Alumni Association honors three with distinguished service, Jepson School Recognition awards and remembers four lost on 9/11 during Reunion 2012

July 27, 2012

University of Richmond Alumni Association (URAA) honored two of its members with distinguished service awards, and another received the Jepson School of Leadership Studies 10th Year Reunion Recognition Award during reunion festivities on campus June 2.

Lawrence C. Marsh of New York City, managing director and senior research analyst with Barclays, and Kay Sears of Vienna, Va., president of Intelsat General, each received the Alumni of the University of Richmond Award for Distinguished Service. The honor recognizes alumni who have distinguished themselves in service, profession, community or alumni work.

Michael Stinziano of Columbus, Ohio, 25th district member of the Ohio House of Representatives, received the Jepson School award recognizing exemplary professional or scholarly achievement, or community or public service.

Marsh graduated in 1982 with a bachelor of science degree in business administration and in 1994 with an M.B.A. He holds the chartered financial analyst designation from the CFA Institute. Marsh had careers with Lehman Brothers and Salomon Smith Barney before joining Barclays in 2008. He has been named to business publisher Institutional Investor’s All-America Research Team eight of the past nine years. In 2006, The Wall Street Journal selected him for its Best of the Street team. Marsh is a trustee emeritus of the university, chaired this year’s Class of 1982 reunion, serves as member of the national fundraising campaign committee and participates in Hire Spiders, a career development program for students at the university.

Sears graduated from Richmond in1988 with a B.S. in business administration. She is responsible for implementing Intelsat’s strategic and operational plans and providing a range of sustainable, cost-effective, secure communications products to government and industry. She has worked more than 22 years in satellite communications, including rapid response solutions for military and federal civil agencies. In 2009, Sears was appointed to the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC). She earned her MBA from The George Washington University.

Stinziano graduated in 2002 with a B.A. in leadership studies. He serves on several Ohio house committees — Insurance; Judiciary and Ethics; Public Utilities; State Government and Ethics; and the Study Committee on Technology — as well as the e-Tech Ohio Commission and Ohio Tuition Trust Authority. In 2008, Stinziano was appointed director of the Franklin County Board of Elections. The Ohio State Board of Election Officials recognized him as 2011 Democratic Legislator of the Year, and Columbus Business First newspaper named him to its 2012 list of “Forty Under 40.”

In a special ceremony during Reunion Weekend, the university also recognized its four alumni lost in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York: David B. Brady, Class of 1982; Donald T. Jones II, Class of 1984; and Thomas R. Clark and Michael B. Finnegan, both Class of 1986 graduates.