GROUNDBREAKERS

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Bernard founded his first company, Sco y’s Recycling, in the waste-to-energy space. Here, he designed facilities to efficiently process waste fats, oils, and greases, and his business has grown internationally. He then went on to cofound Veriflux, a clean-tech software company focused on bringing traceability, transparency, and efficiency to waste-to-energy supply chains. Veriflux was awarded an EPA small business innovation contract and recently was selected for a groundbreaking pilot program in New York City. Combining business success with helping the planet is hugely rewarding for Bernard.

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Fingert is managing partner at Camber Creek, a venture capital firm focused on property technology with

$700 million under management. After earning a bachelor’s degree in business from Emory, he went on to receive a master’s in business administration from Harvard Business School. Fingert then worked as a principal at Boston Consulting Group, guiding large-scale transformation efforts, and in 2015, he was appointed by President Barack Obama to serve as a senior policy adviser on the National Economic Council at the White House.

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Hanafi has spent the past decade honing her skills as a private equity secondaries investor, buying and selling preexisting investor commitments to private equity and other alternative investment funds. In 2021, Hanafi joined leading private equity firm TPG as a principal. She is a member of the Next Gen Leaders for Secondaries: Class 2021—a list of rising stars in the field under thirty-six years old. She is also the co-founder of Women in Secondaries, a nonprofit that supports, elevates, and promotes women in the industry.

As the founder of DiversityPA, a nonprofit that guides students on the path to become physician assistants, Horton is on a mission to increase the number of minorities in the practice today. After graduating from Emory, Horton spent five years with the National Health Service Corps, providing health care to communities with limited access and resources. Now as physician assistant at Emory Healthcare, Horton provides routine primary care in a family practice se ing.

Patel has always been passionate about education and service. After studying at the University of Pennsylvania as an undergraduate, he returned home to a end Emory for medical school and an anesthesiology residency. He then joined Emory University Hospital as a faculty anesthesiologist. Patel is now chief of general and transplant anesthesia, one of the most complex operating room environments in the Emory Healthcare system. He helped lead the group through the COVID-19 pandemic and serves as a faculty mentor.

Pierre is senior counsel at Fiserv, where she supports the bill and digital payment solutions team. Pierre has more than ten years of experience as a transactional a orney in both the public and private sectors, previously working for the state of Georgia as a transportation a orney. Today, Pierre serves on the board of directors and chairs the advisory council for the Health Law Partnership, a medical-legal partnership that provides free legal services to improve the physical, social, and economic environments of low-income children.

Taylor is an assistant professor of gynecologic oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center. After graduating from Emory, she completed medical school at New York University and a master’s program in public health at University of Texas. While at NYU, she received the President’s Service Award for her role as co-director of the NYC Free Clinic, the largest student-run free clinic in the city. Texas Monthly named her a Texas Rising Stars Super Doctor in 2021 and 2022.