Professor Reina Maruyama is a particle/atomic/nuclear physicist and educator. She leads and collaborates with international teams of scientists to carry out experiments to study dark matter and neutrinos. At Yale, she leads a team of scientists, postdoctoral associates, graduate students, and undergraduate students. She is currently serving as Chair Elect for Yale's Women Faculty Forum, an organization established to promote gender equity, promote women’s scholarship and community.

Prior to joining the faculty at Yale in 2013, Prof. Maruyama was on the faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley. Prof. Maruyama obtained her Ph.D. in Physics in 2003 at the University of Washington in Seattle.  

She is an author of 200+ publications and has presented her work in numerous conferences and workshops. She is the recipient of several awards, including the Sloan Research Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, Yale Public Voices Fellowship, and Woman Physicist of the Month of the American Physical Society. She is often quoted in popular science press such as APS News, Nature News, Science News, and Symmetry Magazine for her work on dark matter and neutrinoless double beta decay.

Angela Powers is responsible for leading The Foundation’s multi-year strategic planning, annual operating planning and the ongoing review of progress toward goals. She also leads The Foundation's efforts to understand, document and improve Foundation systems and processes. Powers facilitates the work of the senior leadership team as well as several cross-departmental teams. In addition, Powers has responsibility for the stewardship and communications functions and continues to work with Foundation donors ensuring their philanthropic goals are achieved now and in the future.

Prior to her present position, Powers was Senior Vice President for Development and Donor Services at The Community Foundation. Powers served as the first President of the Valley Community Foundation (VCF), working with its founding Board to design and grow the new organization, and she now serves on the VCF Board. Powers was a partner with Ekstrom & Associates, a consulting firm of practitioners in philanthropy whose clients include community foundations, charitable organizations, families, individuals and their advisors. Before joining Ekstrom & Associates, Powers served as the Chief Development Officer of the Quinnipiac University School of Law. Prior to that, she served eight years as Director of Development and Communications of the then-called New Haven Foundation, now The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. Early in her career, Powers spent two years working in Greece with her husband at the American Community School in Athens.

Powers earned her B.A. from Fairfield University in Connecticut and is a Certified Fund-Raising Executive and trained facilitator. She and her husband, Bill, an educator, live in Hamden and enjoy visiting their two sons in Washington, D.C., and New York City.

Ramon Soto is a skilled marketing executive with deep healthcare and financial services experience. He has a demonstrated ability to create vision, establish long-term strategies and lead cross-functional teams. Mr. Soto has a proven track record of profitable growth in consumer, business-to-business and direct marketing. He is a passionate thought leader with strong analytic and Six Sigma quality skills.

Mr. Soto is the Senior Vice President, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer for Northwell Health. Mr. Soto is responsible for the development and execution of Northwell’s brand strategy, as well as for all aspects of marketing and communications, including public relations, digital engagement, strategic marketing, clinical marketing and customer acquisition.

Mr. Soto is a member of Northwell Health’s executive leadership, responsible for shaping the growth strategy and execution for the enterprise. Northwell Health is New York’s largest healthcare provider with a network of 23 hospitals, nearly 800 community and research facilities and 72,000 employees. With 5 million patient visits in 2018, Northwell Health is also one of the fastest-growing healthcare providers. Its market reach has expanded principally via acquisition of new hospitals, ambulatory facilities, physician practices and joint ventures.

Mr. Soto was formerly the Chief Marketing Officer for Magellan Health, a healthcare services company focused on the unmet needs of individuals in the fast growing, highly complex and high cost areas of healthcare.

In 2006, Mr. Soto was admitted into Yale School of Management’s M.B.A program for executives. He is also a graduate of GE Capital’s Leadership Interchange, a high potential manager training program. He is Six Sigma certified, was awarded a U.S government patent for co-development of GE Capital’s product development process and was an instructor at GE’s Small Business College.

Mr. Soto received his B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1988.