Advisory Board
The mission of the Bloustein School Advisory Board is to assist the school in locating and resourcing opportunities to promote and strengthen its academic and research programs, and its partnerships with communities and organizations in New Jersey and beyond.
The Advisory Board is comprised of friends and alumni whose experiences and insights from careers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors collectively benefit the development of the school. Individual members are active and retired CEOs and principals from private industry and nonprofits representing diverse sectors including affordable housing and health care delivery, home building and development finance, community and environmental planning, local and state public policy, and health administration. Some members teach as adjuncts at the Bloustein School; one co-founded the Bloustein Alumni Association.
Collectively, Board members have given and/or pledged in excess of $1.7 million to the Bloustein School and/or Rutgers University.
Nike P. Bach
Chair
Retired Program Manager, Executive Communications Group and former analyst for government agencies in New York City
Christopher Black
Vice Chair
Director, Center for Observational and Real-World Evidence (CORE) at Merck & Co., Inc.; part-time lecturer of epidemiology at Rutgers
Daniel Benson
Board Member
Assemblyman Representing the 14th Legislative District in the NJ State Legislature
Leah Furey Bruder
Board Member
President and Principal Planner at LFB Land Planning
Joseph Burgis
Board Member
President of Burgis Associates, Inc.
Michael Hedden
Board Member
Managing Director, Integra Realty Resources
Anthony Marchetta
Board Member
Immediate past Executive Director of the New Jersey Home Mortgage Finance Agency; Co-founder of the Bloustein School Alumni Association
Sara Meyers
Board Member
Deputy Superintendent, Office of the State Superintendent of Education, Washington D.C.
Jason J. Redd
Board Member
Managing Principal at Stono Public Affairs; part-time lecture at the Bloustein School
Moses Salami
Board Member
Director of Business Development and Marketing at Saint Michael’s Medical Center
Robert G. Sommer
Board Member
CEO, Awsom Associates, LLC; Adjunct lecturer at the Bloustein School
Glorian Yen
Board Member
Director, Health Economics and Outcomes Research division of US Medical Affairs at Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Emeritus Members
Lawrence B. Burrows
Emeritus Board Member
Independent Director of TriPointe Homes and Conner Industries, and retired Executive Officer of the Weyerhaeuser Company; Senior Planning Fellow at the Bloustein School
Christiana R. Foglio-Palmer
Emeritus Board Member
Founder & CEO, Community Investment Strategies; Rutgers University Foundation Board of Overseers, Advisory Board Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Susan Gruel
Emeritus Board Member
Partner in the planning consulting firm of Heyer, Gruel & Associates; long-time instructor at the Bloustein School