Members of the Board of Trustees

Officers

Ahmass L. Fakahany, Chair (Questrom’79)
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Altamarea Group
New York, New York

Cynthia R. Cohen, Vice Chair (MET’77)
Founder & President
IMPACT 2040
Nashville, Tennessee and New York, New York

Malek Sukkar, Vice Chair (ENG’92)
Chairman
Averda
London, United Kingdom

Melissa L. Gilliam
President
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

Members

Maureen A. Alphonse-Charles (CAS’85)
Managing Director
Koya Partners
Senior Vice President of Inclusion & Equity
Diversified Search Group
Boston, Massachusetts

Kamal Bahamdan (ENG’94)
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Safanad, Inc.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Thomas Bickerton
Resident Bishop
New England Conference of the United Methodist Church
Methuen, Massachusetts

Cassandra M. Clay (SSW’79)
Consultant, Clay Associates
Consultant, Empower Success Corps
Boston, Massachusetts

John D. Couris (CAS’90)
President & Chief Executive Officer
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa, Florida

Shamim A. Dahod (CGS’76, CAS’78, CAMED’87)
Board Member, Circle Health-Lowell General Hospital
President, Nooril-Iman Foundation
Andover, Massachusetts

Nathaniel Dalton (LAW’91)
Founder, Daybreak Partners
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Sora Union Group, Inc.
West Palm Beach, Florida

Michael D. Fricklas (LAW’84)
Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Secretary
ADVANCE
New York, New York

Ryan K. Roth Gallo (LAW’99)
Attorney
Modesto, California

Richard C. Godfrey (LAW’79)
Partner
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
Chicago, Illinois

Antonio (Tony) G. Gomes (LAW’96)
Chief Legal & Administrative Officer
Cloud Software Group
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Rod F. Hochman (CAS’79, CAMED’79)
CEO Emeritus
Providence Health & Services
Seattle, Washington

Ranch C. Kimball
Director
Uhlig LLC
Boston, Massachusetts

Antoinette (Tonie) R. Leatherberry (ENG’85)
Principal (Retired)
Deloitte
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Kenneth Lin (CAS’98)
Founder & Former Chief Executive Officer
Credit Karma, Inc.
Oakland, California

Joseph Loscalzo
Hersey Distinguished Professor of the Theory & Practice of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Physician-in-Chief Emeritus
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Kevin Merida (COM’79)
Executive Editor (Retired)
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, California

Ruth A. Moorman (CAS’88, Wheelock’89,’09)
Educator
Boston, Massachusetts

Eric D. Muller (Questrom’94)
Portfolio Manager & Partner
Oak Hill Advisors, L.P.
New York, New York

Rebecca A. Norlander (CAS’91)
Senior Technical Executive & Board Member
Seattle, Washington

Jonathan Priester (COM’10)
Global Black Community Inclusion Lead
Google, Inc.
New York, New York

Hugo X. Shong (COM’87)
Founding Chairman
IDG Capital Partners
Beijing, China

Kenneth Z. Slater
Principal
Tremont Partners LLC
Boynton Beach, Florida

Nina C. Tassler (CFA’79, Hon.’16)
Former Chair, CBS Entertainment
Founder, Kismet Creative Group
Culver City, California

Elizabeth (Lisa) C. Thors
Managing Director (Retired)
Wellington Management Company LLP
Boston, Massachusetts

Lisa R. Wendt (Questrom’92), ex officio
Managing Director (Retired)
WR Hambrecht + Co.
Ketchum, Idaho

Peter L. Wexler (Questrom’93)
President
Forest Avenue Technology Group
Palo Alto, California

Joseph Wippl, ex officio
Chair, Boston University Faculty Council
Professor of the Practice of International Relations
Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts