Twelve new members join George Mason Board of Visitors

The 12 new members that Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger appointed to the George Mason University Board of Visitors (BOV) last month have been sworn in and took part in their first meeting Thursday.

The new appointees to the board include three prior George Mason BOV members and six alumni.

Below are capsules on the new members. Visit the BOV website for longer bios on all 16 BOV members.

• Anne Altman, BS Marketing '82, is co-founder and CEO of Everyone Matters Inc. The former IBM executive served on the BOV from 2006 to 2010 and also serves on multiple Costello College of Business boards at George Mason, including the Dean's Advisory Council and the Baroni Center for Government Contracting board.
   
• Bruce Caswell is president, CEO, and director at Maximus. He joined the government services company in 2004 after working in several capacities for IBM, including vice president of state and local government and education. He is a four-time recipient of the Wash100 award recognizing influential government contracting leaders.
   
• Tom Davis is a partner at the Holland & Knight law firm. The former George Mason BOV rector served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to that he served on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors from 1980 to 1991, and as board chairman from 1991 to 1994. Davis was a BOV member from 2013 to 2021, including six years as rector. He also has been an adjunct professor at George Mason.
   
• Paul Misener, JD '93, is an engineer/scientist and founder and principal of Misener Innovation LLC. Misener served as a global vice president at Amazon.com for 23 years. He has served on the President's Innovation Advisory Council at George Mason as well as on the advisory board of the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation.
   
• Trevor Montano, BS Accounting '00, is founder and managing member of investment firm West Potomac Capital LLC. The former chief investment officer at the U.S. Department of the Treasury served nine years as a member on the George Mason University Foundation Board of Trustees and founded the Montano Student Investment Fund in 2018.
   
• James P. Moran represented Northern Virginia for 24 years in the U.S. Congress, a tenure that included membership on the Appropriations, Foreign Affairs, Banking, Housing and Finance, and Government Reform and Oversight committees. He served as Alexandria mayor from 1985 to 1990.
   
• Delbert Parks is vice president and site executive of Micron Technology Virginia in Manassas. He previously held leadership positions at Philips Electronics and Texas Instruments. He is a former member of the George Mason University Foundation Board of Trustees and he also serves on the Virginia Business Higher Education Council.
   
• Shawn N. Chambliss-Purvis, MS Information Systems '99, is president and CEO of IT company Sabel Systems. Previously she served as president and CEO for QinetiQ US and in leadership roles at Northrop Grumman, SAIC, and Lockheed Martin. She first served on the BOV from 2014 to 2019.
   
• George D. Schindler is the former president and CEO of CGI, a global business and strategic IT consulting service firm he led from 2016 to 2024 after serving in many other leadership roles in the company. He currently serves on CGI's Board of Directors. He received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from George Mason in 2024.
   
• Sumeet Shrivastava, MBA '94, is president and CEO of federal consulting and software development company Unissant, after executive stints at ARRAY and ANSTEC. He has served in many capacities at George Mason, including past chair of the George Mason University Foundation Board of Trustees and past president of the George Mason Alumni Association.
   
• Sean A. Spence is a director on the Dumfries Economic Development Authority and chair of the Prince William County Superintendent Advisory Council on Sustainability. His professional roles include leadership positions at BDO, Deloitte, and Booz Allen Hamilton. He is an adjunct finance professor in the Costello College of Business.
   
• Jennifer Taylor, MBA '98, is president and CEO of the Northern Virginia Technology Council. She previously served as vice president of industry affairs at the Consumer Technology Association and in senior leadership roles at AARP, the American Red Cross, and technology startups.