RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE - Key Persons


Adam Hechler

Job Titles:
  • Director, Technology, Systems

Alexandre da Silva

Job Titles:
  • Director

Allison Newman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice President, External Relations and Administration

Andrew White

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director, Rensselaer Libraries
  • Director, Rensselaer Libraries Information Services
  • Library Information Services

Anna Krumpholz

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Registrar - Degree Audit Programming

Anne Bilynsky

Job Titles:
  • Director, Compensation and Employment

Antony D'Angelus - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Director, Human Resources

Aparna Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Director, MS in Quantitative Finance and Risk Analytics ( QFRA )

Ariela Zamcheck

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Art Tracy

Job Titles:
  • Director, Gift Planning

Arthur F. Golden

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Partner, Davis Polk and Wardell LLP, Chair

Ashley Ferro-Murray

Job Titles:
  • Assoc. Director, Arts

Assad Oberai

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs

Barbara A. Ruel

Job Titles:
  • Director, K - 13 Outreach

Benjamin Marte

Job Titles:
  • Director, Counseling Services

Benjamin Yung

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Student Activities - Programming

Bill Francis

Job Titles:
  • Director, Ph.D. Program

Brett Fajen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Brian Clark

Job Titles:
  • Director, MBA and MS Programs

Brian J. Clement

Job Titles:
  • Director, Technical and Information Services

Cameron Reid McLean

Job Titles:
  • Director, Student Activities

CAPT Daniel D. Arensmeyer

Job Titles:
  • Institutional Research Director, Institutional Research

Carina Teator

Job Titles:
  • Director, Research Administration and Finance

Cary Dresher

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of off Campus Commons

Catherine Persoon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Lecturer

CDR David J. Latta

Job Titles:
  • Institutional Research Director, Institutional Research

Chanaka Edirisinghe

Job Titles:
  • Acting Dean

Charlie Potts

Job Titles:
  • Director

Cheryl McGlothlin

Job Titles:
  • Director, University Events

Chris Perry

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Graduate Studies

Christian M. Wetzel

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Science for Research and Graduate Programs

Christina Lowery

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Residence Life

Christine Allard

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Christopher Dutchover

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean

Clint Ballinger

Job Titles:
  • Interim Director, Undergraduate Programs

Connie Grega

Job Titles:
  • Director, Graduate Student Services

Craig Cook

Job Titles:
  • Secretary of the Institute and General Counsel

Curt M. Breneman

Job Titles:
  • Dean

Curtis Bahn

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research

Curtis N. Powell

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Human Resources

Curtis R. Priem

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Founder and Former Chief Technical Officer, NVIDIA Corp
  • Founder and Former Chief Technical Officer, NVIDIA Corp., Secretary

Cynthia Smith

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Students / Director, Pipeline Initiatives and Partnership

Daniel T. Pickett III

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Co - Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board, Nfrastructure

Darlene Alvarado

Job Titles:
  • Director, Donor Relations, Campaign Operations, and Communications

David Gaul

Job Titles:
  • Resident Dining Director

David Ho

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee

David Ira

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

David J. Guame

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Treasurer for Investments

David L. Spooner

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Science for Academic Affairs

David M. Hirsch

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Managing Director, Mustang Partners, LLC

Dawn Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Debbie Riggi

Job Titles:
  • Business Administrator

Deborah Altenburg

Job Titles:
  • Director, Federal Relations

Deborah Gordon

Job Titles:
  • Hillel Adviser

Dennis Gornic

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean

Derek Westbrook

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Lecturer

Diane Piester

Job Titles:
  • Director, Creative Services

Dorit Nevo

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean
  • Director, MS in Business Analytics

Drew Lentz

Job Titles:
  • Associate Registrar - Registration

Duane DeWeerdt

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Customer Service

Edward E. Hood Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chairman and Executive Officer, Retired, General Electric Co., Chair Emeritus

Edward J. Zander

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee

Edward M. Staats

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Design and Construction

Edwina McCormick

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Eilieen McLoughlin

Job Titles:
  • Controller

Elisha Mozersky

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff

Elizabeth Preston

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager, Auxiliary Services

Erika Rau Lawson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Student Activities

