5 Alums Elected to Foundation Board of Trustees

Rachel H. Bell ’93 retired from Airbnb in 2023 as head of global risk and internal audit. She previously was vice president, controller at Virgin America and managing director at Protiviti. Bell spent the early part of her career at Marriott International and PricewaterhouseCoopers. She was also a certified public accountant with the Maryland State Board of Accountancy.

As a student at the University of Maryland, Bell majored in accounting and worked in Campus Recreation Services (now Recreation and Wellness) and at Hornbake Library. She and her husband later established an endowed scholarship fund to fund merit-based awards for students participating in the School of Public Health's Global Health Initiative. They also support the Public Health Beyond Borders Fund and the Alumni Association. Bell has been a member of the School of Public Health Dean’s Circle and its Dean’s Council since 2024.

Bell is currently on the board of Girls Unite, a youth soccer club in San Francisco. 

She lives there with her husband, Anthony Samer, and their children.

Mark K. Lewis ’87 is the managing partner in the Washington, D.C., law office of Bracewell LLP, where he has been a partner since 2010. He represents oil and gas pipeline companies, owners, operators and investors. 

At UMD, Lewis majored in personnel and labor relations. He served as a member of the Resident Judicial Board and was the weight room committee chairman for the South Hill Campus Community. He was named to the Omicron Delta Kappa and Alpha Lambda Delta national honor societies and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Maryland and from Georgetown University Law Center.

Lewis has supported the Robert H. School of Business Dean’s Strategic Initiative Fund, the Terrapin Club, the Smith School Annual Fund, the Barry P. Gossett Basketball Performance Center at Maryland and Friends of Maryland Basketball. He has been a member of the University System of Maryland Foundation Board of Directors since 2025 and the Terrapin Development Company Board of Directors since 2024. He was an elected trustee on the UMCPF board from 2019-25, then for the past year was an advisory trustee. Lewis is a lifetime member, and former chair, of the Smith School Advisory Board. He is also on the board of HMT LLC, which provides oil and water storage products and services.

In addition to the University of Maryland, he philanthropically supports Congregation B’nai Tzedek in Potomac, Md.

Lewis and his wife, Donna ’86, live in Bethesda and have two children, Justin and Marissa, and three grandchildren, Jacob, Julien and Avery.

Cate Luzio ’97 founded Luminary, a membership-based professional education and networking platform, in late 2018. Before that, she spent more than two decades in executive roles with HSBC, J.P. Morgan Chase and Bank of America. She is a contributor to both Fast Company and Forbes.

Luzio graduated from UMD with a degree in government and politics. She has served as a panelist and moderator at several University of Maryland Alumni Association events, including the New York City Women’s Conference, the Women’s Development Conference and Career Week. In 2020, she received the Alumni Association’s EnTERPreneur Award. A founding member of Maryland Women’s Society, she is also a board member for the Division of Student Affairs’ Adele’s Circle and a former at-large member of the Alumni Association board of governors. She established a program support fund in her name for the University Career Center. 

Her other philanthropy includes supporting Girls Inc., Manna Homes, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and WaterAid. She has been involved with the boards of Pomp and Whimsy. Female Founder List and WaterAid America and is a WE.NYC Mentor and Tory Burch Foundation Advisor.

Luzio has a master’s degree in international relations from Georgetown University. She lives in New York City. Her brother, Michael Luzio ’98, is also a Terp.

Ken Rehmann ’84 retired in 2024 following an over 35-year career with Marriott International. He held numerous positions at Marriott including global officer, finance and operations for the international division; chief financial officer, Asia Pacific (based in Hong Kong); and global officer, brand marketing and e-commerce. His career included multiple leadership roles at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. Prior to joining Marriott, Rehmann was a senior consultant with Deloitte, Haskins and Sells. He is currently a senior advisor to Gencom Group and on the boards of Pyramid Global Hospitality and the Bethesda Country Club.

An accounting major at UMD, Rehmann currently chairs the Robert H. Smith School of Business Advisory Board, which he joined in 2011. He is a donor to the Dean’s Strategic Initiative Fund, the school’s Annual Fund and the Terrapin Club.

Rehmann also philanthropically supports the George Washington University School of Business, where he earned his MBA. 

He splits his time between Potomac. Md., and Easton, Md., with his wife, Kim. They have two children, Brendon and Katelyn.

Steve Schanwald ’77 is a retired sports marketing executive. He served as executive vice president of business operations for the Chicago Bulls for nearly three decades. He played a central role in building the Bulls into a global brand during its Michael Jordan championship glory years while ushering in a new era in sports marketing. He began his career as the director of sports promotions at the United States Air Force Academy and went on to hold sports marketing leadership positions with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago White Sox before he joined the Bulls. 

While at UMD, Schanwald was a general studies major and interned in the sports marketing department under the late H.R. ”Russ” Potts, Jr. ’64, who became his mentor. With Schanwald’s backing, the university recently launched the Stephen M. Schanwald Sports Management Program in the Robert H. Smith School of Business, where he has served on the Sports Management Advisory Council since 2024. He is also a donor to Maryland Athletics. 

Schanwald philanthropically supports the Western Golf Association Evans Scholars Foundation and a variety of other organizations. He has served on the National Basketball Association Marketing Advisory Board, as chairman of the Chicago Sports Commission and on the board of the James Jordan Boys and Girls Club. He was the founder of Chicago Bulls Charities, an entity that has raised well over $100 million in support of a number of worthy causes.

Schanwald lives in Boca Raton, Fla., and Chicago.