Please join me in welcoming Bill Ribera as our newest fundraiser in the West Region. Bill will be serving benefactors in Northern California, and his first day with our Development family will be on February 26.  Bill is a 1982 graduate of Notre Dame with a degree in Government, and a two time Monogram winner on the Track and Field team. A native Californian, Bill will be moving to South Bend with his wife, Sherri.  Bill and Sherri are now officially ’empty nesters’ after raising four children; Jaimie, a teacher and coach in Utah, Danielle, a 2011 grad of ND and currently an attorney in the Bay Area, Nick, a junior Computer Science major at ND, and Grace, a freshman at Purdue.

Bill has spent the last 30 years in various sales roles in Silicon Valley including stops at IBM, EMC, Oracle and Veritas. Bill has spent the last ten years as Worldwide Sales VP at a couple startups and looks forward to joining the team at Notre Dame. After coaching a variety of youth sports over the years, Bill now spends his spare time hiking, running (more like a fast walk) and enjoying food and wine with Sherri.

I am excited to have Bill join the University Relations team.

Stu Fortener