Biographies

Speakers

Peter Salovey ’86 PhD, President of Yale University

Peter Salovey is the President of Yale University where he is also a Professor of Psychology. He previously served as Yale's Provost, Dean of Graduate Studies, and Dean of Yale College. President Salovey is one of the early pioneers and leading researchers in emotional intelligence. He has authored or edited thirteen books translated into eleven languages and published more than 350 journal articles and essays, focused primarily on human emotion and health behavior. He has won numerous awards for his research and teaching. President Salovey has also served on a number of national scientific advisory boards and as officer of scientific societies in his field of research.

Mark Dollhopf ‘77, Executive Director, Association of Yale Alumni

Mark Dollhopf began his career on the fundraising side of alumni relations. He started working at Yale in 1977 the year of his graduation, as a staff member for the Yale Development Office – the fundraising department of Yale. In 1980, Mark co-founded the firm of Anderson, Cole & Dollhopf, and there pioneered new institutional fundraising and advancement techniques for universities and independent schools, including the first professional campus direct response programs. His firm served over 100 education, health, social service, political and religious organizations, including Yale, Brown, Columbia and Duke universities; Exeter and Andover preparatory schools; the National Wildlife Federation; the Arthritis Foundation; the Archdioceses of New York, Boston, St. Louis and Chicago; Catholic Relief Services; and Lutheran Social Services. In 1989 Anderson, Cole & Dollhopf was acquired by MCI.

In 1993, Mark founded Janus Development, which counsels non-profit institutions about strategic planning, leadership and board development as well as management and marketing. Strategic planning clients have included Junior Achievement of Central Florida, the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Diocese of Orlando, the Colony Foundation and Liberty Community Services of Connecticut, among others.

Throughout the past 35 years, Mark has been an active volunteer for Yale as an alumnus.

In 1997, Mark founded the Yale Alumni Chorus, a volunteer organization of Yale alumni which has completed eleven major international concert tours and co-sponsored and participated in two domestic choral festivals. Well over 2,000 alumni and friends have participated on concert tours and events representing Yale in Great Britain, China and South America. The group also traveled to Russia in 2003, becoming the first American chorus ever to perform at the Kremlin. In 2004, Mark won the Yale Medal for his work with the Yale Alumni Chorus. The Yale Medal is the highest award presented by the Association of Yale Alumni, conferred solely to honor outstanding individual service to the University.

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In 2006, Mark became Executive Director, of the Association of Yale Alumni, switching once again from Yale alumni volunteer to alumni relations professional working for Yale. In this capacity, he has led the AYA as it reaches out to alumni in new ways, with a new emphasis on innovative friend-raising. During his tenure, alumni engagement has increased many-fold – by some metrics 400 to 800 percent.

Lynn Andrewsen ’82, Managing Director, Yale Alumni Fund

Lynn Andrewsen joined Yale as the Managing Director of the Alumni Fund in 2006. In this role she oversees the University's annual giving program (the Alumni Fund) to raise current-use, unrestricted giving from alumni of Yale College, the Graduate School and 11 Professional Schools. In fiscal year 2014 (from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014) those alumni contributed over $26.3 million to Yale through the Alumni Fund.

Lynn is responsible for developing and managing the implementation of comprehensive cultivation, solicitation and stewardship strategies to generate support for Yale each year. She leads a professional team of 24 staff that works with over 2,300 Yale volunteers who are engaged in reaching out to fellow alumni to encourage annual gifts to Yale. Among the volunteers with whom Lynn and her team collaborate are a 12-member Executive Committee and 75-member Board of Directors, all of whom are Alumni Fund volunteer fundraisers.

Prior to joining Yale, Lynn was Development Director at the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, and earlier was the Marketing Director at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven. Previously Lynn had a career in marketing and sales in the hospitality industry, working in various locations on the Eastern Seaboard.

