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Andrew C. Walter, Co-Founder and Board Co-Chair
Andrew C. Walter is the Co-Founder and Co-President of Blue Orchid Capital, LLC, which was created in 2003. Prior to Blue Orchid Capital, Andy was the Global Head of Product Management for Goldman Sachs' Hedge Fund Strategies and a member of the Group’s Investment Committee. The Product Management Group was responsible for structuring and distributing the Firm's hedge fund fund-of-funds products to qualified family groups and institutions around the globe.
Previously, Andy worked on building the alternative investments platform for gs.com / Goldman Sachs Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs' e-based wealth management business. Prior to that, he was involved in building the high-net-worth businesses in Goldman Sachs Asset Management both domestically and internationally.
Andy received his A.B. in Government from Harvard University. He serves on the Board of Eugene Lang College at New School University.
Peer T. Pedersen Jr., Co-Founder and Board Co-Chair
Peer T. Pedersen is the Co-Founder and Co-President of Blue Orchid Capital, LLC, which was created in 2003. Peer is a former Managing Director and Co-Head of Structured Finance in Credit Suisse First Boston’s Financial Institutions Group, based in New York. He joined the firm from Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, which CSFB acquired in November 2000, where he had been Co-Head of the Mortgage and Asset Finance Group. He spent five years working for both firms.
Peer joined DLJ in 1997 from NatWest Markets (now Royal Bank of Scotland) where he was Head of Fixed Income, and Co-Head of North American Capital Markets. He was a member of the firm’s Global Capital Markets Committee. Prior to joining NatWest Markets in 1993, Peer was the founder and CEO of PW Group, Inc., a joint venture with Cargill, Inc., focused on asset-backed and distressed debt principal investing.
Peer received his M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his B.A. from Dartmouth College. He is on the Board of Trustees and the Executive and Investment Committees of The Brunswick School, a member of The Hotchkiss School Investment Committee, and is on the Board of the non-profit CitySquash. He is a former member of the Board of The Hotchkiss School and St. Vincent’s Hospital.
Eden Werring, Executive Director
Eden’s background includes leadership development, direct service, strategic planning, fundraising, and non-profit management experience. She has dedicated her career to helping to develop the potential of young leaders with financial need and extraordinary promise, and was honored to join Steamboat Foundation as Executive Director in 2007.
After working for a season at the San Francisco Opera, Eden spent the first decade of her professional life helping to build Summer Search, a non-profit that identifies resilient low-income high school students and inspires them to become responsible and altruistic leaders. She served as Associate Director of Summer Search’s San Francisco office, Executive Director of the North Bay office, Founder and Executive Director of the New York City office, and finally national Director of Strategic Partnerships. In these varied leadership roles, Eden was part of a core founding team that helped to grow Summer Search from a small, local program with a $500,000 budget to a $10 million, multi-site organization. She continues to serve as a member of Summer Search NYC's Benefit Committee and an advocate for Summer Search nationally.
Eden received her B.A. in English Literature from Yale University. She lives in New York City with her husband and son.
Cindy Gao, Associate
Cindy, the 2005 Steamboat Scholar who worked with Dr. David Altchek at the Hospital for Special Surgery, was pleased to join the Steamboat team as the Foundation's first full-time Associate in 2007. Before working at Steamboat, Cindy spent a year as a coordinator facilitating the strategic planning process of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. As a part of the ever-expanding Steamboat family, Cindy is excited to become a more engaged member of the Foundation. She looks forward to building new relationships within the Steamboat community and, along with other alumni, giving back to an organization that has so generously invested in her own potential and character.
Cindy graduated from Columbia University with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Thomas Inck, Leadership Consultant
Dr. Tom Inck leads Inck Consulting, a boutique consulting firm specializing in leadership and organizational development. A psychologist by training, Tom helps develop ambitious individuals into self-aware leaders and well-intentioned groups into high-performing teams.
Over the past decade, Tom has lead organizational and leadership development projects for the senior leadership of such corporate clients as ACNielsen, ADP, Aetna, Audax Group, Black and Decker, Bloomberg, Double Click, Goldman Sachs, HBO, JPMorgan Chase, Omnicom, Select Equity Group, Soros Private Funds Management, United Health Group, and Xerox, as well as with numerous other privately held partnerships and non-profit organizations.
Tom received his B.A. from The University of Chicago and his Ph.D. in psychology from Adelphi University. He has held academic appointments at the New School for Social Research and Albert Einstein School of Medicine. He maintains a psychotherapy practice in New York City.
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