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. Page 8 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 Page 9 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, Page 10 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.