Meet the Officers

The officers of the Board of Governors of the Georgetown University Alumni Association include the President, President-Elect, Executive Director, Treasurer, Parliamentarian, and Immediate Past President.

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Julia Farr, a sixth-generation Washingtonian and third-generation Hoya, is the first female executive director of the Georgetown University Alumni Association (GUAA). Farr is an attorney and entrepreneur.

She has 17 years of experience as a corporate securities attorney and executive, beginning her legal career at K&L Gates and later becoming vice president and chief compliance officer for public real estate investment trust Sotherly Hotels. In 2010, Farr left the practice of law to build a career in fashion. She opened her eponymous boutique in Washington, DCC. In 2012, she launched the Julia Farr Collection, a U.S.-based women’s apparel design, manufacturing, and sales company focused on the sartorial needs of the professional woman which donated a portion of sales to women’s and children’s charities.

Since graduating from Georgetown in 1988, Farr has volunteered extensively. In addition to serving on the GUAA Board of Governors and as a class ambassador for many years, she headed the Georgetown University Alumni Association from 2010 to 2012. During her term, she enhanced opportunities for alumnae connections and connected alumni based on special interests and professional affiliations. As all GUAA presidents do, during her GUAA presidency, she served simultaneously on the university’s Board of Directors.

As executive director, Farr oversees the Alumni Association Board of Governors, Career and Lifelong Learning, Law Alumni Relations and Annual Giving, Medical Center Constituent Engagement,Professional Alliances & Affinity, and Regional Engagement teams. Since arriving back on the Hilltop in 2018, Farr has focused on the Association diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy and efforts, spoken to alumni audiences across the globe, and led GUAA’s COVID-19 pandemic pivot to virtual alumni engagement which , offered hundreds of virtual events Hoyas. She is the host of “1789 Seconds,” a virtual fireside chat series featuring alumni stories and is a frequent contributor to the GUAA Ask the Author series and the Georgetown Magazine.

Farr lives on the corner of 36th and O and is the proud parent of three Hoyas, classes of 2019, 2021, 2024, and 2029. She is also the part-time parent of Jack the Bulldog!

Gail Gillis-Louis (C’75), has been engaged in leadership almost from the moment she walked on campus. A John Carroll awardee and former Georgetown Cheerleading Captain, Gillis-Louis was recognized as an exemplar of excellence during the 15th anniversary celebration of women in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her leadership roles range from serving as a founding member of the Board of Advisors of the College, to membership on the Board of Hoyas Unlimited and the Alumni Admissions Program, to pioneering the establishment of vehicles for the engagement of Black alumni through the Patrick Healy Dinner, the African American Advisory Board, and the Black Alumni Council. Since completing two terms on the Board of Governors, she has remained an active Alumni Senate member.

Professionally, her career in the financial services industry has included retail and mortgage banking, from operations to lending. Her passion, however, has been enabling small and medium-sized businesses and nonprofits to expand and thrive. She particularly relishes the opportunity to help guide minority and women-owned businesses achieve their goals. Currently in private consulting, her career includes substantial experience in major financial institutions, most recently in the Business Banking Division of PNC Bank. Gillis-Louis is also a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her MBA with a concentration in marketing and finance.

A fifth-generation Washingtonian, Gail is proud to reside locally with her husband, Conan (SLL’73, G’78, L’86), and their daughter Maya, where she serves as the immediate past president of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church Parish Council, just outside Healy Gates.

Mike Yaeger and his wife Laura Horos Yaeger (H’03) have been actively involved in the Georgetown community for many years and keep volunteering and leadership at Georgetown as core principles in their family. Mike came to Georgetown from Medford, MA and has been active across Georgetown athletics, Class of 2003 leadership, and the GUAA Board of Governors. Most recently, he served as the Treasurer for the GUAA.

Professionally, Mike is a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in the Private Wealth Management Division in New York. He serves as a member of their Top Advisors, Advisor’s Council, Family Office Committee, Market Intelligence Group, NextGS Advisory Council and as a OneGS Captain across the firm. Prior to Goldman, he worked as a senior Global Investment Specialist at J.P. Morgan and was a member of the First Scholars Program. As part of this program, Mike received his MBA in Finance, Economics and Entrepreneurship from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Outside of Georgetown and Goldman, Mike, Laura and their three children (Copley, Hudson and Bayley) are active in the Robin Hoods Kids initiative in New York City and youth wellness programs in their hometown of Rye, NY.

