Speakers

Adora Mora is a second year investment banking analyst at Barclays Capital. She works in the Debt Capital Markets group covering Consumer Products and Retail companies. At Barclays, Adora was recently elected to the Global Advisory Committee, which overseas all IBD processes in the Americas. She also stays actively involved, leading Barclays' sponsored volunteer events and initiatives. She graduated in 2010 from Harvard College with a degree in Sociology and was actively involved in a range of activities on campus.  

Amanda Pouchot is Co-Founder and CIO of The Levo League, an innovative online community designed to guide Gen Y professional women through modern career challenges and development.   Amanda Pouchot co-founded The Levo League in 2011 after two years at McKinsey & Company, where she focused on organizational health research and women’s leadership development. Amanda met Levo League Co-Founder Caroline Ghosn on the first day of the job, where the two were the youngest in their respective assignments and frequently the only women.   With an interest in Organizational Psychology and an understanding of academic business research on women’s issues Amanda was surprised to find that even with this awareness she would still catch herself suggesting her ideas in the form of a question, being overly verbose to soften her message and not proactively negotiating a raise. Immersed in women’s issues, Amanda founded the Levo League to get more women into the leadership pipeline in all facets of society and to help all ambitious young women find professional and personal happiness.   Amanda graduated from UC Berkeley in 2008 with a B.A. in Sociology.  A native Californian, Amanda grew up playing an active role in leadership activities and athletics such as basketball and volleyball.  She is passionate about equality; mental health and understanding better how society’s institution and infrastructure help us to create our vision of the world.

Amy Hunckler is a Senior Consultant with Oliver Wyman in the Health & Life Sciences practice specializing in drug R&D and commercial strategies for clients in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.  She has particular expertise in new product market access, indication and M&A target prioritization, and qualitative and quantitative market research. Amy has worked in a number of therapeutic areas, including Oncology, Immunology, Gastroenterology, and Rare Diseases. Prior to joining Oliver Wyman, Amy was a consultant at a boutique life sciences strategy firm and worked on engagements across the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics industries. Amy received Bachelors degrees in Biology and Economics from Brown University.
 

Anasstassia Baichorova serves as Managing Director of Recruitment in New England at Teach For America, Inc. Ms. Baichorova  has worked on the recruitment team since 2008. She joined Teach For America's staff after teaching third and second grade for two years as part of the 2006 Teach For America corps in New York. Ms. Baichorova holds a Bachelors of Arts in Government from Cornell University, a Masters in Public Policy from Cornell Institute of Public Affairs, and a Masters in Teaching from Pace University. 

Andrew Magliozzi is the founder of Veritas Tutors, a Cambridge-based tutoring firm, and FinalsClub.org, a non-profit open education project funded by the Hewlett Foundation.  In addition to social entrepreneurship, Mr. Magliozzi has also coordinated and run a volunteer middle school tutoring program in Cambridge, MA since 2006.  Over the last twelve years, Mr. Magliozzi has logged more than 3,500 hours of one-on-one tutoring and admissions consulting with all types of students from prep school to juvenile prison.  He is also the author of the book, How to Get into Your Harvard.  When he is not working or teaching, Mr. Magliozzi also serves as an entrepreneurship advisor at Harvard College and writes a blog, which can be found at PleaseStealThisIdea.com.   

As a former actress and stand-up comedienne, Angela knows the challenges involved in finding just the right person - both for her clients and her actors. Angela founded Boston Casting in 1991, and since then she has worked on hundreds of local, regional and national projects, from major motion pictures, including the Academy Award nominated film THE FIGHTER, TED, HERE COMES THE BOOM, KNIGHT AND DAY, PINK PANTHER 2, THE GAME PLAN, PAUL BLART: MALL COP, THE PROPOSAL and EDGE OF DARKNESS, to television shows, commercials and corporate industrials. A member of the prestigious Casting Society of America (CSA), Angela is the recipient of the 2009 Imaginnaire Award and is one of the original board members of the MA Production Coalition. An active member of the community, Peri also lends her expertise to organizations and events related to autism and was the recipient of the 2008 Margaret Bowman award for outstanding parent in the autism community.

Avni Patel Thompson is currently Sr. Strategy Manager at the Adidas Group China and was previously the Sr. Global Marketing Manager for Reebok International’s Women’s business.  Her quest to find perceptive consumer insights and the next great product initiative has taken her from Procter & Gamble’s hallowed halls of brand management to The Boston Consulting Group’s Consumer and Retail practice.  Now at Adidas, she also enjoys blogging about the brand promise at: brandsundae.com.    Originally from Vancouver, Canada, Avni holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of British Columbia.   Avni enjoys writing and sports of any kind – watched or played.  She currently lives in Shanghai with her husband.

Employed by the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau since 1999, Beth is currently the Vice President of Sales and Convention Services.  Her responsibilities include directing the sales and convention service efforts of twelve team members.  The team is responsible for soliciting and booking international and domestic conventions, meetings and events as well as working with meeting professionals to ensure successful events for the organization and for the Boston convention and hospitality community.   Under Beth’s direction and leadership the GBCVB has become an award-winning organization, having been selected by Meetings & Conventions Magazine into their Hall of Fame for providing outstanding service to meeting sand conventions for over sixteen years.  In 2007 the same magazine honored them as one of the top five CVB’s in the country for providing outstanding service to conventions.   In 2006, the Association of Convention Operations Management selected Beth to receive their Executive Excellence Award.  This award is presented annually to a hospitality executive who understands and supports convention services in the hospitality industry.  Beth is also active in the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA) on a both the local and national levels; most recently in 2008 as the President of the New England Chapter.   Beth moved to Boston in 1988 and prior to joining the GBCVB, worked for the Sheraton Boston Hotel, the Westin Copley Place Boston and the Hilton Boston Logan Airport in various sales and marketing leadership positions.  Prior to Boston, Beth’s hotel experience includes positions in Hartford, Connecticut, Nashville, Tennessee, The Lodge at Pebble Beach in Monterey, California and the Clock Tower Inn in Rockford, Illinois.   A native of Illinois, Beth currently resides in Stoneham, Massachusetts.

