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Board Members

Thayer School's Board of Overseers is comprised of alumni and friends of the School, including the President of Dartmouth, the Provost of Dartmouth, a Trustee of Dartmouth, and the Dean of Thayer School, ex officio; and up to twenty other members.

• Terrance G. McGuire Th'82, Chair
  Co-founder and Managing General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners

• John W. Ballard II D'55 Th/Tu'56
  President/CEO, Radio Propagation Services, Inc. (RPSI)

• Richard W. Couch, Jr. D'64 Th'65
  Chief Executive Officer, Hypertherm, Inc.

• Ralph E. Crump D'66a
  President (Retired), Crump Industries

• Michael V. DeFelice D'83
  Managing Principal, Stonegate Skyview Energy, LLC

• Peter M. Fahey D'68 Th'69
  Partner (Retired), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

• Brent Frei D'88, Th'89
  Founder & Chairman, Smartsheet

• Clinton P. Harris D'69 Th'70
  Founder and Managing Partner, Grove Street Advisors, LLC

• Christopher K. Hu D'69 Th'70
  Partner, Dickstein Shapiro LLP

• Randall Lunn D'73 Th/Tu'75
  Founding Partner, Palomar Ventures

• Barry L. MacLean D'60 Th'61
  President/CEO, MacLean-Fogg Co.

• Charles E. Nearburg D'72 Th'74
  President/Owner, Nearburg Producing Company

• Michael J. Ross D'71
  General Partner, SV Life Sciences

• Scott D. Sandell D'86
  General Partner, New Enterprise Associates

• Edward P. Stritter D'68
  President, Stritter Consulting

• S. David Wu
  Dean and Iacocca Professor, P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science, Lehigh University

• Michel Zaleski D'68 Th'69
  Chairman and President, The Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring Project

Ex officio Members

• Carol Folt
  Acting Provost, Dartmouth College

• Joseph J. Helble
  Dean, Thayer School of Engineering

• William W. Helman IV D'80
  Partner, Greylock Management Corporation

• Jim Yong Kim
  President, Dartmouth College

• Martin N. Wybourne
  Vice Provost, Dartmouth College

Honorary Members

• Marian Miner Cook W'29
  Founder and Chair, John Brown Cook Foundation

• John H. "Jake" Krehbiel, Jr.
  Co-chairman, Molex, Inc.

• Brian J. Thompson
  Provost Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor (Retired), University of Rochester

Terms of Office

Members of the Board of Overseers are nominated by the Dean and Board to serve three-year terms, with the exception of the ex-officio members. Elections are by majority vote of the Board of Overseers, with subsequent approval by the Trustees and formal appointment by the President of the College.

Members of the Board who miss two consecutive meetings of the Board within an academic year will be considered as having resigned, except in unusual circumstances.