Daniel Toscano to Lead UConn Trustees.

Governor Ned Lamont has chosen Daniel Toscano to chair the University of Connecticut’s Board of Trustees, Daily Ructions has learned. An announcement is imminent. Toscano, a managing director at Morgan Stanley, graduated from UConnin 1987 and went on to earn an advanced degree at Wharton.

Toscano, originally from Bristol, has served as Chair of the UConn Foundation and continues was a member of its board.

Lamont was seeking a leader who is UConn alum with a weighty resume and commitment to the state’s premier public university. He appears to have met those requirements in the well-regarded Toscano.

Along with the Toscano announcement, Lamont will reappoint Charles Bunnell, Andy Bessette, Shari Cantor and Andrea Dennis-LaVigne to the board.