POTSDAM – Clarkson University has announced four new trustees have been elected to its board.

Their information follows:

• Timothy P. Pettee of New Canaan, Conn., senior vice president and chief investment officer of SunAmerica Asset Management.

He will serve on the academic affairs and investment committees.

SunAmerica Asset Management is a division of SunAmerica Financial Group and provides fund management and administration services on over $43 billion in assets.

Prior to SunAmerica, Pettee was the global director of research at Schroders Investment Management, director of research at U.S. Trust Company, and analyst/portfolio manager at Alliance Capital Management.

He received his bachelor's degree in economics from Boston University in 1980, and is a member of the Athletics Directors Sports Council there.

Pettee resides in New Canaan, Conn., with his wife, Sheila, and four children, including George, a member of the Clarkson Class of 2011, majoring in entrepreneurship and innovation.

• Clarkson University alumna Nancy D. Reyda of New York, N.Y., and the Bay Area of northern California, a managing director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

She will serve on the audit, student affairs, and marketing committees.

Reyda graduated from Clarkson University in 1981 with a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering and was a member of Phalanx leadership honorary and Tau Beta Phi engineering honor society.

Reyda joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2010 and has oversight for the Investment Management Division's strategic infrastructure.

Prior to joining the firm, Reyda worked at Barclays Capital, where she was responsible for delivering technology services to the legacy Lehman Estate.

Before the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in 2008, she was managing director and chief operating officer of technology at Lehman, responsible for all business aspects of technology.

Reyda came to the financial services industry in 2007 after a long career with Chevron, where she managed various downstream businesses.

She also led strategic enterprise initiatives, including aspects of the ChevronTexaco downstream merger.

Reyda left Chevron in 2004 to join the turnaround team at Gap Inc. and spent three years in various retail management positions there, before joining Lehman Brothers.

She and her husband, Steve, also from the Clarkson class of 1981, have two children, Stephen and Thomas. They reside in New York City and the Bay Area of northern California.

• Carl B. Mack of Fort Washington, Md., executive director of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE).

He will serve on the finance and budget, research, and student affairs committees.

Mack is a graduate and distinguished engineering fellow of Mississippi State University, where he received a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering.

In 2010, he was awarded an honorary doctor of science degree from Clarkson.

Mack has been executive director of NSBE, one of the nation's largest student-governed organizations, since 2005. In each of his first five years, the organization set records for membership, reaching 35,776 members in 2010, up from its previous high of 12,842 before his arrival.

"The students in Clarkson's NSBE Chapter are known for their progressive academic and technical work, program delivery and participation in competitions at the regional and national level.

Carl Mack has been an inspiring leader, confidence builder and advocate for their continued success.

As the Executive Director of an organization positioned to advance the global technology community and accelerate its diversity, Dr. Mack appreciates the work ethic of our students and the financial commitment made by research universities like Clarkson to ensure a rigorous education remains affordable and attainable for NSBE members to attend, graduate and make their mark on the world," said Clarkson President Tony Collins.

He has also been instrumental in increasing NSBE's financial resources to record highs: helping expand the organization's cash reserves from $3.5 million to $9 million; securing a largest-ever grant of $1 million from a NSBE sponsor; helping build NSBE's top-level sponsorship to record levels; bringing in hundreds of thousands of dollars to strengthen NSBE's IT infrastructure; pushing attendance at NSBE's Annual Convention to nearly 10,000 attendees; and working with NSBE's National Executive Board to pay off the mortgage on NSBE's new world headquarters building, among other highlights.

His extraordinary leadership has led to an increase in visibility for NSBE, with appearances on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight and ABC's Good Morning America, and recognition in Ebony magazine as one of the Top 150 Black Leaders in America.

In 2009, Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations, presented Mack with the National Naval Officers Association's top honor for work in the field of diversity: the Capt. Charles L. Tompkins Award.

Before joining NSBE, Mack worked as an engineer with the King County Metro transportation system in Seattle, Wash., and coordinated the county's award-winning Minority Engineering Internship Program.

He also served as president of the Seattle King County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). During his tenure, the branch won the 2004 Class 1-A Thalheimer Award as the top branch in the country.

Because of his significant contributions in the arena of civil rights, Mack was listed as one of the 25 most influential people in the greater Seattle area.

Upon his departure from the area, both the City of Seattle and the King County government designated Feb. 12, 2005 as Carl B. Mack Day.

Mack is a lifetime member of NSBE and a life member of the NAACP.

He also sits on the minority advisory board of the Bagley College of Engineering at Mississippi State University and on the board of directors of the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) Foundation.

Mack resides in Fort Washington, Md., with his wife, Jamiyo, and his sons, Joshua and Jonathan.

His daughter, LaShaundra Johnson, resides in Jackson, Miss.

• Clarkson University alumna Carolyn A. Brandsema of Renton, Wash., vice president, 737 engineering at the Boeing Company.

She will serve on the physical plant and marketing committees.

Brandsema graduated from Clarkson University in 1980 with a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering.

In 1988, she received a master of business administration from Seattle University.

Brandsema started her career at Boeing in July 1980 as a manufacturing research and development engineer, where over the next two decades she had management positions in the payloads engineering, commercial airplanes continuous quality improvement development and manufacturing research and development organizations.

In 2001, she was named chief project engineer for the Next-Generation 737.

From 2003 to 2006, she was the director of engineering for the 737 and 757 programs, where she led a team of 1,200 design, manufacturing and tooling engineers responsible for all phases of configuration, design, manufacturability and support of 737 and 757 airplane models.

Prior to her current position, Brandsema was vice president of engineering for the 737/767/777 program.

In addition, she served as vice president of airplane and production systems development activity for the single-aisle replacement study.

Brandsema is a recipient of Clarkson's highest alumni honor, the Golden Knight Award, and has served on the University's Wallace H. Coulter School of Engineering Council, advocating for the Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering.

She currently serves on the College of Science and Engineering Advisory Board for Seattle University.

She resides in Renton, Wash., with her husband, Jeff.