Stanley "Butch" Barr '62 (Williamsburg, VA)
Why does a man my age still use his childhood nickname? How do you get Butch from Stanley? Idle thoughts during retirement at which I am a total failure, retiring from my law firm one day, opening my own office the next. I’m addicted, can’t quit. As a wannabe politician, after law school I joined the firm of the would-be Virginia governor, only to suffer with him two unsuccessful runs for the job. Cured of any ambition to seek elective office, I became a political groupie, receiving gubernatorial and city council appointments to such scintillating commissions as Hampton Roads Sanitation District and Norfolk Civil Service. Exhausted by the excitement from those posts I moved on to saving sinking non-profits (Virginia Opera, Norfolk Collegiate School), breathing life into WM Law School Foundation, starting the wine auction to benefit the Muscarelle Museum, and other fund-raising stints. If nothing else, WM teaches the virtue of volunteering and philanthropy: the Open Wallet Syndrome. Son Peter and daughter-inlaw Sharon, both ’92 and their daughter Danielle ’21, are also afflicted with Green and Gold disease. Could be genetic.
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Jane H. Carpenter-Rock '92 (Upper Marlboro, MD)
Dr. Jane Carpenter-Rock is Deputy Director for Museum Content and Outreach at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). She is responsible for overseeing the museum’s departments of Education, Conservation, External Affairs and Digital Strategies, and the Research and Scholars Center. Jane joined SAAM after a twenty-year career as a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State where she specialized in matters of Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Prior to joining the Smithsonian Institution, Jane was Acting Director of the National Museum of American Diplomacy. Jane earned a bachelor’s degree from the College of William & Mary (1992), a master’s degree from Howard University (1995) and a doctorate in art history from the University of Michigan (2002). She is the author of Betye Saar, part of the David C. Driskell Series of African American Art (2003). She serves on the editorial board of the Foreign Service Journal.
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Susan Corke '97 (Washington, DC)
Susan Corke is a senior international affairs leader, democracy advocate, and former State Department official with a proven record over two decades in policymaking, program management, and diplomacy. Currently, she is the Director of Intelligence at the Southern Poverty Law Center leading efforts to counter white nationalism, hate, and the systemic racism that supports it. Prior to this role, she was a Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the bipartisan Transatlantic Democracy Working Group (TDWG) with The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF). In this role she led the strategic initiatives of a broad, respected, bipartisan coalition of experts and elected officials to advance policies, legislation, funding, and advocacy campaigns in defense of democracy. She was the co-host biweekly podcast, The Cable, with former NPR correspondent, Greg Feifer, which is a public channel for discourse on the threats facing democracy. She has been a guest lecturer on democracy promotion at top American and European universities. Prior non-profit leadership positions included: Director of Countering Antisemitism and Extremism at Human Rights First and Director of Programs for Europe, Eurasia, and Southeast Asia at Freedom House. She has been a regular commentator in American and European media, authored and published numerous reports and articles on foreign policy / democracy issues, and testified on Capitol Hill numerous times to bear witness to urgent human rights issues.
Susan has held senior positions at the U.S. Department of State, for which she received Superior and Meritorious Honor awards; most recently in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL). She also served at U.S. Embassy Moscow, U.S. Embassy Prague, and in the Bureau of Public Affairs as a Presidential Management Fellow. Susan founded and managed the U.S. Foreign Policy Institute at George Washington University. She serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Ascend International, an Advisory Board Member of the Reves International Center at William & Mary, and a Truman Security Fellow. Susan has a M.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and a B.A. from William & Mary (1997). Her daughter, Ava, is an aspiring William & Mary class of 2037 student and her spouse, Khalil Abdul-Malik, was also a former William & Mary student and wrestler.
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John Culver '80 (Silver Spring, MD)
John retired from the CIA in 2020 after 35 years an analyst and manager of East Asian security, economic, and foreign policy issues. As National Intelligence Officer for East Asia (2015-2018), John drove the U.S. Intelligence Community's support to top policymakers on Asian issues, and routinely represented the intelligence community to senior US policy, military, academic, private sector. and foreign government audiences. Since retirement, he has written extensively on China, Taiwan, and regional issues, and serves as a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. John received his 1980 BA (Economics) from William & Mary, where he met his wife, Laura Jaynes. Their youngest daughter Kelsey (’12) is another proud alumni of the College.
