Janet Cowell is CEO/President of Dix Park Conservancy and a corporate director. She was North Carolina State Treasurer from 2009-2016.

Dix Park Conservancy is a non-profit that works in partnership with the City of Raleigh in its efforts to create Dorothea Dix Park, a 308-acre site with a dramatic landscape and complex historical legacy one mile from downtown.

Cowell serves as a director on the boards of James River Group Insurance (NASDAQ: JRVR), Channel Advisor (NYSE: ECOM), and New Republic Partners, as well as independent chair for IFM’s Global Infrastructure Fund Investor Advisory Committee.

Cowell held publicly elected office in North Carolina for fifteen years, including eight as State Treasurer. The first woman elected Treasurer, she managed over $100 billion in assets, and health and retirement benefits, for over 900,000 members.

Cowell is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and earned her MBA and MA in International Studies from the Wharton School of Business and the Lauder Institute.