Board of Trustees

AUBG BOARD OF TRUSTEES
(as of May 2012)

Ms. Marianne M. Keler, Chair, Director, U-Store-It; Former Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Sallie Mae, U.S.A.

Mr. Andrey Delchev, Deputy Chair, Managing Partner, Eurolex Bulgaria OOD, Sofia, Bulgaria

Mr. Stephen Auth, Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Federated Equities, NY, NY, USA

Mr. Thomas Celli, President, Celli-Flynn Brennan Architects and Planners, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Mr. Chris von Christierson, Retired Executive in the mining and exploration industry, Non Executive Director of Gold Fields Ltd; Founder and former Chairman of Rio Narcea Gold Mines Ltd, South Africa

Mr. Pavel Ezekiev, Co-founder and Managing Partner, New Europe Venture Equity, LP; Former Director and Country Head of Deutsche Bank Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria

Mr. J.K. Fagan, Vice President and Treasurer, State Street Bank GmbH, Munich, Germany

Mr. John W. Gulliver, Senior Partner, Pierce Atwood, LLP, Portland, Maine, U.S.A.

Mr. Elvin Guri (’96), Former Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of JetFinance International, Sofia, Bulgaria

Mr. Thomas Higgins, Managing Partner, Balkan Accession Fund, Sofia, Bulgaria

Mr. Conrad Kiechel, Director of Communications at the Milken Institute, a Los Angeles-based think tank

Mr. Ivan Manev, Dean of College of Business, Public Policy and Health, University of Maine, USA

Ambassador John K. Menzies, Dean of John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University

Mr. Fabio Lopez Ceron, founder, general partner, Equilibria Capital Management; principal investor, Board member, Grupo Terratest, Geneva, Switzerland

Mr. Saso Ordanoski, journalist, media expert, and political commentator; Media and Public Affairs Director, VeVe Group; former chief executive of Macedonian National Television (MKTV), Skopje, Macedonia

Mr. Solomon Passy, Founding President and CEO of the Atlantic Club, Sofia, Bulgaria; former Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bulgarian National Assembly; and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Bulgaria

Mr. Svetlozar Petrov, Managing Director, JobTiger Ltd., Sofia, Bulgaria

Ambassador Elena Poptodorova, Ambassador of the Republic of Bulgaria to the United States; Former Director of the Security Policy Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bulgaria

Mr. Francois Riston, General Manager, DBApparel; former managing director at Procter & Gamble; former manager, Gillette and Sony, Europe, Paris, France

Mr. Nikolay Rumenin (ex-officio) (’08), President of the AUBG Alumni Association, Financial Controller Heineken/Zagorka Brewery, Sofia, Bulgaria

Mr. Gerard van der Sluys (ex-officio), Chair of the University Council

Mr. Ronald D. Vanden Dorpel, former Senior Vice President for University Advancement, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

TRUSTEES EMERITI

Mr. Claude Janssen, Honorary Chair of the International Council and Chair of the Board, INSEAD, Paris, France

Mr. Ralph P. Davidson, Former Chair of the Board of TIME Inc.; Former Chair of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, USA

Mr. Sean Homer, Faculty Representative to the Board
Mr. Pierangelo Castagneto, Alternate Faculty Representative to the Board
Mr. Boban Markovic, Student Representative to the Board

Ms. Pavlina Stoycheva, Clerk to the Board and Director of University Relations, AUBG, Bulgaria