Eliane has served as the University Ombuds at Bentley University since 2018.
NEWTON CENTRE, MA, November 15, 2024 /24-7PressRelease/ — Eliane Markoff has been included in Marquis Who’s Who. As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Eliane has served as the University Ombuds at Bentley University since 2018. In this capacity, she facilitates constructive conflict resolution manly involving faculty and the staff and skillfully promotes collaborative problem solving. She also engages the Bentley community in workshops to teach ways to constructively resolve conflict, emphasizing opportunities conflict often provides for personal and professional growth. Before accepting her current appointment, she excelled as the first and only ombuds at Wheelock College from 2017 to 2018 before it merged with Boston University. Her unique mediation skills were instrumental in assisting the Wheelock College faculty and staff adapt to major changes in their personal and professional lives.
Wide-ranging and diverse professional experience defines Eliane’s profile. From 1979 to 1998, she served in a variety of positions at Digital Equipment Corporation including program director in research and development. After leaving Digital, she opened her own firm doing consulting, coaching and mediation. She then joined Bentley University as an adjunct professor from 2004 to 2009.
Born in Egypt, Eliane relocated to the United States with her family in 1968 after being expelled with her family from her native country by the Egyptian government following the Six Day War with Israel. She was twelve years old at the time.
Eliane overcame the traumatic experience as a refugee by excelling in school. Her high school teachers named Eliane as most likely to succeed. After graduation, she earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an MBA in finance and marketing from Boston College.
After the tragic loss of their child, Rachel, to brain cancer, Eliane with her husband, Gary, founded the Rachel Molly Markoff Foundation to raise funds for pediatric cancer research. To date the foundation has made approximately $2.5 million in grants over the past 13 years. Research recipients have included Stanford Medical, Mt. Sinai, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Sloan Kettering and Dana Farber. In 2009, the foundation launched Art in Giving, an on-line gallery (www.artingiving.com), which sells a wide range of artwork by prominent artists to corporations. Just like brick and mortar galleries, the artists are paid 50% of sales proceeds, but unlike typical galleries, the artists donate the balance to the Rachel Molly Markoff Foundation which makes grants to support innovative pediatric cancer research.
Looking toward the future, Eliane wants to engage more corporations to partner with gallery Art in Giving. Life science companies such as Sanofi Genzyme, and Real estate companies such as BioMed Realty, Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc., and The Davis Companies have played a critical role in Art in Giving’s success. Art in Giving’s value proposition and business model resonate with life science real estate companies providing a unique intersection of science and art.
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