Martin McKerrow, Chair
Former Managing Director, Neuberger Berman

Martin McKerrow, Chair

Former Managing Director, Neuberger Berman

Martin McKerrow retired in 2006 after a 22-year career at Neuberger Berman.  At Neuberger, where he was both a Partner and then Managing Director, he focused his energies as a divisional manager on business development, client communication and risk management.  He was a co-manager of the firm’s fixed income asset management activities served as Executive Director of the firm’s joint venture with BNP Paribas and headed the Client Service Department.  He spent most of his career in the financial services industry.

He has been married for 45 years to Toni Bornemann McKerrow, has two married sons and five wonderful grandchildren.  The McKerrows love to travel and try to visit at least one new place every year.  In retirement, Mr. McKerrow does some financial consulting, while devoting his free time to his family, competitive sailing with his wife Toni and unsuccessfully trying to lower his golf handicap.  He divides his time between New York City and Nantucket.

In addition to Bloomfield College, he serves on the Boards of the Nantucket Shellfish Association and Nantucket Community Sailing.  He is a committee member of the Nantucket Yacht Club.  Mr. McKerrow earned his B.A. from Kenyon College and his MBA from Columbia University School of Business.  Mr. McKerrow joined the Board in 2000 and has been Board Chair since 2004.

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John J. Delucca ’66, Vice Chair

Former Executive Vice President, REL Consultancy Group

John J. Delucca  is a former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer with REL Consultancy Group in Purchase, NY and London UK.  He was previously Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration at Coty Inc.  Prior to that, Mr. Delucca served as Senior Vice President and Treasurer for RJR Nabisco, Inc.  He was Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Hascoe Associates, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based private holding company.  Mr. Delucca began his career as an investment analyst in the insurance industry. He was named Vice President - Investments at Paul Revere Life Insurance Company in 1972.

In 1978, Mr. Delucca became Vice President and Treasurer of Avco Corporation and continued in the same position when it was acquired by Textron.  In 1986, he joined International Controls Corporation as Senior Vice President - Finance and Chief Financial Officer.  Two years later, he joined Trump Group as Senior Vice President of Finance and Managing Director.

Mr. Delucca received a BA in Business Administration from Bloomfield College, and MBA Cum Laude in Finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University.  While at Bloomfield, he was president of the sophomore and junior class as well as president of Tau Alpha Kappa fraternity and Fraternity Editor of the Minuteman, the college newspaper.  He was previously Lecturer in the MBA Program at Fordham University Graduate School of Business and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the MBA Program at the Seton Hall University School of Business Administration.

Mr. Delucca has served on many different corporate boards of directors and currently is on the Endo Pharmaceuticals board and Chairman of the Audit Committee, Elster Group board of directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee, and on the Elliot Company board of directors as Chairman of the Audit Committee.

He was previously on the Columbus Hospital Foundation as a trustee for over 10 years, and is currently on the Southern Ocean Medical Center Foundation's Corporate and Foundations Gifts Committee.

Mr. Delucca has been a Trustee since 1995 and serves on the Executive Committee, the Audit Committee, the Compensation Committee, and the Committee on Development, Public Affairs and Trusteeship.  He is also President of the Bloomfield College Alumni Association.

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Stephen A. Glasser, Vice Chair

Chairman, Sandpiper Partners, LLC

Former Co-President, Glasser LegalWorks, a Thomson Business

Stephen A. Glasser is Chairman of Sandpiper Partners, LLC, a consulting firm.  He is the former Co-President of Glasser LegalWorks, a media company specializing in the innovative delivery of information in the legal/business fields.  In February 2004, Glasser LegalWorks was acquired by Thomson/West (now Thomson Reuters).  Mr. Glasser formerly was Co-President of Prentice Hall Law & Business, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc.  He was Founder, Co-Publisher and Editor of Legal Times of Washington and Executive Vice President and Executive Editor of The New York Law Journal.  He has authored numerous articles about legal practice, law firm economics, and legal developments for both trade and general interest publications.

Mr. Glasser earned his B.A. cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Colgate University and J.D. from University of Michigan Law School.  He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.  Mr. Glasser is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Hospice, Inc., and a former board member of the Mental Health Association of Essex County.

Mr. Glasser joined the Board in 1993 and was former Interim Chair of the Board.  He currently serves on the Executive Committee and the Financial Affairs and Capital Projects Committee, and is Co-Chair of the Committee on Development, Public Affairs and Trusteeship.

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Adrian A. Shelby, LL.D. (hon. ’98), Secretary

Former Vice-Chair, Community Foundation of New Jersey

Past President, Past Chair, Montclair Art Museum

Former Chair, Bloomfield College

Adrian Shelby is a former Chair of Bloomfield College Board of Trustees (2001-2004).  She is also a past President and past Chair of the Montclair Art Museum, and former Vice Chair of the Community Foundation of New Jersey.  She has long been active in the community and has served on the Junior League of Montclair-Newark and the Adult School in Montclair as a past President.  She is a former Director of the Alumnae Association of Smith College and served two terms on the Medal Committee.  Mrs. Shelby is a member of the Cosmopolitan Club in New York City and has been active on its Art Committee and Drama Committees.  In 1990, she earned a Master’s degree in French literature from Montclair State University.  Mrs. Shelby received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Bloomfield College in 1998.

Mrs. Shelby served on the Bloomfield College Board of Trustees from 1981 to 1998.  From 1992 to 1998, she served as Vice Chair of the Board; from 2000 to 2004, she served as Board Chair.  Mrs. Shelby serves on the College’s Compensation Committee and the Committee on Development, Public Affairs and Trusteeship.

