Vanguard Names a College President to Its Board

Thomas currently is a board member for DTE Energy, the American Red Cross and the Posse Foundation. He has worked on and written extensively about diversity in the workplace, including co-authoring the book “Breaking Through: The Making of Minority Executives in Corporate America.” He has also been a consultant on organizational change. 

In addition to Buckley and Thomas, Vanguard’s board includes: 

• Emerson U. Fullwood, a retired Xerox executive and executive in residence at the Rochester Institute of Technology; 
• Amy Gutmann, Ph.D., president of the University of Pennsylvania; 
• F. Joseph Loughrey, a retired president and COO of heavy equipment maker Cummins Inc.; 
• Mark Loughridge, a retired IBM executive, and an advisory board member for the University of Notre Dame’s College of Arts and Letters and Kellogg Institute for International Studies;
• Scott C. Malpass, a former chief investment officer and vice president of the University of Notre Dame; 
• Deanna Mulligan, board chair of the Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and its former CEO and president;
• André F. Perold, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking-Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, and chief investment officer and co-managing partner of HighVista Strategies;
• Sarah Bloom Raskin, who served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and governor of the Federal Reserve Board; and
• Peter F. Volanakis, the retired president and COO of Corning Inc.