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John S. Dennis '78 (Switzerland)
John Dennis is the Founder and CEO of My-Vitality, a start-up company developing algorithms for wearables in sports and wellness. He has been involved in early stage companies since 1999 including as a coach for InnoSuisse, a Fund dedicated to Swiss start-ups. Prior to his start-up and merger and acquisition activities, John held CFO and Group Treasury positions for Landis & Gyr Communications, Geneva, Elf Trading, Geneva and DEMINEX GmbH, Oslo. He also worked nine years for J.P. Morgan Bank in New York and Oslo. He has a master’s Degree from Georgetown University Foreign Service School and bachelor’s Degree from William & Mary. His youngest son is currently at William & Mary.
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Scott R. Ebner '96, Chair (Boston, MA)
Scott Ebner is a Senior Managing Director of State Street Global Advisors and the Head of Product in the Global Institutional Group. Scott and his team are responsible for developing, launching, and continuously improving SSGA's product ranges across geographic markets, asset classes, and product types. Scott previously ran the Global Product Development & Research group within a centralized SSGA Global Product and Marketing team. He joined SSGA in 2010 as the Global Head of ETF Product Development responsible for our SPDR ETF products worldwide. Prior to joining SSGA, Scott was Senior Vice President and Global Head of Exchange Traded Products at NYSE Euronext, where he was previously in charge of the European ETP business for NYSE Euronext. While working in global leadership roles, Scott has completed long-term expatriate assignments in Paris and London and led international teams. Scott was also Senior Vice President of the ETF Marketplace at the American Stock Exchange. During his ten years at the American Stock Exchange, he also held leadership roles in new product development and index services. Scott has a BA with a dual concentration in economics and international relations from William & Mary.
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Rodney Faraon (Arlington, VA)
Rodney Faraon is a Partner at Crumpton Group, an international business strategy firm based in Washington DC. From 2005-08, Mr. Faraon was the founding Director of The Walt Disney Company’s Global Intelligence practice, which assessed political risk and warned of threats to the Company’s assets, employees, guests, and reputation. Before Disney, Mr. Faraon served for 15 years as a leader and senior analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, including a stint on the President’s Daily Briefing team, a role for which he was awarded the Director’s Medal. After 9/11, Mr. Faraon was posted to a CIA Station overseas, where he created a counterterrorism program and managed relationships with foreign intelligence. Mr. Faraon is a contributing author to the book Vaults, Mirrors, and Masks: Rediscovering US Counterintelligence (2009). He has produced or consulted on feature films and television shows, including STATE OF AFFAIRS (NBC), THE CROSSING (ABC), HOMELAND (Showtime), BLACKHAT (Legendary) and THE BILLION DOLLAR SPY (Walden Studios, forthcoming). He serves on the Board of Directors for Project 2049, a think tank on Asia security issues. Mr. Faraon earned a B.S.F.S magna cum laude from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
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Jen Herink '95 (Bellevue, WA)
Jen Herink is a Senior Manager on Microsoft’s Human Rights team, supporting the company to meet its corporate responsibility to respect human rights, and she has also worked on Microsoft’s Democracy Forward team. At the Australian embassy in Myanmar, she led programs to support the country’s democratic reform process. This included initiatives to defend human rights, strengthen the rule of law, develop responsible business practices, and prepare for inclusive elections.
Jen began her career as a management consultant in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ public sector practice and has implemented economic development initiatives for USAID, the World Bank, and international non-profit organizations in Vietnam and Cambodia. She is a Security Fellow at the Truman National Security Project.
Jen grew up in Indiana and the Washington, DC suburbs, and she has spent most of her adult life living in Asia (Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, and Laos). She is always excited to travel to new places and is passionate about traditional handicrafts. Jen and her family call the Seattle area home and enjoy exploring the trails of the Pacific Northwest through cycling, running, hiking, and swimming.
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Valerie Hopkins '09 (Moscow, Russia)
Valerie Hopkins is the New York Times Moscow Correspondent. From her base in Russia, she covers the countries of the former Soviet Union. She arrived in Russia in 2021 after more than ten years covering the Balkans and Central Europe, most recently for the Financial Times. Valerie is a proud member of W&M’s class of 2009, with a degree in International Relations focused on Russian and post-Soviet studies. She served as Student Body President from 2008-2009 and as Vice-President from 2007-2008. Professors at William and Mary cultivated and nurtured Valerie’s life-long interest in Eastern Europe and Russia. Scholarships provided by the Reves Center Scholarship funded her first trip to the region, including an internship at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow after her sophomore year. Participation in a program now known as the American-Bosnian Collaboration was life-changing. After participating in the program in Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina in summer 2008, Valerie received a Reves Center grant in 2009 to return to Sarajevo to ensure the project’s continuance and laying the groundwork for her to return and begin working as a journalist. Valerie also has an M.A. in journalism from Columbia University.
