Dr. Henry Kressel ’55YC,
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
"…this is what Yeshiva College gave me–a broad Judaic and secular education and the habit of self-study.”
In September 2009, Henry Kressel, PhD ’55YC, was elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of Yeshiva University—the first alumnus ever to serve as its chairman. He succeeds Morry Weiss, who devoted 26 years of extraordinary leadership to YU, serving as chairman for the past five years. Dr. Kressel joined the board in 2005 and has since chaired its Academic Affairs Committee and served on the board of the Sy Syms School of Business. He is a renowned scientist, engineer, corporate manager, industry leader, author and investor. He is a senior partner at Warburg Pincus LLC, a global private equity firm, where he is responsible for investments in high technology companies. A world-recognized expert in electronic devices, Dr. Kressel holds 31 U.S. patents and led pioneering research on lasers, transistors, solar cells and other devices. The recipient of several professional awards, he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. Before joining Warburg Pincus in 1983, he was vice president at the RCA Corporation, responsible for electronics research.
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