David H. Lissy '87

Chair of the Board of Trustees

Elected to the Ithaca College Board of Trustees in 2011, David Lissy has served as chairman since 2018.  He graduated Ithaca College with a BS in management from the School of Business and spent 11 years in the health care industry, serving as senior vice president and general manager of the New England region for Aetna in addition to a variety of management and marketing functions with U.S. Healthcare. He joined Bright Horizons in 1997 as the chief development officer, served as CEO from 2002-2018 and became Executive Chairman in 2018.