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Board of Trustees

Azania Andrews ’96
Occupation: CEO, 1440 Foods
Education: BA, Stanford University; MBA, Harvard Business School
Joined Board in 2023
Committee Assignments: External Development; Living, Learning and Inclusion

 


Tiffani R. Brown ’96
Occupation: Social Impact Campaign Designer and Manager
Education: BA, University of Southern California; MA, Yale; JD, New York University
Joined Board in 2015
Committee Assignments: Audit, Risk Management, and Compliance (chair); Committee on Trustees; Executive


David B. Cade '89

David B. Cade ’89
Occupation: Vice President – BDS Supply Chain Core 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; External Development

 


Mariah D. Calagione ’89, P’18, ’20
Chair of the Board

Occupation: Co-owner, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery
Education: BA, Brown University
Joined Board in 2011

 


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: Audit, Risk Management, and Compliance; Investment

 


NMH Trustee Alison Elliott

Alison S. Elliott ’71
Occupation: Retired Technology Marketing Executive
Education: BA, Vassar College; MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Joined Board in 2017
Committee Assignments: Committee on Trustees; Finance 

 


Stephen W. Gauster ’88
Vice Chair of the Board

Occupation: Financial Services Executive, Lawyer
Education: AB, Harvard College; AM, Harvard University; JD, Harvard Law School
Joined Board in 2014
Committee Assignments: Buildings and Grounds, Executive; Investment (chair)
 


Mirja C. Haffner ’92
Occupation: Director of Development
Education: BA, Barnard
Joined Board in 2021
Committee Assignments: Buildings and Grounds; External Development

 


Monie T. Hardwick ’74
Occupation: Hardwick Consulting Group
Education: BA, Yale University; MA, Middlebury College
Joined Board in 2018
Committee Assignments: Executive; External Development (chair); Finance

 


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


 


Josephine Hart ’74
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; Finance
 


Theresa M. Jacobs 10
Occupation: Manager, Smallholder Agriculture Development at NGO
Education: BA, Northeastern University; MA, Sussex University
Joined Board in 2022
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 (chair); Executive; Finance

 


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: Buildings and Grounds; External Development
 


Audrey G. Kubie ’68, P’94, ’97
Occupation: Retired
Education: BA, Syracuse University; MPA, Syracuse University; MSW, New York University
Joined Board in 2017
Committee Assignments: Building and Grounds; External Development; Living, Learning, and Inclusion
 


Alexander Lotocki de-Veligost ’70, P’15
Occupation: Political Risk Insurance Consultant
Education: BA, Lake Forest College; CEP Degree in International Relations, L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Joined Board in 2015
Committee Assignments: Audit, Risk Management, and Compliance; External Development
 


Peter Macdonald ’75
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; Executive; Living, Learning, and Inclusion (chair)


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: External Development

 


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

 


Justin Wai ’02
Treasurer of the Board

Occupation: Real Estate Private Equity
Education: BS, Cornell University
Joined Board in 2014
Committee Assignments: Committee on Trustees; Executive; Finance (chair); Investment
 


Shannon Weinberger P’14, ’16
Secretary of the Board

Occupation: Self-employed
Education: BS, M.Ed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joined Board in 2015
Committee Assignments: Committee on Trustees (chair); Executive; Learning, Living, and Inclusion
 

Contact the Board of Trustees at NMHTrustees@nmhschool.org

For questions, please contact Dena Fletcher, assistant secretary of the Board of Trustees.