TRUSTEE PROFILES
Amy Alving *88
Conflict of Interest
Alumni Trustee 2019 – 2023
Engineer
Arlington, VA
Current public directorships:
DXC Technology Company, a supplier to the oil and gas industry
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
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Former public directorships: Pall Corporation, a supplier to the oil and gas industry (from 2010 until 2015)
Alving is a technology leader whose career spans business, government and academia. She has been the Chief Technology Officer of one of the largest U.S. defense contractors.
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Jackson A. Artis '20
Young Alumni Trustee 2020 – 2024
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Systems Engineer, Analytical Graphics, Inc.
Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins
Phoenixville, PA
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Artis is a mechanical and aerospace engineer with certificates in Chinese Language and Culture and Robotics and Intelligent Systems. During his time on campus, he also performed with Fuzzy Dice Improv Comedy, co-hosted the late-night comedy talk show All Nighter, and recorded music with the stage name Ajax the Lesser.
https://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2020/05/jackson-artis-young-%20alumni-trustee
A. Scott Berg ‘71
Charter Trustee 2011 – 2021
Alumni Trustee 1999 - 2003
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Writer
Los Angeles, CA
Partner: Movie producer Kevin McCormick
Berg expanded his senior thesis into a full-length biography, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius (1978), which won a National Book Award. His second book was Goldwyn: A Biography. Berg's third book Lindbergh, won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. In 2003 Berg published Kate Remembered. His biography of Woodrow Wilson was published in 2013.
Berg also wrote the story for Making Love (1982), the first major studio drama to address the subjects of gay love, closeted marriages, and coming out. He has contributed articles to magazines such as Architectural Digest and Vanity Fair.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._Scott_Berg
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo ‘87
Alumni Trustee 2018 – 2022
Professor & Chair, Dept. of Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Professor of Medicine; Vice Dean of Population Health and Health Equity, University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
Dr. Bibbins-Domingo is a general internist, cardiovascular disease epidemiologist, and a national leader in prevention and interventions to address health disparities.
Josh Bolten ‘76 S92
Conflict of Interest
Term Trustee 2018 – 2022
TermTrustee 2023-2027
President and CEO, Business Roundtable
Chevy Chase, MD
Partner: Ann Kelly Bolten ‘92
Other current public directorships: Emerson Electric Co which supplies fossil fuel companies
Other current roles: BP plc International Advisory Board
United States Holocaust Memorial Council (Board of Trustees)
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Joshua Brewster Bolten is an American lawyer and politician. Bolten served as the White House Chief of Staff to U.S. President George W. Bush. Since 2017, he has been president and CEO of the Business Roundtable, whose members are chief executive officers of major United States companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bolten
https://www.businessroundtable.org/about-us/staff/joshua-bolten-president-ceo
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Katherine Brittain Bradley ’86 P’15 P’18
Charter Trustee 2013 – 2021
Term trustee 2008-2012
Venture Forward campaign steering committee co-chairs with Blair Effron '84 and James Yeh '87
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Founder and Chair, CityBridge Foundation
Washington, DC
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Major donor
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Other current private directorships: National Geographic Society, Vice chair
KIPP Foundation, Board Chair (America's largest network of public charter schools)
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Partner: Entrepreneur, and magazine publisher David G. Bradley
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Citybridge´s mission is to incubate the people, ideas, and conversations needed for equity-driven innovation in DC’s public schools. Bradley is also a board member of the DC College Access Program. She is a former chair and current member of the Washington regional board for Teach For America.
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https://citybridge.org/team/katherine-bradley/
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https://www.raisedc.org/lc-katherine-bradley
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https://www.kipp.org/kipp-foundation/kipp-board-of-directors/
Pete Briger ‘86
Conflict of Interest
Term Trustee 2020 – 2024
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Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Fortress Investment Group
Atherton, CA which owns New Fortress Energy a provider of natural gas; has a limited partner interest in Red Rocks Energy Partners which owns and develops oil and gas assets in Oklahoma;
Fortress manages three publicly traded permanent capital vehicles as part of the Private Equity business including Fortress Transportation and Infrastructure (“FTAI”) which owns infrastructure and equipment for the energy industry including a multi-modal crude oil and refined products terminal in Beaumont, Texas, Long Ridge Energy Terminal which includes a gas fired power plant and natural gas liquids storage and Repauno Port & Rail Terminal along the Delaware River in Greenwich Township, New Jersey which is designed to handle energy products and has a hard rock cavern for storing bulk liquid/gases.
​Major donor - donated over $2.9 million
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Other current private roles: Long Arc Capital Board of Advisors
Partner: Devon Briger
Briger is a Principal and Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Fortress. He has served as a member of the board of directors of Fortress since November 2006 and was elected Co-Chairman in August 2009. Previously at Goldman Sachs. Listed by Forbes as a billionaire in 2007 and 2008.
