School of Business Dean’s Advisory Council

As a senior partner with Ernst & Young, David Farrell provided strategic direction, leadership and outstanding client service for 34 years. Through his leadership positions within Ernst & Young and by providing assurance and advisory solutions to corporate America, Farrell has extensive and diverse experience in strategic thinking, execution and resolution management, risk management and talent development. Farrell was a member of the U.S. banking and capital markets assurance practice committee responsible for the direction, execution and oversight of the firm’s U.S. practice. As a senior partner within the financial services industry practice, Farrell led high-energy and diverse teams that served and advised multi-nationals, Fortune 500, domestic and regional corporations including banks, private equity, specialty finance and technology, REITs and hedge and other fund groups.

Farrell is a 1983 graduate of the university (BS in accounting). His wife, Pat, is also a graduate of the university (1984). Both were presented with the Quinnipiac University Distinguished Alumni Award in 2004. He has also served on the Alumni Council.

Don Desiderato ’84 is a former Fortune 100 executive and the founder of Mantissa Group LLC, a strategy consulting firm serving the CIO executive and their extended leadership teams. He is a deeply experienced senior technology executive who helps leaders with their strategic technology plans and simultaneously focuses on leadership development and culture.

Don’s most recent role was the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for New York Life. He was accountable for New York Life’s core insurance and strategic insurance businesses and agency technology. In this role, Don was accountable for managing a large-scale transformation effort ranging from core Insurance and sales platforms to the modernization of infrastructure and data environment. In addition, he was a member of the Insurance Group Senior Leadership Team. Don’s previous New York Life roles included CIO for the investments group technology. In this role, he was on the Investments Group Senior Leadership team and led similar transformation initiatives. During his tenure, he regularly interacted with members of the Executive Management Committee and has presented to the Board of Directors.

Don’s previous experiences at multiple large organizations resulted in a philosophy of driving business results through the creation of highly integrated business and people strategies at multiple levels in the organization. His prior technical accomplishments include leading a largest-of-its-kind life insurance technology transformation program delivering both financial and technical results and fully implementing a full-scale annuities modernization program. He has also built numerous businesses, driven multi-year technology roadmaps and become known for the depth and breadth of details in his CIO 100-day report—used not only for new leaders but also for leaders who have a new mandate. Finally, Don has served as an executive coach inside and out of his industry while implementing a philosophy of building exceptional leaders, extended leadership teams and formalized succession plans.

Don earned a BS in Computer Information Systems from Quinnipiac University.

With more than 23 years of experience, Jeanna Doherty serves as the coordinating partner on a variety of clients, including several multi-billion dollar health systems, academic medical centers, teaching hospitals and other organizations.

Doherty has worked in varied roles while at Ernst & Young LLP. In addition to serving clients, she currently serves as the Americas assurance operations leader. Previously, Doherty was the Northeast financial accounting advisory services health leader, and the Americas leader for climate change and sustainability services.

Doherty has a comprehensive understanding of the challenges facing health organizations throughout the Northeast and across the country, with experience ranging from financial statement audits to business advisory services such as financial feasibility studies, capital financing projections, policy and procedure reviews and merger and acquisition due diligence.

Bill Grambo is Senior Vice President and Head of the Commercial Segment for ASSA ABLOY Americas Division headquartered in New Haven, CT and has been with ASSA ABLOY for nearly 14 years.

Bill Started his career at ASSA ABLOY as the General Manager for SARGENT Manufacturing. In 2018, he was promoted to the role of President of the Access and Egress Hardware Group and then last year, when the Americas Segment Structure was formed, he was promoted into his current role. Prior to joining ASSA ABLOY, Bill managed a division of Danaher Corporation, and prior to that spent nearly a decade both in consumer products and the electronic components industries. 

Bill's commitment to growing the business, as well as growing and developing his employees has been instrumental to the ongoing success of the company and its people.

Jessica lorio, Senior Vice President and Business Director for the Northeast Private Wealth Division at Rockefeller Capital Management, has close to 15 years of financial services industry experience. In her role, Jessica is responsible for overseeing daily operations for ten Private Wealth Management teams as well as leading the recruitment efforts for private wealth management teams when they transition to the Rockefeller platform. She is dedicated to evaluating and improving the efficiency of all facets of the private wealth business and plays a vital role in the client on-boarding process to ensure a positive client experience. Prior to beginning her role as Business Director in March of 2019, Jessica was Senior Vice President for Vios Advisors at Rockefeller Capital Management, the inaugural private wealth team to join Rockefeller Capital Management.

