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Board of Trustees

Note: The date following each person's name indicates the year that the individual became a member. * Indicates Paul Smith's College Alumni Officers and members as of August 17, 2018

Officers
Patricia Keane Dowden (2010), Chairman of the Board (2016-present)
    Harvard Business School, M.B.A. program


Angela Noble-Grange (2013), Co-Vice Chairman
    Faculty Member, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University


Katharine H. Welling (2004), Co-Vice Chairman
    Board of Trustees, Wilton Library, Wilton, CT


Mark Dzwonczyk (2016), Treasurer
    President/CEO SLIC and Nicholville Telephone Company


Mary Jo Hunt (2013), Secretary
    Hunt Real Estate, Buffalo, NY

Members
Stuart H. Angert (2002)
    Business Consultant, Amherst, NY
    
Paul Avery (2011)
    Business Consultant, Tampa, FL
    
Fred Beltz (2018)
    Partner, Beltz, Ianni & Associates, LLC, Rochester, NY
    
*David Blye, ‘81 (2018)
    Principal Chemist, Environmental Standards, Inc., Valley Forge, PA
    
Paul M. Cantwell, Jr. (1993)
    Principal Attorney, Cantwell & Cantwell, Malone, NY
    
Robert Chur (2011)
    President and CEO, Elder Wood Senior Care, Williamsville, NY
    
Paul F. Ciminelli (2004)
    President and Chief Executive Officer, Ciminelli Development Company, Inc., Eggertsville, NY
    
Paul Comeau, J.D. (2016)
    Senior Partner, Hodgson Russ, Buffalo, NY
    
Dennis Curtin (2017)
    Business Consultant, Plattsburgh, NY
    
Peter P. Forrence (2013)
    Co-owner, Forrence Orchards, Peru, NY
    
Robert Fox (2014)
    VP, Wendy's Restaurants of Rochester, NY
    
Pauline Jennett (2014)
    Consultant, MBA Exchange, NY, NY
    
Anthony L. Johnson (2008)
    President/C.E.O., Empire Genomics, LLC, Buffalo, NY
    
Dwayne Mahoney (2014)
    Executive Director, Boys and Girls Club of Rochester, NY
    
Angelo Mazzone (2018)
    President and CEO, Mazzone Hospitality, LLC, Clifton Park, NY
    
John A. Paganelli (2011)
    Financial Consultant, Rochester, NY
    
*Ken Raymond, '68 (2016)
    President and CEO, Prime Companies, Cohoes, NY
    
*Karen Regen-Baum, ’83 (2017)
    Hotel and marketing management, Germantown, MD
    
Thomas R. Rogers (2012)
    President and CEO, Lewis Tree Service, Inc., West Henrietta, NY
    
E. Philip Saunders, (1991) Chairman Emeritus (2016-present)
    Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Saunders Management Company, Rochester, NY
    
Daniel D. Tessoni, Ph.D. (2011)
    Faculty Member, Saunders College of Business, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
    
Elizabeth Thorndike, Ph.D. (2011)
    Consultant, Ithaca, NY

Ex-officio Trustees
Cathy S. Dove, Ed.D., Paul Smiths, NY
    President of Paul Smith’s College
    
*Thomas J. Rosol, ’74
    Alumni Board President

Trustees Emeriti
*Donald O. Benjamin, ’56 (Served as Trustee 1973-1995), Port Charlotte, FL
*Ralph Blum, ’54 (Served as Trustee 1988-2008), Treasure Isle, FL
*Richard C. Cattani, ’64 (Served as Trustee 1987-2009, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, 1997-2005), Hoboken, NJ
*John T. Dillon, ’58 (Served as Trustee 1982-1992), Greenwich, CT
*John W. Herold, ’65 (Served as Trustee 1976-1996), Scottsdale, AZ
Sheila Hutt (Served as Trustee 1985-2007), Blue Mountain Lake, NY
*Caroline Lussi, ’60 (Served as Trustee 1984-88, 1998-2013), Lake Placid, NY
Joan H. Weill (Served as Trustee 1992-2011, Chairman of the Board 2005-2010), NY, NY

 

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