Phillips Academy Adds Four To Board Of Trustees

ANDOVER, MA —Phillips Academy has welcomed four new members to its Board of Trustees, the school announced last week.

Board President Amy Falls announced that Drew Guff, Allison Picott, Aisha Jorge Massengill and Loyce LaShawndra Pace —all of whom attended the school —began serving on the board on July 1. Guff and Picott will serve six-year terms as charter trustees, and Jorge Massengill and Pace will serve four-year terms as alumni trustees.

Guff, a 1979 graduate and Greenwich, CT resident, is a managing director and partner at Siguler Guff, a global private equity firm. Guff is responsible for directing the firm's private equity investment strategy and he leads the company's emerging markets investment strategy and direct investment activities.

Guff has served on the Council on Foreign Relations and he chairs the board of directors of the Global Private Capital Association and the Center for the National Interest.

Picott, a 1988 graduate who lives in Boston, is the director of development for the Lenny Zakim Fund, a Boston nonprofit that supports grassroots nonprofit organizations working to advance social, economic and racial justice in communities throughout eastern Massachusetts.

Picott began her career as a law clerk to the justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court and then worked as a litigation associate for Nixon Peabody LLP and Prince Lobel and Tye LLP.

Additionally, Picott has served as a leadership gift officer at Phillips Academy and has held fundraising positions at the Walnut Hill School, Boston College Law School and the Social Innovation Forum.

Jorge Massengill, a 1988 graduate who lives in Columbia, MD, is a vice president and deputy general counsel at Under Armour Inc. She is a member of the company's global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Council and chairs the legal department's DEI team.

A former captain of the volleyball and basketball teams at Phillips Academy, Jorge Massengill was the first student at the school to earn 12 varsity letters.

Since graduation, Jorge Massengill has served Phillips Academy as an alumni admission representative, reunion chair, speaker at the annual athletics banquet and keynote speaker at the 2017 senior banquet. In 2021, she received the school's Distinguished Service Award.

Pace, a 1995 graduate who lives in Washington D.C., serves the U.S. government as a diplomatic voice on public health priorities, regularly interacting with foreign countries and United Nations organizations.

In recent years, Pace has spent much of her time getting COVID-19 vaccines and treatments to other parts of the world.

At Phillips Academy, Pace received the Madame Sarah Abbot Award, presented to the senior who "best exemplifies qualities (of) strong character, effective leadership and outstanding scholarship."

Pace earned a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford and a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins.