Shaping the Future - Milken Institute

panelists
Scott Minerd is Chief Investment Officer of Guggenheim, a diversified financial services firm with over $100 billion
in assets under supervision. Minerd sets the overall investment strategy, overseeing client accounts across a range of
fixed-income and equity securities. He has expertise in finance and public policy, most recently working on the Build
America Bonds and Qualified School Construction Bond programs. Minerd is regarded as a leading voice in how the
private sector can work with state and local governments for the benefit of both the public good and investors. Before
Guggenheim, he was a managing director for Morgan Stanley and later Credit Suisse, where he oversaw fixed-income
credit trading in the U.S., Europe and Asia. Minerd began his career as a CPA for Price Waterhouse. He received his
bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and completed graduate
work at the University of Chicago and the Wharton School.
Maureen Miskovic is the former Chief Risk Officer at State Street Corp., where she also previously served on
the board of directors. Before joining the management team at State Street, she was chairman of Eurasia Group, a
political risk research and consulting firm. Prior to that, she was chief risk officer at Lehman Brothers; London treasurer
for Morgan Stanley; and group treasurer and chief risk officer at S.G. Warburg. Early in her career, she worked at Morgan
Grenfell, where she was responsible for stock index arbitrage, and traded base and precious metals for a London
Metal Exchange firm. Named one of American Banker’s “25 Women to Watch” in 2009, Miskovic serves on the boards
of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Sustainable Preservation Initiative and the Veterans Healing Initiative. She is a
graduate of King’s College London, a constituent college of London University.
Kate Mitchell is the Managing Director of Scale Venture Partners, a venture capital fund in Silicon Valley that she
co-founded and that has $900 million under management. She leads investments in software and business services.
Mitchell has more than 25 years’ experience in technology, finance and management. She has actively worked with
such successful portfolio companies as Hubspan, Jaspersoft, mBlox and Wayport. Mitchell is also chairman-elect of the
National Venture Capital Association. She sits on the advisory board of Silicon Valley Bank Venture Capital and is joining
the SVB Financial Group board of directors, effective April 2010. Mitchell holds a B.A. from Stanford University and an
M.B.A. from the Executive Program at Golden Gate University. She also attended the Harvard Executive Program for
Strategic Marketing.
Lesa Mitchell is a Vice President with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, responsible for the foundation’s
pioneering work in understanding the policy levers that influence the advance of innovation from universities into
the commercial market. Under her leadership, the foundation is defining and codifying alternative commercialization
pathways, and identifying new models to foster innovation. Mitchell was instrumental in founding the Kauffman
Innovation Network and its iBridge Network, the Translational Medicine Alliance, the National Academies-based
University–Industry Demonstration Partnership and the replication of innovator-based mentor programs across the
U.S. In addition, Mitchell serves on the boards of Gazelle Growth in Denmark and the University of Kansas Institute
for Commercialization. Previously Mitchell spent 20 years in global executive roles at Aventis, Quintiles and Marion
Laboratories and ran an electronic clinical trials consulting business in support of global pharmaceutical clients.
Larry Mizel is Chairman and CEO of MDC Holdings Inc., which he founded in 1972. MDC is the parent corporation of
Richmond American Homes, one of the nation’s leading homebuilders. He is a founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center
of Los Angeles and founder of the Mizel Museum, which provides artistic and educational programs that promote
community understanding and tolerance in the Rocky Mountain region. The Mizel Museum includes the Center for
Empowered Living and Learning, a nonprofit institution dedicated to educating Americans about global terrorism. He is
a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,
which works to ensure strong U.S. support for Israel. Mizel has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the
University of Oklahoma and a J.D. from the University of Denver College of Law.
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