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Board of Trustees

The University's current voting and life trustees.

Members of the Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees is the University's governing body.

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Chair of the Board of Trustees

Richard B. Handler ’83 is chair of the University’s Board of Trustees and CEO of Jefferies Financial Group. He earned his bachelor’s degree in economics magna cum laude with high distinction from the University in 1983 and his MBA from Stanford University in 1987. Handler was elected to the ÂÒÂ×Ç¿¼é Board of Trustees in 2005 and was appointed chair of the Board in 2018.

Voting members

  • Joseph W. Abrams
    Board Member, Marin Health

  • Quincy L. Allen
    Former Chief Marketing Officer
    IBM

  • Joan S. Beal
    Retired, Studio Recording Vocalist and Vocal Contractor

  • Jay S. Benet
    Retired, Vice Chairman and CFO
    The Travelers Companies, Inc.

  • Douglas Bennett
    Co-founder, Phalanx Impact Partners

  • Naomi M. Bergman
    Senior Executive
    Advance

  • Stephen R. Biggar, M.D., Ph.D.
    Partner
    Baker Brothers Investments

  • H.(enry) Christopher Boehning
    Partner
    Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

  • Elizabeth P. Bruno, Ph.D.
    President
    Brady Education Foundation

  • Barbara J. Burger, Ph.D.
    Board Director and Advisor

  • Bernard T. Ferrari, M.D.
    Dean Emeritus
    Johns Hopkins University
    Carey Business School

  • Emerson U. Fullwood
    Retired, Corporate Vice President
    Xerox Corporation

  • David R. Greenbaum, J.D.
    Vice Chairman
    Vornado Realty Trust

  • Gwen M. Greene
    Retired, JP Morgan

  • Steven K. Grinspoon, M.D.
    Chief, Metabolism Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital;
    Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

  • Richard B. Handler (Chair)
    CEO, Jefferies Financial Group

  • Pramit S. Jhaveri
    Senior Advisor
    Preemji Invest and PJT Partners

  • Curtis J. Johnson
    Former Managing Director
    The Carlyle Group

  • Juan C. Jones
    Executive Vice President of Global Support Renewal Sales
    Oracle

  • Carol D. Karp
    Chief Regulatory Officer
    Prothena Biosciences Inc.

  • Laurence Kessler
    CEO
    Kessler Group Inc. & Kessler Family LLC

  • Evans Y. Lam
    Managing Director – Wealth Management
    UBS Financial Services, Inc.

  • Elizabeth Leight, Ph.D.
    Clinical Psychologist and Educator

  • Amy T. Lesch
    Partner, Client and Partner Group
    Kohlberg Kravis Roberts

  • Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, Ph.D.
    President and G. Robert Witmer, Jr. University Professor
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  • Edward D. Miller, M.D.
    Dean/CEO Emeritus Johns Hopkins Medicine

  • Cathy E. Minehan
    Former President and CEO
    Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,
    and Former Dean of the
    School of Management, Simmons College

  • Naveen Nataraj
    Senior Managing Director
    Evercore

  • Ria T. Nova
    Partner, Client and Product Solutions
    Apollo Global Management

  • Lizette M. Pérez-Deisboeck
    General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
    Battery Ventures

  • Steven F. Piaker
    Co-founder and Managing Partner
    Ten Coves Capital

  • Judith A. Reinsdorf
    Former Executive VP and General Counsel
    Johnson Controls International

  • Kathy N. Waller
    Retired, Executive Vice President and CFO, and President of Enabling Services
    The Coca-Cola Company

  • Elizabeth Ward Chicares (Betsy Ward), FSA, MAAA, PRM
    CFO
    Mass Mutual

  • Timothy C. Wentworth
    CEO
    Walgreens Boots Alliance

  • Alan S. Zekelman
    Director
    Zekelman Industries, Inc.

Emeritus members

  • Aab, Richard T.

  • Ain, Mark S.

  • Aman, Alfred C., Jr.

  • Ascher, Everett S.

  • Batkin, Alan R.

  • Beckman, Joel S.

  • Bloch, Laurence H.

  • Blumstein, Sheila E.

  • Brownlee, Paula P.

  • Bruning, John H. Ph.D.

  • Burns, Ursula M.

  • Carpenter, William M.

  • Chesonis, Arunas

  • Colodny, Edwin I.

  • Crockett, Bruce L.

  • Cushman, Jeanine Sullivan

  • Davidson, Carol (John) A.

  • Drummond, Launcelot F.

  • Friedlander, Roger B.

  • Gabrellian, Ani N.

  • Gardner, Jerry

  • Gelband, Myra

  • Gifford, Bernard R.

  • Goergen, Robert B.

  • Hajim, Edmund A.

  • Hilfiker, Alan F.

  • Jackson, Thomas H.

  • Jones, Michael E.

  • Keegan, Robert J.

  • Kelly, John M.

  • Knight, Ronald B.

  • Lange, Louis G., M.D.

  • LeChase, R. Wayne

  • Lione, Gail A.

  • Mack, Joseph P.

  • Manian, Bala S.

  • Messinger, Martin E.

  • Meyer, Barry M.

  • Moser, Nathan F.

  • Moses, Bruce H.

  • Munnerlyn, Charles R.

  • Murray, Kathleen A.

  • Neilly, Andrew H., Jr.

  • O'Brien, Dennis

  • Osieski, Robert M.

  • Price, Francis L.

  • Prince, Brian F.

  • Prokupets, Elena A.

  • Rea, C. Woodrow, Jr.

  • Rettner, Ronald M.

  • Richards, Thomas S.

  • Richardson, Arthur M.

  • Rosen, Michael S.

  • Sands, Richard

  • Saunders, E. Philip

  • Scheerschmidt, Robert H.

  • Sloan, Thomas R.

  • Standish, Peter D.

  • Stark, Raymond C.

  • Wegman, Daniel R.

  • Whitney, Ralph R., Jr.

  • Wilmot, Thomas C.

  • Willett, Janice M.

  • Winters, Mary-Frances

  • Wisch, Nathaniel, M.D.

Contact Board Services

Lea Nordhaus
Secretary to the Board of Trustees
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lea.nordhaus@rochester.edu

John DiSarro
Assistant Chief of Staff and Assistant Secretary to the Board of Trustees
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John.DiSarro@rochester.edu

Sarabeth Rogoff
Director of University Engagement
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sarabeth.rogoff@rochester.edu