Lynn has served as her Class Treasurer and as a member of the 30th Reunion Gift Committee for the Class of 1982. She has been an advisor for Yale College freshmen as well as serving as a Yale Community Friend for international students attending Yale, and she enjoys supporting and cheering on the Yale Women’s Ice Hockey team. Lynn is also a member and served from 2011- 2014 as Chairman of the Annual Giving Directors Consortium, an organization that provides a forum for exploring management, policy and strategic issues of interest to directors of annual giving at 40 higher education institutions in the United States and Canada.

Kathy Edersheim ‘87

Kathy Edersheim is Senior Director of International Alumni Relations and Travel at the Association of Yale Alumni. She is the founding Chairperson of YaleGALE and produced the YaleGALE trips to Australia, Japan, Turkey, China, and the U.K. prior to joining Yale. As a volunteer, Kathy was a Board Member of the Yale Alumni Service Corps and produced their program in China and their first program in Ghana. She was Vice-President of the Yale Alumni

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Chorus and co-produced the Celebration of Song Tour in 2011. Kathy served on the AYA Board of Governors for four years. Kathy was the first woman President of the Yale Club of New York City - the largest college club in the world with a 22 story building located in the heart of mid- town Manhattan - and continues to serve on the Board of the Club. She continues to work on developing an intercollegiate alumni association for the International Alliance of Research Universities, a ten university consortium. Kathy won the AYA Volunteer of the Year award in 2008. In 2011, Kathy was awarded the Yale Medal, Yale's highest award presented by the AYA, conferred solely to honor outstanding individual service to the University. Prior to joining AYA, she worked as a Financial Advisor and marketing professional. Kathy received an MBA from the Stern School of Business.

YaleGALE Panelists and Facilitators

Steve Blum ‘74

Steve Blum has been a CPA and Corporate Finance partner at KPMG, and a Managing Director and COO of Burnham Financial Group. Steve is now employed as Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Association of Yale Alumni – a position created just for him - while he still leads all of KPMG’s client merger/acquisition seminars, and still testifies as an expert in numerous complex financial disputes. At Yale, Steve is a Branford College Resident Fellow, has led 21 financial literacy sessions for students, helped create Student Leadership Forums, co-founded Students and Alumni of Yale (STAY), and organized Yale’s first-ever residential college reunions. After serving as Yale’s Fencing Team Captain as a student, Steve competed nationally and internationally for another decade (earning five national championships in team saber). He has been Co-President of the Yale Fencing Association for decades.

Paul Broholm ‘78

Paul Broholm is the Director of Investments for a Dutch private bank. He has lived in the Netherlands for 22 years, where he first moved to teach at the Rotterdam School of Management. Paul is President of the Yale Club of the Netherlands, which won the AYA Excellence Award for Outstanding International Club in 2011. Paul initiated the AYA’s recent European Leadership Forum to bring together European Club leaders to discuss opportunities in the region with each other. Paul has served on the board of several charitable and not-for-profit organizations, and is Secretary of the Ivy Circle, an association of U.S. university alumni clubs providing a platform for social and cultural activities in the Netherlands, and sponsor of an annual Fulbright Scholarship. In 2014, Paul was Co-Producer of YaleGALE in Amsterdam.

Ilona Emmerth ‘98

Ilona Emmerth is Senior Director for Major Cities at AYA. She interacts primarily with alumni in New York and Chicago while overseeing staff engagement of alumni in Boston, Los Angeles,

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New Haven, San Francisco and Washington, DC. In addition to guiding the chapters through strategic planning and innovative program development, Ilona seeks out individual volunteer leaders to help them navigate a volunteer “career path” based on their personal interests and talents. Prior to joining the AYA staff in 2008, Ilona was a dedicated Yale alumna volunteer leader in Cleveland, Ohio. The highlight of her roles and achievements was the 2003 launch of Bulldogs on the Cuyahoga, a multifaceted summer internship program designed to attract current Yale students and recent graduates to the city. While in Cleveland, Ilona’s professional work included supply chain consulting as well as being a principal in her family’s business, a supplier to the fast food industry. Because of her business experience and community engagement, Crain’s Cleveland Business named her one of “Forty Under 40” rising business leaders in 2006.

