Vermont Business Magazine The University of Vermont Board of Trustees today re-elected Ron Lumbra to serve as chair and welcomed three new members following a special meeting.
Lumbra, who is scheduled to serve on the board until March 2028, was re-elected as the board’s chair for a fourth one-year term. Lumbra is a partner in the CEO & Board Practice of Heidrick & Struggles and based in New York. Previously, Lumbra was managing partner of the firm’s Centers of Excellence Americas region.
Lumbra has more than 22 years of executive search and succession consulting experience and an extensive track record of recruiting board directors and chief executive officers to a broad variety of clients.
Born and raised in Vermont, in St Albans and Montgomery respectively, Lumbra completed his undergraduate studies at UVM, and earned a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University. See Bio below.
New members start their terms on the board today and include:
Monique Priestley was elected to the board by the Vermont State Legislature, with a term expiring in March 2029. Priestley represents the Upper Valley towns of Bradford, Fairlee, and West Fairlee and is director of digital for CampusCE Corporation, an educational software technology company. She graduated from Northern Vermont University–Lyndon with a BA in digital media and an AS in graphic design. Later she received a Master of Communication in digital media from the University of Washington. She is founder and executive director of The Space on Main, a nonprofit community workspace in Bradford.
Tristan Toleno, who previously served on the board from 2015-2021, was re-elected by the Vermont State Legislature for a six-year term expiring in 2029. He has served as a member of the legislature since 2012 serving the southern Vermont towns of Brookline, Rockingham and Westminster. Toleno is CFO/COO of Global Round Table Leadership, a certified B Corp virtual training company. He received degrees from Wesleyan University (BA), the New England Culinary Institute (AOS) and Marlboro College (MBA). After working as a managing partner and chef at several restaurants, he was named an adjunct professor at Marlboro College’s MBA program which he directed from 2016-2020.
Katelynn Briere, a second-year medical student at the Larner College of Medicine, was appointed by the Associate Directors for the Appointment of Student Trustees to serve on the board for a two-year term. Educated at Saint Michael’s College (BS), Briere serves as a mentor through the Big Sib/Little Sib program at UVM. She was recently awarded a Larner College of Medicine Summer Research Fellowship grant to conduct public health researching regarding opioid use disorder. Briere succeeds Kisha Kalra.
John Bartholomew, Johannah Donovan and Kisha Kalra completed their terms on the board. Trustees Shap Smith and Frank Cioffi completed their current terms of service but were reappointed to six-year terms. The legislature re-elected Smith, and Governor Phil Scott re-appointed Cioffi to another gubernatorial term.
Ron E. Lumbra Bio
Elected to the Board by the self-perpetuating board in 2014, re-elected in December 2019 to fill a vacated term of a fellow Trustee, and re-elected in October 2021 for an additional six-year term. Term expires in March 2028. Born in St. Albans, Vermont. Educated at UVM, BS, 1983; and MBA, Harvard University, 1988. Ron Lumbra is a partner in the CEO & Board Practice of Heidrick & Struggles and based in New York. Previously, Ron was managing partner of the firm’s Centers of Excellence Americas region. Ron has more than 22 years of executive search and succession consulting experience and an extensive track record of recruiting board directors and chief executive officers to a broad variety of clients. He has deep expertise recruiting diverse talent to build corporate boards of directors. Prior to joining Heidrick & Struggles, Ron spent 17 years with a global search firm where he was managing director and co-leader of the Americas CEO and board services practice. There, he served in various leadership roles, including co-head of the firm’s Americas operations and head of both the New York and Houston offices. Ron serves on the board of SPAC, Propsector Capital Corp. and as a Board Director at CCS Fundraising. He is the former Board Chairman and current Director of KaBOOM!, a national nonprofit dedicated to creating playspaces for children. Ron also serves on the UVM Foundation Leadership Council, and was formerly a Board Director for the Alumni Association of the University of Vermont, the Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York and the Houston Youth Symphony. Married to Mitzi Lumbra; two children, Casi and Evan.
About the University of Vermont
Since 1791, the University of Vermont has worked to move humankind forward. UVM’s strengths align with the most pressing needs of our time: the health of our societies and the health of our environment. Our size—large enough to offer a breadth of ideas, resources, and opportunities, yet intimate enough to enable close faculty-student mentorship across all levels of study—allows us to pursue these interconnected issues through cross-disciplinary research and collaboration. Providing an unparalleled educational experience for our students, and ensuring their success, are at the core of what we do. As one of the nation’s first land grant universities, UVM advances Vermont and the broader society through the discovery and application of new knowledge.
UVM is derived from the Latin Universitas Viridis Montis (in English, University of the Green Mountains).
3.1.2023. BURLINGTON, Vt. — The University of Vermont
