Chris Foglio and Gary Chropuvka have been elected to join the Rutgers Board of
Governors, the board vested generally with the government, control, conduct,
management and administration of the university.
Foglio and Chropuvka are among 15 voting members of the board.
Both Foglio and Chropuvka were serving on the school’s Board of Trustees, a 41-
member group that acts in an advisory capacity to the Board of Governors and is
comprised of 41 voting members.
Foglio is the founder and CEO of Community Investment Strategies, which specializes
in the management and construction of affordable housing for seniors and families. She
has served seven years on the Board of Trustees. She was appointed to a term expiring
in 2032.
Foglio, a graduate of Douglass College and the Bloustein School’s Master of City and
Regional Planning program, was recently honored as a Loyal Daughter of Rutgers, the
highest volunteer recognition from the Rutgers Alumni Association.
Chropuvka is the outgoing vice-chairman of the Board of Trustees, Chairman of the
Joint Committee of Investments and a retired Goldman Sachs partner. He was a
founding member of the Road to Wall Street initiative, a highly selective program for
Rutgers students interested in pursuing front office careers in finance. He was
appointed to a term expiring in 2031.
Chropuvka, a graduate of Rutgers College, served on the Board of Trustees for nine
years. He has a dedicated career of service to the university, opening up countless
opportunities for students and serving on the Rutgers Business School advisory board
for over 10 years. Gary also has several endowed scholarships for students and has
served as vice-chairman of the Rutgers Board of Directors.
Five years ago, Chropuvka co-founded BaseABLE, a charity dedicated to providing
athletes with disabilities the opportunity to play baseball. BaseABLE works in
partnership with the Special Olympics and USA Baseball.
Chropuvka also serves as chair of the Monmouth Medical Center Foundation. After
retiring from Goldman Sachs, Chropuvka served as president of WorldQuant,
overseeing a global team of 700 employees.
Foglio has given her time and resources for the Douglass Residential College BOLD
Center for Leadership, Career and Personal Development program, which has named a
conference in her honor. She also continues to volunteer her time as an instructor in
housing finance at the Bloustein School.
She has also supported the success of students at Rutgers by establishing the Chris R.
Foglio Annual Graduate Fellowship in Planning for female graduate students enrolled in
the Master of City and Regional Planning program. She has also served on the
leadership council for the Rutgers Cancer Institute.
Foglio also has served in housing leadership and advising roles for governors Mikie
Sherrill, Phil Murphy, Jim Florio and Christine Todd Whitman.
