Board of Directors
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Sanam Quraishi is Founder and Chairman of the Board of SVQF. Ms. Quraishi attended UCLA, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French literature. She received a Juris Doctor from Southwestern University of Law, and is a member of the California State Bar and the Bar of the District of Columbia. Ms. Quraishi is a Member of the Clinton Global Initiative. She is the Executive Producer of Students of the World documentaries, and sits on the Advisory Board of Doc to Dock, Inc. and the Trustee Board of The Town School. Ms. Quraishi lives in New York City with her husband and their two children. |
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Shahid Quraishi is Co-Founder and Treasurer of the Board of SVQF.
Mr. Quraishi is Vice Chairman at New Oak Capital. Prior to joining New Oak Capital, he was a Managing Director and the Joint Global Head of Mortgage-Backed Securities and Asset-Backed Finance and Lending for UBS Investment Bank, and was previously Co-Head of Asset-Backed Finance at Bank of America Securities. Mr. Quraishi received a Bachelor of Science degree in International Finance and a Masters in Business Administration from George Washington University. He later received a Masters in Business Taxation from the University of Southern California. He lives in New York City with his wife and their two children. |
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Corinne Richardson serves as Executive Director and Secretary of the Board of SVQF.
Ms. Richardson received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University, with a concentration in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a certificate in Latin American Studies. Ms. Richardson later studied at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna, Italy, and received her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. |


