Romy Coquillette has spent her professional career in finance, real estate, strategy and human resource consulting. She worked for eleven years at Morgan Stanley in the investment banking division. She is currently the chairperson of the Achievement First Brooklyn Board of Trustees, a charter school network with 24 K-12 schools in Brooklyn, and the chairperson of the board of Mainsprings, a not for profit organization dedicated to improving communities in rural Tanzania through education, healthcare and sustainable farming. Previously, Romy served on the boards of The Bronxville School Foundation, the Concordia Conservatory of Music, the Non-Partisan Committee of the Bronxville Union Free School District, and the Community Fund of Bronxville, Eastchester and Tuckahoe. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in East Asian studies and earned an MBA from Harvard University.