Biography
Mimi Drake is Chair of the Board at Hudson Global.
Career
Mimi K. Drake joined the Hudson Global Board of Directors in February 2019.
Ms. Drake serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Permit Capital Advisors, LLC. She is responsible for the business functions of the firm, and she contributes to the sourcing and evaluation of investment opportunities.
For six years prior to joining Permit Capital Advisors, LLC, Mimi served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Defiance Asset Management, LLC. She was responsible for the strategic planning, financial management, marketing, client service, legal, and human resources aspects of the firm, and she also served on the risk management committee.
Earlier in her career, she spent five years at Miller Anderson & Sherrerd/ Morgan Stanley Institutional Asset Management, where she worked on both the marketing/client service and portfolio management sides of the business.
Education
Mimi received her M.B.A. in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995 and her B.A. in Economics from Trinity College (cum laude) in 1990.
She attended Harvard University’s Radcliffe Publishing Course in 1990 and spent three years in magazine publishing prior to Wharton. Mimi serves on the Board of Trustees at The Shipley School, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, and the Chair Emerita of the 100 Women in Finance Association and Foundation (a global organization with over 20,000 members), where she recently served as Chair of the Board. Mimi also serves as a panelist for Wharton’s Advanced Management Program’s Social Entrepreneurship Class.