Young Executive Board

Sumat Chopra currently works at Goldman Sachs in New York. He has prior work experiences in finance, strategy and consulting with multi-national companies such as Microsoft Corporation and Morgan Stanley. He joined the Young Executive Board in 2007, after having served as a mentor at iMentor in 2005. He has other mentoring experiences with StreetWise Partners and with similar organizations in India. He is passionate about social entrepreneurship and presently involved as a strategy consultant for the Insaan Group. Sumat completed his undergraduate education with university honors from Carnegie Mellon. He graduated with a major in Computer Science and with minors in Business Administration and Mathematical Sciences. He was a visiting undergraduate student at Harvard University.

Vanessa D'Amato has been a mentor since 2006 and joined the Young Executive Board in 2008. She currently works at UBS and has a BA in History. Prior to working at UBS, Vanessa worked as a Web Designer for Winmar Enterprises Inc. Vanessa also spends her time volunteering on various projects with the NGO, Caritas Internationalis at the United Nations. She recently started volunteering with Sanctuary for Families which serves domestic violence victims and their children. Vanessa was born in the Bronx and currently resides there. She is passionate about helping others in the United States and around the world. She hopes to one day start her own NGO in developing countries educating women and children.

Rebecca joined the Young Executive Board after having served as a mentor with iMentor since the Fall of 2004. She has worked with many charitable organizations including the National Academy Foundation, Gods Love We Deliver, Operation Fairy Dust, and the Jewish National Fund and sat on the Volunteer Committee at UBS. Rebecca received a B.A. from Duke University and most recently worked as an Associate Director with UBS in the Industrials Group within Investment Banking. She is currently pursuing an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Amanda Fung is a reporter for Crain's NY Business covering technology, telecom and advertising. She has worked at Crain's for over two years. Earlier in her journalism career she was a reporter for Institutional Investor News and American Banker. She graduated from New York University with a bachelor's degree in journalism and political science in 2000.

Marcus Sean Hall currently serves as the Program Associate for the Education Equality Project (EEP). As Program Associate, Marcus is responsible for serving as primary support for the Director across core internal and external responsibilities. His role ranges from providing support to the administrative duties necessary for adequately operating a non-profit organization as well as assisting in the strategic developments and partnerships aimed at education reform, civil rights, advocacy, and policy. In addition, Marcus is responsible for facilitating and developing relationship with our strategic partners and the internet community. Marcus works closely with key partners, consultants, Board of Directors, prospective donors and current funders.

Marcus holds a BA from Morehouse College in Business Administration - Accounting, with a minor in Leadership Studies. Marcus continues to grow in his passion for public service by serving on several non-profit boards in New York City including: Academic Committee for the M.O.V.E. organization, Young Professionals Board for iMentor, and Young Professionals Fundraiser Benefit Committee for TEAK Fellowship.

Aaron Holiday is a native New Orleanian and 2004 graduate of Morehouse College, earning a B.S in Computer Science. He currently is a technology analyst supporting the Equities Program Trading Desk at Goldman Sachs & Co. While in college, Aaron developed the Post Graduate Development Seminar Series - a model program that brings corporate representatives to Morehouse to increase students' awareness of career opportunities in technology. Aaron recently launched PARADIGM Proprietary Investing, LLC, a capital investment venture whose mission is to create and maintain exclusively-held portfolios containing a diverse set of securities across various asset classes. He also serves as a mentor with Amachi, a program designed to provide youth whose parents are incarcerated with positive role models. Aaron has served as a mentor through iMentor for two years.

Thair has been a mentor since the fall of 2004. He is currently a Compliance Officer at Bloomberg Tradebook LLC in New York City. Prior to joining iMentor, he was a mentor in the Refugee Project Circle Mentoring Program and taught basic accounting principles to sixth-graders as part of Junior Achievement. In addition to iMentor, Thair is also involved with Everybody Wins!, a national literacy organization devoted to increasing children's prospects for success through one-to-one reading experiences. He graduated from Drexel University in 1998, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance.

Anthony has been an i-mentor mentor since 2006 and joined the Young Executive Board in 2010. He is a VP of strategy and business development at Gerson Lehrman Group, the world's foremost expert network, used by clients to access expertise across industries and around the globe. Prior to GLG, he was a project manager at Monitor Group, the strategy consulting firm, and an emerging markets analyst at Citibank. Anthony first worked with young people as a teacher in a high-school in China, and also volunteers through New York Cares. In NY, he spends time playing squash, watching English soccer and hosting ArtBeat, a forum for business professionals and emerging artists. He holds a BA in Asian Studies from Oxford University, and MBA from Harvard Business School.

Brandon joined the Young Executive Board in 2009. He is currently an Investment Analyst at Tiger Global Management. Prior to joining Tiger Global Management, he was an Investment Banking Analyst in The Blackstone Group’s Restructuring and Reorganization Advisory Group. He earned an AB in Economics from Harvard University and an MSc in Financial Economics from Oxford University. At Harvard, he served as a treasurer, officer and prefect in The Prefect Program, the advising and mentorship program for undergraduate freshmen.

Jamie Meltzer joined the Young Executive Board after having served as a mentor since 2005. She has worked with many other charitable organizations, including Wall Street Volunteers (for which she currently serves on the Executive Team), YAI National Disabilities Network, and the New York Road Runners Association. Jamie graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. She currently works in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs in Equity Capital Markets, where she covers the financial institutions sector.

Joanna Roses joined the iMentor organization in 2008 and the Young Executive Board in 2009.

Joanna works at Nickelodeon/MTV Networks Kids and Family Group as a Senior Director in its Communications department managing corporate communications. She has worked in the pro-social arena for seven years publicizing Nickelodeon's efforts against childhood obesity, launching its environmental campaign, and working on the History Channel's philanthropic initiative, and has worked with several non-profit organizations including the William J. Clinton Foundation and the Boys and Girls Club of America, among others.  Her PR campaigns in this space have been lauded with several awards and recognition from the cable industry at large.

Prior to Nickelodeon, Joanna worked at Edelman Public Relations where she managed media relations and events for sports and entertainment clients including Warner Home Video, Jazz at Lincoln Center, USTA, YouthAIDS, HBO, Hallmark Entertainment and the Country Music Awards. She started her career at FX Networks publicizing original and syndicated programming, and has held positions within the publicity departments of CNBC Europe and Fahlgren Advertising & Communications for Paramount Pictures.

Joanna holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Emory University and originally hails from Durham, North Carolina.