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Board of Trustees

The University’s current voting and emeritus trustees.

Members of the Board of Trustees

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

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Chair of the Board of Trustees

Chris Boehning ’87, ’88 (MS) is the chair of the University's Board of Trustees and partner at the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York City. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science and master’s degree in public policy analysis. Boehning was elected to the Rochester Board of Trustees in 2017 and was appointed board chair in 2025.

Voting members
  • Joseph W. Abrams
    Board Member, Marin Health

  • Quincy L. Allen
    Former Chief Marketing Officer
    IBM

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

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

  • Douglas Bennett
    Co-founder, Phalanx Impact Partners

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

  • Chris Boehning (Chair)
    Partner
    Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

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

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

  • Patrick Cunningham
    Former CEO
    Manning & Napier Advisors

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

  • David R. Greenbaum
    Vice Chairman
    Vornado Realty Trust

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

  • Dawne S. Hickton
    CEO
    Cumberland Additive, Inc.

  • Elina V. Ianchulev
    Chief Outcome Officer
    RemoniHealth

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

  • Curtis J. Johnson
    Former Managing Director
    The Carlyle Group

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

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

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

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

  • Sarah C. Mangelsdorf, Ph.D.
    President and G. Robert Witmer, Jr. University Professor
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  • Cathy E. Minehan
    Former President and CEO
    Federal Reserve Bank of Boston,
    and Former Dean of the
    School of Management, Simmons College

  • Sara E. Nainzadeh
    Director of Research
    TOMS Capital Investment Management

  • Naveen Nataraj
    Senior Managing Director
    Evercore

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

  • Kenneth Ouriel
    Former Chief Medical Officer
    NAMSA

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

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

  • Akbar Rafiq
    Chief Investment Officer
    Fidera Vecta

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

  • Meredith Rowe
    Saul Zaentz Professor of Early Learning and Development
    Harvard University Graduate School of Business

  • Daniel Sabbah
    Former Chief Technology Officer and General Manager
    IBM
    Senior Advisor
    Bridge Growth Partners LLC and Demand Discovery Group LLC

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

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

  • Tyler Zachem
    CEO and Founder
    Broad Sky Partners

  • Alan S. Zekelman
    Director
    Zekelman Industries, Inc.

Emeritus members

  • Aab, Richard T.

  • Aman, Alfred C., Jr.

  • Ascher, Everett S.

  • Batkin, Alan R.

  • Beckman, Joel S.

  • Bergman, Naomi M.

  • Bloch, Laurence H.

  • Blumstein, Sheila E.

  • Brownlee, Paula P.

  • Bruning, John H. Ph.D.

  • Burns, Ursula M.

  • Carpenter, William M.

  • Chesonis, Arunas

  • Colodny, Edwin I.

  • Crockett, Bruce L.

  • Cushman, Jeanine Sullivan

  • Davidson, Carol (John) A.

  • Drummond, Launcelot F.

  • Ferrari, Bernard T.

  • Friedlander, Roger B.

  • Gabrellian, Ani N.

  • Gardner, Jerry

  • Gelband, Myra

  • Gifford, Bernard R.

  • Greene, Gwen M.

  • Goergen, Robert B.

  • Handler, Richard B.

  • Hajim, Edmund A.

  • Hilfiker, Alan F.

  • Jackson, Thomas H.

  • Jones, Michael E.

  • Karp, Carol D.

  • Keegan, Robert J.

  • Kelly, John M.

  • Kessler, Laurence

  • Knight, Ronald B.

  • Lange, Louis G., M.D.

  • LeChase, R. Wayne

  • Lione, Gail A.

  • Mack, Joseph P.

  • Manian, Bala S.

  • Messinger, Martin E.

  • Meyer, Barry M.

  • Miller, Edward D., M.D.

  • Moser, Nathan F.

  • Moses, Bruce H.

  • Munnerlyn, Charles R.

  • Murray, Kathleen A.

  • O'Brien, Dennis

  • Osieski, Robert M.

  • Price, Francis L.

  • Prince, Brian F.

  • Prokupets, Elena A.

  • Rea, C. Woodrow, Jr.

  • Rettner, Ronald M.

  • Richards, Thomas S.

  • Richardson, Arthur M.

  • Rosen, Michael S.

  • Sands, Richard

  • Saunders, E. Philip

  • Sloan, Thomas R.

  • Standish, Peter D.

  • Stark, Raymond C.

  • Wegman, Daniel R.

  • Wentworth, Timothy C.

  • Whitney, Ralph R., Jr.

  • Wilmot, Thomas C.

  • Willett, Janice M.

  • Winters, Mary-Frances

  • Wisch, Nathaniel, M.D.

Contact Board Services

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

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

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