The Ӱ̳ board of directors today announced changes to its board leadership, including the election of Nancy Cunningham Benacci, CFA, ’77, Retired Director of Equity Research at KeyBanc Capital Markets, as co-chair, and the election of Barbara O’Brien Brown ’82, Founder, BrownFlynn, and Retired Corporate Sustainability Service Lead, ERM, John Dempsey ’84, Principal, Vanderbilt Office Properties, and George Sample ’02, ’12G, Principal, Blue Streak Consultants, as vice chairs.
Benacci was elected to the board in 2006, most recently serving as vice chair since 2020. She will now serve as co-chair of the board of directors alongside Bill Donnelly ’83, who has served as chair since 2019. Benacci also serves on the board of Cincinnati Financial Corporation, The Payden & Rygel Investment Group, and Regis Corporation. Donnelly is currently lead director at Ingersoll Rand, and a director of TRowe, Quanterix, and Element BioScience. Prior to his retirement, Donnelly was Executive Vice President of Mettler Toledo.