Board of Trustees October 2024

Darden School Foundation

About Darden - Leadership - Darden School Foundation Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees

The Darden School Foundation

The supportive relationship between the Darden School and the Darden School Foundation began with the initiative of business leaders who, under the guidance of former University President Colgate W. Darden Jr., secured the initial endowment funds necessary to found the School in the early 1950s.

The Darden School Foundation is an independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt corporation that was incorporated on 29 December 1952. The Foundation supports the Darden School and its academic mission by:

  • Promoting philanthropic support from alumni, friends and corporations
  • Managing endowment funds for the School's exclusive benefit
  • Operating Darden's top-ranked Executive Education programs and ownership of The Forum Hotel on the Darden Grounds

Darden School Foundation Board of Trustees

An elected Board of Trustees oversees the Foundation’s strategies, providing an important link between the academic and business communities.

Chair

John D. Fowler Jr. (MBA/JD ’84)
Former Vice Chair, Corporate and Investment Banking, Wells Fargo

Vice Chair

Robert W. Smith (MBA ’87)
Former Vice President and Portfolio Manager, T. Rowe Price Co.

Immediate Past Chair

Frank M. Sands (MBA ’94)
Chief Investment Officer and CEO, Sands Capital

 

Members 2025–26

John P. Bolduc (MBA ’90)
Executive Managing Director, H.I.G. Capital

Kimberly Brown Morrish (MBA ’93)
Founder, Canterbury Partners

Pablo Ciano (MBA ’00)
CEO of eCommerce and Member of the Board of Management, DHL Group

Rodney B. Clemente (EMBA ’17)
Senior Vice President, Water, Energy Recovery, Inc.

H. William Coogan Jr. (MBA ’82)
Former CEO & Chairman, Firstmark Corp. 

James A. Cooper (MBA ’84)
Senior Managing Partner and Founder, Thompson Street Capital Partners

Guillaume M. Cuvelier (MBA ’91)
Founder, SVEDKA

Robert G. Doumar Jr. (MBA/JD ’88)
Founder and Managing Partner, Park Square Capital LLP

Debra D. Draughan (MBA ’84)
Managing Member, The Process Management Group LLC 

Franklin S. Edmonds Jr. (MBA/JD ’95)
Partner, Panning Capital Management LP

Catherine J. Friedman (MBA ’86) 
Executive Venture Partner, GV

Peter M. Grant II (MBA ’86)
Founding Partner, Anchormarck Holdings, LLC

Gregory B. Graves (MBA ’89)
Former Chief Financial Officer, Entegris

Ira H. Green (MBA ’90)
Head of Energy, Power & Infrastructure Capital Market, Piper Sandler & Co.

Owen D. Griffin Jr. (MBA ’99)
President and CFO, Currie Medical

Connie J. Hallquist (MBA ’91)
President, Garnet Hill

Robert J. Hugin (MBA ’85)
Former CEO, Celgene

Martina Hund-Mejean (MBA ’88)
Former Chief Financial Officer, Mastercard

Mark J. Kington (MBA ’88)
Partner, Kington Management LLC

David M. LaCross (MBA ’78)
Founder, Former President and CEO, Risk Management Technologies

Beverly B. Ladley (MBA ’92)
Financial Services Executive and Management Consultant

Douglas R. Lebda (EMBA ’14)
Founder, Chairman and CEO, LendingTree

Nicole Lindsay (MBA/JD ’99)
Executive Vice President, People and Capacity for Core Payments, Mastercard International

Amanda Lozano (MBA ’09)
North Fork Partners, LLC

Richard A. Mayo (MBA ’68)
Chairman and CEO, Game Creek Capital

Donald E. Morel Jr. (TEP ’97)
Managing Partner, Progenitor Capital LLC

Adair B. Newhall (MBA ’09)
Principal, Greenspring Associates

Diem Nguyen (MBA ’01)
Chief Executive Officer, SIGA

Carl E. Peoples (MBA ’94)
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Vincent M. Rague (MBA ’84)
Co-Founder, Catalyst Principal Partners

Matt J. Reintjes (MBA ’04)
CEO, YETI

Mike Sabel
Chief Executive Officer, Executive Co-Chairman and Founder, Venture Global LNG

Erik A. Slingerland (MBA ’84)
Managing Partner, EAS International SA

Robert W. Smith (MBA ’87)
Former Vice President and Portfolio Manager, T. Rowe Price Co.

Shannon G. Smith (MBA ’90)
Chief Executive Officer, The Abundant Power Group

Susan N. Sobbott (MBA ’90)
Former President of Global Commercial Services, American Express

Anand E. Stanley (MBA ’03)
President, Asia-Pacific Airbus

Mark J. Styslinger
Co-Owner, Altec

Bruce R. Thompson (MBA ’90)
Vice Chair, Head of Enterprise Credit for Bank of America

Kelly M. Thomson (MBA ’99)
Head of Capital Markets, Mubadala Capital

Lilo Simmons Ukrop (MBA ’89)
Visiting Lecturer, Darden School of Business

Ned Valentine (MBA ’93)
Chairman and Managing Director, Harris Williams

Steven C. Voorhees (MBA ’80)
Former President and CEO, WestRock

Martie Edmunds Zakas (MBA/JD ’84)
CEO, Mueller Water Products

Ex-Officio Trustees

Scott C. Beardsley
Dean, Darden School of Business 

Richard B. Evans
Senior Associate Dean for Research Services and Support; Professor of Business Administration; Donald McLean Wilkinson Research Chair in Business Administration, Darden School of Business

Taylor Heaps (MBA ’13)
Financial Sponsor Coverage, Robert W. Baird

Paul G. Mahoney
David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor, University of Virginia School of Law

 

C. Evans Poston Jr. (EMBA ’17)
Director, Federal and State Affairs, Troutman Strategies

James E. Ryan 
President, University of Virginia

Cynthia Soledad (MBA ’02)
Global Lead, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Practice, Chief Marketing Officer and Consumer Practice, Egon Zehnder

Melissa Thomas-Hunt
Vice Dean; Senior Associate Dean for Professional Degree Programs & Special Advisor to the Dean on Connection; John D. Forbes Distinguished Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Public Policy, Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy & Darden School of Business