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Yale Corporation Alumni Fellow Election 2016

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Cover: The Great Hall of Dinosaurs in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. The Peabody Museum marks its 150th anniversary in 2016.

Photo: Michael T. Marsland, University Photographer


April 2016

Dear Yale Graduate,

The Yale Corporation’s ten successor trustees and six alumni fellows serve as stewards of the institution and reflect the breadth and diversity of Yale’s alumni population. They are small in number, yet they carry significant weight in the leadership of our university.

As we look to the future, we seek to reinforce and expand on Yale’s traditional place as the world’s most student-centered research university—a preeminent institution that is unified, innovative, and accessible across schools, departments, and programs.

The Corporation plays a vital role in creating a unified Yale that leverages its broad scope but modest size to forge new connections; in fostering an innovative Yale that discovers and explores new ways of teaching, learning, and seeing the world; and an accessible Yale that opens its doors to individuals based on their accomplishments, potential, and ability to contribute to and learn from others in the university community.

To achieve these ambitions, the Yale Corporation supports—and o≠ers crucial guidance toward accomplishing—our key overarching goals: to remain the research university most committed to teaching and learning; to build an environment that cultivates innovators, leaders, pioneers, creators and entrepreneurs; to welcome a diverse student body from throughout the world; to be a world leader in basic, translational, and applied scientific and social scientific research; to stand unsurpassed in humanities and arts scholarship, teaching and practice; to bring together individuals who engage fully in the life of the university and its community; and to develop ways to share more broadly Yale’s intellectual assets with the world.

With these aspirations in mind, you and your fellow graduates share the responsibility again this year of electing one alumni fellow for a term of six years.


I encourage you to read the enclosed materials carefully, and I hope you will cast your vote for one of the three candidates, each of whom would contribute an important set of experiences and skills.

Sincerely,

Peter SaloveyPresidentChris Argyris Professor of Psychology


the alumni fellow election

On behalf of the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA), I have the pleasure of presenting the slate for this year’s Alumni Fellow Election, and I invite you to vote for one of the candidates. The individual receiving the highest number of votes will serve for a six-year term, filling the vacancy that will be created by the end of the term of alumni fellow Dr. Francisco G. Cigarroa ’79 B.S.

The Standing Committee for the Nomination of Alumni Fellows of the AYA is committed to selecting candidates who have wisdom, outstanding reputations in their fields, and the ability to be stewards of the entire institution. They seek people who will bring a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and expertise to the work of the Corporation. The Committee is mindful that the Corporation is relatively small in number, so each member must bring an array of valuable attributes.

The current Corporation members represent a broad spectrum of professional and volunteer leadership. Their biographies are contained in the voting materials.

After soliciting recommendations for candidates from a wide range of alumni and university leaders, the Committee has nominated the following individuals:

tom a. bernstein ’74 b.a., ’77 j.d.New York, New York

lori matloff goler ’91 b.a.Palo Alto, California

annette thomas ’93 ph.d. London, England

According to the Charter of the Yale Corporation, all graduates of the first degree of five or more years’ standing, and all persons who have been admitted to any degree higher than the first in the University, whether honorary or in course, may cast their votes for alumni fellows of the Corporation. The polls close on May 22, 2016, and all ballots are counted as of that date.


As in past years, Election Services Corporation of Ronkonkoma, New York, is tabulating the votes and will record only one vote per person.

As you cast your ballot for this year’s election, please consider other graduates whom you would like to nominate for the Yale Corporation. I know the Committee would appreciate suggestions for individuals who should be considered for next year’s election. Please do not hesitate to send suggestions to [email protected].

By order of the Corporation:

Kimberly M. Go≠-CrewsSecretary

New Haven, April 2016


candidatetom a. bernstein’74 b.a., ’77 j.d.

Tom A. Bernstein is the President and Co-Founder of Chelsea Piers, L.P., created in 1992 to develop and operate the Chelsea Piers Sports and Entertainment Complex, a 30 acre sports village that helped transform Manhattan’s Hudson River waterfront and has become one of the most visited destinations in NYC. Comprised of a wide-variety of athletic venues, film and television production facilities and multiple special event venues, Chelsea Piers serves people of all ages with its sports programming, leagues, classes and summer camps. Mr. Bernstein is also Co-Chairman of Chelsea Piers Connecticut, a companion multi-venue sports facility in Stamford, Connecticut, which opened in 2012.

