FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Sacred Heart University has announced the addition of three members to its Board of Trustees. The trio hail from some of the most prestigious organizations in American business and education.
The new trustees are Patrick Maggitti, The Helen and William O'Toole dean of the Villanova University School of Business (VSB); Gary Levin, president and CEO of Levin Financial Group; and Richard Schaeffer, co-founder, executive chairman and CEO of Liquid Holdings Group, LLC.
Patrick G. Maggitti
In addition to his role as dean, Maggitti is an associate professor of strategic management and entrepreneurship at VSB and previously served as the university's Carmen and Sharon Danella director of the Center for Innovation, Creativity and Entrepreneurship. Prior to joining VSB's faculty in 2008, Maggitti taught at both Temple and Saint Joseph's universities.
Prior to academia, Maggitti was a successful businessman. He spent nearly 15 years in the steel and mining industries, where he founded two thriving companies and held a variety of roles, including chief executive officer, director of national sales and board member.
Maggitti received his doctorate in strategic management from the University of Maryland, College Park; an MBA with high honors from Johns Hopkins University; and a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Saint Joseph's University.
Gary J. Levin
Levin, a 1978 graduate of Sacred Heart University with a bachelor's degree in business, leads Florida's Levin Financial Group from its headquarters in Tampa. The organization represents its flagship firm, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, a U.S. mutual life insurer and financial services company. Levin is also a general agent at Massachusetts Mutual.
He is married to Mary Anne (Gerics) Levin, also a 1978 SHU graduate. The couple are the parents of three children, Nicole, Michael and Richard. Levin and his family have worked many years raising money to help find a cure for cystic fibrosis and have supported the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. In 2010, Michael founded the TMH Breathing For Life Foundation and was appointed to the advisory board for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Schaeffer, in addition to his role leading Liquid Holdings Group, also serves as a special adviser to General Atlantic. He previously served as director, treasurer, vice chairman and chairman of New York Mercantile Exchange and as a board member of the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business.
In addition, Schaeffer serves as a board member of the Museum of American Finance. He is also active with the New York chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Schaeffer earned his bachelor's degree from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland in 1974.
PHOTO CAPTION: From left are Sacred Heart University Trustees Patrick G. Maggitti, Gary Levin and Richard A.M. Schaeffer.
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About Sacred Heart University
Sacred Heart University, the second-largest independent Catholic university in New England, offers more than 50 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs on its main campus in Fairfield, Connecticut, and satellites in Connecticut, Luxembourg and Ireland. More than 6,400 students attend the University's five colleges: Arts & Sciences; Health Professions; University College; the AACSB-accredited John F. (Jack) Welch College of Business; and the NCATE-accredited Isabelle Farrington College of Education. The Princeton Review includes SHU in its guides "Best 378 Colleges – 2014 Edition," "Best in the Northeast" and "Best 295 Business Schools – 2014 Edition." U.S.News & World Report ranks SHU among the best master's universities in the North in its annual "America's Best Colleges" publication. Sacred Heart was also mentioned in Money magazine's ranking of Fairfield as the 64thbest town to live. As one of just 23 institutions nationally, SHU is a member of the Association of American Colleges & Universities' (AAC&U) Core Commitments Leadership Consortium, in recognition of its core, "The Human Journey." SHU fields 31 division I athletic teams, and has an award-winning program of community service. www.sacredheart.edu