Tim Harkness ‘87

Tim Harkness is a lawyer -- a partner with the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. Tim represents clients in complex commercial litigation and has played prominent roles in major international cases. As a volunteer in his professional field, Tim’s pro bono practice has ranged from representation of indigent criminal defendants to helping produce the International Protocol on the Documentation and Investigation of Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. In his local community he has served as an elected member of the Representative Town Meeting. His charitable work includes a fund which scholarships children to summer camp. For Yale, Tim is Secretary of the Yale Class of 1987 and has served on the Board for the Yale Alumni Service Corps as well as the AYA Board of Governors. He is one of the founders of Feb Club Emeritus, which won the inaugural AYA Excellence Award for Outstanding Collaboration. (Feb Club Emeritus is a viral world-wide series of alumni parties that attract thousands of Yalies each year.) Individually, Tim has received an AYA Leadership Award (Volunteer of the Year).

Oliver Janney ’67

Oliver Janney is a lawyer (Harvard Law) working as general counsel and chief legal officer of major multi-national corporations. He has served on the boards of a number of professional and nonprofit organizations in his community including Chairman of the Endowment Committee and Chancellor of his church. As a volunteer for Yale, he was President of the Yale Club of the Suncoast in Sarasota, Florida, and is currently a director and member of the Club’s Alumni Schools Committee. He has participated in the YaleGALE programs in the UK, Paris, and Europe. Oliver has also served as President of the Ivy League Club of Sarasota and Manatee Counties and continues to serve as a governor of the Ivy League Club and Chairman of the Ivy League Club Scholarship Fund.

Lynn Johnson ‘61

Lynn Johnson is a university professor, management consultant, trainer, teacher, facilitator, counselor and coach. He has taught from Africa to Michigan and from the wilds of Ohio to those

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of New York and New Hampshire. Lynn has also held key roles as senior administrator at both university and university consortium level. In his community, he has been a volunteer counselor as well as vice-president of his church. As a volunteer for Yale, Lynn has served as President of the Yale Club of Akron-Canton, and initiated the Yale Day of Service in the Albany area. Lynn is a member of the Board of YaleGALE and participated in YaleGALE trips to Japan, Turkey, China, Israel, the U.K., France, the Baltics, and Europe.

Jennifer Julier ’77

Prior to joining the AYA in 2001, Jennifer Julier volunteered as a Vice President of the Yale Club of New Haven and as its ASC director. Her duties in the class area of the AYA include working with nineteen Yale College Classes and planning the 40th, 45th, 50th and 55th reunions. Jennifer is also responsible for the intellectual programming at reunions, including the Friday morning lectures and Saturday’s Morning at Yale. She is also Chairman of the AYA’s Faculty Speakers Committee, which coordinates the use of faculty for our programs and oversees faculty stewardship. Before coming to Yale Jennifer was a freelance researcher, editor and writer in the fields of New Haven history and Connecticut genealogy. She holds a Master’s degree in library science from Columbia University and a B.A. in the History of Art from Yale, Class of 1977.

Susanna (“Susie”) Krentz ‘80

Susie Krentz is a recognized leader in strategy development for healthcare organizations, as well as an expert facilitator. Within her field, she is an active volunteer and current Board member for the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development of the American Hospital Association. For Yale, Susie currently serves as Treasurer of the Yale Alumni Magazine. She and her family participated in the first three YaleGALE missions to Australia, Japan, and Turkey. In addition, Susie has served on her class reunion special gifts committee, was a founder of WISER (Women’s Intercollegiate Sports Endowment & Resource), and led the planning committee for Calhoun College’s first all-class reunion. She took part in the development of YaleWomen’s strategic plan, and in 2005 received the Yale Class of 1980 award. Susie has also served on the AYA Board of Governors, and as its Chair led the development of the AYA’s first strategic plan. She was the recipient of the Yale Medal in 2010.