Mr. Bernstein graduated summa cum laude from Yale College in 1974 with a degree in history and received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1977, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal. He began his legal career as a clerk for the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, a United States District Court Judge for the Eastern District of New York. From 1978 to 1983 Mr. Bernstein was an attorney in the entertainment department of the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York.

In 1983 Mr. Bernstein became one of the two principals of Silver Screen Management, Inc., and the a∞liated Silver Screen companies, which from 1983 to 1998 raised over $1 billion and financed 75 films with HBO and the Walt Disney Company, including such box o∞ce successes as Beauty and the Beast, Pretty Woman, and The Little Mermaid. From 1989 to 1998, Mr. Bernstein was one of the principal owners of the Texas Rangers major league baseball club.

Over the past 30 years, Mr. Bernstein has taken a leadership role in a number of organizations focusing on


global human rights and citizen service. In 2010 President Barack Obama appointed Mr. Bernstein Chairman of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. where he has served as a member of the Council and Executive Committee since 2002, when first appointed by President George W. Bush. Mr. Bernstein also serves as Vice-Chair of Human Rights First, a member of the Board and Executive Committee of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, Chair of the Human Freedom Advisory Council of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, and a member of the Advisory Council for the New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights.

In 2010 Mr. Bernstein was appointed Chair of the Board of Cities of Service, formed by then Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Mr. Bernstein also serves as Chair of the Partnership for Public Service in Washington, D.C., and is a member of the Board of Directors of New York Public Radio and City Year New York.

At Yale Mr. Bernstein helped launch the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School in 1989 and established the Robert L. Bernstein Fellowships in International Human Rights there in 1997. Currently, he serves as a member of the University Council and as a member of the Yale Corporation Committee on Honorary Degrees.

Mr. Bernstein lives in New York City with his wife, Andrea E. Bernstein. They have three children, one of whom is a graduate of Yale College and another is a Yale undergraduate.


candidatelori matloff goler ’91 b.a

Lori Matlo≠ Goler is the global Head of People at Facebook, Inc., the world’s largest online social network with a community of nearly 1.6 billion users. Her role places her at the intersection of workforce development, career planning and people management. She is responsible for all aspects of the company’s people related strategies including development, recruiting, retention, training, development, and compensation around the world.

After graduating from Yale College in 1991 with a degree in international studies, Ms. Goler earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an M.P.P. from Harvard’s Kennedy School in 1997. Following graduate school, she joined the Walt Disney Company where she focused on strategy and business planning for the company’s consumer products businesses.

In 1999 she joined the executive team at eStyle, Inc., which launched a start-up called babystyle.com, an online retailer that became a leader in the field of maternity and children’s apparel. Serving as vice president, Ms. Goler directed merchandise and operations.

Ms. Goler joined eBay in 2003, where she spent more than five years leading a variety of teams and business initiatives. In her final role, she led consumer marketing, overseeing marketing strategy, brand management and consumer promotions. She also served as senior director and general manager of the eBay Stores business at eBay, Inc.

In 2008 Ms. Goler joined Facebook as global Head of Recruiting. She was promoted to vice president, and was responsible for overseeing the company’s global human resources operations, a position known as Head of People at Facebook. Since she joined the company, Facebook has


received numerous awards as “Best Place to Work,” while its sta≠ has grown more than twenty-five-fold to nearly 13,000 people.

Through her work and advocacy, Ms. Goler is recognized as a leading voice shaping the future of work and workplace culture, building and scaling successful organizations, and redefining career strategies. She is regularly featured on television and in print as an expert on these issues and on building a culture of innovation, managing the millennial generation, strengthening the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) pipeline, promoting diversity, and removing barriers to women in the workplace. Her work has been published in Harvard Business Review and featured on CNBC, CNN, and in the Washington Post, Fortune, and Fast Company.

Ms. Goler serves on the board of the Lean In Foundation, created by Sheryl Sandberg to promote women’s leadership and equality, and the Castilleja School for Girls in Palo Alto, California. In addition, she serves on the board of Stanford Health Care, which includes Stanford Hospital, Stanford clinics, and Stanford University School of Medicine.

At Yale Ms. Goler serves on the University Council and is a member of the president’s Advisory Committee on Digital Yale. She is an active participant in the Yale community on campus and in the San Francisco Bay Area serving as keynote speaker on issues of technology, innovation, entrepreneurialism and human capital.

