At its May 28 meeting, the Cornell Board of Trustees elected six new trustees to four-year terms: William J. Lipinski ’79; Reuben A. Munday ’71, MPS ’74; Ana G. Pinczuk ’84, M.S. ’85; Harriet P. Schleifer ’74; Robert W. Selander ’72; and Michael L. Thompson ’77.

They join recent alumni-elected trustees, Kimberly A. Wagner ’85 and A’ndrea L. Van Schoick ’96, who will serve four-year terms, and undergraduate student-elected trustee Selam Woldai ’23, who was elected to a two-year term.

All the newly elected trustees’ terms begin July 1.

Also at the May 28 meeting, six current trustees were reelected to four-year terms: Jessica M. Bibliowicz ’81, John Ceriale, Linda M. Gadsby ’88, Dale S. Rosenthal ’78, Anne M. Smalling ’87 and J. Allen Smith ’80, M.P.S. ’86; and two current trustees, Kraig H. Kayser, MBA ’84, and Ronald D. McCray ’79, were each reelected to an additional one-year term.

They join recently elected trustees Beth Anderson ’80 and Doug Mitarotonda ’02, M.Eng. ’03; M.A. ’07, Ph.D. ’09 (alumni-elected, 2020); Abigail Cohn ’78 (faculty-elected, 2020); Liz Davis-Frost ’20 (graduate and professional student-elected, 2020); and Reginald White ’80 (employee-elected, 2020).

Davis-Frost is a graduate student pursuing a master’s of public administration in the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs. She received her bachelor’s degree in communication last year. She is passionate about gender equity, racial justice and further uplifting and empowering students with marginalized, underrepresented and traditionally silenced voices.

Lipinski, a board-elected trustee from the field of agriculture, recently retired as president and CEO at Farm Credit East, the largest supplier of credit and financial services to agricultural enterprises in the Northeast, after 25 years in that role. In 2020, he served as CEO of Financial Partners, Inc. after serving as its board chairman for many years, and has served on the board at Pro-Fac Cooperative, Inc., and Farm Credit Leasing Services Corp.

At Cornell, Lipinski has served on the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Advisory Council and the Dyson Undergraduate Advisory Council. In 2000, he was honored as an Outstanding Alum by the Alumni Association of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Munday is chairman emeritus of the Lewis & Munday, P.C., law firm in Detroit, where he has practiced law since 1977. It is one of the oldest and largest law firms founded by African American lawyers; Munday served as its president and CEO from 1994 to 2003.

As a Cornell student, Munday was a member of Quill and Dagger, Aleph Semach and Sigma Phi. From 1972-74, he was a staff writer in Cornell’s Office of Public Information. He received his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1976. Munday has been a member of the Cornell University Council since 1992 and is a life member; he also is a member of Cornell Mosaic. In 2014, Munday and his wife, Cheryl Casselberry Munday ’72, endowed the Reuben A. and Cheryl Casselberry Munday Distinguished Lecture Series at Cornell.

Pinczuk is the chief development officer at Anaplan, a spend-management planning software company that works with enterprises to orchestrate business performance and turn change into advantage. She drives product management and engineering teams responsible for Anaplan’s product plans, software and technology engineering, and cloud platforms. Prior to this role, she was president and general manager for HPE Pointnext, HPE’s services business, leading a team of 25,000 IT experts. She also spent 15 years at Cisco, where she held various senior roles in global services sales and support and led engineering development groups. She began her career at AT&T Bell Laboratories as a systems engineer.

Pinczuk is a member of the International Women’s Forum, Latino Donor Collaborative and Carnegie Mellon Engineering Advisory Board; she has received numerous awards including Latino Leaders Top 100 Most Influential Latinas 2020, Fortune’s 2018 and 2017 Top 50 Latinas, and more.

At Cornell, she has been involved with the Cornell University Council and has served as a member of the Computing and Information Science Advisory Council since 2008; she also is a sustaining member of the President’s Council of Cornell Women.

Schleifer is the national president of the American Jewish Committee, having previously served as chairperson of the organization’s board of governors and chair of AJC’s Project Interchange. She formerly practiced law with a focus on education law and has extensive experience representing students with special needs.

