PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — During its annual spring meeting in May, the Corporation of Brown University elected eight new members to its Board of Trustees. Each was invited to serve on Brown’s highest governing body based on their commitment to the University and its mission of education and research.
The new trustees are Suzi Kwon Cohen; Oliver Haarmann; Adam M. Korn; Frayda B. Lindemann; Alina Moran; Anne Pedrero; Logan Tullai; and Kehli Harding Woodruff. Members of the Board of Trustees customarily serve six-year terms, with new alumni trustees serving for three years. Tullai will serve as a new alumni trustee.
Members are formally engaged in October at the first Corporation meeting of the academic year.
All members are dedicated to ensuring that their work will produce an intellectual environment that will shape the careers and lives of future generations. The roles and responsibilities of Corporation members are outlined in detail on the Corporation website.
New Trustees
Suzi Kwon Cohen, a Class of 1992 Brown graduate, is chief investment officer of Mousse Partners, the investment division of Chanel. Cohen is an investor and capital allocator with three decades of experience managing portfolios across both traditional and alternative asset classes. From 2005 to 2016, she served as a managing director and head of private equity for the Americas at the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, an established sovereign wealth fund. Previously, she was a private equity investor at Quadrangle Group and Credit Suisse Private Equity. Cohen started her career at Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. She holds an MBA from Stanford University and served as a trustee of the Stanford Business School Trust. She is vice president of the board of trustees and chair of the long-term financial sustainability task force for Phillips Exeter Academy, from which she graduated, and previously chaired the school’s investment committee. At Brown, Cohen chairs the President’s Advisory Council on Economics and is a member of the Corporation Committee on Investment.
Oliver Haarmann is founding partner of Searchlight Capital Partners, a private investment firm with offices in London, New York, Miami and Toronto. Before founding Searchlight, Haarmann enjoyed a successful career as a senior partner of the global investment firm KKR & Co. He earned a bachelor’s degree in history and international relations from Brown in 1990 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1996. He serves as chairman of IntoUniversity, a leading educational access charity that supports more than 60,000 disadvantaged young people annually in the United Kingdom. In addition, he is engaged in various philanthropic activities focused on education and contemporary art.
Adam M. Korn is a partner, chief operating officer and chief information officer at Sixth Street, a leading global investment firm. In his role, he oversees the firm’s engineering, data and operational platforms, helping to scale its investing and business capabilities through technology and innovation. He joined Sixth Street in 2020 following an 18-year career at Goldman Sachs, where he served as a partner and global co-head of Securities Division Engineering, playing a central role in advancing systematic trading and leading the development of the firm’s Marquee platform. Korn began his career in investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston and later co-founded a software startup, where he served as chief financial officer. At Brown, he is actively involved with the Advisory Council on the Carney Institute for Brain Science. Korn earned a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics-economics from Brown in 1997.
Frayda B. Lindemann is president emeritus of the Metropolitan Opera and immediate past chairman of Opera America. Together with her late husband George Lindemann, she established the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program at the Metropolitan Opera. Previously, she served on the board of directors of Lincoln Center and the Palm Beach Opera. She is co-chair of the music advisory board at Hunter College and was the director and chair of the executive committee of Young Concert Artists. Prior to her nonprofit work, Lindemann was an assistant professor of music history at Hunter College. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Hunter College and a Ph.D. in musicology from Columbia University. Lindemann is the parent of two Brown graduates and the grandparent of four alumni and current students.
Alina Moran is a distinguished healthcare executive and the chief executive officer of NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, a premier 545-bed tertiary care facility and Level 1 Trauma Center in Queens, New York. With over two decades of experience in the NYC Health + Hospitals system, her career has come full circle, having previously served as CEO of Metropolitan, the hospital where she was born. Throughout her career, Moran has established herself as a transformative leader and a dedicated champion for health equity. At Elmhurst, she oversees extensive operations managing nearly one million ambulatory visits annually. Her executive portfolio also includes serving as CEO of California Hospital Medical Center, where she successfully navigated the facility through the COVID-19 pandemic and spearheaded a $215 million campus expansion. A steadfast advocate for the Latino community, Moran serves as the national board chair for the Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement. Her leadership has earned her a number of honors, including being named Healthcare Executive of the Year by the National Association of Health Services Executives. She holds a master of public administration from Baruch College and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Brown University, combining technical precision with a deep-seated commitment to serving underserved populations.
Anne Pedrero, a Class of 1991 Brown graduate, serves on the board of directors of Cargill, whose mission is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. She is also a director and former board chair of Waycrosse, Inc., a family office. Pedrero is the parent to two Brown graduates and serves on the Division of Advancement’s Parents Executive Committee. She has been involved with the Watson School of International and Public Affairs since 2012, most recently serving as chair of its Board of Governors. She is also a class officer and has served in volunteer leadership roles for many of her reunions, including as co-chair of the Class of 1991’s 35th reunion. Pedrero’s nonprofit board service spans cultural, environmental and educational institutions. She is vice chair of the Smithsonian National Board and serves on the advisory board of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. She is an emeritus member of the Hamlin School Board, where she served as board chair, a former trustee of San Francisco University High School and a founding member of the Presidio Giving Circle, which invests in the health and wellness of Bay Area youth and families. Pedrero earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Brown; she also holds a master’s in international affairs from American University and an MBA from Stanford University.
Logan Tullai, a Class of 2025 Brown graduate, serves as mayoral advance for the City of Providence. In this role, he prepares State House testimony for the mayor, analyzes the city’s state legislative portfolio and manages critical relationships with community leaders. Tullai also serves as a board member and communications chair of the Brown Club of Rhode Island. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in economics and political science. At Brown, Tullai co-founded the Brown Political Union to foster productive campus dialogue through debates and large-scale speaker events. As national president of Every Vote Counts, he advocated for expanded voting access by integrating voter registration into new student orientation. Committed to community building, he also served as a student ambassador and tour guide, a Bruno orientation leader, and an ADOCH volunteer. Embracing the Open Curriculum as an artist, Tullai led workshops at the Community Libraries of Providence, where participants used Brown’s Apollo Moon film and the sun’s ultraviolet rays to make silk prints. He hosted large-scale exhibitions on campus, with support from the Brown Arts Institute, the NASA Rhode Island Space Grant, LunaSCOPE, and the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences.
Kehli Harding Woodruff is an executive and governance leader whose career spans public policy, business development, clinical neurodevelopment and institutional stewardship. A Class of 1994 graduate of Brown University in organizational behavior and political science, her deep devotion to academic excellence and institutional leadership is reflected in her role as president-elect of the Brown Alumni Association Board of Governors and her receipt of the 2009 Alumni Leadership Award. Woodruff’s professional foundation includes a Princeton University fellowship, a Clinton administration internship, a master of public policy from the University of Michigan, and a master’s in speech-language pathology with a Columbia University bilingual extension. As co-founder and chief operating officer of Nehemiah Real Estate Development Consultants and an initiator of eight business ventures, she brings robust entrepreneurial acumen and fiscal oversight experience to her leadership roles. A graduate of the Yale School of Management’s Women on Boards program, Woodruff is a passionate advocate for inclusive governance. By integrating clinical communication science with high-level business strategy, she excels at building consensus and aligning varied stakeholder groups. Woodruff’s unique combination of skills positions her to provide sophisticated and visionary stewardship for complex, mission-driven institutions.