Guilherme Costa serves as the Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of the Corporation of Bentley University.
Prior to joining Bentley University in 2023, Guilherme served as the Senior Associate Vice President and Deputy University Secretary of Syracuse University. Guilherme also spent one year serving as Interim Senior Vice President and University Secretary. In both roles, Guilherme worked closely with both board and university leadership on matters of governance and institutional strategy.
Prior to joining Syracuse University in 2020, Guilherme served as the Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees of Ithaca College. In that role, Guilherme oversaw the legal affairs of the College and supervised the Office of the General Counsel, the Title IX office, and the Office of the Board of Trustees.
Prior to joining Ithaca College in 2018, Guilherme served as the General Counsel of the South Dakota Board of Regents, the constitutional governing board of the 6 public universities and 2 special schools in South Dakota.
Before moving to South Dakota in 2015, Guilherme served as the Deputy General Counsel at the University of Idaho (and previously as the Associate General Counsel), where his areas of focus included student affairs and business affairs.
Before moving to Idaho in 2010, Guilherme was an associate in the Health Care group at the Washington, D.C. office of Drinker, Biddle, and Reath LLP (now FaegreDrinker).
Guilherme earned his undergraduate degrees in business administration and political science from the University of Florida, his law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School, and his master’s degree in Adult/Organizational Learning and Leadership from the University of Idaho. Guilherme was enrolled as a doctoral student in the Ph.D. in Higher Education program at Syracuse University during his years working at Syracuse.
Janet P. Judge is Partner at Education & Sports Law Group. An active member since 2004, Janet has served as a speaker, moderator, and discussion group leader at more than 25 NACUA events and is a member of its Committee on Programming for the Annual Conference. She also is an instructor for NACUA’s Title IX Coordinators Training and co-presented NACUA’s briefing on Title IX and Challenges to Sex-Based Scholarships.
A co-author of the NCAA Manual on Gender Equity, and a contributing author of the NCAA’s Toolkit on Sexual Violence, and HazingPrevention.Org’s A Coach’s Guide to Hazing Prevention, Janet also serves on the Board of Editors for the Boston Bar Journal, the Board of Directors for HazingPrevention.Org and is a member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine’s Task Force on Sexual Violence and Harassment in Sport. She formerly served on the Board for USA Ultimate, as Vice Chair of the Visiting Committee to Oversee Harvard Athletics, and as an appointed member of the Special Independent Commission on Title IX Resources and Programs for the University of Tennessee.
Janet is a graduate of Harvard College and Boston University School of Law. Following law school, Janet clerked for Judge Stahl on the First Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a former recipient of NACUA’s First Decade Award.