https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/gift-alumni-supports-princeton-entrepreneurship
https://golden.com/wiki/Peter_Briger-W43KYK4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_Investment_Group
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2009/04/fortress-group200904-2
https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1505p66vq06cy/the-fall-of-fortress
Sumir Chadha '93
Conflict of Interest
Term Trustee 2019- 2023
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Managing Director, WestBridge Capital - owns companies which supply or depend on fossil fuel industry including Cognizant, The Supreme Industries Ltd, Stovekraft, KMC Construction
Hillsborough, CA
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Major donor
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Other current private directorships: Aptus Value Housing Finance India Ltd
Star Health and Allied Insurance Co Ltd
India Shelter Finance Corp Ltd
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Chadha is the co-founder and Managing Director of WestBridge Capital, a leading investment firm focused on India with over $2.5 billion of capital under management. Sumir also co-founded and was Managing Director of Sequoia Capital India. Early in his career, he worked in the Principal Investment Area (PIA) at Goldman Sachs, and at McKinsey & Co. Trustee Crystal Springs Uplands School.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/02/26/ms-chadha-center- global-india-established-princeton
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/sumir-chadha-bb8b563/
https://www.indiaabroad.com/indian-americans/conversation- with-leading-genx-philanthropist-sumir- chadha/article_715287fe-e95e-11e9-b10a-930ab5fcabe3.html
Beth F. Cobert ‘80 S81
Alumni Trustee 2017- 2021
Charter Trustee 2022-2030
CEO, Skillful, A Markle Initiative
Denver, CO
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Partner: Adam Cioth ‘81
Other current public directorships: CBRE
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Served as the acting Director for the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) from July 10, 2015 to January 20, 2017. As of March 2021, she is Chief Operating Officer of the Markle Foundation and Chief Executive Officer of Skillful, an initiative of that foundation. Cobert previously worked from 1984–2013 at McKinsey & Company as a director and senior partner.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Cobert
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https://www.cbre.com/about/media-center/beth-cobert-elected-to-cbre-board-of-directors
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https://www.markle.org/about-markle/media-release/beth-cobert-named-ceo-skillful
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https://www.fedscoop.com/beth-cobert-opm-cyber-improvement/
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/business/mckinsey-opioids-settlement.html
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Janeria A. Easley *16
Alumni Trustee Graduate School 2020 - 2024
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Assistant Professor, Emory University
Decatur, GA
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Janeria Easley is an Assistant Professor in the department of African American Studies. She received her B.A in Sociology and English from Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology, with a concentration in Demography, from Princeton University. Her research and teaching specialties are: Racial and Ethnic Relations, Demography, Social Stratification, and Urban Studies. Her research advances the understanding of racial stratification in two broad areas.
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http://aas.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/easley-janeria.html
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Henri R. Ford ’80 S’82 P’17
Charter Trustee 2016 - 2024
Term Trustee 2010-2014
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Dean & Chief Academic Officer, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
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Partner: Donna Ford ‘82 Advisory Council, African American Studies Department, Princeton
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Ford is a Haitian-American pediatric surgeon. He previously served as chief of surgery at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Vice Dean for Medical Education at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He is currently appointed Dean of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Ford
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https://people.miami.edu/profile/hford@miami.edu
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https://bulletin.facs.org/2018/04/profiles-in-surgical-research-henri-r-ford-md-mha-facs-frcs-faap/
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Laura Forese '83 P'13, P'18
Charter Trustee 2015 - 2023
Term Trustee 2010 – 2014
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EVP and COO, New York-Presbyterian
New York, NY
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Other current public directorships: Cantel Medical Corp. - a leading provider of infection prevention products and services in the healthcare market
Partner: Dr. Robert John Downey, Surgeon
Forese, M.D., M.P.H., is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of New York-Presbyterian, one of the nation’s most comprehensive, integrated academic healthcare systems.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-forese-md-mph/
Heather Gerken '91 S'91
Charter Trustee 2019-2027
Alumni Trustee 2014 -2018
Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School
New Haven, CT
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Other current roles: Trustee, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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Partner: Yale lecturer David Simon ‘91
Heather Gerken is the Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Dean Gerken is one of the country’s leading experts on constitutional law and election law. A founder of the “nationalist school” of federalism, her work focuses on federalism, diversity, and dissent.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_K._Gerken
https://law.yale.edu/heather-gerken
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/heather-gerken-91-leader- constitutional-law-prepares-new-role
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C. Kim Goodwin '81 S'81
Charter Trustee 2014-2022, former Clerk of the Board
Alumni Trustee 2004-2008
PRINCO
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Managing Partner, Avanico Holdings, LLC
Hato Rey, PR
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Major donor
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Other current public directorships: TJX Companies Inc
Popular Inc. (bank)
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Partner: Jose Figueroa ‘81
Goodwin is CEO of Avanico Holdings LLC. She is the former Managing Director and Head of Equities for Credit Suisse Asset Management, and was Equities Chief Investment Officer for both State Street Research and American Century Investments. Goodwin sat inside Nassau Hall to pressure Princeton’s trustees to divest the endowment from South African investments.
Paul G. Haaga Jr '70 P'03, P'05
Conflict of Interest
Charter Trustee 2014 – 2022
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Former Chairman, Capital Research and Management Company
La Canada, CA
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Major Donor
Donor and National Council Co-chair of the American Enterprise Institute which promotes climate denial
Donor and former member of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution which promotes climate denial
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Haaga is the Chair of the Facebook Oversight Board
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Former member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (Chairman 2007-2013)
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Partner: Artist and Vassar Trustee Heather Haaga
In 2012, Haaga retired from his role as Chairman, Chairman of Executive Committee and Director of Capital Research and Management Company which is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Capital Group Companies Inc. The Capital Group is heavily invested in ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, Occidental Petroleum, Valero, Chesapeake Energy etc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_G._Haaga_Jr.
Philip Hammarskjold '87 P'18, P'19
Conflict of Interest
Charter Trustee 2016 - 2024
Vice-Chair of the Board
Former Chair of PRINCO
Executive Chairman, Hellman & Friedman LLC where he is a lead on the Energy and Industrials Sector which invests in companies which are suppliers to or dependent upon the fossil fuel industry including: Enverus, Texas Genco
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/business/the-deal-that-even-awed-them-in-houston.html
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Atherton, CA
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Other current roles: UCSF Foundation - Chair of the Board
Partner: Alicia Brooke Carew
Executive Chairman of Hellman & Friedman and serves as Chairman of the Firm’s Investment Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Philip joined H&F in 1992. Founded in 1984, Hellman & Friedman (H&F) is one of the oldest private equity investment firms operating today. Grandnephew of Dag Hammarskjold, the late United Nations Secretary General.