In her role as Senior Vice President, she focused on executing client investment programs, analyzing investment opportunities and overseeing all operations for the practice. With her breadth of experience and knowledge, Jessica was the main point of contact for Vios Advisor's multi-generational clientele. In addition, she guided important financial decisions by helping to create and monitor effective portfolios with client's best interests in mind.

Jessica began her career in 2006 at Morgan Stanley as a Client Service Associate. Prior to Rockefeller, she spent a 10 years at HighTower. Jessica has a B.S. in Finance from Quinnipiac University where she attended on a soccer scholarship. As the founder of Bayonne's Liberty Elite Soccer Program, Jessica has remained dedicated to the game of soccer through her involvement in youth soccer programs across the tri-state area. Jessica currently holds her Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Jonathan Lipschutz is a partner at Ernst & Young based in the Stamford, Connecticut office and has over 17 years of experience serving companies in a variety of industries. Lipschutz has spent the majority of his career serving domestic and multinational SEC registrants in a variety of industries. He has significant experience working with companies on various types of transactions including business combinations and divestitures, initial and secondary equity offerings, public and privately placed debt offerings, revenue recognition and income taxes. Through his involvement with his clients, Lipschutz has experience in assisting companies navigating through SEC comment letters. Most recently, Lipschutz has assisted his clients as part of their adoption and implementation of the FASB’s new accounting standard on revenue recognition — ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. He serves as the Quinnipiac University Campus Coordinating Partner for EY.

Lipschutz graduated from Quinnipiac University in 2000 with a BS in Accounting and Computer Information Systems.

Karen Moran brings over 25 years of healthcare industry experience coming from various leadership roles at Aetna across National Accounts, Medicare, Taft-Hartley Labor, and the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program. She also led the Commercial and Specialty business for EmblemHealth in New York City and was CEO of ConnectiCare.

Moran now serves as EVP and President of the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) Commercial Markets division, where is accountable for $25 billion in annual revenue and service to 4 million members nationally. In this capacity, Moran is responsible for the oversight of the company's commercial health insurance business, Blue Care Network HMO, the long-term care and specialty benefits subsidiary LifeSecure and the company's affiliation with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont.

Just prior to joining BCBSM, Moran was the President and CEO of Humana Military, a wholly owned subsidiary Humana Inc., where she was accountable for more than six million beneficiaries of the U.S. Department of Defense TRICARE program in the East region.   

Moran holds her Bachelor of Arts from Fairfield University and a Master of Business Administration from the Quinnipiac University School of Business.

Joseph Natarelli is the Office Managing Director at CBIZ. Prior to this, he served as Partner-in-Charge at Marcum, where he was leader of the national construction industry practice group as well as the office managing partner in New Haven, Connecticut. Natarelli has more than 30 years of experience with international accounting and consulting firms. He frequently serves as the lead audit engagement partner for a variety of consulting matters.

Natarelli is experienced in providing auditing and consulting services related to corporate acquisitions, divestitures, and mergers and refinancing. He is highly trained in the accounting and structuring of these transactions.

Jason Perlroth is a Principal and Head of Business Development at Southfield Capital, a premier lower middle-market private equity firm, where he is responsible for leading the deal origination efforts, assessing investment opportunities and overseeing the marketing and communication activities.

Jason brings nearly 20 years of experience as an advisor and executive within private equity and investing.

Prior to joining Southfield, Jason was a Principal and the Head of Business Development at BHMS Investments, a North American-focused private equity firm. At BHMS, he oversaw the sourcing and evaluation of investment opportunities and managed the firm's external relationships, which included lenders for acquisition and portfolio company debt financing needs.

Previously, Jason was a member of the executive team at Sutton Place Strategies. Having joined SPS as a founding employee and key member, Jason was integral to the firm’s growth and helped lead its operations, strategic initiatives and corporate development from building out the organization to developing technology, streamlining processes, hiring, and creating best practices. In addition, he was the head of the Research and Analysis division.

Prior to joining SPS, Jason co-founded Grand Run Capital, a real estate private equity independent sponsor investing in commercial multi-tenant and multi-family value-add and sale-leaseback properties. Earlier in his career, Jason worked in the Business Development group at American Capital and also worked at Greenwich Associates, a strategic consulting and market research firm, and Moore Capital Management.

Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance with honors from Quinnipiac University. In addition to serving on the Quinnipiac University School of Business Dean's Advisory Council, he is also a longtime volunteer and was previously a mentor coach with America Needs You. Jason is a member of the Finance Committee for the nonprofit arts organization Pentacle (DanceWorks, Inc.) as well.

