People Type: Former Board of Visitors Members

Blocker, Giselle

Biography Giselle Blocker (’18) is a Management Consulting Manager at Accenture, a leading global professional services company. She joined the firm shortly after graduating with Honors from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a degree in History and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies. Based out of the Chicago office, Giselle helps to solve complex problems for clients in …

Borland, Chris

Biography Chris Borland (’13) is a Producer and Host with Sony Audio and Neon Hum Media. He has worked as an Executive Producer on documentary films Requiem for a Running Back and Do Something and as a Producer and Host with The Players Tribune. Borland was a two-time team captain, All-American linebacker, and Big Ten Sportsmanship Award recipient while playing football …

Dubbs, Thomas A.

Biography Thomas A. Dubbs is a leading securities class action attorney for the firm Labaton Sucharow in New York City. Tom concentrates his practice on the representation of institutional investors in domestic and multinational securities cases. He has been named as a top litigator by Chambers & Partners for six consecutive years and a Leading …

Engel, Jeffrey A.

Biography Jeffrey A. Engel is founding director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. A Senior Fellow of the Norwegian Nobel Institute and graduate of Cornell University, he received his M.A. (1996) and Ph.D. (2001) in American history from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying under Thomas McCormick and John Cooper. …

Engel, Kate Carté

Biography Kate Carté Engel teaches history at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, after receiving her M.A. and PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1996 and 2003). She is the author of Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009), and has published articles in Church History and Early American Studies. …

Hamburger, Peter

Biography Peter Hamburger (’70) is a Senior Director at Cushman & Wakefield. He has extensive experience working with local, national, and global corporations and his clients include Valley Hospital, Verint, Savvis, North Jersey Media, Penn Mutual, FMC Corporation, and STV Engineering.  Recent notable transactions include The Deal of the Year Award in 2011 for the …

Kaiman, Sherry

Biography Sherry Kaiman (’79) is a consultant in the areas of education, workforce development, health, and the environment. Her current consultation portfolio includes facilitation initiatives and strategic development for RESOLVE, Inc., which is a Washington, DC based nonprofit organization that assists clients in building solutions through collaboration. Sherry spent over two decades on Capitol Hill …

Levy, Philip

Biography Philip Levy, who passed away on October 12, 2017, held a BA in History from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (’68) and was a proud student of George Mosse, William Appleman Williams, Harvey Goldberg, and Robert Starobin.  After working at IPS (a radical think tank), at The Old Mole (a Cambridge-based underground newspaper), for Ralph …

Meissner, David G.

Biography David G. Meissner (’60) is the retired president and chairman of the Public Policy Forum (now known as the Wisconsin Policy Forum). He is a Phi Beta Kappa and History Honors graduate from the UW Madison. As a Woodrow Wilson Fellow he obtained his Masters Degree in American History at the University of California-Berkeley. …

Sinaiko, Greg

Biography Greg Sinaiko received his B.A. degree with Honors from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and has been in healthcare ever since. After earning a Masters of Public Health in Healthcare Finance from the UCLA School of Public Health, Greg served as a Nursing Home Administrator for Care Centers, Inc. in Chicago. In 1998, Greg was …