Bronx Science Foundation Board Members
The Foundation board is staffed by a group of volunteer alumni who are dedicated to maximizing the positive impact past students can have for current and future students:
Sang Kim ‘88 - Chair
Joan Binstock Silvers ‘71 - Vice chair
Dylan Gorman ‘10 - Treasurer
Tim Maliyil ‘95 - Secretary
Paritosh Batra ‘01
Humphrey Chen ‘86
Jonathan Freedman ’74, P’21
Ji Min ‘82
Ann-Drea Small ‘01
Rodney Sunada-Wong ‘81
maulin shah ‘95
Eleanor Coufos ‘99 - President Strategy and External Affairs
Ex-officio foundation board members
rachel hoyle, principal, the bronx high school of science
christine kattan, jayesh patel & elizabeth polkovitz co-presidents, the bronx high school of science parents’ association
Sang Kim ‘88 - chair
Sang serves on DLA Piper's Global Board, US Executive Committee and National Diversity and Inclusion Executive Board. He is currently Co-Chair of the Global Tax Practice, Chair of the US Tax Practice and Managing Partner of Northern California which includes Silicon Valley, San Francisco and Sacramento offices.
Sang concentrates his practice in international tax and operational structuring, global transfer pricing strategy, cross-border mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures, post-acquisition integration and international tax controversy.
He also frequently serves as the managing international legal counsel for multijurisdictional and multi-disciplinary projects and matters implicating tax, employment, IP, corporate formation, governance, regulatory, foreign exchange controls, supply chain, and import duties, among others.
Sang has led several hundred international expansion and structuring projects for companies across a wide spectrum of industries and jurisdictions from emerging enterprises to largest multinationals. Representative industries include high tech, consumer products, life sciences, energy, media, technology services, venture funds, manufacturing and distribution. Within these industries, he has extensive experience working with clients in the solar, semiconductor, software, consulting, data storage, data security, social/ecommerce, gaming, consumer electronics, retail, medical devices and networking sectors. He has also worked closely with numerous clients doing business in China, India, Brazil, Russia and other emerging economies.
He graduated from Columbia College with a degree in Philosophy and Economics. He received his J.D. from his Northwestern University School of Law and an LL.M. in Taxation from the New York University School of Law.
Joan Binstock Silvers ‘71 - Vice chair
Starting with a strong foundation in finance and accounting, Joan has a record of visionary leadership in the financial services industry with an emphasis on financial, strategic and operational risk management practices. She currently serves as a Senior Advisor at Lovell Minnick Partners, a private equity firm. She spent majority of her career at Lord, Abbett & Co, serving as Partner, Chief Operations Officer, Chief Financial Officer and chair of its audit committee over almost two decades. Prior she worked at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and at Goldman Sachs.
Joan holds a board role on Sim Corp, an investment management solutions technology company; a board member and governance committee chair of the Greyston Foundation, which supports low income individuals and families as they forge a path to self-sufficiency and community transformation; and as a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors.
Joan graduated from the State University at Binghamton and received her MBA from New York University. Joan is the mother of a grown daughter and stepson. She lives in Manhattan with her husband.
Dylan Gorman ‘10 - Treasurer
Dylan is an Associate at Willett Advisors, the family office that manages the philanthropic assets of Michael R. Bloomberg. As a member of the Direct Investments Group, he evaluates private market transactions including growth/buyout and special situation opportunities. Prior, he was an Analyst at UBS covering media and telecom companies in the investment bank.
Dylan attended Johns Hopkins University, where he graduated with a degree in financial economics. He was an active member of the student government and represented the student body as treasurer. Dylan also worked closely with Professor Steve H. Hanke to conduct research on Prudential Bank Regulations for foreign governments. While in school, he balanced a full-course load with working part-time at JMI Equity, a Baltimore based Private Equity firm, twice a week for two years.
In high school, Dylan commuted from the Lower West Side to Bronx Science. He was co-captain of the Policy Debate Team where he competed nationally, earning four bids to the Tournament of Champions. He also participated in the math research program and received an award for creating a machine-learning model to predict regional campaign donations.
He graduated Bronx Science in 2010, following his father’s, Eric Gorman ‘79’s, footsteps nearly 30 years later.