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Thomas C. Lillelund '95 (Luxembourg)
Mr. Thomas Lillelund has been CEO for Europe at AIG since November 1, 2018. Before joining AIG, he was the Chief Executive Officer of Aspen Re based in London since May 2016 and prior to this role the Managing Director of Aspen Re In Asia Pacific since 2008. Mr. Lillelund spent four and a half years at AIG in Southeast Asia where he was the Regional Vice President for Commercial Property. He held underwriting management roles in Swiss Re in Hong Kong and South Africa and began his underwriting career at Gen Re in the United States in 1995. In this role he undertook further study to become an Associate in Reinsurance (ARe) of the American Institute for Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters.
Mr. Lillelund served as the Chairman of the Singapore Reinsurance Association (SRA) from 2014 to 2016. He was also on the organizing committee for the Singapore International Reinsurance Conference (SIRC) during this period. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from William & Mary in Virginia and an MBA from the Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario.
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John McCauley '96 (Washington, DC)
John McCauley is a professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, where he conducts research and teaches courses on the political economy of development. He is also the Director of the International Development and Conflict Management (IDCM) minor program and a research associate at the Consortium on the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START). Outside of the University of Maryland, he serves as a technical advisor on numerous USAID programs and directs a State Department counterterrorism project in Benin. He previously served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Burkina Faso and a bartender in Dublin, Ireland. During his time at William & Mary, he studied abroad through the Reves Center at the London School of Economics. He has a BA in Economics from William & Mary, an MA in International Relations from Yale, and a PhD in Political Science from UCLA. He currently resides in Washington DC.
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Bruce W. Pflaum '75 (Lake Oswego, OR)
Bruce Pflaum is a 1975 graduate of William & Mary. Following graduation, Bruce returned to Chicago to obtain his Masters’ of Management (MBA) in International Finance from the Kellogg School of Northwestern University and joined First Chicago Corporation as a currency trader. Long interested in Asian culture, Bruce got his first chance to move to Asia with a posting to Tokyo in 1984. An initial three year assignment turned into a 30 year odyssey with subsequent postings in Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore and then a return to Japan to complete the cycle. Bruce left First Chicago in 1995 and joined Russell Investments where he remained until his retirement in 2016. During his Asian assignments for Russell, Bruce opened 4 new offices (Singapore, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai) and revived the Japan business that had been decimated by the financial crisis of 2008. Bruce’s last job was CEO of Asia overseeing 5 offices with 150 staff doing business in 8 Asian countries. Currently a native of Portland, Oregon, Bruce remains a frequent visitor to Asia and is passionate about cross-cultural understanding and the globalization of knowledge.
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Ian M. Ralby '05 (Owings Mills, MD)
Dr. Ian Ralby is founder and CEO of I.R. Consilium. While he has practiced maritime, military, and international law, much of his career has focused on issues at the intersection of law and security. He is a globally recognized expert in five main areas: 1) maritime law and security, especially identifying and addressing evolving or emerging threats; 2) maritime strategy and development, integrating maritime security, governance and the blue economy; 3) recognizing and countering oil and fuel theft and other resource-related crimes; 4) regulating, governing, and overseeing private security companies—both land and maritime; and 5) certain aspects of international law including the legal regimes around floating armories, protection of submarine cables and the use of force by armed contractors.
He is a Maritime Crime Expert for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Global Maritime Crime Program; a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Global Energy Center of the Atlantic Council; and a “Key Opinion Former on Maritime Security” at NATO. He previously spent four years as an Adjunct Professor of Maritime Law and Security at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Africa Center for Strategic Studies, and continues to serve as an expert advisor to and consultant for various government agencies, international organizations, and private sector entities. Dr. Ralby frequently publishes and speaks on matters relating to international affairs and various aspects of law and security. He earned a B.A. in Modern Languages and Linguistics and an M.A. in Intercultural Communication at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; a J.D. at William & Mary where he was a Jack Kent Cooke Scholar; and an M.Phil. in International Relations and a Ph.D. in Politics and International Studies at St. John’s College of the University of Cambridge where he was a Gates Scholar.
