Liz Walker

The Oregon Symphony is Portland’s largest performing arts organization and the oldest American orchestra west of the Mississippi. Led by Music Director David Danzmayr, it performs with many of the world’s top musicians and offers the best of orchestral music – classical to pops to cutting-edge contemporary – to growing audiences in Portland and across Oregon. The orchestra consists of 76 full-time musicians who perform more than 80 concerts each year in downtown Portland’s historic Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, to draw an enthusiastic audience of more than 225,000 people annually. Appointed in 2023, the Oregon Symphonys President and CEO is Isaac Thompson.

Founded in 2007, the Oregon Venture Fund is a community supported, professionally managed, collaborative venture capital fund backed by the leaders of the regions business, technology, and entrepreneurial communities. Pitchbook consistently places OVF in the top 25% of all global venture funds (2025). OVF invests $15-20 million annually in the most promising startups and growth companies, regardless of stage or sector, in Oregon and Southern Washington. Learn more about OVF in our quick overview video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxiH6O4BEp0 Over 6500+ jobs have been created by the 90 companies in the portfolio. Some of OVF’s largest investors include the State of Oregon, Oregon Community Foundation, and Meyer Memorial Trust. In 2023, the group launched Oregon Venture Fund XV, to accommodate additional institutional investors and family offices. The $25M+ fund has a 5-year investing period and invests alongside each annual Oregon Venture Fund in the same portfolio. OVF receives generous support from Tonkon Torp LLP, Geffen Mesher & Co., and Stoel Rives.

(Formerly Disjecta) Oregon Contemporary is a space dedicated to art, community, and the exponential possibilities of contemporary art.

Founded in 2003, LinkedIn connects the worlds professionals to make them more productive and successful. With more than 1 billion members worldwide, including executives from every Fortune 500 company, LinkedIn is the worlds largest professional network. The company has a diversified business model with revenue coming from Talent Solutions, Marketing Solutions, Sales Solutions and Premium Subscriptions products. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, LinkedIn has offices across the globe.

We are a premier corporate strategy firm with the experience and track record of helping CEOs and their leadership teams achieve winning performance and build stronger organizations. Marakon has been working with business leaders for more than 30 years. Our teams combine deep sector experience and functional knowledge. Led by our Directors who are “on the ground”, we have helped our clients to create the strategies and capabilities to outperform the competition. Marakon’s approach is underpinned by value creation as the common denominator for decision making; a rigorous process based on a deep set of facts; and the assessment of alternative strategies as a mechanism to build leadership team commitment to the best path forward. Helping our clients raise the level of ambition, create clarity on the best strategic direction and path for getting there, and put in place the culture, standards and accountabilities for making it happen is what we do. As a result, we have built a reputation for providing productive challenge and working with a client portfolio that has consistently outperformed its peers.