Providence, R.I.--Four Providence College alumni were elected recently to the College's Board of Trustees for three-year terms.

Unanimously elected by the Providence College Corporation were J. Peter Benzie, Jr. '70 of Bedford Corners, N.Y., Sandra L. Coletta '80 of Johnston, R.I., Robert J. Palmisano '66 of Boston, Mass., and Christopher K. Reilly '84 of Pelham, N.Y.

Their election brings the current board membership to 33 trustees.

A close-up look at the new trustees follows:

• J. Peter Benzie, Jr. '70 serves as vice president for sales of Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. of New York City, where he is responsible for global sales for three businesses. Broadridge Financial Solutions, a spin-off of Automatic Data Processing (ADP), is a provider of technology-based outsourcing solutions to the financial industry.

Benzie joined ADP in 2005 as executive vice president and global chief sales officer. Previously, he served as executive vice president of National Financial from 2001 to 2005. He joined Fidelity Investments in 1996 as executive vice president in the private wealth management area.

Benzie has been a member of the College's Providence President's Council since 2000 and is a former chairperson of the PC Annual Fund Drive Committee. He also has served as a phone-a-thon volunteer on the regional level for many years.

• Sandra L. Coletta '80 is president and CEO of Kent Hospital--a 359-bed medical and surgical hospital in Warwick, R.I., that employs nearly 1,900 people. Coletta was selected to lead Kent Hospital in October 2008 after a national search.

Prior to her current position, Coletta was chief operating officer at The Miriam Hospital in Providence, where she was responsible for the management of all day-to-day activities of the 247-bed facility.

She also was on the executive team that consummated the merger of Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital to create Lifespan, a health system based in Providence, in 1994. She held senior executive positions in the corporate offices of Lifespan, including senior vice president of managed care, chief operating officer for the Lifespan Physicians Services Organization, and senior vice president of system integration.

Coletta has remained active with the College by participating in job shadowing and Career Night programs. Her husband, Domenic, graduated from PC in 1978, and their daughter, Kerri, is a 2007 graduate.

• Robert J. Palmisano '66 is director, president, and CEO of EV3 Inc., in Plymouth, Minn., a global leader and technology provider for specialists treating a wide range of vascular diseases and disorders. Before his appointment in 2008, Palmisano served as president and CEO of IntraLase Corp., a company that designs, develops, and manufactures ultra-fast laser technology for use in ophthalmology.

Prior to that, he was president and CEO of MacroChem Corporation, a development stage pharmaceutical corporation, and president and CEO of Summit Autonomous, Inc., a global medical products company.

Palmisano served on the College's Providence President Council from 1998 to 2002. His son, Christopher, is a 1989 PC graduate.

• Christopher K. Reilly '84 is co-founder of KarpReilly, LLC in Greenwich, Conn. KarpReilly is a private investment firm that invests in premier, small- to mid-size growth companies, primarily in the consumer sector.

Prior to helping found KarpReilly, Reilly was a partner at Apax Partners, L.P., where he led the U.S. Retail and Consumer Group and was a member of the U.S. Operating and Investment Committees. Before that, he was a partner at Saunders Karp & Megrue, a middle market private equity firm. Reilly began his career at Bankers Trust, before taking a position with Morgan Stanley.

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