Six new trustees will also begin four-year terms.
Kristy W. Fercho ’00 (MBA) joined Wells Fargo & Company as the new head of home lending in August, after serving as an executive vice president and the president of mortgage at Flagstar Bank, the nation’s sixth largest bank and mortgage originator. Before joining Flagstar, Fercho spent 15 years with Fannie Mae, ultimately serving as senior vice president, customer delivery executive, responsible for the end-to-end strategy and business performance of all single-family customers in the western United States. Prior to Fannie Mae, Fercho held human resources positions at PepsiCo and Baxter Healthcare. She is vice chair of the board of the Mortgage Bankers Association and serves on the boards of City Year and the Detroit Zoological Society. Fercho earned her bachelor’s in business administration, finance and psychology from the University of Southern California and her MBA from Saint Joseph’s University.
Michael J. Nesspor ’80 is the former managing director of Pershing, LLC, a global financial solutions company, where he served for nearly 18 years until his retirement in 2015. Prior to joining Pershing, he held positions with fund management firm Scudder, Stevens & Clark and General Electric. An active member of the Saint Joseph’s community, Nesspor has served on the College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Board since 2012. He is a former member of Saint Joseph’s New York Executive Council, the Barbelin Society Committee and the Annual Fund Committee. Nesspor holds a bachelor’s in mathematics from Saint Joseph’s University.
Maryanne F. Post, Esq., ’07 is the controller and human resource manager at Post Precision Castings, Inc., a manufacturing company. Post has been employed in her family’s business since her graduation from Widener School of Law in 2010. She also holds a bachelor’s in food marketing from Saint Joseph’s University.
Joseph D. Regan ’81 is the CEO of Alphadyne Asset Management. Prior to joining the company in 2013, Regan worked at J.P. Morgan for 28 years and, in the course of his career there, held senior roles in asset management and investment banking in the U.S. and Asia. He served on Saint Joseph’s New York Executive Council from 2010 to 2015. Regan holds a bachelor’s in accounting from Saint Joseph’s University.
Stephen V. Sundborg, S.J., is the 21st president of Seattle University, a position which he has held for more than 20 years. When he retires in 2021, he will become the longest-serving college president in Washington state and the second longest-serving president of a Jesuit institution. Since entering the Society of Jesus nearly 24 years ago, he has taught theology at Seattle University, became rector of the Jesuit community there, and served as provincial of the Northwest Jesuits in the mid-1990s. Fr. Sundborg also serves as a trustee of Lakeside School and the University of San Francisco. He completed his doctoral studies in spirituality at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
Jeffrey P. von Arx, S.J., former president and professor of history at Fairfield University, is currently the superior and director of John LaFarge House in Cambridge, an independent Jesuit community and house of studies in the Boston area, and serves as a visiting professor of the history of Christianity at Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry. Fr. von Arx, who is a historian and published author specializing in modern European history, has held academic appointments at Fordham University and Georgetown University as well. He holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. He received his master of divinity degree from Weston Jesuit School of Theology, now Boston College’s School of Theology and Ministry