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TRUSTEE SPOTLIGHT William Bao Bean ’91, P’23 Mr. Bean is a general partner at SOSV—The Accelerator VC—an active angel and seed stage investor with $740 million in assets under management. At SOSV, he is the managing director of Chinaccelerator, the first startup accelerator to launch in Asia and the only accelerator in Asia to have a unicorn go through its program, Bitmex, the #2 crypto exchange in the world by trading volume. Mr. Bean is also the founder and managing director of MOX, the mobile accelerator, which provides startups with free user acquisition of the 80 million smartphone users on the platform. An alumnus of Bowdoin College, Mr. Bean joined SOSV from SingTel Innov8 Ventures, where he was a founding managing director supporting China investments. Prior to that, he was a general partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, a venture capital firm backed by Softbank and Cisco, leading investments in China and Southeast Asia. Mr. Bean started his career in equity research, most recently with Deutsche Bank, where he was the topranked analyst in Asia Internet and China tech, media and telecom, and worked on IPOs for Alibaba, Kingsoft and eLong (Expedia China). Mr. Bean, who in 2012 cofounded the Blair Club of Asia alumni group and served as a panelist at the 2020 Blair Finance Summit in New York City, lives in Shanghai, China, and Miami, Florida, with his wife, Lisa, and their children, Alexander ’23 and Audrey, 13.
Maria Lieberman Smalley ’01 Maria serves as a physician assistant (PA) at St. Luke’s University Health Network in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, working as a neurohospitalist. She is also the director of neurology education for the 12-hospital system, which includes more than 50 neurology clinicians. After graduating from Blair, Maria earned a bachelor of science and a master of science in occupational therapy from the University of Scranton. Following this, she worked at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, primarily in oncology and intensive care. She went on to earn a master of science in physician assistant studies at DeSales University. In 2011, Maria received Blair’s Peachey Award recognizing her work as a class representative, a position she has held since 2005, and she served for six years on the Alumni Board of Governors (2006-2012). Maria comes from a long line of proud Buccaneers, including greatuncle Jack Doern ’48; father Mark Lieberman ’74; brothers Thomas Lieberman ’02, Nicholas Lieberman ’03 and Kevin Lieberman ’07; aunt Marianne Lieberman ’79; uncle Michael Lieberman ‘71 and cousins. She and her husband, Aaron, live in Macungie, Pennsylvania, with their children, Matthew, 7, and Joshua, 1.
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