Ms. Goler lives in Palo Alto, California with her spouse, Brian Goler, and their three children.


candidateannette thomas ’93 ph.d

Annette Thomas has devoted her professional life to a prestigious career in publishing. She trained as a scientist and has become one of the industry’s business leaders by using her intimate understanding of the scientific community and the challenges they face to develop one of the most admired and commercially successful publishing firms. She most recently served as the Chief Scientific O∞cer of Springer Nature. Previously she was CEO of Macmillan Science and Education, where she was integral to the success of the 2015 merger with Springer Science and Business Media, creating the world’s largest academic book publisher with over 13,000 employees in 50 countries. Following the merger, Ms. Thomas oversaw innovation, product development and spearheaded commercial growth for this global company.

After receiving her undergraduate degree in biochemistry and biophysics from Harvard in 1986, Ms. Thomas earned her Ph.D. at Yale in cell biology and neuroscience in 1993. Her dissertation research dealt with the similarities in signal transmission between the brain and the gastrointestinal region in the development of diabetes. Upon graduation Ms. Thomas joined the London-based o∞ce of Nature, a preeminent scientific journal, as an associate editor for cell biology.

At Nature, she held several prominent roles, combining her natural curiosity and interest in science with business acumen to spearhead two decades of innovation and expansion, driving the business from regional print magazines to become a global digital information provider. Commitment to open access of scientific information has been a hallmark of her publishing career.

In 1999 Ms. Thomas became launch editor of Nature Cell Biology and then created the Nature Reviews series, one of


the most highly scientific review journals in the world. She became Managing Director of Nature Publishing Group in 2000, where she oversaw the group’s expansion globally and into all forms of digital media. During this period the group quadrupled in size while maintaining the high impact and quality for which Nature is known. She was then appointed Chief Executive O∞cer of Nature’s Publishing Group’s parent company, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., where her responsibilities expanded to include global education and consumer book publishing, overseeing a group of over 5,000 employees.

In 2012 Ms. Thomas advanced to the position of Chief Executive O∞cer of the newly created Macmillan Science and Education. She introduced new technology and new business models, and launched Digital Science, a technology start-up incubator. Digital Science is now home to nearly a dozen thriving new companies that are using technology, software, and data to transform how researchers work and communicate.

Ms. Thomas’ role as a leader in her field was recognized with the Kim Scott Walwyn prize for exceptional women in publishing. She has served as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Biotechnology Information, an a∞liate of the National Institutes of Health that is devoted to advancing science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information. She has served on the board and been an adviser to Creative Commons, a non-profit service that draws on research and educational data to advance development, growth, and productivity. She is currently a Governor of the Stephen Perse Foundation.

At Yale she was a 2013 recipient of the Wilbur Cross Medal, which is awarded to outstanding alumni of the Graduate School for distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service. She serves on the University Council. Ms. Thomas lives in Cambridge UK, with her husband, Dr. Peter Maycox, and their four children.


the most highly scientific review journals in the world. She became Managing Director of Nature Publishing Group in 2000, where she oversaw the group’s expansion globally and into all forms of digital media. During this period the group quadrupled in size while maintaining the high impact and quality for which Nature is known. She was then appointed Chief Executive O∞cer of Nature’s Publishing Group’s parent company, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., where her responsibilities expanded to include global education and consumer book publishing, overseeing a group of over 5,000 employees.

In 2012 Ms. Thomas advanced to the position of Chief Executive O∞cer of the newly created Macmillan Science and Education. She introduced new technology and new business models, and launched Digital Science, a technology start-up incubator. Digital Science is now home to nearly a dozen thriving new companies that are using technology, software, and data to transform how researchers work and communicate.

Ms. Thomas’ role as a leader in her field was recognized with the Kim Scott Walwyn prize for exceptional women in publishing. She has served as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the National Center for Biotechnology Information, an a∞liate of the National Institutes of Health that is devoted to advancing science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information. She has served on the board and been an adviser to Creative Commons, a non-profit service that draws on research and educational data to advance development, growth, and productivity. She is currently a Governor of the Stephen Perse Foundation.

At Yale she was a 2013 recipient of the Wilbur Cross Medal, which is awarded to outstanding alumni of the Graduate School for distinguished achievements in scholarship, teaching, academic administration, and public service. She serves on the University Council. Ms. Thomas lives in Cambridge UK, with her husband, Dr. Peter Maycox, and their four children.


peter salovey ’86 ph.d.

