Dale Marie Hunt, associate vice president for investments for the West Virginia University Foundation, will succeed DorothyDottieDotson as the Foundations vice president for investments and chief investment officer, effective Jan. 1, 2009.

Dotson, meanwhile, will remain with the Foundation as senior adviser for investments, and Jennifer Cunanan, director, investments, will become senior director.

Dottie expressed a desire to step back a bit from the day-to-day operations yet remain involved,said R. Wayne King, WVU Foundation president and chief executive officer.Over the past 10 years, she has done a superb job in managing the Foundations investment portfolio. We are very pleased she will be staying with us in an advisory role. Dale and Jen have learned extensively under Dottie and are investment professionals in their own right. Both will do an excellent job in their new positions with the Foundation.

Dotson holds a political science degree from WVU . She spent 30 years on Wall Street as an investment banker before joining the Foundation in 1998. A Wellsburg native, she was inducted into WVU s Academy of Distinguished Alumni in 1989 and conferred an honorary Doctor of Law degree in 1991. She served as a member of the WVU Foundation Board of Directors from 1995-98 and on the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Board from 1986-98.

Hunt joined the WVU Foundation in 2003. She spent 21 years as an investment banker in New York at Smith Barney, S.G. Warburg and Prudential Securities, and she was most recently managing director of U.S. private placements at NatWest Markets and ABN AMRO . Hunt holds a Masters in Business Administration degree in finance from Pace University and a bachelors degree from Boston College.

Cunanan began work with the Foundation in 2004. Prior to that, she worked as an investment consulting associate at Cambridge Associates in Boston and served as associate director, graduate programs, in WVU s College of Business and Economics. Cunanan earned her masters degree in business administration from WVU and a bachelors degree in business administration from the University of Richmond.

The WVU Foundation is a private, nonprofit corporation that was chartered in 1954 to secure, hold and administer funds and properties given by individuals, corporations and philanthropic foundations in support of WVU .