Alumni Executive Board - New Members
Vanessa Kroll Bennett ’94
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René Lumley-Hall ’94
Suzanne Cannistraro Napoli ’92
Vanessa Kroll Bennett ’94
René Lumley-Hall ’96
Suzanne Cannistraro Napoli ’92
graduated from Wellesley College in 1998 with a B.A. in American Studies. In 2009, she received an M.A. in Jewish History from the Jewish Theological Seminary. Vanessa lives in New York City with her husband, Roger, and their four children, Samson, Ber, Zion, and Oz. She is the founder of Dynamo Girl, a new venture that promotes girls’ self-esteem through physical activity. Vanessa is a regular at the Alumni Greats soccer game at Wildcat Weekend and last year took home the MVP award. Vanessa and fellow Class Agent Robin Quittell Ponticelli ’94 worked together on the 20th Reunion of the Class of 1994.
is the Chief of Staff of the Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis (CFP&A) team at TIAA-CREF. René leads the CFP&A team’s strategic planning efforts and serves as the cross-functional lead to assist business partners with adopting new financial tools and approaches. René has an extensive background in Financial Services, having spent over seven years with Citi and Morgan Stanley across their Institutional, Consumer, and Private Wealth Management groups in and around New York City, Connecticut, and South America. Before her career in Financial Services, René was a Business Development Coordinator and District Manager for ChevronTexaco based in Puerto Rico, then moved on to the company’s Caribbean and Central American regional headquarters, where she managed executive projects and training efforts. She was and continues to serve as a Hermes Admissions Ambassador for Columbia Business School, sits on The Young Women’s Leadership Network’s Advisory Board and was selected to serve as a Corporate Term Member on the Council on Foreign Relations. René enjoys Bikram Yoga, scuba diving, and snowboarding. She has a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.
has over 15 years of digital advertising and marketing expertise and was one of the pioneers in the online advertising industry. She joined DoubleClick in 1997, where she managed its corporate branding initiatives. She then moved into digital media sponsorships sales for the finance, news, and small business verticals. She later joined Yahoo, overseeing all aspects of ad revenue growth and packaging strategies. In 2004, Suzanne earned an M.B.A. with a concentration in finance from Fordham University, and then spent the next five years at Ten-Sixty Asset Management, a boutique investment advisory firm, where she oversaw hedge fund analysis and due diligence, and was responsible for running the firm’s daily operations. Most recently, Suzanne is home with her family, raising two beautiful children in Rye. She has become an active member of the Center for Hearing and Communication in Manhattan, where she is passionate about enabling resources for children with hearing loss. She helps support their marketing efforts to families and sits on the auction committee for their annual fund-raiser. Suzanne graduated from University of Colorado with a B.A. in Communications in 1996.