Blair Brandt grew up in Palm Beach, Fl and went to boarding school at Deerfield Academy. Brand graduated early from the University of Richmond in 2010. Blair's entrepreneurial endeavors began when he started a laundry business in college and sold the company for a sizable profit to another student. His first job after graduation was as an assistant to a top luxury real estate broker in Palm Beach, Fl - Christian Angle, who became Blair's mentor. Brandt started The Next Step Realty in April 2010 after experiencing frustration as a young real estate broker and ultimately finding success when he helped out a friend who had graduated from Rollins College and moved to the West Palm Beach area. Brandt also received an inquiry from a friend at Denison University looking to move to Manhattan, and then decided with Co- Founder Belton Baker to survey a large network of friends at college and brokers in major cities. Their results showed that not only would a college grad real estate company benefit up-and-coming rental brokers looking for experience, clients, and revenue, but would also significantly streamline and ease the post-collegiate apartment hunt for a graduates first real-world apartment as a young professional in an urban environment.

Since founding Next Step in April 2010, Blair Brandt has been featured on Bloomberg TV and has contributed on multiple occasions to The New York Times. He was voted as one of the Top Entrepreneurs under 25 by SawyerSpeaks and Brobible.com, and by Palm Beach Illustrated as one of the Most Influential People from his hometown, Palm Beach, Fl. He has been invited to speak at Harvard University's annual "Life after Harvard" seminar, UPENN's Wharton School of Business, and Deerfield Academy's "Pathways", which brings together the school's most successful alumni to share their experiences with current students. He has also been invited to the White House on numerous occasions to lend his feedback to the White House Business Council, and is currently working on growing the Next Step Realty's core rental process, but also expanding the brand into other outlets including entertainment, TV, and fashion.

He currently works in between the company's offices in Palm Beach, Fl and New York, NY, in addition to traveling the country as the company promotes its website to parents of undergrads and college seniors on various target campuses.

Brenda Anderson is currently Director of Marketing for a family owned and operated hotel in Cambridge, the Kendall Hotel. Brenda worked with the owners since opening to establish the Kendall Hotel as the premierhotel for Kendall Square’s every growing corporate market. She has been with the Kendall for 8 years.  Prior to  the Kendall Hotel, Brenda was General Manager for a new hotel chain targeting the extended stay traveler, Candlewood Suites.   Brenda began her hospitality career at the age of 16 working her family owned hotel, Hotel Ashtabula. After her father sold Hotel Ashtabula, Brenda decided to pursue a career in elementary education.  After completing college, opportunities led Brenda back into the hotel business. Brenda worked in sales & marketing for major hotel corporations such as Marriott, Hilton, and Sheraton.  She has spent the last 15 years focusing on smaller, privately owned hotels. From hotel operations tosales and marketing, Brenda has had first hand experience in all facets of the hotel industry.

Prior to joining the Root Capital team, Ms. Gill was the director for the Capital Partners division of Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), a national community development financial institution with a 30-year track record of improving funding and financing practices in the social sector. At NFF, Catherine also served as the site director for the agency’s New England region. She worked as a senior lender both at NFF and at SEEDCO in New York City, managing multi-million dollar loan portfolios to nonprofits across sectors. In addition to her background in financial analysis, Ms. Gill brings to Root Capital her experience as a fundraiser for Columbia Business School and as a consultant on economic development projects in Honduras. Catherine currently teaches the nonprofit financial management class at Boston University’s School of Management. She holds an M.B.A from IESE, Universidad de Navarra in Barcelona, Spain and a B.A. in ancient Greek from Wellesley College. She speaks Spanish and has a working knowledge of French.   

Cathy Johnson is an Admissions Counselor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She graduated from Fuqua’s Master of Management Studies (MMS) program in 2010 and am a proud member of its first class. Her favorite part of this position has been interacting with students and watching the program evolve from its first year. Ms. Johnson graduated from Duke University in 2009 with a double major in biology and environmental science.

Charles LaCalle has held numerous roles in the retail and luxury sector. In his most recent posi- tion, he founded and served as CEO of a hybrid factoring and e-commerce company called The Cultivate. The purpose of The Cultivate is to provide financial support as well as front-end service consulting to emerging fashion designers. He also worked as an analyst at the Pao Principle, a Manhattan-based luxury consulting firm. In this role, he helped to conduct the largest-ever survey of luxury consumers in mainland China. In addition, he marketed the survey to luxury houses in America and Europe. Mr. LaCalle also worked with Oscar de la Renta on brand expansion into mainland China and has had experience working with cosmetics and fragrance companies. During his sophomore year at Harvard, he worked at IMG Russia to handle corporate sponsorships at Moscow fashion week. Previously, he worked as a risk analyst at Angkor Mikroheranhvatho Kampuchea, one of the leading micro finance banks in Cambodia. At Harvard, he is an editorial writer for The Crimson newspaper, as well as a member of the newspaper’s business board. He is currently writing an article series on the business section of The Huffington Post on various aspects of the fashion industry.

Christian Sann is the Director of Boston for SCVNGR's LevelUp program and joined SCVNGR a year and half ago. At SCVNGR, he has led several product introductions into the local business environment.   Christian started with selling SCVNGR’s location-based mobile engagement tool, which was designed to utilize gaming dynamics to connect customers with local business through social media. Currently he leads the Boston sales team and is introducing SCVNGR's latest product, LevelUp, which promotes consumer loyalty through a mobile payment platform.   Christian is a graduate of Brandeis University with a degree in History and a Boston Latin Academy alum. His official title at SCVNGR is “the Assistant to Miranda Priestly”.     

Christopher L. Foote, a senior economist and policy advisor in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, currently serves as advisor to the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decisionmaking. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1987, and then worked for two years as a newspaper reporter in Harrisonburg, Virginia. He received an economics Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1996. From 1996 to 2002, Foote taught at Harvard University’s department of economics, where he also served as director of undergraduate studies. In July 2002, he accepted a position as senior staff economist with the Council of Economic Advisers, becoming chief economist at the CEA in February 2003. From May 2003 to September 2003, he served as an economic advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad, Iraq, returning briefly to Iraq in January and February of 2004. He joined the Boston Fed in October 2003.

