| Bob Coughlin, CEO of Massachusetts Biotechnology Council | |||
| Gina Raimondo, Treasurer, State of Rhode Island and co-founder of Point Judith Capital | |||
| Ted English, CEO of Bob's Discount Furniture Stores, Former CEO of TJX Corporation | |||
| Jackie MacMullan - Sports Commentator, Columnist, and Author | |||
| Ronald Tompkins., M.D., Sc.D., Chief of Staff, Shriners Burns Hospital | |||
| Andy Bacevich - BU Professor - contemporary historian, political & foreign policy expert, author | |||
| Roger Brown, President, Berklee College of Music | |||
| Jeffrey C. Fuhrer, Executive Vice President and Senior Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston |
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| Michael Dukakis - Former Governor of Massachusetts |
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Treasurers Club Annual Social |
2011 - 2012 Calendar of Events
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Bob Coughlin
CEO of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council
As President and CEO of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council, Bob’s mission is to foster a positive environment that enables each biotechnology company to achieve its full potential in Massachusetts, making the state a world center for biotechnology. He is very familiar with all areas of the Massachusetts life sciences super cluster and is a passionate advocate for research and the biotechnology community.
Bob has spent his career in both the public and private sectors, most recently serving as Undersecretary of Economic Development within Governor Deval Patrick's administration. Prior to that, he was elected as State Representative to the 11th Norfolk district for three terms. In the legislature both healthcare and economic development were his priorities.
In the world of business he specialized in the environmental services industry and moved on to capital management and venture capital. He has held senior executive positions in both fields.
He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy where he majored in Marine Engineering, and is a Lieutenant in the United States Naval Reserve.
Coughlin has also been active in the community, having served on the boards of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. He has served as the honorary chairman of the Great Strides Cystic Fibrosis Walk since 1996. In years past, he co-chaired the Children’s Hospital Boston signature event, Champions for Children’s.
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Gina Raimondo
Treasurer of the State of Rhode Island
Co-founder of Point Judith Capital
Throughout her career, Gina M. Raimondo has worked to make Rhode Island a better place for all its citizens. From co-founding the state’s only venture capital firm to leading an effort to open the state’s first women’s homeless shelter in the capital city, her priorities have been to strengthen the balance sheets of small businesses as well as families struggling to pay their bills.
In these challenging times, Raimondo will apply this same work ethic and dedication to the position of General Treasurer. Her robust agenda includes:
- Tackling the problems plaguing our state retirement system
- Strengthening financial empowerment and literacy programs statewide
- Exploring and developing economic development opportunities
- Creating an atmosphere for businesses to thrive
- Enhancing the transparency and accessibility of the office
Prior to being elected General Treasurer on November 2, 2010, Raimondo worked for a decade as co-founder and general partner of Point Judith Capital, Rhode Island’s only venture capital firm. She has also served as the senior vice president of fund development at Village Ventures, where she managed a team that established 12 venture capital funds nationwide. A firm believer in innovation, Raimondo was involved in dozens of successful start-up companies, primarily in the health care industry, during her career as a venture capital investor.
Raimondo serves as vice chair of the Board of Directors of Crossroads Rhode Island, the state’s largest homeless services organization, where she played a key role in launching a new shelter for women. She is also a trustee at Women and Infants Hospital and Chair of its Quality Committee. She has previously served on the boards of LaSalle Academy and Family Service of Rhode Island.
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Ted English
CEO of Bob's Discount Furniture Stores
Former CEO of TJX Corporation
Ted English is the CEO of Bobs Discount Furniture and the former President and CEO of the TJX Companies, Inc. Ted joined Bobs Discount Furniture in November of 2006 and during that time, Bobs has grown from 21 stores to 42 stores while increasing sales from $240m in 2005 to over $580m in 2010. In 2008, Bobs Discount Furniture was recognized by Furniture Today as the National Furniture Retailer of the Year by ranking #4 in the country in dollar sales increase and #1 in the country in % sales increase and average store % sales increase. During his 5+ year tenure as CEO of TJX, Ted increased revenues over $6B, from $8.8B in FY 2000 to $15B in FY 2005. He opened over 900 stores across 8 domestic and international divisions, creating over 50,000 new jobs as a result. TJX’s common stock significantly outperformed both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Apparel Retailers index during this period of growth, generating a 20% compound annual growth rate in stock price while achieving double digit compound annual growth rates in revenue and earnings per share.