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Renee Baldan-Selitto ’82

Chief Financial Officer – Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP

Renee Baldan-Selitto graduated magna cum laude in 1982 from Bloomfield College with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting. After graduating, she worked as a cost accounting analyst with Blue Cross/Blue Shield in Newark, NJ. In 1988, Ms. Selitto was hired as a senior manager of billing and finance by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett where she oversaw and directed all major aspects of the billing and finance department during a period in which billing activity and firm revenues more than doubled.

From 1999 to 2001, Ms. Selitto was employed by Deloitte & Touche as director of finance, creative tax services. Her responsibilities were to manage the finance department of Creative Tax Services within the tax department during a period in which its business doubled. She also designed and formulated financial analyses and presentations of financial data to assist management in increasing revenues and building eminence.

McCarter & English, the largest law firm in New Jersey, hired Ms. Selitto as its chief financial officer in 2001. For the next five years, she directed all aspects of the firm’s finance department, which included financial systems, escrow, new business intake and conflict checks. During her tenure at McCarter & English, she also oversaw the financial transition and lateral integration of boutique firms and/or groups of partners, associates and staff members who joined the firm.

Beginning in 2006, Ms. Selitto took her talents to the international law firm of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP as its CFO. Her duties include the day-to-day domestic and international financial operations of the firm with specific responsibilities for human resources, facilities and services, branch office management, library services, and information technology. She negotiates and reviews the firm’s insurance, lease and contract renewals for human resources, information technology, library services and travel services.

Ms. Selitto was elected to the Bloomfield College Board of Trustees in 2011.  She currently serves on the Audit Committee.

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Senior Wealth Planning Strategist, Northeast Region
Wells Fargo Private Bank

Hector Banegas is a Senior Vice President and Senior Wealth Strategist for the Northeast region of Wells Fargo Private Bank.  As part of the wealth planning group, Mr. Banegas works with high-net-worth clients to help develop customized wealth plans and implement solutions based on a thorough understanding of their personal values, asset growth and wealth transfer goals, and vision for their legacy.  Mr. Banegas has been in the financial services industry for 32 years.

Prior to joining Wells Fargo, he was a Regional Director with Wachovia Bank’s Retirement Services Group where he was responsible for providing law, accounting and other firms with investment and administrative services for employee benefit plans.  He has been with Wells Fargo since 1993.  Previously, he held various management and client advisory responsibilities at the Equitable/AXA Group and the Martin E. Segal Company.

Mr. Banegas’ current community involvement includes serving as a Trustee and President Emeritus of the Board of the Hispanic Business Council Scholarship Foundation of New Jersey; serving on the Advisory Board and Selection Committee of the Volunteer Center of Bergen County’s LEADS Program; and acting as a mentor for the Wealth Management and Amherst College mentoring programs.  He has supported Habitat for Humanity, the Latino Institute, the Girl Scouts of Bergen County, Reading First, the National Society of Hispanic MBAs, and various other philanthropic organizations.  Wells Fargo recognized him as a Diversity Champion and served a two-year term on its Wealth Management Diversity Council.

Mr. Banegas earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College, where he was also an Assistant Professor in the Romance Languages department.  He earned his Certified Trust and Financial Advisor (CFTA) designation from the Institute of Certified Banks and completed the Financial Planning Certificate Program at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Mr. Banegas was elected to the Bloomfield College Board of Trustees in 2012.  He currently serves on the Student Affairs Committee.

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Former Chief Operating Officer – Port Authority of NY/NJ

Ernesto L. Butcher, former Chief Operating Officer of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, has over 33 years of transportation experience.  Starting as a management trainee he progressed through the management ranks holding such positions as: General Manager of the George Washington Bridge; Manager of the Port Authority Bus Terminal; Assistant Director Operations, Tunnels, Bridges and Terminals; Deputy Director, General Services; Deputy Director of Interstate Transportation; and Director of Tunnels, Bridges and Terminals.  He also served as the Vice President of the Port Authority Trans Hudson (PATH).

Over the years, Mr. Butcher has taken an active role in community affairs.  He is currently a board member of JUMP (Joint Urban Manpower Program) in New York City.  For several years he served on the board of Aljira, an organization devoted to promoting aspiring artists.  He has also served as Board President of the Newark-based Tri-City Peoples Corporation – a multi-service organization focused on housing and human services.

Mr. Butcher is a member of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association and has served on the board.  He is also a member of the American Society for Public Administration.  He was formerly a member of the Civil Engineering Research Foundation and presented at their 2002 CAB Executive Conference.  Most recently he was a keynote speaker at the 6th Annual Association of Aeronautical Technicians in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Mr. Butcher, a native of Panama, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Hunter College.  After receiving his degree he spent two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea.  He received a Masters of Arts in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh.

Mr. Butcher joined the Board of Trustees in 2007 and serves on the Financial Affairs and Capital Projects Committee.  He received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the College in 2005.

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Fixed-Income Portfolio Manager, Tocqueville Asset Management LP

Nicholas Carlozzi, Ph.D., is Fixed-Income Portfolio Manager, Tocqueville Asset Management LP, New York, an investment firm with more than $7 billion of assets under management.  He specializes in developing and executing fixed-income investment strategies for individual and institutional clients.  Previously, he was a principal of Robert R. Meredith & Co., a registered broker/dealer, and director of fixed-income portfolio management for Ascent/Meredith Asset Management, a registered investment advisor.

