2019–2020 WSMS BOARD OF TRUSTEES The primary responsibility of the Board of Trustees is to see that the School operates in the best interests of its students, teachers, and parents. The Board sets the purpose and policies of the School, ensures its f nancial stability, plans for its future, and hires the Head of School, who is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the School. Myles Amend, Tim Daileader, Iva Mills, President Vice President Vice President Myles Amend is Associate Tim Daileader, the father of Iva Mills is the mother of Head of School for Advance- Declan and Madeleine Dail- twin WSMS alumni (2016). ment at Trinity School, where eader (WSMS ‘14), and hus- Iva served as co-president he has worked since 2000. band of Maggan Daileader, of the Parents Association Prior to that he served as Director of Devel- is a partner in Drivetrain, LLC, a f duciary for two years and assisted with the Annual opment and Finance at Rice High School in services f rm. Prior to this, Tim enjoyed a Fund, Auction, Spring Fair and Admissions Harlem; as Principal of Tampa Catholic High twenty-four-year career in investment man- Committee. Iva received her BA in political School in Tampa, Florida; and as Associate agement and banking. Over the course of his science from the University of California, Director for Institutional Advancement and career, Tim was a senior analyst at Litespeed Los Angeles, and her JD from American Governance at the Museum of the City of Management and Strategic Value Partners, University Washington College of Law. Iva New York. He is a graduate of Iona College a portfolio manager at Stanf eld Capital practiced law for ten years, f rst at a law f rm, and holds master’s degrees in history from Partners, and the Director of Research at primarily in the area of advertising and mar- New York University and in independent Knight Capital. Tim is a Chartered Financial keting litigation and, later, in-house litigating school leadership from Columbia University Analyst (CFA). Tim also serves as a direc- intellectual property disputes. Iva also serves Teachers College. He is also a trustee of De tor on two for-prof t boards, and previously on the Board of Safe Horizon and the Acqui- La Salle Academy and a past president of served on the College Board of Advisors sition Committee of the Studio Museum in the New York City Chapter of the Associa- and in the Admission Ambassador program Harlem, and volunteers for the Harlem Chil- tion of Fundraising Professionals. Myles and for Georgetown University. Tim graduated dren’s Zone. She is married to Scott Mills. his husband, Marc Thomas, are parents of a from Georgetown University, where he was WSMS alumna who completed her two-year a Baker Scholar, with a bachelor’s degree in career at WSMS in 2011. economics in 1992. Kyra Nelson, Vice President Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Kyra Nelson spent the f rst phase of her career as an invest- ment banker with Cowen & Company and Credit Suisse First Boston, working in health- care and technology. She then worked in real estate in the Bay Area until she moved to Manhattan in 2013. Kyra holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Georgetown Univer- sity and an MBA from Stanford. Kyra and her husband, Travis, are proud parents of four children: a daughter and son who graduated WSMS in 2017 and 2018, a son currently at- tending WSMS, and a son in a home-school special education program. Kyra has been actively involved at WSMS as a parent vol- unteer. Kyra is also actively involved with a number of special education organizations and special needs advocacy in the city. 3 nation’s cultural heritage through America’s He joined NYU Langone Health in 2015, Mort Haque, greatest writing. At WSMS Dana has served after working in the Preventive Medicine de- Treasurer as co-chair of the Fall Festival, Class Rep partment at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mort Haque is a portfolio Coordinator, and class rep, and has pitched Mount Sinai (ISMMS). He serves as a co- manager at GoldenTree in at the Auction and Hooked on Books investigator for the NYU Children’s Health Asset Management, an in- events. Dana and his wife, Saya, live on the and Environment Study (NYU CHES), a lon- vestment management frm Upper West Side and have two daughters: gitudinal study examining the environmental specializing in below-investment-grade cor- one a current WSMS student and the other infuences on growth and development of porate and structured credit markets. Prior a WSMS alum. babies in utero, and the NYU Factors Infu- to GoldenTree, Mort worked at Sound Point encing Reproductive Success and Time to