Governor Raimondo has submitted her proposed list of trustees to oversee the university:
Susan Carson Petrovas, 1992 graduate, co-founder and president of CDMI Magellan Rx, member of the URI College of Pharmacy Advisory Council.
Margo Cook, 1986 graduate, president of Nuveen Advisory Services, member of URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement Board of Directors.
Michael D. Fascitelli, 1978 graduate, 2008 honorary degree recipient, founder of MDF Capital, chairman of the URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement Campaign Committee, with wife donated $10 million to URI’s engineering college.
Charles Fogarty, 1980 master’s degree in public administration from URI, former head Department of Labor and Training, lieutenant governor 1999 to 2007.
Christine Heenan, president of communications firm Clarendon Group, former senior adviser at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, senior policy analyst and speechwriter under President Bill Clinton.
Richard S. Humphrey, Little Compton town solicitor for more than 25 years, former member Judicial Tenure Commission and the Rhode Island Supreme Court Disciplinary Board, nominated from list submitted by House Speaker Nicholas A. Mattiello.
Matthew Lenz, 2011 graduate, director of state government affairs for the Toy Association, former senior policy adviser to Attorney General Peter Kilmartin, nominated from list submitted by the Senate President Dominick J. Ruggerio.
Roby Luna, 2004 graduate, president and chief executive of Aretec Inc., member of the URI College of Business Dean’s Advisory Council.
David Martirano, 1991 graduate, managing partner of Point Judith Capital, member of investment committee for Lifespan, former member of URI College of Business Advisory Council.
Regina McCarthy, 2018 honorary degree recipient, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under President Barack Obama, 2013-2017; senior leadership fellow at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; president and chief executive of the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Michael F. McNally, 1981 master’s of business administration degree recipient, former president and chief executive of construction company Skanska USA, member of URI President’s Advisory Council, URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement trustee. Member of the CommerceRI Board and the I-195 Commission.
Karina Montilla Edmonds, 1992 graduate, university lead for Google Cloud at Google Inc., former executive director for corporate partnerships at the California Institute of Technology, trustee for the URI Foundation & Alumni Engagement, former member of the URI Foundation Board of Directors.
Vahid Ownjazayeri, chief growth and strategy officer at AECOM.
Yahaira “Jay” Placencia, 2001 graduate, senior vice president and private client adviser at Bank of America Private Bank, trustee of the University of Rhode Island Foundation, member of the Community College of Rhode Island Foundation Board.
Cecilia Rouse, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
Tom Ryan, 1975 graduate, 1999 honorary-degree recipient, director of Five Below, chairman of the URI Foundation and Alumni Engagement Board of Directors, member of the URI Foundation and Alumni Engagement Campaign Committee, URI President’s Advisory Council.
Armand Sabitoni, 1973 graduate, general secretary-treasurer of LIUNA since 2001, LIUNA New England Regional Manager, representing members across the six New England states, as well as New York State.
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