Irvine, CA – February 24, 2020 - USA Water Polo is pleased to announce the addition of Nori Gerardo Lietz to the USA Water Polo Board of Directors. The co-founder and former captain of the Stanford University women's water polo team, Lietz brings a passion for water polo coupled with years of experience in both the academic and financial sectors. Her appointment was confirmed at the USA Water Polo Board of Directors meeting this past Saturday in Torrance, California.
"Nori Gerardo Lietz is a welcome addition to the USA Water Polo Board of Directors. Nori brings a vast amount of knowledge and experience from her careers in law, real estate, investing and company building which she now gets to synthesize in her role as a lecturer at the Harvard Business School. All of this experience is built upon the lessons she learned in the pool as one of the founding members of the Stanford women's water polo program," said Michael Graff, Chairman, USA Water Polo Board of Directors.
Lietz is currently a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units at the Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She presently teaches Real Estate Private Equity and Venture Capital and Private Equity. In addition to her teaching duties, Lietz is the founder of Arete Capital, a real estate advisory firm she started in 2011. Previously the Chief Strategist for private real estate at Partners Group, Lietz co-founded Pension Consulting Alliance in 1988 and developed its real estate investment management and advisory activities. She started her career as an attorney at Paul Hastings LLP before moving on to co-found Public Storage, Inc., an institutional money management firm deploying pension capital to acquire real estate assets.
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About USA Water Polo
USA Water Polo, Inc., is the national governing body for water polo in America, overseeing our United States Olympic program as well as 20 championship events annually, such as Junior Olympics and Masters National Championships. With more than 50,000 members, USAWP also is the sanctioning authority for more than 500 member clubs and more than 400 tournaments nationwide. USAWP is committed to the development of the sport throughout the U.S., fostering grass-roots expansion of the sport and providing a national system of affiliated clubs, certified coaches, and officials.
