Princeton University has named eight new members to its Board of Trustees, effective July 1.

The trustees are:

• Marco Tablada and Melissa Wu, who were elected by the board to serve as charter trustees;

• Andrew Florance and Anthony Lee, elected by the board to serve as term trustees;
• Jim Lee, Robert Long and Anthony So, who were elected by alumni to serve as alumni trustees; and

• Gil Joseph, who was elected by the junior and senior undergraduate classes and the two most recent alumni classes to serve four years as a young alumni trustee.

Completing their terms as trustees on June 30 are Marisa Demeo, Class of 1988; Kathy Kiely, Class of 1977; Timothy Kingston, Class of 1987; Elizabeth Prus Myers, Class of 1992; Kathryn Roth-Douquet, Graduate Class of 1991; and Morgan Smith, Class of 2021.

Biographical information about the new trustees follows.

Andy Florance 

Andy Florance

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Florance, of Washington, D.C., is founder and CEO of CoStar Group, a global company focused on real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces. Florance founded the company in 1986 while a senior at Princeton, with a mission of digitizing the real estate industry. It is now an S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 company, with brands serving clients in 160 countries.

Under his leadership, CoStar Group has been named to Forbes’ lists of the 100 Most Innovative and the 100 Fastest Growing Companies. Florance has received the Globee CEO of the Year and Visionary Leader of the Year awards, along with accolades from Commercial Observer, Inman, Swanepoel, CREW and the National Building Museum. He is the co-author of several award-winning research papers in commercial real estate economics and holds an honorary doctorate from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). 

Florance serves on the boards of VCU and Management Leadership for Tomorrow. He has chaired the Washington National Cathedral Chapter and Beauvoir School and served on the boards of St. Albans School, St. Andrew’s School, and other non-profit and public company boards.  

He earned his bachelor’s in economics from Princeton in 1986.

Gil Joseph

Gil Joseph

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Joseph, from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, graduated from Princeton in May with a degree in sociology and a minor in Latin American studies.

He served as president of the Class of 2025 and co-president of the Princeton African Students Association. He also was a residential college adviser in Forbes College and an undergraduate member of the University’s Priorities Committee. In addition, he participated in the club volleyball team, the L’Avant-Scène theater troupe and the Más Flow dance company.

Joseph completed an international internship at From Houses to Homes, a nonprofit organization in Guatemala, and conducted field research in Brazil. He is also the co-founder and vice president of the Hector Foundation, a nonprofit working to expand educational opportunities for young people in Haiti. 

He will spend this summer working at an immigration legal services nonprofit in New York City. In the fall, he will begin a master’s program in international policy at the Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences as a Knight-Hennessy Scholar. 

Anthony Lee

Anthony Lee

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Lee, of Burlingame, California, is managing director of Altos Ventures, a global venture capital firm that takes a long-term approach to investing in technology companies. 

He serves on the boards of several private companies and is the lead independent director for Roblox Corporation.

Lee is chair emeritus of the nonprofit organizations TechSoup Global and The C100, the latter which he co-founded in 2010.  He was a founding member of Full Circle Fund, a San Francisco-based venture philanthropy group, and president of Princeton’s Foundation for Student Communication. 

He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is an active supporter of conservation organizations. 

Lee earned his bachelor’s degree in politics from Princeton in 1992 and has an MBA from Stanford University. 

Jim Lee

Jim Lee

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Lee, of Los Angeles, is president, publisher and chief creative officer of DC Comics. He leads creative efforts to integrate DC’s publishing portfolio of characters and stories across all media, supporting Warner Bros. Discovery's family of brands and studios, and providing creative support and oversight for DC’s film, television, gaming and other multimedia projects. 

Lee began his career at Marvel Comics, where his work on the X-Men earned a Guinness World Record for bestselling comic book of all time. After Marvel, he co-founded Image Comics and WildStorm Productions, launching new publishing platforms for independent creators. In 1998, he merged the WildStorm Universe with DC Comics.

 He has received numerous awards for his work as a comic book creator, including the Harvey Special Award for New Talent, the Inkpot Award, and numerous Wizard Fan Awards. 

