Board of Advisors

China — Smith School Board         India — Smith School Board

Chair

Kenneth R. RehmannKenneth R. Rehmann ’84
Global Officer, Finance and Operations, International Division
Marriott International

Vice-Chair

Ryan D. McCarthyRyan D. McCarthy, MBA ’13
Former Secretary of the Army

Immediate Past Chair

Wendy SanhaiWendy Sanhai, MBA ’09
Federal Strategy & Operations
Deloitte Consulting

Members

William N. ApollonyWilliam N. Apollony ’69, MBA ’76
President
Windsor Healthcare Equities

Jay BajajJay Sunny Bajaj ’99
Founder & Board Member
Digital Management Inc.

Don BermanDon Berman ’72
Chairman
CEO & Founder
Cardworks

Bill Boyle ’81
Founder, Boyle Investments
Founder & President, FiberGate Communications 1995-2012

Tim BoyleTim Boyle ’83
Senior Business & Finance Advisor
Boyle Consulting Group Inc.

Eugene BredowEugene Bredow ’91
President and CEO
NVR Inc.

Leigh BurnsideLeigh Burnside ’92
Chief Financial Officer
Little Caesars Enterprises, Inc

Orlando CarvalhoOrlando 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 DudaChristopher Duda ’94
Vice President
Goldman Sachs & Company

Michael A. EcholsMichael A. Echols ’88
CEO
MAX Cybersecurity

William EisigWilliam Eisig ’88
National Managing Partner — Assurance Services
BDO USA

Göran EspelundGöran Espelund, MBA ’87
Co-Founder
Lannebo Fonder

Jack FaerJack Faer ’78
Founder
Faer Risk Consulting, LLC

Cydonii FairfaxCydonii 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 FreitagLaura Freitag ’88
Partner
EY

Meg Galloway GoldthwaiteMeg 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. JohnsonRobert L. Johnson ’80
Retired
Senior Telecom Executive 

Jean Jakoby ’92
Senior Vice President – Global Sales
PepsiCo

Pritpal R. KalsiPritpal R. Kalsi ’04
CEO
SC&H

Haley Kaufman ’86
Managing Director
Wealth Management Advisor
Merrill Lynch

David KesslerDavid Kessler ’85
Chief Executive Officer
CohnReznick

Albert KrallAlbert 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. LongbrakeWilliam 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 MehtaAmit Mehta, MBA ’96
Managing Partner, Washington, DC Office
Crestwood Capital Management

Anoop MehtaAnoop Mehta ’84
Analytical Mechanics Associates
Immediate Past Chairman – American Institute of CPAs

Cris ParcellesCris Parcelles ’92
Director of Financial Systems
Echostar Corporation

Nagi RaoNagi Rao
Co-Founder, Partner
Pilot Wall Group

 Daniel C. SchwabDaniel 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 SinghGagan 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

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