Ted has over forty years of retailing experience. He began his career as a stock boy at Filene’s Basement in Boston. Working his way through high school and college, Ted was made a buyer upon his graduation from Northeastern University. In 1983, Ted joined TJX as a buyer. Over the course of his 22+ years at TJX, Ted held numerous positions of increasing responsibility. As a result, he has extensive knowledge and experience in merchandising, marketing, real estate, store operations, distribution, organizational development, crisis management and strategic planning.
Ted has been recognized by numerous civic and not-for-profit organizations for his work in the corporate arena and the community. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Framingham State College for the immediate and compassionate corporate leadership he displayed when seven TJX associates were killed in the terrorist attacks on September 11. He was on the founding board of the national Welfare to Work Program, creating over 30,000 jobs for former welfare recipients at TJX. In 2003, Ted was named “Business Leader of the Year” by the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce for his corporate leadership in the community. In the field of education, Ted was awarded the Sir Ernest Shackleton Award for his “commitment to leadership, education and serving deserving young people” from the Shackleton School, a Boston based, non-profit, experienced-focused school. For his work with children with special needs, he was recognized as the “Humanitarian of the Year” by the Cardinal Cushing Centers, a non-profit school serving children with a wide range of physical and cognitive difficulties.
Ted is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at Boston Medical Center; a member of the Board of trustees at Northeastern University and is a member of the Board of Directors for BJ’s Wholesale Clubs.
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Jackie MacMullan
Sports Commentator, Columnist, and Author
Jackie MacMullan is a contributor to ESPN television and ESPNBOSTON.com. From 2002 to 2007 she was a columnist and associate editor of the Boston Globe, and from 1995-2000 she was a senior writer for Sports Illustrated.
In addition to her duties at ESPN, which include weekly appearances on “Around the Horn,’’ MacMullan is a regular contributor to WHDH-TV (Channel 7) in Boston and sports radio WEEI.
MacMullan began her career with the Globe in 1982, where she covered a variety of sports, including the 1986 World Series, 1987 Stanley Cup Finals, the 1988 Olympic Games, Final Four tournaments and NBA championships. She collaborated with Larry Bird on a book chronicling his coaching career entitled “Bird Watching,’’; with Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma on his book “Geno’’; and with Magic Johnson and Larry Bird on the New York Times best seller entitled “When the Game Was Ours.’’ Her collaboration with Shaquille O’Neal entitled “Shaq Uncut’’ will be released in November 2011.
MacMullan has won numerous national writing awards from the Associated Press Sports Editors, including first place for investigative reporting (on the death of Reggie Lewis) and feature writing (a profile on former Knicks star Patrick Ewing). In 1995, MacMullan received the Tufts University Distinguished Achievement Award. She was named the New England Women’s Leadership Award recipient in 1997, was named the New Fund Hall of Fame media recipient in 2000, was inducted into the University of New Hampshire’s Hall of Honor in 2001, was chosen by the Institute of Sport in Society in 2003 as its Hero in Sport winner, and in 2005 was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in the media division, the youngest media member to be recognized.
In 2010, the Naismith Hall of Fame awarded MacMullan the prestigious Curt Gowdy Award, given to the journalist who excels in basketball coverage. She was the first woman in the history of the award to be chosen.
Ms. MacMullan has been honored for her charitable work on behalf of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America where she remains active. She is also actively involved with the New England Hemophilia Association and the Colonel Daniel Marr Boys and Girls Club.
In 2009, MacMullan was chosen as the recipient of the Ron Burton Community Service Award by the Massachusetts Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA).
MacMullan is a cum laude graduate of the University of New Hampshire where she played four years of basketball, leading the team in scoring as a sophomore and serving as a team captain in her senior year. She was the recipient of both the Robert Perry Student-Athlete Award and the Dean Williamson Award, given to that student who “excels in scholarship, athletics and loyalty to the University.’’
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Ronald Tompkins., M.D., Sc.D.
Chief of Staff, Shriners Burns Hospital
Ronald G. Tompkins, M.D., Sc.D. is the Chief of Staff of the Shriners Hospital for Children, Boston, the Sumner M. Redstone Professor of Surgery at the Harvard Medical School, and the Chief of the Burns Service of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Tompkins has served on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) since 1986. He was the Chief of the Trauma Services at MGH beginning in 1990 until 2000 when he had chosen to focus on exclusively on burn injuries from a clinical perspective.
