Faculty Type: Advisory Board

Steven R. Armstrong is the incoming president of the William R. Kenan, Jr. Funds as well as the president of Kenan Management, Inc. (KMI). As president of KMI, Steven serves in various roles in leading the single-family office for the Frank H. Kenan family. Steven is also a Director on the Flagler System Board in Florida. Prior to joining KMI, Steven practiced as a Certified Public Accountant with Arthur Andersen and Deloitte. In that role, Steve led the private client practices for those firms in central and eastern North Carolina as well as serve in Deloitte’s National Center of Excellence in Cincinnati. Steven received a bachelor’s degree in Accounting from North Carolina State University in 1989 and holds the Certified Financial Planner designation. Steven resides in Cary, North Carolina.

Todd Singleton (Engineering ’98) spent 25 years in the software technology industry. He served as the General Manager for Microsoft’s Application Modernization & Development Tools cloud business. Before his time at Microsoft, Todd held sales and engineering leadership positions at Google, Intel, IBM, and multiple tech startups. Today, he serves as Board Chair for Ambition Angels, focused on orienting systemically marginalized children toward an economically empowered future.

While at Duke, Todd earned his bachelor’s in electrical engineering and played varsity basketball. He received his master’s degree at Stanford. Todd serves in his community through his local church and as a youth basketball coach. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Veronica, son Judah, and their dog Sonora.

Neil Steiner (T’94, P’29) is a partner in Dechert’s Securities and Complex Litigation group. He represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies, hedge funds, investment advisers, corporations and their senior executives in litigations and regulatory investigations and works seamlessly with Dechert’s private equity team to resolve issues as they arise during transactions. Neil also devotes significant time to pro bono matters, with a particular emphasis on voting rights cases, and serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. He received the American Bar Association’s Pro Bono Publico Award in 2020 and the Second Circuit Federal Bar Council’s Thurgood Marshall Award in 2021 for his voting rights work and was named one of the ten most innovative lawyers in North America by the Financial Times in 2015. Neil served as a member of the Advisory Board of Jewish Life at Duke from 2019 through 2025. He lives in New York City with his wife, Amy, and children, Sam (T’29) and Rachel.

Azra Kanji, T’01, is the Founding Partner of Astira Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm primarily focused on investing in North American-based B2B workflow solutions. Prior to founding Astira, Azra was a partner at Abry Partners where she spent 20 years in the private equity strategy. She started her career in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications group at Goldman Sachs. She has served on the non-profit boards of Boston Medical Center and United South End Settlements. Azra lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband Fiyaz and their two children. She graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in Economics in 2001.

John Bussel (T’91, P’25) is Chief Investment Officer and a principal of Team Hewins, LLC, an independent advisory firm located in South Florida and Northern California. John has spent over thirty years in the investment advisory business starting with Fiduciary Trust International, Prudential Securities, and his own practice before joining Team Hewins in 2004.

 John has been connected to several non-profit boards and currently serves as a board member of Barry University in Miami Shores, FL, The Loomis Chaffee School (Windsor, CT), Greater Miami Jewish Federation, Jewish Community Services of South Florida, and the Board of Governors of the American Jewish Committee. He is also Vice President of The Shepard Broad Foundation, a Miami based private family foundation.

John graduated with an A.B. from Duke in 1991 in history and Spanish and is currently a Duke parent. He lives in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida with his wife Laura and three children Miriam (T’25), Adriana, and Samuel.