Dean’s Advisory Board

Bonnie T. Feld (CAS’73, Parent COM’02), Chair
Potomac, MD

Feld is the chair of the board of directors of the Tony Award Signature Theatre, in Arlington, Virginia, the chair of the CAS Dean’s Advisory Board, and the campaign chair for CAS. Prior to these appointments, Feld served on the Holton-Arms School Board of Trustees for nine years and was acting president of the Corporation.

Jonathan Hodge (CAS’97), Vice-Chair
Los Angeles, CA

Hodges’ strengths lie in helping clients define their goals that reach far beyond wealth accumulation. He has been at the forefront of building business and engagement within the African American community, a talent and commitment recognized by UBS Finacial Services through his appointment to their inaugural Americas Diversity & Inclusion Council. These core values are what have inspired Hodges for over 20 years to build Affinity Wealth Partners into the preeminent, holistic wealth management team it has become.

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Stephen P. Aubin, Ph.D. (UNI’96)
Vienna, VA

Aubin is a strategic advisor and national security expert whose career has spanned the aerospace and defense industry, service in government and the military, and academia. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Metawave Corporation. He was previously vice president for defense strategy and market research at Raytheon Technologies. Aubin previously held senior strategy and business development roles at the Raytheon Company, Boeing Company, and Lockheed Martin. Earlier in his career, he led policy and communications for the Air Force Association, was a research fellow at Boston University’s Center for Defense Journalism, worked in the Immediate Office of the Secretary of Defense, and served in the US Army as a military intelligence officer. Aubin earned a Ph.D. from Boston University in national security studies and communications and an M.A. and B.A. from Georgetown University in national security studies and government.

Bryan T. Biniak (CAS’90)
Pacific Palisades, CA

Biniak is the CEO and founder of Connected Travel, a connected vehicle platform and applications services company developing and operating next-generation infotainment, commerce, and advertising solutions for the auto-ecosystem, including Honda Dream Drive™ and USAA’s HyperDrive™.

Carol Ann Bischoff (COM’82)
Arlington, VA

Bischoff currently serves as the managing director at Pacific Compass Ventures, a strategic consulting and investment firm specializing in commerce between the United States and the Asia Pacific. Bischoff is a telecommunications, media, and technology (TMT) policy attorney and an education advocate whose career spans service in government, private sector law firms, and the nonprofit arena. She serves on the Arlington Academy of Hope (AAH) Board of Directors and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) Board of Trustees.

Amy H. Chiu (GRS’97)
San Diego, CA

Amy Chiu is the chief project development and asset management officer for Sempra LNG. In this role, Chiu leads the project development activities for all current and future LNG projects and oversees the management of both Cameron LNG and Energía Costa Azul joint ventures. She is also responsible for LNG operations.

Gerald Gitner (CAS’66)
Boynton Beach, FL

Gitner is a principal of Cross Continental Capital LLC, an investment company he cofounded. He serves as chairman of Global Aero Holdings Ltd. and D.G. Associates, Inc. He is a past member and chairman of the Financial Advisory Board of the Town of Highland Beach, Florida.

Judith S. Hurwitz (CAS’73, COM’75)
Newton, MA

Hurwitz is president and CEO of Hurwitz & Associates LLC, a research and consulting firm focused on emerging technology including big data, cloud computing, service management, software development, computing management, and security. She is a technology strategist, thought leader, and author.

Steve Karbank (CAS’79, Parent CAS’12)
Kansas City, MO

Karbank is chairman of Karbank Real Estate Company, a Kansas City-based development and brokerage company specializing in industrial, office, and mixed-use properties. He is a member of BU’s Board of Overseers and former President of the BU Alumni Association.

Ruth Moorman (CAS’88, Wheelock ’89, ‘09, Parent BUA’15)
Boston, MA

Moorman is an educator who began her career as a secondary school special-education teacher for students with learning disabilities and behavior problems. Her current areas of interest include educational leadership, supporting university and community partnerships, increasing opportunities for students in higher education, and funding early-stage medical research.