Ernest Katzwinkel

Job Titles:
  • Acting Vice President
  • Physical Plant Director

Ethan Stubbs

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Greek Commons

Evan Douglis

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean

Frank E. Ross III

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Student Life

Frank M. Fischer

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Chief Executive Officer, NeuroPace Inc

Gary Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • Director, Communications and Middleware Technologies

Gary T. DiCamillo

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Partner, Eaglepoint Advisors

George Campbell Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • President Emeritus, the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art

Gina O'Connor

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Glen Gross

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Lecturer

Graham Doig

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director, Integrated Administrative Computing Services

Graham Knowles

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Lecturer

Graig R. Eastin

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Institute Advancement

Harlan E. Anderson

Job Titles:
  • General Partner, Anderson Investment Co

Helen Grzymala

Job Titles:
  • Treasury

Howard Blitman

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Trustee
  • Owner and President, Blitman Building Corporation

Jack Huang

Job Titles:
  • Strategic Communications and External Relations / Vice President

Jackson P. Tai

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee

Jacqueline A. Stampalia

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director, Client Information Services

Jacquelyn Ellsworth

Job Titles:
  • Research Administration and Finance Assistant Vice President for Research and Finance

James E. Spencer Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Director

James Evans

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director, Multimedia Services

James Reed

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Lecturer

Janelle Fayette

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, First - Year Experience

Janet C. Rutledge

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Jarron P. Decker

Job Titles:
  • Acting Director, Graduate Admissions

Jeffrey G. Miner

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President for Information Services
  • Asst. VP, Information Svcs

Jeffrey L. Kodosky

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Business and Technology Fellow, National Instruments

Jeffrey Schanz

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Alumni Relations

Jennifer Brock

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Board Relations

Jennifer Donahue

Job Titles:
  • Director, Donor Relations and Communications

Jennifer Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Director, Research Finance

Jennifer Forbes

Job Titles:
  • Class Dean, Student Experience

Jennifer Kazmierczak

Job Titles:
  • Director, Environmental Health and Safety

Jennifer Littlejohn

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant

Jennifer Walters

Job Titles:
  • Director, Center for Career and Professional Development

Jerin Li

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Specialist

Jerry Matthews

Job Titles:
  • Interim Director

Johannes E. Goebel

Job Titles:
  • Director

John Bennett

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee

John Capek

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee

John E. Kelly, III

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Senior Vice President, Solutions Portfolio and Research, IBM Corporation

John E. Kolb

Job Titles:
  • Vice President, Information Services and Technology and Chief Information Officer
John Kolb '79 received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Rensselaer. A licensed professional engineer, Kolb's Rensselaer career spans over 30 years. He previously served as dean, Computing and Information Services; assistant dean, Engineering; head, Core Engineering; and director, Engineering Computing Services. Kolb has taught courses in Engineering Science, Management, and IT. He is a member of the NYSERNET.org and chair, and NYSERNET.net Boards; co-chair, University of the State of NY Technology Policy and Practices Council; member of the boards of Internet2, the Rensselaer Newman Foundation, WMHT, the American Society for Engineering Education, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, former chair, CIO Council of the Capital Region Business-Higher Education Roundtable, and former board member, Children's Museum of Science and Technology, and past recipient of the Boeing Outstanding Engineering Educator Award. Kolb was instrumental in attracting and implementing the $100M Computational Center for Nanotechnology Innovations (CCNI) and the NYS High Performance Computing Consortium (HPC2).

John Gall

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Engineer

John H. Broadbent Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Founder, Director, and Former Chief Financial Officer, VP - Finance and Treasurer, Arrow International Inc

John Kalbacher

Job Titles:
  • Director, Accounting

John Lawler

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Student Living and Learning

John Nehrich

Job Titles:
  • Mueller Center Program Coordinator

John Nigro D.