In 2024, he was inducted into the Eisner Comics Hall of Fame. That same year, he was named to the Carnegie Corp. of New York’s list of America’s “Great Immigrants.” 

He has served on the advisory council of Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts since 2018 and is a trustee of Campbell Hall School in Los Angeles.

Lee earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Princeton in 1986. 

Robert Long

Robert Long

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Long, of Peachtree Corners, Georgia, recently retired after more than 45 years as a research and development executive in the consumer products goods industry. His last role was as chief research and development officer at Kimberly-Clark, where he oversaw the company’s global research, development, innovation and quality functions. He served on the company’s executive leadership team, reporting directly to the chairman and CEO.

Before Kimberly-Clark, Long worked at The Coca-Cola Company as senior vice president for global research and development and chief innovation officer. In this role he was a member of the executive leadership team, reporting to the CEO. He began his career at Procter & Gamble, where he spent 25 years working in various roles, including leading research and development teams for detergents, disposable paper products, cosmetics and coffee. 

During his career, Long spent 11 years living and working overseas in Venezuela, Germany and Japan.

Long served for nine years as a trustee of his high school, the Woodberry Forest School in Virginia, and he is currently a trustee for Annandale Village, a nonprofit, residential community for adults with developmental disabilities.

 He graduated from Princeton in 1979 with a B.S.E. degree in chemical engineering.

Dr. Anthony So

Anthony So

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So, of Baltimore, is a distinguished professor of the practice at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he leads the Innovation+Design Enabling Access (IDEA) Initiative to improve health technology access in low- and middle-income countries and chairs the Graduate Medical Education Committee. 

He served as co-convener of the UN Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance and as co-founder of the global Antibiotic Resistance Coalition, for which he received the Bloomberg School’s 2024 Faculty Award for Excellence in International Public Health Practice. 

Previously So was on the faculty of Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy, where he founded the Program on Global Health and Technology Access. Before that, he worked as associate director in health equity at the Rockefeller Foundation and as a White House Fellow to former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. 

He has served in various public service advisory roles and is currently a member of the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group on Market Access to Vaccines. He has also served on several nonprofit boards, including Community Catalyst, Echoing Green, the American Medical Student Association Foundation and, presently, Public Citizen. 

So completed his residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and his fellowship at the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at University of California San Francisco/Stanford. 

He earned his bachelor’s and medical degrees in a six-year program from the University of Michigan and became one of the first medical students to pursue a master’s in public affairs in 1986 from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA). 

Marco Tablada

Marco Tablada

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Tablada, of New York City, is co-founder and managing partner of Alua Capital Management, where he currently serves as co-portfolio manager. The global investment firm invests mainly in public equities, focusing on financial services, consumer, business services, technology, media and telecommunication sectors. 

Tablada previously served as founder and managing partner of Wiborg Capital, LLC. Prior to founding Wiborg Capital in 2016, he was a managing director, portfolio manager and member of the management committee at Lone Pine Capital, LLC. He served on the board for Lone Pine Capital’s philanthropic foundation for 16 years. 

He also spent six years at Tiger Management, investing as a generalist in Latin America, energy and non-U.S. financials. 

Tablada is currently on the board of directors of the Princeton University Investment Co. (PRINCO). He previously served on the University’s board as a term trustee.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Princeton in 1993 and earned his MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Melissa Wu

Melissa Wu

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Wu, of Boston, has been chief executive officer of Education Pioneers since 2018, having previously served as chief program officer. The national nonprofit sponsors leadership-development fellowships and networking opportunities to cultivate exceptional leaders across the education sector. Wu has dedicated her career to issues of teacher retention, school and system improvement, and student success.

She previously worked as a partner at The New Teacher Project, a national education nonprofit that recruits and trains teachers and works on policies to ensure effective teaching, and as a strategy consultant for The Boston Consulting Group. 

She began her career as a Princeton Project 55 (now AlumniCorps) fellow at the TEAK Fellowship in New York City, ultimately becoming deputy director of the nonprofit that prepares talented students from lower-income families for success at top high schools and colleges. Wu also served as a Coro Fellow in Public Affairs in Los Angeles. 

Wu graduated from Princeton in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in sociology and earned her MBA from Harvard Business School. She previously served on the University’s board as an alumni trustee.