About Us

The Ivy Circle, founded in 2008, strives to create and sustain an active community in the Netherlands of alumni of leading North American universities and business schools. Ivy Circle member alumni clubs are encouraged to share their events with alumni of other member clubs, so that the Ivy Circle can develop and maintain an active calendar of alumni events. The Ivy Circle network has grown to 20 member alumni clubs representing a few thousand alumni living in the Netherlands.

Local alumni clubs from the following schools are current members of Ivy Circle Netherlands:

Berkeley Haas (Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley)	Brown University	Chicago Booth (The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)	Columbia Business School
Cornell University	Dartmouth College	Netherlands Fulbright Alumni Association	Georgetown University
Harvard Club of the Netherlands	Harvard Business School	Johns Hopkins University/SAIS	Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
McGill University	University of Notre Dame	University of Pennsylvania	Princeton University
Stanford University	Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth	Tufts University	The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Yale University

Ivy Circle Board

	Hollis Kurman Chair University of Pennsylvania/Georgetown MSFS
	Anthonie Zoomers Secretary University of Chicago Booth School of Business
	Omer Pelman Treasurer University of California at Berkeley
	John Terwilliger Fairs Coordinator University of Pennsylvania/Wharton School
	Erica Phiansunthon Communications University of Pennsylvania
	Aydan Figaroa Events Coordinator Yale University/Yale Law School
	Tina Amirtha-Ingold Events Coordinator Northwestern University
	Michelle van der Maten-Bologna Membership Engagement Columbia University/Columbia Business School
	Erin Lang Young Alumni Coordinator Georgetown University

Ivy Circle Advisory Board

Ivy Circle benefits from the support and expertise of a distinguished board of advisors. The board brings together expertise in each of the areas of interest of Ivy Circle: education, arts, business, and society:

	Willem Stevens (Chair) Former Dutch Senator
	Beth Johnson Owner, Boekhandel van Rossum
	Ben Bot Former Dutch Foreign Minister
	Ruth Oldenziel Senior Fellow at Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study
	Marc van Gelder Non-executive board member at various organizations
	Alexander Rinnooy-Kan Professor Emeritus University of Amsterdam and former member of First Chamber/Senate; Fulbright Board member and former visiting/Dutch Chair professor at Columbia University
	Harald Walkate Head of ESG, Natixis Investment Managers
	Kate Nanavatty Consul General United States
	Jan Veldhuis Former Board Chairman University of Utrecht
	Paul Broholm