2015-2016 Annual Report
2015-2016 Annual Report
Thank you to all of our directors, past and present, for their time, leadership and dedication in support of FIU and The FIU Foundation, Inc.
Chairperson
Thomas M. Cornish ’85
BankUnited, Inc.
President, Florida Bank
Vice Chairperson
Richard Brilliant ’93
Carnival Corporation
Chief Audit Officer, Risk Advisory
&
Assurance Services
Vice Chairperson
Kathryn G. Chase
Citibank
Regional President, Eastern Region
Secretary
Jill M. Granat, Esq. ’87
Restaurant Brands International
General Counsel
Treasurer
Adalio T. Sanchez ’87
Agustin R. Arellano, Sr.
NV2A Group
Chairman
Steven M. Berwick, CPA ’74
Kaufman, Rossin & Co., P.A.
Principal, Audit & Litigation
Consulting
Humberto Cabañas ’76
Benchmark Hospitality International
Chairman and CEO
Candice B. Gidney
Candice Gidney, Esq. P.A.v Principal
Claudia Puig
Univision Radio
Senior Vice President and
Eastern Regional Manager
Mark B. Rosenberg
FIU President
Howard R. Lipman
CEO, The FIU Foundation, Inc.
David S. Adler ’08
Adler Development, Inc.
President
Kenneth Bloom
Bloom & Minsker, P.A.
Partner
John Bussel
Hewins Financial Advisors
Principal & Regional Director
Veronica Cervera Goeseke
Cervera Real Estate, Inc.
CEO
Carlos A. Duart ’94, MS ’99
CDR Maguire Inc.
President
Maria Del Busto
Del Busto Capital Partners
President & COO
Juan R. Figuereo ’81
Revlon, Inc.
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Francisco Gonzalez, CPA ’90
Morrison, Brown, Argiz & Farra, LLP
Managing Principal
Jorge J. Gonzalez ’88
City National Bank of Florida
President
Noel J. Guillama-Alvarez ’99
Quantum Innovations, Inc.
President & CEO
Jeffrey L. Horstmyer, M.D.
Neuroscience Centers of
Florida Foundation
Chairman
Melvin Kirk
Ryder Systems
Senior Vice President &
Chief Information Officer
Alberto Lorenzo ’74
Quantum Results Inc.
President
Juan J. Martinez ’90, MAcc ’93
James L. Knight Foundation
Vice President, CFO, Treasurer
Michael R. Mendez ’03, MBA ’10
Mendez Fuel Holdings
President
Esther Moreno ’95
Akerman LLP
Corporate Practice Group
Shareholder
Chad Moss ’94
Moss & Associates
Senior Vice President
Mario Murgado
Brickell Motors, Inc.
President and Chief Executive
Marcel L. Navarro ’93
MMG Equity Partners
Principal
Stacey J. Oddman, M.D. ’94
Holy Cross Hospital
Chief of the Family Medicine Department
Marcos A. Perez ’90, MBA ’00
Leon Medical Centers Health Plans
Vice President of Business
Development
Jonathan E. Perlman
Genovese Joblove & Battista, P.A.
Partner
T. Gene Prescott
The Biltmore Hotel
President
Orlando Roche ’88
Sabadell Bank & Trust
Regional President, Miami-Dade County
Jorge Rossell
TotalBank
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Carlos A. Sabater, CPA ’81
Deloitte & Touche LLP
Global Managing Director,
Audit
and Enterprise Risk Services
Albert Santalo ’97
CareCloud Corporation
President & CEO
Wasim J. Shomar, Ph.D.
The Lynx Companies
Chairman and CEO
Ronald A. Shuffield
Esslinger Wooten Maxwell, Inc.
President
Elliot Stone
Royal Castle Builders, LLC.
Principal
Oscar Suarez
Ernst & Young LLP
Florida Market Leader
Albert R. Taño, M.D.
Kidz Medical Services
Director and Associate Partner
Andre L. Teixeira ’92, MAcc ’93
The Graham Companies
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
José J. Valdés-Fauli ’75
Entrepreneur
Jorge R. Villacampa
Wells Fargo
Area President, Miami-Dade
Isaac Zelcer
Isaco International Corporation
Chairman
Sanford L. Ziff, O.D.
Sunglass Hut
Founder
Danny Pino ’96 and
Lilly Bernal Pino ’97
Lourdes C. Balepogi ’00
Chispa Marketing, Inc.
and Luly B, Inc.
Founder & President
Kenneth G. Furton
FIU
Provost and Executive
Vice President
Eduardo Hondal ’88, MS ’00
Eli Lilly Company
Senior Diabetes
Specialty Representative
Allhan Mejia
FIU Student Government
Association
President, BBC
Joerg Reinhold
Florida International University
Associate Professor