TRUSTEE PROFILES
Amy Alving *88
Alumni Trustee 2019 – 2023
Engineer
Arlington, VA
Other current public directorships: DXC Technology Company
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)
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.
Jackson A. Artis '20
Young Alumni Trustee 2020 – 2024
Systems Engineer, Analytical Graphics, Inc.
Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins
Phoenixville, PA
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
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
Term Trustee 2018 – 2022
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)
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
Katherine Brittain Bradley ’86 P’15 P’18
Charter Trustee 2013 – 2021
Founder and Chair, CityBridge Foundation
Washington, DC
Major donor
Other current private directorships: National Geographic Society, Vice chair
KIPP Foundation, Board Chair (America's largest network of public charter schools)
Partner: Entrepreneur, and magazine publisher David G. Bradley
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.
https://citybridge.org/team/katherine-bradley/
https://www.raisedc.org/lc-katherine-bradley
https://www.kipp.org/kipp-foundation/kipp-board-of-directors/
Pete Briger ‘86
Term Trustee 2020 – 2024
Co-Chief Executive Officer, Fortress Investment Group
Atherton, CA
Major donor - donated over $2.9 million
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
Term Trustee 2019- 2023
Managing Director, WestBridge Capital
Hillsborough, CA
Major donor
Other current private directorships: Aptus Value Housing Finance India Ltd
Star Health and Allied Insurance Co Ltd
India Shelter Finance Corp Ltd
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
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
Alumni Trustee 2017- 2021
CEO, Skillful, A Markle Initiative
Denver, CO
Partner: Adam Cioth ‘81
Other current public directorships: CBRE
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beth_Cobert
https://www.cbre.com/about/media-center/beth-cobert-elected-to-cbre-board-of-directors
https://www.markle.org/about-markle/media-release/beth-cobert-named-ceo-skillful
https://www.fedscoop.com/beth-cobert-opm-cyber-improvement/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/business/mckinsey-opioids-settlement.html
Janeria A. Easley *16
Alumni Trustee Graduate School 2020 - 2024
Assistant Professor, Emory University
Decatur, GA
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.
http://aas.emory.edu/home/people/faculty/easley-janeria.html
Henri R. Ford ’80 S’82 P’17
Charter Trustee 2016 - 2024
Term Trustee 2010-2014
Dean & Chief Academic Officer, University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Miami, FL
Partner: Donna Ford ‘82 Advisory Council, African American Studies Department, Princeton
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Ford
https://people.miami.edu/profile/hford@miami.edu
https://bulletin.facs.org/2018/04/profiles-in-surgical-research-henri-r-ford-md-mha-facs-frcs-faap/
Laura Forese '83 P'13, P'18
Charter Trustee 2015 - 2023
Term Trustee 2010 – 2014
EVP and COO, New York-Presbyterian
New York, NY
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
Other current roles: Trustee, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
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.
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
C. Kim Goodwin '81 S'81
Charter Trustee 2014-2022, Clerk of the Board
PRINCO
Managing Partner, Avanico Holdings, LLC
Hato Rey, PR
Major donor
Other current public directorships: TJX Companies Inc
Popular Inc. (bank)
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
Charter Trustee 2014 – 2022
Former Chairman, Capital Research and Management Company
La Canada, CA
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
Former member of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (Chairman 2007-2013)
Partner: Artist and Vassar Trustee Heather Haaga
Haaga is the former Chairman, Chairman of Executive Committee and Director of Capital Research and Management Company. He retired at the end of 2012.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_G._Haaga_Jr.
Philip Hammarskjold '87 P'18, P'19
Charter Trustee 2016 - 2024
Vice-Chair of the Board
Former Chair of PRINCO
Executive Chairman, Hellman & Friedman LLC
Atherton, CA
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
Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer, Capula Investment Management LLP
London, UK
Major donor
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
Myesha Jemison '18
Young Alumni Trustee 2018 -2022
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
Term Trustee 2018-2022
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Fannie Mae
McLean, VA
Major donor
Other current public directorships: Eli Lilly & Company
Partner: Mark Johnson ‘95 - Co-Founder and the Managing Partner of Astra Capital Management
Johnson currently serves as 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
Dean Emerita, Macaulay Honors College at The City University of New York
New York, NY
Partner: Neurologist Dr. Harold Weinberg
Other current public directorships: Movado Group (watches)
Other current private directorships: Noodle (online education)
Strategic Cyber Ventures (cyber venture capital)
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
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
Director, Aberon Pty Ltd.
Sydney, Australia
Major donor
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
Andlinger Center - external advisory council
General Partner and Chair, Highland Capital Partners
Cambridge, MA
Major donor
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
Founder and President, Bedtime Math
Short Hills, NJ
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Overdeck
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7zI7Kbb72vACNYdCGig6vB?si=bwgiAMX1Qr-Nn7OKhFmgUA
https://overdeck.org/about-us/board/
Bob Peck '88 P'20
Term Trustee 2019 - 2023
PRINCO Chair
Managing Director, FPR Partners
San Francisco, CA
Major donor
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. 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
Executive Director of the National Association of Basketball Coaches
Mequon, WI
Brother of Michelle Obama ‘85
Partner: Kelly Mccrum
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
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
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
President and Chief Legal Officer, Microsoft
Bellevue, WA
Other current public directorships: Netflix
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
PRINCO
Young Alumni Trustee 1997-2001
Managing Partner, Hall Capital Partners LLC
Palo Alto, CA
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
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
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
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
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
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
Charter Trustee 2015 - 2023
Chair Finance Committee
PRINCO
Term Trustee 2010-2014
President, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Citadel Investment Group LLC
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
Term Trustee 2019- 2023
PRINCO
Executive Managing Member, Davidson Kempner Capital Management
New York, NY
Major donor - over $1 million donated
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.
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
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
https://www.hallcapital.com/team/executive-committee/kathryn-a-hall.php
https://sheroars.princeton.edu/speaker/kathryn-a-hall-80/
https://www.laureltrust.com/kathrynhall
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2011/06/09/eight-new-trustees-named-hall-chair-executive-committee