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European Board of Visitors

The European Board of Visitors is a voluntary board comprised of leaders in business, government, education and art and design. The European Board of Visitors serves the university as an advocacy and support organization, with a special focus on facilitating the growth and development of the university in Europe. SCAD's historic campus in Lacoste, France, in particular, offers immediate challenges and opportunities.

Chairman John Gilbert (Gil) Donaldson Jr. is a native of Savannah, Georgia, who now resides in Paris. A graduate of the University of Georgia, Donaldson began his career as a Wall Street analyst with E.F. Hutton, Shearson and U.S. Trust. He changed career paths in 1994 when he formed the motion picture company Laura Pels Productions and later managed the interests of Merchant Ivory Productions in Europe. In 2000, Donaldson created Donaldson Polakoff Immobilier and DPF Holding (real estate development) in Paris.
Ondine Angarola is a founder and managing partner of LD Investments, a Paris-based real estate investment fund. She was the founding president of Les Amis du National Museum of Women in the Arts. Angarola holds an undergraduate degree in international economics from the American University of Paris, a Master of Arts in development economics from the University of Sussex in Great Britain, and a Master of Business Administration from L'École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. She resides in Los Angeles.
Emmanuel Beffy is director of cultural actions at Pierre Cardin Group in Paris. He also serves as general director of Art Auction Pierre Cardin Rémy le Fur et Associés. An architect and historic preservationist by training, Beffy is a graduate of the School of Architecture, Paris-Belleville. His preservation work includes the Castle of Malmaison. Beffy represents Pierre Cardin Group with L'Académie des Beaux-Arts. He resides in Paris and Lacoste.
Tandra L. Cadigan, M.D., is a physician in obstetrics and gynecology who resides in Laguna Beach, California, and the Luberon Valley of France. Cadigan is a graduate of California State University and Western University of Health Sciences. In addition to her medical career, Cadigan is involved in historic preservation and the adaptive reuse of architecturally significant structures.
Maxime A. Crener, Ph.D., is president and dean of the International University of Monaco. Previously he served as director general and dean of CERAM Graduate School of Business, director of the Marseille Business School and president of Econosult Lavalier (one of Canada's largest consulting firms). A graduate of Aix-Marseilles, Lille, Laval and Harvard universities, Crener founded SMSI (engineering) in Ottawa, Canada. An engineer by training, he has been involved in major re-engineering processes around the world.
Ronald Freeman was born in New York and educated at Lehigh University and Columbia Law School. For more than three decades, Freeman was a general partner with Solomon Brothers (now Citigroup), where he served as head of the energy group, mergers and acquisitions, and investment banking. Prior to that, he practiced law with Baker & McKenzie in Paris. Freeman is a board director and senior advisory partner/shareholder for investment bank and securities dealer Troika Dialog in Moscow. He also serves on the board of steel manufacturer Severstal (Moscow), reinsurance subsidiary Brookfield (Toronto), Volga Gas (Moscow) and UniCredit Bank (Milan). He, his wife, Helen, and their two daughters have been London residents since 1989.
Nancy Herstand is an arts management and fundraising consultant with an extensive career working with many of America's major visual and performing arts institutions, and on selected international projects. In 2002, as chairman of the board of the Lacoste School of the Arts in France, Inc., Herstand led the board in developing and effecting the relationship between Lacoste and SCAD. She also serves on the SCAD Board of Trustees. A native of Scarsdale, New York and a graduate of Barnard College, Herstand lives in Miami, Florida where she led the private sector's $80-million capital campaign for Miami's $483-million Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. She is a member of the board of directors of the Florida Grand Opera, a resident company of the Arsht Center, and the France Florida Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
William T. Hillman is an artist who lives in New York. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. A graduate of Princeton University, Hillman holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Columbia University and also has studied at The Art Students League of New York and the Lacoste School of the Arts in France. He was previously chairman of the board of trustees of the Lacoste School of the Arts. He serves as president of the William T. Hillman Foundation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the founder of Affirmation Arts in New York.
Beatrice Larsen, Countess von Silva Tarouca, is a Doctor of Law (University of Munich), specializing in intellectual property law. She resides in London and Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Larsen holds a doctoral degree from Columbia University and a doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge, where she is associated with the Centre for Penal Theory and Penal Ethics. For more than a decade, she served as senior vice president for legal and business affairs at Warner Music International in London. Larsen serves on the board of the St. Nicholas Society, Eaton College and the Kurt Weill and Busoni foundations.
David Talmage McGovern, who was born in New York, served as an officer in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and graduated from Yale University and Columbia Law School. He moved to Paris and became senior partner with the law firm Shearman & Sterling in 1967. For many years, McGovern served as chairman of the board of the American Hospital of Paris and in leadership positions with the American Chamber of Commerce in France and the French-American Foundation. In 1983, he was presented with the Chevalier of the French Légion d'Honneur.
Jedd Novatt is an American sculptor who lives in Paris. Novatt divides his time among studios in France, New York and the Basque region of Spain. His work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums, and is well represented in numerous private and public collections internationally. Novatt graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and is an alumnus of the Lacoste School of the Arts.
William J. Tyne, currently retired, was formerly a managing director and member of the Management Committee of Bessemer Trust Inc., where he led the formation of the $6 billion alternative investment group. Prior to that, Tyne was a managing director of Alex. Brown & Sons, where he was responsible for the firm's $1.2 billion alternative investment program. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Tyne graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts in history. He sits on several boards including the Supervisory Board of the $2 billion Fifth Avenue Funds (a hedge fund program) and the $2 billion Old Westbury Private Equity program, as well as a Trustee of the American Museum in Britain. He resides in London.
Deborah Williams is the owner of Armscote Manor, a garden design business and Cobweb Designs, a renovation and design company in Warwickshire, England. She was educated at Bromsgrove School in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England, and Moreton Morrell Agricultural College in Warwickshire, England. She organizes the Notorious Villains Ball, the largest black-tie teenage ball held outside London, that aids a local home hospice. Her other involvements include the Royal Shakespeare Company, Birmingham Royal Ballet, the American Museum in Britain and the Royal Horticulture Society. She is the founder of the annual Armscote Manor Lecture Series on gardening, landscape architecture and architectural history.

Recognition

Rabb's novel re-released in a trilogy box set
Writing professor Jonathan Rabb's novel "The Second Son" was re-released as the third in a box set of his trilogy of novels.
Cummins pitches soap line on "Shark Tank"
Megan Cummins (B.F.A., graphic design, 2008) appeared on ABC's "Shark Tank" to pitch her You Smell soap line and launched her company Feb. 3. Read the press release.
Society of Illustrators competition winners
Congratulations to all the winners of the Society of Illustrators Illustration Competition: M.F.A. illustration students Asa Bryan Ayers, Denise Plauche, Thomas Burns, Yina Hyder; B.F.A. illustration students Kari Brooks, DoSung Hwang, Caleb Morris; and Solongo Monkhooroi (M.F.A., illustration, 2011), Obekir Orhan.
Carson wins Best Technical Design award
B.F.A. production design student Andrew Carson won the BroadwayWorld.com Best Technical Design award for his lighting design for the premiere production "Shipwrecked!" in Atlanta.

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