Dr. Tompkins has served on dozens of national and international committees and received multiple honors including a fellowship from the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and an honorary M.A. from Harvard University, and he is a senior director of the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Tompkins has served as an officer including the Presidency and Boards of more than a dozen national and international academic societies. Dr. Tompkins is a Past-President of the American Burn Association and the International Society for Burn Injuries.
Dr. Tompkins is recognized as an international leader in burns and trauma, and serves as the principal investigator of several National Institutes of Health grants and programs. Dr. Tompkins participated in two programs — Burn Trauma Center and Training Programs in Burns and Trauma that were initiated by Dr. John Burke in the 1970's. He became the principal investigator and has continued these programs to strengthen and evolve these research programs for the last 17 years. Dr. Tompkins is also the principal investigator of one of the glue grants within NIGMS entitled "Host Response to Inflammation".
Of his peer-reviewed 320 publications, there have been many citations in highly cited journals like Nature, Science, NEJM, and PNAS, all with broad scientific and clinical interests. Together with his Division colleagues, 277 fellows have been mentored within his division's training programs with many excellent success stories of fellows at institutions including MGH, MIT, and other universities such as U Penn, Rutgers, Johns Hopkins, and Princeton. As a division, substantial focus has been committed to make a difference in medicine and healthcare with more than 160 patents issued or pending all involving innovation; three start-up companies have led to more than $70M in venture funding. These inventions have found applications far beyond burn to: (1) capture fetal nucleated red blood cells to detect trisomy within the first trimester of pregnancy to replace amniocentesis as a necessary diagnostic modality; (2) capture circulating tumor cells to diagnose cancer, determine patient's response to treatment, detect early recurrence, and suggest subsequent treatments; and (3) count CD4+ cells in the blood at points of care such as Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia to enable rationale treatment with antivirals. More recently, technologies to isolate bone marrow stem cells or selected circulating white blood cells have been under development in burn-injured patients.
Dr. Tompkins received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from Tulane University (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa), an M.D. degree from Tulane Medical School (Alpha Omega Alpha), an S.M. degree in chemical engineering and a Sc.D. degree in medical and chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Andy Bacevich
BU Professor, contemporary historian, political & foreign policy expert, author
Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University. A graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, he served for twenty-three years as a commissioned officer in the United States Army. He received his Ph. D. in American diplomatic history from Princeton. Before joining the faculty of Boston University in 1998, he taught at West Point and at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Bacevich is the author of several books, to include Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (2010), The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism (2008), The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005) and American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy (2002). He is the editor of The Short American Century, 1941-2008: A Postmortem (2012); The Long War: A New History of U. S. National Security Policy since World War II (2007); Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire (2003);.His essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of scholarly and general interest publications to include The Atlantic Monthly, The Wilson Quarterly, The London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, and The New Republic. Dr. Bacevich is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Roger Brown
President, Berklee College of Music
When Berklee College of Music President Roger H. Brown assumed his post in 2004, he brought a rich palette of professional and life experiences to the job. Skills accrued playing recording sessions as a drummer in New York, administering United Nations humanitarian operations in Southeast Asia and Africa, and cofounding a successful publicly traded corporation have contributed to his effective leadership at the world’s largest college of contemporary music.
Music has been a recurring theme in Brown’s diverse pursuits. He played drums with bands throughout high school, at Davidson College, and during his graduate studies at Yale, and still leads a band. Brown spent five years engaged in humanitarian work teaching math in Kenya and administering successful humanitarian undertakings in Southeast Asia and in Sudan. The Land Bridge operation Brown and his wife Linda Mason managed in the 1980s was the largest famine relief program attempted to date, and averted starvation for countless Cambodians. Innovative work Brown and Mason undertook a few years later in Sudan for the Save the Children Federation saved an estimated 20,000 lives. In each location Brown sought opportunities to make music with local artists and engage them in the humanitarian efforts.
In 1986, Brown and Mason launched Bright Horizons, a corporation now valued at over $1 billion and employing 16,000 people, to provide quality child-care and early education to the children of working parents. Brown and Mason built and oversaw the operation of numerous facilities at universities, hospitals, and corporations around the U.S. and the U.K. Brown utilized his musical talents at the company to write, produce, and perform on six CDs of children’s music that featured Ziggy Marley, Vinx, Raffi, and others. For their groundbreaking work at Bright Horizons, Brown and Mason received several awards, including the President’s Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership and the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
In 2004, Brown became Berklee’s third president. Under his direction the college has embarked on a $50 million capital campaign and established presidential scholars and Africa scholars programs to bring the world’s best young musicians to Berklee. He has led in developing a more selective admissions policy that has raised the level of entering students. Under his auspices, Berklee created a model advising program to support new students. Brown has overseen the expansion of the City Music Program to reach economically disadvantaged urban youth across America. As well, Brown has facilitated the expansion of Berklee’s campus facilities, instituted semester-abroad programs, and partnered with the city of Valencia, Spain and the Spanish Society of Authors, Composers, and Publishers to open a Berklee satellite campus in Valencia, Spain in 2012.
