Janeene Balmir P’27, ’28 joins the Board as President of The Pingry School Parents’ Association (PSPA) after serving as First Vice President and previously as Treasurer from 2017–2019. She and her husband, Dr. Serge Balmir, joined the Pingry community in the fall of 2014 when their oldest son started Kindergarten. Since then, she has been an active member of the Pingry community.

Outside of Pingry, Mrs. Balmir is Head of Global League Finance at the National Basketball Association (NBA) where she is a key member of the senior leadership team. She is an integral business partner to the departments and regions in pursuing shared financial and strategic goals. She joined the NBA in June after a 25-year successful career in banking, most recently as Managing Director and CFO of the Commercial Bank Payments Solutions team at JP Morgan Chase. In that role, she managed finance, planning & analysis, business management, and data & analytics to drive sustainable growth and operation efficiency. Prior to that, she held senior treasury capital markets roles at JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley.

Mrs. Balmir received a B.S. in Accounting from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

David E. Greig ’98 joins the board after spending the past two years as a member of the Development Committee. He is a Senior Consultant at Graham-Pelton Inc., a management and fundraising consulting firm that works exclusively with nonprofit organizations. He is a member of the Higher Education and Independent School practice groups and leads the firm’s data analytics. Prior to his work in consulting, Mr. Greig spent over 10 years in the independent school community—including at Pingry, where he taught Middle and Upper School science for two years and later spent five years as a Major Gifts Officer in the Development Office.

He now lives in Farmington, CT with his wife and three children. Mr. Greig earned a B.A. in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought from Amherst College, an M.A. in Educational Leadership from Columbia University’s Teachers College, and an M.B.A. with specializations in Strategy & Leadership and Change from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.

Souren G. Ouzounian P’23, ’27 is a Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at UBS, with a focus on advising financial institutions and REITs (real estate investment trusts). Over a quarter-century career, he has advised on in excess of $250 billion of transactions globally. Over his career, he has provided counsel to a spectrum of small and large corporates, family-owned businesses, and sovereigns.

Mr. Ouzounian was a trustee at The Peck School of Morristown, NJ and recently served as the President of the Board. He is also a trustee at Boston College High School, the Jesuit High School of Boston. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Columbia College and an M.B.A. from the Sloan School at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Tyler Reeder P’27, ’29 has spent the past 25 years focused on the electricity sector and energy transition. He is a Managing Partner of Energy Capital Partners (ECP), a leading private equity firm investing across the North American energy transition, where he has worked for the past 18 years. At ECP, Mr. Reeder is focused on managing a portfolio of investments across power generation, renewable energy, and sustainable infrastructure, and is a member of ECP’s Investment, Executive, and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Committees. He has led many acquisitions during his time at ECP, including Calpine Corporation, and currently serves on the boards of several ECP portfolio companies.

Prior to joining ECP in 2006, Mr. Reeder served in operating and management roles with two power generation companies—Texas Genco, LLC and Orion Power Holdings, Inc.—and began his career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs. He also serves on the board of Change Summer, a not-for-profit focused on providing students from under-resourced communities with a transformative summer experience. He received a B.A. in Economics from Colgate University.

Kathy Sartorius ’92, P’22, ’25, ’29 joins the board as the President of the Pingry Alumni Association. She has been a member of the PAA Board since 2012, served on the Executive Board as a Vice President, and co-chaired the Alumnae Committee. In addition to the PAA Board, Mrs. Sartorius has served on the PSPA Executive Board multiple times. She has also been a Pingry Fund volunteer, served on the Ring the Bell Committee, and helped with Reunion planning for her class multiple times.

Mrs. Sartorius holds a B.A. in both Education and Psychology from Bucknell University and a Master of Social Work from New York University. Prior to becoming a full-time mother, she worked as a certified social worker in the HIV/AIDS clinic at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. She also coordinated the hospital’s rape crisis center and facilitated support groups for teenagers.

In addition to her extensive Pingry volunteering, Mrs. Sartorius is involved in MEND (Meeting Essential Needs with Dignity), helping local communities fight food insecurity, and with The Warehouse NJ, an organization assisting underserved populations with their transition into new housing.


Contact: Greg Waxberg ’96, Communications Writer, Editor of The Pingry Review