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Peter Matt’s bet on what lies beneath
After three decades advising manufacturers, Peter Matt took responsibility for running them. At CMC, his next test is a construction business built around the work that disappears beneath the finished project.
Joseph K. Belanoff took the long way back
Nine years on Wall Street, a return to the classroom, and a company he has led since 1999. Joseph K. Belanoff’s career makes a case for keeping your old skills - and perhaps your old suits.
Bill Ford and the education of patient money
He spent sixteen years at General Atlantic before becoming CEO. Now Bill Ford is backing artificial intelligence, borrowing lessons from tennis, and helping Amherst build a place for conversations no algorithm can replicate.
Ted Beneski and the business of getting better
The Insight Equity co-founder built a career around companies with room to improve. His other investments - in soccer fields, science classrooms and college scholarships - reveal where that habit began.
Cody Tranbarger and the View from the Goal
Before he founded companies, Cody Tranbarger kept goal for Amherst. His route through finance and Harvard to Mithril Medicine puts an old question in a new setting: how do you build a team that holds together?
Melanie Kaloski
Melanie Kaloski is the Chief Marketing Officer of the Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF), the nation's largest nonprofit supporting Hispanic American higher education. A brand-builder by training, she spent more than a decade shaping consumer brands at Capital Group's American Funds, Nestle and Beachbody before turning her marketing craft toward mission work - helping Latino students and families find the resources to earn a college degree. She holds a B.A. from Amherst College and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, and is fluent in French.
Elliott Rapaport
Elliott Rapaport is the founder and CEO of Birches Health, a national virtual clinic treating gambling, gaming and other behavioral addictions, covered by insurance and state funding. A lifelong New Yorker with an Amherst BA and a Cambridge MBA, he scaled healthcare marketplaces at Elemy before building Birches into a 50-state operation backed by $20M from AlleyCorp, General Catalyst and Will Ventures. He also serves as Vice President of the IPGGC board.