Duke University Names Five New Trustees

Five headshots: three on top and two on the bottom.
New trustees, clockwise from top left: Janine Brown, Chris Kempczinski, Scott Raney, Belton Moore, Kaitlyn Williams

Five new members joined the Duke University Board of Trustees on July 1, university officials announced on Wednesday. They are Janine Brown, Chris Kempczinski, Scott Raney, Belton Moore and Kaitlyn Williams. 

Brown, Kempczinski and Raney will serve six-year terms. Moore and Williams will serve two-year terms, serving their first year as observers.

The Board of Trustees is the university’s governing body, with responsibility for its educational mission and fiscal policies.

Janine Brown L'86 serves as partner-in-charge of the Atlanta office of Alston & Bird, a global law firm. Over the span of her career, she has advised private and public companies across a range of industries, including technology, media, telecommunications, renewable energy and manufacturing. She has been involved in a wide variety of domestic and international transactions, including capital-raising transactions, corporate governance matters, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances.

Brown serves on several boards including Spelman College, the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, and she is the past board chair of Georgia Justice Project and Piedmont Healthcare.

Brown earned a J.D., with high honors, from Duke University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan. Brown is an honorary member of the Duke Law School Board of Visitors.

Chris Kempczinski T'91 is chair and chief executive officer of McDonald’s Corporation, a global restaurant company with almost 50,000 locations generating about $150 billion in sales. Prior to becoming chief executive officer, he served as president of McDonald’s USA. 

Kempczinski has more than 25 years of leadership experience in premier global consumer companies, including senior roles at PepsiCo and Kraft Heinz. He began his career at Procter & Gamble and later worked as a management consultant with Boston Consulting Group. 

In addition to serving on McDonald’s Board of Directors, he serves on the boards of Ronald McDonald House and Procter & Gamble. At Duke, he serves on the MADE FOR THIS Campaign Council and is an emeritus member of the Trinity Board of Visitors. Kempczinski is a graduate of Duke University, where he earned undergraduate degrees in public policy studies and economics. He also received a master of business administration from Harvard Business School.

Scott Raney E'91 is a managing director at Redpoint Ventures, where he partners with founders building leading technology companies. With more than 25 years in venture capital, he has worked closely with entrepreneurs to scale businesses and navigate growth. His investments and leadership in the technology sector have earned him repeated recognition on the Forbes Midas List of the world’s top venture capital investors.

Raney is a graduate of Duke University, where he earned a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the Pratt School of Engineering. He also holds a master of business administration from Harvard Business School.

At Duke, he has served on the Pratt Board of Visitors and Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative Task Force.

Belton Moore MBA/MPP’26 was nominated by the Graduate and Professional Young Trustee Nominating Committee. He graduated from Duke in May with a master of business administration and master of public policy. 

Moore grew up on a family farm in Robeson County, North Carolina, and is an enrolled citizen of the Lumbee Tribe. At Duke, he focused on the intersection of business and public policy and on how global economic change affects local communities. He co-founded the Business & Policy Club, served as president of the Native American Graduate and Professional Student Association and co-chaired Fuqua’s Blue Devil Weekend.

Before Duke, he worked with Governor Roy Cooper’s Hometown Strong initiative and the Native American Agriculture Fund. He earned his undergraduate degree at NC State University, where he was a Park Scholar. He will join Boston Consulting Group as a management consultant this fall.

Moore will serve as an observer during his first year on the board and will have voting privileges in his second year.

Nominated by the Undergraduate Young Trustee Nominating Committee, Kaitlyn Williams T’26 graduated from Duke in May with a program II major in inequality in education and completed a senior thesis examining the experiences of first-generation, low-income students. 

Williams was a SPIRE Fellow and taught the program’s first-year course for three years. She also led the Duke University Union as president, served as a Green Devil intern with the Office of Climate and Sustainability at Duke, volunteered in a third-grade classroom at Sandy Ridge Elementary and mentored middle-school girls with The Growing Club. This fall, Williams will pursue a master’s in education at Harvard. 

She will be an observer during her first year on the board and will have voting privileges during her second year.