Dr. Carlozzi began his career in 1978 as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, where he briefed senior managers and conducted research on issues in macroeconomics and international finance.  In 1983, he joined James J. Lowrey & Co., New York, where he served as Director of Research and a financial advisor to issuers of tax-exempt debt.  Before joining Meredith in 1996, he was a financial and management consultant, serving as Senior Executive in several start-up and turnaround situations.

Dr. Carlozzi is a member of the advisory board of the Salvation Army citadel in Montclair and a Trustee of the Nicholas H. and Margaret H. Carlozzi Charitable Foundation, Inc.  He received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.A. degree in Physics and Mathematical Economics from Denison University.  Dr. Carlozzi is a member of the American Economic Association and has served as a lecturer in international finance at the Wharton School.

Dr. Carlozzi joined the Board in 2004 and serves as Chair of the College’s Academic Affairs Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee and the Audit Committee.

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Carmen Amalia Corrales

Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Ms. Corrales is a partner of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, a leading international law firm with 16 offices located in major financial centers around the world.  Her practice focuses on corporate and sovereign transactions, including securities offerings by sovereign and corporate issuers and sovereign debt restructuring. Ms. Corrales has extensive experience in international finance transactions, including representing public and private issuers and underwriters in equity and debt offerings in international markets and in the legal structuring and documentation of derivative transactions and complex commercial bank lending transactions.

Ms. Corrales' corporate practice in Latin America is distinguished as one of the best in the region by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Chambers Latin America, The Best Lawyers in America and The Legal 500.

Ms. Corrales joined the firm in 1990 and became a partner in 1998. She received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Corrales is a member of the Academy of Political Science's Board of Directors.

Ms. Corrales is a member of the Committee for Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice.

Ms. Corrales is a member of the Bars in New York and New Jersey. Her native language is Spanish and she is fluent in English and Portuguese.

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Diana Drysdale

Vice President, Renewables

Vice President, PSEG Resources

President, PSEG Solar Source

Diana L. Drysdale was named Vice President - Renewables of PSEG Energy Holdings in January 2010. She is responsible for the strategic growth and operations of PSEG’s unregulated solar subsidiary.

Ms. Drysdale was named President of PSEG Solar Source in September 2011. She brings broad experience in the energy and utilities sector in both regulated and unregulated businesses in the US and Canada.  Since joining PSEG in May of 2008, Ms. Drysdale has worked developing the unregulated solar business which includes investment in three utility scale solar facilities to date making PSEG Solar Source a recognized leader in solar development in the U.S.

In April 2011, Ms. Drysdale was named Vice President of PSEG Resources, where she assumed responsibility for PSEG Resources’ real estate leveraged and operating lease portfolio including headquarters buildings, multi-tenant office buildings, shopping centers, and single stores located throughout the US.  She also assumed the lead of Resources’ environmental assets, primarily Demand Management Company (energy conservation assets).

Before joining PSEG, Ms. Drysdale led the Enterprise Risk Management efforts at Northeast Utilities where she delivered a highly effective integrated ERM framework for both the regulated and unregulated energy businesses.  She worked for seven years with ENMAX Corporation where she held the positions of VP of Strategy and Risk Management and VP and Treasurer.  At ENMAX she played a key role in the successful growth of the company which included a number of renewable energy endeavors.  Ms. Drysdale also worked for TransAlta Corporation for seven years in various engineering and management roles which included significant experience with the company’s generation plants.

Ms. Drysdale holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Calgary in Alberta Canada; an MBA from Queen's School of Business in Ontario Canada; and has completed the Finance for Senior Executives program from Harvard Business School.  Since 1993 she has been a licensed professional engineer with the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta.  She has served on several boards in both the US and Canada and has been a member of the Bloomfield College Board of Trustees in New Jersey since 2008.

Ms. Drysdale became a Trustee in 2009 and serves on the Academic Affairs Committee and the Committee on International Training and Professional Studies.

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Vernon M. Endo

Former CEO and Board Member, RAM Holdings Ltd.

Vernon M. Endo is the former Chief Executive Officer and board member of RAM Holdings Ltd. and RAM Reinsurance Company Ltd., Bermuda based companies, where he served for seven years.  Mr. Endo joined RAM from GFGC LLC, a start-up venture formed to establish a European-based financial guaranty company, where he was CEO and cofounder.   Prior to GFGC, Mr. Endo was a managing director and board member of FGIC, a financial guaranty insurance company based in New York.  Earlier in his career he was a managing director responsible for the Mortgage Finance unit and a member of the Financial Institutions Group at Prudential Securities.  He began his career at Citibank.

Mr. Endo attended Williams College where he earned a B.A. in political science.

Mr. Endo was elected to the Board in 2010 and serves on the Audit Committee and the Committee on Enrollment Management.

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Patricia A. Etzold

Advisory Services Partner, International Investigation and Litigation, PricewaterhouseCoopers

Patricia A. Etzold is a Partner in the New York office of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Investigation and Securities Litigation practice.  She provides specialized advisory services to boards of directors, audit committees, and internal and external counsel of multi-national companies.  Her expertise is in international forensic financial fraud and corruption investigations and remediation programs.  She has assisted the US Department of Justice in their prosecution of certain matters and has assisted counsel in their response to informal and formal Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice inquiries.

