The Junior Economic Club of New York City Board of Advisors

These gracious and distinguished people are the most dynamic adult supporters of The Junior Economic Club of New York City. Every one of them gives their help, connections, and expertise to the Board of Directors as needed. From JECNYC, we would like to say thank you!

 

Rebecca Patterson is a Senior Investor at BridgeWater. Rebecca most recently served as Chief Investment Officer of Bessemer Trust and has more than 20 years of investment management experience. Prior to joining BridgeWater, Rebecca worked at J.P. Morgan, as Chief Markets Strategist for Asset Management, as Global Head of Foreign Exchange and Commodities for the Private Bank, and as an Investment Banking Research Analyst, based in New York, London and Singapore where she helped central banks and sovereign wealth funds, other institutional clients and high-net-worth families. Prior to J.P. Morgan, she was a journalist in the U.S. and Europe covering financial markets and politics.

Rebecca Patterson

After graduating Summa Cum Laude from Columbia University and receiving an academic award on Value Investing from Columbia Business School, Orina started a career in private equity and hedge fund investing where she amassed 20 years of institutional…

After graduating Summa Cum Laude from Columbia University and receiving an academic award on Value Investing from Columbia Business School, Orina started a career in private equity and hedge fund investing where she amassed 20 years of institutional investment experience. She moved to Morgan Stanley in 2016 to help high net worth families and professionals manage their wealth. Orina has developed a unique approach to risk management from her experience in institutional investing. She believes that a properly defined investment time horizon, rather than reducing volatility, is a better way to manage portfolio risk without sacrificing potential returns unnecessarily.

Orina Chang

Paolo Gaudiano is President of ARC, Chief Scientist of Aleria, Adjunct Associate Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, and Chairman of the annual Diversity & Inclusion Research Conference. These activities combine Paolo’s decades of experience in business, technology and academia, to transform how people think about diversity and what they do about it, with the ultimate goal of making our society more inclusive and equitable. Paolo is a Forbes contributor on Diversity & Inclusion, has written for and been interviewed by a number of other media outlets, and is a sought-after public speaker, having given hundreds of presentations in the US and abroad, including a TED talk. He holds degrees in Applied Mathematics, Aerospace Engineering and Computational Neuroscience, and is the recipient of numerous awards including a Moonshot House Fellowship from the Kravis Center for Social Impact (2019), a Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (1996), and a Neuroscience Fellowship from the Sloan Foundation (1992). He was a tenured faculty member at Boston University and he taught at Tufts University and CUNY before joining NYU.

Paolo Gaudiano

Shrey Jhalani was the second president of JEC NYC and joined the organization’s board when it was initially founded. He is an undergraduate student at Harvard University and an alum of the Collegiate School in New York City, where he graduated cum laude. In high school, he served as the Student Body President and a captain of the math team, and he founded his school’s largest community service and peer tutoring organizations. Shrey has interned for the Burré Lab at Weill Cornell Medicine, where he engaged in research into the inner workings of Parkinson’s Disease.

Shrey Jhalani

Jenna Brown was the third president of the JEC NYC. She is a passionate singer, athlete, and entrepreneur who hopes to pursue a career in finance where she can give back to her community. Jenna is President and Founder of Zara’s Connection Club (ZCC) at Riverdale, which partners with the Zara’s Center, an after school program for AIDS orphans in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

Jeffrey Hollender is co-founder and former CEO of Seventh Generation, which he built into a leading natural product brand known for its authenticity, transparency, and progressive business practices. Hollender is also the founder of Sustain Natural, that develops and markets sustainable feminine care products for women. In addition, he is an Adjunct Professor of sustainability and social entrepreneurship at the Stern Business School, New York University. Hollender is a strategic advisor and former Board Chair of Greenpeace US; and currently CEO, co-founder and Board Chair of the American Sustainable Business Council, a coalition of 200,000 business leaders committed to progressive public policy.  He is also the author of his seven books, including most recently, The Responsibility Revolution: How the Next Generation of Businesses Will Win and Planet Home.

Jeffrey Hollender

Daniel Altman is chief economist of Instawork, the flexible work platform that connects hourly professionals to local businesses across the country. Previously he was an economics columnist for The Economist and The New York Times before becoming an economic advisor in the British government. He wrote several books on economics and economic policy, including the international bestseller “Outrageous Fortunes”. Later he worked as a director at Dalberg, a consulting firm focused on international development. At that time he was also a frequent commentator on CNN and the BBC, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. After a stint as senior editor for economics at Foreign Policy and adjunct faculty at New York University’s Stern School of Business, he branched out into sports analytics by founding North Yard Analytics and eventually creating smarterscout.com, the first publicly available advanced analytics platform for global soccer. He completed his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in economics at Harvard.

Dan Altman

Eileen Ye is the founder of the JECNYC and was its president in the branch’s initial stages. She is an undergraduate student at Harvard and a graduate of the Brearley School, where she worked with girls to foster their love of STEM. She is a 2022 Presidential scholar, Coca-Cola scholar, and Footlocker scholar. Eileen has won numerous awards in competitive mathematics, including the 2022 Jane Street AMC 12A award and the inaugural Maryam Mirzakhani AMC 10 award. She is an avid competitive programmer and plans to pursue a career in computer science and business.

Eileen Ye

Amelia Frank was the second vice president of the JEC NYC serving as assistant financial officer and ambassador prior. She is an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins University majoring in economics and international relations. Amelia recently graduated from the Spence School where she served as captain of the debate team and head of the stock market club. She is a recipient of the Hee-Sun Hong award given to one debate team in New York state annually for her service and competitive success in debate. Amelia has been published in over a dozen literary magazines for her fictional writing and has published research from her time interning for hedge fund 93 East Capitol. She has received four scholastic awards and worked as a writing and debate instructor for the national non-profit Writopia. 

Amelia Frank