Rebecca Norlander (CAS’91)
Seattle, Washington

Norlander is the founder, CEO, and CTO of Health 123, Inc., a technology company that has developed a digital platform for tracking personal health and wellness via mobile fitness devices, employers and physicians groups, and other data sources. She also is executive in residence at Illuminate Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm.

Richard Park (CAS’00)
Irvine, CA

Park is a principal of Pelican Growth Holdings and founder of THINKdeal Training, a mission-driven educational firm helping underserved students and career professionals pursue roles involving global mergers & acquisitions, private equity, investment research, and investment banking.

Brian Riley (CAS’95)
Marin County, CA

Brian Riley is the Managing Director of the Pacific Northwest Division at Rockefeller Capital Management. In this role, Brian is responsible for leading and expanding Rockefeller’s business and stable of elite Private Wealth Advisor teams in the Pacific Northwest. Brian joins Rockefeller from boutique investment firm First Republic Bank, where he served as an Executive Vice President on the Private Wealth Management team, catering to high net worth individuals.

Robert Schulze (CAS’86, GRS’88, MED’92, Questrom’16, Parent MED’19, CAS’16, CGS’14)
Brooklyn, NY

Schulze is an assistant professor of surgery and director of surgical nutrition and surgical critical care in the Division of General Surgery at SUNY Downstate Medical Center. He completed his surgical residency training at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in 1998 and his fellowship in trauma/critical care at the University of Maryland in 1999.

Demir Sabanci (CAS’93)
Istanbul, Turkey

Demir Sabanci started his business career in Japan at Toyota City in 1993 working in various executive positions with Mitsui & Co. as well as Toyota Motor Corporation. This was followed by similar roles at the Toyota Motor Sales in the United States. In 1996, he joined Sabanci Holding as a Board Member and three years later, founded Teknosa, the pioneer electronics retail chain in Turkey. Mr. Sabanci has held various executive positions in Sabanci Holdings while serving as the President of the Retail Strategic Business Unit that is composed of Carrefoursa, Diasa, and Teknosa. Between 2000 and 2004, he served as founding shareholder and first General Manager and Chairman of Teknosa. In 2002, he also founded Sedes Holding where he is currently the President and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is also is a founding shareholder and President of Odesa, Sedesco Inc., and Gratis.

Mr. Sabanci holds a double major B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Boston University.  He holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Jennifer T. Simpson (CAS’00)
Downingtown, PA

After working for several years as a social work therapist, school social worker, and program officer for after-school programs, Simpson returned to school for a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania in environmental studies with a certificate in land preservation while working as an environmental education instructor. She is currently the owner/operator of Forge Hill Farms, a CSA in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. She is the former chair of the John Templeton Foundation and the Templeton World Charity Foundation boards and former chair of the Steering Committee of the Templeton Religion Trust. 

Julee Stephenson (CAS’94)
Boulder, CO

Stephenson is a corporate affairs and communications leader. She most recently served as senior vice president of corporate affairs at NiSource Inc. and has served in other leadership roles in public affairs, communications, customer experience, and marketing at the company. Stephenson consults with individuals and organizations to guide and develop integrated communication and engagement strategies. Her commitment to service and engaging in communities is the foundation of her current work and career, which has included leadership roles in public affairs, communications, customer experience, marketing and nonprofit program management.

Thomas (Tom) R. Tritton (GRS’73)
Philadelphia, PA

Tritton is a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow at the Science History Institute. He is the former president of Haverford College and former president and CEO of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, an organization headquartered in Philadelphia as a library, museum, and center for scholars. Prior to joining CHF, he was president-in-residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Scott Webster (CAS’93)
Boston, MA

Webster is a partner at the law firm Goodwin Procter LLP and is chair of its ERISA & Executive Compensation Practice. Mr. Webster specializes in a range of ERISA and executive compensation matters, including representing myriad financial service organizations and private investment fund sponsors on issues arising in connection with the investment of pension plan assets, as well as structuring and developing new investment products for retirement plans.

David Weinstein (CGS’70, CAS’72)
Newton, MA

Weinstein is the founder and CEO of Write the World LLC, an international online community of teenage writers, which he developed as a Senior Fellow at the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University.

