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5 UMD Supporters Elected to Foundation Board of Trustees

Volunteers to Serve as Advocates, Advisers to University

By Maryland Today Staff

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The five new University of Maryland College Park Foundation Board of Trustees members will model and promote philanthropic support for the university, oversee the investment and distribution of private funds, and assist and support foundation and university leadership.

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Five leaders in real estate, philanthropy and banking and a shared love of the University of Maryland will take on new roles as advisers and advocates for the institution.

Gary L. Attman ’76, Brooke Butler-Wagner, Karen B. Levenson ’76, Gary L. Rozier ’99 and Gagan D. Singh M.S. ’97 will join the University of Maryland College Park Foundation (UMCPF) Board of Trustees on July 1. During their three-year terms, they will model and promote philanthropic support for the university, oversee the investment and distribution of private funds, and assist and support foundation and university leadership.

"We are fortunate to welcome such a strong cohort of experienced volunteers to our board in the year ahead," said Jim Harris, vice president for university relations and president of the foundation. "Given our ambitious goals to grow the impact of philanthropy at the university, and mature the advancement operations that help to fuel that impact, their talents and insights will offer significant value."

These Terps and honorary Terps will bring their professional experience and personal affinity for Maryland to this volunteer position on the board of 65 members.

“The five new trustees this term are extraordinary, dedicated Terps. We are fortunate to have individuals of their caliber to strengthen our Board of Trustees for the University of Maryland College Park Foundation,” said board chair Al Carey '74. "And a special thank you to nominating committee chair, Craig Thompson '92, for his great work in continuing to select and recruit such talented board members."

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Gary L. Attman ’76 is president of FutureCare Health and Management in Baltimore, a senior care organization he co-founded 35 years ago, as well as chief executive officer of Attman Properties, a real estate company with commercial holdings and leasing and management components. Attman is an attorney and a CPA.

As a UMD student, he majored in accounting, was a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi and was inducted into numerous honor societies. He later established the Leonard J. Attman TerpStart Endowed Scholarship, honoring his uncle, and he gives to the Alvin M. Powers Maryland Promise Scholarship, the Terrapin Club Scholarship Fund and the Athletics Gift Fund. Attman served as an advisory trustee on the UMCPF board for two years and was a University System of Maryland regent from 2009-23, where he was vice chair and chair of the finance committee.

He has served on the boards of a range of Baltimore and Jewish organizations including the Greater Baltimore Committee, the Baltimore Community Foundation, the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Caves Valley Golf Club. He is also a member of the board of the Associated Jewish Charities.

Attman and his wife, Dr. Patricia C. Attman, have two daughters, Carlyn and Sarah, a granddaughter, and a raft of other Terps in the family, including brothers Ronald ’68, David ’72 and Steve ’78 and nephews Scott ’99 and Michael ’10.

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Brooke Butler-Wagner is executive director of the Mark L. Butler Foundation, founded by her late father, namesake of the Mark L. Butler Tunnel in SECU Stadium.

She is also the operating owner of three Playa Bowls franchise locations throughout southern Pennsylvania. Butler-Wagner has served on the Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation, the Carlisle (Pa.) Kiwanis Club and Warm the Children.

She has been a major donor to the Barry P. Gossett Basketball Performance Center, while her father, who was president and CEO of Ollie’s Bargain Outlet, gave generously to the Cole Field House Vision Fund; he was also a UMCPF trustee from 2017 until his passing in 2019.

Butler-Wagner and her husband, Joshua Wagner, live in Carlisle.

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Karen B. Levenson ’76 is a philanthropist and educator with a long history of supporting the University of Maryland.

She earned a bachelor’s degree at UMD and a master’s degree at George Washington University, both in special education, and was a Montgomery County Public Schools teacher.

She and her husband, Bruce, have played an integral role in the university becoming a Do Good campus. They established endowed and current-use funds in the School of Public Policy to support the Do Good Institute, including its leadership positions, academic, research and outreach missions, and its capital projects, most notably creating and maintaining the Do Good Stories and Do Good Plaza Fund.

Levenson has also served as an advisory trustee with the UMCPF board since 2024 and was an elected trustee for 12 years before that and co-chaired the Fearless Ideas Campaign Committee, 2017-21.

Her past board service includes the Jewish Youth Philanthropy Institute, Jewish Venture Philanthropy Group, United Jewish Endowment Fund and John F. Kennedy Center's 2015 Concert Against Hate.

In other volunteer roles, Levenson has worked with children from the SEED School of Washington. D.C.; coached Herbert Hoover Middle School’s "Odyssey of the Mind" and "Destination Imagination" teams; and run numerous programs for the Jewish Youth Philanthropy Institute.

Her philanthropic giving also extends beyond UMD to a large variety of organizations, including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Aspen Institute and National Kidney Foundation of the National Capital Area and Virginia.

She and Bruce have three grown sons; two granddaughters and five grandsons. One daughter-in-law, Robin R. Levenson ’07, is a Terp.

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Gary L. Rozier ’99 is a senior managing director at Blue Owl Capital in Chicago. He previously was senior vice president at Ariel Investments and regional vice president at Rydex Investments.

As a student at Maryland, he majored in economics and was captain of the rugby club. He later established endowments in the economic department for a scholarship and to support students’ professional experiences. He has served on the UMD College of Behavioral and Social Sciences (BSOS) Board of Visitors since 2016, including as chair, and on the Economics Leadership Council since 2018. He was also part of the Fearless Ideas Campaign Committee.

He has volunteered for many board positions, including on the National Equity Fund, City Colleges of Chicago Foundation and Chicago Run. His philanthropic interests include the American Red Cross, Leadership Greater Chicago and Children at the Crossroads Foundation.

He, his wife, Macy, and their three children live in Chicago.

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Gagan D. Singh M.S. ’97 has been the executive vice president and chief investment officer at PNC Financial Services Group since 2018; he joined the company in 2004. Singh previously was managing director of derivatives strategy for North America at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

He earned a bachelor’s in technology from the Indian Institute of Technology and earned his master’s in electrical engineering at UMD. Here, Singh established the Gul Bhutani Endowed Fellowship in Business and the Gul Bhutani Current-Use Fellowship in Business, both named in honor of his mother. He also supports the Alumni Association General Scholarship and the annual fund in the Robert H. Smith School of Business, on whose advisory board he has served for a decade.

He has been a supporter through board service and philanthropy to Pratham USA (including serving as president of the New York tri-state chapter) and the Indian Institute of Technology. Singh is also a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of Treasury and has given to the Akanksha Fund and Elisabeth Morrow School.

He and his wife, Sunaina Singh, have three daughters and live in Saddle River, N.J.

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