Danielle and Jodie Snyder are the co-founders of DANNIJO, a New York based luxury fashion jewelry label. DANNIJO jewelry is handmade in New York and offers an eclectic range of designs. Danielle’s bohemian, rocker vibe combined with Jodie’s timeless sophistication makes for a versatile and ever-changing statement collection that consistently maintains a strong sense of DNA.   Growing up in Jacksonville, Florida, Danielle and Jodie's creative instincts led them to jewelry design at an early age. The sisters taught themselves wirework on their father’s medical tools, and began selling the collection to local boutiques. By high school, friends and family began taking notice of their jewelry, and seemingly overnight, their hobby turned into a full-fledged business with the opening of their first boutique in Jacksonville, Florida.   After college, the sisters moved to New York, and continued collaborating on jewelry design. In 2007, Danielle co-founded L.W.A.L.A. (Live With A Lifelong Ambition), a youth based initiative that fundraises for grass-roots initiatives in Africa by encouraging peers to use their passions and talents to impact change. Jewelry design being their passion, Jodie and Danielle designed a capsule collection to support the initiative. With the success of the philanthropic collection, Danielle and Jodie went on to pursue the creation of a luxury accessories label, DANNIJO.   DANNIJO jewelry is sold at select, high-end stores and boutiques around the world including Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, and Lane Crawford. DANNIJO has been featured on The Today Show and in the NYTimes, Glamour, InStyle and Harper's Bazaar. Additionally, the line has an extensive celebrity following including Natalie Portman, Blake Lively, Beyonce Knowles, and Cameron Diaz. Danielle and Jodie are members of the AOL Small Business Board and were both named to Inc. Magazine's 30 under 30: America's Coolest Entrepreneurs.

Diane Casey-Landry is a resident fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics where she is holding a study group on the Politics of a Financial Crisis: Was the Dodd –Frank Act the Right Answer?   Before coming to the Institute, Casey-Landry was the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Executive Vice President of the American Bankers Association, which represents the nation’s $13 trillion banking industry. Prior to ABA, Casey-Landry was the President and CEO of America’s Community Bankers, the national trade association that represented all the nation’s thrifts, savings banks and mutuals, and other community focused banks.   Prior to becoming CEO of America’s Community Bankers, she was the national director of financial services for Grant Thornton LLP and chaired the industry practice group. Earlier in her career, she was Executive Director of the Independent Community Bankers of America. She served at the Oversight Board of the Resolution Trust Corporation as Vice President of Public Affairs and Public Liaison as the primary spokesperson for the new agency created by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989. She started her career as a bank examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.   Casey-Landry is a graduate of Miami University of Oxford, Ohio (1979) and holds a Master’s in Public Administration from George Washington University. (1990).  A recognized leader in the banking industry, Casey-Landry has been noted as one of the Most Powerful Women in Banking by the US Banker; received the Distinguished Industry Leader Award from Women in Housing & Finance, and was named the Enterprising Woman of Washington by the National Museum for Women in the Arts.  

Donella Rapier is the Chief Financial Officer for Partners In Health (PIH), a not-for-profit organization that operates health care and poverty alleviation programs in twelve countries in settings as diverse as rural Haiti and Rwanda and the prisons of Siberia. She is responsible for all financial activities of this multi-currency, multi-cultural organization comprised of over 13,000 individuals.  Previously, Donella served Harvard University, first as Chief Financial Officer for the Harvard Business School and then as Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development.  Prior to her work at Harvard, Donella was as a Senior Manager for Price Waterhouse.  Donella has been a lecturer at both Harvard Business School and at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.  Donella received her BS, summa cum laude, from California State University, Northridge and her MBA from Harvard Business School.

Associate Editor Elizabeth Newman began her career at Sports Illustrated as an intern in May 1998. Since then she has covered the NBA, NASCAR, college football and tennis for the magazine. Most recently Elizabeth has been served as the editor of SI's Letters to the Editor page as well as editing the magazine's growing number of tablet editions on the iPad, Galaxy and Xoom.

Ellen Gordon Reeves is the author of the best-selling Can I Wear My Nose Ring to the Interview?  A Crash Course in Finding, Landing, and Keeping Your First Real Job (www.caniwearmynosering.com).  A career and workplace expert, she is a frequent guest on national media including CNN, The CBS Early Show and Moneywatch, @KatieCouric, and NPR. Trained in comedy writing and improvisation at Second City, Reeves advises job hunters of all ages how to present themselves professionally. Her interactive workshops offer direct constructive criticism from the employer’s point of view. Topics include Extreme Professional Makeover: Boot Camp for Job Hunters, Do-It-Yourself Professional Development: Making Your Workplace Work for You, Avoiding Artificial Dissemination: Networking Do’s and Don’ts and the Art of Authentic Connecting, The Interviewer’s Hidden Agenda: What He or She Will Never Tell You, and Women and Women of Color in the Workplace: Gender, Cultural Difference and Diversity in Career Advancement. She currently consults to programs including the Columbia Publishing Course at Columbia’s School of Journalism and Baruch’s Master’s in Financial Engineering, re-packaging students for the job market. President of the Harvard Alumni Association, Reeves holds a BA from Harvard-Radcliffe in French and American History and Literature, a Masters in Writing from Northeastern University, and a Masters from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is producing a cookbook with Parisian Chef Yves Camdeborde and a play about Academy Award-winning WWII survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein (www.gerdaslieutenant.com). Reeves was Executive/Education Editor at The New Press (a non-profit publisher in the public interest) and creator of Talk Show, a live performance in NYC.  She has been a blogger for Learnvest.com and Jobs for Change at Change.org. She may be reached at caniwearmynosering@gmail.com.

