New to the Board of Trustees

June 1, 2015

Jane Mendillo

Jane Mendillo comes to Berklee’s board of trustees after spending more than 30 years in the field of endowment and investment management. As the CEO of the Harvard Management Company (HMC) from 2008 to 2014, she managed Harvard University’s approximately $40 billion global endowment and related assets across public and private markets. From 2002 to 2008, Mendillo was the chief investment officer at Wellesley College. She spent the previous 15 years at HMC serving in various investment roles, and has worked at Bain & Company and the Yale Investment Office. Mendillo is a graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Management.


Alex Rigopulos

Alex Rigopulos is the cofounder, chair, and chief creative officer for Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based video game development studio. Harmonix is the creator of both Guitar Hero and Rock Band—two of the most successful franchises in the history of video games—as well as the Dance Central game series and Fantasia: Music Evolved. In 2008, Rigopulos was included in Time magazine’s annual list of the “100 most influential people in the world.” Rigopulos served as Harmonix’s CEO from 1995 through the spring of 2014, at which point he transitioned into his current role as CCO. Prior to cofounding Harmonix, Rigopulos studied music composition at MIT, earning his bachelor of science in music and theater arts in 1992. He later studied computer music at the MIT Media Lab, earning a master of science degree in media arts and sciences in 1994.


Monica Giraldo ’02

Alumna trustee Monica Giraldo ’02 is a singer/songwriter from Bogotá, Colombia, who has released three albums and earned a nomination in the Best New Artist category at the 2008 Latin Grammys. She earned a degree in music from Berklee and a degree in architecture from Los Andres University in Bogotá. Giraldo has performed in venues throughout Colombia, Mexico, the United States, France, and Japan, and has worked as an architect at CBT Architects in Boston and at other leading architecture firms in Spain and Colombia. Giraldo’s passion for music and cultural expressions has generated a deep sense of understanding about how local tradition can be combined with innovation to produce new observations, ideas, and opportunities.


David Gross-Loh

David Gross-Loh is a managing director at Bain Capital, where he has worked since 2000 in the Boston, New York, and Tokyo offices. Gross-Loh is a founding member of Bain Capital’s Asia business, which he now codirects after having established and managed the Tokyo office in 2006. Bain Capital Asia has offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo, Mumbai, and Melbourne. Prior to his work at Bain Capital, Gross-Loh was a consultant with Bain & Company and worked with NEC Corporation in Tokyo. Gross-Loh currently serves on the boards of several companies in Japan, China, and Australia, including Jupiter Shop Channel, Skylark, Domino’s Pizza Japan, Macromill, Uniview Technologies, and Retail Zoo. He holds a master of business administration degree from Harvard Business School and a bachelor of science in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

This article appeared in our alumni magazine, Berklee Today Summer 2015. Learn more about Berklee Today.
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