Our New Senior Associate Dean for External Affairs
Dear Anderson Community,
It is my pleasure to announce that Guillermina Molina is joining us as senior associate dean for external affairs. In this new role, Guille will oversee the entire range of external affairs initiatives at UCLA Anderson. Working with the offices of Development and Alumni Relations, she will be responsible for developing a comprehensive strategy that considers the arc of our alumni's lives and careers from graduation through retirement, and corresponding levels of involvement with UCLA Anderson, including engagement and development. She starts today.
Guille comes to Anderson from the USC Marshall School of Business, where she has served in roles of increasing responsibility over a career that has spanned nearly 20 years. For the last three years, she has been assistant dean, external affairs, in which she oversaw development operations for Marshall's external relations office, including corporate and foundation relations, the Marshall Alumni Association (90,000 alumni), the school's annual fund, donor relations and events, and stewardship and engagement, among other responsibilities. She also served as co-chair of the Marshall School's Centennial from 2019 to 2020.
Previously, Guille was Marshall's senior director of annual fund and alumni relations and, for several years before that, a director of development (major gifts) and parent engagement. In her first role at Marshall, beginning in 2002, she served as director of the undergraduate program, which supported more than 4,000 business students. Before joining USC, she worked as a consultant for the Bulldog Group at Sony Pictures Entertainment and, prior to that, as a human performance and change management consultant for Accenture, where her clients included Ryder Systems, Inc., Shell Exploration and Production, and the U.S. Postal Service.
Guille earned a master's degree in communication management from USC's Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and a bachelor's degree (with honors) in communications studies and French from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In her new role, Guille will work in consultation with my office and the assistant vice chancellor for professional schools development to design, implement and manage a comprehensive program that builds a lifelong connection between Anderson and our alumni community and donors. She will develop and oversee the implementation of long-range strategies for the engagement of and support for the school from alumni, volunteers and faculty members. We are delighted to have Guille join us. Please join me in giving her a warm welcome to UCLA Anderson and congratulating her on her new role — and her new identity as a Bruin!
Best,
Antonio Bernardo
Dean and John E. Anderson Chair in Management