board of directors

"Being involved with United Way lends perspective to my own life. I'm constantly reminded how fortunate I am - and how much I can do for others."
- Sandy Edgerley
Member, Board of Directors; Co-Chair, Alexis de Tocqueville Society

Members of the Executive Committee

Chairman of the Board
Robert M. Mahoney
Citizens Financial Group

President and Chief Executive Officer
Michael K. Durkin
United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley

Immediate Past Chairman
Cathy E. Minehan
Arlington Advisory Partners

Secretary; Chairman & Secretary, Compensation Committee
Robert E. Cowden, III, Esq.
Casner and Edwards, LLP

Treasurer
Daniel Dennis, Sr., CPA
Daniel Dennis & Company

Robert L. Beal
The Beal Companies, LLP

Co-Chairman, Development Commmittee
Kevin T. Callaghan
Berkshire Partners

Joseph P. Campanelli
Sovereign Bancorp

Co-Chairman, Community Impact Committee
Anna B. Colton
Bank of America

Richard C. Garrison
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Carol R. Goldberg
The Avcar Group, Ltd.

Co-chair, Governance & Nominating Committee
Grace K. Fey
Frontier Capital Management Company LLC

Chairman, Administration and Finance Committee
John R. Grumbacher, Esq.
Goulston & Storrs, P.C.

Co-Chairman, Community Impact Committee
Ronald A. Homer
Access Capital Strategies, LLC

Myra Kraft
The Kraft Group

Paul R. Murphy, Esq.
Foley Hoag LLP

Thomas L.P. O'Donnell, Esq.
Ropes & Gray

Diane B. Patrick, Esq.
Ropes & Gray

Co-Chairman, Development Committee
Kathryn F. Plazak
Plazak Associates

Co-Chair, Nominating Committee
Helen Chin Schlichte
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

David A. Spina

Thomas H. Tulip, Ph.D.
Bristol Myers Squibb

Chairman, Investment Committee
Peter S. Voss

Chairman, Audit Committee
Stephen K. Wagner
Deloitte

Assistant Treasurer
John A. Ross
United Way of Massachusetts Bay

Board of Directors

• P. Steven Ainsley
  The Boston Globe
• Francis H. Barnes
  UPS
• Steven W. Barnes
  Bain Capital
• Charles V. Bergh
  Gillette Co.
• Michael L. Carson
  WHDH-TV Channel 7
• Martha Crowninshield
• Nancy L. Donahue
• Sandra M. Edgerley
• William Fine
  WCVB-TV Channel 5
• Robert E. Gallery
  Bank of America Private Bank
• Randi L. Goldklank,
  President & General Manager
  WHDH-TV Channel 7
• Robert E. Griffin
  Eastern Bank
• Carol R. Johnson
  Office of the Superintendent
  Boston Public Schools
• Andrew W. Hoar
  President/Co-Managing Partner
  CB Richard Ellis/New England
• David E. Johnson
  Bain & Company
• Michele Kessler
  Kessler Family Foundation
• Cleve L. Killingsworth, Jr.
  Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
• Debra S. Knez
• Paul A. La Camera
  The WBUR Group
• David F. Lamere, Co-Chairman, 2007 Campaign
  The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
• Dennis J. Langwell
  Liberty Mutual Group
• Lawrence J. Lasser
• Jeffrey A. Leerink, Co-Chairman, 2007 Campaign
  Leerink, Swan & Company, Inc.
• Ronald Logue
  State Street Corporation
• Stacey Lucchino
• J. Keith Motley, Ph.D.
  University of Massachusetts
• Robert Rizzi
  IBAC
• Ann Romney
• Pamela Carrington Scott
  LVCC, Inc.
• Peter L. Slavin, M.D.
  Massachusetts General Hospital
• Nickolas Stavropoulos
  KeySpan Energy Delivery
• Karen L. Webster
  Market Platform Dynamics
• James Westra, Esq.
  Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
• Leonard A. Wilson
  Sovereign Bank
• Ellen M. Zane
  Tufts-New England Medical Center
  and Floating Hospital for Children
  

Director Emeritus
Weston P. Figgins

Edward E. Phillips

Micho F. Spring

Benjamin B. Taylor