Dayton Daily News: Two new trustees appointed to Wright State board

Ellen Miller

The two newest Wright State Board of Trustees members appointed by Gov. Mike DeWine are local leaders in health care and the defense industry.

The first trustee is Ellen Miller, associate vice president of community relations for the CareSource Foundation. She was appointed for a nine-year term ending June 30, 2033, succeeding former trustee Marty Grunder, whose term ended June 30.

Second, Ricky Peters, chief strategy officer of Tenet3, a Dayton cyber security company, was appointed for two years, the remainder of former member Bruce Langos’s term.

“The appointees from Gov. DeWine possess expertise in areas of strategic importance to the university,” said Tom Gunlock, chair of the Board of Trustees.

Miller oversees $3.5 million with the CareSource Foundation and leads the company’s community relations efforts. Before she worked joined CareSource in 2022, she was the director of development at Altafiber, where she worked on increasing market share. Before that, she spent 16 years at Fifth Third Bank in multiple areas including risk management.

She serves on the board of directors for the Boys and Girls Club of Dayton, Archbishop Alter High School and Levitt Pavilion. She graduated from the University of Dayton with degrees in business administration and finance.

Ricky Peters (U.S. Air Force photo by Michael Pausic)

Peters is a 1984 Wright State graduate and previously served as a national trustee for the university beginning in 2020. National trustees are appointed by the rest of the board of trustees, rather than the governor, and do not have voting power.

As a national trustee, he is vice chair of the Special Committee on Aerospace and Defense and a member of the Finance, Audit, Governance and Compliance Committee, the Special Committee on Medicine and Health, and the Special Committee on Athletics and Campus Recreation.

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