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Courtney Lyman

Managing Director, Business and Program Development
Courtney Lyman is a managing director on the business and program development team at the Milken Institute. She leads fundraising, logistics, and strategy. 
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Margaret Anderson

Margaret is a Managing Director with Deloitte Consulting. She’s focused on bringing her experience in research innovation and patient engagement to strengthen nonprofits, as well as federal and commercial life sciences programs. She joined Deloitte from FasterCures, a center of the Milken Institute where she was Executive Director.
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Leslie Thurman

Director, Global Programming
Leslie Thurman is a director of Global Programming and Events at the Milken Institute. She curates and leads public and private convenings across eight global locations for stakeholders, investors, philanthropists, government officials, and media.
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Cheryl L. Evans, JD

Director, Lifetime Financial Security, Milken Institute Finance
Cheryl L. Evans, JD, leads the Lifetime Financial Security (LFS) Program of the Milken Institute’s Finance pillar. She frequently discusses a variety of issues related to financial security and retirement savings and has been cited in publications such as US News and World Report, Yahoo Finance, Bloomberg News, MarketWatch, CBS News, Pensions & Investments, McKnight’s Senior Living, and TheStreet.
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Kristen Fanarakis

Associate Director, Small Business, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth
Kristen Fanarakis leads the small business, entrepreneurship, and economic growth initiative within the Milken Institute’s Finance pillar. She focuses on macroeconomic and systemic trends affecting American small businesses and startups, and their implications for the economy and innovation.
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Michelle Stevenson

Executive Director, Marketing and Communications
Michelle Stevenson is an accomplished global marketing leader, bringing more than 25 years of experience to her role as executive director, marketing and communications at the Milken Institute, where she oversees earned media, social media, the website, brand and design, publishing, thought leadership, and all marketing and advertising efforts.
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Maxwell DeGregorio

Associate Director, FinTech, Milken Institute Finance
Maxwell DeGregorio is an associate director at MI Finance at the Milken Institute. DeGregorio works on the Institute’s FinTech Program, which focuses on access to capital, financial inclusion, compliance, and transparency. He writes the “FinTech in Focus” newsletter and co-programs the Institute’s FinTech content.
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Ishita Das, PhD

Director, Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC) team, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
Ishita Das, PhD, is a director on the Science Philanthropy Accelerator for Research and Collaboration (SPARC) team at Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy, where she leads cross-disciplinary projects. Her expertise lies in biomedical research, science policy, stakeholder engagement, workforce diversity, strategic planning, and project management.
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Erika Stratmann

Director, Communications, Milken Institute Health
Erika Stratmann is the director of communications for Health at the Milken Institute. She is a mission-driven communications and content development leader with a proven record of managing effective teams that deliver measurable results to amplify thought leadership, engage communities, advance consumer education, and impact advocacy campaigns.
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Chelsea Wendel

Associate Director, Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy
Chelsea Wendel is an associate director at Milken Institute Strategic Philanthropy. Her work is primarily focused on managing the logistics, details and travel coordination across the pillar's broad portfolio of events.
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