• Soledad Hurst, Meridian Governance and Nominating Committee Chair, co- manager of the Hurst Family Foundation and the Robert & Soledad Hurst Foundation, former Vice President of investment banking at Allen & Company.

Soledad Hurst lives in Aspen, CO and co-manages the Hurst Family Foundation and the Robert & Soledad Hurst Foundation. An active philanthropist, she currently Chairs the board of Theatre Aspen, serves on the Board of Trustees for Children’s Hospital of Colorado, is a Trustee of the University of Oregon Foundation, an honorary Trustee of the Aspen Country Day School Board, (having recently retired her Chair position after 12 years on the ACDS Executive Committee), and is a member of Summit 54, a local nonprofit that provides summer schooling and tutoring to children in the Roaring Fork Valley. Amongst her previous boards are FINCA International (including Chair of the Advisory Committee), American Hospital of Paris Foundation Board, Aspen Community Foundation, the Aspen Institute’s Vanguard Advisory Board and Roundabout Theater.

Mrs. Hurst started her work career as a lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City. In addition, she has served as a Vice President of investment banking at Allen & Company and was on-air, covering the New York Stock Exchange for Bloomberg Television.  Other activities include founding and running a summer camp for young children, extensive traveling, fiction writing and inventing new recipes.  She is a graduate of the University of Oregon (Summa Cum Laude) and Yale Law School.