Janice C. Beckmen has been actively involved with Pingry since 2005, holding several positions on the board of The Pingry School Parents’ Association (PSPA) and volunteering for The Pingry Fund. Mrs. Beckmen recently completed a two-year term as Co-Chair of the Board of BRIDGES Outreach, Inc., which helps the homeless in Lower Manhattan, Newark, and Irvington, and will serve on the BRIDGES board for one more year. This fall, Mrs. Beckmen will join the Board of Trustees of NJ SEEDS, which provides financially-limited, high-performing students with an augmented education, and assists them in applying to independent and boarding schools for their high school education. For the past two years, she has served on the Educational Policy and Student Affairs Committees at NJ SEEDS. Mrs. Beckmen earned a B.A. in mathematics and chemistry at Duke University in 1988 and received her M.B.A. from The Fuqua School of Business at Duke in 1992. Following completion of her graduate school education, she worked in leveraged finance and private equity at Chase Capital from 1992 to 1996, and in the same capacity at The CIT Group from 1996 to 2000. She and her husband are the parents of three Pingry students.