Yan Huo *94 S*95, P'22
Term Trustee 2017 – 2021
Term Trustee 2022-2026
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Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Capula Investment Management LLP, a hedge fund that focusses on European government debt
London, UK
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Major donor
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Trustee: Fudan University, Shanghai
Partner: Dr. Xue Fang *95
Yan Huo is managing partner and chief investment officer of Capula Investment Management. Prior to co-founding Capula in 2005, Yan spent most of his professional career at JPMorgan, where he worked in its derivatives research and proprietary positioning business. Net worth over $1 billion. Signed the Giving Pledge.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_Huo
https://givingpledge.org/PressRelease.aspx?date=12.21.2020
https://huofamilyfoundation.org/
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Myesha Jemison '18
Young Alumni Trustee 2018 -2022
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Product Development Manager, McMaster-Carr
Atlanta, GA
As a PhD candidate at Cambridge, Myesha plans to focus her research on exploring the inequity in education opportunities and outcomes, address how education can be made more equitable, and how research can be more than a distorted reflection imagined by outsiders studying communities unfamiliar to them.
https://mmuf.princeton.edu/people/current-fellows/princeton-mmra-fellows/myesha-jemison
https://spo.princeton.edu/news/myesha-jemison-18-elected-princeton-board-trustees
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/06/20/six-elected-princeton-board-trustees
https://urf.columbia.edu/news/myesha-jemison-tc%E2%80%9920-awarded-2021-gates-cambridge-scholarship
Kimberly H. Johnson '95 S'95 P27
Charter Trustee 2023 - 2031
Term Trustee 2018-2022
At large alum trustee candidate in 2016 but not elected
PRINCO
Chair Finance Committee
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COO and a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc
McLean, VA
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Major donor
Other current public directorships: Eli Lilly & Company
Partner: Mark Johnson ‘95 - Co-Founder and the Managing Partner of Astra Capital Management
COO and a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. She is a member of the company’s management committee, product strategy committee and enterprise risk steering committee, as well as chair of the strategic operating committee.
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Formerly executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Federal National Mortgage Association ("Fannie Mae") and is a member of Fannie Mae's Management Committee. Prior to that, Johnson held various leadership positions with Fannie Mae, including chief risk officer. Before joining Fannie Mae in 2006, Ms. Johnson was a director at Credit Suisse Group AG.
https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/celebrating-gifts-center-african-american-studies
https://www.workingmother.com/kimberly-h-johnson
https://www.lilly.com/leadership/board-of-directors/kimberly-h-johnson
Ann Kirschner *78
Alumni Trustee 2017 – 2021
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Dean Emerita, Macaulay Honors College at The City University of New York
New York, NY
Partner: Neurologist Dr. Harold Weinberg
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Other current public directorships: Movado Group (watches)
Other current private directorships: Noodle (online education)
Strategic Cyber Ventures (cyber venture capital)
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Kirschner's eclectic career includes lecturer, author, and media and marketing pioneer in broadcast television, cable, satellite, and interactive media.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Kirschner
https://www.harpercollinsspeakersbureau.com/speaker/ann-kirschner/
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/06/12/six-elected-princeton-board-trustees
Melanie Lawson '76
Alumni Trustee 2017-2021
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Reporter and Anchor, KTRK-Television
Houston, TX
A journalist and television news anchor with KTRK-TV, Houston’s ABC affiliate, for more than 30 years. She earned an A.B. from Princeton in 1976 and an M.A. and J.D. from Columbia. Lawson has lived with multiple sclerosis for more than 25 years.
https://abc13.com/about/newsteam/melanie-lawson/
https://abc13.com/covid-19-melanie-lawson-coronavirus-abc13/8690186/
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/06/12/six-elected-princeton-board-trustees
Anthony H. P. Lee '79 P'11, P'14
Charter Trustee 2019 - 2027
Term Trustee 2014-2018
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Director, Aberon Pty Ltd.
Sydney, Australia
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Major donor
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Other current public directorships: Beyond International (TV)
Television Broadcasts Limited (TV Hong Kong)
Hysan Development (Hong Kong)
Partner: Sharon Lee
A private investor who is director of Aberon Pty Ltd, a private investment company. He has an MBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Before moving to Australia in 1987, Lee worked as a corporate finance executive for a British merchant bank in Hong Kong.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/06/18/nine-elected-princeton-board-trustees
Paul A. Maeder '75
Charter Trustee 2020 - 2028
Term Trustee 2015 - 2019
At-large alumni trustee candidate in 2014 but not elected
Andlinger Center - external advisory council
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General Partner and Chair, Highland Capital Partners
CFO Highland Transcend Partners
Cambridge, MA
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Major donor
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Other current public directorships: 2U (Chair, Board of Directors - online higher education)
https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/dedication-andlinger-center-energy-and-environment
https://www.highlandtranscend.com/team
https://2u.com/about/leadership/paul-maeder/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-maeder-24420097/
Laura Bilodeau Overdeck ‘91
Term Trustee 2017 - 2021
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Founder and President, Bedtime Math
Short Hills, NJ
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Major donor - over $2 million donated
Partner: Hedge fund manager John Overdeck. Net worth over $1 billion.
