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Lisa Mancke Montague

Sports were a big part of Lisa Mancke’s childhood in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She played baseball and softball and, at age 10, played on the boy’s hockey traveling team. In 1987, Mancke and her family moved to the town of Andover. The new lower would become a varsity athlete in field hockey, ice hockey, and softball that year. She was named Phillipian Athlete of the Year in 1989 and 1990 and Phillipian Winter Athlete in 1990. Senior year, Mancke co-captained field hockey and ice hockey and was softball captain. She helped lead the field hockey team to the New England semifinals and was an All-American nominee. With 25 goals and 12 assists, Mancke was ice hockey’s high scorer and earned the Sumner Smith Hockey Award—given to a senior in good scholastic standing who represented the school’s ideals through sportsmanship, endeavor, and ability. At graduation, Mancke received the Press Club Award for outstanding athletic performance her senior year.

At Princeton, Mancke played ice hockey and softball. She was a member of the 1992 Ivy League Championship ice hockey team, and her name remains on Princeton’s individual record board—tied for third place for most goals in a game. In softball, Mancke is listed as “all-time letter winner” in the university’s 1991 Softball Record book. She graduated with a BSE in civil engineering.

Over the past three decades, Mancke has worked as an innovative software engineer and became an industry leader in software product delivery with experience in IPO-bound startups, corporate IT, nonprofits, fin-tech, and ed-tech.

As co-founder, partner, and CEO of Coat Rack Web Services, LLC, a women- and LGBTQ-owned company based in Cedar City, Utah, Mancke serves the nonprofit industry with custom web applications and consulting. She and her wife are the parents of five children.

1990 girls’ hockey team: Mancke is front row, fourth from right.

leadership. He credits coaches Jonathan Stableford ’63, P’89, ’92, Leon Modeste, and John Strudwick as having formative impacts on

Okike was a five-time letterman in track and field at Harvard, competing in the 400 meter, 800 meter, and 4x400 meter events; he placed in the top 10 in the Ivy League in the 400 and 800. He won the 800 at multiple Harvard-Yale meets and ran at Penn Relays. Okike earned BA, MBA, and JD degrees from Harvard, all with honors. Upon graduation, Okike worked at Insight Partners, a $90 billion venture capital/private equity firm, where he invested in 18 companies and had nine exits. In 2014, Okike founded 645 Ventures, a venture capital firm that has pioneered a data-driven approach to investing in early-stage software companies.

Okike is a board member of the National Venture Capital Association, New York Roadrunners, and Mount Sinai Hospital, and serves on Andover’s Investment Committee.

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