Mark is the current Parliamentarian on the GUAA Board of Governors. During his tenure on the Board, he served as Chair of the Communications Committee, Chair of the Revenue and Royalty Subcommittee of the Audit and Finance Committee, and on the Board Member Development Committee. He is currently on the Board of Advisors of the Georgetown University Wall Street Alliance.

Mark began his professional career at a large law firm, later becoming in-house counsel and a compliance officer for asset management firms, including Alexandra Investment Management and Citadel LLC. Mark is currently Chief Compliance Officer and Senior Deputy General Counsel at Balyasny Asset Management in New York, NY. He previously worked as the Chief Regulatory Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Partner of Perella Weinberg Partners, an investment banking and asset management firm based in New York City. Mark is actively involved in leadership of several local organizations, including the Board of Governors of Fairmount Country Club.

Mark received a Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown. His sister (SFS ’87) and brother-in-law (B’87) attended Georgetown, and Mark and his wife Pam are proud parents of three Hoyas- Mattia (F’22), Cole (B’28), and Bennett Anthony (B’30).

Kelly Mulvoy Mangan (F’91, Parent’25, ’28) graduated from the Walsh School of Foreign Service in 1991 and has since remained deeply connected to Georgetown University and the Alumni Association. She has been a member of the Georgetown Clubs of Boston, Hong Kong, and New York, where she served as President when the John Carroll Awards Weekend came to New York City in 1998. She has been a member of the Class of 1991 Committee since graduation, and co-chaired their last seven Class of 1991 reunions. Kelly joined the GUAA Board of Governors in 1999. She served as the president of the Alumni Association from 2022-2024.

After graduation from Boston College Law School, Kelly practiced law as an associate and partner at Cassin Cassin & Joseph LLP, in New York City.  She is now serving her fifth, three-year term as an elected trustee on the Harrison Central School District Board of Education in New York. From 2016 through 2022 she served as President of the Board of Education, which is responsible for the education of 3,900 students and oversight of a $150 million budget.  In addition to her service on the Board of Education, Kelly is a member of the Board of Directors of the Westchester-Putnam School Boards Association, and has taught religion and serves on the parish council at the Church of the Resurrection in Rye, NY.

Kelly lives in Harrison, NY with her husband Jim, (C’92, L’95), a Managing Director and Head of Global Litigation at Morgan Stanley.  Her son Leo graduated from the College in 2025 and is a sales associate at Summit Golf Brands in New York.  Her son Teddy is a junior in the McDonough School of Business, and is a member of the Hoya men’s heavyweight crew team.  His twin, Tommy, attends Boston College and plays on the men’s varsity golf team.

Tom Bianco has spent over 40 years on Wall Street, mostly in investment banking, as an equity specialist. He has managed the areas of Sales, Marketing, Research, Trading and Equity Capital Markets at firms including UBS, Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and Bank of America. At various times, Tom has been Chairman of the Investment Banking Commitment Committee and Chairmen of Research Stock Selection Committee. In the investment business, Tom started the Alliance/Bernstein hedged fund business as COO, and later was COO for Wavelength, a TMT hedged fund. Tom currently holds his licenses at Castle Hill Capital Partners and runs his own Family Office. He holds series 7 and 63 licenses.

Tom received his bachelor’s degree at Georgetown University and has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Tom has been an Adjunct Professor of Securities Analysis at Columbia University and a Lecturer for the Capital Markets Function for Investment Banking, also, at Columbia.

Tom served for 6 years as a Governor at Georgetown University Alumni Association and was recently elected GUAA’s Treasurer. He was also conferred the 2024 Reed Award by Georgetown University for outstanding contributions to the student community. In this capacity, he overseas two student investment funds and is a judge for the Business Schools Psaros Center’s Stock Picking Contests.

Tom lives in Bronxville and Southampton, NY with his wife, Molly. His son, Nick graduated from Georgetown in May 2026 and is on the Defense and Aerospace team in equity research at UBS. Tom’s daughter is a freshman in musical theatre in the School of Performing Arts at Syracuse. Tom has served on the Board of The Tuckahoe Youth Association and the Yonkers Youth Association.