Mary Ann Dantuono, J.D.
Associate Director of the Vincentian Center for Church and
Society
Mary Ann Dantuono has dedicated her career to working for the
alleviation of poverty and promotion of social justice and
strengthening organizations to accomplish those goals. Since
1996, Mary Ann held the position of Associate Director of the
Vincentian Center for Church and Society. She is
also an adjunct professor of law and public policy and has
served as an expert on women’s issues for the Holy See Mission to
the United Nations as well as for the United States Catholic
Conference of Bishops.
Prior to her position at St. John’s University, Mary Ann Dantuono
was the Director of Legal Affairs and Public Policy at Catholic
Charities, Diocese of Rockville Centre. Her expertise includes
mission integration, mission programming, strategic planning,
program development, governance and human resource
management. She is the author of articles on public policy
and advocacy and authored two chapters in a recent book on Catholic
Church Management. (Ave Maria Press 2010). A native New
Yorker, Mary Ann earned her undergraduate degree in Communications
at Fordham University and a Juris Doctorate at St. John’s
University School of Law.
Thomas Fike
Director of Development, Peter J. Tobin College of Business
Tom is charged with major gift fundraising and other duties
primarily for the Tobin College of Business. He came to St. John’s
after eight years of nonprofit fundraising and management
consulting with Changing Our World, Inc., and CCS, Inc., where he
worked with many Catholic clients both nationally and
internationally. Prior to that, he worked at his alma mater, Loyola
University, in the prospect research function. Tom graduated in
1994 from Loyola with a Bachelor of Science in Communications. He
is currently an MBA candidate at St. John’s.
Sister Margaret John Kelly DC,
Ph.D.
Executive Director of the Vincentian Center for Church and
Society
Sister Margaret serves as Executive Director of the Vincentian
Center for Church and Society. She has held teaching and
administrative positions at St. John’s, St. Joseph’s College, Mt.
St. Mary’s College and as president of Laboure College in
Boston. She has held positions at both the governance and
executive levels in Catholic health care and has written and
lectured in that area as well on subjects of governance,
leadership, communications, social justice and the Vincentian
spirit and tradition. She served as provincial of the New York
province of the Daughters of Charity and currently serves on
several not-for-profit boards and national committees. Sister
Margaret graduated with her undergraduate degree from St. Joseph
College (Emmitsburg) and received her Ph.D. in English from St.
John's University.
Sister Felicia Mazzola
Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul
Sister Felicia is currently the Director of International Project
Services, established in 2005 by the International Company of
Daughters of Charity as a service organization to seek financial
support for the Sisters working with those who are poor in
developing countries. Prior to this ministry, Sister Felicia served
as the Provincial Treasurer and a member of the leadership team of
the D.C. East Central Province. She was a teacher and elementary
and secondary Principal of several schools. Her undergraduate
degree in education was from St. Joseph College, Emmitsburg and she
earned a Masters in elementary and secondary administration from
Dayton University, Ohio. Sister Felicia is a member of the
International Finance Commission for the International Company of
Daughters of Charity, based in Paris, France, and of the GLOBE
Steering Committee.
James E. Monnier
Associate Vice President for Development in the Division of
Institutional Advancement
Jim Monnier is Associate Vice President for Development in the
Division of Institutional Advancement at St. John’s University in
Queens, New York. In that capacity, he oversees the
departments of Major Gifts, Gift Planning, Athletic Development,
and Research and Prospect Management. He and his team engage,
cultivate, solicit, and steward the University’s most successful
alumni. They collaborate with the Academic Deans, Student Life,
Career Center, Alumni Relations, and Corporate and Foundation
Relations to match their donors’ interests with the University’s
greatest needs.
Jim returned to St. John’s in 2006 after working in the field of
training and development for over 30 years. For the 12 years
prior to his return, he was the founder and principal consultant of
Island Learning, a consulting practice that focused on sales,
service, leadership, and team development. He has served on the
Board of Directors at UCP-Suffolk since 1997 as Vice Chair for
Policy and Planning, Vice Chair for Advocacy and Public Education,
and Board Chair. Jim is a double alumnus of St. John’s where he
received his BS in Education and MS in Counseling.
Linda M. Sama
Associate Dean for Global Initiatives and Professor of
Management
Linda Sama is Associate Dean for Global Initiatives and Professor
of Management in the Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St. John’s
University. In her capacity as Associate Dean, Linda works
with faculty and students to encourage global learning and
assessment. She founded the GLOBE program, which was inaugurated in
Spring 2009, and now serves as the Program Director. She also
was instrumental in the college’s decision to become a signatory of
the U.N. PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education)
initiative in 2011.
Linda’s doctoral dissertation addressing the twin impact of
governance and strategic slack on corporate social response
strategies earned her the Lasdon Dissertation Award. Linda
made a transition to academe after a lengthy career in industry,
where she acted as Director of Market Planning and Logistics for an
international subsidiary of Transamerica Corporation. She
teaches primarily in the areas of International Business, Strategic
Management and Business Ethics, and has taught at Baruch College,
the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) where she was designated
as the Skov International Business Ethics Scholar, and Pace
University where she acted as the Director of the Center for
International Business Development, prior to coming to St. Johns in
the fall of 2007.
Linda has published over 50 articles, proceedings papers and book
chapters that address issues of corporate social responsibility,
business and the natural environment, integrative social contracts
theory, and global business ethics dilemmas in the new
economy. Most recently, her research has focused on the
connections between microlending and women empowerment,
sustainability and food security in the developing world.
Linda has a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the City University
of New York, a Masters in Philosophy at Baruch (CUNY), and an MBA
in International Finance from McGill University.
Anne Marie Schettini-Lynch, CPA,
CTP
Assistant Vice President and Associate Treasurer, St. John’s
University
Anne Marie joined St. John’s in 1996 and has overall responsibility
for the Treasury Office functions including investment and cash
management, endowments funds, planned giving and foreign exchange
hedging. Prior to St. John’s, Anne Marie was a manager at
Deloitte & Touche, LLP and spent six years in Public Accounting
with a focus on not-for-profit accounting. She has an
undergraduate degree in Accounting from Queens College and received
her MBA in Finance from St. John’s University.
John P. Tutunjian
Private Consultant and TCB Advisory Board member
John’s business career took him from Computer Programmer at IBM,
literally tracking missiles, to CEO of a national computer services
firm. In retirement, he is a private consultant to CEOs and
entrepreneurs. A multi-skilled entrepreneur himself, John has
started, grown, and sold several enterprises and revels at the
opportunity to find new ways to solve old problems. He dedicates
much of his free time to Alma Mater where, among other things, he
serves as a guest lecturer in the TCB Graduate School, an advisor
in the Executive in Residence Program, and a member of the TCB
Advisory Board.
Serving on the Steering Committee for GLOBE Program affords John
the opportunity to share his experiences with the students and the
other members, and to help in molding the program to give new
startup businesses in third world countries the push to make them
successful and independent. As holder of the Pietas Medal
from St. John’s, he strives to be an example of Vincentian values
in both his business and private lives. John earned a BS in
mathematics, with a minor in physics, from St. John’s University
and an MBA in Management from Long Island University.