Schleifer serves on the Executive Committee of Chapel Haven Schleifer Center, Inc., a residential school and organization that provides lifelong individualized services for people with developmental and social disabilities. Her other involvements include the Jewish Museum, Jewish Broadcasting Service, the Washington Institute on Near East Policy, and UJA-Federation of New York.

Selander is the former president and chief executive officer of MasterCard Inc. and MasterCard International; he retired from the company in 2010. He previously spent two decades with Citibank, where he helped develop its global branch network and managed the Diners Club International credit card business throughout the United States, Canada and Europe.

Selander currently serves as non-executive chairman of Health Equity Inc. and as a director of Equifax. His past board memberships include the Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc., Fidelity Equity and High Income Funds, and Western Union.

For Cornell, Selander has served on the Engineering College Council since 2018, and he, along with his wife, Nancy, have been key supporters of leadership initiatives with the College of Engineering and with the Office of Sorority and Fraternity Life.

Thompson acquired the majority interest in Fair Oaks Foods in 2003. As president and chief executive officer there, Thompson has championed the success of this Wisconsin-based supplier of par-cooked sausage, bacon, and other meat and poultry products. Thompson maintains Fair Oaks Foods as a certified Minority Business Enterprise; it was named the 2019 Company of the Year by Black Enterprise magazine and ranked No. 11 in the magazine’s BE 100s – the Nation’s Largest Black Businesses.

Previously, Thompson held a number of key leadership positions in supply chain management and operations with the McDonald’s Corporation from 1984 to 2003.

He is active in numerous Chicago-based community organizations, and Thompson and his wife, Michele Thompson ’74, are part of the Ray Kroc Heritage Society of Ronald McDonald House Charities.

For Cornell, Thompson has served on the Cornell CALS Advisory Council since 2015, and in 2018 he was recognized by CALS with an Outstanding Alumni Award.

Van Schoick is a veterinary medical officer in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Veterinary Medicine, Office of Minor Use and Minor Species Drug Development, as well as a practicing veterinarian and the owner of Veterinary Relief Services, a five-state practice. Her professional interests include clinical and regulatory veterinary medicine, education and outreach.

For Cornell, she is the immediate past president of the Class of 1996, a past president of the Cornell Club of Washington and the CALS Alumni Association, and currently serves as the President of the Cornell Association of Class Officers (CACO). She is active with the Cornell University Council, is a Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador, and chair of the Finance Subcommittee for the Alumni Publications Ad Hoc Committee.

Her academic, professional and community service experiences have led her to advocate for student debt management and mental health awareness, and she regularly mentors students and new graduates.

Wagner is the managing partner for TBGD Partners, a boutique firm providing expertise to companies in the agribusiness, food/nutrition and life sciences sectors. She is also the founder and owner of the award-winning Stoutridge Vineyard, a vineyard, farm winery and distillery in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Wagner is the former president and chief operating officer of CIBO Technologies, a venture-backed ag tech startup. She previously was a partner at McKinsey & Co. and a senior partner and managing director at the Boston Consulting Group, Inc.

She serves on the boards of several for-profit and not-for-profit organizations with agricultural, sustainability and/or educational missions and is an active member of several national and international scientific societies.

For Cornell, Wagner is a member of the Cornell University Council, the Cornell Atkinson Center External Advisory Board and the Hudson Valley Research Lab. She also serves on the CALS Advisory Council and served as its chair from 2014-16.  She served on her 35th Reunion Campaign, the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County, the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainable Future Alumni Advisory Board, and the Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network. Wagner received the CALS Outstanding Alumni Award in 2012.

Woldai is a rising junior in the ILR School’s Class of 2023 with minors in law and society and inequality studies. She has served on the Student Assembly since her freshman year in various committees, with leadership roles as vice president of diversity and inclusion and as the minority student liaison at-large. Woldai is also a Cornell Tradition Fellow and a member of Black Ivy Pre-Law Society. In the future she plans to pursue a law degree with the intention of advocating for marginalized voices.