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Trustee
  • Owner
  • Owner, Nigro Companies

John S. Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director, Information Security

John W. Carr

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Retired Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Jonathan D. Wexler

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Enrollment / Dean, Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions

Jonathan S. Dordick

Job Titles:
  • Vice President for Research

Joseph Campo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Coordinator, Fitness Center, Programs, and Intramurals

Judith Obiero

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Lecturer

Julie W. Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Education / Vice Provost and Dean

Karen Dvorak

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, Office of International Programs

Karen Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Business and Finance, SWA

Karen S. Long

Job Titles:
  • Director, Undergraduate Admissions

Karl Steffen

Job Titles:
  • Director of Intramurals

Karyn Dyer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director
  • Lecturer

Kate Murtagh

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee

Kathryn Dannemann

Job Titles:
  • Director, Engineering Multidisciplinary Design Lab

Kathy McNamara

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Employment

Kelli A. Perry

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President for Finance and Controller

Kelly Dalheim

Job Titles:
  • Associate Registrar - Customer Service

Ken Simons

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research

Kevin Beattie

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Communication and Compliance

Kevin Readdean

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Kim Tobio

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Registrar - Degree Audit

Kimberly Herkert

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Registrar
  • Associate Registrar - Records

Kirk Ives

Job Titles:
  • Director, Federal Relations

Kurt S. Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies

Larry Hardy - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Director, Human Resources

Lauren Arnoff

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Mueller Center

Lauren Chemotti

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Coordinator

Lee Ligon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Science for Academic Affairs

Lee McElroy Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Director of Athletics

Les Arras

Job Titles:
  • Planning and Facilities Design Director

Leslie Lawrence

Job Titles:
  • Director

Leslie Norton

Job Titles:
  • Director

Linda Jojo

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee

Linda S. Sanford

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee

Linda Teitelman McCloskey

Job Titles:
  • Director

Lindsay Dembner

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Students / Vice President and Dean of Students

Liping Huang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs

Lisa Trahan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Student Experience

Lois Peters

Job Titles:
  • Director, MS in Technology Commercialization and Entrepreneurship

Louis Padula

Job Titles:
  • Director, Benefits, Retirement and HRIS

M. V. Shyam Kumar

Job Titles:
  • Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
  • Director, MBA Programs

Maria Bernard

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Manager

Maria Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Student Activities - Marketing
  • Associate Dean, First - Year Experience

Marie K. Carroll

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Adv. Systems Data Management and Training
  • Manager, Advancement Systems

Mark M. Little

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee

Mark Wagner - Retail Director

Job Titles:
  • Retail Director

Martha McElligott

Job Titles:
  • Business Administrator

Martin A. Schmidt - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Martin Daniels

Job Titles:
  • Finance Vice President for Finance and Chief Financial Officer

Mary Alice O'Brien

Job Titles:
  • Acting Director, Enterprise Information Services

Mary Gallagher

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Registrar - Transfer Credit

Mary H. Simoni

Job Titles:
  • Dean

Mary Houghton

Job Titles:
  • Acting Director
  • Director, Information Technologies and Infrastructure

Mary Humiston

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee

Matthew Muller

Job Titles:
  • General Manager

Meaghan Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Dean of Students / Dean of Students

Meaghan Kraft

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Procurement Systems

Melissa Termine-Goetz

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Student Activities

Michael Conroy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Registrar

Michael E. Herman

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee

Michael H. Hanna

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Director, Advising and Learning Assistance Center

Michael Hughes

Job Titles:
  • Director, Faculty Development

Michael Kalsher

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Michael Mannion

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Engineer

Michael Radzyminski

Job Titles:
  • Research Administration and Finance Assistant Vice President for Research Administration and Finance

Michael Sitterley

Job Titles:
  • Director, Housing Operations

Michele Owens

Job Titles:
  • Executive Speechwriter

Miciah Yehudah

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director, Student Activities - Multicultural Programs

Mike Bayer

Job Titles:
  • Customer Service Manager

Mike Ramella

Job Titles:
  • Director

Nancy S. Mueller

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Founder, Nancy 's Specialty Foods

Natalie A. Sutera

Job Titles:
  • Administration / Vice President for Administration
  • Director, Student Support and Success

