Innovative Bryant programs provide pathways to success for future healthcare leaders

Increasing demands for high-quality healthcare at manageable costs are driving the need for business leaders and healthcare practitioners to work collaboratively and think innovatively across disciplines to improve outcomes. Through the recently launched School of Health and Behavioral Sciences as well as the Innovative Healthcare Leadership program offered through the College of Business, Bryant University is responding to growing healthcare industry demands by delivering interdisciplinary education that integrates health sciences, cognitive and behavioral sciences, data analytics, and business. A grant from the Warren Alpert Foundation and University benefactors continues to be critical to Bryant’s efforts to enhance the talent pipeline and professional development

Five New Bryant University Trustees Announced

Five highly accomplished and nationally and internationally recognized new members of Bryant University’s Board of Trustees were announced by Board Chair David M. Beirne ’85

TRAVEL THE WORLD with Bryant Alumni

The Bryant Alumni Association has three trips on the books for 2023 — Israel and Jordan led by Rabbi Steven Jablow (May 21–June 4); The Azores (September 9–21); and early plans are underway for Egypt including a Nile River cruise (November 19–December 2). Each of these trips are scaled for 12–20 travelers.

Bryant alumni spent 10 days in Tuscany and Umbria this November. Our group is pictured overlooking the Orcia Valley in Pienza.

Information on each alumni travel experience is at alumni.bryant.edu/travel or email Robin Warde, Executive Director of Parent and Alumni Engagement, at rwarde@bryant.edu for more information.

Alumni And Parent Networking Events

View more pictures at facebook.com/bryantalumni/photos opportunities for business leaders and clinical professionals. The estimated growth rate for occupations in healthcare is at 16% until 2030, with projected earnings well above national and New England averages for college graduates.

“We are creating an ecosystem of interdisciplinary academic programs and immersive experiential opportunities across the university and in the School of Health and Behavioral Sciences that will position Bryant graduates with valuable skillsets, unique perspectives, and a distinct advantage in the workforce of the future,” says Provost and Chief Academic Officer Rupendra Paliwal, Ph.D.

In fall 2022, the School of Health and Behavioral Sciences (SHBS) added programs in Healthcare Analytics and Exercise and Movement Science, continues on page 9

New CFO Donna Ng

Bryant University has named Donna Ng, an experienced higher education leader and strategic financial officer, as vice president for business affairs and chief financial officer following a national search.

Ng joins the leadership team of President Ross Gittell, Ph.D., and will serve in a vital role central to advancing initiatives of Bryant’s Vision 2030 Strategic Plan: Education Through a New Lens, which sets a bold trajectory for the next decade through uniquely integrated academic and student life programs, faculty-student collaboration, competitive athletics, and student outcomes that result in economic

August 17 | Santo Domingo, DR mobility and a return on investment, among the top 1% in the nation.

Ng began her term in October 2022, joining Bryant from Skidmore College, where she served most recently as vice president for finance and administration and treasurer. Prior to Skidmore, she served as senior vice president for finance and administration and treasurer at Simmons University in Boston, MA, where she partnered with the provost on a major initiative to redesign Simmons and oversaw the renovation and creation of the Center for Student Success and Ifill College of continues on page 9

Kim Anderson ‘22H is the creator and co-founder of Plant City, the world’s first plant-based food hall and marketplace in Providence, RI in addition to two “Plant City X” locations in Middletown, RI and Warwick, RI and the speakeasy “345” also in Providence.

Anderson is the co-founder of EverHope Capital which provides seed, bridge and Series A capital to companies creating innovative food technologies and alternatives to animal-based products.

In 2009, she co-founded with her daughter Ava Anderson Non Toxic which offered a full line of organic and natural personal care and home cleaning products without harmful chemicals sold via direct sales. In 2016, the company was rebranded Pure Haven Essentials. Anderson currently serves on the boards of Social Enterprise Greenhouse, the Lincoln School, the Collis Family Foundation and EverHope Foundation. Anderson’s father, the late Robert Sprague, and her mother, Audrey (Perreault) Sprague, are members of the Bryant Class of 1956, and her mother taught at Bryant for six years following graduation. Her late father-in-law, Charlie Collis, is a former Bryant trustee and honorary degree recipient of the University.

Julia Di Natale ’22 was named Bryant University’s 2022 Recent Alumni Trustee. She is a first-generation college student from East Islip, NY.

Di Natale majored in International Business (IB) with a double concentration in Marketing and Global Supply Chain with a minor in French.

Di Natale joined the college Honors Program and for her Honors Thesis she examined how perceptions regarding a product’s country of origin affect its desirability. Her research was accepted at two major conferences, and she presented at the Society of Marketing Advances Annual Conference in Orlando before delivering a remote presentation for the 2021 Global Fashion Management Conference in Seoul that same day. Di Natale is an analyst with Goldman Sachs.

David Sorbaro ’85 is co-CEO of Mavis Tire Express Services Corporation, an independent tire dealer and automotive aftermarket service provider in Millwood, NY. The company was started by his parents in the 1960s and has been co-managed by him and his brother, Stephen, since 1987. Mavis has more than 1,100 service centers, primarily in the northeast, Midwest, and southern United States. The company has been one of the fastest growing retailers of tires and auto services in the country, growing primarily through acquisitions including the November 2020 merger with Town Fair Tire.

Frank Stasiowski ’75MBA is the president, CEO and founding owner of PSMJ Resources, a global publishing, education, consulting, and trade show company with offices in the US, the United Kingdom and Australia. Stasiowski is a strategist and advisor to CEOs of top design and construction firms nationwide and the author of hundreds of articles and books intended for architecture and engineering firm continues on page 10

ALUMNI AND STUDENT WELCOME RECEPTION

Bryant’s incoming students from Santo Domingo, along with recent alumni, were guests of former parent Alberto Cruz P’21 at a reception in August.

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VISION 2030 PRESIDENTIAL RECEPTION AT THE DUNES CLUB HOSTED BY JIM ’72 AND JANET ROSATI

President Ross Gittell, Ph.D. greets alumna Linda Matoian ’87 and former Bryant head librarian Mary Maroney at the Dunes Club.

Father Joe Pescatello is flanked by alumni Michael Tikoian ’79, Dean DeNuccio ’86, P’22, Taylor DeNuccio ’22, and David Tikoian ’90