Peter Salovey is the 23rd president of Yale University and the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology.

After receiving an A.B. (psychology) and A.M. (sociology) from Stanford University

in 1980 with departmental honors and university distinction, Salovey earned three degrees at Yale in psychology: an M.S. (1983), M.Phil. (1984), and Ph.D. (1986). He served as Yale’s provost from October 2008 to January 2013, and is the only Yale president to have served as dean of the graduate school (2003–2004), dean of Yale College (2004–2008) and provost.

Salovey has authored or edited over a dozen books translated into eleven languages and published hundreds of journal articles and essays in his field of social psychology. With John D. Mayer, he developed a broad framework called “Emotional Intelligence,” the theory that people have a wide range of measurable emotional skills that profoundly a≠ect their thinking and action.

In addition to teaching and mentoring scores of graduate students, Salovey has won both the William Clyde DeVane Medal for Distinguished Scholarship and Teaching in Yale College and the Lex Hixon ’63 Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in 2013.

joshua bekenstein ’80 b.a.

Joshua Bekenstein is a managing director of Bain Capital and has many years of experience both as a senior executive of a large investment firm and as a director of companies in various business sectors.

After graduating from Yale and earning an m.b.a. from Harvard Business School, Mr. Bekenstein helped found Bain Capital, which has grown from its inception in 1984 into a private alternative asset management

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firm with more than 900 employees in ten o∞ces in seven countries around the world. Prior to joining Bain Capital, Mr. Bekenstein spent several years doing strategic consulting at Bain & Company. He serves on the boards of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, BRP (Bombardier Recreational Products), Burlington Stores, Canada Goose, Michaels Stores, and TOMS Shoes. Philanthropically, Mr. Bekenstein chairs the boards of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and New Profit Inc., and he is a member of the board of trustees of City Year. Prior to being named a Successor Trustee in 2013, Mr. Bekenstein served on the Yale Investments Committee and the School of Management Board of Advisors. He also served as a member of the University Council, co-chair of the Yale Tomorrow Campaign, and a member of the Yale Development Council.

jeffrey l. bewkes ’74 b.a.

Je≠rey L. Bewkes is chairman and chief executive o∞cer of Time Warner Inc., which comprises Warner Bros. studios; Home Box O∞ce (HBO and Cinemax); and CNN, TNT, TBS, and Cartoon Network.

After graduating from Yale and earning an m.b.a. from Stanford Graduate School of Business, he worked in banking and then joined Home Box O∞ce, where he rose through the ranks and became chief executive o∞cer in 1995. In 2002 he became group chairman responsible for Time Warner’s television, film, and music interests, and in 2006 he became chief operating o∞cer for Time Warner overall. Mr. Bewkes serves on the board of the Partnership for New York City and is on the advisory boards for the Creative Coalition and the George Washington University Law School. Mr. Bewkes is also a member of the Business Council. A former member of the University Council, he was named Successor Trustee in 2006.


maureen c. chiquet ’85 b.a.

Maureen Chiquet is the former global chief executive o∞cer of Chanel, where she oversaw and coordinated activities worldwide and developed the organization’s Active & Conscious Leadership initiative.

Ms. Chiquet joined Chanel, Inc. in 2003 and was named president of the company in the United States in 2004. She became the company’s first global CEO in 2007. Ms. Chiquet began her career at L’Oreal Paris in 1985. In 1988 she joined Gap, and in 1994 was recruited to help launch Old Navy. Over eight years, she advanced to executive vice president, growing the brand from 35 to 850 stores, before becoming president of Banana Republic in 2002. She has been recognized among Fortune’s “International Power 50,” Forbes’ “100 Most Powerful Women,” The Wall Street Journal’s “50 Women to Watch” and Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year. She currently sits on the board of directors of children’s clothing company Peek…Aren’t You Curious and the board of trustees of the New York Academy of Art. She served on the University Council Committee on Reputation and is a member of Yale University’s President’s Council on International Activities. Ms. Chiquet was named Successor Trustee in 2012.

francisco g. cigarroa ’79 b.s.

