About

Gregg Bishop is the Executive Director of the Social Justice Fund at the Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation and has worked across New York City’s government, nonprofit and private sectors. In his current position, Gregg leads the Social Justice Fund’s work on racial justice and economic mobility for BIPOC populations in Brooklyn. He has over 13 years of government experience and served as the Commissioner of the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS) in the years 2015-2020. His nonprofit leadership experience includes a role as interim Executive Director at Coro New York, and Senior Manager of Workforce Development at NPower. In his 20’s Gregg taught himself to computer code and worked at several startups, including TheStreet.com, Oxygen Media, and VIBE Magazine. Born in Grenada and raised in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, Bishop received a master’s degree in Integrated Marketing and Management Communication from Florida State University and a B.S. in Business Administration from Florida A&M University. Gregg serves on several boards including Red Hook Initiative, Junior Achievement of New York, The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and The Association for a Better New York (ABNY).

Shaun Donovan served as the US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2014, and as Director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2014 to 2017. He previously held roles as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Multifamily Housing at HUD and as acting Commissioner for the Federal Housing Administration. Donovan holds A.B., M.P.A. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University.

Matt Harris is Partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where he focuses on investments in financial technology and services. In his civic life, Matt champions strong communities – both globally and locally. As a Board member of Endeavor, he supports high-impact entrepreneurs building sustainable economies worldwide. In his role as Chair of the Board of the Williamstown Theater Festival, he helps steer a beloved cultural institution in his former home of Williamstown Massachusetts - where he also launched Berkshire Capital Investments to support entrepreneurs building innovative companies in Western Massachusetts. Matt was a Greater NY partner in 2016 and 2017, working with Fatima Shama, CEO of the Fresh Air Fund.

Tony Kim is partner at Centerview Partners, a leading independent investment bank, and was part of the firm’s founding team. He has spent his 20+ year career focused on strategic advice and M&A across a broad range of sectors and has executed over $600 billion in transactions. In Greater NY, he is partnered in the class of 2020 with Rich Berlin at DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI) and has championed Greater NY’s Analyst Corps, hosting its pilot and Female Leadership Initiative (FLI) at Centerview. Tony is a member of the Board of Trustees at Prep for Prep. He holds a B.S. and B.A. from The Wharton School and the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

A Texas transplant, Lori Lesser, lives up to EB White’s maxim that it’s the people who come to New York who give the city its passion. As a David Rockefeller Fellow, she embraced a network of peers committed to shaping NYC’s future. On the Board of the Partnership Fund of the Partnership for New York City she directs capital to economic growth. And as a Director of the Harvard Alumni Association, she keeps a national network close. Through Greater NY, Lori has partnered with Jennifer Mitchell of the HOPE Program. Lori is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where she heads the firm’s IP transactional practice and co-heads the privacy/cybersecurity practice.

Rebecca Liu-Doyle is a Managing Partner at Insight Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm based in New York City. Rebecca’s focus includes high-growth software, fintech, and consumer internet. Rebecca graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a BA in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. She started her career as a management consultant in McKinsey & Company’s New York office and joined Insight in 2016. Rebecca is a mentor with the Tsai Center of Innovative Thinking at Yale and a champion for increased diversity, inclusion, and equity in venture capital and tech through her work with AllRaise and Parity Partners (now Luminary). Rebeca has lived in in Louisiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Utah and is thrilled to call New York City her home.

Lili Lynton has observed that when she scratches the surface in any business sector, there’s a recurring story of flawed educational systems and astonishingly high criminal justice system involvement.  She focuses her civic life on these two issues, serving on the boards of the East Harlem Tutorial Program, East Harlem Scholars Academies, four Bronx-based New Visions Charter High Schools, The Bail Project and The Hamilton Project, a policy initiative of the Brookings Institution. Lili has partnered for Greater NY with Marjorie Hill of GMHC and Nick Turner of The Vera Institute of Justice. Lili began her career on Wall Street, and is the co-founder and operating partner of The Dinex Group, which operates 17 Daniel Boulud branded restaurants.

Michael Ryan was a New York City Urban Fellow under Mayor John F. Lindsay and has kept that title ever since. He is a founding director of the Public Interest Law Foundation at NYU, a Trustee of the Citizen’s Budget Commission, and has served on the Boards of Wildcat Service Corporation, Breaking Ground and The Osborne Association. Working with Greater NY, he has partnered with Liz Gaynes of the Osborn Association and with Angela Diaz of the Mount Sinai Center for Adolescent Health. Michael is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb.

Carl Weisbrod has guided public agencies and transformative development initiatives across five decades and in roles spanning the corporate, government and nonprofit sectors. He has served the City and State of New York in many capacities, including, Chairman of the New York City Planning Commission, Director of the New York City Department of City Planning, chairman of the New York State Health Foundation, Founding President of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Trustee of the Ford Foundation and the Urban Land Institute, President of the NYS 42nd Street Development Project, Board Member of the MTA, as well as founding President of the Downtown Alliance.