Daemen College : About Daemen : Leadership : Board of Trustees
Board of Trustees
Daemen’s Board of Trustees has full authority to manage and direct the property, affairs and business of the college. These powers and duties include, but are not limited to, the granting of degrees, appointments to and removals from offices, and approval of the annual budget.
Chair
Caroline Hassett Buerk, '59
of Counsel at Phillips Lytle, LLP
Vice Chair
Thomas E. Brydges
Partner, Labor & Employment Practice Group, Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel
Secretary/Treasurer
Dale B. Demyanick, '79
Partner, Lumsden & McCormick, LLP
President/Ex Officio
Martin J. Ansiman
President, Daemen College
Members
Audre Bunis
Catherine M. LePage-Campbell, '84
Senior VP, Government Programs, BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York
Robert M. Chur
President & CEO, ElderWood Senior Care
Richard J. Day
Partner, Hiscock and Barclay, LLP
Jed E. Dietrich
Dietrich Funeral Homes, Inc.
Kristin M. Fries
Associate Professor, Natural Sciences, Daemen College
Nancy Haberman-Gacioch, '62
Marie E. Hare
VP, Philanthropy & Civic Affairs, Key Bank
Peter F. Hunt
Chariman and CEO, Hunt Real Estate Corporation
Donald B. Hutton
Director, New York New Jersey Rail, LLC
Roy Innis
National Chairman, Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.)
Kathryn D. Karlic
Investment Management Executive
Seymour H. Knox, IV
BPG Consulting of New York
Jeffrey Meilman, MD
Surgeon
Lynn S. Millane
Dorothy Mueller, O.S.F., '66
Provincial Minister, Sisters of St. Francis
Gregory M. Oehler
COO, Hunt Commercial Real Estate
Robert A. Savarino
Thomas P. Stewart, Ph.D., '74
President & CCO, Gaymar Industries, Inc.
Connie Vari
Executive VP & Chief Operating Officer, Kaleida Health
D. Scott N. Warman
Executive Vice President and Treasurer of M&T Bank
Ellen White
Executive Director, Commercial Aftermarket, MOOG Aircraft Group
Paul A. Willax
Wayne D. Wisbaum
Partner, Kavinoky Cook, LLP
Trustee Emeriti
Thomas W. Bowen*
Adrian F. Dedecker, Jr.
Leonard Greenfield*
Edward P. Gueth, Jr.*
Nedra J. Harrison
William W. Kimmins, Jr.*
Charles L. Lumsden*
Milton Milstein*
Henry J. Nowak
Jean R. Oshei*
Joan Ellis Shatkin
M. Angelice Vogt, OSF*
* Deceased
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