Tim Maliyil ‘95 - Secretary
Tim Maliyil is an experienced technology entrepreneur with a passion for all things technology and business. Maliyil is the CEO of AlertBoot Data Security, a firm he founded in 2007 which develops internet enabled encryption software. Prior to AlertBoot, Maliyil was the CEO of Data Guard Systems, a retail accounting software firm he founded in 2001. Both companies support hundreds of thousands of users with their software solutions.
On top of managing his business, Maliyil serves as a technical and business advisor to businesses in various industries around the globe.
Maliyil’s love of technology started at an early age, and that passion was fostered through his education. Maliyil has a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from Tufts University, and he is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science.
Paritosh Batra ‘01
Paritosh Batra, Director of Research and Analyst, joined Anchor Bolt at its inception and ten years of investing experience on the buy side, all focused in the Industrials Sector. Prior to joining Anchor Bolt Capital, Paritosh was an analyst at SAC Capital in New York focused on the Capital Goods and Transportation Sectors. Prior to SAC, Paritosh worked with Robert Polak at Citadel Investment Group for five years and helped to manage the Capital Goods Portfolio. Paritosh has also held roles at Morgan Stanley and Alderman & Company. Paritosh holds a BA in Finanace and Accounting from NYU Stern School of Business where he graduated Magna Cum Lauder. He was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma and the Stern Scholars Program as well as the recipient of the Honor Key and the Stern Hall of Fame.
Humphrey Chen ‘86
Humphrey Chen, Head of Amazon Web Services Machine Learning - Deep Learning Rekognition (Computer Vision)
Chen is a corporatized entrepreneur. He knows how to take an idea and make it real not only in the startup world but also inside of big companies. Chen used to lead New Technologies in Verizon Wireless during the launch of the nation's largest 4G LTE network. Prior to that Chen led Unified Communications at Avaya where he acquired and successfully integrated a bay area startup. Before that Chen was at Microsoft and developed partnerships with large Global System Integrators and enabled their field sales to compete within the Office Live Meeting/Communicator/Lync/Skype team against IBM and WebEx. After doing big company stuff for a decade Chen went back to the startup world in the world of B2B white label wholesale mobile banking and then most recently at a pragmatic AI startup based in New York City.
After graduating Harvard Business School Chen co-founded a VC backed startup which was the precursor to Shazam. It allowed people to identify the name of the song and purchase the CD album for any song played on good old fashion radio using feature phones from the pre-smartphone era.
Between the first and second year of business school Chen worked for the U.S. Government’s Federal Communications Commission (F.C.C.) Wireless Bureau during the PCS C-block auctions. There he served as a Senior Policy and Business Advisor to Chairman Reed Hundt in the area of Low-Earth Orbit, Medium-Earth Orbit and Geostationary-Earth Orbit satellite systems.
Chen’s cross-industry experience spans banking while at Morgan Stanley, management consulting while at Price Waterhouse and the Consumer Packaged goods industry while atInformation Resources (IRI) when he consulted for Proctor & Gamble/Unilever, etc. after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Chen swims every day and enjoys spending time with his wife and 15 year old son and serves on the Board of Advisors for a few VC backed startups in addition to being on the Board of Directors for the HBS Angels of Greater NYC and the MIT Angels of NYC.
Jonathan Freedman ’74, P’21
Jonathan Freedman is the co-leader of Sidley’s Insurance practice in New York. His practice focuses on transactional matters in the insurance industry, including capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and securitizations involving insurance companies.
In his capital markets practice, Jonathan represents issuers, underwriters, initial purchasers and placement agents in public offerings, 144A transactions and private placements. His mergers and acquisitions practice focuses on negotiated transactions involving both public and private companies in the insurance industry. He recently represented a large insurance private equity fund in its acquisition of the worldwide reinsurance business of a multinational insurer and a large, multi-line insurance company in the disposition of its life insurance premium finance business. He also recently represented the initial purchasers in the largest offering of surplus notes by an insurance company in history. With respect to securitizations, Jonathan has been involved in many of the most innovative transactions recently completed in which insurance company cash flows are securitized.
Jonathan has been recognized by Chambers USA (2006–2017) as a “very smart, practical and analytically acute,” transactional lawyer. He is also recognized in The Legal 500 US (2011–2012, 2014), IFLR 1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms (2009, 2015) and was selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® (2008–2017) in the field of insurance.
