Trinity College has announced the appointment of four new members to its Board of Trustees: Charter Trustees Amy McGill Dilatush ’94, Karoline Shair P’29, and Charles “Charlie” Siguler ’10 and Trinity College Alumni Association Trustee Representative Scott Lessne ’80.
“Amy, Karoline, Charles, and Scott are talented and committed members of the Trinity community who will bring significant personal and professional experience to our board,” said President Daniel G. Lugo. “They join the board at an important time in the history of the College as the trustees are focused on setting the strategic vision for Trinity’s next era. Their individual areas of expertise and their collective enthusiasm for Trinity will enable each of them to make a positive impact on the trajectory of the College.”
Returning trustees Lisa Alvarez-Calderón ’88, Malcolm Fraser MacLean IV ’92, and Stephanie Ritz ’90 were reelected for another term on the board.
Board officers elected for the coming year are: Lisa G. Bisaccia ’78, chair, and Jeffrey B. Hawkins ’92, Susannah Smetana Kagan ’91, and David L. Schnadig ’86, vice chairs.
The new trustees will officially begin their terms on July 1, 2026. Read more about them below.
Amy McGill Dilatush is a director of marketing at PGIM, the global asset management business of Prudential Financial Inc. She leads global content strategy for PGIM’s private credit platform, strengthening its positioning and visibility across international markets. Previously, she served as a vice president and head of marketing at Prudential, where she was instrumental in developing the firm’s digital strategy. Dilatush began her career in advertising.
She also has held leadership roles in several nonprofit organizations, including the Founders’ Board of Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, The Woman’s Board of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, and the Nantucket Garden Club.
Dilatush earned a B.A. in art history from Trinity College. As an alumna, she remains actively engaged with the College, having served as an ex officio member of the Board of Trustees, as vice president and then president of the Trinity College Alumni Association, and as a Reunion Committee member, class agent, and admissions volunteer.
Dilatush lives in Chicago with her family.
Karoline Shair spent more than two decades as an in-house intellectual property attorney and senior legal executive. She retired in 2023 as chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Akouos, a Boston-based biotechnology company that was acquired by Eli Lilly. Prior to Akouos, Shair served as vice president and head of intellectual property program portfolio at Biogen, and before that, she served as vice president, chief intellectual property counsel, and corporate secretary at Forma Therapeutics. She previously held leadership roles at Millennium Pharmaceuticals and Takeda Pharmaceuticals and a legal role at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. Shair began her legal career in private practice at Choate, Hall & Stewart. She is a registered patent attorney.
Shair earned a B.A. in chemistry from Bryn Mawr College, a Ph.D. in chemistry from Yale University, and a J.D. from Boston College Law School. At Trinity, she has served on the Parents Leadership Council. Shair also previously served as a former board member of WomenHeart: The National Coalition for Women with Heart Disease.
Shair and husband Matthew Shair P’29 are the parents of Amelia ’29 and Benjamin and live in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Charlie Siguler serves as chief investment officer of Uphill Farm, a family office based in Greenwich, Connecticut. The office invests with a long-term time horizon across public equities, private equity, and alternative assets.
Prior to forming Uphill, he served as a principal and equity portfolio manager at Siguler Guff & Company, a multi-strategy private investment firm that manages more than $18 billion in assets. There he oversaw the firm’s internal public equity portfolio and managed public stock distributions. Currently, Siguler also serves as a member of the Hoover Council at the Hoover Institution.
Siguler earned a B.A. in economics from Trinity, where he was a member of Alpha Delta Phi and the football team. As an alumnus, he has served on the College’s Board of Fellows.
Siguler and his wife, Deirdre “Dede” Potts Siguler, live in Riverside, Connecticut, with their two young sons.
Scott Lessne serves as senior counsel of the financial services and corporate practice groups at Crowell & Moring LLP, where he also chairs the firm’s commercial finance and lending team. His responsibilities include representing financial institutions and corporate clients in the negotiation and documentation of a wide range of transactions, advising clients on complex loan workouts and restructurings, and counseling financial institutions on creditors’ rights and remedies. Lessne has expertise across the financial services, health care, energy, and hospitality industries. He previously served as an assistant general counsel of FleetBoston Financial Corporation and as general counsel of CapitalSource Bank.
Lessne earned a B.A. in economics from Trinity, where he was a member of the Guild of Carillonneurs, and a J.D. from Western New England University School of Law, where he was the research editor of the Western New England Law Review. As a Trinity alumnus, he has served as vice president and then president of the Trinity College Alumni Association, as vice president of his class, as a class agent, and on several Reunion committees. He also serves on his law school’s Dean’s Advisory Council and is a member of the Editorial Board of The Business Lawyer journal. In addition, he previously served as board president of the Hartford Conservatory and of the Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys, as a regent of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers, and as vice chair of the Glastonbury (CT) Town Plan and Zoning Commission.
Lessne and wife Deborah Lessne ’82 live in Bethesda, Maryland.
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