Nick Viggiani

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President for Research

Olivia Conroy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean

Pamela Smith

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice President, Marketing and Communications

Paul Galbraith

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Customer Service Center

Paul J. Severino

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Founder and Former Chairman, Bay Networks

Paul W. Martin

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President for Administration

Paula L. Simon

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Member of the Officers Team

Peggy Conroy-Martin

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Registrar

Peter Grimm

Job Titles:
  • Director, University Events

Philip Bruce

Job Titles:
  • Director, Center for Career and Professional Development

Prabhat Hajela

Job Titles:
  • Lead Business Manager
  • Manager, Academic Operations and Budget

Rachael Kruse

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director, Procurement Services

Rachel Capo

Job Titles:
  • Director, Procurement Services

Rajni Soharu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Registrar - Articulation and Compliance

Randi Mogul

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean

Richard Plotka

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Director, Information Technology and Web Science

Robert Carney

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Design and Construction

Robert O. Swanson

Job Titles:
  • Honorary Trustee

Robert P. Bozzone

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board, Allegheny Teledyne Inc

Roderic "Rod" Pettigrew

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee

Ron Moraski

Job Titles:
  • Director, Procurement Services

Ronald J. Zlatoper

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team

Roy N. Davis

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee

Sabra-Joi Dingman

Job Titles:
  • Dean, First - Year Experience

Sam Chiappone

Job Titles:
  • Director, Manufacturing Innovation

Samantha Tymchyn

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of off Campus Commons

Samuel F. Heffner Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Principal, Heffner & Weber, Honorary Chairman

Samuel Simmons

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Coordinator

Sandy Chan

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean

Sean O'Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Managing Director, SOSventures International

Sharon L. Kunkel

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Registrar

Sharon M. Beaudoin

Job Titles:
  • Director, Operations

Shekhar Garde

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Shirley Ann Jackson - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • President

Sibel Adali

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Science for Research and Graduate Programs

Silvia Edmonds

Job Titles:
  • Director, Annual Giving

Srinivasan "Siva" Sivaram

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Executive Vice President, Memory Technology, SanDisk

Stanley M. Dunn

Job Titles:
  • Vice Provost and Dean

Steve Allard

Job Titles:
  • Director, Mueller Center, Programs, and Club Sports

Steven Schwan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Business Manager

Susan Henryi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Lecturer

Susan L. Proskine

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Treasurer
  • Senior Treasury Officer

Susan Riello

Job Titles:
  • Director, Institutional Design

Susan Sanderson

Job Titles:
  • Director, MS in Management

Suzanne M. Morris

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Chief of Staff

Swaran Rataul

Job Titles:
  • Facilities Engineer

T. Ravichandran

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Research
  • Director, MS in Supply Chain Management

The Honorable Arthur J. Gajarsa

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Officers Team
  • Senior Counsel, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Door LLP
  • Senior Counsel, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Door, Chair

The Honorable Patrick Madden B.

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Mayor of Troy, Ex Officio

Thomas Begley

Job Titles:
  • Dean

Thomas Landon

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean

Thomas Looby

Job Titles:
  • Director

Thomas Mattern

Job Titles:
  • Director of C CC

Thomas R. Baruch

Thomas R. Baruch ‘60 B.M.T., J.D., Founder and Managing Director, Baruch Future Ventures, LLC

Timothy Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Stockroom and Central Receiving

Todd H. Schill

Job Titles:
  • Dean

Towanda Colquiett

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Site Services

Tracey Leibach

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Web Communications
  • Student Life / Vice President for Student Life

Tracy Paul, Sr.

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager
  • Business Information Services

Tracy Schierenbeck

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director
  • Director
  • Lecturer

Vadim Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Victoria Brooks

Job Titles:
  • Curator, Time - Based Visual Arts
  • Manager, Administrative Operations

Virginia C. Gregg

Job Titles:
  • Controller

Wanda Denson-Low

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • Member of the Officers Team

William L. Meaney

Job Titles:
  • Active Trustee
  • President and Chief Executive Officer, Iron Mountain Inc