Ms. Etzold has provided accounting expertise and litigation consulting services to clients in the automotive, technology, pharmaceutical, communication and industrial product industries. She has assisted clients and their counsel respond to formal and informal Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice inquiries.  She has investigated financial statement frauds, employee embezzlements, foreign corrupt practices, and has developed remedial corporate governance and anti-bribery compliance programs for multi-national clients in food retail, pharmaceutical, medical device, electronics, and engineering industries.

Ms. Etzold brings over 20 years of accounting and global business experience to her clients.  She is a regular speaker on forensic financial investigative and remedial topics and has trained Compliance and Internal Audit executives.  Ms. Etzold leads the Securities Litigation Research team at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and is a co-author of the Firm's annual Study.  She is a Certified Public Accountant in New York and New Jersey and is certified in financial forensics by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). Ms. Etzold holds a Bachelor of Science degree from King’s College.

Ms. Etzold joined the Board in 2010 and serves on the Audit Committee and the Student Affairs Committee.

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Emer D. Featherstone

Owner, River Meadow Associates

Community Leader

Emer Featherstone is the owner of River Meadow Associates, a financial services firm that provides financial organization, portfolio management, bookkeeping, tax preparation and other such services to business, private and non-profit clients.

Ms. Featherstone currently serves as a board member of the Van Vleck House & Gardens (Montclair) and Partners for Health Foundation (Montclair).  She has been President of the Junior League of Montclair/Newark where she effected the merger of the two separate League organizations.  She has been a member of the fund-raising committees of the Hope Tree Foundation, Down Syndrome Society, Mountainside Hospital, New Jersey Chamber Music Society, and the Center for Hospice Care.  She has been a board member of the Montclair Foundation, Youth Consultation Service; Montclair Urban Coalition, Budget Division of the North Essex United Way, Senior Care & Activities Center, and the Mayor’s Committee on the Environment.

Featherstone is a graduate of Loreto Abbey, Rathfarnham, Dublin, and Loreto College, Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland.

Ms. Featherstone has been a Trustee since 2001 and serves as Chair of the Audit Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee and the Committee on Enrollment Management.

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Dorothea Benton Frank, D.F.A. (hon. ’11)

Author and Community Leader

Dorothea Benton Frank is the New York Times best-selling author of Lowcountry Summer (William Morrow 2010),  Return to Sullivan’s Island (William Morrow 2009), Bulls Island (William Morrow 2008), The Land Of Mango Sunsets (William Morrow 2007), The Christmas Pearl (William Morrow 2007), Full Of Grace (William Morrow 2006), Pawleys Island (Berkley 2005), Shem Creek (Berkley 2004), Isle Of Palms (Berkley 2003), Plantation (Jove 2001) and Sullivan’s Island (Jove 2000).

More than her prolific ability to create best-selling novels is her charitable spirit and desire to give of her time and talents to her community and those organizations for which she has a passionate interest. She has shared her love of the creative arts with students of all ages in venues such as the National Arts Club, the Junior League of New York, the Friends of the Library organizations, and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. She has also been a guest speaker at the South Carolina Book Festival, Novello, North Carolina's festival of books, and the Book and Author annual event in Charleston, SC, sponsored by the Post & Courier. She also previously served on the board of the South Carolina Coastal Conservation League.

Before she began her writing career, Mrs. Frank was involved extensively in the arts and education and in raising awareness and funding for various nonprofits in New Jersey and New York. At the present time she serves on the boards of the Montclair International Film Festival, South Carolina Coastal Conservation League and the South Carolina Historical Society. She has served as a trustee for several boards including Music Theater Group NY; The Mental Health Association of Essex County, New Jersey; and The Community Foundation of New Jersey. In 1991, she was appointed to the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and was a long-time member of the board for the Montclair Art Museum. She has been nationally recognized as a public speaker on fundraising and ADA compliance for the National Endowment for the Arts and the Arts Access Task Force.

As a volunteer fundraiser, she has planned events for Bloomfield College, The Montclair Kimberley Academy, Unity Concerts, Papermill Playhouse, Overseas Neighbors, Young Presidents' Organization and The National Governors Association.

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James R. Gillen

Member, Board of Trustees,
New Jersey Symphony and the New Jersey Ballet
Former General Counsel, Prudential Insurance Company of America

James R. Gillen is the former General Counsel of Prudential Insurance Company of America.  From 1959 to 1962, Gillen served in the United States Navy reaching the rank of Lt.jg and was discharged in 1965.

Mr. Gillen was an associate in the New York City law firm of White & Case.  In 1972, he joined the Prudential Insurance Company as Vice President and Associate General Counsel where he had the responsibility of managing legal services to the investment area of the company.  He subsequently became Senior Vice President and General Counsel.  Throughout his years at Prudential, Gillen served in the capacity as Senior Vice President of the Public Affairs Department; Chairman of the Prudential Foundation; and member of the Board of Trustees.  He retired from Prudential in 1997 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel.

Mr. Gillen has been active in many civic organizations including the United Way of Essex and West Hudson; New York Stock Exchange Legal Advisory Committee; ALI-ABA Advisory Committee for Restating the Prudent Man Rule; American Bar Association Corporate Counsel Committee; Conference Board of Chief Legal Officers; Advisory Board of Columbia Law School Institutional Investors Project.  He was also a member of the Board of the Mendham Township Library; the Mendham Township Board of Education; the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival; and the Neurological Institute of New Jersey.  He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the New Jersey Symphony and the New Jersey Ballet.  He is a member of the Morris County Golf Club and the Harvard Club of New York.