Overdeck is an American maths education entrepreneur and philanthropist. She is a founding member of Women for a Stronger New Jersey (WSNJ), an organization working to grow the number of Republican women in elected office at the state and local level in New Jersey along with Kathy Hugin, wife of trustee Bob Hugin.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Overdeck
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/7zI7Kbb72vACNYdCGig6vB?si=bwgiAMX1Qr-Nn7OKhFmgUA
https://overdeck.org/about-us/board/
Bob Peck '88 P20, P25
Term Trustee 2019 - 2023
PRINCO Chair
Major donor
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Managing Director, FPR Partners
San Francisco, CA
Board member of the Fremont Group, The history of Fremont Group traces its roots to the early investments of Bechtel Group which invested in coal and oil.
Miller Investment Management, Investment Strategy Committee
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Peck earned a degree in history from Princeton in 1988. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, and went on to become managing director of FPR Partners in San Francisco, an investment firm he founded in 2003. Prior to 2003, Bob managed capital in Dallas Texas of the Perot family and the Murchison family. With the Murchison family, Peck managed a "concentrated portfolio of value-oriented U.S. equities and a variety of hedge funds and alternative investments."
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Former Trustee Crystal Springs Uplands School.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/06/18/nine-elected-princeton-board-trustees
https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/bob-peck-88-helps-students-prepare-succeed
Craig Robinson '83 P'18
Alumni Trustee 2018-2022
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Executive Director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches
Mequon, WI
Brother of Michelle Obama ‘85
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Partner: Kelly Mccrum
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Board of Directors - Fyllo LLC
College basketball coach, basketball executive, and broadcaster. Former head men's basketball coach at Oregon State University and Brown University. He was a star forward as a player at Princeton University in the early 1980s and a bond trader during the 1990s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Robinson_(basketball)
Louise S. Sams '79
Charter Trustee 2015 – 2023, Current Chair of the Board
Charter Trustee 2004-2014
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Retired Executive VP & General Counsel, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
Other current public directorships: CoStar Group (information for commercial real estate industry
Sams was the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a television and media conglomerate, from 2000 until 2019. Sams also served as President, Turner Broadcasting System International, Inc. from 2003 until 2012.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/11/19/sams-elected-chair-board-trustees-princeton-university
https://sheroars.princeton.edu/speaker/louise-weezie-sams-79/
Terri Sewell '86
Alumni Trustee 2019 - 2023
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U.S. Congresswoman
Birmingham, AL
American lawyer and politician. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She has served as the U.S. Representative since 2011 for Alabama's 7th congressional district, which includes most of the Black Belt, as well as most of the predominantly Black portions of Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Montgomery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Sewell
Brad Smith '81 S'81, P'15
Charter Trustee 2019 - 2027
Term Trustee 2014-2018
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President and Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft
Bellevue, WA
Other current public directorships: Netflix
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Advisory Board Member - Markle Foundation
Partner: Kathy Surace-Smith ’81, Trustee Columbia University
American attorney and technology executive currently serving as President of Microsoft, concurrently serving as chief legal officer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Smith_(American_lawyer)
https://news.microsoft.com/exec/brad-smith/
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/22/microsoft-president-brad-smith-defends-mspac-to-employees.html
Sarah Stein '97
Charter Trustee 2020 - 2028
previous PRINCO
Young Alumni Trustee 1997-2001
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Managing Partner, Hall Capital Partners LLC
Palo Alto, CA
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Ms. Stein was appointed President of the firm in 2012. Her prior experience includes working in the Investment Management Division at Goldman Sachs & Co., the Fisher Family Foundation, and teaching English in Guangzhou, China.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/07/01/seven-elected-princeton-board-trustees
https://www.hallcapital.com/team/executive-committee/sarah-e-stein.php
Marco Tablada '93
Term Trustee 2018 - 2022
PRINCO
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Managing Partner, Alua Capital
New York, NY
Partner: Alyssa Cohen Tablada
Founder and managing partner of Wiborg Capital LLC. Prior to founding Wiborg in 2016, he was managing director, portfolio manager and member of the management committee of Lone Pine Capital LLC, which he joined in 2000. Previously, he spent six years at Tiger Management Corp. in New York.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/06/20/six-elected-princeton-board-trustees
Achille Tenkiang '17
Young Alumni Trustee 2017-2021
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Mitchell Scholar, Class of 2021
Bear, DE
Achille Tenkiang ’17, of Bear, Delaware, graduated from Princeton in 2017 with an independent concentration in African studies and development, and certificates in urban studies and French. He is an international arbitration legal assistant at White and Case LLP in Paris, France.
https://thrive.princeton.edu/speaker/achille-tenkiang-17/
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/11/26/princeton-alumni-berlin-tenkiang-named-mitchell-scholars
Sarah Varghese '19
Young Alumni Trustee 2019 - 2023
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Business Analyst, McKinsey & Company
New Delhi, India
Varghese, of New Delhi, graduated in June with an A.B. in computer science.
She will join Digital McKinsey’s New York location as a business analyst, while also applying to master’s programs relating to the intersection of technology and society.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/06/18/nine-elected-princeton-board-trustees
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarah-varghese-86bb8b125/?originalSubdomain=in
Carla Vernón '92
Term Trustee 2020 – 2024
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Vice President of Consumables Categories, Amazon
Edina, MN
Partner: Financial advisor Jason Bowles
In her previous post as president of the General Mills Natural & Organic Operating Unit, Vernón led both financial, strategic and environmental stewardship strategy for the largest portfolio of natural and organic brands in General Mills.
