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Priyanka Shah

Associate Director, Future of Aging
Priyanka Shah is an associate director with the Future of Aging team. She previously worked at the Tiber Creek Group, a bipartisan government relations firm in Washington, DC, where she played a critical role in keeping clients informed of day-to-day policy developments, providing legislative and regulatory updates, working on in-depth research projects, and advancing the public policy goals and priorities of clients.
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Esther Krofah

Executive Vice President, Milken Institute Health
Esther Krofah is the executive vice president of Milken Institute Health, leading FasterCures, Public Health, the Future of Aging, and Feeding Change. She has extensive experience managing efforts to unite diverse stakeholders to solve critical issues and achieve shared goals that improve patients’ lives.

Small Business Policy, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation

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Small businesses and startups employ approximately half of all private sector workers and are responsible or nearly half of the US’s economic output. Yet, over the last 25 years new business formation has been in a structural decline creating risks to our economic growth, job creation, and innovation.

Community bank consolidation, technology, globalization, and policy changes have disproportionately impacted small businesses and start-ups by fundamentally changing the competitive landscape and entrepreneurial ecosystem.  

The Small Business Policy and Innovation initiative aims to address these challenges through policy recommendations and program solutions to foster a more robust entrepreneurial environment and inclusive prosperity across regions and demographics. 

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Kelly Clark

Public Health Advisory Board Member
Kelly J. Clark, MD, MBA, DFAPA, DFASAM, is the Immediate Past President of the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) and founded Addiction Crisis Solutions (ACS) to focus on assisting stakeholders in transforming addiction care to evidence-based, cost-effective practice.
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Dan Crippen

Public Health Advisory Board Member
Dan Crippen has held some of the highest appointive offices in government: Domestic Policy Advisor to President Ronald Reagan; Director of the Congressional Budget Office; Executive Director of the National Governors Association; and Economic Advisor and Chief Counsel for Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker.
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Paul Irving

Senior Advisor, Future of Aging
Paul Irving is a corporate and nonprofit director and advisor to leaders in business, philanthropy, and academia. Irving is a senior advisor at the Milken Institute, a national advisor at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, a national law and consulting firm, and a distinguished scholar-in-residence at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.
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Anna Lin-Schweitzer

Associate Director, Feeding Change, Milken Institute Health
Anna Lin-Schweitzer is an associate director with Feeding Change at the Milken Institute.
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Holly Freishtat

Senior Director, Feeding Change, Milken Institute Health
Holly Freishtat is the senior director of Feeding Change at the Milken Institute. She is an experienced director, transformative leader, and strategist with a 20-year track record developing and implementing food system policies and programs.
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Mark Williams

Associate Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Health
Mark Williams is an associate director with the FasterCures team of the Milken Institute. He manages a number of projects aimed at creating a high-functioning biomedical system, including countering antimicrobial resistance, engaging patients within health systems, and fostering innovation and collaboration in medical research.
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Raymond Puerini

Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute Health
Raymond Puerini is a director wtih the FasterCures team of Milken Institute Health. He currently leads FasterCures’ nonprofit capacity-building portfolio, which includes The Research Acceleration and Innovation Network (TRAIN), LeadersLink, and the Rare As One Mentorship Program, as well as FasterCures’ patient engagement work.
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