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BAYPORT, NEW YORK, RESIDENT CLARE A. CUNNIFFE JOINS MANHATTAN COLLEGE’S BOARD OF TRUSTEES

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Bayport, New York, resident Clare A. Cunniffe, vice president of security solutions at Computer Associates (CA) International and a Manhattan College alumna, has recently been elected to the College’s Board of Trustees. 

Ms. Cunniffe, who was the 2003 Honorary Inductee into the Delta Mu Delta national honor society for business students, completed a bachelor of science degree at Manhattan College in 1981 with a double major in computer information systems and marketing.  Shortly after graduation, she jump-started her career in technology as a programmer for IBM’s manufacturing systems department. 

In her recent remarks to students at the School of Business awards ceremonies held in April, Ms. Cunniffe reflected on how her career started and its many unexpected turns.  After interviews and offers from a few banks, she happened on then-small software company Computer Associates and immediately liked the “rag tag company.”  After accepting a job with CA, Ms. Cunniffe wore a number of different hats: from developer to managing consultants, from leading sales teams regionally and globally to managing CA’s relationships internationally from Japan to South Africa.  She said her decision to pursue a degree in marketing and computer information systems helped her manage different tasks and serve various roles at CA through the years.

Ms. Cunniffe is a member of the advisory board for the College’s school of business.  She also is an active member in the Long Island Center for Business and Professional Women and the Long Island Software and Technology Network as well as Women in Technology International (WITI).  She is the recipient of the LI Center’s 2002 Achievers Award in

Business/Technology and has been a frequent speaker in industry and public forum topics of information security and women in technology.  Ms. Cunniffe is married and has two daughters. 

She joins Mr. Hector Gonzalez, chair of the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board and partner at Mayer, Brown, Rowe and Maw, and Brother Michael J. McGinniss, F.S.C., president of La Salle University, as the newest members of Manhattan College’s Board of Trustees.

Manhattan College was founded in 1853 upon the Lasallian tradition of excellence in teaching inspired by St. John Baptist de La Salle.  Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science. 

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