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LILY Y. ZHOU

Founder
Brooklyn

Summary

Passionate founder innovating within the longevity economy and eldercare, who envisions a world where the third act of life is the most rewarding and vibrant period of one's life.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Trustee

Zapleap
01.2022 - Current
  • Invested in early stage solutions in care delivery, healthtech, and services for aging populations
  • Directed philanthropic giving strategies to enhance the health and well-being of older adults while advocating for increased philanthropic and government support for aging services.

Founder and Board Member

Life Story Club
01.2020 - Current
  • Founded a nonprofit organization that combats loneliness and social isolation by creating small social clubs for older adults to share life stories and easily build friendships.
  • Led small team of five in the organization's first three years in all aspects of business development from market research and finance to operations and fundraising, ensuring that the organization's vision followed.
  • Spearheaded programs in partnership with public housing agencies, public libraries, as well as health and social service providers to deliver programming to their older adult clients and patients.
  • Won the Zoom 2021 Delivering Social Impact to Communities Award.

Development Committee Member

New York Academy Of Medicine
09.2021 - Current
  • Launched NYAM Connect, the New York Academy of Medicine's rising professionals group, to bring together impact-minded professionals from across industry verticals to fundraise and champion for health equity.
  • Led the formulation of the group's purpose statement and goals.
  • Steered the group's leadership committee in building out organization structure, committee roles and responsibilities, and a membership recruitment strategy.


Risk Manager

COMMONBOND
09.2016 - 12.2018
  • Designed and executed pricing strategy that improved both origination volume and weighted average coupon of the company's loan portfolio.
  • Analyzed portfolio credit performance and established new credit underwriting criteria based on credit analysis.
  • Built and maintained in-house proprietary credit decisioning and pricing engine for the company's business line.

Investment Analyst

WOMEN’S WORLD BANKING CAPITAL PARTNERS
01.2016 - 05.2016

• Conducted due-diligence of pipeline opportunities in Asia, MENA, and Sub-Saharan Africa against the Fund’s investment criteria and strategy

• Developed the Fund’s impairment analysis framework for its convertible debt investments

Statistics and Development Finance Researcher

ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOP
03.2015 - 12.2015

• Contributed to the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors report that provided an overview of the scale and distribution of financing for infrastructure by major development partners
• Conducted case-study research on how development finance institutions mobilize private sector investment towards infrastructure projects in developing countries

Senior Research Associate/Deputy Project Manager

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK
08.2011 - 04.2014
  • Received Performance Excellence Award from the Director of Research for work on the Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test Pre-Provision Net Revenue forecasting models.
  • Developed a Liquidity Mismatch Index to assess the mismatch between the market liquidity of assets and funding liquidity of liabilities of individual banks and the banking industry.

Education

Masters in Public Administration -

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
New York
09.2015 - 05.2016

Masters of Public Administration -

INSTITUT D'ÉTUDES POLITIQUES DE PARIS (Sciences Po Paris
Paris, France
09.2014 - 05.2015

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

WELLESLEY COLLEGE
Wellesley, MA
09.2007 - 05.2011

Skills

Fundraising, Budgeting, nonprofit management, financial forecasting, strategy

Evaluation Design, Machine learning, data analytics

Python, SQL, STATA, Excel, and SAS

Timeline

Trustee

Zapleap
01.2022 - Current

Development Committee Member

New York Academy Of Medicine
09.2021 - Current

Founder and Board Member

Life Story Club
01.2020 - Current

Risk Manager

COMMONBOND
09.2016 - 12.2018

Investment Analyst

WOMEN’S WORLD BANKING CAPITAL PARTNERS
01.2016 - 05.2016

Masters in Public Administration -

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
09.2015 - 05.2016

Statistics and Development Finance Researcher

ORGANISATION FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOP
03.2015 - 12.2015

Masters of Public Administration -

INSTITUT D'ÉTUDES POLITIQUES DE PARIS (Sciences Po Paris
09.2014 - 05.2015

Senior Research Associate/Deputy Project Manager

FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK
08.2011 - 04.2014

Bachelor of Arts - Economics

WELLESLEY COLLEGE
09.2007 - 05.2011
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