LAWRENCE - Key Persons


Abir Sen - Chairman, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Co - Founder
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Trustee

Ahmad, Zavitsanos - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Trustee

Alison Scott-Williams - COO, EVP

Job Titles:
  • COO
  • Executive Vice President
  • University As Its Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Alison Scott-Williams will join Lawrence University as its executive vice president and chief operating officer. She has served as president of Studio in a School NYC since 2020.

Amos Lawrence - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Founder

Amy Friedel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Treasurer

Anna Ponder

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Administrative Officers Team
  • Member of the Development Committee

Annika Schmidt

Annika Schmidt follows passion for cello and linguistics Lawrence University junior Annika Schmidt excels in her academic pursuits: cello and linguistics. She was recently named the co-winner of the annual Concerto Competition for the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra.

Anton R. Valukas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee

Barbara Smith Lawton

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Trustee Governance Committee
  • Trustee

Breanna A. Skeets

Job Titles:
  • Community Relations Manager
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Trustee

Calvin D. Husmann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Administrative Officers Team
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Senior Principal Gifts Officer

Catheryn E. Hoehn

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
  • Emeriti Trustee

Cheryl Wilson Kopecky

Job Titles:
  • Administrator
  • Chairman of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Trustee

Chris Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Student Life

Christopher R. Anzalone - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Investment Committee
  • President
  • Trustee

Christopher W. Murray

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Trustee
  • Retired Officer

Christyn Abaray

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Secretary
  • Member of the Administrative Officers Team
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Board

Cory L. Nettles - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Investment Committee
  • Member of the Trustee Governance Committee
  • Trustee
  • Ex - Officio and Chair of the Board
  • Founder and Managing Director, Generation
Samir Datta, vice president for finance and administration and treasurer of the board

Cory Puuri

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Web Communications

Dale R. Schuh - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors
  • Emeriti Trustee

Dana Jacobson

Job Titles:
  • Director of Brand Creative

Daniel T. Busiel

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chair of the Investment Committee

Daniel T. Damiani

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Multimedia Strategy and Production

David C. Blowers

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Executive Committee
  • Chairman of the Trustee Governance Committee
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Trustee
  • Vice Chairman

David N. Knapp - CEO, SVP

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Investment Committee
  • Member of the Trustee Governance Committee
  • Senior Managing Director
  • Senior VP
  • Trustee

David R. Shepard - COO

Job Titles:
  • COO
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Trustee
  • Vice Chair of the Finance Committee

Dean G. DuMonthier

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Investment Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee

Deanna Kolell

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Social Media

Dwight A. Peterson

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee
  • Retired Vice President and Treasurer

Ed C. Berthiaume

Job Titles:
  • Director

Edith G. Andrew

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee

Emeritus Dean

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee

Eric Schacht

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Secretary

Evan Bravos

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee

Francesca P. Romero Siekman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Project Developer
  • Trustee

Frederick Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Trustee
  • Vice Chair of the Audit Committee
  • Architect, Frederick Fisher & Partners Architects

Garth Bond

Job Titles:
  • Finding Joy in British Lit and Pick - Up Soccer
Meet Garth Bond, a soccer-loving English professor whose research and teaching are heavy on classic English literature-from Shakespeare and others of the Renaissance to 16th- and 17th-century British poets.

Gregg O. Dawley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Investment Committee
  • Trustee Member at Large

Haley Wallace

Job Titles:
  • Institutional Research Fellow

Harry M. Jansen Kraemer

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee
  • Clinical Professor of Leadership - Kellogg School Management, Northwestern University

Irene Strohbeen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Entrepreneur - in - Residence

James D. Ericson

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee
  • Chairman, Northwestern Mutual

Jeffrey D. Riester

Job Titles:
  • Counsel
  • Emeriti Trustee

Jodi Sedlock

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Biology at Lawrence University
Jodi Sedlock, professor of biology at Lawrence University, has been listening to bats as she and students pursue research in sensory ecology in forests, caves, and biodiverse rice fields.

Joe Y. Ahmad

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Trustee

John A. Luke

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee
  • Non - Executive Chairman, WestRock Company

Jon Stellmacher

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Trustee
  • Senior VP and Chief of Staff and Administration ( Retired ), Thrivent

Katy Schwartz Strei

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Trustee
  • Vice Chair

Kelly S. Coenen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Administrative Assistant

Ken Bach

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice President for Communications and Marketing

Kenny E Yarbrough

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Antiracism, and Support Services
Kenny E Yarbrough, vice president for inclusion, diversity, equity, antiracism, and support services

Kristin L. McKinley

Job Titles:
  • Director of Institutional Research

Laurie A. Carter - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Investment Committee
  • President
  • President of the Executive Committee
  • President of the Trustee Governance Committee
  • Trustee
  • Cabinet Supports President
  • President / Dean G. DuMonthier
  • President of Shippensburg University
  • President, Ex - Officio
  • Supports President
President Carter shares her vision, hopes, and aspirations for Lawrence and its surrounding community in regular updates to the campus community, speeches on campus and in the Fox Cities, and in her annual Matriculation Convocation address. The President's Cabinet & Office of the President supports President Carter to ensure that the university meets its mission, pursues its strategic goals, and ensures the well-being of the university and its community. Laurie A. Carter, a strategic and dedicated leader in higher education, joined the Lawrence community in July 2021 as the university's 17th president. "I have found my way to the light of Lawrence University, and I am honored to serve as its 17th president."