Francisco G. Cigarroa, m.d., is a nationally renowned pediatric and transplant surgeon. In January 2015 he completed his tenure as Chancellor of the University of Texas System and was named the

Director of Pediatric Transplantation at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is also a Regent’s Special Liaison to the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and its medical school. A native of Laredo, TX, he earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale and a medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. During his twelve years of postgraduate training, Dr. Cigarroa was chief resident at Harvard’s teaching hospital, Massachusetts General in Boston, and completed a fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in


Baltimore in both pediatric surgery and transplantation surgery. In 1995 he joined the faculty of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and, in October 2000, was appointed its third president. In February 2003 he was appointed by President Bush to the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science. In October 2006 Dr. Cigarroa was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, and he serves on the American Academy Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. Dr. Cigarroa is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery, from which he received a certificate in pediatric surgery. A former member of the University Council, he was elected Alumni Fellow in 2010.

peter b. dervan ’72 ph.d.

Peter B. Dervan is the Bren Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. from Boston College, and after completing his Ph.D. at Yale, he was a postdoctoral

fellow at Stanford University. He began his association with Caltech as an assistant professor in 1973. Mr. Dervan served as chair of Caltech’s division of chemistry and chemical engineering from 1994 to 1999. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Mr. Dervan was awarded the 2006 National Medal of Science. He is chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Robert A. Welch Foundation. At Yale he has been honored with the Kirkwood Medal and the Wilbur Cross Medal and has served on the University Council. Mr. Dervan was elected Alumni Fellow in 2008 and served until 2014 when he was named Successor Trustee.


donna l. dubinsky ’77 b.a.

Donna Dubinsky is CEO, board chair, and cofounder of Numenta, Inc., a software company creating fundamental technology designed to lead the coming era of machine intelligence. After graduating from Yale

and earning an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, she worked at Apple Computer and then as a founder of Claris Corporation. In 1992 she joined Je≠ Hawkins at Palm Computing, serving as president and chief executive o∞cer. The handheld PalmPilot computer, introduced four years later, became the fastest-selling computer and consumer electronics product in history at the time. In 1998 Ms. Dubinsky and Mr. Hawkins founded Handspring, Inc., creator of the Treo Smartphone, which set the standard for next-generation phones. Handspring merged in 2003 with Palm, where Ms. Dubinsky served as a director until early 2009. She and Mr. Hawkins founded Numenta in 2005. At Yale she served as a member of the University Council. She was named Successor Trustee in 2006.

charles w. goodyear iv’80 b.s.

Charles W. Goodyear IV is the president of Goodyear Capital Corporation and Goodyear Investment Company and the former chief executive o∞cer of BHP

Billiton, the world’s largest diversified resources company. After graduating from Yale, he earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1983. He joined BHP Billiton as chief financial o∞cer in 1999, was appointed chief development o∞cer in 2001, and CEO in 2003. Mr. Goodyear held previous positions as executive vice president at Kidder, Peabody & Co., a Wall Street investment bank, and senior vice president and chief financial o∞cer of Freeport-McMoRan Inc., a natural resources company. Mr. Goodyear served as CEO-Designate of Temasek Holdings, an investment company wholly owned by the Singapore Minister for Finance, from March until August 2009. He also served on Temasek’s board from February through August 2009.


He is also director of several companies and organizations. At Yale Mr. Goodyear served as a member of the Yale Tomorrow Campaign Committee and currently serves on the President’s Council on International Activities and as Chairman of the Jackson Institute Council. He was named Successor Trustee in 2011.

CATHARINE BOND HILL ’85 PH.D.

Catharine Bond Hill is president of Vassar College and a noted economist whose research focuses on the a≠ordability of and access to higher education, as well as on economic development and reform in

Africa. After graduating summa cum laude from Williams College, Ms. Hill earned B.A. and M.A. degrees at Brasenose College, University of Oxford, with first-class honors in politics, philosophy, and economics, and a Ph.D. in economics from Yale. At the start of her career she worked for the World Bank and the Fiscal Analysis Division of the U.S. Congressional Budget O∞ce. She joined the faculty at Williams College in 1985 and served as provost of Williams for seven years before assuming the presidency of Vassar in 2006. Ms. Hill lived in the Republic of Zambia in the mid-1990s, where she was the fiscal/trade adviser and then head of the Harvard Institute for International Development’s Project on Macroeconomic Reform, working in the Ministry of Finance and with the Bank of Zambia. She has received scholarly awards, grants, and fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, Brookings Institution, National Science Foundation, and Social Science Research Council, among other organizations. Ms. Hill is a trustee of ITHAKA, a nonprofit corporation and parent company of digital library Web site JSTOR, and served on the board of trustees of Yale-NUS College. She was elected Alumni Fellow in 2013.