Brown sums up his aspirations for Berklee: “Berklee has produced artists who have won 172 Grammy Awards, composed some of the great film scores of our time, written jazz and rock standards, and transformed the way people play their instruments and teach contemporary music. We have the opportunity to help train the next generation of leading artists, music entrepreneurs, and teachers.”
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Jeffrey C. Fuhrer
Executive Vice President and Senior Policy Advisor
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Jeffrey (Jeff) Fuhrer is Executive Vice President and Senior Policy Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and is responsible for the Bank’s regional and community outreach functions. He is an associate economist of the Federal Open Market Committee, and regularly attends this key U.S. policymaking meeting with the Bank’s president. In June 1992 he joined the Bank’s research department as an assistant vice president and economist, and from 1995–2001 headed its Open Economy Macro/International section. In 2000 Fuhrer was named senior vice president and monetary policy advisor, in 2001 he became director of research, and in 2006 he was named executive vice president.
Fuhrer began his career at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, first as a research assistant, and then in 1985 returned as a senior economist after earning his doctorate. He has been active in economic research for more than two decades, and has served as an associate editor for the American Economic Review. Fuhrer has published numerous scholarly papers on the interactions among monetary policy, inflation, consumer spending, and asset prices. He has been married for 30 years and has three grown children. Fuhrer earned an A.B. in economics with highest honors from Princeton University, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.
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Michael Dukakis
Former Governor of Massachusetts, Former US Presidential Nominee
Michael Dukakis was born in Brookline, Massachusetts and graduated from Brookline High School (1951), Swarthmore College (1955), and Harvard Law School (1960). He served in the United States Army, sixteen months of which he spent with the support Group to the United National delegation to the Military Armistice Commission in Munsan, Korea.
Governor Dukakis began his political career as an elected Town Meeting Member in the town of Brookline. He was elected chairman of his town's Democratic organization in 1960 and won a seat in the Massachusetts legislature in 1962. He served four terms as a legislator. In 1970 he was the Massachusetts Democratic Party's nominee for Lieutenant Governor and the running mate of Boston Mayor Kevin White in the year's gubernatorial race, which they lost to Republican Frank Sargent and Donald Dwight.
Governor Dukakis won his party's nomination for Governor in 1974 and beat incumbent Governor Sargent decisively in November of that year. He inherited a record deficit and record high unemployment and is generally credited with digging Massachusetts out of one of its worst financial and economic crises in history. But the effort took its toll, and Governor Dukakis was defeated in the Democratic Primary in 1978 by Edward King. He came back to defeat Governor King in 1982 and was re-elected to an unprecedented third four-year term in 1986 by one of the largest margins in history. In 1986 his colleagues in the National Governors Association voted him the most effective governor in the nation.
Governor Dukakis won the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States in 1988 but was defeated by George H. W. Bush. Soon thereafter, he announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection as governor. After leaving office in January 1991, Governor Dukakis and his wife, Kitty, spent time at the University of Hawaii where he was a visiting professor in the political science department and at the School of Public Health. While at the University of Hawaii, he taught courses in political leadership and health policy and led a series of public forums on the reform of the nation's health care system. There has been increasing public interest in Hawaii's first-in-the nation universal health insurance system and the lessons that can be learned from it as the nation debates the future of health care in America.
Since June of 1991, Governor Dukakis has been a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University. Additionally, since 1995, he has served as a Visiting Professor at UCLA’s School of Public Affairs. His research has focused on national health care policy reform and the lessons that national policy makers can learn from state reform efforts. He and the late U.S. Senator Paul Simon authored a book entitled “How to Get into Politics- and Why,” which is designed to encourage young people to think seriously about politics and public service as a career.
Governor Dukakis was nominated by President Clinton for a five-year term as a member of the new Board of Directors of Amtrak, The National Railroad Passenger Corporation on May 21, 1998 and was confirmed by the Senate on June 25, 1998. He served a full five-year term on the Amtrak Board as Vice-Chairman.
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