A Columbia University professor, a well-known Pittsburgh lawyer and a Pittsburgh banker are among the recent appointees to the board of Point Park University.

The university on Thursday identified those appointed to three-year terms as Joann Baney, a communications consultant and adjunct associate professor at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs; H. Yale Gutnick, who recently retired from the law firm of Strassburger, McKenna, Gutnick & Gefsky, after more than 50 years of practicing law; and Todd C. Moules, market president for KeyBank in Western Pennsylvania.

Moules, who served on the Point Park board until 2018, is returning for another three-year term, while Gutnick and Baney are new to the board.

In addition to her work at Columbia, Baney is faculty director of the FDNY Officers Management Institute, the IPADE CEO Leadership Program and the General Management Leadership Program and is on the faculty of the NYPD’s Police Management Institute.

Gutnick, who focused his law practice on litigation, corporate law, estates and trust and entertainment law, also represented the individual, corporate, charitable and trust interests of Richard M. Scaife and his estate for more than four decades. Point Park officials said Gutnick has been an advocate for the Center for Media Innovation at Point Park, which was established through a grant from Scaife’s Allegheny Foundation.

“With an intense focus on career readiness, it’s important for Point Park University to have a Board of Trustees made up of industry professionals who have spent their careers steadily rising up the ranks through dedication to craft. The value Todd brings is already evident through his past service on the Board, and it would be difficult to think of two better people than Joann and Yale to join him,” Point Park President Paul Hennigan said.

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