Board of Trustees selects new members

Seven new members have been inducted into The Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees, effective July 2002.

The new members include Roderich Carr, Charles Clarvit, Loren Douglass, Lisa Egbuonu-Davis, David Koch, Rajendra Singh and Young Trustee Stephen Goutman.

The trustees will serve six-year terms, with the exception of the Young Trustee's four-year term, and each will have one vote in the decisions of the University's primary governing body.

Nominees for the trusteeships were reviewed this summer by the Board's nominating committee, said Jerome Schnydman, secretary of the Board of Trustees and executive assistant to the University President William R. Brody. He said the committee concentrated on three criteria: influence, University ties and key skills.

He added that each year, two of the selected trustees must be alumni nominated by the Alumni Council.

"The [Alumni Council] nominates up to 10 people and sends those names to the trustee nominating committee," said Schnydman. "Then, the committee selects two."

The committee also annually selects a Young Trustee, who is a graduating senior at the time the application is submitted.

Up to eight seniors applied for the position last year, but the committee narrowed down its selection to a former Hopkins undergraduate heavily active in the student government: Stephen Goutman. He will serve a four-year term as he pursues a doctorate at University of Chicago Medical School.

The remaining trustees qualify as "regular" trustees, who can be nominated by anyone, according to Schnydman. The number of regular trustees accepted for the posts depends on the amount of retiring trustees.

Schnydman said the committee seeks diversity in its make-up, which is reflected in the wide range of new trustees.

A graduate from the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Charles Clarvit has been a member of the Quellos Investment Committee since 1998. Prior to his work with Quellos, Clarvit served as the managing director of CIVC Oppenheimer and Co., where he oversaw the development of alternative investment strategies and private equity advisory services.

Also in business, Loren Douglass has two degrees from Johns Hopkins: a B.A. from the School of Engineering and an M.A. from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He serves as president of the GE Global Asset Protection Services, a subsidiary of General Electric's Employers Reinsurance Corporation. He was also Global Leader of General Electric's award-winning web-based Collaboration Initiative.

Lisa Egbuonu-Davis earned her M.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1983 and currently serves as vice president for the Global Outcomes Research and Medical services of Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group.

Although not personally affiliated with Johns Hopkins, David H. Koch serves as an executive vice president and a board member of Koch Industries, Inc., which was named the second largest private company in the U.S. by Forbes magazine. He is also widely recognized as a philanthropist and has donated nearly $100 million to different charitable endeavors, primarily for the purposes of furthering cancer research, enhancing medical centers and supporting educational institutions.

Dr. Rajendra Sing is the chairman, chief executive officer and principal owner of Telcom Ventures, which is a private investment firm that specializes in telecommunications.

Roderich M. Carr serves as the director of Institutional Client Service at Citigroup Alternative Investments.

Schnydman said the nominating committee was satisfied with its selections.

"We were looking for a diverse board and we're working to achieve that," he said.