SUNY Adirondack Foundation

Guided by SUNY Adirondack's strategic plan, the SUNY Adirondack Foundation actively and collaboratively raises and manages the necessary funds to help the college meet the evolving needs of its students and community.

SUNY Adirondack Foundation Board of Directors 2024-2025

OFFICERS

Erinn C. Kolligian, president; manager, McGregor Village Development Corporation
Jim Casaccio, president-elect; owner/licensed real estate broker, Premier Properties
Robin Wadleigh, ’11, treasurer; CPA, CFE Audit Manager, KLR
Kristine Duffy, Ed.D., SUNY Adirondack president
Rachael Hunsinger Patten, secretary, and executive director of the Foundation

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Robert Bullock, prison education coordinator, SUNY Adirondack
James R. Burkett, principal, Bartlett, Pontiff, Stewart & Rhodes, P.C.
Russell E. Danforth, ’76, owner, MEC Consulting LLC
Bill Hart, immediate past president; vice president of North American Business Operations, Irving Consumer Products Inc.
John Howard, sr. district manager at Stewarts’s Shops Corp.
Donna Kirker, sr. vice president, patient services & chief nursing officer
Chad Mallow, ’97, president, Employee Benefits Practice Leader, Upstate Agency LLC
Shelly Marcantonio, vice president, Employee Benefits Practice Leader, NBT Insurance Agency
Michael Murray, ’01, vice president, Commercial Lending, Adirondack Trust Company
Robert Nemer, co-owner, Nemer Auto Group
James R. Nolan, Ph.D., professor of Quantitative Business Analysis and Computer Science, Siena College
Naftali Rottenstreich, Ph.D., professor of English, SUNY Adirondack
Desma Sheerer, MHSA, practice leader, Hudson Headwaters Women's Health
Jessica Hugabone Vinson, Esq., Vella, Carbone & Vinson, LLP

DIRECTORS EMERITI

Patrick M. Canavan, '91, vice president, Commercial Lending, Trustco Bank
Paul Dowen, ’79, CPA, partner, Whittemore, Dowen & Ricciardelli LLP
Richard J. Ferguson, community development and CRA officer, Saratoga National Bank and Trust Company
Edward L. Hanchett, executive director, Adirondack Radiology
Alan Redeker, consultant, Redeker Management Consulting
Sue Trumpick, retired chief information officer, SUNY Adirondack

FOUNDATION STAFF

Liz Lastowski, ’00, director of annual giving and alumni relations
Carrie Griffen-Yakush, ’00, office specialist

Contact us: 518.743.2243
Website: www.sunyacc.edu/foundation
Email: foundation@sunyacc.edu
Mailing address: 640 Bay Road, Queensbury, NY 12804
Campus address: Scoville 303