Heather Murren

Heather Murren is a private investor with more than 25 years of professional experience in finance and more than a decade of service in health care and government. Murren began her career on Wall Street at Salomon Brothers in 1988 as a research analyst and ultimately retired in 2002 as Merrill Lynch's managing director, Global Securities Research and Economics, where she was group head for the Global Consumer Products Equity Research effort. Ms. Murren co-founded the first non-profit cancer research and treatment center in Las Vegas, the Nevada Cancer Institute (NVCI) where she previously served as Chairman and CEO. NVCI was merged into Roseman University in 2013. In 2009, Ms. Murren was appointed by Congress to serve on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), a 10-member Federal commission established to examine the domestic and global causes of the financial crisis. In 2016 she was appointeand served as a Commissioner on the White House Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. The Commission’s recommendations were submitted to President Obama in December, 2016. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center, providing research and development in the areas of cybersecurity, undersea and air defense, space, national security analysis, special operations and strategic defense. She is a special contributor to The Nevada Independent news site. Ms. Murren is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and a Chartered Financial Analyst. Fluent in Spanish and French, she has served as a translator and medical assistant for Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada,. She is President of the Murren Family Foundation, which focuses grants on education, health care and military veterans.