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Our Team

Meet the Ariel Alternatives Team

Our CEO

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Mellody Hobson

CEO, Ariel Alternatives

Co-CEO, Ariel Investments

Our Investment Team

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Yue Bonnet

Senior Managing Director and Head of Investments
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Lorenna Buck

Managing Director
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Joanne Cheng

Vice President
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Michael Echemendía

Principal
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Vernon Irvin

Head of Go-To-Market and Value Creation

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Rohan Mathur

Analyst
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Erica Royal

Senior Associate
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Norman Walters

Vice President
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Jack Wang

Principal
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Taylor Weekes

Associate
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Omar Zakaria

Associate

Our Business Leadership

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Emma Rodriguez-Ayala

President
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Carlos E. Calderon

Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
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Liz Koo

Chief of Staff
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Nancy Power, SHRM-SCP®

Senior Vice President, Chief Human Resources Officer
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Pascale M. Thomas

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Private Markets
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Roopa Weber

Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing Officer
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Joseph Wojtena

Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

Our Board of Managers

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Paget L. Alves

Former CEO, Sorenson Communications, LLC
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James Bell

Former CFO, The Boeing Company

Chairman of the Board of Managers, Ariel Alternatives
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Stacy Brown-Philpot

Former CEO, TaskRabbit Inc.
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Vicki L. Fuller

Former Chief Investment Officer, New York State Common Retirement Fund
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Mark J. Hawkins

Former President and CFO, Salesforce, Inc.
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Mellody Hobson

CEO, Ariel Alternatives

Co-CEO, Ariel Investments
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William M. Lewis, Jr.

Senior Partner, Apollo Global Management, Inc.
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John W. Rogers, Jr.

Founder, Chairman, Co-CEO and Chief Investment Officer

Ariel Investments

Our Strategic Council Leadership

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Shelley Stewart, Jr., C.P.S.M.

Former Chief Procurement Officer, DuPont de Nemours, Inc.

Project Black CPO Council, Chair
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Lisa Pillette

Chief Customer Officer, The Children's Place, Inc.

Project Black CMO Council, Chair
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Fazal Merchant

President and Chief Financial Officer, Wiz