Louis B. Butler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Trustee

Lucas A. Brown

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Administrative Officers Team
  • Associate Vice President of Development

Lydia A. Howarth

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Trustee

Martha J. Olson

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Trustee

Matthew Stoneking

Job Titles:
  • Research, Teaching, and Global Collaborations
Lawrence University Professor of Physics Matthew Stoneking has spent much of the past decade splitting his professional time between the Lawrence campus in Appleton and a physics research institute in Munich, Germany, all in pursuit of a novel kind of plasma.

Mayer Brown

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee
  • Retired

Meet Acacia Ackles

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
Meet Acacia Ackles, assistant professor of computer science, who has been developing new courses and collaborating across disciplines since arriving on campus in 2022.

Meet Tim Albright

Job Titles:
  • Professor at Lawrence University
Meet Tim Albright, trombone professor at Lawrence University. He directs the Trombone Ensemble, coaches chamber music and jazz small group ensembles, and continues to perform at a high level. And he knitted that awesome scarf.

Michael P. Cisler

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee
  • Emeritus Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee

Nancy Scarff

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee
  • Trustee, Stephen Edward Scarff Memorial Foundation

Noemi Delgado

Noemi Delgado joined Lawrence earlier this year as the director of Accessibility Services and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) coordinator. She's working to ease the process for a student's accommodation needs to be effectively addressed.

Overton B. Parrish

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee
  • President and Chief Executive Officer, Phoenix Health Care, Inc

Peter A. Blitstein

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Provost and Dean of the Faculty and Associate Professor

Peter M. Musser

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Audit Committee
  • Manager
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Investment Committee
  • Trustee

Peter R. Betzer

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee

Phil Betz

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee

Renee Goral Boldt

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee

Richard A. Moser

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Trustee

Richard G. Fessler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Trustee

Richard L. Gunderson

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee
  • Retired

Robert F. Perille

Job Titles:
  • Managing Member
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Investment Committee
  • Trustee

Robert J. Schaupp - President

Job Titles:
  • Emeriti Trustee
  • President

Robert Nowak

Job Titles:
  • Lead Admissions Team
Robert Nowak is joining Lawrence University as its new associate vice president for enrollment management, providing leadership for the university's Admissions team. He will begin his duties on April 1. Read more about Robert Nowak named associate VP for enrollment management

Ryan F. Primmer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Investment Committee
  • Trustee Member at Large

Sachin Shivaram

Job Titles:
  • Instructor
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee

Samir Datta - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Investment Committee
  • Treasurer
  • Vice President for Finance and Administration and Treasurer of the Board / Buildings and Grounds Subcommittee ( of Finance )
  • Vice President for Finance and Administration, Treasurer and Treasurer of the Board / Administrative Officer
Samir Datta, vice president for finance and administration, treasurer and treasurer of the board

Sara A. Quandt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Trustee
  • Vice Chair of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Professor

Sarah E. Schott - Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Compliance Officer
  • General Counsel
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Trustee Governance Committee
  • Trustee
  • Vice Chair
  • Vice Chair of the Board
  • Chairman and Vice Chair of the Board
  • Ex - Officio and Vice Chair of the Board / Administrative Officer
Peter A. Blitstein, provost and dean of the faculty and associate professor of history Samir Datta, vice president for finance and administration and treasurer of the board

Sarah J. Dunnagan

Job Titles:
  • Data Manager
  • Senior Research Analyst

Scott D. Myers - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Managing Partner
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Investment Committee
  • Trustee
  • Vice Chair of the Development Committee

Shelley A. Davis - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Investment Committee
  • Member of the Trustee Governance Committee
  • President
  • Trustee
  • Dean G. DuMonthier

Sidney K. Ayabe

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Owner
  • Trustee
  • Vice Chair of the Audit Committee
  • Dean G. DuMonthier

Steven J. Mech

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Trustee Member at Large

Susan Long Hall - Founder, President

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • President
  • Trustee
  • Vice Chair of the Enrollment Committee

Tamika Watson Franklin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Trustee Governance Committee
  • Senior Director
  • Trustee

Taylor Hughes

Taylor Hughes is a creative writing major and a two-sport athlete-volleyball and softball. She also works as the sports editor of The Lawrentian. It's a perfect combination of creativity and competition, she says.

William J. Baer

Job Titles:
  • Fellow
  • Member of the Academic and Student Affairs Committee
  • Member of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Enrollment Committee
  • Member of the Executive Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Member of the Trustee Governance Committee
  • Secretary of the Board
  • Trustee
  • Ex - Officio and Secretary of the Board
Peter A. Blitstein, provost and dean of the faculty and associate professor of history

William O. Hochkammer

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Audit Committee
  • Member of the Development Committee
  • Member of the Finance Committee
  • Partner
  • Trustee