Maureen Schafer

Executive Director

Schafer is currently the VP of Games Operations for the Enhanced Games. At Enhanced, they are pioneering a new era in athletic competition that embraces scientific advancements to push the boundaries of human performance.  She was previously the founding CEO of start-up OnKai Health Foundation, providing healthcare diagnostics and resources to underserved areas. Schafer led the Nevada Health & Bioscience Asset Corporation (NHBC) as its President & CEO. The focus is on building health capital, research, and programmatic infrastructure for the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV and the Southern Nevada community. She led the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV as its founding Chief of Staff in 2014, launching Las Vegas’s first four-year public allopathic School of Medicine. The school grew to nearly 400 physicians under a $160 million budget. Schafer also led the expansion and operations of the Cleveland Clinic Nevada and its flagship operation, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, focusing on the treatment and research of neurodegenerative disorders after leading the Las Vegas-based non-profit Keep Memory Alive (KMA) merger with the Cleveland Clinic as its Chief Executive Officer. She also leads the Council for a Better Nevada (CBN), a Nevada-based CEO group, as its Executive Director. The Council's work is dedicated to impacting statewide public policy to improve quality of life issues for all Nevadans. She is a director on the boards of Blueprint Sports, the premier NIL company in the sports space, X2LBio, next-generation performance optimization utilizing VO2max, the Able Channel, Inc., a digital streaming healthcare platform, and is a member of Centene’s Nevada Silver Summit Advisory Board of Directors. 

Ms. Schafer participates in various community & social board engagements. Current board affiliations include the Stanford Center for Longevity and mentoring young women building their careers. Past board engagements include building the US Olympic Committee’s Center for Safe Sport, as a founding Commissioner on the Nevada Commission on Homeland Security, Conservation International’s Leadership Council, and as Chairman of the Nevada Community Foundation, where the Foundation’s endowment grew from $13 million to $150 million under her leadership. 

Ms. Schafer holds a BS and an MBA from the George Washington University. (GWU) She has an MLA in Government from Harvard University. She has attended the Aspen Institute Executive Leadership Seminar. She is a former competitive collegiate athlete in soccer and rowing and was a competitive Ironman and ultramarathon athlete. Her greatest accomplishment is her daughter and being an anonymous kidney donor.