PAUL L. JOSKOW ’70 M.PHIL.,’72 PH.D.

Paul L. Joskow is president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Mr. Joskow oversees the foundation’s nearly $1.9 billion in assets and directs its diverse grant-giving

programs. He holds a B.A. from Cornell University. After earning a Ph.D. in economics at Yale, he joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he taught for more than thirty-five years and served as head of the Department of Economics and as director of the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research. Mr. Joskow is a fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association and the Industrial Organization Society. He serves on the board of overseers of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and on the boards of Exelon Corporation and Putnam Mutual Funds. At Yale he served on the University Council from 1988 until 2008 and was its president from 1994 to 2006. He was awarded the Yale Medal in 2005. Mr. Joskow was named Successor Trustee in 2008.

WILLIAM E. KENNARD ’81 J.D.

William E. Kennard is cofounder and chairman of Velocitas Partners, LLC, an asset management firm. Before founding Velocitas Partners, Mr. Kennard was U.S. Ambassador to the European Union.

Appointed in November 2009, he promoted transatlantic trade and investment and worked to eliminate regulatory barriers to commerce. Mr. Kennard graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University. After earning a law degree at Yale, he joined the firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand (now DLA Piper), where he was a partner and member of the board of directors. He served as general counsel of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from 1993 until 1997, and as chairman from 1997 to 2001. Prior to his appointment as U.S. Ambassador, he was managing director of the global private equity firm the Carlyle Group, where he led


investments in the telecommunications and media sectors. Mr. Kennard serves on the boards of directors of AT&T, Inc., Ford Motor Company, MetLife, Inc. and Duke Energy Corporation. A former member of the University Council, he was named Successor Trustee in 2014.

MARGARET H. MARSHALL’76 J.D., ’12 LL.D.

Margaret H. Marshall is a retired chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. She is presently senior counsel at Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP

in Boston and a senior research fellow and lecturer at Harvard Law School. Born in South Africa, she earned a B.A. from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and a master’s degree in education from Harvard University. After graduating from Yale Law School, she practiced law for sixteen years and was a partner in the Boston firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart. She served as vice president and general counsel of Harvard from 1992 until 1996, when she was appointed to the Supreme Judicial Court. Chief Justice Marshall, who became a U.S. citizen in 1978, served as president of the United States Conference of Chief Justices and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the recipient of many honorary degrees and other professional awards, including the Yale Law School Alumni Award of Merit in 2006 and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Yale in 2012. She has been a member of the Yale Law School Association Executive Committee since 1991. Chief Justice Marshall was elected Alumni Fellow in 2004 and served on the Corporation until 2010. She was appointed Successor Trustee in 2012, and Senior Fellow in 2013.

GINA M. RAIMONDO ’98 J.D.

Gina M. Raimondo is the 75th Governor of Rhode Island and the state’s first female governor. Prior to her inauguration in January 2015, Raimondo served as the state’s General Treasurer and worked to

redesign Rhode Island’s public employee pension system. As Governor, she is focused on building the skills students


and workers need to compete in the 21st century, fostering innovation, and attracting entrepreneurs to stimulate the economy and create jobs. Ms. Raimondo graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and earned a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. After graduating from Yale Law School, Ms. Raimondo clerked for U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood of the Southern District of New York. She then served as founding employee and senior vice president at Village Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Williamstown, Massachusetts, before co-founding her own venture capital firm in Rhode Island, Point Judith Capital. A former member of the University Council, she was elected Alumni Fellow in 2014.

E. JOHN RICE, JR. ’88 B.A.

E. John Rice, Jr. is the founder and CEO of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a nonprofit organization that equips underrepresented minorities with skills, coaching, and relationships

needed to become leaders in the corporate, nonprofit, and entrepreneurial sectors. After graduating from Yale with a degree in Latin American studies, Mr. Rice earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He worked with the Walt Disney Company in new business development and then joined the National Basketball Association (NBA), first in Latin America as director of marketing and then in Tokyo as managing director of NBA Japan. While studying at Harvard, Mr. Rice had written the business plan for what was to become MLT, and in 1994 he launched a mentoring program for minority undergraduates. Six years later he resigned from the NBA to devote himself entirely to MLT, which began with fifty participants in 2002; today its programs serve more than 5,000 students and professionals nationwide. Mr. Rice is a director and Compensation Committee chair of Walker & Dunlop and is a cofounder and director of CareerCore, an early-stage technology company. He was appointed to President Obama’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans, has served as a member of the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black


Colleges and Universities since 2010, and sits on the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance Advisory Council. He also serves on a number of nonprofit boards, including New Profit Inc., the American Management Association, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.