Eunji Chung joined Citi in 2011 as an analyst in the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group in New York, where she spent her junior summer. She has worked on various buy-side, sell-side and hostile defense advisory assignments across industries, most recently focusing on Industrials, Health Care, Consumer and Telecommunications. Prior to working in investment banking, she held summer positions in asset management and debt capital markets, in addition to pursuing her interest in international relations as an intern at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris and the Embassy of Korea in Washington, D.C. Eunji graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University in May 2011 with an A.B. in Economics and a Secondary Field in Government.

Gwill York is co-founder of Lighthouse Capital Partners and has spent the last 23 years focused on venture debt. At Lighthouse, she is currently one of five Managing Directors who oversee investment and operating activities for the firm. She has led Lighthouse’s investments in companies such as Millennium Pharmaceuticals, StorageNetworks, DataSage, Corvis, Speechworks, NxStage, Curis, and Sirocco Systems. Prior to co-founding Lighthouse in June 1994, Ms. York was a senior vice president with Comdisco Ventures where she established, directed, and managed East Coast investment activities. While at Comdisco, she led its investments in over 50 companies, primarily in the biotechnology and communications equipment areas, including Human Genome Sciences, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Appex, Brooktrout Technologies, and Cascade Communications. Prior to joining Comdisco in 1988, Ms. York was a senior business analyst for Fidelity Investment Company. From 1984 to 1986, she worked in a medical software start-up, which successfully raised venture capital from four leading venture capital firms. She started her career in 1980 at Salomon Brothers in the corporate finance department. She is a Board Member of The New England Venture Capital Association, and an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Harvard Business School. She is Chair of the Museum of Science’s Finance Committee, and the Treasurer of The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She is on the Board of Trustees at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and on the Board of Fellows at the Harvard Medical School. She also serves on the Advisory Boards of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University, the Harvard Medical School’s System Biology Department, and the Harvard Business School’s Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. She holds an AB in economics from Harvard University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Hilary Breed Van Dusen is a senior editor at Candlewick Press, an independent publisher that specializes in books for children. She acquires and edits middle grade and young adult fiction as well as nonfiction for the same age groups. She was previously an editor of children's books at Little, Brown and Company and of professional development books for elementary school teachers at Heinemann. She served as the assistant director of The National Children's Book and Literacy Alliance and reviewed books for the Horn Book Magazine and Guide.   

James is currently a second-year MBA student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Health Care Management. Prior to Wharton, James spent four years with Deloitte Consulting, where he performed advisory work for companies in the Health Care, Technology, Consumer Goods, Energy and Financial Services industries. At Deloitte, James primarily focused on health care providers, working with health systems and academic medical centers on performance improvement strategies and electronic medical records implementations. James graduated from Harvard College in 2006 with a degree in Economics and a certificate in Health Policy. A native of Los Angeles, James is happily married and his first child is on the way!

Jennifer Donahue is a fellow with the Eisenhower Institute at Gettysburg College teaching Women in Leadership. She is Political Director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. Donahue spent 14 years as a political reporter, analyst and producer. During the 2008 and 2004 New Hampshire Primary races, Donahue appeared frequently on ABC World News Tonight, Nightline, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, MSNBC's Hardball, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360, MSNBC's and NPR. Donahue also moderates numerous panels for Saint Anselm College, many of which have been covered live on C-SPAN throughout the 2004 and 2008 Primary races. Donahue also teaches "Pizza & Politics," a popular seminar on political news and analysis at Saint Anselm College, and directs and teaches civic education at the NHIOP. Donahue covered the 2000 presidential race, as a political reporter in New Hampshire, an on-air political analyst for MSNBC and a freelance reporter for Newsweek. She was called a "rising star" among political analysts by Hardball's Chris Matthews. Throughout the 2000 election cycle, Donahue interviewed all the major presidential candidates and moderated live debates and town hall meetings with Gore, Bradley, Bauer and Keyes. Donahue covered the 1996 presidential race for CNN and the 1992 race for C-SPAN. From 1995 to 1999, Donahue worked for CNN, based in their Washington, DC bureau, as a producer, writer and interviewer for "Inside Politics." Donahue also filed regular radio reports for CNNRadio network. Between 1992 and 1995, Donahue was Press Secretary for Senator Hank Brown, who sat on the Foreign Relations, Budget and Judiciary Committee hearings. Donahue regularly provides live commentary for MSNBC's Hardball, CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 and other national and local broadcast and print media. Donahue has been quoted widely in the New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, USA Today, Boston Globe and done numerous live interviews on National Public Radio. 

Jerome Picca is an accomplished Chef, teacher, and culinary mentor and with his wife Stephanie owns Small Plates Restaurant, Tapas, and Wine Bar in Cambridge, MA. Chef Picca was born in Sri-Lanka and raised in London. He immigrated to the United States at the age of ten and started his culinary career at the age of fifteen as a dishwasher and busboy at a local restaurant. Within a year he had proven himself as a hard and loyal worker and was given the opportunity to do prep work in the kitchen. After working with other culinary professionals he decided on career as a chef. He was accepted as an apprentice at a hotel where he worked all the kitchen stations as a Rounds Cook. After completing his apprenticeship he entered the Culinary Institute of America where he received high marks for his dedication to learning, volunteering to be the class team leader from day one to graduation, taking extra curricular courses in ice carving and Garde Manger, and winning a third place medal in the first annual CIA Culinary Arts Salon.   Upon graduation Jerome moved to New Orleans to learn more about food & cooking. He eventually became the Sous Chef for Susan Spicer and continued working and learning from her until moving to Washington D.C. to become the youngest instructor ever hired t The Culinary School of Washington. His work as a Chef Instructor included teaching classes in The Professional Chef Program, building The Professional Catering Program, and developing a culinary program for the University of Maryland Center for Continuing Education.   Jerome has made New England his home since leaving Washington D.C. and has enjoyed many memorable experiences in his career including starting a business called The Seasoned Chef. After 11 years Chef Picca sold the business and and went on to work as  the Executive Chef for Sebastian’s Catering at The World Trade Center in Boston, Regional Chef Manager for Rita’s Catering, General Manager for Blackstone Caterers in Newport, RI. Chef Picca opened Small Plates Restaurant, Tapas, & Wine Bar in Harvard Square in 2007 before selling the restaurant and taking his current Chef position at Harvard University.    Jerome has been written up in The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, Yankee Magazine, Where Magazine, The Improper Bostonian, The Philadelphia Enquirer, The Providence Journal, The Harvard Crimson, and many smaller, local publications. Jerome has also been featured on New England Cable News, Chronicle, and The Food Network, and has had the good fortune of cooking for celebrities such as The crew of Saturday Night Live, Paris Hilton, Clint Eastwood, Steve Martin, Madonna, Art Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin, The Allman Brothers, Dan Rather and family, Carly Simons’ family, and the late Ted Kennedy.  Although cooking for the rich and famous is exciting Chef Picca finds his greatest  reward lies with sharing his passion as a chef in teaching and mentoring others how to cook like a Chef. He enjoys educating and nurturing the interest of untrained culinarians of any age and finds that the process of learning is mutually enjoyable and ultimately rewarding for both student and teacher.