Jonathan Potokin joined Darby in 2015 as managing director, finance and administration, with oversight responsibility of Darby’s financial and administrative operations. He is also a member of the Darby senior management team and Darby compliance oversight group.

Prior to joining Darby, Potokin was director of finance at K2 Advisors, a Franklin Templeton Investments company, where he oversaw and reviewed financial records for various Franklin Templeton subsidiaries. In his capacity as director of finance, Potokin collaborated with counterparts throughout Franklin Templeton to manage K2’s financial reporting, tax matters, information flows and requests. Prior to joining K2 Advisors, Potokin worked at Ernst & Young as a senior auditor in the asset management assurance advisory business services department.

Potokin has a BS in Financial Management, an MS in Accounting and an MBA from Quinnipiac.

Michael Rettagliata ’03 is the Chief Financial Officer for Stone Point Credit. He previously served in the same role for Audax.

Prior to joining Audax in 2017, Mike was a Vice President on the Real Estate Debt Strategies (BREDS) team at The Blackstone Group. He also previously worked as a Senior Accountant at Deloitte Consulting.

Mike received a BS in Accounting from Quinnipiac University.

LaToya Wilson ’03 is the Global Co-Head of Morgan Stanley Inclusive & Sustainable Ventures. Wilson has over 20 years of experience in impact investing in both the public and private sectors. In her current role, Wilson is responsible for the Inclusive & Sustainable Ventures Lab, an in-house startup accelerator that promotes access to capital for early-stage technology and technology enabled companies. In addition, Wilson is responsible for developing and executing commercial opportunities and strategies to achieve and maintain market and thought leadership with early stage founders. Wilson holds an undergraduate degree in Finance from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.

Holly J. Raider became the dean of the Quinnipiac School of Business on July 1, 2021. Dean Raider is an expert in strategy, leadership change, business transitions and stakeholder engagement in high-stakes, turn-around situations.

An award-winning educator, Dean Raider has spearheaded educational innovation and advanced the access, quality and impact of business education in a career spanning several distinguished business schools, including the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.

Dean Raider has more than 20 years of experience as an educator and leader of collaborative global partnerships with corporations, government, healthcare systems, professional sports organizations and international universities.

At Quinnipiac, Dean Raider leading the pathway to distinction in holistic business education that prepares learners for meaningful careers and lives in dynamic, interdependent global environments through excellence in teaching, research, and real-world experiential learning. Dean Raider is leading the School of Business in planning a state-of-the-art building, launching innovative programs, leading the capital campaign for the school, expanding the faculty and developing strategic capabilities, including executive education, business alumni engagement and research centers. She serves on the executive committee of the partnership between Quinnipiac and Hartford HealthCare.

Before joining Quinnipiac, Dean Raider was clinical professor of management at the Kellogg School of Management, where she served as a managing director of executive education from 2014-21 and as associate dean of academic and faculty initiatives from 2016-18. She led the collaborative implementation of Kellogg’s first fully online, non-degree programs, spearheaded faculty development, created Kellogg’s Advanced Management Program and created SPARK, an innovative teaching incubator that brought together experts from wide-ranging fields. She oversaw both Kellogg's AACSB accreditation review and Kellogg's participation in Northwestern's 10-year program review.

Dean Raider earned her bachelor's degree from Barnard College and her PhD in sociology from Columbia University. Her research includes the areas of career development, networks and knowledge transfer. Her current work focuses on preparing young professionals for the workplace of the future. Dean Raider was recently featured in HBR’s special issue on the New Rules of Networking. Dean Raider was honored with a teaching award from Northwestern’s Business Institutions Program and with a Northwestern Wildcat Excellence Award.

Connor Donnelly joined Quinnipiac in January 2025, where he manages all fundraising and alumni engagement efforts for the School of Business and the School of Computing & Engineering.

Prior to joining QU, Donnelly served as an Assistant Athletic Director in Major Gifts with the UConn Foundation since October of 2021. In that role, he was responsible for the identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of donors capable of making a major gift or multi-year pledge to UConn Athletics. Previously, Donnelly worked at Fairfield University as an Assistant Athletics Director in Development. He oversaw the Fairfield Athletics annual fund and worked with donors in supporting athletics programs and capital projects around the University.

Donnelly graduated with his both bachelor’s and an MBA from Sacred Heart University, where he played golf as a student-athlete.