Nancy Hung is Head of Private Equity and Co-Head of Portfolio Management of the Family Office at Cohen Private Ventures, which oversees family office activities for and invests long-term capital in direct private investments, fund managers, real estate and other opportunistic transactions on behalf of Steven A. Cohen and his family.
Prior to this position, Nancy was an Assistant Vice President at GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, in the private equity and co-investments group covering the Americas. Prior to that, she was an M&A analyst at Credit Suisse in New York.
Nancy currently serves as a board member for several private companies.
Nancy holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University.
Shoshana joined Sterling in 2003 and is a Managing Director of Avathon Capital. Prior to Sterling, Shoshana served as an Associate at One Equity Partners LLC, where she worked on direct private equity transactions including venture and management buyouts, and at Razorfish, a digital solutions provider. She began her career at Merrill Lynch in the Global Industries Group. She received a BS with honors from Indiana University in accounting, finance and international studies. Shoshana is a member of the Board of City Year Chicago.
Chris Hoehn-Saric is chairmain of the Shorelight board of directors, co-founded Sterling Partners in 1983 and is co-chair of the investment committee.
As chairman of the board of directors, he works on all aspects of the deal process including identification and due diligence of prospective acquisitions, and management and oversight of the active portfolio. He currently works on the following portfolio companies: Keypath Education, Meritas, I/O Data Centers, Spartan College, and Tribeca Flashpoint Academy.
Immediately prior to rejoining the investment team at Sterling, Chris was chief executive officer of Educate Online. Prior to this position, he was the chair and co-CEO of Sylvan Learning Systems, Inc.
Chris attended Johns Hopkins University, where he now belongs to the boards of trustees for both Johns Hopkins University and Sheridan Libraries. He also serves on the board of managers of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
Jim Roth serves as chief executive officer, president, and member of the board of directors of Huron Consulting Group Inc.
Before taking on these roles at Huron in 2009, he served as the company’s vice president and practice group leader of its Health and Education Consulting segment.
With more than 30 years of consulting experience, Jim has worked with many of the premier research universities and academic medical centers. Moreover, under his leadership Huron has been named by Consulting magazine as one of the “Best Firms to Work For” (2011–2014) and been ranked number three on four Modern Healthcare’s lists of “Largest Healthcare Management Consulting Firms.”
Jim is a frequent speaker in national forums on matters relating to higher education and academic medical centers. In March 2013, he was appointed to the board of Aviv REIT, a self-administered real estate investment trust specializing in skilled nursing facilities. He received a B.A. in political science and economics from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University.
John is the executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer for Huron, where he oversees the company’s global finance and accounting organization, investor relations, corporate planning, tax, treasury, and the execution of capital deployment and financing strategies. Prior to his appointment as CFO, John most recently served as corporate vice president, chief accounting officer and treasurer for Huron. In that role, he was responsible for the enterprise-wide management of a variety of functions, including corporate finance, financial risk management, global cash management, treasury operations and credit and collections.
Prior to becoming a corporate leader at Huron, John served as a Director in Huron’s Disputes and Investigations practice, where he specialized in complex accounting and financial restatement projects.
John also previously held several positions with Deloitte & Touche’s Assurance and Advisory Services team, culminating in his role as an Audit Senior Manager, serving a number of publicly traded manufacturing and service provider clients.
He received both his Master of Science in Accounting and Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame. John is a Certified Public Accountant (Illinois).
Jeffery Keith has more than 25 years of executive and board experience in private and nonprofit organizations and education.
He has founded or co-founded multiple successful companies in various sectors including education, retail, manufacturing, financial services, and commercial real estate.
Currently, Jeffery is a senior operating partner at Sterling Partners, a $5 billion private equity fund that invests in education. He is the chairman of the board for multiple Sterling education companies including Spartan College and Tribeca Flashpoint College, and serves on the board of the National Research Center for College and University Admissions and Amerigo Education. Jeffery is a special peer reviewer for the WASC Senior College and University Commission. Additionally, he serves on the board of the University of Dubuque, Alliant International University, and Calumet College of St. Joseph.
Jeffery was the chief visionary and architect of the TCS Education System where he served as an executive. TCS was the first Type II SO nonprofit system created in education and includes various colleges and universities (the Chicago School, Saybrook University, Pacific Oaks College, Dallas Nursing Institute, and the Santa Barbara and Ventura Colleges of Law). He holds an M.B.A. and B.S. in economics and management from Purdue University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. (A.B.D.) from the Stuart Graduate School of Business at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Additionally, Jeffery has a graduate certification in financial law from the Kent College of Law and attended Harvard’s Graduate School of Education IEM program.
Bill Hansen has more than 30 years of experience in education at the K–12 and postsecondary levels.
Prior to becoming USA Funds’ president and chief executive officer in July 2013, Bill worked for 15 years in the public sector and 20 years in the corporate and nonprofit sectors.
Most recently, Bill was chair and chief executive officer of the Washington, D.C., consulting firm Madison Education Group. He also served as president of Policy Impact Communications, a Washington-based public relations and government affairs firm. Bill served as deputy U.S. secretary of education from 2001–2003 and previously served as assistant secretary for management and budget and as chief financial officer.
Bill’s previous private sector experience includes service as president and chair of Scantron Corporation and Global Scholar. He has been an advisory board member for the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education, Brigham Young University–Idaho, the George W. Romney Institute of Public Management at BYU, and Southern Virginia University. A graduate from George Mason University in Virginia, Bill also attended Idaho State University, which recognized him as a distinguished alumnus in 2003.
Andy Cohen is the Chief Investment Officer and Co-founder of Cohen Private Ventures, LLC. He manages the family office for Steven A. Cohen, investing and overseeing a portfolio of private investments among other responsibilities at the firm since 2010.
Prior to this position, Andy was an analyst and portfolio manager for S.A.C. Capital Advisors from 2002 to 2005, where he invested in public equities and debt securities. Then, from 2005 to 2009, he was a partner of Dune Capital Management LP, an investment management firm based in New York City. Andy began his career at Morgan Stanley, where he was an analyst in the real estate principal investing group and then an associate in the mergers and acquisitions group after business school.
Andy currently serves as a board member for a number of private companies, including the New York Mets baseball club. He received his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
