PRESIDENT & CEO, WVU FOUNDATION MORGANTOWN, WV Cindi Roth has been leading the private philanthropic efforts of WVU and WVU Medicine as the president and CEO of the WVU Foundation since 2014. Cindi, with her 30 years of experience in leadership, fundraising, finance and strategic planning, helped guide and direct the Foundation's historic and successful $1 billion "State of Minds" comprehensive campaign for the University, which concluded in 2017. A Pennsylvania native, she has served on several nonprofit boards in the western Pennsylvania region as well as the board of the United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counties in West Virginia, and currently serves on the national board of trustees for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. Cindi earned her Master of Public Management degree from the Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Pittsburgh. Cindi lives at Cheat Lake and enjoys golfing, running and cooking to balance her non-work life.