Board of Trustees

The University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity established to receive, manage, and invest private gifts and/or property on behalf of and for the benefit of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB); facilitate fundraising programs; and engage in other activities to advance the educational, research, clinical and service missions of UMB. The Board of Trustees (Board) is comprised of influential and committed individuals who are dedicated to pursuing the mission of UMB. The continued success of UMB depends on the voluntary commitment of the elected Board who affirm the privilege to serve and the responsibility to lead. To enhance the momentum of the University, each member of the Board is expected to be a vigorous advocate and a proactive communicator of UMBF’s mission and to assist in philanthropy-related activities for UMB.

Brian J. Gibbons, JD ’87

Chair

Ellen H. Yankellow, PharmD ’96

Vice Chair

Malinda Peeples, MS, RN, CDCES, FADCES

Secretary

Anthony Ashton, JD ’97, MA

Ashton is senior associate general counsel at the NAACP. He works to identify and develop litigation strategies to achieve desired outcomes with respect to civil rights issues in the areas of voting rights, educational opportunity, economic empowerment, criminal justice, and health equity ...

Pete Buzy

Buzy has served on the UMBF Board of Trustees since 2019.

Scott Canuel, CFP, CFA

Canuel is the managing director and market team lead for J.P. Morgan Private Bank, which focuses exclusively on serving high-net-worth customers with an array of banking and wealth management services. Canuel is a principal with RPB Properties, LLC, a family-owned real estate company founded ...

Harold E. “Hal” Chappelear, LLD ’98 (Honoris Causa)

Chappelear is the principal of InternaSource, LLC, a private consulting practice engaged in developing human capital, the accumulated knowledge and skills that make an institutional workforce productive. He also is a board member for Gregory Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ...

Charles C. Chen, DDS

Chen graduated from the University of Maryland receiving a BS degree and a DDS degree. At the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, University of Maryland, he participated in the Accelerated Professional Training (Honors) Program to obtain his dental degree ...

Steve Dubin, JD

Dubin has a long history as a leader in business innovation and development in the biotech and health and wellness industries. He is currently a principal in SDA Ventures LLC, a Maryland-based firm focused on assisting emerging growth and middle market companies, primarily in the health and ...

Mareco Edwards, JD

Edwards has served on the UMBF Board of Trustees since 2020

Tisha S. Edwards, MSW ’00, JD ’01

Tisha Edwards, MSW, JD, serves as the secretary of appointments and a trusted advisor to Maryland Gov. Wes Moore. Edwards was the principal architect behind the appointment of Governor Moore’s historically diverse cabinet ...

Jennifer Estabrook, JD, MBA

Estabrook has served on the UMBF Board of Trustees since 2018.

Barry L. Garber, MBA

For 32 years, Garber has provided advisory services to a wide range of clients, including institutions and high-net-worth individuals. He combines his years of experience with the vast resources of Alex. Brown-Raymond James, to deliver customized strategies that help meet clients’ ...

Joseph R. Hardiman, LLB ’62

Hardiman is a private investor and director of several for-profit and nonprofit enterprises, including Brown Advisory Mutual Funds, Florida Coalition for Coastal Preservation, and the Baltimore Chesapeake Bay Outward Bound Center. He also has served on the boards of a number of public companies ...

Alvin D. Katz, CPA

Katz is the co-founder and director of KatzAbosch, certified public accountants and consultants. He co-founded the firm in 1969 and has been instrumental in its success and growth to become one of the top 150 accounting firms in the United States. From 1989 to 2009, he served as president ...

Harry C. Knipp, MD ’76, FACR

Knipp is a 1976 graduate of the School of Medicine, one of his family’s eight graduates of the school since his great uncle in 1859. He is fourth in a line of five consecutive generations of graduates dating from his great-grandfather in the Class of 1887...

Sam Lennon Jr.

Lennon has served on the UMBF Board of Trustees since 2022.

Ray Lewis

Lewis was born in Florida in 1975. The oldest of five children, he became a football star at Kathleen High School and the University of Miami. In 1996, Lewis was a first-round pick of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens. He led the team to a Super Bowl victory in 2000 and was ...

Samantha Mellerson

Mellerson is an executive director with the W. Haywood Burns Institute, which has a shared leadership structure with three EDs. As such, her work involves strategic planning, organizational development, financial oversite, project development, and managing relationships with community leaders ...

Michael E. Muldowney, JD

Muldowney is an executive vice president at CBRE, Inc., which he joined in April 1996. His team at CBRE specializes in multi-family investment property sales, focused on sales in the Mid-Atlantic. Since joining the CBRE Multifamily Investment Properties Team, he has participated in the process ...

Damien Keith Myers, MD, MPH

Myers is the co-founder and chief executive and medical officer of MedReimagined, helping communities create pipelines of the homegrown aspiring medical professionals they need most — so that every community trusts their health providers and believes they can lead the world in health outcomes. ...

Nikos Pavlidis

Pavlidis has served on the UMBF Board of Trustees since 2020.

Todd L. Parchman, MBA

Parchman is partner, co-founder, and investment banker for Parchman, Vaughan & Co., LLC, an investment banking firm in Baltimore. Before founding the company in 1996, he managed investment banking at Ferris, Baker Watts, Inc., and served on its Board of Directors ...

Maurice N. Reid, MD ’99

Reid, the first and only physician in the history of his family, was born and raised in Baltimore. After graduating high school, he attended Howard University, where he graduated magna cum laude with a degree in chemistry ...

Nneka Rimmer, JD, MBA

Rimmer has served on the UMBF Board of Trustees since 2018.

Frederick G. Smith, DDS ’78, MS

Smith is the director of Sinclair Ventures. Previously, he served as vice president of Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., since 1990 and its director since 1986. Before joining Sinclair in 1990, Smith was an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in a professional corporation where he was the sole ...

Richard L. Taylor, MD ’75, FAAN

Taylor is a neurologist and, prior to his retirement from active medical practice, was the founder and medical director of Taylor Medical Group, a medical specialty practice dedicated to providing the highest-quality neurological care to people in Central Maryland. Founded in 1976, it was known ...

Mei Xu, MA

Xu is an Asian American entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the consumer product and wellness industries. Passionate about innovation and infusing a founder’s spirit into conglomerates, universities, and hospitals, Xu is a sought-after speaker, corporate board member, and ...

Jordan I. Bailowitz, JD

Bailowitz has served as the legal counsel for the University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation, Inc., on a pro-bono basis since its inception.

Trustees Emeriti

Edward J. Brody (deceased)

Marco A. Chacón, PhD

Charles W. Cole Jr.

James A. Earl, PhD

Morton P. Fisher Jr., Esq.

Carolyn B. Frenkil

Richard J. Himelfarb 

Wallace J. Hoff

Kempton M. Ingersol

Kyle P. Legg 

Thomas P. O’Neill

Hon. Janet S. Owens

Theo C. Rodgers, MBA

Alan J. Silverstone

C. William Struever

William T. Wood, Esq.

Ex-Officio Members

Bruce E. Jarrell, MD, FACS
President, University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB)

James L. Hughes, MBA
Chief Enterprise and Economic Development Officer and Senior Vice President
President, UMB Foundation, Inc. (UMBF)

Greg Bowden
Senior Vice President, UMBF

Roger J. Ward, EdD, JD, MSL, MPA
Provost and Executive Vice President

Pam Heckler
Treasurer and Chief Operating Officer, UMBF

Sheri Myers
Assistant Treasurer, UMBF

Staff

Pam Heckler

Kate Ostrowski

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