WPI announces five new trustees
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester Polytechnic Institute has appointed five new members, including four alumnae, to the university’s board of trustees.
Carleen Maitland (Class of 1988), Maureen McCaffrey (Class of 1986), Patricia Newcomer-Small (1990), Elizabeth Phalen (1985), and Navjot Singh take their posts on Friday, according to the Monday announcement from WPI. The terms last for five years and can be renewed twice.
“These exceptional leaders bring decades of service, research, and innovation in their respective fields,” said WPI Interim President Winston Soboyejo in the press release.
Maitland is a professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. She is an expert in humanitarian informatics, having worked with the United Nations Refugee Agency, the U.N. Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the global nonprofit Save the Children, and the U.S. Department of State.
McCaffrey is a director at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Investment Management Co., managing planning and development of capital projects in MIT’s Cambridge commercial real estate portfolio and overseeing development of more than 2 million square feet of life science space and other developments.
Newcomer-Small is chief marketing officer of FieldRoutes, a Texas field-service IT service provider. She is a founding limited partner at How Women Invest, an early stage venture firm and sister entity to How Women Lead, a professional network of more than 14,000 women. She is a founding member and current co-chair of the WPI Women’s Impact Network.
Phalen is retired president and general manager of data protection at Dell EMC, headquartered in Hopkinton and Texas. Prior to her work there, she was an architect in the advanced solutions group in IBM Global Services and spent 12 years as a software engineer at Digital Equipment Corp. in Maynard.
Singh is a senior partner at consulting giant McKinsey & Co. which has offices around the world. He is the global sponsor for talent attraction at the company and has served as managing partner of the Boston office.
Jack Mollen, Henry Fitzgerald, and Robert Martin will conclude their service on the board of trustees on Thursday; all have been elected trustees emeriti.
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