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Get to Know Our Trustees

Our trustees represent a passionate group of talented individuals dedicated to the mission of New Jersey Conservation Foundation.


Rosina Dixon |President

Rosina B. Dixon is a retired senior director of global pharmacovigilance and epidemiology at Sanofi where she worked from 2006 to 2012. From 1986 to 2006 and from 2012 to present she was a consultant in pharmaceutical development. In addition she has over 30 years of experience on the boards of Church & Dwight Co., Inc. where she served as chair of the governance committee until her retirement in 2014 and Cambrex Corp. where she chairs the compensation committee. She served on the board of the National Association of Corporate Directors from 1994 to 2003. In addition to Daytop NJ she is a trustee of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, whose mission is to preserve land and natural resources throughout New Jersey, The Jointure for Child Enrichment and Adult Education, New York Classical Theatre which provides free performances in New York, and a member of the advisory board for Silberman College of Business at Fairleigh Dickenson University. She holds a BA from Harvard/Radcliffe College and an MD from Columbia P&S. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Roosevelt Hospital in New York and worked in new drug development at CIBA-Geigy and Schering Plough. ...read more


Penelope Ayers |Assistant Secretary

Rosina B. Dixon is a retired senior director of global pharmacovigilance and epidemiology at Sanofi where she worked from 2006 to 2012. From 1986 to 2006 and from 2012 to present she was a consultant in pharmaceutical development. In addition she has over 30 years of experience on the boards of Church & Dwight Co., Inc. where she served as chair of the governance committee until her retirement in 2014 and Cambrex Corp. where she chairs the compensation committee. She served on the board of the National Association of Corporate Directors from 1994 to 2003. In addition to Daytop NJ she is a trustee of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, whose mission is to preserve land and natural resources throughout New Jersey, The Jointure for Child Enrichment and Adult Education, New York Classical Theatre which provides free performances in New York, and a member of the advisory board for Silberman College of Business at Fairleigh Dickenson University. She holds a BA from Harvard/Radcliffe College and an MD from Columbia P&S. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Roosevelt Hospital in New York and worked in new drug development at CIBA-Geigy and Schering Plough. ...read more


Jane Higgins


Finn Caspersen, Jr. |Treasurer

Rosina B. Dixon is a retired senior director of global pharmacovigilance and epidemiology at Sanofi where she worked from 2006 to 2012. From 1986 to 2006 and from 2012 to present she was a consultant in pharmaceutical development. In addition she has over 30 years of experience on the boards of Church & Dwight Co., Inc. where she served as chair of the governance committee until her retirement in 2014 and Cambrex Corp. where she chairs the compensation committee. She served on the board of the National Association of Corporate Directors from 1994 to 2003. In addition to Daytop NJ she is a trustee of the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, whose mission is to preserve land and natural resources throughout New Jersey, The Jointure for Child Enrichment and Adult Education, New York Classical Theatre which provides free performances in New York, and a member of the advisory board for Silberman College of Business at Fairleigh Dickenson University. She holds a BA from Harvard/Radcliffe College and an MD from Columbia P&S. She completed a residency in internal medicine at Roosevelt Hospital in New York and worked in new drug development at CIBA-Geigy and Schering Plough. ...read more


Cecilia Xie Birge

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Honorary Trustees

  • Hon. Christine Todd Whitman

  • Hon. Maureen Ogden

  • Hon. Thomas H. Kean

  • Hon. James J. Florio

Advisory Council

  • Blair MacInnes

  • David F. Moore

  • Hon. Rush D. Holt

  • John D. Hatch

  • Scott McVay

  • Tama Matsuoka Wong

  • Christopher J. Daggett

  • Douglas Haynes

  • Ingrid Reed

General Counsel

  • n/a

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