Dinakar Singh is the Founding Partner of TPG-Axon Capital, a leading global investment firm. He was previously a Partner at Goldman Sachs, where he was co-head of the Principal Strategies Department. Loren Eng has previously worked at Morgan Stanley in investment banking, Lodestar Group in merchant banking, and as the director of business development for KKR’s media company.

After their child was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), the leading genetic cause of death in young children, they founded the SMA Foundation to accelerate the development of a treatment. The Foundation is the leading funder of SMA research. The couple has also given millions to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and have supported Columbia University’s college of physicians and surgeons.

Dinakar serves on the Yale University Investment Committee, Trilateral Commission, and the Boards of the New York Public Library, Columbia University Medical Center, The Rockefeller University, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories. Loren serves on the boards of Columbia University Medical Center, the Harvard University Stem Cell Institute, the SMA Foundation, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business; she is a past Trustee of the Bank Street College of Education. She has also spoken before Congress many times regarding SMA. Their foundations have been highlighted in numerous national media outlets, and treatments developed by the organization and researchers from the organization have won many awards, including the Child Neurology Foundation Award, the Giblin Foundation Award, and the Columbia Crown Award.