Jessica graduated from Harvard in May 2011 with a degree in Social Studies. On campus Jessica was a member of the varsity women’s rowing team for four years and was active in several on-campus groups including the Crimson, Delta Gamma and Athletes in Action. The summer after her junior year, Jessica interned for the Oxford Business Group in Istanbul, Turkey as a research analyst covering a diverse range of business segments in emerging markets around the globe. After graduation, Jessica moved to Chicago where she began working full-time for William Blair as an investment banking analyst. In her first six months at Blair, she has had the opportunity to work on deals in the consumer & retail, industrials, technology and healthcare groups. In her spare time, she is also volunteering with and helping to start a financial literacy non-profit organization that helps individuals in financial crisis.

Joanne Chang was born in Houston, Texas and attended schools in Houston, Denver, Tulsa, and Dallas.  She attended Harvard College where she received her B.A. in Applied Mathematics and Economics, cum laude.  After graduation, she spent two years as a management consultant at Monitor Company in Cambridge, MA, where she focused on logistics studies and customer surveys.   Driven by a consuming passion for food, she left consulting for the food industry.  Her first job was at Biba, a well-established, high-profile upscale restaurant in Boston.  She spent a year picking up basic cooking skills as a line cook before moving on to Bentonwood Bakery in Newton Center.  At Bentonwood, she gained an impeccable foundation in scratch baking, rising to the position of assistant to the chef/owner within a few months.     She departed from Bentonwood when she was offered the head pastry chef position at Rialto, a four-star restaurant in Cambridge.  Her experience at Rialto allowed her not only to expand her pastry knowledge through creating recipes and developing menus, but also to advance key management skills, such as hiring, training, tracking food costs, motivating employees, and establishing quality standards.   Her next move was to New York City as a pastry assistant at the highly acclaimed French bakery, Payard Pâtisserie.  Her year at Payard supplemented her American pastry knowledge by giving her a thorough introduction to classic and modern French pâtisserie.  In addition, she strengthened her organizational and management abilities as a PM sous chef for part of the year.    Once back in Boston, she took the position of Pastry Chef at Mistral restaurant while she started to develop the idea of creating her own bakery and café, Flour.  She found a location in the upcoming neighborhood of the South End 2 years later, and on September 2000, Flour Bakery + Café opened to a long line of eager customers.    Flour has gained local and national acclaim for its amazing pastries and wonderful service.  Their menu features breakfast pastries, breads, cakes, cookies, and tarts as well as sandwiches, soups, and salads. Flour has been featured in Gourmet, Food and Wine, the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Lucky Magazine, Newsweek, and Boston Magazine and has received numerous Best of Boston awards.   The popularity of Flour led her loyal customers to urge her to open a second location, and upon finding another great location at Fort Point Channel, Joanne has brought Flour food and friendliness to another new neighborhood.   Joanne's energetic commitment to excellence extends beyond the kitchen. She writes pastry articles and reviews cookbooks for Fine Cooking magazine. She teaches classes and advises pastry cooks both within the bakery and at area cooking schools. An avid runner, she has competed in every Boston Marathon since 1991.    

Jodi Robinson is a 13-year veteran and senior client relationship leader at Digitas, http://www.digitas.com/a top global integrated brand agency.  She partners with leading companies to define their brand and marketing strategies, and has accountability for the Digitas team's creative and media solutions and their performance.  She has led agency relationships across many industries including financial services, consumer packaged goods, automotive, and retail, with such brands as Olay, Gillette, American Red Cross, and General Motors.  Jodi loves her work and she should:  Digitas has been honored as one of the "Best Places to Work" by the Boston Business Journalfor seven years running.  It was ranked in the top five this year, the only advertising agency to be recognized in the large companies category.  She balances her work in client service with her family and two children, ages 5 and 6 (it IS possible!).  Ms. Robinson is a graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.  

Kelly Alverson joined Blackstone in 2009 and is an Analyst in the Private Equity Group. Prior to joining the Private Equity Group, Ms. Alverson was an Analyst in the Restructuring & Reorganization Group, where she worked on several transactions in various industries including financial institutions, gaming and power. Ms. Alverson received an AB in Economics with a secondary degree in Government from Harvard College, where she graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.

Kelly Peeler is the Executive Director of Business Across Borders. In this role she leads the organization in planning business plan competitions, expanding to new Universities, and developing partnerships. She joined Business Across Borders in the spring of 2010 and planned the first business plan competition at the American University of Iraq. She had both planned and participated in business plan competitions during her time at Harvard College. She currently works at JPMorgan and lives in New York City.

Personal Stylist & Wardrobe Consultant  Kim Long is a successful stylist and wardrobe consultant who works with professional women of all ages who want their image to be impactful and to create a more dynamic presence through their personal appearance.    Founder of Fashion. Life. You. | Style on the FLY, a revolutionary personal style studio , Kim offers a tip-to-toe service for stylizing your personal look and wardrobe.  Her  passion lies in helping women look great and exude self confidence.    Kim helps clients look and feel fabulous through her gifted eye for appropriate style, while encouraging and bringing out her client’s authentic look. 