Jonathan received his BA from Columbia and his JD from Georgetown. His son William is in his freshman year at Bronx Science.
Ji Min ‘82
Ji has over two decades worth of experience in international finance, primarily in Asia and in the field of private equity. From 2003 to 2013, Ji was a Partner based in Hong Kong at Citi Venture Capital International (CVCI), a global emerging market private equity fund with over $7bn in assets. During that time, the last four years as the head of the Asia Pacific region, Ji has led or co-led transactions in a variety of industries including financial, industrial, energy, technology, power, IT services, retail and cable.
Prior to joining CVCI, Ji spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs in the Fixed Income, Investment Banking and Private Equity divisions. During his time at Goldman, he worked in various offices including New York, Seoul and Hong Kong where he led and executed a number of M&A and financing transactions.
Ji lives in Hong Kong with his wife Soojin and his four sons, Eliot, Henry, Teddy and Alex. Ji received his MBA from Columbia Business School and BA from Harvard College and a 1982 graduate of the Bronx High School of Science.
Ann-Drea Small ‘01
Ann-Drea Small is a performance engineer with extensive experience in the not-for-profit sector. She focused on how companies can support users by implementing cost-effective, innovative technology that exceeds an organization’s needs without sacrificing the bottom line. She was most recently a Performance Engineering Consultant at UNICEF.
Currently, Ann-Drea is at work writing her first novel and exploring options for a screenplay.
She holds a Bachelors Degree from Duke in Mathematics, Cultural Anthropology, Information Science and Information Studies. Ann-Drea also has a Masters of Science in Quantitative Methods and Modeling from Baruch University.
While at Bronx Science, Ann-Drea was an active member of the girls basketball team and eagerly looks forward to playing in alumni basketball games!
Rodney Sunada-Wong ‘81
Rodney serves as the Chief Risk Officer for Morgan Stanley's U.S. Institutional Broker-Dealer and its U.S. Derivatives Swaps Dealers, overseeing Market, Credit, Operational and Liquidity risk for these legal entities. He strategizes with Business Lines and with Treasury on allocating risk-taking to optimize Regulatory Capital, Initial Margin, liquidity requirements across legal entities. He works to enhance governance and risk infrastructure to meet evolving regulatory challenges related to Recovery Resolution Planning ("RRP"), the Initial and Variation Margin and Capital requirements promulgated by the FRB/FDIC, CFTC, SEC, the "ISDA Protocol.
Previously, he worked at Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust, GoldmanSachs and the National Security Agency. He teaches at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU and previously serves as the President of the Harvard Club of New Jersey.
Rodney has his BA in Biology from Harvard College and his MBA from the Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management.
maulin shah ‘95
Maulin is an accomplished finance executive who most recently was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Millennium Management and Citadel LLC, where he managed multi-billion dollar Global Event Driven & Risk Arbitrage funds. His previous positions include Managing Director & Global Investment Committee member at Perry Capital and Portfolio Manager, Head of Event Driven Strategy at Shumway Capital. He started his career as an investment banker at UBS within its Leveraged Finance and Global Industrials groups.
Maulin has been an active member of the Fundraising Taskforce and the Entrepreneurship Taskforce.
He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University where he doubled majored in Finance & Information Systems.
Eleanor Coufos ‘99
As the current President of Bronx Science Foundation, Eleanor Coufos brings a unique, visionary perspective. Under her stewardship, the Bronx Science Foundation has transformed from a volunteer organization to a $15 million corporation with the infrastructure necessary to continue to scale rapidly. Eleanor has single-handedly brought significant technology upgrades to build the organization including implementing a CRM, online giving platform, marketing tool, a lockbox service and more. She has established impactful, robust programs that benefit the student body by building strong relationships with key constituencies. She is proud of her work connecting Bronx Science alumni locally, regionally and internationally as well as connecting them with students. Recently, Eleanor secured the largest gift in public school history, to establish the Manne Research Institute – a state of the art science research facility for high school students.
Prior to joining the Bronx Science Foundation, Eleanor worked at American Express and Columbia University. She holds a BA in History from Columbia College, an MA from Teachers College and an MBA from Columbia Business School.