| Michael Brown, Co-Founder of City Year | |||
| Donella Rapier, Partners in Health | |||
| Gloria Larson, President of Bentley University | |||
| Peter A. Brooke, Author of A Vision for Venture Capital Founder of TA Associates and Advent International |
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| Jack Parker, Head Hockey Coach, Boston University | |||
| To Be Determined | |||
| To Be Determined | |||
| Therese Murray, President, Massachusetts State Senate | |||
| Jeff Taylor, Founder of Monster.com, Eons.com, Tributes.com | |||
| Treasurers Club Annual Social | Make reservation |
2010 - 2011 Calendar of Events
All meetings are held at the Harvard Club of Boston from 12:00-1:30 PM, unless otherwise stated.
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Michael Brown
CEO and Co-Founder, City Year, Inc.
Michael Brown is Co-Founder and CEO of City Year, a nonprofit organization built on the belief that young people can change the world. Founded in 1988, City Year unites young people of all backgrounds for a year of full-time service in our nation’s high poverty schools, helping students stay in school and on track to graduation. This year more than 1,700 young leaders are making a difference in the lives of children and transforming schools and neighborhoods in 20 cities across the United States and in Johannesburg, South Africa and London, England. City Year is supported by a unique public-private partnership that includes corporations, foundations, individuals, local school districts and the Corporation for National and Community Service.
Since its founding, more than 12,500 City Year corps members have served as full-time tutors, mentors and role models to more than one million children, engaging more than one million citizens in their work, and earning access to $50 million in college scholarships through the AmeriCorps National Service Trust. An inspiration for the federal AmeriCorps initiative, through which 675,000 Americans have served their country, City Year has been featured by leading national media, including USA Today, TIME and ABC World News Tonight.
City Year is focused on addressing the nation’s high school dropout crisis. In 2009, Mr. Brown announced In School & On Track: A National Challenge, City Year’s national initiative to significantly increase the urban high school graduation pipeline in America by calling on the nation’s idealistic young adults to help students in high poverty schools succeed.
Mr. Brown was named one of America’s Best Leaders by US News and World Report and an Executive of the Year by NonProfit Times for his leadership role in ServiceNation and the passage of the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act. For his work developing City Year, Michael Brown has been awarded several distinctions, including the Reebok Human Rights Award, the National Caring Award, the Samuel S. Beard Jefferson Award of the American Institute for Public Service, the Boston Bar Association's Public Service Award, the Harvard Law School Association Award, and four honorary degrees.
Mr. Brown is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Prior to starting City Year, Mr. Brown served as a legislative assistant to then Congressman Leon Panetta and as a clerk for Federal Judge Stephen Breyer. He lives with his wife, Dr. Charlotte Mao, a pediatric AIDS specialist, and their children, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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Donella Rapier
CFO, Partners in Health
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, the urban shantytowns of Lima, Peru, and the prisons of Siberia. She is responsible for all financial activities of this multi-currency, multi-cultural organization that comprised of over 11,000 individuals. Donella also oversees the organization’s development activities including individual giving, foundations and corporations, and grants from governments and multilateral institutions.
Donella was inspired to join PIH as an organization that is making an enormous difference in global health and the developing world. PIH provided a unique opportunity for Donella to deploy the skills she developed over many years in finance and fundraising to help address some of the world’s most pressing social issues.
From 2003 until 2007, Donella served as Vice President for Alumni Affairs and Development at Harvard University. In that capacity, she led a staff of 600+ that raised more than $2 billion in support of the University's students, faculty, and research initiatives. Donella helped to create a new culture of collaboration across the complex and decentralized organization, opening multiple new avenues for donor involvement.
From 1996 through 2003, Donella was the Chief Financial Officer for the Harvard Business School, where she developed a long range planning capacity, while retaining operational control during a period of rapid and complicated growth. In 2001 in addition to her CFO duties, she assumed the role of Associate Dean for External Relations and played a leading role in planning and executing the first School-wide capital campaign in HBS history, which concluded in 2005 having raised nearly $600 million.
Previously, Donella served 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.
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Gloria Larson
President, Bentley University
Gloria Cordes Larson, JD, prominent lawyer, public policy expert, and business leader, was elected to the presidency of Bentley University by the Bentley Board of Trustees, effective July 1, 2007.
Larson, formerly the Co-chair of the Government Strategies Group at Foley Hoag LLP, managed a practice that covered a broad array of federal, state and local regulatory and business development issues, including real estate development, energy, insurance, environmental permitting, transportation, advertising and internet privacy matters.
She was Secretary of Economic Affairs from 1993 to 1996 and Secretary of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation from 1991 to 1993, under Massachusetts Governor William Weld. Larson served as an attorney advisor to FTC Commissioner Patricia Bailey from 1981 to 1988, and as the Deputy Director of Consumer Protection at the FTC from 1990 to 1991.
Larson is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority (MCCA). In addition she is a board or advisory council member of several prominent professional, charitable and civic organizations, including the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, Roger Williams University School of Law, the Massachusetts Women’s Forum, the Massachusetts High Technology Council, University of Massachusetts Center for Collaborative Leadership, the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and Rosie’s Place. Larson was appointed by Governor Mitt Romney in January 2005 to the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Board.
Larson serves as a director of Unum Group and a director of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts. She also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and President of the Massachusetts Conference for Women. She is a member of the Massachusetts and Virginia Bar Associations.
Larson received her bachelor of arts with honors from Vassar College and earned her juris doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Northeastern University in 2005 and from Mount Wachusett Community College in 2003. She is married to Allen Larson, an attorney.
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Peter A. Brooke
Author of A Vision for Venture Capital
Founder of TA Associates and Advent International
Mr. Peter Brooke is Co-Founder and Chairman of Brooke Private Equity Associates. Mr. Brooke serves as an advisor to the BPEA investment team.
