May 24, 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
Robertson Hall, Arthur Lewis Auditorium

Moderator:

John Mack ’00
Ford Family Director of Athletics

Panelists:

Bob Surace ’90
Charles W. Caldwell Jr. ’25 Head Coach of Football

Kimberly Johnson ’95
Chief Operating Officer, T. Rowe Price

Bella Alarie ’20
Director of Player Development and Experience, Georgetown University Women’s Basketball

Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University

Participants:

John Mack ’00
As the Ford Family Director of Athletics, John Mack oversees Princeton’s 38 varsity teams and more than 1,000 student-athletes. Additionally, Mack is responsible for the Campus Recreation program, which provides fitness and recreation opportunities for the entire campus community. Mack had been a student-athlete (track), coach and athletics administrator at Princeton before he joined the Big Ten Conference (2004-06) as associate director of championships and then Northwestern University (2006-11) as senior associate athletics director. Prior to returning to Princeton as director of athletics in 2021, Mack worked as a litigation attorney for a decade after earning his law degree from Northwestern. He also served as the pastor of Greater New Hope Missionary Baptist Church in New Haven, Michigan. A psychology major at Princeton, he is married to Alleda (Flagg) Mack ’99.

Bob Surace ’90
Bob Surace has served as head coach of Princeton’s football team since December 2009. He has guided Princeton to four Ivy League Championships (2013, 2016, 2018, 2021) and led the Tigers in 2018 to their first perfect season since 1964. A two-time Ivy League Head Coach of the Year (2016, 2018) and four-time finalist for the Eddie Robinson Jr. National Head Coach of the Year award, he has coached four NFL draft picks and eight Bushnell Cup winners. During his undergraduate years, Surace was a center for the Tigers, helping the team to the 1989 Ivy League title while winning first-team All-Ivy honors. He is one of two people to win an Ivy League championship as a player and a head coach. Prior to returning to Princeton, Surace coached in the NFL for nine years with the Cincinnati Bengals. His wife, Lisa, is in the Class of 1992.

Kimberly Johnson ’95
Kimberly Johnson is the chief operating officer of T. Rowe Price, a global asset manager with $1.6 trillion in assets under management. Previously, she was chief operating officer for Fannie Mae. Johnson also worked at Credit Suisse and the hedge fund D.E. Shaw. She has spent her career in financial services, striving to expand access to capital markets and improve the financial well-being of American households. Her broad experience includes roles overseeing sales and trading, technology, operations, data management, risk, client services, corporate strategy and digital transformation. Her interests include childhood education and the surrounding social services, previously serving on the boards of Communities in Schools of the Nation’s Capital and Share our Strength (No Kid Hungry). She currently serves on the boards of Eli Lilly and Princeton University, where she chairs the Finance Committee. An economics major at Princeton, she earned an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Bella Alarie ’20
Bella Alarie is director of player development and experience for the Georgetown University women’s basketball team. After graduating from Princeton, Alarie was selected fifth overall in the 2020 WNBA Draft. She played professional basketball for two years both in the WNBA and the EuroLeague. Alarie then retired from playing to pursue her interest in the business side of basketball and earned her master’s degree in sports industry management from Georgetown University. Alarie currently serves on USA Basketball’s Developmental National Team Committee and on its Athlete Advisory Board. While at Princeton, Alarie was a two-time AP All-American, three-time Ivy League Player of the Year and the recipient of the C. Otto von Kienbush Award. She led the Tigers to the Ivy League championship three years in a row.