https://thrive.princeton.edu/speaker/carla-vernon-92/
https://thealumnisociety.com/carla-vernon-general-mills/
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/07/01/seven-elected-princeton-board-trustees
Melissa H. Wu '99
Alumni Trustee 2020-2024
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Chief Executive Officer, Education Pioneers
Melrose, MA
https://www.educationpioneers.org/who-we-are/our-team/melissa-wu
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/07/01/seven-elected-princeton-board-trustees
C. James Yeh '87 P'18, P'20
Conflict of Interest
Charter Trustee 2015 - 2023
Term Trustee 2010-2014
Former Chair Finance Committee
Former PRINCO
Venture Forward campaign steering committee co-chairs with Katherine Brittain Bradley '86 and Blair Effron '84
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President, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Citadel Investment Group LLC Citadel invests in the energy sector and specifically commodities: natural gas, power, crude, and refined products
Hinsdale, IL
Yeh earned an A.B. in physics with a certificate in engineering physics from Princeton in 1987. He also holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in physics from University of California-Berkeley.
https://www.citadel.com/leadership/james-yeh/
https://www.pionline.com/hedge-funds/citadel-promotes-james-yeh-president-and-co-cio
Anthony Yoseloff '96
Charter Trustee 2024- 2032
Term Trustee 2019- 2023
PRINCO
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Executive Managing Member, Davidson Kempner Capital Management
New York, NY
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Major donor - over $1 million donated
Member of Princeton University’s $1.75 billion Aspire Campaign Executive Committee
Partner: Bryn Mawr Trustee Nanar Tabrizi Yoseloff
Yoseloff is Executive Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer of
Davidson Kempner which was ranked as the 9th largest hedge fund in the world. He received a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an M.B.A. from the Columbia Graduate School of Business Administration in 1999.
Trustee, New York Public Library Board of Trustees
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidson_Kempner_Capital_Management
https://alumni.princeton.edu/stories/gift-name-yoseloff-hall-princetons-butler-college
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/06/18/nine-elected-princeton-board-trustees
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/butler-college-dorm-named-yoseloff-96-wife
Kathryn Hall '80
Trustee Emerita
Chair of the Board 2011 - 2019
Charter Trustee 2006 - 2019
Trustee 2001 - 2005
PRINCO Chair 2008 - 2011
PRINCO Board 1998 - 2011
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Founder and currently Co-Chair of Hall Capital Partners LLC, which she founded in 1994
Member of the Board of Directors of Laurel Trust Company
Chair of the Board Andrew W Mellon Foundation
Member of the Board of Directors of the UCSF Foundation
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https://www.hallcapital.com/team/executive-committee/kathryn-a-hall.php
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https://sheroars.princeton.edu/speaker/kathryn-a-hall-80/
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https://www.laureltrust.com/kathrynhall
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https://www.princeton.edu/news/2011/06/09/eight-new-trustees-named-hall-chair-executive-committee
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Marisa Demeo '88
Alumni Trustee 2021-2025
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Associate Judge for the D.C. Superior Court
Co-chair of the D.C. Court’s Strategic Planning Leadership Council
Demeo also has served as chairperson of the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia Judicial Council, Participated in both the “Every Voice” and “Adelante Tigres” alumni conferences at Princeton.
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https://alumni.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2021-05/Demeo-Marisa-Profile.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marisa_Demeo
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Blair Effron '84 P23 P25 P27
Conflict of Interest
Term Trustee 2016-2020
Charter Trustee 2021-2029
Major donor - Effron Music Building,
Effron Center for the Study of America
Venture Forward campaign steering committee co-chair with Katherine Brittain Bradley '86 and James Yeh '87.
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Partner: Cheryl Cohen Effron (Board of the Markle Foundation)
Sister: Brooke Weiner '91
Father: James W. Effron '53, former president of Effron Oil
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Co-founder Centerview Partners, an international investment banking and advisory firm which ranks among the most active banking firms globally in strategic advisory. Advises multiple fossil fuel companies.
New York City
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Member of the Board of Trustees of the Council on Foreign Relations
Member of the Board of Lincoln Center
Member of the Board of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Member of the Board of New Visions for Public Schools and the Partnership for New York City the advisory Member of the Advisory Board of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative affiliated with the Brookings Institution.
MBA from Columbia Business School
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Lori Dickerson Fouché '91
Charter Trustee 2021-2029, Clerk of the Board
Alumni trustee 2015-2019
CEO of TIAA Financial Solutions 2018-2020
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Director of Kraft Heinz Company
Director of Hippo Enterprises Inc.
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Previously CEO of Prudential Group Insurance. She has also held senior positions at Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company and Chubb & Son.
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Fouché has served on the boards of community and business groups including Girls Inc., LL Global, and President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance.
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Recognized on Fortune’s Most Powerful Women list and Black Enterprise’s list of the Top 300 Most Powerful Black Executives.
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MBA Harvard Business School
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https://roughnotes.com/rnmagazine/2011/august2011/2011_08p060.htm
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Bob Hugin '76
Charter Trustee 2021-2029
Charter Trustee 2012-20
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Summit, New Jersey
Partner: Kathy Hugin, founding member of Women for a Stronger New Jersey (WSNJ), an organization working to grow the number of Republican women in elected office at the state and local level in New Jersey along with former trustee Laura Overdeck
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2021- present Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee
2010 to 2016 CEO of Celgene Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company - Under Hugin, Celgene was reprimanded multiple times by the FDA, including a formal warning letter in 2000 for not sharing all the risks associated with their drugs, and for marketing their drug Thalomid (formerly Thalidomide) and others to doctors for unapproved uses. In 2017, Celgene was forced to pay $280 million in response to a lawsuit regarding these practices. Hugin has been criticized for drastically raising the prices of several drugs while he was in charge of Celgene. In 2006, a similar drug Revlimid was $6,000/month. Celgene was able to actively prevent generic versions of the drug from being sold, and by the year 2017, the price per month had been raised by Celgene to over $16,000.
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2018 Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey.
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Director Chubb Limited
Director Biohaven Pharmaceuticals
Director Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Before joining Celgene in 1999, Hugin was a managing director at J.P. Morgan & Co. Inc.
