Colleen Olson, Co-Founder, President
Colleen has dedicated her life and her career to helping institutions and families better serve children with special needs. She obtained her doctorate in Special Education Administration from Teachers College at Columbia University, following a master’s program in Special Education at the University of Virginia and an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Special Education from James Madison University. Colleen spent six years working directly with children with significant emotional and learning disabilities across several environments as a special education teacher. Colleen is an Adjunct Professor of Special Education at Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University (NYU). Colleen is excited to be a member of this board to bridge her professional and personal experiences to help advocate and advance scientific and medical research for the advancement of patient care.
Tagar Olson, Co-Founder, Secretary and Treasurer
Tagar is a Founder and Chairman of the Investment Committee of Integrum, a private equity firm that invests in leading technology-enabled services businesses. Prior to Integrum, Tagar was a partner at KKR, where he led the firm’s Financial Services industry vertical. During his time leading KKR’s Financial Services practice, KKR was one of the most active private equity acquirers of financial services and business services companies. Prior to joining KKR, Tagar was with Evercore Partners. Tagar currently sits on the boards of USI Insurance Services, Evertree Insurance, Strategic Risk Services, Program Productions and Mr. Cooper Group. He holds a B.S. and B.A.S., summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Vivek Bantwal
Vivek is the head of the Global Financing Group at Goldman Sachs which consists of the firm’s debt and equity capital markets businesses, Leveraged Finance, Structured Finance, Real Estate Finance and Corporate Derivatives. He serves as co-chair of the Firmwide Capital Committee and is a member of the Global Banking and Markets Operating Committee and the Investment Banking Executive Committee.
Vivek was born and raised in the Philadelphia area and went to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Seeds of Peace. He also serves on the Leadership Council of the Mindich Child Health Development Institute at Mt. Sinai, and is a member of the Academy of the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Tribeca with his wife Sarika, their son Devan, and their identical twin daughters Avni and Diya.
Ted Goldthorpe
Ted is a partner at BC Partners and heads BC Partners Credit, a business he founded in 2017. Previously, Ted was President at Apollo Investment Corporation, Chief Investment Officer of Apollo Investment Management, and Senior Portfolio Manager, U.S. Opportunistic Credit. At Apollo, he was also a member of the Senior Management Committee and oversaw its Opportunistic Credit platform. Prior to this, Ted worked at Goldman Sachs where he was Managing Director of the Special Situations Group and ran the Bank Loan and Distressed Investing Desk.
Mr. Goldthorpe has previously served on the boards of SPARTA Insurance Holdings, Inc., Flatiron Re, JHT Holdings, Baxa Healthcare, Shelter Bay, Fairway Energy, amongst others, and was a board observer for First Solar, amongst others.
Mr. Goldthorpe received a B.A. in Commerce from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. He is a frequent guest lecturer at leading Universities including Columbia, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), University of Virginia, New York University, Queen’s University, and Stanford University. Mr. Goldthorpe currently serves on the Global Advisory Board for the Queen’s School of Business. He is the Chairman of the Young Fellowship of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and serves on the board of Directors for HerJustice and Capitalize for Kids.
Nicole Greene
Nicole has a public health and hospital administration background. She obtained her BA from Smith College and her Master’s degree of Public Health Concentration in Health Policy and Administration Yale University School of Epidemiology and Public Health. She has over fifteen years of healthcare experience, including five plus years in healthcare consulting and ten years in hospital administration at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Her hospital experience was primarily in digestive diseases where she was responsible for hiring and managing all staff, recruited and onboarded key physicians and managed relationships with key physicians, Chairmen, hospital staff and department administrators. She co-managed Helmlsey Charitable Trust relationship with Development. She coordinated responses to all donor requests and interim reports and managed donor budgets and monitored center progress and metrics. She was a Co-Founder, NewLeaders, New York-Presbyterian Hospital (2005-2012) which raised over $1M for the Hospital. Since 2013, she has been a Board Member of Public Prep Academies (2013-Present) and Co-Director of the PublicPrep’s Development Committee. PublicPrep is a non-profit, single-sex elementary and middle school charter network in New York City.