Nicholas Roman Lewis ‘93

Nicholas Roman Lewis is Senior Director for Shared Interest Groups at the Association of Yale Alumni. He has worked with various alumni groups such as Yale in Hollywood, the Yale Black Alumni Association, Yale GALA (Gay and Lesbian Alumni), the Yale Daily News and many others. In particular, he has helped several groups launch mission-driven and international initiatives that address societal needs. In addition to his work with Yale alumni, Nicholas is an entertainment attorney and literary agent in the fields of theater, television, music, film and publishing. Nicholas is currently writing and producing a musical. He has donated many pro- bono hours through the years helping artists with career strategies.

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Alisa Masterson

Having worked for the AYA for 24 years, Alisa Masterson is the longest serving staff person at the alumni association. In that time she has worked in many areas of the AYA, including the Club group where she eventually served as Director, the Class area, including reunions, and Shared Interest Groups where she made some of the AYA’s first outreach efforts. Seven years ago she managed the introduction of the global Yale Day of Service and continues to oversee its expansion and growth. She also works on the planning and implementation of the Assembly as well as recruiting, tracking and supporting volunteer delegates who attend. In addition, she works with Yale alumni and clubs outside the United States. She has been an active volunteer in her town where she has served on a number of educational committees and is on the boards of several political organizations. Alisa is a Fellow of Saybrook College.

Roy Niedermayer ‘69

Roy Niedermayer has spent his professional life as a commercial trial lawyer in Washington law firms. Along the way, he has also been a part-time military defense contractor, real estate and bank investor, and biotech entrepreneur in a genomics start-up. Somehow with all, this he still found time to lend his skills and energy to service on Washington D.C. Anti-Defamation League Civil Rights Committee and Regional Boards, several religious charities and his synagogue, and participated in the local Maryland Bar. His service to Yale is broad, being a former President and current board member of the Yale Club of Washington, D.C., a regional Day of Service director, chairman of his Club’s Alumni Schools Committee, creator of his Club’s Community Service Award to inner city high school students, a member of the AYA Board of Governors, and on the Board of YaleGALE while still finding the time to produce an educational Civil War tour sponsored by his Yale Club.

Kate Philip ‘10

Kate Philip is Director of Alumni Relations for The Buckley School, an independent day school for boys in New York City – with the highest Annual Fund participation of any elementary school in New York City. She previously served in a variety of roles in their development office which primarily focused on the parent Annual Fund. The School has recently embarked on a $50 million capital campaign. Kate grew up in Connecticut and serves as a member of the Alumni Association Executive Committee at Westminster School. For Yale, Kate is Co-Chair of Agents for the Class of 2010. She was elected to the Yale Alumni Fund Board in 2011, and the Yale Alumni Fund Executive Committee in 2012. Kate worked to establish the Yale alumni BOLD brand (Bulldogs Of the Last Decade) and has focused on improving leadership giving at the young alumni level. She is a seventh generation Yale graduate.

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Vincent (“Vin”) Sharkey ‘66

Vincent (“Vin”) Sharkey is an attorney and has also served as a senior executive at an insurance conglomerate and an artillery officer in the U.S. Army. As a volunteer for Yale, Vin has for many years been a member of his local Alumni Schools Committee interviewing student applicants to Yale, and has participated in the YaleGALE trips to China and Europe. Vin has served as President of the Yale Alumni Association of Bergen County and served as Secretary and Board Member for over twenty years.