EVE HART RICE ’73 B.A.

Eve Hart Rice, m.d., is an author, artist, psychiatrist, and co-president and treasurer of the Rice Family Foundation. Dr. Rice, a member of the first coeducational freshman class of Yale College, spent

twelve years as a freelance author and artist of children’s books, writing and/or illustrating some eighteen titles for HarperCollins, Macmillan, and other publishers after earning her B.A. She subsequently earned an M.D. from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and completed a residency in psychiatry at Cornell University. She then served as a sta≠ psychiatrist, an inpatient unit chief, outpatient pharmacologist, and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College. Her philanthropic work has focused on grant-making in the arts, education, health, and the environment. This has included e≠orts at Yale to help build an urban studies program, foster public service careers for women, support collections at the University Art Gallery and libraries, and promote international research experiences for students. Dr. Rice served on the University Council from 1998 until 2014 and was its president from 2011 to 2014. She was awarded the Yale Medal in 2009 and helped found YaleWomen, an AYA shared interest group for all alumnae. She was elected Alumni Fellow in 2015.

KEVIN P. RYAN ’85 B.A.

Kevin P. Ryan is one of the leading Internet entrepreneurs in New York, having founded and is chairman of several businesses, including Business Insider, MongoDB, GILT and Zola. Combined,

these companies have raised more than $500 million in venture capital funding and currently employ almost 2,000 people. Previously, Mr. Ryan helped build DoubleClick


from 1996 to 2005, first as President and later as CEO. He led DoubleClick’s growth from a 20-person startup to a publicly traded global leader with over 1,500 employees. In 2013, Mr. Ryan was named one of “The 100 Most Influential New Yorkers of the Past 25 Years” by the Observer. Aside from his professional responsibilities, he serves on the board of Human Rights Watch, is Vice Chairman of The Partnership for New York City, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served on the boards of INSEAD, the Direct Marketing Association, The Ad Council, HotJobs, and the advisory board of Doctors Without Borders. He holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD, and was elected Alumni Fellow in 2012.

DOUGLAS A. WARNER III ’68 B.A.

During his thirty-three-year career in banking and financial services, Douglas A. Warner rose to be chair of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., having begun his career there upon graduating from Yale. In 1995 he was

named the youngest chief executive o∞cer in J.P. Morgan’s history, and he was chair and CEO until J.P. Morgan merged with Chase Manhattan in 2000. Following the merger, Mr. Warner served as chair of the board of the combined enterprise until his retirement in 2001. Since 1998 he has been chair of the board of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is a director of General Electric and formerly a director of Anheuser-Busch and Motorola. Prior to being named a Successor Trustee in 2008, Mr. Warner was a non-trustee member of two Yale Corporation committees, serving on the Investments Committee since 2001 and on the School of Medicine Ad Hoc Committee from 2001 to 2007.

Dannel P. MalloyGovernor of the State of Connecticut, ex o∞cio

Nancy WymanLieutenant Governor of the State of Connecticut, ex o∞cio


Alumni Fellow Nominating Committee

nancy stratford ’77 b.a., Chair New York, New York

alison brody ’95 b.a.Portland, Oregon

lise chapman ’81 m.b.a., ex o∞cioShort Hills, New Jersey

kimberly m. goff-crews ’83 b.a., ’86 j.d.,ex o∞cioGuilford, Connecticut

maria lopez-bresnahan ’78 b.a.Lincoln, Massachusetts

joan o’neill, ex o∞cioNew Haven, Connecticut

roy niedermayer ’69 b.a.Bethesda, Maryland

e. john rice, jr. ’88 b.a.Bethesda, Maryland

pulin sanghvi ’92 b.a.Princeton, New Jersey

linda schupack ’83 b.a., ’92 m.b.a.New York, New York

gina boswell ’89 m.p.p.m., ex o∞cio Hinsdale, Illinois

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