Campaign Leadership

Campaign chair
Chairman of the board, TE Connectivity, Ltd.

As the chair of Transforming Students - Transforming Lives, the campaign for Rider University, Lynch brings a wealth of experience as a leader in the technology sector and a deep commitment to his alma mater. 

He is the current chairman of TE Connectivity, a leading provider of connectivity and sensor solutions. From 2006 to 2017, he helped lead the company as its chief executive officer while its annual global sales grew to $12 billion. During that time, he was appointed by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama to serve on the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee while also serving on the US-China Business Council, a nonprofit that aims to promote trade between the United States and China. 

Lynch’s professional career also included leadership roles at Tyco International, a global manufacturer of industrial valves and controls; Motorola, a leading supply of cellular handsets; and the satellite and broadcast network systems segment of General Instrument Corporation.

He is currently completing his second third-year term of service on Rider's Board of Trustees, having previously served for nine years as a Trustee from 2005 to 2014. He received Rider's Sesquicentennial Medal of Excellence in 2015 and an Alumni Recognition Award from what is now Rider’s Norm Brodsky College of Business in 2003.

In 2013, Lynch and his wife, Patty Danaher Lynch, established the Danaher Lynch Family Foundation. Its mission is to help unleash the potential of people in their community, primarily through the support of education. In 2018, Lynch surprised his longtime friend and Rider classmate, Joseph Adler '75, '90, when Rider renamed an academic building in their honor as part of Lynch’s $5.5 million gift. 

Lynch currently serves on the boards of Cummins, Inc. and ADP, Inc. as well as on the Franklin Institute, and has previously served on many others. He is currently the President of Conwell-Egan Catholic High School in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania. 

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Campaign vice chair
Chair of the Rider University Board of Trustees
Retired Executive Director, Philadelphia Futures

Mazzotti’s career has been defined by a number of “firsts” and an abiding commitment to creating access and opportunities for underrepresented groups including women, first-generation-to-college students and young men of color. After graduating from Rider and earning a law degree in 1975 from Villanova University, she joined Aramark Corporation, where she became the first woman to be included in Aramark’s senior management group and led the first Women’s Network for Aramark women executives. She spent 23 years at the corporation, rising to senior vice president and chief legal counsel of Aramark’s Food and Support Services Group. 

In 2001, she became the executive director of Philadelphia Futures, a nonprofit organization that serves low-income, first generation-to-college students. During Mazzotti’s 16-year tenure there, she led the launch of the organization’s Young Men’s Initiative and formed partnerships with colleges and universities, leveraging more than $30 million in institutional financial aid for students.

Mazzotti is currently serving for the second time as chair of the Board of Trustees. She previously chaired the Board from 1998 to 2002, and is the only woman to hold this position.

In 2006, Mazzotti and her husband, Michael Kelly, established the Mazzotti Awards in Women's Leadership to provide leadership development opportunities for Rider's women faculty and administrators. They also created an endowed scholarship to support the college aspirations of low-income, first generation-to-college Black, African American and Latinx students.

In recognition of her body of work, Mazzotti has received honorary doctorates of humane letters from Rider in 2014 and Haverford College in 2018.

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Campaign vice chair
Chairman, Rue Insurance

Rue has been a consistent and long-time supporter of Rider and its students. In addition to being among the longest serving Trustees of the University – having served for nearly 30 years – he chaired the 1996-2003 Campaign for Rider University, held the position of president of the University’s Alumni Association and volunteered on numerous University committees. Rue’s close ties to Rider extend to his late father, Charles L. Rue Jr. '24, who was also a graduate.

In 1997, Bill and his wife established the William M. and Joan Rue Endowed Scholarship which to date has assisted more than 100 students from the Norm Brodsky College of Business. In recognition of his unwavering support of students, Rider dedicated the William M. Rue ‘69 Auditorium in Anne Brossman Sweigart Hall in his honor.

After graduating from Rider with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce, he joined his family’s insurance business. Today, with more than 50 years of experience in the insurance industry, he is the chairman and an owner of Rue Insurance in Hamilton Township, New Jersey. The fourth generation, family-owned insurance agency is one of the top 200 independently owned insurance agencies in the country. 

Over the years, Rue’s service to the University has been acknowledged with Rider's Distinguished Alumnus Award, the University’s Gordon Prichard Award for Volunteer Service and a Sesquicentennial Medal of Excellence.

In addition to his service to Rider, Rue has been an active member of his community, taking on roles with the capital campaign committee of the Boys and Girls Club of Mercer County; director of the Mercer County Junior Achievement; founding member of the Greater Trenton Executive Association; an officer and director of the Trenton Jaycees and a state vice president of the NJ Jaycees; president of the Hightstown-East Windsor YMCA; secretary of the Cranbury Volunteer Fire Company; and a member of both the Cranbury Township Zoning Board of Adjustment and the Cranbury Township Planning Board.

Rue is currently serving on the board of directors for Selective Insurance Group and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Hamilton. 

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