University of Scranton Names Three New Trustees

The University of Scranton named three new members to its Board of Trustees: Charles Carey, J.D. '75, James Harrington, J.D. '83 and Patrick Haveron, '83.

Charles Carey, J.D. '75

Charles Carey, Esq., is a member emeritus of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C., a full-service, multi-disciplinary law firm with over 500 attorneys and senior professionals in offices across the United States and in Toronto, Canada.

Nationally recognized in the area of municipal finance with an emphasis on the financing of both private activity and governmental facilities, Atty. Carey has been a frequent speaker at national conferences concerning the financing of affordable housing and securities law. He has been recognized among the top attorneys in the Boston and New York editions of Super Lawyers and was recently included in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America. He has been an active member of the National Association of Bond Lawyers and is admitted to practice law in New York, California and Massachusetts. He is a co-author of "A Guide to Municipal Official Statements."

Atty. Carey received his bachelor's degree in political science from The University of Scranton in 1975. He began working with the law firm Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander and Ferdon, L.L.P., shortly after graduation and attended St. John's University Law School, receiving his Juris Doctor degree in 1979. He advanced through the ranks at Mudge Rose before joining Mintz in 1995. Atty. Carey's clients include leading municipal agencies and prestigious securities and banking firms. He has worked with the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency for over 45 years. He also served as bond and underwriters' counsel in connection with numerous financings with the New York State Housing Finance Agency, and worked with the New York Yankees and New York Mets in connection with the financing of the new Yankee Stadium and Citi Field.

An active member of the Alumni Society and the President's Business Council at Scranton, Atty. Carey and his wife, Kathleen, established The Carey Family Scholarship to recognize the extraordinary efforts of his mother, Catharine Daley Carey, to fund educational opportunities for her two sons. This scholarship is awarded to students of single parent households. Carey and his wife have been married for 45 years and are the parents of two children, Chas (Charles, Jr.) and Sean.

James Harrington, J.D. '83

James Harrington, Esq., has extensive experience as an intellectual property strategist and litigator, and in-house counsel in demanding business, legal, economic and regulatory environments, including global pharmaceutical corporations, mid-sized businesses, government and law firms. Highly successful in collaborating with executive teams and all levels of legal and non-legal personnel across the globe, Atty. Harrington led a legal team that was undefeated in intellectual property litigation during an 11-year period. He is considered a leading expert in Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act (Hatch-Waxman Act) litigation, and is also a leader in the use of data analytics in trial strategy and jury selection.

Atty. Harrington is currently chief intellectual property counsel at Radius Health, a science-driven biopharmaceutical company that develops and commercializes innovative endocrine therapeutics. He advises the organization on a wide range of intellectual property matters, provides IP counseling to clients, and manages products through development, marketing approval and post-approval. Prior to joining Radius, he was retained by both Novartis and Takeda Pharmaceuticals in interim roles to help manage the divestiture of the block-buster dry eye drug Xiidra and to oversee the integration of Shire Pharmaceutical's intellectual property group following Takeda's acquisition of Shire. Previously, he served for 15 years as senior vice president, global chief intellectual property counsel at Shire, a $46 billion market cap, global bio-pharmaceutical company. Atty. Harrington was a two-time recipient of the "CEO Award," Shire's highest honor, for his outstanding work in managing and settling important patent litigation.

Prior to joining Shire, Atty. Harrington spent five years in Belgium with Johnson & Johnson where he established the European Patent Law Department. He received Johnson & Johnson's prestigious "Standard of Leadership" award for his success in managing multiple acquisitions and cross-border multinational patent litigations.

Atty. Harrington earned a bachelor's degree in biology from The University of Scranton in 1983. He holds a graduate degree in international business management from New York University, a Juris Doctor from the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, and a master's degree in forensic science from the City University of New York. He is admitted to the bar in the State of New Jersey, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Atty. Harrington and his wife Amy, have three sons, James '24, Daniel '23 and John '26.

Patrick Haveron '83

Patrick Haveron is chief executive officer and chief financial officer at Maiden Holdings Ltd., a Bermuda-based holding company specializing in ownership and management of businesses and assets in the reinsurance, insurance and related financial services industries in addition to select strategic investments.

Haveron joined Maiden as executive vice president in 2009 and has served in a variety of executive and financial leadership roles with the company. He continued to rise to top executive positions with Maiden Holdings, being named president in 2018, then co-chief executive officer and chief financial officer in 2020, and finally his current position as chief executive officer and chief financial officer in 2023.

Prior to Maiden, Haveron was president and chief executive officer of Preserver Group, Inc., a publicly traded property and casualty insurer, after having served in a variety of financial and executive leadership roles since 1988. After Preserver's acquisition by Tower Group in 2007, he also served as Tower's senior vice president and chief operating officer from 2007 to 2009. He began his career as a certified public accountant at Coopers and Lybrand.

Haveron earned a bachelor's degree in accounting from The University of Scranton in 1983. While a student at Scranton, he was a member of the baseball team and one of the team captains as a senior. An active and loyal alumnus, Haveron continues to share his acumen for business and finance with students and other alumni. He is an executive committee member of the President's Business Council, a career coach, a member of the Accounting Department's Professional Council, and a former member of the Parents' Executive Council.

He and his wife, Mary '85, established the Haveron Family Scholarship, a need-based award that benefits students from the greater Scranton region pursuing undergraduate degrees in accounting at the University. The couple have been married 38 years and have three children, Matthew, Andrew and Sean '18.

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