Ms. Murren co-founded the first non-profit cancer research and treatment center in Las Vegas, the Nevada Cancer Institute (NVCI) where she previously served as Chairman and CEO. In 2009, Ms. Murren was appointed by Congress to serve on theFinancial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC), a 10-member Federal commission established to examine the domestic and global causes of the financial crisis. The commission reported its findings in January of 2011. The published book "The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report" was listed on the New York Times bestsellerlist and was critically acclaimed.
She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) and the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, a not-for-profit university-affiliated research center, providing research and development in the areas of cybersecurity, undersea and air defense, space, national security analysis, special operations and strategic defense to our nation.
Ms. Murren is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and a Chartered Financial Analyst. Fluent in Spanish and French, she has served as a translator and medical assistant for Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada, a nonprofit organization that provides healthcare to the community regardless of the patient's ability to pay. She is President of the Murren Family Foundation, which focuses grants on education, health care and military veterans.