Mr. Gillen is a graduate of Harvard College; A.B., 1959; and Harvard Law School, J.D., 1965.  Mr. Gillen was elected to the Board in 2008 and serves on the Student Affairs Committee.

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Carolyn Roberson Glynn ’69

Retired Vice President
Public Affairs and Member of the North American Executive Committee, Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.

Carolyn Roberson Glynn joined Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. in 1969 and remained with the Swiss-based healthcare company until her retirement in 2009.  During her 40-year career, she served in such leadership positions as Director of Public Relations, Vice President and Director of Public Policy and Communications, and Vice President of Public Affairs, which included Roche’s Federal Government Affairs Office in Washington, D.C.  She retired as Vice President, Public Affairs and member of the North American Executive Committee.

Ms. Glynn is currently a member of the Executive Women of New Jersey and the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association.  She previously served as a Board member of the Public Affairs Council, the National Council on Patient Information and Education, and the Institute for Public Relations Research and Education.  An Executive Board member and chair of the New Jersey Health Products Council, Ms. Glynn was a founding member and Trustee of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey.  She also led numerous initiatives in her capacity as chair of the Public Affairs Section and Board Member Liaison of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the national trade organization for the pharmaceutical industry.

Ms. Glynn recently served on the Board and Executive Committee of the DC Rape Crisis Center, located in Washington, D.C.  An elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Caldwell, Ms. Glynn has held Board positions with the Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, and the Association for Retarded Citizens of Essex County.

Ms. Glynn graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Sociology from Bloomfield College.  She joined the Board in 2010 and serves on the College’s Committee on Development, Public Affairs and Trusteeship and the Student Affairs Committee.

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Maureen C. Grant

Former Senior Vice President and Acting President,
Marymount Manhattan College

Maureen C. Grant is a part-time member of the faculty at Marymount Manhattan College, where she also served as Senior Vice President and Acting President.  From 1989-1997, Dr. Grant was Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at Bloomfield College.  Prior to joining the Bloomfield College community, Dr. Grant served as Academic Dean, Associate Academic Dean, Director of Arts and Science, and Associate Professor of English at Felician College.  Before that, she was Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at the College of Saint Elizabeth.

Dr. Grant participated in the Visiting Scholar Program at Wolfson College of Cambridge University in Cambridge, England, during the fall of 1995 and the spring of 2005.  She also was appointed Visiting Scholar with the Faculty of History of Cambridge University.  Dr. Grant holds a B.A. in English and Philosophy from Marymount Manhattan College, an M.A. in English Literature from St. John’s University, and a Ph.D. in Nineteenth Century Studies from Drew University.  In 1997, she received the Bloomfield College President’s Medal.

Dr. Grant was elected to the Board in 1999 and serves as Chair of the Student Affairs Committee and as a member of the Executive Committee, the Academic Affairs Committee, the Compensation Committee, and the Committee on International Training and Professional Studies.

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Rosemary T. Iversen

Community Leader and Businesswoman

Rosemary T. Iversen is President of Iversen Apartments.  From 1963-73, she was a teacher of ESL/Spanish and English.  As a leader in the community, Ms. Iversen has served as a board member of Unity Concerts, Essex Arts Council, YWCA Montclair, and most recently, Luna Stage.  She is a past president of Whole Theatre.  Ms. Iversen currently serves on the John J. Cali School of Music Board of Advisors at Montclair State University, the Foundation Board of BlueWaveNJ, the President’s Council of National Breast Cancer Coalition, and the Montclair Public Library Foundation Board.

Ms. Iversen has served on the Bloomfield College Board of Trustees since 1991 and is a former Board Secretary.  She was Co-Chair of the Steering Committee for the College’s 125th anniversary celebration.  She serves as Co-Chair of the Committee on Development, Public Affairs and Trusteeship.  Ms. Iversen received her B.A. from the College of St. Elizabeth.

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Nancy L. Lane

Former Vice President, Government Affairs, Johnson & Johnson

Nancy Lane served for twenty-five years with Johnson & Johnson in key positions at an operating division of the corporation and, also, at their corporate headquarters.  Her career also includes heading MBA and Executive Recruitment at the Chase Manhattan Bank, a position with an international student organization in The Netherlands and serving as Deputy Director of Human Resources for the National Urban League.

While an undergraduate she studied at the University of Oslo, received her B.S. from Boston University and an M.P.A. from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of International Affairs.  In 1975 she completed the Program for Management Development at the Harvard Business School.  When she retired from Johnson & Johnson she completed a graduate program in art history.

Her volunteer activities include serving as President of the Harvard Business School (Alumni) Club of Greater New York, Secretary of the (worldwide) Harvard Business School Alumni Board and for six years as a member of the Board of Governors of Rutgers University.  She has been the Chair of the Board of Trustees at Bennett College (NC), a trustee at Wilson College (PA) and Vice-Chair of A Better Chance.  Currently she is on the Board of Directors of The Studio Museum in Harlem, an overseer at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Co-Chair of The Stieglitz Society at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Her alma mater awarded her their highest honor, the Boston University Distinguished Alumni Award.

Ms. Lane joined the Board in 2004 and serves on the Academic Affairs Committee and the Committee on Development, Public Affairs and Trusteeship.

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Richard C. Larsen ’66, CFA

Former Partner and Research Analyst, Equity Investments-Large Cap Value, Lord Abbett

Richard Larsen recently retired as Partner for Lord Abbett’s Equity Investments, Large Cap value team specializing in the food, beverage, tobacco, retail and utilities industries.

