Favorite Cause - Michele Hoza

"In her role as General Counsel, Michele leads corporate strategic and tactical legal initiatives to promote and protect AEF’s business interests. She functions as an advisor responsible for minimizing the organization’s legal risk. Michele oversees and manages corporate governance and business policy and advises senior management and the Board of Directors. Michele manages the legal function and identifies a wide range of legal issues in all departments of AEF, providing senior management and others with effective advice on organizational strategy and their implementation from a legal perspective.

Throughout her 20-year career, Michele has served companies ranging from start-ups to publicly-traded companies, with a focus on securities law and corporate governance. Michele has counseled businesses through sophisticated mergers and acquisitions and private and public offerings of securities, as well as provided guidance to general counsels and boards of directors.

Michele is a graduate of the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and Kent State University. Michele serves as a member of the board of directors of the Revere Schools Foundation.

Founded in 1993, AEF is an IRS-recognized public charity. AEF is the largest independent donor advised fund in the country. AEF was founded to provide personalized solutions and donor focused service. A donor advised fund is an account sponsored by AEF into which a donor is able to make an irrevocable gift of various assets, both liquid and illiquid. The donor recommends grants to qualified charities and nonprofit organizations that the donor desires to support.”