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
Gibbons has served on the UMBF Board of Trustees since 2011, chairing the university advancement committee from 2019 to 2023. In 2017 he was named a co-chair of the Catalyst Campaign, which conclud... Read More
Ellen H. Yankellow, PharmD ’96
Vice ChairYankellow is the president and chief executive officer of Correct Rx Pharmacy Services, Inc., a privately owned and operated institutional pharmacy based in Hanover, Md. Correct Rx Pharmacy serves ... Read More
Malinda Peeples, MS, RN, CDCES, FADCES
SecretaryPeeples has served in a leadership capacity for over 16 years at WellDoc, a digital health company transforming the delivery of health care in the value-based world with the use of Food and Drug Ad... Read More
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 votin... Read More
Pete Buzy
Buzy has served on the UMBF Board of Trustees since 2019. Read More
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 servi... Read More
Harold “. 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 produ... Read More
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 Profess... Read More
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... Read More
Mareco Edwards, JD
Edwards has served on the UMBF Board of Trustees since 2020. Read More
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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. Secretary Edwards was the principal architect behind the appointment of Governor ... Read More
Jennifer Estabrook, JD, MBA
Estabrook has served on the UMBF Board of Trustees since 2018. Read More
Barry L. Garber, MBA
For 32 years, Barry 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 ... Read More
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 Che... Read More
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 ... Read More
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 ... Read More
Sam Lennon, Jr.
Lennon has served on the UMBF Board of Trustees since 2022. Read More
Ray Lewis
Lewis was born in Florida in 1975. The oldest of five children, Lewis became a football star at Kathleen High School and was recruited to play at the University of Miami. In 1996, Lewis was a first... Read More
Samantha Mellerson
Mellerson is an executive director (ED) with the W. Haywood Burns Institute, which has a shared leadership structure with three EDs. As such, her work involves strategic planning, organizational de... Read More
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. ... Read More
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... Read More
Nikos Pavlidis
Pavlidis has served on the UMBF Board of Trustees since 2020. Read More
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 wi... Read More
Nneka Rimmer, JD, MBA
Rimmer has served on the UMBF Board of Trustees since 2018. Read More
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... Read More
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 ... Read More
Mei Xu, MA
Mei Xu is an Asian American entrepreneur with over twenty years of experience in the consumer product and wellness industries. Passionate about innovation and infusing a founder’s spirit into... Read More
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. Read More