Mr. Larsen, who has 35 years of experience in the financial services industry, joined Lord Abbett in 1984.  Prior to joining Lord Abbett, Larsen was a Limited Partner and Analyst in the consumer sector at First Manhattan Company. Before that, he was an Investment Officer at Chemical Bank.

Throughout his long career, Larsen has been a knowledgeable analyst and shareholder in a broad range of companies including Altria; Anheuser-Busch, Archer Daniel Midland; Avon Products; Coca-Cola; Colgate-Palmolive; ConAgra Foods; the Clorox Company; Campbell Soup Company; CVS; Diageo; Estee Lauder; Fortune Brands; FPL Group; Gap, Inc.; General Mills; Gillette; Heinz Company; The Hershey Company; IFF: Kellogg Company; Kimberly-Clark; Kraft Foods; Kroger; Nestle; Newell Rubbermaid; PepsiCo; PG&E Corporation; PPL Corporation; Proctor & Gamble; Progress Energy; Southern Company; VF Corporation; Wal-Mart; and William Wrigley Company.

Mr. Larsen has served as Chair of the Program Committee of the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA); and President of the Consumer Analyst Group of New York (CAGNY).  He is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD).

Mr. Larsen earned a BA in Business Administration from Bloomfield College and an MBA in Finance from Rutgers, The State University.  Mr. Larsen was elected to the Board in 2009 and serves on the Committee on Development, Public Affairs and Trusteeship, and the Students Affairs Committee.

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Richard A. Pollack, LL.D. (hon. ’99)

Former President, Weiss Pollack Capital Management, Inc.
Former Chair, Bloomfield College

Richard A. Pollack is retired as President of Weiss Pollack Capital Management, Inc., which specialized in stock-oriented portfolio management for individuals, families, and ERISA plans.  Prior to that, he served as a General Partner of Steinhardt Management Company, a highly successful private investment firm.  He has also served as Executive Vice President for Loeb, Rhoades and Company, Director of New Jersey Life, and Executive Vice President in charge of the Financial Services Group at Shearson American Express (now Salomon Smith Barney).

Mr. Pollack received an AB in Philosophy, magna cum laude, from Brown University in 1953 and an MBA with high distinction (Finance concentration), from Harvard Business School in 1955.  He then served two years as a Lieutenant in the United States Army Finance Corps before entering the business world.  Mr. Pollack has had a long affiliation with the United Jewish Federation and the Community Foundation of MetroWest, where he has headed their Investment Committee and several fund drive activities.  He also served on their Board of Trustees.  In addition, Pollack currently serves on the Operations and Finance Committee of the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC).

Mr. Pollack was elected to the Bloomfield College Board of Trustees in 1990, and served as Chairman from 1991 until 1999.  He currently serves on the Financial Affairs and Capital Projects Committee.

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Sanford B. Prater

Managing Partner, Ridgecrest Partners

Mr. Prater is managing partner of Ridgecrest Partners, a major hedge fund.  He is former senior partner and general portfolio manager with Ardsley Partners.  Prior to Ardsley Partners, he was with Oppenheimer and Company where he served in various capacities including president of Oppenheimer Investment Advisors, co-chairman  of Oppenheimer’s Investment Policy Committee, and manager of Catalyst Partners, a private investment limited partnership.

Mr. Prater received a B.A. in international relations from the University of Virginia.  He currently serves on the board of the Richard Tucker Music Foundation, New Alternatives for Children, and the Clairoan Foundation.  He has served on the boards of the McCallie School, the New Jersey Chamber Music Society, Lees-McRae College, Mid-American Lines, Allen Freight Lines, and Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, as well as serving on the Diaconate of the Congregational Church of New Caanan, Connecticut and Montclair, New Jersey.

Mr. Prater was elected to the Bloomfield College Board of Trustees in 2009.  He is Chair of the Financial Affairs and Capital Projects Committee, and serves on the Executive Committee and the Investment Sub-Committee.

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Glenn M. Reiter

Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Glenn Reiter is a partner of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, an international law firm headquartered in New York City. He advises clients on a broad range of corporate transactions. He represents U.S. and non-U.S. corporations, government-related entities and leading investment banks in equity offerings, debt offerings, liability management transactions, and merger and acquisition transactions.

Mr. Reiter joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in 1978 and became a partner in 1984.

Mr. Reiter received a B.A. degree, summa cum laude, from Yale University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received a J.D. degree from Yale law School, where he was Note Editor of the Yale Law Journal. He served as a law clerk to The Honorable Arlin M. Adams, United States Court of Appeals, Third District.

Mr. Reiter is a member of the Bar of the States of New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey and the District of Columbia. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the International Bar Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

Mr. Reiter currently is a member of the boards of trustees of the Kessler Foundation, a public charity dedicated to improving the lives of persons with disabilities, and the Montclair Foundation, a charity that supports non-profit organizations in the Montclair, NJ area and also oversees the Van Vleck House and Gardens in that town.  He is also Vice Chair of the Yale Law School Fund, the development advisory board of Yale Law School.

Mr. Reiter was elected to the Bloomfield College Board of Trustees in 2011. He serves on the Academic Affairs Committee.

