The Fiftyfaces Podcast

Jan Nicholson is President of two private family foundations, The Nicholson Foundation in NJ and The Grable Foundation in Pittsburgh PA. She recently retired from a Board Role at MDRC, a non-partisan research organization based in NYC, and has held Board Positions at Rubbermaid, Ball Corporation, and Radian Group, Inc. from 1990 to 2015. She has an extensive background in finance having worked at...

Jesus Amadeo is CFO and Senior VP at MDRC, a non-partisan research organization based in NYC and Oakland CA, and is a partner at an emerging venture capital fund focused on the defense and security industry. He was born in Puerto Rico and came to study at Columbia University in New York City at the age of 17. In the early part of his career he traveled and worked extensively in Latin America and C...

The world of investment is volatile, complex and unpredictable. It is also full of captivating and richly experienced people. People who have navigated through multiple market crises. People who have lost it all and lived to fight another day. People with nerves of steel, people with missions that run generations deep. This podcast series is about bringing you some of their stories. And while no o...