Creating Peace, Prosperity and Goodness in the world – that is why Lila Igram started Connecther.org, a 501c3 nonprofit that matches donors with projects that are providing services to women and children in their quest for self-reliance.  Lila put together a bootstrapping, volunteer team that together donated over $50K of in-kind services to launch the Connecther web platform.

Lila has always gravitated toward social entrepreneurship and activism.  Lila recently worked for FLOW, a nonprofit that advocates Conscious Capitalism (CC) and Peace Through Commerce (PTC).  During Lila’s time at FLOW, she worked in the area of community outreach.

Lila was born and grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and graduated from the University of Iowa.  She has traveled extensively in the Middle East, South America, Africa and Europe - living in Cairo, Egypt for one year.  She currently lives in Austin, TX with her husband and three kids.  Her oldest son was recently recruited to play football at Harvard and reported to Cambridge in the fall of 2010.

Linda Moore Forbes, a veteran of The White House, Capitol Hill, and national political campaigns, is a senior strategist known for playing crucial roles for high-profile leaders.
 
Moore Forbes fell in love with politics in college, working on her first U.S. Senate race while studying at the University of Texas. She moved on to a Senate race in Georgia before heading to Washington for her first stint on Capitol Hill and her first presidential campaign, Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt’s 1988 bid.
 
Moore Forbes then joined the staff of the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), the organization that developed the key policy ideas in President Clinton’s campaign and governing agenda. Serving for five years as its Field Director, she built a strong, cohesive organization that would later become the backbone of Clinton’s presidential campaign and change the face of the Democratic Party and the national political landscape. The DLC’s success became a model for the New Labor movement in Great Britain and other progressive governments around the world.
 
Moore Forbes served for eight years in the Clinton White House Office of Political Affairs, first as Special Assistant to the President, and in the second term as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Political Director. She advised the President, Vice President, First Lady, and members of the Cabinet on national, state, and local political concerns, and developed and directed activities with Administration principals, elected officials, party leaders, and key supporters across the country to further the President’s goals and initiatives.
 
Moore Forbes took a leave in the fall of 1996 to serve as Deputy Political Director for Clinton-Gore ’96, helping Clinton to become the first Democrat since Franklin Roosevelt to win a second full term as president. Among her responsibilities was winning the Midwest battleground. She developed and directed the President’s political strategy for twelve Midwestern states, seven of which were designated “must win.” All seven “must wins” were carried by President Clinton, five by a double-digit margin. This strategy also helped produce victories in two gubernatorial and five U.S. Senate contests, and recapture seven Congressional seats and three state legislative chambers.
 
Following the White House, Moore Forbes served for a decade as Senior Advisor to Indiana Senator Evan Bayh, helping to establish the Senator’s profile as a national leader and spokesperson for centrist Democrats. She served as strategic and political advisor to the Senator and guided the staff on policy development, communications, and coalition-building for high-profile and controversial issues. She also supervised all of the Senator’s political activities, including those on behalf of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and as founder and leader of the Senate New Democrats Coalition, as DLC Chairman, as well as the Senator’s own presidential exploratory efforts and consideration as the Democratic vice presidential nominee.
 
Moore Forbes took two leaves of absence during her tenure with Senator Bayh to work on presidential campaigns. In 2004, she was recruited by the John Kerry for President campaign to serve as Political Director for vice-presidential nominee John Edwards. In 2008, during its most critical and tumultuous period in the primaries, the Hillary Clinton for President campaign brought in Moore Forbes to serve as Director of Congressional Affairs and as a member of the campaign’s strategic decision-making team.
 
Moore Forbes, a native Texan, is a 1984 graduate of the University of Texas.

Magatte Wade, born in Senegal, educated in France, launched her entrepreneurial career in the San Francisco Bay area. She is fluent, and conducts business, in Wolof, French, and English. She is now based in the NYC area. Magatte’s first company, Adina World Beverages, was founded in her home kitchen and was originally based on indigenous Senegalese beverage recipes using organic ingredients. The company has attracted talent from beverage industry leaders, including the founders of Odwalla and Sobe, and is now carried in major national retailers across the U.S., including Whole Foods Market, Wegmans, and trial roll-outs at Safeway and in the Pepsi distribution chain. As a consequence, Adina is the most widely distributed U.S. consumer brand founded by an African entrepreneur. Magatte recently launched her second company, The Tiossano Tribe, which produces and retails luxury organic skin-care products based on indigenous Senegalese skin care recipes. Her products can be found at high-end specialty boutiques and at www.tiossano.com. She serves on the board of ASNAPP (Agribusiness in Sustainable Natural African Plant Products), the leading West African natural products industry organization. She has also partnered with the First Lady of Senegal’s health and education NGO, Association Education Sante (AES) to promote organic Hibiscus in Senegal. She also serves on the board of the SEED Academy (Sports for Education and Economic Development), a private school in Senegal that prepares Senegalese athletes to succeed academically and athletically on basketball scholarships in the NCAA and on the Advisory Board of Trilinc Global, a U.S.-based global impact investment fund. She also serves as a mentor for developing world entrepreneurs for the MIT Legatum Center for Entrepreneurship and Development. Magatte was a featured panelist at the 2009 and 2011 Global Competitiveness Forums in Riyadh (returning in 2012), and has spoken at Columbia, Wharton, Dartmouth, MIT, Babson, Tulane, Furman, the University of Chicago, and many other universities. She writes for The Huffington Post, Barron’s, and other publication. The World Economic Forum named her one of their Young Global Leaders for 2011 and Forbes named her one of the "20 Youngest Power Women in Africa". She blogs at www.magatte.wordpress.com and at www.tiossano.com/blog  

Mary Caroline is an analyst in Institutional Equity Sales for Credit Suisse in New York. She graduated from Harvard University in 2011, and returns to Credit Suisse after having interned with the firm the previous summer. At Harvard, Mary concentrated in Environmental Science and Public Policy, with a focus on energy technologies While in college she was on the board of Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business, and was captain of the Crimson Dance Team. Prior to her work at Credit Suisse, Mary spent the summer working for NASA. She is originally from the Boston area.
 
