TRUSTEES

This fall, St. John’s welcomed new board members Brother Michael Andrejko, FSC, Father C. Timothy Corcoran ’63, Karen Frana P’24, Nicholas Luongo ’93, and Benjamin Ventresca, as well as new SJC Board Chair Patrick Dunn ’03 and new Advancement Committee Chair Korey Neal ’08.

BOARD CHAIR PATRICK DUNN ’03

Patrick Dunn, a St. John’s board member since 2019 and St. John’s Alumni Council member since 2012, assumed the position of board chair in July. He is excited to serve the SJC community in this new leadership role. “The Lasallian community and the teachings of John Baptist de La Salle have been instrumental in my family’s formation for the past 20 years. I am honored and humbled to accept the role of board chair at St. John’s College High School. I look forward to continuing to work closely with President Jeff Mancabelli and our tremendous group of trustees to preserve and champion the Lasallian educational experience at St. John’s.”

Dunn has been a presenter at St. John’s Young Alumni Business Network events, and in 2020, established the Dunn Family Scholarship, which provides tuition assistance to students who demonstrate exceptional leadership in academics and extracurricular activities, with a preference to team sports (see page 34). Dunn is the founding member and practice leader for the employee benefits division of Copper Dunn, an independent, full-service insurance brokerage and consulting firm. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the Franklin P. Perdue School of Business at Salisbury University and a master’s degree in business administration from the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University.

ADVANCEMENT COMMITTEE CHAIR KOREY NEAL ’08

Korey Neal, a St. John’s board member since 2019 and presenter at St. John’s Young Alumni Business Network events, assumed the position of Advancement Committee chair in July. He is the president of K. Neal Truck and Bus Center, a full-service commercial truck dealership headquartered in Hyattsville, Maryland.

Additionally, Neal is the owner-operator of NAPA Automotive Parts of Greater Washington, a leading automotive parts and accessories distributor located right outside Washington, DC. He was recognized by the Washington Business Journal’s 2019 FamilyOwned Business Awards and was featured in School Transportation News and Successful Dealer for his success in the transportation industry.

Neal also serves on the boards for First National BankWashington Regional, Vehicles for Change, Excel Automotive Institute, Catholic Charities Task Force, and Eastern Michigan University’s Athletic Department. He is a graduate of the American Truck Dealers Academy and was selected to be part of the BB&T Leadership Institute. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Eastern Michigan University and a master’s degree from American University.

BRO. MICHAEL ANDREJKO, FSC

As a student at Central Catholic High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bro. Mike admired the instruction of his teachers and knew from an early age his calling to be a Christian Brother. He joined the Brothers at age 20 and for the past 34 years has dedicated his life to God. Bro. Mike has served in six ministries in three geographical areas during his religious life: Philadelphia, DC, and Pittsburgh. He also spent a semester at Bethlehem University in the Holy Land.

Bro. Mike first came to St. John’s as a faculty member in 1996, teaching Business Principles and religion and moderating the

Student Council. In 2000, he left St. John’s to become assistant principal for academic affairs at West Catholic Preparatory High School in Philadelphia but stayed connected to SJC by serving on the Board of Trustees from 2004 to 2010 and as principal at St. John’s from 2010 to 2016. During his tenure as principal, he taught algebra and morality, traveled with the Athletics Department to out-of-state tournaments, supported Cadet Corps students at summer camps, and chaperoned Christian service immersion trips. He was also the moderator of the Mothers’ Club and a non-voting member of the Board of Trustees.

From 2017 to 2022, Bro. Mike served as the director of contacts for the Christian Brothers District of Eastern North America, and in July 2022, he embarked on the challenging but rewarding task of leading his alma mater, Central Catholic High School, as principal. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from La Salle University and a master’s degree in religious studies from Villanova University.

REV. C. TIMOTHY CORCORAN ’63

Born in Kansas City, Fr. Tim Corcoran grew up in DC and graduated from St. John’s in 1963. He spent a year at the U.S. Naval Academy and completed his undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. After graduation and commissioning through the NROTC program, Fr. Tim served three years on active duty in the U.S. Navy as a line officer. He was awarded the Air Medal and the Navy Commendation Medal with Combat “V” and retired from the Naval Reserve a Lieutenant Commander in 1991. He went on to complete law school at the University of Virginia, accepting a two-year federal judicial clerkship upon graduation and then practiced law as a business trial lawyer in Tampa, Florida.