Karin Wick (CAS’91)
Portola Valley, CA

Wick currently serves on the Board of Fellows at The Harker School, San Jose, California, working with the Board of Trustees on initiatives and topics concerning the school as well as to provide insights and ideas about school issues. In addition, she has been a member, along with her daughter, of Sacred Heart Preperatory’s Parents’ Association Executive Board since the fall of 2018 and is also a member of the National Charity League, Mid-Peninsula, a mother/daughter organization focused on community service and the development of its members as leaders. Prior to her volunteer work, she co-founded and was President of Acacia Technical Services, an IT services firm.

Loren Wold (CAS’97)
Columbus, OH

Dr. Wold, Ph.D., FAHA, FAPS (CAS ’97) is the Assistant Dean for Biological Health Research in the College of Nursing and a Professor in the Colleges of Nursing and Medicine (Physiology
and Cell Biology) at the Ohio State University. Dr. Wold’s laboratory currently investigates environmental triggers of cardiac disease, with emphasis on air pollution exposure and electronic
cigarette exposure.  He is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier journal Life Sciences.

• Warren Adelson (CAS’63, GRS’64, Parent CAS’12, CGS’10) 
• Mark (CAS’74) & Marsha Bookman (SAR’74) 
• George A. Clay (GRS’64, GRS’68)
• Alice B.W. Godfrey (CAS’74, Parent Law’12) 
• Robert J. Hildreth (Parent CAS’13, Questrom’10) 
• Tasneem Mayet (CAS ’95)
• Robyn Metcalfe (GRS’06, GRS’10, Parent CAS’12)
• Alicia Cannon Mullen (CAS’83, Parent CAS’19)
• Ken Norton (CAS’93) 
• Aaron Rasmussen (CAS’06, COM’06)
• Kenneth Slater (Parent Questrom’12) 
• Matthew B. Smith (CAS’70, Questrom’72) 

Purpose

The Dean’s Advisory Board was founded in 2008 to advise the dean on broad matters of policy and planning within the college. The alumni, friends, and parents who comprise the board are tasked with three principal responsibilities: as advisors, ambassadors, and philanthropic supporters of the college. They will serve as a leadership group for advancing the quality and qualities of CAS that help it fulfill its mission as expressed in Creating Our Future, 2010-2020: The Strategic Plan of the College of Arts & Sciences:

The mission of the College of Arts and Sciences is to nurture the discovery, creation, transmission and application of knowledge and understanding across the humanities and the social, natural, and computational sciences. This mission applies to all of the college’s members, from the most decorated senior scholars to our matriculating undergraduates, and unifies our three great core tasks of undergraduate education, graduate education, and pioneering research. CAS is Boston University’s standard-bearer for the proud and successful tradition that is liberal education. We also must choose to be active, engaged citizens of the larger communities to which we also belong—the University, the region, the country, and the world—in order for this mission to succeed.

Roles

Dean’s Advisory Board members have three main roles: as advisors, ambassadors, and philanthropic supporters of the college and its mission.

As advisors, board members individually and collectively serve as a sounding board for the dean and college leadership, helping them to lead the college with wisdom, skill, and creativity. They provide a rich perspective drawn from their varied experiences and knowledge bases outside Boston University. They review, evaluate, and provide insight on improving academic programs, research, student recruitment and student development, operations, alumni relations, fundraising, marketing, and other issues of importance to CAS. Board members are kept well informed of current developments in the college and more widely at Boston University and have interesting opportunities to interact with students, faculty, and college and University leaders.

As ambassadors, board members keep themselves well informed in order to help spread the good word about CAS and BU in their communities and workplaces. Board members help bridge and foster relationships and connections with potential students and their families, other alumni, potential employers of our alumni, and with individuals, corporations, and other organizations that might be in a position to support the college, its students, faculty, and its mission. Board members facilitate and attend events, and engage others with CAS and BU.

As philanthropic supporters, board members make gifts to support the advancement of CAS through the Annual Fund every year at a level agreed through discussion with the dean and their development staff, and where possible, they make gifts at a leadership level that will provide perpetual support to critical goals of excellence. The Dean’s Advisory Board serves as the leadership for the Campaign for CAS and is committed to its success.