Aleks Miziolek is an experienced public company director and C-Suite leader having most recently served as the Chief Transformation Officer, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer for Cooper-Standard Holdings Inc., a global, NYSE listed automotive supplier. For more than three decades, Aleks has worked across multiple industry sectors including the manufacturing/ industrial, infrastructure, building, financial services, and technology sectors and seeks to apply her extensive board and global M&A experience in service of corporate boards. Aleks serves on the Board of Directors of Solid Power, Inc. (NASDAQ:SLDP), an all-solid-state battery cell developer and as Chair of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and a member of its Compensation Committee. Aleks is also an Operator Advisor to Assembly Ventures, a global mobility and infrastructure venture fund as well as an advisor to OurOffice, a DEI software solutions provider. From March 2020 to November 2022, Aleks served on the Board of Directors of Tenneco Inc., a Fortune 500 global industrial supplier serving as Chair of its Nominating and Governance Committee and on its Compensation Committee (acquired by Apollo Funds). Relying on her significant international M&A experience, Aleks was principally involved in Cooper Standard’s Asian growth strategy with Chinese and Korean domestic OEMs and executed a pivotal transaction establishing Cooper-Standard as the largest automotive sealing supplier in China in 2015. She led profit enhancement initiatives, including a European footprint optimization strategy resulting in significant improvement in forecasted EBITDA performance. Aleks also collaborated on leveraging proprietary technology to form a new nonautomotive business focusing on growth in sectors such as wire and cable and footwear through licensing of material science product and process innovations. During her tenure at Cooper-Standard, Aleks also oversaw a successful transition in the shareholder base from hedge fund to institutional ownership as well as significant board refreshment. She spearheaded the integration of global ESG and enterprise risk management initiatives with the strategic planning process. As Chief Compliance Officer, Aleks drove the execution of a culture of integrity and ethics resulting in Cooper-Standard’s designation as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere in 2020. At Dykema, Aleks originated significant client relationships, including Ford Motor Company (corporate work), Macquarie, Borg Warner, and EADS. She also led its first Automotive Industry Group establishing a disciplined revenue growth strategy to achieve a 28% increase in automotive revenues. In addition to leading global teams in connection with major M&A transactions, Aleks executed technology IPOs and capital raising initiatives for start-ups, including data network integration, hardware to software interface and electric vehicle technology platforms. Her work with Macquarie in its first US investment (Detroit-Windsor Tunnel) led Aleks to advocate the merits of public-private partnerships (P3s) at national P3 conferences as well as before the Michigan legislature and to organize the first Michigan P3 Summit in conjunction with the Detroit Regional Chamber and Deloitte. Aleks worked at Dykema from 1982 to 2014 and at Cooper Standard from 2014 through 2019 when she began to transition toward corporate board related interests. Born in the US to Polish immigrants, Aleks is fluent in Polish. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from Wayne State University Law School. Among her nonprofit interests, Aleks recently completed a four year term as Chair and continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the Citizens Research Council of Michigan and is a member of the International Women’s Forum. Aleks is a NACD Board Leadership Fellow.

Maria Green retired as senior vice president and general counsel of Ingersoll Rand plc (IR) on June 28, 2019. She joined IR in November 2015, and was responsible for all legal and compliance activities worldwide. She joined Ingersoll Rand from Illinois Tool Works (ITW), where she was senior vice president, general counsel and secretary.

During her 18 years with ITW, Maria guided the company’s expansion through both acquisitions and organic growth. As GC, she led the Environmental, Health and Safety Group as well as Government Affairs and Risk Management.

At Ingersoll Rand, Maria was a member of the Executive Leadership Team and a trusted advisor to the CEO on legal, compliance and strategy issues and led a team of 75 lawyers based in the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. She co-chaired the Global Business Integrity Council and served as executive sponsor for an employee resource group.

Maria joined the board of Tennant Company (NYSE: TNC) as an independent director in March 2019 (Chair: Nominating and Governance Committee; Audit Committee) and was elected to the boards of Wisconsin Energy Group (NYSE: WEC) in July 2019 (Audit and Finance Committees) and Littelfuse (NYSE: LFUS) in February 2020 (Audit and Governance Committees). Most recently, Maria joined the board of directors of Fathom Digital Manufacturing Corporation (NYSE: FATH) in January 2022 (Compensation Committee).

Maria holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and JD from Boston University Law School.

Jennifer J. Raab will soon mark her 20th anniversary as President of Hunter College, the largest college in the City University of New York system, with 23,000 students, five schools, and an annual operating budget of more than $250 million. President Raab has led the successful transformation of Hunter College from an open-admissions institution to a selective, highly ranked college; under her leadership, both graduation and retention rates have increased markedly. Since she has assumed the presidency, Hunter has significantly increased its government grants and awards and strengthened its fiscal management. President Raab has been responsible for securing $400 million in private support for the college. She has launched a $25 million library renovation; a science research and nursing/health professions facility in partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; a floor in the new Belfer Research Building at Weill Cornell Medical College; a $131 million School of Social Work in East Harlem; a new facility in Tribeca for Hunter’s renowned art graduate program and gallery; and the $25 million restoration of the historic 1908 Roosevelt House. President Raab was a litigator Cravath, Swaine & Moore, and Paul, Weiss, after which she was appointed Chairman of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, a post she held from 1994 to 2001. President Raab served on the Board of Directors of Compuware Corporation and is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the Steering Committee of the Association for a Better New York, Advisory Committee for WOMEN.NYC and sits on the boards of directors of The After School Corporation, United Way New York, and the One To World Foundation, and was a member of the 2004-05 New York City Charter Revision Commission. A graduate of Hunter College High School (whose campus she now oversees), President Raab received a BA with distinction in all subjects from Cornell University in 1977, an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton in 1979, and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1985. In 2016, President Raab’s achievements were recognized by her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.