NRF Adds Four New Board Members in 2025
Mike began his rowing career at St. Joseph’s Prep in Philadelphia where he was a member of the 1984 Scholastic National Champion Men’s 8+. Mike stayed on the Schuylkill River for college at the University of Pennsylvania graduating in 1989 with a B.A. in History and rowing in Penn’s 1989 IRA Champion Men’s 8+.
Mike rowed on the Senior National Team from 1993-1996. Mike competed in the Men’s 8+ at the 1993 and 1995 World Championships and in the Men’s 2- at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
While competing with the Senior National team Mike attended Hofstra University School of Law, graduating with a J.D. in 1996.
Mike practiced law in the Philadelphia office of the law firm Morgan Lewis from 1997-2018 where he held a number of management positions and headed the Business and Finance Group from 2014-2018. In 2018 Mike became the Global General Counsel and an Executive Vice President of SEI Investments Company, an international financial services and technology firm headquartered in Oaks, Pennsylvania. Mike currently runs the Legal, Compliance and Corporate Development functions at SEI.
Mike lives in Philadelphia with his wife Christina and his daughters Taylor, Avery, Lachlan and
Quinn.
Ali Cox is a seven-time US National Team member and earned a silver medal in the Women’s 8+ at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, where her crew set a World’s Best Record in the heat. Prior to her Olympic success, she was part of several World Championship and World Cup teams, including a first-place finish in the Women’s 8+ at the 2002 World Rowing Championships in Seville, Spain.
Before making the national team, Ali rowed for the University of San Diego, where she was a two-time MVP, a second-team All-American, and was inducted into the USD Hall of Fame in 2013. She was also selected to the West Coast Conference’s 25th Anniversary Women’s Athletics Team in 2010.
A lifelong entrepreneur, Ali founded her marketing and advertising agency, Noble West, in 2007. Leveraging her fifth-generation farming ties, Noble West has emerged as an international category leader in agriculture, food, and sustainability. The agency has recently made the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list and has offices in Los Angeles, Turlock, CA, and Boise, ID. Before founding Noble West, Ali held director positions at Aereo, IMG and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week.
Ali resides in Turlock, CA, with her husband, Tony, and their two children, William and Ford.
Fun fact- Ali was the first NRF Frank Shields Fellow from 2004-2006.
Ted Murphy grew up in West Newton, MA and attended Belmont Hill, where he played soccer, basketball and baseball. He then went on to Dartmouth College, intending to walk onto the basketball team, but he was persuaded to try rowing his Freshman fall. Ted quickly fell in love with the sport. He made the varsity boat in his sophomore year, helping Dartmouth secure its first Eastern Sprints and IRA Regatta victories. A year later, Ted made his first US National Team, competing in the World Championships in Prague in the coxed four. Following graduation in 1994 with degrees in French and History, Ted moved to San Diego to train with the national team and won a silver medal in the coxed four at the 1994 Worlds in Indianapolis.
Ted raced in the US Eight in the Atlanta 1996 Olympics, won a bronze in the pair at the 1997 World Championships, then took a two-year hiatus. He got back in a boat with fellow NRF board member Sebastian Bea to compete in the pair in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where they won a silver medal.
After retiring from rowing, Ted moved to San Francisco and built a career in private wealth management, most recently joining UBS in 2016. He lives in Marin with his wife, Kelly, and their 17-year-old twins, Jack and Katie.
Richie Caputo grew up in Greenwich, CT and attended Deerfield Academy, where he won the 2012 National Championship in the Men’s 4+. At Brown University, he rowed in the First Varsity, placing 4th at the 2015 IRA National Championships, and graduated with a degree in Applied Mathematics in 2018.
After working as a data scientist at Dell, Richie earned his Master of Finance degree from MIT Sloan School of Management in 2021, specializing in financial mathematics. He continued his competitive rowing career after college, placing 6th in the Open Men’s 500m at the 2022 Indoor World Rowing Championships with a time of 1:14.3.
Following MIT, Richie worked as a machine learning engineer at OnCorps, a fintech startup. He currently serves as Director of Data and AI at TJC, a private investment firm managing $30 billion in assets across industrials, healthcare, consumer, and technology sectors. At TJC, he leads a team of quantitative analysts and software engineers, developing open-source and proprietary software in Scala, Python, and Go. His team builds data transformation and optimization solutions for portfolio companies and internal pipelines, including ERP order automation with LLMs, retrieval augmented generation for financial data analysis, and automated candidate screening with AI.
Richie lives in Jupiter, FL with his wife Clarissa, who fenced at Brown University.”