Mary Caroline is an analyst in Institutional Equity Sales for Credit Suisse in New York. She is a member of the Harvard Class of 2011, where she majored in Environmental Science and Public Policy, served as a board member of Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business, and was captain of the Crimson Dance Team.  She is originally from the Boston area

Matthew Wallace is the co-founder/owner of BerryLine, a Cambridge based frozen yogurt concept established in 2007. Matthew did not follow the typical entrepreneurial path. He pursued his undergraduate work in Biochemistry at UC Davis, received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UCLA, and concluded his academic career at MIT with postdoctoral research in Bioinorganic Chemistry. His background provides a strong foundation in critical reasoning and problem solving, putting the scientific method to work in the world of entrepreneurs.

Meicheng Shi joined Silver Lake, a private equity firm based in New York, in 2011 as an Analyst. Previously, she completed internships in the Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking Group at Goldman, Sachs & Co., and at UBS Investment Bank. Ms. Shi graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in Economics and Psychology, and a citation in French language. At Harvard, she was a John Harvard Scholar, received the Detur Book Prize, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Ms. Shi spent the 2010-2011 year living in Ghana and New Zealand, pursuing a project on social entrepreneurship through the Harvard College Benjamin A. Trustman post-graduate fellowship.

For more than 20 years Michael Carucci has been one of the most trusted names in the Boston Real Estate market. As Managing Director of Group Boston Real Estate LLC, he has built one of the most recognizable and successful Boston real estate firms by utilizing the best of class management practices and state-of-the-art technology to ensure that his clients' real estate needs are handled quickly and efficiently.   Michael Carucci is one of Boston's highest producing agents and is consistently ranked in the top 1% in sales volume for the greater Boston area. He is a recognized expert on the residential and commercial Boston real estate market and is regularly quoted in articles appearing in the Boston Globe, Boston Herald, Boston Business Journal, and Banker & Tradesman. He is also a contributing Editor for Boston Common Magazine. Mr. Carucci is presently serving his third term on the Board of Directors for the Greater Boston Real Estate Board and is an upstanding member of the National Association of Realtors (NAR), the Council of Residential Specialist (CRS), and the Massachusetts Association of Realtors (MAR). Married and the father of three, he resides in Boston's Back Bay and Harwichport, Massachusetts.   Michael Carucci has a client list that includes the Boston Red Sox, Taurus Investments, Fidelity Investments, Bain & Company, Winn Development, Peabody Properties, The Mt. Vernon Companies, The Boston Celtics, Massachusetts General Hospital, C.  

Neagheen Homaifar’s efforts in Parthenon’s Boston office are anchored in solving public and private sector challenges in education.  She has worked with foundations to support K-12 and postsecondary investment strategies in technology and has also worked with state and district management to develop turnaround strategies for low-performing schools.  Neagheen’s private sector experience has spanned early childhood education in the United States to university expansion in Central America. While she focuses on education-related work, Parthenon’s two-case model has allowed her to simultaneously explore the firm’s more traditional corporate client work.  From business planning cases to growth optimization cases for automobile transmission and fire safety equipment companies, Neagheen has learned to appreciate the less glamorous products in life.    She graduated with Honors from Harvard College where she earned an A.B. in Social Studies and a Certificate in Latin American Studies.  In her academic tenure, Neagheen conducted ethnographic research in rural Latin America focusing on microfinance communities, gender empowerment, and children’s access to education.

Nina Menezes joined Leerink Swann Consulting, the strategy consulting arm of the boutique healthcare investment bank Leerink Swann, in 2006.  During her tenure at Leerink, Dr. Menezes has served a wide array of pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies in multiple therapeutic areas.  Her work has spanned new product planning, launch strategy, brand planning and expansion, lifecycle management, and due diligence.  Prior to joining Leerink, Dr. Menezes was a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts General Hospital where she developed novel magnetic resonance imaging techniques to study neurological and musculoskeletal diseases.  Her work in predicting outcome in stroke was funded by a fellowship from the American Heart Association.  For her work in imaging skeletal growth disorders, she received the Young Investigator Award from the Society for Pediatric Radiology.  Prior to her commencing her postdoctoral fellowship, Dr. Menezes interned at Seedling Enterprises, an incubator for medical devices.  Dr. Menezes received her PhD in Medical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her AB in Physics from Cornell.  

Cheryl Mainland and Polly McMaster co-founded The Fold in January 2011. They met at London Business School at the start of their MBA in 2009. Driven by a shared passion for fashion but lackluster experiences of shopping for work clothes in their previous careers, together they have launched The Fold. The Fold designs, produces and retails clothes for women to look professionally chic work. The clothes are sold online (www.thefoldlondon.com) and through pop-up events in all major cities.   Before starting The Fold, both Polly and Cheryl had successful business careers. After graduating from Cambridge University with a PhD in Virology and BA in Natural Sciences, Polly worked at L.E.K. consulting and then as an investment professional at Apax Partners, a leading global private equity firm.   Cheryl graduated with a BA from Harvard University and has worked and lived in Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. At Procter & Gamble she transformed and managed beauty care brands, SK-II and Nice’nEasy, across Australasia.   Together, Polly and Cheryl have advised leading UK retailers and fashion designers on their commercial strategies, brands including Emilio de la Morena & Sweaty Betty.

Rachael is a Brand Integration Manager on the Global Brand Management team at Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, where she leads cross-branded initiatives. Starwood's nine hotel brands include The Luxury Collection, St. Regis, W, Le Meridien, Sheraton, Westin, Four Points, Aloft, and Element. She got her start in hospitality working in hotel operations during the summers while earning her bachelors degree with distinction from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. Upon graduation in 2006, she joined RLJ Lodging Trust, a Bethesda, MD based hotel investment company with over 100 franchised hotels across the United States. As a project manager for RLJ, Rachael’s responsibilities included due diligence, capital budgeting, risk assessment, site visits, and renovation and capex oversight across the multi-billion dollar RLJ portfolios. Managing these capital projects involved coordination with third party consultants, hotel operators, contractors, architects, and hotel brands. In May 2011, Rachael graduated with an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a co-president of the Hospitality & Travel Industry Club.

