Welcome New Trustees and Associates Council Members

Please join us in welcoming newly elected members in Spring 2019. 

Kathryn M. Deane
An accomplished fashion, retail, and publishing executive who successfully ran and sold two businesses over the last thirty years, Kathryn most recently served as President and CEO of the Tobe Report, a weekly global trend forecasting and merchandising service that Vanity Fair has referred to as the “the bible” of the fashion industry. She has also volunteered for decades with the New York Junior League, Kips Bay Boys and Girls Club, and the West Side YMCA. Kathryn graduated from Duke.

Francis Idehen
(P9 IV/Deerfield '95, Yale '99) MBA, Harvard '06

Francis is the Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Operations Committee at GCM Grosvenor. He directly oversees the Finance, Corporate Finance, Investor Relations, Marketing, Technology, Compliance, and Legal Departments. Prior to joining GCM Grosvenor, Francis held senior roles at Exelon Corporation, including Treasurer, Head of Investor Relations, and Managing Director of Exelon’s Private Investments Team. He earned a BA from Yale and an MBA from Harvard. 

Margaret Morse
Maggie is a Private Equity Associate at Oak Hill Capital. Alongside her fulltime job, she serves as the Chief of Science at Mentis, the dietary supplement company she co-founded in 2016. Maggie began her education at The Brearley School before her family moved to Hong Kong, and later returned to the US to study at Deerfield Academy. She graduated from Yale.

Neelima Veluvolu
Neelima is the head of JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Global Know Your Customer (KYC) Solutions, a firm-wide utility based in Hyderabad, Warsaw, Brooklyn, Chicago, Bournemouth, and Singapore. For the past five years, she has partnered with Prep’s Professional Advancement team for JPMorgan Chase’s Prep for Prep internship program, providing skills workshops and employment opportunities for dozens of students. Neelima earned a BA from Rutgers.

Michael Wiebolt
Mike is a Managing Director in Blackstone’s Real Estate group, where he focuses on investments in liquid real estate debt. He also serves as the President of Pine Creek Partners, an investment and management firm focused on acquiring and operating small businesses in rural communities across the Upper Midwest. Mike holds a BA from Carleton, where he graduated magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and an MBA from Columbia.