Board of Trustees
Cardiac
Board of Directors
As we continue our amazing growth trajectory as a pre-IPO Cardiac Surgery Academy, we are thrilled to announce that we have selected an all-female powerhouse group of strategic advisors to join our Board of Directors.
To revolutionize cardiac surgery education, you need a leadership team that understands every angle of the ecosystem. That’s why we’ve intentionally brought together brilliant minds across three core pillars:
Clinical Care Expertise: Keeping our training at the bleeding edge of surgical innovation.
Operational Leadership: Building the scalable infrastructure needed to expand our global reach.
Financial Acumen: Providing the fiscal stewardship and market insights required for our upcoming public market milestones.
Janelle Terrimore, JD, MBA
Janelle is a Managing Director within the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs, where she has built a distinguished career spanning institutional corporate finance, cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and complex capital markets transactions.
Janelle initiated her career at Goldman Sachs within the Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT) practice, advising high-growth tech enterprises on capitalization strategies and structured financing.
Over her tenure, Janelle has engineered a highly specialized advisory practice focused on healthcare services, including tech-enabled clinical platforms, managed care organizations, and large-scale provider networks.
Janelle received her JD from the University of Pennsylvania and her MBA from Stanford GSB.
Susan Triton, JD, MBA
Susan is an accomplished executive leader who serves as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and General Counsel for Alo Yoga. With a unique dual background in corporate law and strategic business operations, Triton oversees the global brand’s legal architecture, supply chain logistics, and scaling strategies during a period of massive international retail expansion.
Before anchoring operations at Alo Yoga, Triton cultivated a deep domain expertise in the wellness sector and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), specializing in the intersection of consumer behavior trends and brand ecosystem development.
Susan holds a JD / MBA from the University of Michigan.
Ariel Henry, JD
Ariel Henry, JD is a distinguished corporate strategist and independent consultant specializing in the operational and structural optimization of late-stage healthcare services firms. Operating at the critical intersection of corporate governance and financial engineering, Henry advises pre-IPO enterprises on legal entity rationalization, complex tax structure optimization, and the design of performance-driven executive and employee compensation frameworks tailored for public market transition.
Henry spent over two decades in elite private practice, culminating as a Senior Partner in the prestigious Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) practice group at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She also served as Chair the Partner Committee for four consecutive years.
Ariel received her JD from Columbia University.
Karl Holland
Jaya Dixon
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Marketing & PR Committee
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Clarissa Bowers, CST
Clarissa Bowers is a member of the Board’s Marketing & PR Committee. A graduate of Vanderbilt University with a degree in Neuroscience summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Ms. Bowers has been accepted to the Duke University School of Medicine (deferred for one year). The daughter of a surgeon and nurse, Ms. Bowers has a passion for medicine and intends to pursue a career in Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Ms. Bowers obtained her Certified Surgical Technologist (CST) certificate to explore her interest in surgery and was a member of the Cardiac Surgery team that performed the Foundation benefactor’s second Open Throracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysm with Aortoesophageal Fistula repair.
Ms. Bowers became America’s Miss World 2017, and competed in the 2017 Miss World pageant in China. She was also selected for famous Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Model edition.
Ms. Bowers believes surgery is ‘her calling’ and a way to serve while also enjoying the immediate gratification that the specialty enables. Ms. Bowers brings a strong network of corporate sponsors and a keen understanding of connecting science with fashion and lifestyle companies.
Goldman Sachs serves as the Foundation's Financial Fiduciary and Custodian of funding
Wachtell Lipton serves as external legal counsel for the Foundation