Sangeetha Ramaswamy is the head of macroeconomic analysis and strategy at Eton Park Capital Management, a global multi-strategy hedge fund with $13 billion of assets under management. She regularly meets with senior thought leaders, investors, and policy officials, and has specific responsibilities for informing the fund’s senior portfolio managers on global macro themes, risks, and investment ideas. Prior to joining Eton Park, Sangeetha spent several years as the managing editor of Roubini Global Economics, where she built the content division and editorial team of a major macroeconomic consultancy in its incipient stage. At RGE, she worked closely with Nouriel Roubini and Brad Setser, and co-authored the firm's proprietary research on global reserve accumulation, which was subsequently used by former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers in a series of policy speeches in 2006 on excessive reserve accumulation by emerging market central banks. Sangeetha previously worked in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs in the financial institutions group. Sangeetha has a Bachelor of Arts from Yale University, majoring in Ethics, Politics and Economics, with a focus on emerging markets, along with a Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, which she attended as a Joseph Wharton fellow. She was elected in 2011 to term membership of the Council on Foreign Relations, in recognition of her commitment and promise of future achievement in international affairs.

Scott Innis is currently an Associate Director of Market Assessment in the New Product Commercialization team at Biogen Idec. Prior to joining Biogen in October 2011, he was an Engagement Manager at Leerink Swann Consulting, the strategy consulting group at healthcare investment bank, Leerink Swann, LLC.. During his tenure at Leerink, Scott served as a consultant to an array of pharmaceutical, biotech, and other life sciences organizations with a focus on new product planning, product and franchise growth strategies and product and corporate due diligence. Previous to Leerink, Scott was a Product Manager at Altus Pharmaceuticals Inc., with responsibility for the company's lead product candidate, in cystic fibrosis and chronic pancreatitis and also held various strategically-oriented positions focused on business and commercial development, product marketing, and new product planning. Scott received his MS in Biotechnology from the J.L. Kellogg Center for Biotechnology at Northwestern University and his BS in Zoology from Miami University in Oxford, OH.

Serena Tong is a Senior Associate Director of Admissions at the NYU Stern School of Business.  She focuses on the marketing efforts of Stern’s Part-time MBA program as well as military outreach.  As an alum of NYU Stern herself, Serena enjoys interacting with prospective students and learning more about their professional and personal aspirations.  Prior to her admissions responsibilities at NYU Stern, Serena worked at American Express in its Finance division. Serena received her BS in Finance with a minor in English Literature, and her MBA in Management and Marketing, with both degrees from NYU Stern.  

Stephanie is co-founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Her Camus Media (www.hercampus.com), the #1 online magazine for college women and innovative college marketing firm. Her Campus launched in September 2009 after winning Harvard's business plan competition, and has since built a network of 200+ campus chapters, formed content partnerships with Seventeen, SELF, and The Huffington Post, worked with clients including The Body Shop, Ann Taylor LOFT, New Balance, Pinkberry, and Intel and has been featured in The New York Times, Yahoo Finance, The Economist, Mashable, CNN Money, PR Week, Business Insider, and on ABC News Now, among others. Her Campus writers have been offered jobs and internships with Glamour, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Seventeen Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar, People magazine, W magazine, Teen Vogue, InStyle, Lucky, O magazine, MTV, The Washington Post, and Women's Wear Daily, among others. Stephanie is a 2010 graduate of Harvard University where she majored in Psychology and minored in Economics. Stephanie spent Summer 2009 as an American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) intern at SELF magazine at Condé Nast Publications, and has been admitted to the Harvard Business School Class of 2014 via the 2+2 Program. Stephanie has been named to Business Week's 25 Best Young Entrepreneurs, Inc. magazine's 30 Under 30 Coolest Young Entrepreneurs, Glamour magazine's 20 Amazing Young Women, Boston BUsiness Journal's Innovation All-Stars and The Boston Globe's 25 Most Stylish Bostonians.  Follow Stephanie on Twitter: @stephaniekaplan

Steve Grand is co-founder and President of Wilson Grand Communications, a political and corporate media, research and strategic consulting firm, with offices in Washington DC and the Bay Area in California. Founded in 1985, Wilson Grand Communications provides strategic advice, research and planning coupled with creative, persuasive, winning media for political and corporate clients.   Grand is one of only a few consultants in the industry who has both a strong background in research and a proven expertise in media production, strategy and planning. He has advised corporations as well as Governors, Senators, Congressmen, political parties, Prime Ministers and Presidents and other elected and appointed officials on policy decisions in new technologies, education, telecommunications, broadcasting, computers, intellectual property, health care, the environment, transportation, tourism, the economy, election law, and public perception of government as well as conducting message development and deployment. Nationally and internationally, Grand has produced media and managed the people and resources in over 800 federal, state and local campaigns including races for Prime Minister, President, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Governor, Secretary of State, Atty. General, State House and Senate, Mayor and City Council as well as dozens of public affairs campaigns. He has done research, media production and strategic planning in 42 states and twenty countries. He has won 6 Telly awards and 5 Pollie awards for excellence in media production – including the 2008 Telly Award for the best corporate branding campaign of the year and the 2010 Gold Pollie Award for best political/public affairs television ad of the year.   A Rotary Scholar in England, Grand also holds a BA (magna cum laude) from Harvard University, a Masters in Communications Management, a Masters in Research Methodology and a Ph.D. in Communications from the Annenberg School for Communications at University of Southern California.

William S. Buccella is the President of Northern Trust Bank of Massachusetts.  His responsibilities include leading Northern Trust’s efforts in the New England market and providing comprehensive financial services to high net worth individuals and families.
 
Most recently, Bill served as Managing Director/Northeast Sales Performance Executive at US Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management.  Bill joined US Trust in August of 2005 after leaving Merrill Lynch where he served as a Sales Executive in both the private wealth segment and the firm’s core retail business. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Boston College and a Masters in Business Administration from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.  Bill is currently serving as Chairman of the New England Center for the Performing Arts, serves on the Advisory Board for the New England Center for Children, and is an Overseer for the Boys and Girls Club of Boston.  He resides in Franklin, MA with his wife and three children.