University also elects four new members with extensive experience leading and growing complex organizations Dorothy Savarese, MBA ’04, HDCS ’21, was elected chair of Suffolk University’s Board of Trustees Suffolk University today announced that retired Cape Cod 5 bank Chair and Chief Executive Dorothy Savarese, MBA ’04, HDCS ’21, was elected chair of the University’s Board of Trustees, becoming the first woman to hold that position in the institution’s 120-year history.