Board of Trustees

Azania Andrews ’96
Occupation: CEO, Bar Keepers Friend
Education: BA, Stanford University; MBA, Harvard Business School
Joined board in 2023
Committee Assignments: Executive; External Development (chair); Committee on Trustees

David B. Cade ’89
Occupation: Vice President, Boeing Defense Supply Chain: Major Suppliers and Strategic Contracting/The Boeing Company
Education: BA, University of Pennsylvania; J.D., University of Michigan
Joined board in 2022
Committee Assignments: Audit; Risk Management, and Compliance (chair); Executive; Finance

Samuel “Sam” Calagione ’88, P’18, ’20
Occupation: Brewer and Founder, Dogfish Head
Education: BA, Muhlenberg College
Joined board in 2025
Committee Assignments: External Development; Living, Learning, and Inclusion

Arshay Cooper
Occupation: Author and Founder of AMBT Inclusion Fund
Education: AS, Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts 
Joined board in 2024
Committee Assignments: External Development; Living, Learning, and Inclusion
 

Bader A. El-Jeaan ’90
Occupation: Co-founder and Managing Partner, Meysan Partners
Education: AB, Harvard College; MA, Oxford University
Joined board in 2021
Committee Assignments: Investment; Audit
 

Mirja Spooner Haffner ’92
Occupation: Director of Development
Education: BA, Barnard
Joined board in 2021
Committee Assignments: Buildings and Grounds (chair); Executive; Committee on Trustees

Timothy “Chip” Hall ’88
Occupation: Executive Director, Lifetime Cardinal
Education: BA, Stanford; MBA, University of California, Berkeley
Joined board in 2025
Committees: Buildings and Grounds; Living, Learning, and Inclusion

Monie T. Hardwick ’74
Chair
Occupation: Hardwick Consulting Group
Education: BA, Yale University; MA, Middlebury College
Joined board in 2018
 

Brian Hargrove 
Occupation: Head of School
Education: BA, Gettysburg College; MBA, Texas State University; MSEd., University of Pennsylvania

 

Josephine Hart ’74
Treasurer
Occupation: Managing Principal of JH Holdings (Real Estate Development)
Education: BA, Rice University; Masters of Architecture, Columbia University;
MBA, Columbia University
Joined board in 2020
Committee Assignments: Committee on Trustees; Executive; Finance (chair)

Theresa M. Jacobs ’10
Occupation: Manager, Smallholder Agriculture Development at NGO
Education: BA, Northeastern University; MA, Sussex University
Joined board in 2022
Committee assignments: Buildings and Grounds; Living, Learning, and Inclusion
 

Andrew Jessen P’26
Occupation: Banking, William Blair & Company
Education: AB, Middlebury College, MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Joined board in 2024
Committee Assignments: External Development; Living, Learning, and Inclusion

Lena Jessen P’26
Occupation: Community Volunteer
Education: BS, Southern Methodist University; MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Joined board in 2024
Committee Assignments: External Development; Living, Learning, and Inclusion

Jay Kaplan ’72
Occupation: Retired Business Owner
Education: BA, Economics, Hobart College
Joined board in 2016
Committee Assignments: Buildings and Grounds; Executive; Finance; Investment (chair)
 

Charles A. Knirsch ’76, P’19, ’21
Occupation: Physician
Education: BSc, McGill University; MPH, Columbia University; MD, CM, McGill University; DTM&H, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Joined board in 2021
Committee assignments: Executive; External Development; Living, Learning, and Inclusion (chair); Audit, Risk Management and Compliance

Elizabeth “Lizzie” Macaulay P’27
Occupation:  Professor, The City University of New York Graduate Center
Education: BA, Cornell University; MSt., D.Phil., University of Oxford
Joined board in 2025
Committee assignments: External Development; Living, Learning, and Inclusion

Peter Macdonald ’75
Vice Chair
Occupation: Former Partner and Vice Chair of Litigation/Controversy at Wilmer Hale (Law Firm)
Education: BA, Northwestern University; JD, Boston University
Joined board in 2020
Committee Assignments: Audit, Risk Management, and Compliance; Committee on Trustees; Executive

Carl Meyer ’87
Occupation: Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Silver Rock Financial LP 
Education: BA, University of Chicago; MBA, University of Chicago
Joined board in 2020
Committee Assignments: Finance; Investment 

Andrew Ness ’04
Occupation: Corporate Strategy, Aerospace and Space
Education: BA, Columbia University; MBA, Duke University Fuqua School of Business
Joined board in 2023
Committee Assignments: Buildings and Grounds; External Development
 

Jun Woo Park ’02
Occupation: Managing Partner, Brookfield Asset Management
Education: BS, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
Joined board in 2024
Committee Assignments: Finance; Investment
 

Edward Pitoniak ’74
Occupation: Founding CEO, VICI Properties
Education: BA, Amherst College
Joined board in 2023
Committee Assignments: Buildings and Grounds; Investment
 

Roberta Taggart ’07
Occupation: Director, Barclays
Education: BS, Georgetown University
Joined board in 2025
Committee assignments: Finance; Investment

Justin Wai ’02
Secretary of the Board
Occupation: Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group
Education: BS, Cornell University
Joined board in 2025
Committee assignments: Committee on Trustees (chair); Executive; Investment

Sally Willis ’82
Occupation: Retired
Education: AS, Temple University; BS, California Polytechnic State University
Joined board in 2024
Committee Assignments: External Development; Living, Learning, and Inclusion