Pomona College and our economics students thank the following alumni advisors for their input and guidance on our research projects.

Alan L. Boyce '82 (Pioneer Natural Resources)

CEO | Absalon • Los Angeles, California
Alan Boyce is CEO of Absalon, a joint venture between VP Securities and Soros Fund Management. Its purpose is to educate and empower countries to adopt the beneficial attributes of the Danish mortgage system, and he is currently working with George Soros on an initiative to restructure the U.S. mortgage market. He is also Director of Adecoagro, a diversified agricultural production company operating in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay which is listed on the NYSE (AGRO). He is co-founder and Director of Agrica Ltd, the founder and CEO of Westlands Solar Farms, a California renewable energy company based in Fresno County, and is the founder and Chairman of Materra Farms, a California based agricultural production company specializing in the production of animal feed. Before Countrywide Bank, FSB was sold to Bank of America, Boyce was Senior Managing Director of Investment Strategies. While at Countrywide, Boyce was responsible for management and leadership of the bank's investment and funding strategies that produce the highest risk-adjusted returns and the lowest cost of funds. He also oversaw securities and loan purchase activities, trades and strategies, as well as investment portfolio performance. Prior to joining Countrywide in 2007, Boyce served as Director of Special Situations at Soros Fund Management LLC. During those years with Soros, he managed a portfolio of assets of the Quantum Funds and had principal operational responsibilities for the bulk of Soros' investments in Latin America. Boyce coordinated the establishment of Glacier Re, a Swiss Domicile reinsurance company in 2004 and served as chief executive officer. Before joining Soros Fund Management, Boyce served for fourteen years as Managing Director, in charge of Fixed Income Arbitrage with Bankers Trust. Prior to that, he worked for the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. Boyce holds an MBA degree from Stanford University and a B.A. in Economics from Pomona College.

David Cho '00 (CarMax)

Manager | Bain and Associates • New York, New York
David Cho is a manager at Bain and Associates in New York. He was also co-founder and CEO of Sidebark based in San Francisco, Sidebark was a company that helped customers share videos privately. He focuses on digital media. Dave has also worked in Bain's Los Angeles, Singapore, and Hong Kong offices. His work spanned a number of areas, including digital strategy, customer insights, organizational design and product development. In addition to his client work, Dave served as the Associate Consultant (AC) program manager in the New York office and as the program manager for Bain's global Associate Consultant Training (ACT) program. Dave holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Pomona College in Economics.

Kent Fisher '87 (Ryanair)

Vice President, Supply Chain | Boeing Commercial Aircraft • Everett, Washington
Kent Fisher is a Vice President at Boeing where he has responsibility for the firm's relationships with more than 1400 suppliers around the world. External suppliers provide more than 65% of Boeing's products and services. The supply chain is essential to Boeing's continued competitive advantage. Prior to working with the supply chain, Kent held positions in Marketing, Product Strategy, Sales and Customer Finance. Before he joined Boeing, Kent held various positions at Price Waterhouse working in the firm's litigation and bankruptcy-consulting group in Los Angeles and Seattle. Kent has a bachelor's degree in economics from Pomona College and a master's degree in business administration from UCLA.

Tim Forest '95 (Cigna)

Director, Schwab Institutional | Charles Schwab & Company • San Francisco, California
Following graduation from Pomona in economics, Tim worked at McKinsey & Company as a Business Analyst in their Los Angeles office. He then earned his MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and returned to McKinsey in San Francisco for two more years as an Associate. While at McKinsey, Tim worked on strategy projects in the sectors of financial services, technology, healthcare, and not-for- profit. Since 2001, Tim has been in strategic roles with Charles Schwab & Company, managing projects forwarding the retail brokerage business, and, currently, the Schwab Institutional business.

Philip B. Hathaway '00 (Jack in the Box)

Director of Corporate Strategy, Dolby Laboratories • San Francisco, California
Phil is Senior Director of Strategy at Dolby Laboratories in San Francisco, where he helps lead the corporate strategy, business planning and M&A efforts. Dolby is the leader in delivering immersive audio entertainment across cinema, TV, PC and mobile devices. Prior to joining Dolby in 2011, Phil spent five years at Microsoft, splitting his time between strategy and finance for the Microsoft Office division. Earlier, Phil spent several years in M&A investment banking in Los Angeles. Phil has a B.A. in economics from Pomona and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

Victor Liu '98 (Restoration Hardware)

Senior Vice President | FPA Funds • Los Angeles, California
Victor Liu graduated from Pomona College in 1998 as an economics major. While at Pomona College, he interned at Asia Financial Group with Pomona alumnus Bernard Chan in Hong Kong. Following graduation, he served as a Rotary Ambassador in Taiwan, worked as a management consultant at McKinsey and Company and as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch where he did corporate finance, and mergers & acquisitions. He has also done international equity research at Causeway Capital Management with a focus on the technology and automotive industries. Victor currently serves as Analyst for the FPA International Value Fund. He is a CFA Charterholder.

Dragan Manoev '99 (Workday)

Lazard Freres & Co. LLC • San Francisco, CA
A native of Bulgaria, Dragan has worked in investment banking since his graduation from Pomona College. While at Lazard, he has participated in a number of mergers & acquisitions and restructuring assignments for clients including Microsoft, SBC Communications and others. Dragan currently focuses on the enterprise software, IT services, telecommunications/ broadband sectors, and has also completed transactions in networking equipment (including the sale of VPN technology vendor Compatible Systems to Cisco).

