ImpactMakers

Alumni Speaker Series

ImpactMakers will bring St. Christopher’s Alumni from across the world back to the campus to share their experiences and their perspectives with students, and with an emphasis on what they are doing each and every day to make a difference in the world around us. The third of these events will take place on  April 12, 2012 from 10:15 am until 11:40 am in Scott Gym with the following distinguished alumni serving as speakers: Taylor Reveley ’92 and John Powers ’70.

Limited seating for parents and alumni will be available on a first-come, first-served basis.

ImpactMakers Alumni Speakers for April 12: 

Taylor Reveley ’92 |Managing Director of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center

Taylor Reveley is the Managing Director of the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, under the Center’s Director and CEO Gerald Baliles, former Governor of Virginia. The Miller Center is a nonpartisan institute that seeks to expand understanding of the presidency, policy, and political history, providing critical insights for the nation’s governance challenges. Since the Miller Center’s founding nearly four decades ago, every U.S. President has looked to it for insight and trusted it with the reputations and legacies of their administrations when leaving office. The Miller Center’s more than 50 faculty and staff include a Pulitzer Prize winner and two Bancroft Prize winners, the leading prize in the field of U.S. history. Reveley previously served as the coordinating attorney for the Miller Center’s National War Powers Commission co-chaired by U.S. Secretaries of State James Baker and Warren Christopher. As a corporate attorney at Hunton & Williams before joining the faculty of UVa, Reveley engaged in mergers, acquisitions, and financings totaling $1.6 billion. He is currently the chairman of the board of trustees of Virginia Intermont College and a member of the executive committee of Princeton University’s Alumni Council. He also serves on the Woodrow Wilson Centennial Commission as an appointee of the Virginia General Assembly, and he previously served as a member of the St. Christopher’s Alumni Board. Reveley graduated with honors from Princeton University, and received a masters degree from Union Presbyterian Seminary and his law degree from the University of Virginia. Reveley graduated from St. Christopher’s in 1992.

John Powers ’70 | President and chief executive officer of the Stanford Management Company

John Powers is president and chief executive officer of the Stanford Management Company (SMC). SMC was established in 1991 to manage Stanford’s financial and real estate assets. SMC is a division of the university with oversight by a board of directors appointed by the university Board of Trustees. SMC oversees more than $14 billion of endowment and trust assets, temporarily invested expendable funds and commercial real estate investments. SMC’s work supports Stanford’s research and teaching mission.

Before joining SMC, John was managing director and the director of research at Offit Hall Capital Management. Prior to his tenure at Offit Hall, he was director of institutional sales and research and served as a member of the executive committee at Robertson Stephens, a San Francisco investment bank.

Powers holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. John graduated from St. Christopher’s in 1970.

ImpactMakers Alumni Speakers from October 13

IMPACT MAKERS ALUMNI SPEAKERS SERIES DATES:

October 13, 2011
January 19, 2012
April 12, 2012

IMPACT MAKERS ALUMNI SPEAKERS TO INCLUDE:

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