2025-2026 Season

Officers

President
Marion Terenzio
President, SUNY Cobleskill

Vice President
Jonathan Hansen
Attorney at Law, Monaco Cooper Lamme & Carr, PLLC

Treasurer
Tom McGuire
Banker and Economic Consultant (retired)

Secretary
Eric Arndt
Regional Director of Human Resources, United Capital Corporation

Directors

M. Tracey Brooks
Chief Operating Officer, Whiteface Club and Resort

Al De Salvo
Community Reinvestment Officer, M&T Bank (retired)

James M. Gaughan
Municipal Official, Village of Altamont (retired)

William Gibbons
Dean, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Robert T. Hennes
Director of Nonprofit Services and Partner, Hugh Johnson Advisors

Christine Hoek
Philanthropy Consultant; Owner, Chrysalis Unlimited

Ellen Jabbur
Nurse Anesthetist (retired)

Gwen Krause
Corporate Facilitator and Executive Coach

Darcy Crum Meadows
Senior Director of Legacy Giving, Foundation Fighting Blindness

Douglas S. Petersen
Owner, Amidon & Petersen Financials, LLC

Raona Roy
CEO, Raona Roy & Company, LLC

Wayne Senitta
Technical Sales Leader, IBM

Matthew Shaftel
President, Russell Sage College

Michael Wolff
Physician Partner, Community Care Partners

Emeritus Board Members

Jeanette Altarriba
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University at Albany

Steve Lobel
Vice President, Anchor Agency, Inc.

Rex W. Smith, immediate past president
Editor-at-Large, Albany Times Union (retired)

Michael Whiteman
Attorney and Partner, Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP

Edelgard Wulfert
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Psychology, University at Albany

 

Honorary Board Members

David Griggs-Janower, in memoriam
Founding Artistic Director and Conductor Emeritus

Margery Whiteman, in memoriam

 

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

Alan Goldberg
President, First Albany Companies (retired)

E. Stewart Jones, Jr.
Partner, Jones Hacker Murphy (retired)

Kimberly Sanger Jones
Director of Operations, Hacker Murphy LLP

Richard J. Miller, Jr.
Partner, Hughes Hubbard & Reed, LLP

John Nigro
President, Nigro Companies

Karen Opalka
Philanthropist

Marcia White
President, Marcia White Consulting, LLC