Since joining the board of trustees in 2015, Dana has served in a variety of roles, including assistant treasurer, treasurer, grants co-chair and as a mayoral appointee to the Sustain Summit Fund. Dana is a member of Silver Summit Senior Citizens Advisory Committee. She is a former grants and membership specialist for Visual Arts Center of NJ and a former financial officer for Summit Junior Fortnightly Club and Winnetka Community School. Dana was also a volunteer advisor with Tri-County Scholarship Fund to help advance their outreach strategies. Dana was managing director at Deltec Asset Management, NY, and specialized in emerging market investments.

Before he retired, Jim was managing director at Kennebec Capital Management. Fleischmann formerly worked at TIAA-CREF and Salomon Brothers Asset Management. He has served on the library boards at the University of Pittsburgh, Penn State University and the Summit Free Public Library, as well as the Summit Area YMCA and Homeless Solutions Board.

Regina is treasurer of the board at Saint Vincent Academy in Newark, where she has also served as an advisor and student mentor. She served as bookkeeper of Student/Partner Alliance. Regina is assistant treasurer and bookkeeper for Franciscan Charities, a Newark-based soup kitchen. Her Summit volunteerism includes: Summit Education Foundation, Community Preschool at St. John’s, and Brayton Elementary PTO. Regina was a financial counselor for Affiliated Private Investors in Far Hills for 17 years.

Martha is a founder of Destination College, a nonprofit that supports first-generation, college bound students from ninth grade through college. She served as grants chair of the Summit Educational Foundation, and as a consultant of NJ Seeds, a CAAP mentor at Summit High School, and a trustee of Summit’s PEP Program. Martha spent 30 years at Sotheby's Inc., most recently as senior vice president of business development. She serves on the PEP board.

Irene has worked with a variety of local nonprofits. She served as president, grants chair and events chair of the Summit Educational Foundation, a board member of the Summit Women's Lacrosse Association, and a board member on the finance committee of The Connection. She most recently was treasurer of the Summit Boosters Association. She is a former vice president in the credit risk management division of JPMorgan.

Jack served as president of The Summit Foundation for 28 years. He served as a trustee with many other local nonprofit organizations, including Overlook Hospital Foundation, SAGE Eldercare, Northern New Jersey Estate Planning Council, Summit Area United Way, Summit Volunteer First Aid Squad, Summit Family Service Association, Summit Speech School and Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child. Cooper was a partner at Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook and Cooper, P.C.

Julie is office manager at Willow St. Inc. She previously worked as communications manager of the National Council of State Housing Agencies, and as an editor at New Orleans Publishing Group in New Orleans, LA. She previously served as co-president of the Summit Junior Fortnightly Club and helped with marketing and fundraising campaigns at EducAid, a London-based network of free schools in Sierra Leone.

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Chris Bonner received his commission in the US Army Aviation Branch as a helicopter pilot in 1994. He served in the military for over 26 years, mostly as a search and rescue pilot in the Army and Coast Guard. When he retired in 2014, became an educator. He taught at KIPP THRIVE Academy, with Teach for America, and at KIPP’s Newark Collegiate Academy, where he transitioned to campus operations. Chris is the director of operations at Kent Place School and was a member and president of the board for Summit Public Schools from 2016 to 2022.

Celia is a trustee of Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center and the Summit Free Public Library and serves on the board of directors of UNCF (United Negro College Fund).

She is a past president of the Summit Board of Education. Celia spent more than 25 years at Merck & Co., most recently as senior vice president, secretary and assistant general counsel.

Amy was a director in the institutional equities division Salomon Smith Barney and since retirement has devoted her time to several local organizations. She currently serves as a trustee on the Connie Dwyer Breast Cancer Foundation and the Summit Lacrosse Club boards. She is a former president of the Summit Educational Foundation, the Summit Boosters Association and the Summit Women’s Lacrosse Association. Amy also served as chair and vice-chair of The Colgate University President's Club.

Patricia is an adjunct professor in the STEM department at Union County College. She is the Hispanic Community Liaison for the Summit schools and co-founder of Empowering Kids Organization. She formerly worked at Rutgers University and the Public Health Research Institute at the International Center for Public Health at the New Jersey Medical School.

Paul is a managing director at JLL, the commercial real estate services firm. Locally, he serves on Summit's Planning Board and its Economic Development Advisory Committee. He also serves as a mentor in the Project Destined program. He previously served on the boards of Summit Junior Baseball & Softball, the College of the Holy Cross Alumni Association, and the NYC chapter of NAIOP (as well as having served as its president).

Chuck was a practicing physician specializing in nephrology and primary care for 30 years. Gelber most recently practiced at Summit Medical Group. Since retiring in 2017, Gelber has served as a physician in underserved area clinics with the Summit Medical Group Foundation and has traveled on medical missions to the Dominican Republic with Waves of Health. Since 2010, he has volunteered with the Summit Juvenile Conference Committee, which adjudicates cases involving first-time juvenile offenders.

Leah is managing partner of Watts Consulting and formerly worked at Mitchell Madison Group and Pfizer Inc. She is past president of the Summit Educational Foundation, serves on the board of Family Promise National and is a trustee of Central Presbyterian Church.

Katherine is a non-executive director of Genfit, a French biotech company and also serves on the board of several private companies, including Brown Advisory, Clinical Genomics, & Primari Analytics. She is a trustee of the Summit Area YMCA and a past president of the Summit Board of Education. Katherine spent more than 20 years in healthcare, most recently at Celgene, where she led corporate strategy, and at Johnson & Johnson, where she held leadership roles in marketing, sales and new business development. Prior to that, Katherine was a partner at McKinsey & Co.

Drew is a senior director at BNY Mellon. He formerly worked at Merrill Lynch & Co. and Fidelity Institutional Brokerage. Maldonado’s community involvement includes co-chairing the fundraising committee for the Summit Community Center, as well as serving on the boards of the Summit Educational Foundation and Summit Junior Baseball.

Kelli has worked with several organizations focused on driving equity to underserved populations. She recently served as vice president of the Summit African American Action Association. She has also served as a board member of the Lady Liberty Academy charter school in Newark, where she was on the finance committee. Kelli is a supply chain director for Procter & Gamble.

Before retiring in 2021, Dennis served as president and CEO of MetLife Foundation. During his 31-year career at MetLife, he also held positions in the investments department and managed the company’s impact investment activities. Dennis serves as a commissioner for the Summit Housing Authority and as a youth advisor at Beacon Unitarian Church in Summit. He is also an active volunteer with Summit Warm Hearts and Friends of Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.

Mark Yeager is founder and principal of MRY Associates, LLC, a private equity real estate organization based in Summit, New Jersey. He worked at Nabisco and CB Commercial before serving as president and chief investment officer at Gale Real Estate Services Company. He was also executive vice president of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation. He served on the board of trustees for the Tri-County Scholarship Fund and Daytop and is a current board trustee at Lehigh University. In 2003, he was honored with the Huber Award for Outstanding Voluntary Leadership. Yeager supports two endowed scholarships at Lehigh University.