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Board of Trustees
Trustee Roster
(as of January 24, 2013)
Ronald D. Abramson WSC ’71
Shareholder
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC
Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak
Chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority
Government of Abu Dhabi
Ralph Alexander NYU-Poly '77, '78
Managing Director
Riverstone
Phyllis Putter Barasch STERN ’81
Maria Bartiromo * WSC ’89
Anchor
CNBC Business News
Marc H. Bell SCPS ’89
Marc Bell Capital Partners, LLC
William R. Berkley STERN ’66
Chairman of the Board & Chief Executive Officer
W.R. Berkley Corporation
Casey Box ** GALL ’09, WAG ’11
Associate Director
Land is Life
Bill Brewer LAW ‘78
Managing Partner
Bickel & Brewer
Daniel J. Brodsky * WAG ’70
Partner
The Brodsky Organization
Heather Cannady ** CAS ’04
Associate
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Sharon Chang **STEINHARDT '95, TSOA '98
Managing Trustee
TTSL Charitable Foundation
Founder
Yoxi
Evan R. Chesler ARTS ’70, LAW ’75
Presiding Partner
Cravath, Swain & Moore LLP
William T. Comfort, III ** LAW '94, '99
Principal
Conversion Capital Partners Limited
Michael R. Cunningham * SCPS ’95, STEINHARDT ’05
Retired Group Chief Executive Officer
Diversified Global Graphics Group
Florence A. Davis LAW ’79
President
The Starr Foundation
Barry Diller
Chairman and Senior Executive
IAC/InterActiveCorp.
Gale Drukier * STEINHARDT '72
Joel S. Ehrenkranz LAW ’61, ’63
Senior Partner
Ehrenkranz & Ehrenkranz, LLP
Laurence D. Fink
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
BlackRock, Inc.
Mark Fung * CAS ‘91
General Counsel
Dandong Port Company
Jay M. Furman STERN ’65, LAW ’71
Principal
RD Management Corporation
H. Dale Hemmerdinger WSC ’67
President
The Hemmerdinger Corporation
Jonathan Herman * ARTS ’69, LAW ’73
Partner
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Charles J. Hinkaty
Former President & Chief Executive Officer
Del Laboratories, Inc.
Natalie Holder-Winfield **STEINHARDT ’97
Founder & President
QUEST Diversity Initiatives
Mitchell Jacobson LAW ’76
Chairman
MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc.
Boris Jordan WSC '88
President and CEO
The Sputnik Group
Charles Klein LAW ’63
Managing Director
American Securities
Kenneth G. Langone STERN ’60
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Invemed Associates, LLC.
Mark Leslie ARTS '66
Managing Director
Leslie Ventures
Martin Lipton LAW ’55
Partner
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Jeffrey H. Lynford
Co-Managing Member
Wellsford Strategic Partners LLC
Kelly Kennedy Mack ** STERN '02
President
Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group
Howard Meyers STERN '64
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Quexco Incorporated
Steven S. Miller * LAW '70
Vice President/Assistant General Counsel
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Constance J. Milstein ARTS ’69
Principal & Co-Founder
Ogden CAP Properties, LLC
David C. Oxman
Senior Counsel
Davis Polk & Wardwell
John Paulson STERN '78
President
Paulson & Co., Inc.
Lester Pollack LAW ’57
Chairman & Founder
Centre Partners Management LLC
Catherine B. Reynolds
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation
Brett B. Rochkind ** STERN '98
Managing Director
General Atlantic LLC
William C. Rudin STERN ’79
President
Rudin Management Company, Inc.
Suresh Sani ** LAW ’88
Vice President
First Pioneer Properties, Inc.
John Sexton
President
New York University
Constance Silver SSSW ’78, ’79
Victory Ventures Inc.
Lisa Silverstein SCPS ’88, ’89
Senior Vice President
Silverstein Properties, Inc.
Jay Stein
Chairman
Stein Mart, Inc.
Joseph S. Steinberg ARTS ’66
President & Director
Leucadia National Corporation
Judy Steinhardt
Michael H. Steinhardt
Managing Member
Steinhardt Management, Inc.