Chairs the board of the Garden State Initiative, a nonpartisan research and educational organization focused on economic issues in New Jersey.
Chair of the Darden School Foundation at the University of Virginia
Member Board of trustees of Family Promise, a national nonprofit network assisting homeless families.
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MBA from the University of Virginia
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Hugin was president of the male-only Tiger Inn. As president, he opposed the membership of gay men in 1976, stating that a member discovered to be gay "wouldn't last long."Later, as president of the alumni board of Tiger Inn, he led the club's opposition to a 13-year series of lawsuits during the 1980s and 1990s to require the club to admit women, describing the legal campaign to "politically correct fascism”. In 2018, he said that his views on these issues had since changed.
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Kathleen F. Kiely '77
Alumni Trustee 2021-2025
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Lee Hills Chair in Free-Press Studies at the Missouri School of Journalism
Management roles in a number of national newspapers
Speaker at the first “She Roars” conference.
She has also taught at Princeton as a Ferris Professor and served for more than a decade as a member of the Daily Princetonian board of trustees.
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https://alumni.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2021-05/Kiely-Kathleen-Profile.pdf
https://medium.com/trust-media-and-democracy/back-to-the-homefront-4549fa3b099
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Timothy Kingston '87 S'87 h'07 P24, P25, P26
Conflict of Interest
Term Trustee 2021-2025
Former Chair of Annual Giving
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Family alumni: father Michael Kingston '62; sister Courtney Kingston '92
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Partner: Jennifer Pickens Kingston '87
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Country Head, Goldman Sachs Chile
Co-heads the investment banking business across the Andean Region, which includes Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Peru.
Despite limiting financing of thermal coal mines, Goldman Sachs is still a major funder of the oil and gas industry, in Venezuela and around the world
Council on Foreign Relations
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Co-founder family winery.
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https://paw.princeton.edu/article/all-family
http://friends-uc.org/timothy-m-kingston/
https://www.technoserve.org/about-us/our-team/timothy-m-kingston/
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Elizabeth Myers '92
Conflict of Interest
Term Trustee 2021- 2025
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Managing director and global chairman of investment banking, equity capital markets at J.P. Morgan, where she has worked for 27 years. Myers began in 1992 in the mining and metals group in corporate finance at JPMorgan. JPMorgan Chase contributes more money towards fossil fuel industries than any other bank.
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One of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance (American Banker magazine) and one of Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance
Executive committee of Women on the Move at J.P. Morgan
Advisory board member of Princeton’s Bendheim Center for Finance
Advisory board member of Harvard Graduate School of Education
Board member of New Yorkers for Children, a nonprofit with a focus on youth in foster care
Board member of the Posse Foundation which helps colleges identify applicants from diverse backgrounds
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MBA Harvard Business School
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-myers-0532958/
https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-global-head-of-ecm-liz-myers-profile-2015-8?op=1
https://www.americanbanker.com/news/most-powerful-women-in-finance-for-2020-liz-myers-j-p-morgan
https://www.synergistnetwork.com/liz-myers-of-jp-morgan
Kathryn Roth-Douquet *91
Alumni Trustee 2021-2025
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Lawyer and author of two books.
Founder and CEO of Blue Star Families, the nation’s largest national nonprofit for military families.
Nathan Cummings Foundation, Clinton campaign, and the Clinton White House as Lead Presidential Advance Acting Principal Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense
Alumni Schools Committee interviewing
“She Roars” speaker
Lectured at SPIA in 2020
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https://alumni.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/2021-05/Roth-Douquet-Kathryn-Profile.pdf
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-roth-douquet-179b355/
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Morgan Smith '21
Young Alumni Trustee 2021-2025
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Student worker with the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students
Member of Black Arts Company: Dance
Cohort leader for the Vote100 effort and president of Whig-Clio.
Campus Life Leadership Council, the Princeton Association of Black Women and the SPIA Student Advisory Committee.
In the summers, she served as an ombudsman/legal intern for Children’s National Hospital in Washington D.C. and as a judicial intern for Chief Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollak ’75.
Post-Princeton, she will be a Project 55 Fellow with Chicago Volunteer Services as a child representative coordinator.
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https://alumni.princeton.edu/our-community/alumni-association/young-alumni-trustees
https://www.linkedin.com/in/morgan-smith-33056b164/
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José B. Alvarez '85 S85 P14 P22
Conflict of Interest
Vice-chair of the Board
Charter Trustee 2022-2030
Alumni Trustee 2016-2020
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Clinical professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth as of July 1. He is also a visiting senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, where he has served on the faculty since 2009. He conducts research and teaches courses in food systems, board governance and retailing.
Prior to his academic career, Alvarez spent nearly 20 years in the supermarket industry, culminating in his tenure as president and chief executive officer of Stop & Shop/Giant-Landover.
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Alvarez currently serves on the board of directors for United Rentals, where he is the chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee - United Rentals offers industrial services to its users, including chemical, oil and gas refining, oilfields, and power generation and distribution.
Alvarez currently serves on the board of directors of TJX Companies
Alvarez currently serves on the board of directors of Munoz Group.
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Chair of the board of the Joyce Foundation, lead director of Empower Schools, a director of the Good Jobs Institute and a director of Daily Table.
He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton, where he served as an alumni trustee from 2016-20.
Naomi I. Hess '22
Young Alumni Trustee 2022-2026
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Naomi Hess, of Clarksville, Maryland, is a member of the Class of 2022. She concentrated in SPIA, and earned certificates in the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism and in gender and sexuality studies.
