JAMES R. CHAMBERS has served as Chairman of the TIAA Board since 2021. He was director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Weight Watchers International, Inc. (“Weight Watchers”) from 2013 to 2016, and also served as its President and Chief Operating Officer in 2013; Mr. Chambers served as a special advisor to the Weight Watchers board of directors in 2016. He served as Chairman of the board of directors of Big Lots, Inc. from 2018 until 2022 and continues to serve on that board since stepping down from the chairmanship, serves as a strategic advisor to the board of Ocean Spray since 2022, and has served on the Finance and Investment Committee of Atlantic Health System since 2021. Mr. Chambers earned a B.S.E. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chambers provides expertise in the areas of business management, governance and financial reporting and qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” under SEC guidelines.

Committee memberships

• TIAA Board of Trustees, Chairman
• TIAA Human Resources Committee
• TIAA Nominating and Governance Committee
• TIAA Risk and Compliance Committee
• TIAA Executive Committee

Priya Abani has been President and Chief Executive Officer of AliveCor since 2019, and also serves on AliveCor’s board of directors. From 2016 to 2019 she was General Manager of Alexa Voice Service at Amazon. Prior to joining Amazon, she held various leadership positions at Intel from 2008 to 2016. She has been a board member of Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. since 2021. Ms. Abani provides expertise in the areas of technology, customer experience, diversity, equity and inclusion, and operations management.

Committee Memberships

• TIAA Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility Committee
• TIAA Human Resources Committee
• TIAA Risk and Compliance Committee

SAMUEL R. BRIGHT is Vice President and General Manager of Google Play at Google since 2023. He was Chief Product and Experience Officer of Upwork from 2020 to 2022. From 2019 to 2020 he was Vice President, General Manager – Verticals at eBay, having served there as Vice President of Soft Goods from 2018 to 2019, as Senior Director of Art & Collectibles from 2016 to 2018, and in a series of other M&A and Strategic Partnership roles from 2012 to 2016. He served as President and Board Member of certain Upwork subsidiaries from 2021 to 2022, and served on the board of Benetech from 2016 to 2021. Mr. Bright provides expertise in the areas of e-commerce, customer experience, technology, mergers and acquisitions, diversity, equity and inclusion, and operations management.

Committee Memberships:

• TIAA Audit Committee
• TIAA Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility Committee
• TIAA Investment Committee

Jason E. Brown is Chief Executive Officer of MRO Corporation since 2022. From 2018 to 2022 he was Chief Executive Officer of Discovery Health Partners. From 2014 to 2018 he was President of Evolent Health (and prior to its merger with Evolent, of Valence Health). He is a member of the Board of YMCA Chicago, and served on the Board of Champion Healthcare Technologies until its sale in 2019. Mr. Brown earned a B.A. from Morehouse College and an M.B.A. from Harvard University. Mr. Brown provides expertise in the areas of business management and executive leadership, digital user experience and the health care services industry.

Committee memberships

• TIAA Audit Committee, Chair
• TIAA Executive Committee
• TIAA Human Resources Committee
• TIAA Risk and Compliance Committee
  

DR. JEFFREY R. BROWN has been the Josef and Margot Lakonishok Professor of Business and Dean of the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 2015. He was previously the William G. Karnes Professor of Finance and Director of the Center for Business and Public Policy from 2007 until 2015 and has taught at the University of Illinois since 2002. Since 1999 he has been a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has served as manager of Brown Eagle Investments LLC since 2018. Since 2016 he has been a manager of Illinois Global Gateway LLC and since 2019 he has been Chair. He has served on the board of managers of University of Illinois Research Park since 2019 and of Illinois Ventures, LLC since 2022. He was named Executive Vice Chair of the Prairielands Council of Scouting BSA in 2022 and President in 2023. Dr. Brown earned a B.A. from Miami University, an M.P.P. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Brown provides expertise in the areas of finance, pension products, public policy and economics and qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” under SEC guidelines.

Committee memberships

• TIAA Audit Committee
• TIAA Executive Committee
• TIAA Investment Committee
• TIAA Risk and Compliance Committee, Chair

Thasunda Brown Duckett is President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA, since 2021. From 2016 to 2021, she was Chief Executive Officer, Consumer Banking at JPMorgan Chase & Co. From 2013 to 2016, she was Chief Executive Officer, Chase Auto Finance, and from 2004 to 2013 she held a number of positions at JPMorgan Chase & Co., including National Retail Sales Executive for Chase Home Lending. From 1996 to 2004, she held various roles including Director, Emerging Markets at Fannie Mae. Thasunda serves as a Director of Brex and Nike, Inc., and is a member of the Dean’s Council of Baylor University Hankamer School of Business, the Board of Visitors of the University of Houston, and the Boards of Directors of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Children’s Learning Centers of Fairfield County, the Economic Club of New York, National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Sesame Workshop, and the Otis and Rosie Brown Foundation, which Board she also chairs. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Marketing from the University of Houston and an MBA from Baylor University. Ms. Duckett provides extensive experience in executive leadership, business management, banking and financial services operations and marketing, client engagement and digital transformation.

