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    Chair

  • Gregory M. Avis ’80: Founding Managing Director, Summit Partners. Trustee since 2002. Chair of the Executive Committee and member of the Audit Committee, Budget and Financial Planning Committee, Governance Committee, Nominating Committee, and Investments Committee. Co-chair of The Williams Campaign. Former Class Agent and Chair of the 25th Reunion Fund Committee. Recipient of a Williams Bicentennial Medal.

    • Trustees

  • Valda Clark Christian ’92: Attorney, Miami-Dade County Attorney’s Office. Trustee since 2006. Member of the Committee on Admission and Financial Aid, Governance Committee, Committee on Instruction, and Nominating Committee. Former member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Alumni, President of the Williams Black Alumni Network Steering Committee, Chair of the Alumni of Color Task Force, Associate Class Agent, and President of the Jacksonville Regional Association.
  • E. David Coolidge III ’65: Vice Chairman, William Blair and Company. Trustee from 1990 to 1995 and from 2000 to the present. Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Committee on Alumni Relations and Development, Committee on Campus Life, Committee on Degrees, and Investment Committee. Class President. Former Class Associate Agent and member of the 25th Reunion Committee, Secretary of the Chicago Regional Association, and member of the Midwest Regional Committee for The Williams Campaign Committee and Chicago Regional Major Gifts Committee.
  • Michael R. Eisenson ’77: CEO, Charlesbank Capital Partners. Trustee since 2007. Chair of the Investment Committee and member of the Committee on Admission and Financial Aid, Audit Committee, Governance Committee, Nominating Committee, and Public Affairs Committee. Former Class Associate Agent and member of the 25th Reunion Fund Committee and member of the New England Regional Committee for The Williams Campaign.
  • Stephen Harty ’73: Chairman for North America, Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Trustee since 2004. Chair of the Committee on Instruction and member of the Committee on Degrees, Facilities Committee, Committee on Globalization, and Governance Committee. Former President of the Society of Alumni, Chair of the Alumni Fund, Class President, Class Agent, and Admissions Representative and member of the Bicentennial Commission, Executive Committee of the Society of Alumni, Third Century Campaign Planning Committee, Williams Club Board of Governors, and Regional Special Gifts Steering Committee.
  • Jonathan A. Kraft ’86: President and COO, The Kraft Group. Trustee since 2003. Chair of the Facilities Committee and member of the Executive Committee, Committee on Admission and Financial Aid, Budget and Financial Planning Committee, and Investment Committee. Class Associate Agent. Former member of the New England Regional Committee of The Williams Campaign and the New England Regional Special Gifts Committee of the Third Century Campaign.
  • A. Clayton Spencer ’77: Vice President for Policy, Harvard University. Trustee since 2003. Chair of the Committee on Degrees and member of the Budget and Financial Planning Committee, Governance Committee, Committee on Globalization, and Legal Affairs Subcommittee. Former Administrator of the Tyng Bequest. Recipient of a Williams Bicentennial Medal.

    • Faculty & Staff

  • Andrea Danyluk: Professor of Computer Science. Faculty member since 1994. Member of the Committee on Appointments and Promotions. Former Chair of the Faculty Steering Committee and Committee on Educational Policy. Former member of Honor and Discipline Committee, Faculty Review Panel, Science Executive Committee, Accreditation Self Study Committee 2006-07, and the College Task Force on Computers and the Curriculum.
  • Stephen Fix: Robert G. Scott ’68 Professor of English. Faculty member since 1979. Director of the Tutorial Program and member of the Committee on Appointments and Promotions. Former Dean of the College, Director of the Accreditation Self Study 1986-87, Chair of the English Department, Chair of the Faculty Steering Committee, and member of the Committee on Educational Policy, Committee on Undergraduate Life, Committee on Academic Standing, Honor and Discipline Committee, and Honorary Degrees Committee.
  • Laurie Heatherington: Edward Dorr Griffin Professor of Psychology. Faculty member since 1984. Chair of the Psychology Department and member of the Committee on Appointments and Promotions. Former Chair of the Faculty Steering Committee and Committee on Educational Policy and member of the Faculty Review Committee and Advisory Group on Admission and Financial Aid.
  • Protik Kumar Majumder: Professor of Physics. Faculty member since 1994. Most-recent Chair of the Faculty Steering Committee. Science Center Director-Elect. Former Chair of the Physics Department and member of the Faculty Review Committee and Committee on Priorities and Resources.
  • David M. Pilachowski: College Librarian since 1989. Co-Chair of the Stetson/Sawyer Planning (later Building) Committee, and member of the Information Technology Committee, Library Committee, President’s Administrative Group, and Senior Staff Stetson/Sawyer Planning Group. Former member of the Administrative Compensation Advisory Committee, Ad Hoc Campus Planning Committee, and Construction Coordination Committee.

    • Students

  • Alan B. Arias ’10: Math and English Major. Junior Advisor, Math Tutor, Baxter/Housing Fellow, Wood Neighborhood Board Member, Organizer and Facilitator of Freshman Leadership Weekend and Exploring the Arts EphVentures, Dancer with Ritmo Latino.
  • Elizabeth B. Brickley ’10: Biology Major with a Concentration in Maritime Studies. Junior Advisor, Peer Tutor, College Council Representative, Gargoyle Member, WOOLF Trail Crew Leader, member of Varsity Crew, Varsity Cross Country, the Outing Club Board, Thursday Night Group, and Campus Environmental Advisory Committee.

    • Alumni

  • Christopher F. Giglio ’89: Vice President, Chaney and Associates. Vice President of the Society of Alumni and member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Alumni. Has served as Class Agent and Leadership Giving Chair and as President of the Washington, D.C., Regional Association.
  • Sarah M. Underhill ’80: Freelance Editor. President of the Society of Alumni, Class President, and member of the Executive Committee of the Society of Alumni. Has served as Class Agent and Reunion Chair and on the Alumni Trustee Nominating Committee 2004-05.

    • Secretary

  • Charles B. Dew ’58: Ephraim Williams Professor of History. Faculty Member since 1977. Former Director of the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Chair of the History Department, Chair of the Committee on Undergraduate Life, Chair of the Chapin Library Committee, and member of the Faculty Review Committee.
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