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Biographies
Following are brief biographies of Campaign Emory’s volunteer leadership. For a complete list of campaign volunteers by school and unit, click here.
Ellen Agnor Bailey
63C 87EMBA
Chair, University Programs
President, Ellen Bailey Consulting
Atlanta, Georgia
Ellen Bailey, after serving as chief operating officer of Cardiology of Georgia for 15 years, is expanding the consulting business that she started in 1989. She specializes in health care and small business start up. She was elected to the Emory Board of Trustees.
Born at Emory Hospital to Emory alumni parents, Bailey grew up in the Emory community. Her uncle Richard Hugh Wood was dean of the medical school, and another uncle, William H. Agnor 35C 37L, was the Thomas J. Simmons Professor of Law. Bailey's brother, the late Richard W. Agnor, 56B 63MBA, and her daughter, Ruth Bailey Laurens, 87Ox, are Emory alumni. Four scholarships honor family members.
Bailey is a past president of the Emory Alumni Association and has held many other leadership positions at Emory. In 1993 she received the Distinguished Achievement Award from Goizueta Business School, and in 2001 she received the Emory Medal from the Emory Alumni Association.
Walter M. "Sonny" Deriso Jr.
68C 72L
Chair, Campaign Emory
Chairman, Atlantic Capital Bank
Atlanta, Georgia
Elected as an Emory alumni trustee in 2002, Sonny Deriso is chairman of Atlantic Capital Bank. He is the former vice chair of the board of Synovus Financial Corporation. After graduating from Emory College in 1968, he went on active duty in the Army Reserve, then entered law school and received his JD from Emory School of Law in 1972. He practiced law in Albany, Georgia, until January 1991, when he became president of Security Bank and Trust Company of Albany, a Synovus bank. In 1997, he became vice chairman of the board of Synovus.
While at Emory College, Deriso served as president of the Student Government Association and was elected to Omicron Delta Kappa and DVS Honor Societies. At graduation he received the Marion Luther Brittain Service Award. As an alumnus, he has served on the Board of Visitors and been active in the alumni association in Albany and Columbus, Georgia, for many years.
Russell R. French
67C
Chair, Leadership Prospects Committee
Partner, Noro-Moseley Partners
Atlanta, Georgia
Russell French, a retired partner of Noro-Moseley Partners (NMP) venture capital firm and a member of its Advisory Committee, was elected an Emory alumni trustee in June 2001 and a term trustee in 2005. Specializing in corporate and securities law, French practiced with King & Spalding for fifteen years, negotiating a number of acquisitions, mergers, and public offerings. When joining NMP in 1985, he lent his legal expertise to a management team of partners that has created several limited partnership funds and has invested in more than 150 companies since the firm's founding in 1983.
A graduate of Emory College, French earned his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School. As an Emory undergraduate, he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity and Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He served on Emory's Board of Visitors from 1989 to 1993.
M. Douglas Ivester
Chair, Health Sciences
President, Deer Run Investments, LLC
Atlanta, Georgia
Douglas Ivester is president of Deer Run Investments, LLC. He served as the tenth chairman of the board and chief executive officer of The Coca-Cola Company from 1997 to 2000. He joined Coca-Cola in 1979 as assistant controller and director of corporate auditing, then became the youngest vice president in the company's history in 1981. In 1985, he was elected chief financial officer.
Ivester graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia with a BBA, then joined the Atlanta office of Ernst and Ernst, leading its team for The Coca-Cola Company. Elected to the Emory Board of Trustees in 1998, he also is a member of the boards of directors of Georgia-Pacific; S1 Corporation, SunTrust Inc., Atlanta; SunTrust Banks of Georgia; and West Paces Hotel Group, LLC.
Teresa M. Rivero
85Ox 87B 93MPH
Emory Alumni Board Representative
Senior Program Officer
Education Division
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Washington, DC
Teresa Maria Rivero is a senior program officer with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, managing its investments in education for Atlanta and the state of North Carolina. She grew up in Miami, Florida, and lived in Atlanta before joining the Gates Foundation. She now lives in Arlington, Virginia. In Atlanta, she was the grant officer for the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation and affiliated foundations.
Rivero is a graduate of Emory’s Oxford College and Goizueta Business School, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1987. She also earned a master’s in public health from Emory's Rollins School of Public Health and an MBA from Georgia State University. She served on the Emory Alumni Board, including a term as president. Rivero has a strong record of public service, which includes serving in the Peace Corps in Honduras, coaching a youth soccer team, and participating in the American-German Marshall Fellowship. She was elected as an Emory alumni trustee in 2007.
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