Alumni Named to Board of Trustees

agement LLC, which provides consulting services including business development strategies, entrepreneurial startup planning, management, and financial advice.

All three are actively involved in helping New York Tech deliver on core elements of its mission, including giving all qualified students access to opportunity and supporting efforts to provide career-oriented professional education. For example, Keville and Van Laan have both served on the Dean’s Executive Advisory Board of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences since 2018 and 2013, respectively. And Vogel serves on the School of Management Dean’s Advisory Board.

Three additional New York Institute of Technology alumni have been elected to the Board of Trustees. John R. Keville (B.S. ’88) is the managing partner for the Houston office of Sheppard Mullin, a full-service law firm with 1,000 attorneys across 16 offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. He also is a partner in the Intel- lectual Property Practice Group. Thomas J. Van Laan (M.B.A. ’84) is chief executive officer of CloudCalc, Inc., a Houston-based provider of software to the civil and mechanical engineering market, which he founded in 2014. Debra A. Vogel (A.A.S. ’85) is president and founder/owner of Las Vegas- and New York-based Paradigm Man-

“The example set by these consummate professionals in offering their expertise to help guide and differentiate New York Tech as we position ourselves for continued growth is a powerful one for our current students to emulate and reflects the high regard these alumni have for the education they received here,” says President Hank Foley, Ph.D.