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Claudio Chiuchiarelli '79 to Lead USF Board of Trustees
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Claudio Chiuchiarelli (center) was first elected to the USF Board of Trustees in 2003.
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The USF Board of Trustees on June 5 elected Charles Smith vice chair.
Smith, the former president and CEO of AT&T West, has served on the
board since 2005.
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The USF Board of Trustees elected Claudio Chiuchiarelli '79 to a two-year term as chairman during its summer meeting June 5. Chiuchiarelli takes over from Adobe Systems Inc. co-founder Charles Geschke, who served two terms at the helm of the university's governing board.
Chiuchiarelli is managing partner at Banyan Securities, an institutional securities trading company in Greenbrae, and is also an investor in private and public companies. He was elected to the board in 2003 and served as vice chair under Geschke. He also chairs the board's executive committee, is vice chair of the development and investment committee, and is a member of the Catholic identity and Jesuit mission committee.
Chiuchiarelli is a San Francisco native who was active as a business student at USF, participating in student government and the fraternity Delta Sigma Pi. He met his wife, Joanette Figone Chiuchiarelli '81, at USF and they have three daughters, one of whom will begin the USF sport management program in Los Angeles this year.
"Claudio knows USF well, as an alum, an active member of the School of Business and Management Advisory Board, and a two-term trustee," said USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J. "He has proven himself to be an energetic, visionary, and generous leader. He is clearly the right person at the right time for USF, and I am very grateful that he is willing to take on this important leadership position."
The son of Italian immigrants, Chiuchiarelli is a first generation college student who worked while attending USF. He says he feels a connection with the new generation of USF students who share a similar experience.
"I can relate to so many students who come from families of modest means and are first generation college students," he said.
In his view, USF's strength lies in the type of students it graduates. "We graduate students with a combination of qualities. They leave here with a premier academic education and a truly global perspective that will help them to be leaders in the larger global community. We develop their hearts and minds, and help them understand that they are privileged to have a college education, so that they go out and try to make the world a better place."
People outside of the university community need to better understand USF's vision and how good the professors and educational offerings are, he said. "I think this is well-understood internally, but we are only beginning to communicate that message to the outside world. There is a huge opportunity to make our brand clearer, especially internationally."
Among his goals as chair is to help articulate an integrated vision of where USF wants to be in 10 to 20 years. "Things are going very well up here and we're hitting on almost every cylinder. The university's vision, mission, and values are well-understood. Now is the time to update and integrate our long-term plan and to make certain that we have strategies and tactics in place to execute this plan." 
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