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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