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Amanda Schlumpf

Associate Director, Business and Program Development
Amanda Schlumpf is an associate director on the Business and Program Development team with the Milken Institute and helps developing their European presence and growth. She is responsible for initiatives such as the Global Capital Markets Advisory Council (GCMAC) and the Forum for Family Asset Management (FFAM) for Europe and is deepening engagement with Milken Institute’s broader network, including financial institutions, investment funds, corporations, young leaders and individual philanthropists.
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Madeline Lieberberg

Associate Director, Business and Program Development
Madeline Lieberberg is an associate director on the Business & Program Development team at the Milken Institute. She is responsible for managing strategic partners and sponsors engaging in the Institute’s conferences and programs. Based in New York, Lieberberg cultivates the Milken Institute network through year-round programs and events including the Hamptons Dialogues and South Florida Dialogues.
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Mike Milken

Chairman
Mike Milken, chairman of the Milken Institute, has been at the forefront of successful initiatives in medical research, education, public health and access to capital for more than four decades. Fortune called him “The Man Who Changed Medicine” and Forbes listed him among “Visionaries Reimagining Our Children’s Future.”
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Jenna Spear

Associate Director, Business and Program Development
Jenna Spear is an associate director on the business and program development team at the Milken Institute. Spear oversees fundraising strategies for MI Finance and fosters relationships with strategic partners and sponsors of all major Milken Institute convenings, including the Institute’s flagship event, Global Conference.
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Madeleine Cashin

Associate Director, Environmental and Social Innovation team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
Madeleine Cashin is an associate director on the Environmental and Social Innovation team at Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy. Cashin is a part of the team designing and operating the Institute’s innovation competitions, including the Milken-Motsepe Innovation Prize Program, a series of multi-million-dollar innovation competitions and programs focused on advancing technological progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Africa.
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Kara Whelply

Associate Director, Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC) team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
Kara Whelply is an associate director on the Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC) team at Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy. She leverages her expertise in strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, philanthropic funding, and therapeutic development to advise individual philanthropists and nonprofit organizations on methods to advance their mission and accelerate the development of treatments.
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Caitlin MacLean

Managing Director, Innovative Finance, Milken Institute Finance
Caitlin MacLean is a managing director on the innovative finance team at the Milken Institute. She oversees the research, development, execution, and follow-up of our Financial Innovations Labs, which promote financial solutions to overcome economic and social challenges.
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Adoma Addo

Associate, Environmental and Social Innovation team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
Adoma Addo is an associate on the Environmental and Social Innovation team at Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy. With her passion for innovation and sustainable development in emerging markets, she supports work on the Institute’s innovation competitions.
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Erin Ross

Director, Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC) team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
Erin Ross is a director on the Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC) team at the Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy. She applies her expertise in health systems, analyzing scientific evidence's role in health policy implementation and identifying ways the scientific and policy communities can collaborate.
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Nadia Penrod, PhD

Senior Associate, Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC) team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
Nadia Penrod,PhD, is a senior associate on the Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC) team at Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy. In this role, she leverages her expertise as an interdisciplinary scientist in biomedicine and informatics to identify high-impact opportunities for philanthropic investment that promote science for the public good and have the potential to transform health.