Chandrika Tandon
Chairman
Tandon Capital Associates
Daniel R. Tisch
Partner
Mentor Partners
John L. Vogelstein
Senior Advisor
Warburg Pincus, LLC
Wenliang Wang
Chairman & Founder
China Rilin Construction Group
Casey Wasserman
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Wasserman Media Group, LLC
Nina Weissberg * GSAS ‘90
President
Weissberg Corporation
Anthony Welters LAW ’77
Executive Vice President
UnitedHealth Group
Shelby White
Trustee
The Leon Levy Foundation
Leonard A. Wilf LAW ’77
President
Garden Homes, Inc.
Fred Wilson
Founder and Managing General Partner
Union Square Ventures
Charles Zegar GSAS ' 77, '05
Founding Partner
Bloomberg, L.P
Officers of the Board
Martin Lipton
LAW ’55
Chair
William R. Berkley
STERN ’66
Vice Chair
Laurence D. Fink
Vice Chair
Kenneth G. Langone
STERN ’60
Vice Chair
Thomas S. Murphy
Honorary Vice Chair
Larry A. Silverstein
ARTS ’52
Honorary Vice Chair
Anthony Welters
LAW ’77
Vice Chair
Leonard A. Wilf
LAW ’77
Vice Chair
John Sexton
President
* Alumni Trustee
** Young Alumni Trustee
The Board of Trustees on October 10, 2012 - click to enlarge. (Photo credit: NYU Photo Bureau)
Board of Trustees Communications
- A Message from the Board of Trustees in Response to
the FAS | March 2013
- A Message from the Chair of the Board of Trustees on a Special Committee on Governance | April 2013
- Update on the Work of the Special Committee of the Board
of Trustees | May 2013
- Statement from Martin Lipton, Chair, NYU Board of Trustees Regarding Gallatin Vote | May 2013
- Statement from Martin Lipton, Chair, NYU Board of Trustees Regarding Steinhardt Vote | May 2013
Life Trustees
Diane Belfer
Philanthropist
Mamdouha Bobst
President
The Elmer & Mamdouha Bobst Foundation
John Brademas
President Emeritus
New York University
Arthur L. Carter
President
Utilities & Industries Management Corporation
Geraldine H. Coles WSC ’38
Philanthropist
John J. Creedon STERN ’52, LAW ’55, ’62
Former President & Chief Executive Officer
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Maurice R. Greenberg
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
C.V. Starr and Co., Inc.
Henry Kaufman ARTS ’48, STERN ’58
President
Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc.
Helen L. Kimmel
Richard Jay Kogan STERN '68
Retired President and Chief Executive Officer
Schering-Plough Corporation
Donald B. Marron
Chairman, CEO and Founder
Lightyear Capital
Thomas S. Murphy
Retired Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Capital Cities/ABC, Inc.
L. Jay Oliva
President Emeritus
New York University
Herbert M. Paul STERN '56, LAW '61
President
Herbert Paul, P.C.
E. John Rosenwald, Jr.
Vice Chairman Emeritus
J.P. Morgan
William R. Salomon
Honorary Chairman
Citigroup
Marie Schwartz
President
Arnold and Marie Schwartz Fund for Education & Health Research
Larry A. Silverstein ARTS ’52
President & Chief Executive Officer
Silverstein Properties, Inc.
Joel E. Smilow
Chairman
Dinex Group, LLC
Sheldon H. Solow
President
Solow Building Company
Lillian Vernon
Founding Chairman
Lillian Vernon Corporation
Robert F. Wright STERN ’51
President & Chief Executive Officer
Robert F. Wright Associates, Inc.
William D. Zabel
Partner
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Baroness Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò
Trustee Associates
Bruce Berger STERN ’66
President
Sutton Group Services, Inc.
Leonard Boxer STERN ’60, LAW ’63
Chairman, Real Estate Department
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Jane Eisner Bram WSC ’58, SSSW ’79, ’00
Psychotherapist
Betty Weinberg Ellerin WSC ’50, LAW ’52
Senior Counsel
Alston & Bird, LLP
Norman Goodman ARTS ’47, LAW ’50
County Clerk
Commissioner of Jurors
New York County
Marvin Leffler STERN ’42, ’51
President
Town Hall Foundation