In 1989, Fr. Tim accepted an appointment as a United States bankruptcy judge for the Middle District of Florida, the largest and busiest bankruptcy court at the time. Following retirement from the federal bench in 2003, he started a specialized bankruptcy consulting and mediation practice. As a lawyer and judge, Fr. Tim chaired several committees and held other leadership positions in the Florida Bar, the American Bar Association, and the Section of Litigation of the American Bar Association.

In 2008, Fr. Tim entered Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Massachusetts, where he earned a Master of Divinity degree and was ordained a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Petersburg, Florida, in 2012. His assignments included parochial vicar, parochial administrator, and pastor. He also served as Vicar Forane of a deanery, a judge of the diocesan tribunal, and a member of the Presbyteral Council. Although he retired as pastor in 2021, he continues his priestly ministry by assisting at various parishes and has celebrated Mass at St. John’s over the last decade, including the graduation Masses for the classes of 2013 and 2017.

Fr. Tim’s 1963 class was the first to complete all four years at the school’s current location on Military Road. His parents were active members of the Mothers’ Club and the Men of St. John’s, and his connection to St. John’s has remained strong through the years.

KAREN FRANA P’24

Karen Frana has held numerous sales, marketing, and senior management positions across her corporate career. She received several awards for her work with IBM prior to joining Hitachi Data Systems, where she was promoted to vice president and general manager of the company’s Enterprise Server Division. She directed P&L, product management, marketing, and sales support for a $700 million worldwide business distributing enterprise servers to Fortune 500 companies.

In 1999, she left HDS to live with her husband Tom Frana ’65, president and CEO of ViON Corporation and former SJC Board of Trustees chair, in Virginia. There, she joined software startup Artresia Technologies as vice president of worldwide sales. Before retiring from the corporate life in 2004, Frana ran the North America region for Convera Corporation, where she was responsible for all sales and service in the US and Asia. From 2005 to 2010, she was a consultant, coaching CEOs and operational executives on companywide performance issues.

Frana has served on the boards of Fisher Island Club in Miami and the Langley School in McLean. She currently sits on the Advisory Committee of Ascolta, a small cyber-security company in Herndon. She holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from San Jose State University. Tom and Karen Frana are the parents of Trey, currently a junior at St. John’s.

NICHOLAS LUONGO ’93, P’24

structuring and negotiating leveraged buyouts, cross-border transactions, acquisitions and dispositions of corporate divisions, and equity investment transactions. He represents private equity firms and public and private companies in a variety of industries.

In 2013, he was honored as a winner of the M&A Advisor’s “40 under 40.” From 2014 to 2018, he served as a board member of Charter Board Partners, a nonprofit organization that identifies and trains people from the greater DC community to serve on the boards of directors of DC charter schools. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale and a juris doctor degree from Boston University School of Law.

As a Cadet, Luongo was in the honors program and played both football and lacrosse all four years. He was co-captain of the football team his senior year and received a scholar-athlete scholarship at graduation. His sister Kate ’95, and brothers, Drew ’06 and Nate ’09, are all St. John’s graduates, and his son, Robert, is currently a sophomore.

Benjamin Ventresca

Benjamin Ventresca is the Provincial Delegate for Board Governance of the District of Eastern North America (DENA). Ventresca provides leadership for the DENA Association of board chairs, presidents, and principals, serving as liaison between the District member representatives to each ministry board and the ministry corporation. Through his experiential expertise, he ensures best board practices and the Lasallian Catholic identity of the ministries, working with board chairs and chief administrators to troubleshoot any problems that arise within the work of the board.

Nicholas Luongo is a partner in the Corporate Department of the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP and the current co-chair of the DC Corporate Department, where he leads department business strategy, lateral partner and associate recruitment, associate training and development, and promotion recommendations. He has developed experience in

With more than 30 years of cumulative service and leadership on three governing boards within DENA, as well as over 40 years of organization development and leadership consulting to chief executives and boards of nonprofit organizations and Global Fortune 100 corporations, Ventresca brings a broad base of Lasallian formation and business experience to his role. During his Lasallian board trusteeship, he chaired advancement, executive, finance, and strategic planning committees and served as chair and co-chair for two capital campaigns. Following his 10 years of service as vice chair and chair of La Salle College High School’s Board of Trustees, he was elected chair emeritus and subsequently lifetime trustee. During these many years of service, Ventresca has deepened his understanding of and commitment to the Lasallian charism and mission.