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Hannah Richman

Director, Friends of TEAM

Hannah Richman is the Founder and Director of Friends of TEAM Schools, which supports TEAM Charter Schools through real estate development. TEAM Charter Schools is a growing network of KIPP charter schools that offers a free, college preparatory education to over 1,300 randomly selected students in four schools in Newark, New Jersey. For Friends of TEAM, Hannah is responsible for board development, as well as leasing, acquiring, financing, renovating, and constructing facilities. Prior to Friends of TEAM, she served as CFO and Development Director for TEAM. Before joining TEAM, she served as the Director for Charter School Development in the Massachusetts Department of Education’s Charter Schools Office, where she authored a revised charter school application, managed the charter application process, and worked to assist the startup of successful charter schools throughout Massachusetts. After that, Hannah obtained her Master’s Degree in Public Administration from New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service, where she worked as a Research Assistant for Professors and education experts, Diane Ravitch and Joseph P. Viteritti.

Hannah received her BA from Oberlin College, and served as a member of their Board of Trustees from 1995-1998. She is a graduate of Leadership Newark. She currently serves on the Oberlin College President’s Advisory Council.  She joined the Bloomfield College Board of Trustees in 2009 and serves on the Committee on Development, Public Affairs and Trusteeship.

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Steven M. Rose

President, Passaic County Community College

In addition to serving as President of Passaic County Community College, Dr. Rose serves in the capacity as adjunct professor at Rowan University in the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership.  He is an officer of the New Jersey Presidents’ Council, the New Jersey Association of Colleges and Universities, the United Way of Passaic County and the Passaic County Community College Foundation.

Dr. Rose is a board member of the Greater Paterson Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Paterson Opportunities Industrialization Center, the Passaic County Workforce Investment Board, and the College of Saint Elizabeth.  He previously served on the Boards of the Greater Newark Alliance for Minority Participation, Barnert Hospital, and the North Jersey Partners Wired Grant.  Dr. Rose previously held the positions of Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty at Passaic County Community College and Director of Admissions at Wagner College.

Dr. Rose is a graduate of Muhlenberg College with a BA in Political Science, holds a Master of Education degree from the University of Vermont, and has a Doctor of Education degree from Rutgers, the State University.  Dr. Rose became a Trustee in 2009 and serves on the Committee on Enrollment Management.

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Anne Moreau Thomas

Former Owner and Corporate Board Chairman,
Hunterdon County Democrat, Inc.

Anne Moreau Thomas is the former owner and Corporate Board Chairman of the Hunterdon County Democrat, Inc.  Prior to that, she was the newspaper’s Home & Food Editor and a columnist.  She is the former Chair of the Rutgers Board of Trustees and Board of Governors, and is a member of the Foundation Board of Overseers.  Other volunteer activities include trusteeship with the Hunterdon Healthcare System; Hunterdon Medical Center Foundation; Flemington Free Public Library, where she also serves as President; Prospect Hill Cemetery, where she is also Vice President; and the George K. Large Foundation.  She is also an Elder with the Flemington Presbyterian Church.

Ms. Thomas is a former member of the NJ Commission on Higher Education and the NJ Press Association, for which she served as President and Board Chairman.  She holds an A.B. from Middlebury College, and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Rutgers University and Honorary Associate of Arts Degree from Raritan Valley Community College.  Ms. Thomas has been a Trustee since 2005 and serves on the Executive Committee and is Chair of the Committee on Enrollment Management.

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William H. Turner, III

Senior Advisor, Opera Solutions

William Turner has had successful careers in both Banking and Education.  For over 34 years, he was associated with Chase Bank and its predecessor, Chemical Bank, serving in many capacities including Senior Vice President of the International Division-Middle East & Africa; Chief Administrative Officer of the Corporate Banking Division; Executive Vice President and head of the Retail Banking Division, and Vice Chairman and Director of the Corporation, responsible for Chemical’s regional banking.  After Chemical Bank merged with Chase Manhattan Bank, he assumed the position of Vice Chairman of that institution. He later served as President and & Co-CEO of Franklin Electronic Publishers, and President and CEO of PNC Bank, NJ.

On the education front, Mr. Turner served as Adjunct Professor in numerous institutions including, Queens College, Stony Brook University, Montclair State University, Bilforst University in Iceland, and FH Joanneum University in Graz, Austria.

After retiring from banking, Mr. Turner was the Founding Dean of the College of Business at Stony Brook University and later assumed the role of Acting Dean of the Business School at Montclair State University.  In addition, for over 35 years, he has served on the board of International College of Beirut, including the role of Chairman for the past 25 years.

He presently serves as Senior Advisor for Opera Solutions, a multi-national management consulting company.

Active in his community, Mr. Turner has served as Chairman of the Atlantic Health System; Chairman of New Jersey Network, President of the Montclair Art Museum, as well as a Councilman in Montclair, NJ.  He has also served as a Trustee of Trinity College and the Southern Vermont Art Center. In the business world, he has served as Director of the following NYSE companies; Franklin Electronic Publishers, Inc., Standard Motor Products, Inc., Volt Information Sciences, Inc., New Jersey Resources, Inc., Ameriprise Financial, Inc., Chemical Bank, and the Grow Group.

Mr. Turner received a BA from Trinity College in 1962 and a MBA from New York University in 1966.  He also has attended the Aspen Institute and completed the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Business School.  Mr. Turner joined the Bloomfield College Board of Trustees in 2011 and serves on the Academic Affairs Committee and the Committee on Enrollment Management.

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Hank Uberoi

Managing Partner, HU Investments LLC

Hank Uberoi is currently an investor in private and public companies globally. He is a Director of several companies and organizations in the US, UK and India. His primary focus is on companies related to Investments, Cross-Border transactions, Trading, other financial and technology, with a significant emerging markets focus. He has previously served on the Board of a NYSE listed company.