Ed Sevilla ‘82

Ed Sevilla is Vice President in the strategic communications practice at Grenzebach Glier +Associates, a full-service philanthropic management consulting firm, serving non-profit organizations across North and South America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and Australia since 1961. He volunteers for Yale in a number of capacities. Ed served on the Board of Governors of the Association of Yale Alumni, and serves as the chair of the Davenport College Class of 1982 Cowles Fellowship. As a member of the Alumni Schools Committee, Ed interviews high school students who apply for admission to Yale College. Ed is on the Board of YaleGALE, and is its Vice-President. He has traveled to Japan, China, the United Kingdom, and New Mexico on YaleGALE delegations. He lives with his family in the Boston, Massachusetts area.

Ben Slotznick ‘70

Ben Slotznick is a lawyer, an inventor, a software developer, and a real estate developer. Ben has been on the Board and President of charitable and non-profit organizations in his community, including his synagogue and a non-profit housing development for the elderly. As a volunteer for Yale, Ben organized the 40th Reunion for the Class of 1970, which won an AYA award for Best Class Project of the Year. Ben is also President of the Yale Club of Central Pennsylvania, which covers an area the size of Scotland, but is sparsely populated by Yale alumni. Ben is on the Board of YaleGALE, Chair of its Communications Committee, and Producer for YaleGALE in Europe 2014 and YaleGALE@Yale. Ben is responsible for the YaleGALE website which was the 2013 winner of the AYA Most Creative Use of Technology and Social Networking Media Award.

Jack Thomas ‘80

Jack Thomas has produced plays on Broadway, Off Broadway, and in London’s West End, through his company Bulldog Theatrical. His recent productions include original musicals, Broadway debuts, smash hits, multiple award winners, and America’s most widely performed play for the past three years. In the New York arts community Jack has served for years on the board of several non-profits focused on theater, dance, music and social service. As Chair of the Yale Alumni Fund, Jack led a team of over 2,000 volunteer class agents, raising a record $53 million over two years. He has also served as advisor to the Yale College Senior Class Gift for two record-setting years. While Chair, he served ex officio on the AYA Board of Governors, the

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Yale Corporation Development Committee, and the University Council. He has served as Chair of Agents for his Class for thirty years, including six Reunions, all of which set fund-raising records. Jack has received the Chairman’s Award from the Yale Alumni Fund twice, and will be honored to receive the Yale Medal this November.

Anke Tietz ’11 PhD

Anke Tietz is a historian, classicist, and entrepreneur. After working as a researcher at LMU München with an international research project in Turkey, she founded her own educational travel company Via Antiqua. When Anke is not preparing trips or traveling herself, she tutors students in her neighborhood in Latin. As a volunteer for Yale, she has conducted interviews with Yale college applicants for the Yale Admissions Office and participated in YaleGALE in Europe.

Caroline Hsiao Van ‘79

Caroline Hsiao Van is an independent advisor to organizations with interests in education, the arts, conservation and social change. Prior to her non-profit work, Caroline worked in the financial services industry based in Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore. She served on Morgan Stanley Asia’s management committee during its inception years in Hong Kong and spearheaded the currency business in the burgeoning China market. She is a trustee of Future Generations USA and China, of New Asia College at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is on the international advisory board of the Children’s Orchestra Society in New York. For Yale, Caroline has been President of The Yale Club of Hong Kong, is the current ASC Director, started the UCS Bulldog program in Hong Kong, and is currently a member of the AYA Board of Governors.

Katy Wells ’91 JD

Katy Wells is an attorney and former semiconductor senior executive. As a volunteer in her community, she has served on the Board and as an Officer of charitable and non-profit organizations, including current terms on the Board of Trustees and athletic club Executive Committees of a college preparatory academy and as past Board President of a community development program. Through those activities, she helps maintain a website and newsletters, including coverage of student and alumni athletes of 16 different sports. As a volunteer for her undergraduate university (Lamar University), she served on the College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Council. As a Bowdoin College parent, she serves on the Parents Executive Committee helping with annual fundraising. As a volunteer for Yale, Katy has served as a Law School Class Agent, on the Law School Reunion Gift Giving Committees, and as delegate with YaleGALE in Paris and Europe.

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