Mr. Brooke’s long and successful career in venture capital and private equity began in the 1950s. After a brief time in the U.S. Army, he joined the First National Bank of Boston as a loan officer. While at the bank, he helped form the High Technology Lending Group and began his deep involvement in venture capital investing. Mr. Brooke left the First National Bank of Boston and became the head of venture capital and special situation investing at Bessemer Securities Corporation in 1961. In 1963, he left Bessemer to form a venture capital management company with the partners of Tucker, Anthony & RL Day, a New York Stock Exchange member firm. Three years later, Mr. Brooke became the partner in charge of Tucker Anthony’s corporate finance and venture capital departments. In 1968, he formed TA Associates, which has since become one of the largest venture capital firms in the United States.
While managing the operations of TA Associates, Mr. Brooke began his interest in the application of venture capital in international markets. In 1973, he co-founded Sofinnova S.A. in Paris, France, with the French Ministry of Industry and Crédit National. Sofinnova is the European Continent’s oldest venture capital firm. Building on this experience, Mr. Brooke helped to establish numerous leading venture capital firms in Europe, Asia, and Latin America over the next decade.
Mr. Brooke’s interest in international venture capital led to the formation of Advent International Corporation in 1984. Advent is the successor to the international operations of TA Associates. Mr. Brooke became Advent’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer upon leaving TA in 1984. Under his leadership, Advent grew to be one of the world’s largest and most respected private equity firms, implementing the investment approach in Europe, Latin America, Israel, and Asia. In 1996, Mr. Brooke retired as CEO of Advent but remains as its active Chairman. Today the firm has $24 billion in cumulative capital raised, over 140 investment professionals and offices in 15 countries. Advent has invested in over 590 companies in 41 countries.
Mr. Brooke served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is a former Overseer of Harvard University, and Trustee of Colgate University, the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship, and the Middlesex School. Mr. Brooke is a member of the Private Equity Hall of Fame and recipient of the National Venture Capital Association’s Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award and Harvard Business School’s Alumni Achievement Award. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Boston Business Journal named Mr. Brooke one of Greater Boston’s 100 most influential business people of the 20th century.
Mr. Brooke was educated at Harvard College and Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.
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Jack Parker
Head Hockey Coach, Boston University
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Therese Murray
President, Massachusetts State Senate
In her role as President, she has continued her mission as senator to support the rights of children and veterans, promote affordable housing, invigorate the Commonwealth’s traditional fishing and agricultural industries, and advance new technologies in the life sciences as well as reforms in health care, energy, transportation, pensions and ethics.
Therese Murray was elected Senator of the Plymouth and Barnstable District in 1992 and in March 2007 became the first woman Senate President in the history of Massachusetts.
Her signature piece of legislation is the health care cost control bill signed into law in August 2008. Under this law, health care providers and insurers are held to new standards of transparency to identify cost-drivers while also modernizing the health care delivery system with the adoption of standardized electronic medical records, physician order entry systems and uniform billing.
In just the first six months of 2009, President Murray worked with the House and the Administration to pass an unprecedented and comprehensive string of reforms, including landmark legislation that will restructure our transportation system, sweeping changes in the state pension system that shut down the worst abuses, and a major overhaul of our ethics, lobbying and campaign finance laws – all while delivering an on-time and balanced budget during the worst recession in generations.
President Murray also co-authored and passed major legislation in 2009 to restructure our transportation system by dissolving the Turnpike Authority and consolidating multiple agencies into an efficient, independent authority; and she oversaw passage of a string of sweeping reforms to the state pension system, and state ethics, lobbying and campaign finance laws.
Continuing the reform agenda in 2010, President Murray passed a Safe Driving bill that bans texting and requires improved testing for drivers. She also passed a Better Schools package that includes anti-bullying legislation, a bill requiring healthy food options in schools, and a new Education Reform bill aimed at closing the achievement gap and improving opportunities for all students. The President has also filed Economic Development legislation that will streamline the state’s model for helping businesses grow and creating jobs in Massachusetts.
In addition to being President of the Senate and Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Ways and Means, Therese Murray has served as the Senate Chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Human Services and Elder Affairs from 1993-1999, and Senate Chairwoman of the Joint Committee on Insurance from 2000-2003.
Senator Murray’s other notable legislative accomplishments include Welfare Reform in 1995; a DSS overhaul in 1997; child care services reform in 1998; Mental Health Parity legislation in 2000; the Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief Fund in 2001; Smart Growth affordable housing in 2004; Chapter 70 reform and the landmark Health Care Reform Act of 2006; and Oceans Management, Energy Reform and Children’s Mental Health legislation in 2008.
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Jeff Taylor
Founder and CEO, Meetcha.com
Founder and Chairman, Tributes.com
Founder and CEO, eons.com
Founder, CEO and Chief Monster, monster.com
Recognized as an innovator and visionary in both the Internet and career industries, Taylor has reinvented the way job hunters seek employment. His "monster idea," conceived at the dawn of the World Wide Web, quickly became one of the first dot-com companies (454th registered domain on the Web) and has since become the world's leading online career site. Today, the Monster global network consists of local content and language sites in over 30 countries and serves nearly 30 million unique visitors monthly.
Taylor serves on the Board of Directors of Boston's Citi Center for the Performing Arts and Board of Advisors of Berklee College of Music. Taylor holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; a Certificate-Owner/President Management (OPM) Program, Executive Education, Harvard Business School; and an Honorary Doctorate from Bentley College. Jeff is an avid Deejay for almost 30 years under the name Jefr Tale. He has a weekly show on Sirius/XM (Area) on Sunday nights.
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Location: Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA
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