Board of Directors
OFFICERS
President
Raona Roy
CEO, Raona Roy & Company, LLC
Vice President
Rex W. Smith
Editor-at-Large, Albany Times Union
Secretary
Wayne Senitta
Technical Sales Leader, IBM
Treasurer
Russ Wilks
CEO, RPR Studios
DIRECTORS
Jeanette Altarriba
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University at Albany
Marie Bosman
Vice President, Wells Fargo
Mitch Cohen
Systems Engineer/Architect, Advanced Systems Engineering Corporation (retired)
Gladys Cruz
District Superintendent, Questar III BOCES
James M. Gaughan
Municipal Official, Village of Altamont (retired)
Benjamin Golub
Marketing Operations Strategist, Proctors Collaborative
Ellen Jabbur
Nurse Anesthetist (retired)
H. Graham Jones
Executive Director, NYS Science & Tech Foundation (retired)
Steve Lobel
Vice President, Anchor Agency, Inc.
Douglas S. Petersen
Owner, Amidon & Petersen Financials, LLC
Jan Smith
Principal, Castle Rock Ranch Group, LLC
Michael Whiteman
Attorney, Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP
Michael Wolff
Physician Partner, Community Care Partners
Edelgard Wulfert
Interim Provost and Senior Vice President, University at Albany
HONORARY BOARD MEMBERS
Margery Whiteman
Board Governance and Fundraising Professional
Karen R. Hitchcock
(In Memoriam)
Directors Emeritus
Jonathan Hansen
Assistant Claims Counsel, Preferred Mutual Insurance Company
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS
George R. Hearst III, Co-chair
CEO, Times Union; Director, Hearst Corporation
Chet Opalka, Co-chair
President, Opalka Family Investment Partners, LP
Matthew Bender IV
President, Bender Family Foundation
(In Memoriam)
Alan Goldberg
President, First Albany Companies (retired)
E. Stewart Jones, Jr.
Partner, Jones Hacker Murphy
Kimberly Sanger Jones
Director of Operations, Jones Hacker Murphy
Richard Miller
Member, Morris & McVeigh LLP
Paul Milton
President/CEO, Ellis Medicine
John Nigro
President, Nigro Companies
Karen Opalka
Philanthropist
Ellen Sax
Vice President, Community Engagement, MVP Health Care
Marcia White
President, Marcia White Consulting, LLC