Capital as a portfolio manager and at Apollo Victoria Feltman Pregnancy Study (NYU FIRST), a prospec- Management in their capital markets group. tive cohort study aimed at identifying envi- He spent a number of years as an invest- Victoria Feltman is a nutrition- ronmental infuences that lead to diffculties ment banker at Bank of America and J.P. ist who specializes in family in attaining and sustaining a pregnancy to Morgan in their leveraged fnance and M&A and childhood nutrition. Be- term. Joe graduated from Bridgewater State departments. He is a graduate of George- fore going into private prac- University with a BS in biology, and from town University (SFS) and Columbia Busi- tice, Vicky worked at the New ISMMS with an MPH. ness School. Mort is married to Henna Khan, York Children’s Health Project in the South and they have two daughters who graduated Bronx, where she counseled kids and adults from WSMS. and taught nutrition education classes. Pri- Natasha Kazmi or to becoming a registered dietitian, Vicky spent four years as an editor at O, the Oprah Prior to taking time off to raise Jennifer S. Conway, magazine, and later worked as a restaurant her family, Natasha Kazmi Secretary publicist in New York and Los Angeles. Vicky spent ffteen years in a num- has a BA from Cornell University and an MS ber of roles in the fnancial Jennifer S. Conway is a part- in nutrition from NYU. Vicky and her husband services industry, ranging ner at the law frm Cravath, Josh have three sons, one who is a current from corporate banking to restructurings and Swaine & Moore, where she student at WSMS, and two who have gradu- asset management, across diverse geogra- is a member of the Executive ated. She is a member of the WSMS Admis- phies like Pakistan, Indonesia and the U.S. Compensation and Benefts Department. sions Committee and is actively involved as Natasha was a member of the 2014 WSMS She regularly advises public and private a parent volunteer. Online Auction Committee, a member of the companies on executive compensation and Admissions Committee, and chair of the An- nual Fund. She is also involved in projects employee benefts matters, principally in con- Lindsay Forbes nection with mergers and acquisitions, initial related to furthering girls’ education in Paki- public offerings and other business transac- Lindsay Forbes holds a BS stan’s remote areas, and serves on Manhat- tions. Jennifer is a graduate of Georgetown in Natural Resources Con- tan’s Community Board 7. Natasha and her University and Columbia Law School. She is servation from the Faculty of husband, Qaisar Hasan, are proud parents also a member of the Steering Committee of Forestry, University of Brit- of two WSMS graduates. She earned a BBA the Kate Stoneman Project, an organization ish Columbia, and a JD from and an MBA from the University of Karachi. devoted to the advancement of women in the the University of Toronto. Born and raised in legal profession. Jennifer and her husband, Vancouver, Canada, Lindsay practiced com- Victor Manuel, have two daughters, one who mercial real estate law in both Vancouver Nigel-Ann is a current student at WSMS and one who and New York, and later helped develop the La Qua Williamson graduated in 2018. Jennifer and Victor also U.S. east coast market for EAB Tool Co., an served as co-chairs of the frst annual Fall environmentally-focused power tool acces- Nigel-Ann La Qua William- Festival. sory company. During her time as a parent at son was born and raised in WSMS, Lindsay was an active volunteer— Grenada, West Indies. She she served for two years as the co-chair of holds an MBA from Columbia Dana Bliss the Parents’ Association, and, among other University, and a BS and a BArch from the things, planned the Auction raffe, Bulb Plant- Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Archi- Dana Bliss is Executive ing, and Fall Festival bake sale. She remains tecture at the City College of New York. Prior Editor at Oxford University committed to WSMS as a member of the Ad- to taking time off to raise her family, Nigel- Press, where he oversees a missions Committee and the Board of Trust- Ann spent nine years practicing architecture book publishing program in ees. Lindsay is also a member of the board at HLW International and GKV Architects social work and counseling. of Trees New York, a non-proft dedicated in New York City. She is currently develop- Prior to joining OUP in 2012, Dana worked at to the care of street trees in New York City. ing her own company, one of the Columbia Taylor & Francis, another scholarly publish- Lindsay and her husband, Ali Dibadj, are University ventures working from the Colum- ing company in New York.