Maria Jelescu Dreyfus currently serves on our board of directors. Ms. Dreyfus also currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Ardinall Investment Management, a position she held since co-founding the company in April 2017. Prior to Ardinall, Ms. Dreyfus spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs, most recently serving as Portfolio Manager and Managing Director from 2008 to April 2017. Additionally, Ms. Dreyfus serves on the board of directors of Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation (NYSE: MIC), since September 2018, CDPQ, one of Canada’s largest pension plans, since November 2019 and is on the advisory board of Eni Next, the corporate venture arm of Eni SpA, since 2019.
Additionally, Ms. Dreyfus is on the advisory board of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, since 2015, and co-chair of its Women in Energy program. Ms. Dreyfus is also a member of the MIT Corporation’s Development Committee and sits on the MIT Economics Department’s Visiting Committee. Ms. Dreyfus currently serves on the board of the non-profit organization Girls Inc. of NYC, and her past non-profit board memberships include New America Alliance and Breakthrough New York.
Ms. Dreyfus holds a BS in Management Science and a BS in Economics from MIT.