Whitman College Fact Sheet

Campaign Leadership

Campaign Co-Chairs:

Robert S. Murley '72 is chairman of investment banking for the Americas at Credit Suisse in Chicago. A politics major at Princeton, he earned a master's degree from the London School of Economics and an MBA from the University of California-Los Angeles. A Harold Helm Award winner for distinguished service to Annual Giving, Murley is a past national chair of AG and has served his class as president, class agent, participation chair and also special gifts chair for his 25th Reunion. He was co-chair of the Leadership Gifts Committee for the Anniversary Campaign, served on the Alumni Council Executive Committee and the Development Leadership Council, and now serves on the board of the Princeton University Investment Co. Murley began a second term as a charter trustee in 2006 after previously serving from 1995 to 2005. He sits on the AG Committee and the Advisory Council for the Department of Comparative Literature.

Nancy B. Peretsman '76 is a managing director of the investment banking firm Allen & Co. LLC in New York. A Woodrow Wilson School major, she received a master's degree in public and private management from Yale. Currently a member of the Annual Giving Committee, Peretsman chaired the New York City region during the Anniversary Campaign for Princeton. She founded the University's Women in Leadership initiative and has served as its chair. After two previous terms as an alumni trustee and a charter trustee, Peretsman currently is serving as a charter trustee, appointed in 2005.

Annual Giving Chair

Rajiv Vinnakota '93 is co-founder and managing director of the SEED (Schools for Educational Evolution and Development) Foundation in Washington, D.C. Vinnakota graduated from Princeton with a degree in molecular biology and a certificate from the Woodrow Wilson School. For his work with SEED, he received an Oprah Winfrey "Use Your Life" Award, among other honors. A former University trustee, he was a member of the Woodrow Wilson School's 75th Anniversary Committee and is a member of the Campaign Executive Committee.