In November 2006 he was appointed as the Chairman of the Technology Governing Board for the State of New Jersey, a role he served until 2008. Until April 2004 he was the Chief Operating Officer and head of the Equities Long/Short Business at Citadel Investment Group in Chicago where he was on the Management Committee of the firm. Hank joined Citadel in 2002 from Goldman Sachs, where he spent 14 years, most recently as a partner and co-COO of the Technology Division. While at Goldman, he spent 5 years in London and served on several firm-wide governance boards, including the firm’s Compensation Committee. He graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts with a BA, Magna Cum Laude in 1985, where he was a Haystack Scholar and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Mr. Uberoi became a Trustee in 2002 and serves on the Executive Committee, as Chair of the Committee on International Training and Professional Studies, Chair of the Investment Sub-Committee, and is a member of the Financial Affairs and Capital Projects Committee.

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Nancy Van Duyne

Vice President, Congressional Affairs, United Airlines

Nancy Van Duyne currently serves with United Airlines as Vice President for Congressional Affairs based in Washington DC.  Formerly she served as Vice President of Congressional Affairs for Continental Airlines, and Director of Federal Legislation for the trade association that represents the major U.S. airlines.  Prior to this position, she worked in the Government and Community Affairs department for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and in the Washington Office of US Senator Bill Bradley (D/NJ).

Born and raised in Summit, New Jersey, Ms. Van Duyne is a past member of the Board of Trustees of the Bay Head Yacht Club and Executive Committee of the Society of Alumni for Williams College.  She currently serves as an associate Class Agent for the Class of 1980/Williams College, and as a Member of the Executive Committee for the Capital Campaign at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School, Washington DC.  She is a 1980 graduate of Williams College where she received her B.A.  She is also a 1986 graduate of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs and Leadership.

Ms. Van Duyne became a Trustee in 2004 and serves on the Committee on Development, Public Affairs and Trusteeship and the Committee on International Training and Professional Studies.

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Joel M. Weiner ’66

Attorney-at-Law

President and CEO of PTS Inc.

Joel Weiner practices law in Illinois as well as Federal Courts with concentration in Securities Arbitrations, Wills and Trusts, Probate, Family Law, Criminal Law, Residential Real Estate and General Law.  He is a member of the United States Supreme Court Bar and the Illinois State Bar.

Mr. Weiner also serves as President and CEO of PTS Inc., a Certified Provider for insurance pre-licensing and insurance education, as well as a FINRA securities and preparation courses, sales training, Certified Financial Planner® continuing education, ethics programs for financial services professionals and money management services for institutions.

His professional designations include Certified Financial Planner, Chartered Financial Consultant, Chartered Life Underwriter, and Certified Fund Specialist.

Mr. Weiner’s educational credentials include degrees of Bachelor of Arts from Bloomfield College as well as Master of Science and Doctor of Jurisprudence degrees from the University of Baltimore.

During his many years as a sales/management professional, Mr. Weiner has developed market strategies and sales training programs for investment and insurance companies, as well as for financial institutions.  He also appeared as a guest speaker for public seminars promoting elder financial abuse, financial planning investing and wealth accumulation including retirement and estate planning concepts.  Considered as a source of financial services information, publications such as USA Today, CNA Magazine, Smart Money, Claims People, Hartford On-Line, the Dow Jones Investment Advisor, Investment Advisor, Chicago Tribune, Ladies Home Journal, Today’s Chicago Woman, ABC News, and the Journal of Financial Planning.

Some of his published works include Senior Suitability, Marketing of Annuities, Estate Planning, Retirement Planning, Partnership Long-Term Care, Financial Planning Concepts, Selling Annuities and Mutual Funds, Variable Insurance Products, Universal Life Insurance Products, Business Insurance Concepts, Group Insurance, Flood Insurance, Key Employee Insurance, 401(k) Plans, Medicare, Protecting Small Businesses, Tax Issues for Financial Professionals, Equity Index Annuities, Managed Money, Investment Advisers, Alternative Dispute Alternatives and Workers Compensation.

Mr. Weiner was elected to the Board in 2009 and serves on the Committee on International Training and Professional Studies.

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Richard A. Levao

President, Bloomfield College

Richard A. Levao has served as President of Bloomfield College since June, 2003.  Before coming to Bloomfield, he practiced law for 29 years and was a partner at the national law firm Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP.

Active in community affairs and New Jersey higher education, Levao has served 25 years as a member of the Rutgers University Board of Trustees and Board of Governors, including three years as Chair of the Board of Trustees (1991-1994) and two years as Chair of the Board of Governors (1998-2000).  He has also served as an adjunct member of the faculties of The Cornell Law School, Rutgers University and Bloomfield College.

He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities.  He has served on the New Jersey State Opera Board and the Mountainside Health Foundation Board.  He also served on the Board of Trustees of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the Executive Committees of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities and the New Jersey Council on the Humanities, the state’s affiliate to the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Mr. Levao received an A.B. with High Distinction in Political Science from Rutgers College.  He earned a Juris Doctor with Specialization in International Affairs from The Cornell Law School.  In 2000, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Rutgers University for his professional achievements and for his outstanding service to the institution; in 2006, an honorary doctorate from Universidad Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, in Peru; in 2009, an honorary doctorate from Universitate Transilvania din Brasov, in Romania; and in 2011, an honorary doctorate from Jeonju University, in Korea.

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