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Jeffrey Joyce Earns Jacob Albright Award from Albright College

by Carey Manzolillo

Reading, PA (04/22/2024) — Jeffrey Joyce, of Marietta, Ga., was honored during an April 20, 2024, Alumni Weekend awards ceremony at Albright College, receiving the college's highest honor - the Jacob Albright Award. This award is presented to alumni who have used their liberal arts education to its greatest potential, thereby making outstanding contributions to the Albright community, their profession and society. Joyce is a member of the Albright College class of 1983.

Jeffrey Joyce '83 has been an active private equity investor for over 200 private and public companies since 1994. These companies engaged in a wide array of industries including food production and manufacturing, professional sports, ski and golf resorts, real estate development, logistics and a large, nationwide automotive dealership group. Joyce has been an officer and/or director of each of these companies responsible for acquisition negotiation and due diligence, structuring senior debt and mezzanine financing and working with management teams on strategy development and implementation. During much of this time (1988-2012), Joyce was an officer of Booth Creek Management and its predecessors.

Prior to 1988, Joyce worked as a commercial banker in Texas focused on large multinational lending and relationship management. He graduated from Albright College in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration and from Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management with an MBA degree concentrated on finance and accounting in 1985.

Joyce was on Albright College's Board of Trustees from 2008 to 2019 where he was board chair for the last six years of his service. He was elected trustee emeritus in June 2020. In addition, Joyce previously served on the Alumni Board of Vanderbilt's Owen School of Business.

In 2011, he and his wife, Cynthia, formed the Joyce Family Foundation, a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) private charitable organization. The foundation gives to organizations who: care for the underprivileged, provide family welfare services, improve education at all levels, foster religion and religious freedom, support medical and scientific research related to disease and sustain a vibrant art community.

Albright has been among of the Joyce Family Foundation's most significant beneficiaries since 2011 with multiple gifts made to the Fund for Albright, the Library Renovation Project, funding for upgrading of Roessner Hall and its Global Media Lounge, start-up capital and salaries for the e-sports program, funding for upgraded technology in South Lounge and establishment the Joyce Family Innovation Fellowship. Finally, in its most recent exciting initiative, the Joyce Family Foundation created a Challenge Fund to provide matching funds and start-up funds available for 20 of the Inaugural Endowed Advancing Lives Scholarships to aid in the retention of students of academic promise. All 20 scholarship matches were quickly established, and, as a result, others have been inspired to join the program with their own independent Advancing Lives Scholarships.

Named a top national college by U.S. News & World Report, Albright College, Reading, Pa., (founded 1856) is home to engaging faculty who believe that the best academic moments are when students feel inspired and ready to take action. The college's distinctive co-major program enables students to cross or combine different areas of study, without taking longer to graduate. Study alongside undergraduate students, adult learners and graduate students, and ignite your SPARK at Albright College.

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Cynthia and Jeffrey Joyce '83, of Marietta, Ga.

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