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Soh Yeong Roh '84 (Seoul, Republic of Korea)
Self-taught in art and technology, Ms. Roh is said to have pioneered the new media art scene in Korea by founding Art Center Nabi in 2000. Her experience in the field goes back to 1991 when she served as head of Art and Technology Exhibition at Daejeon Expo. Seeing the possibility of digital technology transforming much of our lives, Ms. Roh began to explore how we could use the technology to serve humanity, which has become her lifelong mission.
Besides running Art Center Nabi, a powerhouse of media art with its lab and education programs, she serves as a board member at Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology, Creative Commons Korea, and P.A.T.I., an alternative design school. She is also an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Convergence Science and Technology, Seoul National University, and a visiting professor at the Department of Art and Technology, Sogang University. Soh Yeong Roh graduated from William & Mary in 1984 and received her MEd from Stanford University in 1990.
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Aaron Rosenberg '99 (Washington, DC)
Head of Public Affairs, International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank Group. Aaron heads global public affairs at the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. Aaron leads a global team responsible for managing IFC’s policy and strategic communications, advocacy and engagement with key stakeholders, reputational risk and issue management, ESG/sustainability and impact-related communications and engagement, and other public policy and institutional affairs. Prior to joining IFC, Aaron held several positions in the international trade filed, including as a Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), responsible for international trade and labor matters, as an economist in the International Trade Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce and was a fellow on the House Ways and Means Committee staff. Aaron graduated with a BA in Government and Master’s in Public Policy from William & Mary.
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Susan Rutherford '89, Vice Chair (Delray Beach, FL)
Susan Spagnola Rutherford is a development consultant who has helped educational institutions, human services organizations, international NGOs, and other nonprofit organizations achieve success in fundraising. She is passionate about connecting people to other people, projects and organizations so they can make a difference in the world. Susan spent six years in Latin America, escaping to the jungle of Costa Rica to learn Spanish, exploring South America during a family sabbatical year, and then living a more traditional life in Santiago, Chile. Her two sons attended United World College – one in Changshu, China and the other near Pune, India – for high school. She and her husband have served as a host family through AFS and Up with People. Susan earned a BS in mathematics and economics from William & Mary, an MS in nonprofit management, and another MS in operations research (engineering). She has served on the Board of Directors for the Fund for William & Mary as a Co-Chair/Lead Class Ambassador for multiple reunion giving efforts. A native of the Washington, DC area, Susan lives in South Florida with her husband Doug.
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Maya Sapiurka '10 (Arlington, VA)
Maya Sapiurka ’10 is the Associate Director of Administration of the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at Georgetown University. In addition to overseeing the day-to-day running of the PhD program, she plays an active role in managing the program’s training grants, developing the curriculum, and supporting the student body. At William and Mary, Maya was a Monroe Scholar who majored in Neuroscience with a minor in Hispanic Studies, studying abroad and completing research projects in Spain and Peru. After W&M, she received her PhD in Neuroscience from UCSD, where she studied the brain structures involved in spatial and non-spatial working memory in the labs of Drs. Robert E. Clark and Larry Squire. Before joining Georgetown, Maya was the Scientific Training Manager at the Society for Neuroscience, leading the Society’s scientific and professional development programming. In addition to the Reves Board, Maya is a member of the W&M Inclusion Volunteer Leadership Circles and the DC Alumni Chapter Board.
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Mark Tyndall '02 (Washington, DC)
Mark Tyndall serves as Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals. Mr. Tyndall has executive responsibility for all legal functions, serves as the primary liaison to the Mallinckrodt Board of Directors and is a member of Mallinckrodt’s Executive Committee. Additionally, he oversees Mallinckrodt’s government affairs, public policy and patient advocacy functions. Mr. Tyndall is a highly experienced leader with two decades of combined experience in healthcare law, government affairs and public policy, and stakeholder engagement. Since joining Mallinckrodt in 2014, Mr. Tyndall has held roles of increasing responsibility at the company. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President and U.S. General Counsel. Prior to Mallinckrodt, Mr. Tyndall served as Head of Global Policy and Public Affairs at Bayer Healthcare's Consumer Health division. He previously practiced healthcare law at Sidley Austin LLP, an international law firm, and is a former professional staff member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. Mr. Tyndall holds a Juris Doctor from The George Washington University Law School, a master’s degree in Public Policy from William and Mary, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Christopher Newport University. Mr. Tyndall serves on the Board of Trustees of the United States Capitol Historical Society and the Reves International Advisory Board at William and Mary. He is a member of the Economic Club of Washington, D.C.
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