Committee memberships

• TIAA Executive Committee
• TIAA Risk and Compliance Committee

LISA W. HESS was President and Managing Partner of Sky Top Capital Management LLC from 2010 to 2020. She has served as a director of Radian Group, Inc. since 2011. She also served as a director of TIAA, FSB (and its predecessor) from 2015 through 2023. She is a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the New York Society Library. She earned a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Ms. Hess provides expertise in the areas of investment management and finance and qualifies as an “audit committee financial expert” under SEC guidelines.

Committee memberships

• TIAA Audit Committee
• TIAA Investment Committee, Chair
• TIAA Risk and Compliance Committee
• TIAA Executive Committee

Dr. Edward M. Hundert is Daniel D. Federman, M.D. Professor in Residence of Global Health and Social Medicine and Medical Education, and the Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics, at Harvard Medical School since 2014. He also serves as a senior philanthropic advisor for Alumni Affairs and Development at Harvard Medical School and as a senior advisor to Huron Consulting Group since 2023. From 2014 to 2023 he served as Dean for Medical Education and on the faculty of the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Law, Brain and Behavior. Dr. Hundert earned a B.S. from Yale University, an M.A. from Oxford University, and an M.D. and psychiatry residency training from Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hundert provides experience in higher education and the medical services industry.

Committee memberships

• TIAA Nominating and Governance Committee, Chair
• TIAA Human Resources Committee
• TIAA Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility Committee
• TIAA Executive Committee

Gina L. Loften was Chief Technology Officer for the US at Microsoft from 2019 to 2021. Prior to joining Microsoft, she held various positions at IBM, serving as Chief Technology Officer for North American Consulting Services. She serves on the boards of TTEC, Thoughtworks, Foursquare, and Modernizing Medicine, all since 2021, and Interwell Health since 2022. She also serves on the Boards of NC School of Science and Mathematics Foundation, North Carolina A&T State University Board of Trustees, DECODE, the North Carolina Chapter of NPower Inc., and the Advisory Board of the North Carolina A&T School of Engineering. Ms. Loften earned a B.S. from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State. Ms. Loften provides expertise in the areas of technology and digital transformation, mergers and acquisitions, diversity, equity and inclusion, and operations management.

COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS

• TIAA Human Resources Committee
• TIAA Investment Committee
• TIAA Risk and Compliance Committee

Dr. Maureen O’Hara has been the R.W. Purcell Professor of Finance at Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University since 1992; she has taught at Cornell University since 1979. She served as Professor of Finance at the University of Technology Sydney from 2016 to 2018. From 2016 to 2018, she served on the SEC’s Equity Market Structure Advisory Committee. She is a member of the board of the Jeffrey Company, effective May 2023. She is an advisor to Ava Labs, Inc. since 2019, and to BMLL Technologies since 2022. She serves on the board of directors of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She earned a B.S. from the University of Illinois, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. Dr. O’Hara provides expertise in the areas of economics, banking and finance and qualifies as an "audit committee financial expert" under SEC guidelines.

Committee memberships

• TIAA Audit Committee
• TIAA Investment Committee
• TIAA Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility Committee, Chair
• TIAA Executive Committee

Ramona E. Romero has been Vice President and General Counsel of Princeton University since 2019 and was General Counsel from 2014 to 2019. From 2011 to 2014, she was General Counsel to the United States Department of Agriculture. Prior to 2011 she held various positions at DuPont, including Corporate Counsel and Senior Counsel. She is a member of the Boards of Legal Services of New Jersey and the National Association of Women Lawyers, and a member of the Presidential Commission on White House Fellowships. Her past experience includes service on multiple not-for-profit governing Boards, including as a Trustee of Barnard College, where she earned her B.A. Ms. Romero, who earned a J.D. from Harvard University, provides extensive experience in the areas of law, risk management, and higher education.

Committee memberships

• TIAA Human Resources Committee
  
• TIAA Nominating and Governance Committee
  
• TIAA Risk and Compliance Committee
  

KIM M. SHARAN is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kim M. Sharan, LLC, a strategic advisory company. She is also a co-founder and managing partner with Connective Partners, LLC, and CEO of The Acelera Connective, since 2022. She has over 36 years of diverse leadership experience with several Fortune 500 global financial services organizations. From 2005 to 2014, she served as President of Financial Planning and Wealth Strategies and Chief Marketing Officer at Ameriprise Financial. She is a member of the Board of Ag Resource Management since 2023. She is also a member of the Board of Partner Here since 2014. She served on the advisory boards of Yext from 2016 to 2018 and 2021 to 2022, of Hearsay Social from 2019 to 2021, of Own the Room from 2016 to 2023, and of Vera Health /MyCabinet, Inc. from 2021 to 2023. Ms. Sharan is a member of Women’s Forum New York. She served as a member of the board of directors of TIAA, FSB (a wholly-owned subsidiary of TIAA) from 2020 to 2023, and serves as a member of the board of directors of TIAA Trust, NA (also a wholly-owned subsidiary of TIAA) since 2023. She earned a B.A. from Drew University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Ms. Sharan provides extensive financial services leadership, investment management, financial planning, marketing and digital experience.

Committee memberships

• TIAA Nominating and Governance Committee
• TIAA Human Resources Committee, Chair
• TIAA Executive Committee
• TIAA Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility Committee