SEO 2023 Annual Awards Dinner

Thank you to the many SEO friends, alumni, sponsors, and partners who helped make our 2023 Annual Awards Dinner on April 25 an amazing evening and success! With a record 1,300+ guests coming together to celebrate SEO’s work, it was a special occasion with far-reaching impact on the young people whose lives we touch every day. We congratulate and thank our honorees Raymond J. McGuire (President, Lazard) and Peter Chung (Managing Director & CEO, Summit Partners), Dinner chair James Gorman (Chairman & CEO, Morgan Stanley), and special guest Gayle King (Co-Host, CBS MORNINGS; Editor at Large, Oprah Daily).

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Thank you to our 2023 Awards Dinner sponsors.

  • Goldman Sachs Gives
  • Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Susan & John B. Hess
  • Kirkland & Ellis LLP
  • Marie-Josée & Henry R. Kravis
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Summit Partners
  • Anonymous
  • Hara H. Amdemariam
  • Joseph Bae & Janice Lee
  • The Bisignano Family
  • Orlando & Katy Bravo
  • Charlesbank Capital Partners
  • Clayton, Dubilier & Rice
  • Deloitte
  • Hythem T. El-Nazer – TA Associates
  • Global Infrastructure Partners
  • Nic Humphries – Hg
  • Kenneth B. Mehlman
  • Kammy Moalemzadeh
  • Scott & Amie Nuttall
  • Susan & Joe Plumeri
  • Julian C. Salisbury
  • Tishman Speyer
  • Siris Capital
  • WCAS
  • American Express
  • Blackstone Charitable Foundation
  • Bloomberg Philanthropies
  • The Carson Family Charitable Trust
  • Cerberus
  • Kathy & Ken Chenault, General Catalyst
  • Maya Chorengel
  • Chubb
  • Citi
  • Coleman Family Ventures
  • Amy Ellis
  • Mark Gallogly & Elizabeth Strickler
  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
  • Gray Foundation
  • Gilbert Andrew Garcia and Garcia Hamilton Associates
  • Deborah L. Harmon
  • Hearst
  • JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  • Nyssa & Chris Lee
  • Thomas and Paula McInerney
  • News Corp
  • Oaktree Capital Management
  • Paulson Family Foundation
  • Verdun S. Perry
  • Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P
  • Reverence and Advisory Group
  • S&P Global
  • Salesforce
  • Ashish Shah
  • Stonepeak Infrastructure
  • Alex Tahsili
  • Ed Tam & Tara Hart
  • TP ICAP
  • TPG
  • Apollo Global Management
  • Acquavella Family Foundation
  • Roger C. Altman & Jurate Kazickas
  • Artemis Real Estate Partners
  • Bank of America
  • The Baupost Group
  • Lisa & Jeff Bewkes
  • Gloria & Mark Bieler
  • Blue Owl
  • Box
  • Broadridge Financial Solutions
  • Brookfield
  • Andrea & Jim Burns
  • Cabrera Capital Markets LLC
  • CC Capital
  • John Civantos, Avance Investment Management
  • Clarion Partners, LLC
  • Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
  • Clifford Chance
  • Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
  • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
  • Deerfield Foundation
  • Diamond Hill
  • Dunes Point Capital
  • James Dunne
  • Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator
  • Evercore
  • Flora Fajardo
  • Fiserv, Inc.
  • Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • GCM Grosvenor
  • General Atlantic Foundation
  • Carla Harris
  • HPS Investment Partners, LLC
  • Hunter Point Capital
  • IBM
  • ICONIQ Capital
  • Invesco
  • Kimberly Kravis & Jonathan Schulhof
  • Kroll
  • Lazard
  • Lexington Partners
  • Jennifer & Marc Lipschultz
  • Ninon Marapachi & Meck Khalfan
  • National Hockey League
  • National Land Tenure Co., LLC
  • Nuveen, a TIAA Company
  • Maria & Michael Osheowitz
  • Dinesh & ILA Paliwal
  • Palladium Equity Partners, LLC
  • Paramount Group
  • Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
  • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
  • PwC
  • Proskauer
  • Related Companies
  • Mark Rowan
  • Bob Scully & Nancy Peretsman
  • Silver Lake
  • Silversmith Capital Partners
  • Adam & Melanie Smith
  • Amy & David Sorkin
  • Structure Tone & Pavarni
  • Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
  • Teradata
  • Third Point LLC
  • UBS
  • Warburg Pincus
  • Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
  • Keith & Marla Wofford
  • Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP
  • Atairos
  • Karen & Todd Builione
  • Natalie & Billy Butcher
  • CBRE
  • Josh Friedman & Mitch Julis, Canyon Partners LLC
  • Cinven
  • Clearlake Impact Initiative & Clearlake Capital Group
  • Columbia Threadneedle Investments
  • Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
  • Digital Realty
  • Suzanne & Matthew Donohoe
  • Cheryl Cohen Effron & Blair Effron
  • The Elder Family
  • Fidelity Investments
  • Fortress Investment Group
  • Franklin Templeton
  • KKR Capstone
  • L Catterton
  • Eric J. Lee
  • Lehrer Cumming
  • William A. Goodloe
  • Leonard Green & Partners, LP
  • Robert & Dana Lewin
  • Lord, Abbett & Co.
  • Pete Lyon
  • Maybel Marte, BlackRock
  • Laura & Henry McVey
  • MetLife
  • NetApp
  • Otterbourg P.C.
  • PGIM Investments
  • Principal Asset Management
  • RBC Foundation
  • Restaurant Associates
  • Kim & Ralph Rosenberg
  • State Street Global Advisors SPDR
  • Tata Consultancy Services Limited TCS
  • Truist
  • VNS Health
  • Mark Baumgartner
  • Canuteh Dalmasse
  • Chartres Lodging Group, LLC
  • DataRobot
  • Glenn Dubin
  • Michelle & Brandon Freiman
  • Friedman Family Foundation
  • Guggenheim Investments
  • Agnes Gund
  • Anthony C. Hass
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
  • Russell Hutchinson
  • Kenneth Jacobs
  • Thomas Jennings
  • John Hancock Investment Management
  • Kohlberg & Company
  • Judy & Leonard Lauder
  • John McGuire
  • Jennifer & Roland Merchant
  • MongoDB
  • John & Harriet Pappas
  • Janice Cook Roberts
  • Jim Robinson
  • SBFI – North America, Inc.
  • PNC Financial Group
  • Thornburg Investment Management
  • ClearBridge Investments
  • Delphix
  • NYC Partnership Foundation, Inc.
  • Pryor Cashman LLP
  • Sanjay Shah
  • Matthew Sisneros
  • Spotify
  • Lerone Vincent
  • Kathryn S. Wylde
  • Kollen Dibble-Smith
  • Lon Dolber
  • L & K Partners Inc.
  • Gensler
  • Insight Partners
  • Janus Henderson Investors
  • Adina Lichtman
  • Kent J. Lucas, Non Sibi Ventures
  • Ephraim Musokwa
  • Edward Powers
  • Avinash G. Samudrala, Standard Digital Capital LLC
  • Bei Saville
  • Christopher Snow
  • Jennifer Tejada
  • John Ward
  • Strauss Zelnick
  • Michael Zimmerman, Main Sequence Ventures