Our Leadership
Organizing Committee Members
Paul D. Bauer
Retired financial executive and co-founder of the BISON Children’s Scholarship Fund
Thomas R. Beecher, Jr.
Attorney, of Counsel, Phillips Lytle LLP; principal in Barrantys LLC, a family office firm. Active on numerous boards. Co-founder of the BISON Children’s Scholarship Fund. Co-Chair of the diocesan endowment campaign, Upon this Rock
Robert M. Greene
Retired attorney with Phillips Lytle LLP, current chair of the Catholic Health System Board, former chair of Bishop’s Council of the Laity and Canisius College Board of Trustees
John J. Hurley
President of Canisius College; former co-chair of the Bishop’s Council of the Laity
Maureen O. Hurley
Retired EVP and Chief Administrative Officer of Rich Products Corporation, and former co-chair of the Bishop’s Council on the Laity; current member of the Catholic Health System Board
Carl J. Montante, Sr.
President and Managing Director of Uniland Development Company; former chair of the Canisius College board
Mary Travers Murphy
Executive Director, Family Justice Center of WNY
Nancy H. Nielsen, MD, PhD
Senior Associate Dean, Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo and former president of the American Medical Association
Nancy W. Ware
Founder and president of EduKids, the largest childcare provider in WNY; member of the Canisius College Board of Trustees