School of Business

Trustees

Our School of Business Foundation board is made up of Virginia business leaders who volunteer their time and expertise in support of our programs and people.  

• Chair

  Thomas G. Snead Jr. (B.S. ’76)
  President and CEO (retired)
  Southeast Region, Wellpoint, Inc., Anthem Blue Cross & Blue Shield

• Vice-chair

  Robert E. Henley (B.S. ’71)
  Managing partner (retired)
  Ernst & Young

• Treasurer

  Charles F. Phillips III
  Richmond office managing partner
  Ernst & Young

• Secretary

  Laura E. Kottkamp
  Executive director
  School of Business Foundation and Corporate Relations, VCU School of Business

• Directors

• L. Dans Callans Jr. (B.S. '66)
  President (retired)
  Sunset Ford
• Eric D. Cevis
  President
  Verizon Partner Solutions
• Phyllis L. Cothran (B.S. ’71)
  President and COO (retired)
  Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
• Peyton Cox (MBA '03)
  Vice president 
  Investment Properties | Multifamily
  CBRE | Capital Markets
• Paul W. Croston
  Managing partner
  KPMG LLP
• Melina Davis (MBA '01)
  Executive vice president
  Medical Society of Virginia
• David Gallagher (B.S. '97)
  Chief executive officer
  Dominion Payroll Services
• Mark M. Gambill
  Chairman emeritus
  Cary Street Partners
• William M. Ginther (B.S. ’69, M.S. ’74)
  Corporate executive vice president (retired)
  SunTrust Bank
• Michelle H. Gluck
  Executive vice president, general counsel, and chief risk officer 
  Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
• Jeffrey K. Gronning (B.S. ’90)
  Founder and partner
  Normandy Real Estate Partners
• A. William Hamill
  President
  H3 Companies LLC
• Tania Kornblau
  Marketing director
  MARVA The Galleria of Stone
• Mark Lareau
  Chief Procurement Officer 
  Liberty Mutual
• Juanita B. Leatherberry (B.S. ’73)
  Assistant vice president
  Pfizer Consumer Healthcare (retired)
  Realtor, Keller Williams Realty
• Steven A. Markel
  Vice chairman
  Markel Corporation
• Charles McLane (B.S. '78, MAcc '84)
  Executive vice president and chief financial officer (retired)
  Alcoa
• David Monday (B.S '77, MS '12)
  Chairman, Commonwealth Retirement Advisors
• Mark J. Newfield (B.S. ’87)
  Founder & owner
  Newfield Financial Solutions
• John D. O'Neill Jr.
  Partner
  Hunton & Williams LLP
• John N. Pullen (B.S. ’87, MBA ’04)
  Chief growth officer
  Luck Companies
• Richard Reinecke (B.S. '96)
  Co-founding partner
  Fahrenheit Advisors
• Pamela Kiecker Royall, Ph.D.
  Head of research
  Enrollment Services, EAB
• Lisa Ruggles
  Senior vice president of global research 
  CoStar Group
• Robert C. Sledd
  Chairman (retired), Performance Food Group Company
  Managing partner, Pinnacle Ventures LLC
• Linda M. Warren (B.S. ’75)
  Vice president and controller (retired)
  Altria Group, Inc.
• Ting Xu
  Founder and president
  Evergreen Enterprises

• Ex-officio

• Ed Grier
  Dean
  Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business
• Michael Rao, Ph.D.
  President
  Virginia Commonwealth University
• Brad Holley
  President
  VCU Business Alumni Society
• Vann Graves
  Executive director
  Virginia Commonwealth University Brandcenter

• Emeritus

• Michael Dinkins
  Chief financial officer
  Greatbatch, Inc.
• Charles H. Foster Jr.
  Chairman (retired)
  LandAmerica Financial Group
• Brenton S. Halsey
  Chairman and CEO (retired)
  James River Corporation
• Allen B. King (B.S. ’77)
  Chairman emeritus
  Universal Corporation
• Bryan E. Kornblau
  President
  Markel/Eagle Partners LLC
• W. Austin Ligon
  Co-Founder and CEO (retired)
  CarMax
• G. Gilmer Minor III
  Chairman
  Owens & Minor Inc.
• John R. Nelson, Ph.D.
  Executive vice president and chief technology officer (retired)
  Altria Group Inc.
• Baxter F. Phillips Jr. (B.S. '75, MBA '76)
  President and CEO (retired)
  Massey Energy Company
• F. Dixon Whitworth (M.S. ’69)
  Regional president (retired)
  BB&T
• Eric P. Whittleton (B.S. ’84)
  President
  Tychon, Rigaud, LLC