Jake Motivates Everything We Do

Jake Schreiber
April 14, 2005–August 5, 2024

Jake was a brilliant, kind and talented Brown University student. His life, and his death by suicide in 2024, motivate our work for young people with neurodivergent minds.

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Our Team

Lori and Zach Schreiber

Co-Founders

Lori Schreiber, Jake’s mom, has spent more than two decades in service to her community in New York City, working in educational, hospital and community settings.

  • She is currently a member of Weill Cornell Medicine’s Board of Fellows. Her service to education includes trusteeship of the Dalton School. Lori is a graduate of Cornell University and received her MBA from Columbia University.

    Zach Schreiber, Jake’s dad, is Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer of PointState Capital, which he co-founded in 2011. A graduate of Brown University, he has served as a University Trustee, on the President’s Leadership Council, and as a member of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Board of Governors. His broad-ranging philanthropic work includes serving as a trustee and passionate advocate for Harlem Children’s Zone.

Melissa Floren Filippone, CFA

CEO

With almost three decades of experience in health care investment, research, and entrepreneurship, Melissa leads the Jake Collective across all functions.

  • A cum laude graduate of Princeton University, she began her career as an equity research analyst covering health care at RS Funds and Janus Capital, then became a portfolio manager at DCF Capital. She went on to help launch Navigenics, a pioneering personal genomics company backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. After Navigenics was sold to Life Technologies, she led business development and strategy for health care startups focused on community and employee health. A lifelong friend of the Schreiber family, Melissa has known and loved Jake since the day he was born.

Michele Schimmel

Marketing and Communications

Ed Leibowitz

Editorial Director

Brandie Revoy

Operations

Advisory Board

Randy Auerbach, PhD

Randy Auerbach, PhD

Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry, Columbia University
Christine Moutier 
Chief Medical Officer, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Christine Moutier, MD

Matthew K. Nock, PhD

Matthew K. Nock, PhD

Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

Brian Rogers 

Partner, Head of Equities, PointState Capital
Andrew Solomon 
Best-selling author, professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University Medical Center

Andrew Solomon

Paula Volent, CFA

Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, The Rockefeller University