John Valva

Vice President, Alumni Engagement, and Executive Director, OSU Alumni Association

John Valva became the executive lead of the OSU’s alumni engagement programs in July 2018. Under Mr. Valva’s leadership, the OSU Alumni Association is focusing on critical linkages between alumni activities and engagement in support of OSU’s highest priorities. Renewed focuses include those of professional connections and networks, alumni advocacy for university funding and initiatives, accelerated community-building among diverse alumni and those with affinities beyond their class years and increasingly generous alumni philanthropy.

Before joining OSU, his career spanned the higher education, nonprofit and professional services sectors with expertise in alumni, donor and constituent engagement, volunteer coordination, fundraising, board relations, business development, strategic planning, events, communications, marketing and cost management. Mr. Valva spent two decades leading alumni relations at the University of California at Berkeley, at San Diego and at the UC system office. This includes eight years as executive director or alumni and constituent affairs at the University of California system. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science and government at UC Berkeley and his master’s in management from the University of San Francisco.