At Princeton, Hess co-founded the Undergraduate Student Government Disability Task Force, which led accessibility training for eating clubs and campus committees. She served as a fellow with the Office of Disability Services’ AccessAbility Center and established the Jewish Disability Awareness and Inclusion Month Shabbat for the Center for Jewish Life. She was an associate news editor at The Daily Princetonian and is a member of Butler College.
Hess was awarded the Walter E. Hope Class of 1901 Medal at Princeton’s 2022 Class Day, which recognizes the senior who, in the judgment of the student’s classmates, has done the most for Princeton. She was also given the Spirit of Princeton Award from the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students.
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Carol Quillen *91
Term Trustee 2022-2026
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Carol Quillen, of Davidson, North Carolina, is the president of Davidson College. She will step down from that role at the end of July after 11 years of service, where she has consistently advocated for equal educational opportunity, an inclusive campus community and the value of a reimagined, holistic liberal arts education. Prior to her current role, Quillen served as a professor and administrator at Rice University for over 20 years.
In 2014, President Obama appointed her to the Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young Americans, and she currently serves as a trustee of the National Humanities Center. Her service includes past terms on the boards of the Kinkaid School, the American Council on Education, the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Credential Engine, and the Levine Museum of the New South.
Quillen graduated from Princeton with a Ph.D. in history. She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Chicago.
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Yolandra Gomez Toya '88
Alumni Trustee 2022-2026
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A pediatrician at a private practice in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, where she provides care to a diverse group of patients from many different backgrounds. She also serves as an assistant professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM) School of Medicine.
Prior to becoming a practicing physician, Toya worked on a suicide prevention program among Native youth on her Jicarilla Apache reservation, and worked for eight years with various state agencies, tribes and universities, focusing on such chronic disease issues as obesity and Type 2 diabetes that are prevalent in the Native community. She maintains close contact with Native American communities, serving as an advisor in public health and clinical medicine, and continues to do community-based research with tribes with their participation and approval.
Toya earned a master of public health degree in health policy and administration from the University of California-Berkeley and an M.D. from the UNM School of Medicine. At Princeton, she concentrated in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA). She founded and co-led the Native Alumni of Princeton affinity group, sits on the Princeton Art Museum’s advisory group for Indigenous North America and advised on the creation of the new endowed professor of Indigenous studies.
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Jackie Yi-Ru Ying *91
Alumni Trustee 2022-2026
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Earned a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Princeton in 1991 as an AT&T Bell Laboratories Ph.D. Scholar. She received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Cooper Union in 1987, where she graduated summa cum laude.
Ying is the founder and director of the NanoBio Lab, an incubator that translates and commercializes research in nanomedicine and diagnostic assays. She also established the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology in Singapore in 2003. Ying began her career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she became the youngest full professor in the history of the Department of Chemical Engineering. Her inventions have led to more than 190 primary patents, 42 of which have been licensed to multinational and startup companies.
Ying has received numerous awards for her research in bio-nanotechnology. She was elected to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, is a fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and was recently inducted into the U.S. National Academy of Engineering. Ying also serves as an interviewer for Princeton in southeast Asia and is a member of the Princeton Alumni Association of Singapore’s executive committee.
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Gordon Ritter '86 P20
Term Trustee 2023-2027
Major donor - entrepeneurship and professorship
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At large alum trustee candidate in 20-21 but not elected
Partner: Amy Metzler Ritter, board member Represent Us
Net worth at least $375 million https://wallmine.com/people/44882/gordon-ritter
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Co-founder and general partner of Emergence Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. Since its inception in 2002, Emergence has been an early investor in some of the industry’s largest players, including Salesforce.com, Zoom, Veeva Systems, Bill.com, and Doximity, among others.
Ritter serves on more than 10 boards within the firm’s portfolio, including chair of the board of Veeva. He has been named multiple times to the Forbes’ Midas List of top venture capital investors.
Prior to Emergence, Ritter founded three companies that pioneered new markets, most recently Software As Service, a cloud software development platform he co-founded with the founder and CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff. Ritter ran IBM’s $3-billion global small business division, created in 1999 as a result of IBM’s acquisition of his company, Whistle Communications.
Ritter has been active on many philanthropic boards including the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, Bay Area Children’s Discovery Museum, and Common Sense Growth. At Princeton, he has helped to expand entrepreneurship and drive design thinking initiatives, such as the Keller Center’s Tiger Challenge.
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordonpritter/
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Nandi Leslie *05
Alumni Trustee 2023-2027
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Principal technical fellow at Raytheon Technologies.
First Black woman to hold the position, which involves researching and leading a portfolio of projects related to artificial intelligence, machine learning and cybersecurity.
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Before joining Raytheon, Leslie was a program manager and senior analyst at Systems Planning and Analysis, where she led projects for the U.S. Navy and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Co-founded The College Advocate, a nonprofit organization providing college prep and a pipeline for low-income high school students to achieve college success. With funds raised from grants as well as with support from fellow Princeton alumni, the program provided services for 60 students a year.
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Leslie serves on several advisory boards and committees, including the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and the Department of Defense Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at Howard University. In 2020, she received the Black Engineer of the Year Award for Outstanding Technical Contribution in Industry. She continues to teach as an adjunct professor and research advisor for Johns Hopkins University’s applied and computational mathematics master’s program.
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Leslie earned a Ph.D. in applied and computational mathematics from Princeton in 2005 and a B.S. in mathematics from Howard University.
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Kamil Ali-Jackson '81 S79 P18
Alumni Trustee 2023-2027
West Chester, Pennsylvania
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Net worth https://wallmine.com/people/399/kamil-ali-jackson
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamil-ali-jackson-310b1464/
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https://careerdevelopment.princeton.edu/events/dinner-12-tigers-featuring-kamil-ali-jackson-81
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Ali-Jackson currently serves on the board of directors of Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a commercial stage biotechnology company with a hematologic disorders, oncology, and rare immune disease therapeutic focus, and PDS Biotechnology Corporation, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing cancer immunotherapies and infectious disease vaccines.
