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Macalester Elects Board Chair, Officers and New Trustee

St. Paul, Minn. - David Deno, president of Quiznos and a managing director in the private equity firm CCMP Capital, was elected chair of the Macalester College Board of Trustees on May 16.  A Minneapolis native, Deno is a 1979 graduate who was first elected to the Board of Trustees in 1998.

He has served in a number of leadership positions, including chair of the Finance and Presidential Review Committees and a member of the Campaign Steering Committee.

President Brian Rosenberg (left) with new officers of the Board of Trustees from left: John C. Law ’72, vice chair; Ruth Stricker Dayton ’57, vice chair; Tim Hart-Andersen, vice chair; Peter Fenn ’70, secretary; Patricia R. Hurley ’82, treasurer; David Deno ’79, chair; Jerry Crawford ’71, vice chair.

 “Macalester was one of the most significant things that ever happened to me,” Deno said. “I have always tried to give back to the college. That’s why I have been an active alum and a Board of Trustees member for the past 10 years.”

 “This is a historic time for Macalester,” Deno says. “We have a great leader in President Rosenberg, a talented senior team, a strong board, and, most importantly, a great faculty and staff. We are raising money and obtaining resources like never before in Macalester’s history.  Everything is in place for continued and even greater success.”

His role, said Deno, “is to make sure we have the resources and talented people in place to fulfill our enormous potential and to make sure the board is aligned to achieve our plans and mission. Then, quite frankly, I need to get out of the way to let great people, led by Brian Rosenberg, do their job.”

During his years at Macalester, Deno was a soccer player, a soccer team captain, a political science and economics major, and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Before joining Quiznos, he held executive positions with YUM! Brands, PepsiCo, and the Pillsbury Company. Deno also serves as a board member of Peets Coffee, based in San Francisco. He has been a regular guest speaker in Professor Karl Egge’s economics classes.

Deno, his wife, Martha, and family live in Louisville, Kentucky. He will serve a four-year term. He succeeds interim board Chair Timothy Hart-Andersen.

Also elected at the board’s meeting last Friday to one-year terms as officers were Jerry Crawford ’71 of Des Moines, Iowa; Ruth Stricker Dayton ’57 of Wayzata, Minn.; Hart-Andersen of Minneapolis; and John C. Law ’72 of Santa Monica, Calif., as vice chairs; Patricia R. Hurley ’82 of Belmont, Mass., as treasurer, and Peter H. Fenn ’70 of Washington, D.C., as secretary.

James Reissner ’62 of Minneapolis, is the board’s newest member. Reissner is president and chief operating officer of Activar Industries of Minneapolis which engages in the business of construction, plastic, and industrial products.  Reissner, a member of the Hastings Public School Foundation, is a past board member of the Minnesota Orchestra, the Minneapolis Crisis Nursery and the Children’s Cancer Fund.

Macalester College, founded in 1874, is a national liberal arts college with a full-time enrollment of 1,889 students. Macalester is nationally recognized for its long-standing commitment to academic excellence, internationalism, multiculturalism and civic engagement.