Board of Visitors

Providing Expertise. Supporting the Mission.

Our Board of Visitors is a deeply-engaged advisory panel whose members include some of Duke Engineering’s most distinguished alumni and friends.

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Manlio A. Valdés

Chair

Retired

Class of 1988
Parent, Class of 2017

Stacy L. Pineles, MD

Vice Chair

Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Residency Program Director, Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA

Class of 2000

Margaret Anne Abernathy

VP, General Counsel and Government Affairs, Rose Park Advisors

Class of 2022

T. Richard Alfonsi

Former Executive, Stripe, Twitter, & Google

Class of 1993
Parent, Classes of 2023 and 2025

Rodolfo A. Baquerizo Sr.

Founder and Partner

Parent, Classes of 2015 and 2017

David Nathaniel Buza

Chief Technology Officer, Solomon Partners

Class of 1995

Lisa A. Carter

Strategic Growth Planning and Leadership Development

Class of 1984

Andrew Carver

CEO, Carver Pump Company

Class of 1996

Christopher P. Cheng, PhD

President & CEO, Global Science & Technology; Adjunct Professor of Vascular Surgery, Stanford University

Class of 1998

Jeffrey Citron

Chairman/Director, Vonage

Parent, Classes of 2020 and 2023

James F. Dagley

President, Watts Water Technologies Inc.

Class of 1989

Rahul Vinod Deshmukh, MD

Orthopaedic Surgeon

Class of 1993

Damian V. Dolland

CEO, Multicultural Client Strategy Group, Morgan Stanley

Class of 1998

Audrei Drummond

Senior Staff Engineer, Webflow

Class of 2008

Holly M. Espy

Anchor/Reporter, WTTG-TV

Class of 1993

Eric M. Free

Chief Growth Officer, Flexera Software

Class of 1991, Class of 1998

Emma Harvey Giamartino

CFO, CBRE Group Inc.

Class of 2005

Russell Monroe Glass

CEO, Headspace Health

Class of 1998

Ruby Grewal

Chief Strategy Officer, Proteovant Therapeutics

Class of 1988, Class of 1993

James K. Henry Jr., PhD

Managing Partner, McKinsey & Company

Class of 1996, Class of 1999

Ram M. Jagannath

Senior Managing Director, Blackstone

Class of 1998

Abhisekh “Sunny” Kantha

Chief Corporate Development Officer, Boyd Corporation

Class of 2009

Arnaud Pierre Karsenti

Managing Principal, 13th Floor Investments, LLC

Class of 2000

David Lamond

President, En Pointe LLC

Class of 1997, Class of 2006

Michael C. Lenz

Retired FedEx Corp. Chief Financial Officer

Class of 1985, Class of 1994

Deborah Lau Liu

CEO, Ancestry.com

Class of 1998

Valecia Maclin Topping

Global Senior Technology Executive

Class of 1992

John J. Mastrototaro, PhD

CEO, Movano Inc.

Class of 1984, Class of 1989
Parent, Class of 2020

Stacey W. McConnell, Esq.

Partner and Chair, Estate Planning and Trusts Department, Lamb McErlane PC

Class of 1977
Parent, Classes of 2016 and 2020

Leslie Voorhees Means

DTC

Class of 2008

Abraham Ng’hwani

CEO and Founder, Abranova Real Estate Inc.; CEO, Abranova Electric

Class of 2016

Graham A. Orriss

CEO, SV Labs | Smith & Vandiver

Class of 1993
Parent, Class of 2023

Miles R. Palmer, PhD

Retired Founder, 8 Rivers Capital and NET Power

Friend

Harriet Patterson

Non-Executive Director at the Duke of Richmond’s Goodwood Art Foundation

Parent, Class of 2027

Daniel S. Pergola

Senior Portfolio Manager, Citadel LLC

Class of 2006

Scott C. Raney

Managing Director, Redpoint Ventures

Class of 1991
Parent, Class of 2026

Steven C. Rosner

Retired Managing Director and Partner, L.E.K. Consulting, Boston Office

Class of 1983
Parent, Class of 2018

Joseph A. Saldutti Jr.

Managing Director, Gridiron Capital

Class of 1988
Parent, Classes of 2020 and 2024

Michael Salvino

Chairman, President and CEO, DXC Technology

Parent, Class of 2020

John A. Sartor

President & CEO, Paulus, Sokolowski & Sartor LLC

Class of 1992

Eric J. Schiffer

Managing Partner, Gratitude Ventures; Former CEO, 99 Cents Only Stores

Class of 1983
Parent, Class of 2023

John Rayner Schilling

Partner & Head of Operations TPG Capital; Co-Head of Health Care and TPG Life Sciences Innovations

Class of 1992

Valerie N. Schimel

Founder/CEO, Munchkin Fun; President, Al & Jane Nahmad Family Foundation

Class of 2000

Barry E. Schneirov

Vice President, Goldman Sachs & Co.

Class of 1985
Parent, Class of 2017

Jill A. Schreifer

Founder and CEO, The Schreifer Group

Class of 1997

Robert L. Seelig

EVP & General Counsel, White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd.

Class of 1990, Class of 1991
Parent, Classes of 2024 and 2026

Joshua Brant Skudlarick

Director, Construction Management, ArcLight Capital Partners

Class of 1996

Armando A. Tabernilla

Vice President & General Counsel, Florida Crystals Corporation

Class of 1981
Parent, Class of 2019

Carina Lynn Tracy

Senior Consultant, Deloitte LLP

Class of 2019

Anna Tye

Partner, Carlyle Group

Class of 2003

Alyssa Fanelli Varadhan

Investor/advisor in early-stage companies

Class of 2002

James “Jim” Vogeley

Entrepreneur

Class of 1980

Deepak Yadav

Founder and CEO, Yadu Corporation

Parent, Class of 2026

Serving on the Board of Visitors has been one of the deepest honors of my life.
Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, PhD Chair Emeritus • Class of 1991

Members Emeriti

Michael J. Bingle

Class of 1994; Parent, Class of 2025
Managing Partner, Silver Lake Group

Dan Dickinson

Class of 1983; Parent, Classes of 2015 and 2019
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, HCI Equity Partners

Suzanne M. Gregory

Class of 1987; Parent, Class of 2018
Retired Executive Director, Office of General Counsel, Merck & Company Inc.

Stacy Klein-Gardner, PhD

Class of 1991
Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University

George N. Mattson II

Class of 1987; Parent, Class of 2016
President, Star Mountain Capital LLC

Thomas A. Natelli

Class of 1982; Parent, Class of 2010
President & CEO, Natelli Communities

Janis J. Rehlaender

Class of 1977; Parent, Classes of 2007, 2009 and 2012
Retired Director of Corporate Planning, Baxter International; Chairman, Darien, Conn., Board of Education

Jerry C. Wilkinson

Class of 1967; Parent, Classes of 1998, 2000 and 2003
Chairman, The Wilkinson Companies