Susan V. Helfrey Monson '92 (First Republic Bank)

Consultant | CloudBase Services • San Francisco, California
Susie Monson has spent the last 15 years of her career building out Operations and Finance functions at 3 different start-up companies. She now works with CloudBase Services, a small consulting firm specializing in business process design and database development. Previously, Susie was Director of Operations at Sunrun, the leading provider of residential solar in the USA. At Sunrun, Susie was originally responsible for all customer operations, customer service, and installation partner management. Prior to joining SunRun in 2008, Susie worked for six years first as Director of Finance and then Director of Operations at PayCycle, Inc., a provider of web-based payroll services for small businesses. Before PayCycle, Susie worked as VP Operations for NextMonet, a direct marketer of fine art, where she was in charge of all customer service and framing operations. Susie's additional work experience includes IBM, Exxon Corporation, and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Susie graduated from Pomona College in 1992 with a concentration in economics and she holds an MBA from Stanford University.

Erik Nierenberg '97 (Inditex)

Vice President, Sales Development | Salesforce.com • San Francisco, California
Erik Nierenberg is currently Vice President of Strategy and Business Development for Chatter at salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), the global leader in Cloud Computing software. Nierenberg has been at salesforce.com for 3 years in a variety of roles across sales, strategy, business development, and product. Previously, Nierenberg was a Principal and Venture Partner with Enterprise Partners Venture Capital with a primary focus within software, consumer Internet, online advertising, and wireless technologies. Board of Director seats included Devicescape, Expresso Fitness, and Specific Media. He had additional Board and management involvement at IdenTrust (acq. By Polaris), Dragonwave (NASDAQ: DRWI), Ascendent Systems (acquired by RIM) and Tarari (acquired by LSI). Prior to joining Enterprise Partners, Erik spent five years with Bain & Company where he led growth strategy, operations and marketing initiatives across industries including technology, media, consumer products, and retail. Nierenberg also was a Case Team Leader within Bain's Private Equity Group doing M&A and due diligence in a variety of industries. Earlier in his career, Nierenberg worked in product management at Netscape and was one of the founding employees of The Bridgespan Group which is a bi-coastal nonprofit organization. Erik received a M.B.A from the Stanford Graduate School of Business as well as a degree in Economics from Pomona College where he was captain of the lacrosse team.

Jeff Parks '02 (Nektar Therapeutics)

Riverwood Capital • Menlo Park, California
Jeff Parks is a founding partner of Riverwood Capital. Riverwood is a globally focused private equity firm that invests in high-growth businesses in the technology and services industries, across a variety of verticals and geographies. Today, Riverwood has approximately $1 billion of capital under management, and is led by six partners with a total of over 100 years of relevant experience. Prior to Riverwood, Jeff was an investment executive at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co ("KKR"), where he focused on a variety of private equity investments in the technology sector. Prior to joining KKR, Jeff was an investment professional in the Principal Opportunities Fund at Oaktree Capital Management, where he focused on private equity opportunities in distressed companies. Previously, Jeff was with UBS Investment Bank in Los Angeles, where he was involved in a variety of mergers & acquisitions, as well as financing transactions across several industries. Jeff received his dual B.A. in Economics and Mathematics from Pomona College. He was a member of Carnegie Consulting, the very first of the Pomona College senior seminars in corporate strategy. He headed up the project on Ford Motor Company.

Matt Thompson '96 (Time Warner)

Vice President, Portfolio Operations | Skyview Capital • Beverly Hills, California
In March 2012 Matt Thompson joined a new private equity firm in Beverly Hills called Skyview Capital. The firm specializes in the acquisition and strategic management of businesses in the services and technology sectors. Previously Matt was Vice President, Finance at Glendon Partners, which is part of The Gore's Group, a private equity firm. Matt is responsible for portfolio company financial oversight and controls as well as leading financial due diligence activities. Prior to joining Glendon, Matt was a Director at FTI Consulting, concentrating on financial and operational restructurings for Communications and Media clients. Prior to FTI, he spent three years as a Director of Corporate Development at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where he completed over $400 million of acquisitions, divestitures, and business launches of television networks and new media properties globally. Prior to Sony, Matt was a Senior Associate in the restructuring practice of Alvarez and Marsal. He also served as a Technology M&A Summer Associate at JPMorgan. Matt holds a B.A. in Biology and Economics from Pomona College and an MBA from Stanford. He is a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor and a Licensed International Financial Analyst.

Jenn Wilcox '08 (VISA)

Investment Associate | Summit Rock Advisors • New York, New York
Jenn Wilcox '08 lives in New York City and works as an investment associate at Summit Rock Advisors, where she helps foundations, endowments and high net worth clients invest their assets. Prior to joining Summit Rock, Wilcox worked in the Investment Banking Division Goldman Sachs in San Francisco, where she focused on financing public sector and infrastructure projects. Wilcox serves on the board of directors for Spark, a nonprofit focused on investing in grassroots women's organizations, and was the founding member of SparkNYC. At Pomona, Wilcox majored in economics, and studied abroad at Oxford University. She served as vice president of the Pomona Student Union, and played on the women's tennis team where she was twice named captain. During her senior year, Wilcox helped work on the Claremont Consulting Group project to bring Zipcar to campus. She currently enjoys volunteering as an alumni interviewer for the Admissions Office and serving as an alumni advisor to the economics senior seminar focused on corporate strategy. In 2011 she joined the Board of Trustees of Pomona College.