Five new members join Fairfield University’s Board of Trustees for the 2013-14 school year.
The Board of Trustees, consisting of 37 current members and four trustees emeriti, decides and approves Fairfield policies and ensures that the educational goals of the university includes a Jesuit and Catholic perspective.
Stephen Lessing ‘76 previously served on the board from 2000 to 2012. He is the managing director and head of Senior Relationship Management at Barclays. Lessing is a member of the President’s Leadership Council of Dartmouth College and the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Lessing graduated from Fairfield with a bachelor’s degree in economics and played varsity tennis.
Ceasar N. Anquillare ’78 is the chairman and chief executive officer of Winchester Capital, a strategic advisory firm specializing in international mergers and acquisitions. He was an adviser to the U.S. Agency for International Development during the administrations of former Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. Anquillare is also a Justice of Peace. Anquillare has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Georgetown University and Fairfield. He pursued postgraduate studies in law at the University of London and graduated from Harvard Business School.
Kevin P. Cannon ’80 is chief executive officer of Zweig-DiMenna Associates LLC, a New York-based investment adviser. Cannon is a member of the Charles F. Dolan School of Business Advisory Council. Since 2003 he has been a director of the DiMenna Foundation, which supports organizations in the arts, education and child development. Cannon graduated from Fairfield with a bachelor’s degree in accounting.
Carlos M. Cardoso ’81 is chairman, president, and CEO of Kennametal Inc., an industrial technology company that develops materials for industrial production and infrastructure. Cardoso also served as president of the Pump Division of Flowserve Corporation. He also graduated with a degree in business administration at Fairfield, and a master’s degree in management from the Hartford Graduate Center.
Robin Kanarek ’96 is the president of the Kanarek Family Foundation, a nonprofit organization honoring her son David, who died in 2000 due to leukemia. She has been a registered nurse since 1979 and has worked in the clinical areas of cardiology and physical rehabilitation. Kanarek has served on the Stamford Hospital Foundation Board in Stamford and the Carl and Dorothy Bennett Foundation in Greenwich. She serves on the board of trustees at Greenwich Hospital and also serves as a chairperson on Fairfield University’s Nursing Advisory Board.
Four quarterly meetings are scheduled each school year for the Board of Trustees with new members added annually.
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