She also serves on the boards of privately held companies and nonprofit organizations, is an inaugural member of the Princeton University Dean for Research External Advisory Council for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Ali-Jackson received a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law and a Bachelor of Arts in politics from Princeton. She is married to an attorney and is the mother of four children. Her only son died in a car accident when he was 3 years old.
Mutemwa Masheke '23
Young Alumni Trustee 2023-2027
From Lusaka, Zambia, graduated from Princeton in May with a degree in computer science.
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A member of the Class of 2023, Masheke chaired the Butler College Council while working as a residential college adviser. He also served on the student advisory boards for the Council for Science and Technology and the Princeton University Middle States Accreditation Committee, and as vice president of the Society of African Internationals at Princeton and the Princeton Chapter of the National Society for Black Engineers.
Masheke received the 2023 Spirit of Princeton Award, which honors Princeton undergraduates for positive contributions to campus life. He was also awarded the 2022 Peer-to-Peer Leader of the Year in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and the 2023 African Vanguard Award from the Program in African Studies.
Masheke will begin his career as a product manager at Microsoft, where he has interned for the past three summers.
Sarah Marie Michelle Bruno *21
Alumni Trustee 2024-2028
Sarah Marie Michelle Bruno, of Baltimore, is an assistant research scientist in physics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University.
Her work centers on building cosmology telescopes at the high-altitude plateau in Chile’s Atacama Desert that observe the cosmic microwave background, the oldest light in the universe remaining from the Big Bang. Bruno serves on the American Astronomical Society’s Committee for the Protection of Astronomy and the Space Environment and co-chairs the subcommittee on electromagnetic interference. She also supports the National Science Foundation spectrum management team as an NSF Spectrum Innovation Initiative awardee, where she is engaged in the international allocation of the radio spectrum. She earned her Ph.D. in physics from Princeton in 2021 and returned afterwards to participate in the Princeton School on Science and Global Security. During her graduate studies, she served for three years as Health & Life Chair of the Graduate Student Government, leading significant mental health initiatives. Bruno’s undergraduate degree, also in physics, is from Cornell University.
Aisha Chebbi '24
Young Alumni Trustee 2024-2028
Aisha Chebbi, of Miami, Florida, graduated from Princeton in May with a degree in medical anthropology.
A member of the Class of 2024, she served as co-president of the Muslim Students Association and a residential college adviser at Yeh College. Her other activities included representing first-years on the Class Council of the Undergraduate Student Government, serving as student representative to the Global Health Program Advisory Committee, organizing global health awareness events as co-coordinator for Partners in Health Engage, chairing the Princeton Arab Society, serving as a fellow at the Carl A. Fields Center for Equality and Cultural Understanding, and working as a Community Action orientation leader with the Pace Center for Civic Engagement. Chebbi completed an internship at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in Geneva, Switzerland. She is currently a Fulbright Scholar in Germany and intends to pursue a career as a pediatric physician with an emphasis on global health.
Ann Chen '89
Term Trustee 2024-2028
Ann Chen, of San Francisco, was a partner at Bain & Company, where she worked for 22 years. Since retiring, she serves as an independent adviser to family foundations and nonprofit organizations.
Chen started her professional career at Bain and worked in the firm’s Boston, Paris and Hong Kong offices. During her last few years with the firm, she founded and led its nonprofit practice across greater China. She is the recipient of the Bright-Dix Award, awarded annually to a Bain employee for exceptional commitment to coaching, mentoring and training. Chen, who currently advises several foundations on optimizing their philanthropic giving, sits on the boards of Common Sense Media and the Corporation of Yaddo. Previously, she served on the Dean’s Leadership Council and Dean’s Advisory Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, as well as on the Harvard Business School Alumni Board. After receiving her B.S.E. in computer science from Princeton in 1989, Chen earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Edward Felsenthal '88 S96
Alumni Trustee 2024-2028
Edward Felsenthal, of Montclair, New Jersey, is senior advisor in the Office of the CEO at Salesforce and the former editor in chief and CEO of TIME. He led TIME’s evolution from a magazine to a global media company with the largest audience in its history and a major presence in film, TV and live events.
Felsenthal began his career at The Wall Street Journal in 1992 in New York and Washington, rising to the Journal’s leadership team and overseeing a significant portion of the newsroom. He supervised health coverage that led to two Pulitzer Prizes. In 2008, he helped launch The Daily Beast as its founding executive editor. He is a founding board member of The Daily Memphian, a nonprofit that is now the city’s largest newsroom, and serves as a senior fellow of the Edward R. Murrow Center for Global Affairs at Tufts University’s Fletcher School. Felsenthal received his A.B. from the School of Public and International Affairs in 1988, his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his master’s degree in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School.
Anthony Romero '87
Term Trustee 2024-2028
Anthony Romero, of New York City, is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, which he has led since September 2001.
An attorney with a history of public interest activism, Romero has overseen an expansion of the organization’s nationwide litigation, lobbying, political advocacy and public education efforts, along with its state court advocacy. He is the ACLU’s sixth executive director and the first Latino and openly gay man to serve in that capacity.
Romero is board director at Ariel Investments and chair of its talent and compensation committee. Princeton major donor Mellody Hobson is Co-CEO & President of Ariel.
He serves on the board of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and is an advisory council member of the Global Forum for Freedom and Justice. The first in his family to graduate from high school, he received his A.B. from the School of Public and International Affairs in 1987 and his J.D. in 1990 from Stanford Law School. He is the recipient of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson Award, the University’s top honor for undergraduate alumni.