MCDANIEL - Key Persons


Aaron Slaughter

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager

Albert J. Mezzanotte

Job Titles:
  • Partner, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston L.L.P

Amanda Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President at Wealthspire Advisors & Co - Founder of the Health & Wealth Sisters, LLC

Anne M. Vose

Job Titles:
  • President, Weatherbee Company

Barbara Payne Shelton

Job Titles:
  • Consultant / Professor

Becca Gibson

Job Titles:
  • an Education Professional Focused on Children's Literacy and Using Children 's Literature As a Teaching Model.
When she first joined the McDaniel faculty in 2007, Becca Gibson was both a coordinator and instructor in the Innovations in Teaching and Learning master's program. Now part of the Education department, Gibson teaches courses on cultivating reading skills, literacy development, and how to teach children writing using children's literature as models. She holds a B.A. in French and an Elementary Education Teaching Certification from Albright College, an M.Ed. in Reading Education from Towson University, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Carroll L. Yingling

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President, RBC Wealth Management

Char Frith

Job Titles:
  • Commercial Real Estate Professional ( Retired )

Charles A. Boehlke

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President & CFO ( Ret. ), MSC Industrial Direct

Charles E. Moore

Job Titles:
  • CFO, Caspian International

Cheryl Knauer - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Public Relations
  • for Media Requests, Contact the Office of Communications and Marketing
For media requests, contact the Office of Communications and Marketing: Cheryl Knauer Director of Public Relations cknauer@mcdaniel.edu Office: 410-857-2294 Cell: 443-487-1645

Christopher Newman

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Head of Americas, T. Rowe Price

Dana Ferraris

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry / Chemistry
Students have the opportunity to learn from a drug discovery scientist and medicinal chemist when setting foot in Dana Ferraris' classroom. He spent 15 years in the pharmaceutical industry before beginning his teaching career. One of his favorite roles is mentoring undergraduate students while completing student-faculty research. He even worked with students on research to discover drugs to fight COVID-19. He teaches Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, and Modern Drug Discovery.

Darrell Guyton

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Specialty Contracts Group, Morgan Keller Inc

Dave Sears

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of Institutional Advancement
Mr. Sears joined McDaniel College in 2022 after serving as senior vice president of advancement and community engagement at Montgomery College in Rockville, Md. He previously served as director of athletic development at Georgetown University and vice president of advancement at Loyola University Maryland. Mr. Sears brings more than 30 years of experience in higher education fundraising and development to McDaniel.

David K. Moskowitz

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, the Moskowitz Family Foundation

Dr. Julia Jasken - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the McDaniel President Julia Jasken Joins CollegeBound Foundation Board
  • President
  • Daniel College President
McDaniel College is led by President Julia Jasken, and a Board of Trustees. The senior leadership team supports the functions of the college and make up the President's Council. On June 1, 2021, Dr. Julia Jasken became the 10th president of McDaniel College and the second woman president in the college's 154-year history. Over her tenure at McDaniel, Dr. Jasken has assumed increasing responsibility in administrative positions, serving the college's executive vice president and provost immediately preceding her presidency. Her expertise spans community engagement; new academic program development; academic and campus life restructuring; student success initiatives; oversight of institutional diversity, equity and inclusion efforts; adjunct faculty union contract negotiations; and building and supporting a culture of safety compliance.

Eric Dezenhall

Job Titles:
  • Founder, CEO, Dezenhall Resources, Ltd

Eric Simon

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Administration and Finance
Dr. Simon joined McDaniel as the vice president for administration and finance after serving as assistant vice chancellor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). In addition to breadth and depth of experience in finance, facilities, and human resources, Dr. Simon also brings a background in student life that informs his holistic and student-centered approach to administration and finance.

Faith Walker

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder, Walker Bowen Talent Partners
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Flavius Lilly

Job Titles:
  • Provost
Dr. Lilly joined McDaniel in 2023 after serving as the vice provost of academic and student affairs and the vice dean of the Graduate School at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), where he began in 2010. In addition to experience in new degree development, international partnerships, social and health innovation, student recruitment and marketing, and online learning, Dr. Lilly brings specific leadership expertise in developing new services and academic programs.

Heather Yeung

Job Titles:
  • Attorney at Davis, Agnor, Rapaport & Skalny, LLC

Heidi Snyder Reigel

Job Titles:
  • AVP of Constituent Engagement

J.Katana Ngala

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

James Francis

Job Titles:
  • President, CEO, Trustee, Chesapeake Lodging Trust

James H. Yates

Job Titles:
  • CEO, Chairman of the Board Emeritus, N.H. Yates & Company, Inc

Janelle Holmboe

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President for Constituent Engagement
Ms. Holmboe joined McDaniel College in 2018 after serving as the vice president of enrollment and marketing at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC. A proven enrollment leader, Ms. Holmboe has a wide range of strategic enrollment and marketing experience in addition to strong financial skills and leadership expertise.

Jennifer Yang

Job Titles:
  • Entrepreneur, Owner - Covalent Spirits

Julie Lucas

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Resource Development, MIT

Karen Lamont

Job Titles:
  • Owner, Vice President, Kalas Golf

Katrina Wiens

Job Titles:
  • Chemistry Lab Manager / Chemistry
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Keith Lawson

Job Titles:
  • Deputy General Counsel

Kristin Kober

Job Titles:
  • Founder, Kristin Kober Coaching and Consulting LLC

Krysta Huxford

Job Titles:
  • Owner and Certified Pilates Instructor, Practical Pilates, LLC

Lisa Turner Horn

Job Titles:
  • Chief, Office of Counterintelligence, National Security Agency

Liz Clark

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Defense Suicide Prevention Office

Liz Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board, CampusWorks

Lori Hockley

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Business, McDaniel College Senior Consultant, Aegis Performance Group

Mark W. Carter

Job Titles:
  • President, CEO, Up to Date Laundry, Inc

Mary Lynn Durham

Job Titles:
  • Lawyer

Melanie Nilsson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Chemistry / Chemistry

Michael Polen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer of Chemistry / Chemistry

New McDaniel

Job Titles:
  • President Seeks to Make School ‘the Independent College of Choice'

Patricia Green Rodgers

Job Titles:
  • MSPR - Award - Winning Public Relations Expert

Peter Craig

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Chemistry / Chemistry

Ralph O. Frith

Job Titles:
  • Divisional Sales Manager ( Ret. ), Spectrum Brands, Inc

Randy M. Day

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer, Perdue Farms

Samuel E. Hopkins

Job Titles:
  • VP, Therapeutics, Asklepios BioPharmaceutical., Inc

Stephanie Homan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Chemistry / Chemistry

Steven D. Kesler

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer, Chesapeake Realty Partners / Reisterstown, Maryland

Susan C. Stevenson

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc

William M. Rodgers, III

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Director, the Institute for Economic Equity / Hopewell, New Jersey