrea Moran
Sohail Morrar
Abel Mucyo
Iryna Myronchuk
Naseem Nazari
Larena Nellies-Ortiz
Walid Noori
Omotola Omololu
Novruz Orayev
Cintyan Charlotte Pardo Sanchez
Margie Dayanna Parra Woodall
Kyrie Philbrook
Cassidy Rappaport
Claudia Ribeiro Fernandes Soares
Nacllies Richards
Christopher Riley
Cecilia Rocio Goicochea
Sheyla Rosales Gutierrez
Shoaib Sahiby
Leart Shaka
Neil Shevlin
Zarina Shiqerukaj
Christine Singh
Maryana Sokha
Kayla Stevenson
Altanzul Sukhbaatar
Maria Tello
Selam Tesfazgi
Nadine Umuhire
Adriana Victoria Valdes
Lorenzo Vanelli
Bhavya Vasireddy
Kristi Walsh
Ariel Weinstein
Bijan Yaminafshar
Tsultrim Zangmo