Board of Advisors
China — Smith School Board India — Smith School Board
Chair
Kenneth R. Rehmann ’84
Global Officer, Finance and Operations, International Division
Marriott International
Vice-Chair
Ryan D. McCarthy, MBA ’13
Former Secretary of the Army
Immediate Past Chair
Wendy Sanhai, MBA ’09
Federal Strategy & Operations
Deloitte Consulting
Members
William N. Apollony ’69, MBA ’76
President
Windsor Healthcare Equities
Jay Sunny Bajaj ’99
Founder & Board Member
Digital Management Inc.
Don Berman ’72
Chairman
CEO & Founder
Cardworks
Bill Boyle ’81
Founder, Boyle Investments
Founder & President, FiberGate Communications 1995-2012
Tim Boyle ’83
Senior Business & Finance Advisor
Boyle Consulting Group Inc.
Eugene Bredow ’91
President and CEO
NVR Inc.
Leigh Burnside ’92
Chief Financial Officer
Little Caesars Enterprises, Inc
Orlando Carvalho, MBA ’06
Retired Executive Vice President
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Jason Cohen ’96
Serial Entrepreneur
Founder of Sensible Portions Veggie Straws
Christopher Duda ’94
Vice President
Goldman Sachs & Company
Michael A. Echols ’88
CEO
MAX Cybersecurity
William Eisig ’88
National Managing Partner — Assurance Services
BDO USA
Göran Espelund, MBA ’87
Co-Founder
Lannebo Fonder
Jack Faer ’78
Founder
Faer Risk Consulting, LLC
Cydonii Fairfax ’94
Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County Texas
Steve Ferber ’90
CEO & Founder
Golden Gate BPO Solutions LLC
Laura Freitag ’88
Partner
EY
Meg Galloway Goldthwaite, MBA ’96
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
The Nature Conservancy
Apoorva Gandhi ’91
Senior Vice President, Multicultural Affairs, Social Impact, and Business Councils
Marriott International
Lisa K. Hunt ’97
Executive Vice President
International Services
Charles Schwab
Robert L. Johnson ’80
Retired
Senior Telecom Executive
Jean Jakoby ’92
Senior Vice President – Global Sales
PepsiCo
Pritpal R. Kalsi ’04
CEO
SC&H
Haley Kaufman ’86
Managing Director
Wealth Management Advisor
Merrill Lynch
David Kessler ’85
Chief Executive Officer
CohnReznick
Albert Krall ’81
Executive in Residence
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Vishal Khera ’00
Managing Partner
Khera Ventures
Mark K. Lewis ’87
Managing Partner
Washington DC Office
Bracewell LLP
William A. Longbrake, DBA ’76
Board of Directors: City First Bank and Broadway Financial Corp.; City First Enterprises; BECU; Washington State Investment Board; Seattle First Foundation; Richer Life Foundation
David Lowman ’79
Senior Financial Services Executive
Board Member and Entrepreneur
Amit Mehta, MBA ’96
Managing Partner, Washington, DC Office
Crestwood Capital Management
Anoop Mehta ’84
Analytical Mechanics Associates
Immediate Past Chairman – American Institute of CPAs
Cris Parcelles ’92
Director of Financial Systems
Echostar Corporation
Nagi Rao
Co-Founder, Partner
Pilot Wall Group
Daniel C. Schwab
Co-President
D&H Distributing Company
Zach Rosenbaum ’90
Partner, Trial Lawyer – Special Situations Litigation
Kobre & Kim
Drew Shambarger ’00
EVP & Head of Integrated Relationship Management
Truist Financial
Gagan Singh, MS ’97
Executive Vice President & Chief Investment Officer
PNC Financial Services Group
Alan Spurgin, MBA ’87
Retired, Former Co-Head of US Technology Banking
CIBC
Kathryn Stewart
Managing Director
Cranbrook Capital
Ex-Officio
Representing the UMD Smith Alumni Board
Terri Jarboe-Farri ’91, MBA ’19
President & CEO
Buyer's Title, Inc.
Representing the UMD Smith Alumni Board
Ryan Miller ’12
Senior Vice President
CBRE
Honorary
Dr. Roger J. Ward, EdD, JD, MSL, MPA
Provost & Executive Vice President
Dean, Graduate School
University of Maryland, Baltimore
China Advisory Board
Long Jiang – Honorary Chair
Vice Chairman
Goertek Group Co., Ltd
Gao Victor Feng – Chair
Partner
Charterhouse Capital Partners, LLP
Frank Zhang – Co-Chair
CEO
HuaAn Fund Management Co.
Li (Cherry) Han
Vice President Greater China
Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited
Mike Hofmann, DBA
Managing Director
Melchers China | Beijing
Jennifer (Ningfu) Jiang
Vice President
Beijing Properties(Holdings) Limited
Echo Jin
Asia CFO
Microsoft
Dennis Khang
CTO/CEO (Former)
ZhongAn Online Insurance/ZhongAn Information Tech
Linda Lin
General Manager, Greater China
Avanade
Yuxiang (Vivian) Liu
Principle Consultant, Heidrick & Struggles
ex-CHRO, ECARX Technology
ex-HRGM, Amazon Web Services
Li Ma
Managing Director – Head of China
Moody’s Investors Service
Janne Pihlajaniemi
General Manager
Tobii Dynavox
Alick (Qingping) Sun
Partner
Jadestone Capital
Zhenyi Tang
Vice President
SenseTime Group
Jennie Wang
CEO APAC
Voxflor HUATENG Co.
Knut Udo Wiszniewski
Global CFO
Schenck Process
Jennifer Zhang
Managing Partner
Tax and Business Advisory Services, Southern Region (including HK and Macau)
Deloitte China
Romeo Zhao
Partner
Anjie Holding Group
Jie Zhou
Senior Vice President, Finance
Marriott International
Qin Zou
Vice President
Stanley Black Decker
India Advisory Board
Amit Agarwal, MBA ’98
GM - Corporate Strategy
L&T
Mukul Anand, MBA ’02
Global Director, Business Development - Applied HVAC Global Products
Johnson Controls
Shashi Bakshi, MBA ’12
Senior Principal
Accenture
Manish Bansal, MS ’02
Managing Director
Robert H. Smith School of Business, India Operations
Tarun Goyal, MBA ’98
Founder & CEO
Simplotel
Nitin Gupta, MBA ’99
Founder & Managing Director
Asymmetrique
Vinod Kasuhik, MBA ’06
Founder
Homergize
Jyothi Kumar Pandey, MSIS ’02
Senior Program Director
CAFRAL, an institution of RBI
Kasturiranga (Ranga) Meda, MSIS ’01
Director
Krishna Group of Companies/Tanishq Franchise
Chandrika Nigam, MFin ’16
Senior Director, Investor Relations
Adtalem Global Education
Harshavardhan Raghunath, MFin ’95, PhD ’96
Senior Advisor
Bain & Company
Siddharth Ram, MS '02
Vice President, Consumer Products
Retail & Services at Capgemini
Nagarajan Ramamoorthy, PhD ’96
Director
IIM
Ritam Roy, MFin ’02
Vice President
J.P. Morgan
Siddharth Sharma, PhD ’17
Professor
ISB
Harpreet Wadhawan, MBA ’00
Founder & Managing Partner
Periplus Capital Advisors LLC
Smith Faculty on the India Advisory Council
Rajshree Agarwal, PhD
Rudolph Lamone Chair of Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Director, Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Anil Gupta, DBA
Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Kislaya Prasad, PhD
Research Professor, Department of Decision, Operations & Information Technologies
Academic Director, Center for Global Business
Robert H. Smith School of Business