Sheldon M. Schuster
President
Sheldon M. Schuster has extensive experience in higher education as a researcher, teacher and institute director. Before coming to KGI, Dr. Schuster was Interim Assistant Vice President for Research and Graduate Education, Director of the Biotechnology Program and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Florida in Gainesville. His current research is aimed at understanding the relation between structure and function of ATP synthase and asparagine synthetase with the goal of finding new targets for synthesis of mechanism-based inhibitors of disease related enzymes. Before coming to the University of Florida in 1989, Dr. Schuster was Professor of Chemistry and Biological Sciences at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He had gone to the University of Nebraska as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Life Sciences in 1976 directly from his postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Enzyme Research. He earned a PhD in biochemistry at the University of Arizona and BS degree in biochemistry from the University of California, Davis.

T. Gregory Dewey
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of Faculty, and Robert E. Finnigan Professor of Applied Life Sciences
Greg Dewey has a broad range of research and teaching interests in the fields of biophysics and computational biology. A central focus of his present research is the mathematical modeling of complex biological phenomena. Dr. Dewey was among the first faculty to arrive at KGI; he served as Director of Research before he became Dean of Faculty. Prior to coming to KGI, Dr. Dewey was Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Denver. He received a BS degree in chemistry from Carnegie-Mellon University and MS and PhD degrees in chemistry from the University of Rochester.

Robert W. Caragher
Vice President for Finance and Operations
Bob Caragher oversees the Business Office at KGI which is responsible for accounting, budgeting, human resources and facilities for the Institute. Before joining KGI in 2001, he was an Assistant Controller at Claremont University Consortium, providing investment and endowment accounting and financial reporting to the member institutions of The Claremont Colleges. Prior to coming to Claremont in 1997, Mr. Caragher was Assistant Controller at Middlebury College in Vermont for investment and student services accounting, and a Senior Associate in the audit practice at Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in Boston, where his clients included colleges and universities. He holds a CPA license from Massachusetts, an MBA from Thunderbird in Arizona, and a BA in German and Geography from Middlebury.

Kerry Howell
Vice President for Advancement
During the past 25 years Kerry Howell has held a variety of fundraising, communications, public relations and marketing positions in higher education and community nonprofit organizations. She led the naming campaign in collaboration with co-chairs William H. Gates, Sr. and U.S. Senator Slade Gorton for the University of Washington's Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs. For Washington State University's first-ever capital campaign she focused on corporate and foundation relations for the College of Engineering and Architecture and, later, for the College of Education. Prior to joining KGI, Ms. Howell headed up development at NPower Seattle, a nonprofit technology consulting organization founded by Microsoft. In addition, she has served on the boards of several community nonprofits addressing a range of issues, including affordable housing, homelessness, environmental protection, and Asian Pacific American culture, art and history. Before transitioning into a philanthropy career, she was a television news producer and reporter with WFAA-TV, the ABC-TV affiliate in Dallas. Ms. Howell holds a BFA degree in broadcast journalism from Southern Methodist University.

Matt Reed
Assistant Vice President for Institutional Initiatives and Secretary to the Board of Trustees
Prior to joining KGI, Matt Reed was Assistant to the President at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. With assets of over $6.4 billion, the Chicago-based Foundation works in 60 countries and maintains offices in India, Mexico, Nigeria, and Russia. Earlier, Reed was a Program Director at the Salzburg Seminar in Salzburg, Austria, where he was responsible for organizing sessions and special projects on international relations and cultural affairs. Specific topics included human rights, global economic development, and transatlantic relations. Previously, he worked as a Project Associate at the Getty Research Institute for History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles.

Matt Reed earned a PhD in History and an MA in European Studies from Claremont Graduate University. During his graduate studies, he was affiliated with the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His BA is in English, summa cum laude, from the University of Oklahoma.