Eight alumni have been elected to the Board of Trustees beginning July 1. Six former trustees ended their terms on June 30, increasing the total number of trustees to 39, one member away from its maximum size of 40.
Two of the new members of the board have held positions before: Marco Tablada ’93 and Melissa Wu ’99 completed their terms in 2022 and 2024 respectively. Andy Florance ’86, Gil Joseph ’25, Anthony Lee ’92, Jim Lee ’86, Robert Long ’79, and Anthony So GS ’86 are new members of the board.
The trustees who have completed their time on the board are Marisa Demeo ’88, Kathy Kiely ’77, Timothy Kingston '87, Elizabeth Myers ’92, Kathryn Roth-Douquet GS ’91, and Morgan Smith ’21.
Most trustees either declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment.
While members of the board are not required to have attended Princeton, all current members have with the exception of N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy, who serves as an ex officio trustee. All New Jersey governors, as well as the University president, serve as ex officio trustees during their terms in office.
The new trustees have term lengths ranging from four all the way a total of possible eight years.
While they may hold different titles, terms, and election methods, they all have the same duties, rights, and powers. These duties include controlling the budget of the University, making long term development decisions, and making institutional decisions about the direction of the University.
Jim Lee, Long and So were elected by alumni to become alumni trustees, serving four year terms.
Jim Lee is the president, publisher, and chief creative officer of DC comics. Prior to the start of his career at Marvel Comics in 1987, he was an editorial cartoonist for The Daily Princetonian. His work for the ‘Prince’ is available in the Larry DuPraz digital archive. He graduated with an A.B. in psychology in 1986.
A cartoon by Jim Lee ’86, published on March 23, 1983.
Jim Lee / The Daily Princetonian
Long spent 21 years in various research and development roles at Proctor & Gamble and Coca-Cola, then retired briefly before spending nearly four years as chief research and development officer for Kimberly-Clark. Long is now retired. He graduated with a B.S.E in chemical engineering in 1979.
So is a professor of the practice at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and serves as a World Health Organization advisor for Market Access to Vaccines. So also spent 12 years on the University’s Advisory Council for the Center for Health and Wellbeing and nine years on the advisory council for the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), after being one of the first medical students to pursue a master’s degree from SPIA.
Tablada and Wu, elected Charter Trustees, will each serve a term of six years, with the possibility of being re-elected for an additional two years.
Tablada is a co-founder and managing partner of global investment firm Alua Capital Management. He is a current member of the board of Princeton University Investment Company, and previously served on the Board of Trustees as a term trustee. He graduated with an A.B. in history in 1993.
Wu is the chief executive officer of Education Pioneers, a nonprofit that sponsors leadership development in education. Since graduating with an A.B. in sociology in 1999, Wu has returned to Princeton for various reasons. From 2001 to 2007, she was a member of the board for Princeton Project 55 (now AlumniCorps). She participated in the 2018 “She Roars” conference panel “Tigresses in Nonprofits: Amplifying our Impact,” and served as an alumni trustee from 2020 to 2024.
Florance and Anthony Lee were elected term trustees with a four-year term. Term trustees are elected by the board itself, rather than students or alumni.
Florance is the chief executive officer of CoStar group, a real estate company that owns online marketplaces like homes.com, which he founded as a senior at Princeton. He graduated with an A.B. in economics in 1986.
Anthony Lee is the managing director of Altos Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on investments in early stage tech companies. He also serves as the lead independent director for the makers of Roblox, an online gaming platform. He graduated with an A.B. in politics in 1992.
Joseph was elected the Young Alumni Trustee for the class of 2025 last spring by members of the class of 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. He will serve a four year term. During his time as an undergraduate, Joseph served as class president for the class of 2025 in their sophomore and junior years. He was also the president of the Princeton African Students Association and a Residential College Advisor.
He graduated with an A.B. in sociology in May, and is currently working at an immigration services nonprofit in New York City before attending a masters program in international policy at the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences this fall.
In an email sent to the ‘Prince’ when his election was announced, Joseph wrote that he was “flooded with gratitude for the many people that trusted me to steward the University in this historic moment.”
Vitus Larrieu is a senior News writer for the ‘Prince.’ He is from Pensacola, Fla. and typically covers community activism, the state of higher education, and construction and architecture.
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