SHU Welcomes Six New Trustees to Board

Recent appointees bring experience in business, law, education and medicine

Sacred Heart University has six new members on its board of trustees, including five alumni. They are Kathleen M. Boozang; Dominick Ferro ’17, MS ’18; Morgan Ford ’19, MA ’20; Nicholas Patino ’17, MS ’20[ Cory J. Robinson ’18 and Pauline Spinelli ’13.

“I am honored to introduce such a diverse group of intellectuals to our board of trustees,” said SHU President John J. Petillo. “I am confident these new members, with their professional experience and personal interests, will add a range of unique perspectives and valuable insights to our University.”

Kathleen M. Boozang

Boozang is a professor of law and former dean at Seton Hall University School of Law in New Jersey since 1990 and practiced law for several years prior to that. She is a Harvard Law School visiting scholar in the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics and has held board leadership positions with the Cathedral Healthcare System, the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, NJ LEEP (Law and Education Empowerment Project), the American Health Law Association and the St. Joseph Healthcare System.

Dominick Ferro ’17, MS ’18

Ferro is a financial business manager within the treasury and chief investment office of JP Morgan & Chase, headquartered in New York City. Prior to that, he was a vice president, specializing in business planning and analysis at the Bank of New York Mellon for over four years. Ferro graduated from Sacred Heart University in 2018. He double majored in finance and economics as an undergraduate. He obtained his master’s in finance and investment management. During his time at SHU, he completed two internships, one at a mergers and acquisitions firm and another within the Commodities and Futures Group of Macquarie. He was a member of the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity at SHU and served as their vice president for two years. Ferro is also actively involved in charitable foundations such as the Ferro Foundation, which his father began, and the Clark Gillies Foundation.

Morgan Ford ’19, MA ’20

Ford is an assistant account executive on the crisis and reputational risk team at Edelman, a global public relations firm. Before joining at Edelman in 2021, she worked in the SHU undergraduate admissions office as a counselor serving 1,500 prospective students in New York City. During her graduate and undergraduate career at SHU, she worked as a public relations fellow in the film and television master’s program. She also worked as a student-athlete engagement specialist graduate assistant and an area manager at Red’s, the campus pub.

Nicholas Patino ’17, MS ’20

Patino is a physician assistant (PA) at Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH) where he assists with diagnosing and treating patients during medicine admissions. He is also a member of the team performing various bedside procedures throughout the hospital and serves as triad partner for the medicine observation floors along with a physician and nurse manager. Additionally, he is treasurer on the board for the Connecticut Academy of Physician Associates (ConnAPA), chairs its communications and outreach committee and co-chairs its student engagement committee. Prior to becoming a PA, he was a mental health worker at St. Vincent’s Medical Center.

Cory J. Robinson ’18

Robinson has been an assistant district attorney in the Manhattan district attorney’s office since 2021. He studied law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University in New York, where he was president of Hofstra Law’s public justice foundation and its student bar association, as well as a dean’s student advisory council member. He also was a legal extern in the Suffolk County district attorney’s office, a summer law fellow in the Manhattan district attorney’s office, an intern at the law office of Fusco, Brandenstein and Rada, a legal extern in the U.S. attorney’s office in New York and a legal intern in the Nassau County district attorney’s office.

Pauline Spinelli ’13

Spinelli is a vice president in the asset and wealth management space at Goldman Sachs, an international investment bank and financial services company headquartered in New York City. She started with the company in 2017 as an associate and advanced to vice president effective 2020. Prior to that, she was an analyst and summer intern for the global financial company UBS. Spinelli graduated from SHU’s Jack Welch College of Business & Technology in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in marketing and is a member of the Sacred Heart Alumni Association Board of Directors.