Warren K. Zola serves as the Executive Director of the Boston College Chief Executives Club, a program of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. Long recognized as one of the world’s premier business forums, the Boston College Chief Executives Club hosts prominent CEOs of global companies for an audience of business leaders. Previously, Zola served as Assistant Dean for Graduate Programs in the Carroll School of Management for 10 years.
As an attorney and thought leader in the business of sports and sports law Zola is frequently contacted by national media outlets for his insights and perspective. He is an adjunct faculty member in the Carroll School’s departments of Business Analytics and Business Law & Society, where he teaches Sports Law and The Business of Sports, and he has written scholarly articles for legal textbooks, books, law reviews, and newspapers.
Zola earned a B.A. with Honors from Hobart & William Smith Colleges, a J.D. from Tulane University, and an M.B.A. from Boston College. He has been an active member of the Massachusetts Bar since 1993. Zola serves on the Board of Directors of three non-profit organizations: Hobart & William Smith Colleges, Mass Mentoring Partnership, and You Can Play.
Mark Eldridge has been in the staffing and consulting industry since he graduated college. Through his experience, Mark noticed a need for reliable, highly specialized resource services and solutions. This observation led to the launch of ALKU in 2008! During ALKU’s years in business, its unique Have Fun Working Hard™ culture and exponential growth have been recognized with several prestigious awards. The company operates on the simple belief that if you give the right people the correct tools, everything else will fall into place. Mark’s laser focus on personnel development has helped ALKU create more than 18 revenue teams and a best-in-class corporate infrastructure.
Joshua Franklin currently works as the CFO/COO at SLR Credit Solutions. He is a native of Monson and a graduate of Olin School of Business at Babson College and Towson University. He has a depth and breadth of experience in finance leadership positions at Crystal Capital, Citizens Capital (the private equity arm of Citizens Financial Group, Inc.) and Harvard University Extension School. He is an active member of the Boston Security Analysts Society and Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association.
Tracey West is Executive Director & President of The Boston Lawyer’s Group.
Previously, Tracey was the national director of diversity and inclusion for WilmerHale, where she led the firm in advancing its efforts and broad initiatives of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Prior to joining WilmerHale, Tracey worked at Boston College Law School where she created, implemented and managed diversity initiatives as well as programs improving inclusivity. In 2015, the National Association for Law Placement named her Diversity Champion for creating the nationally recognized LAHANAS program at BC Law, where she designed it to assist historically underrepresented law students with their successful transition to law school and the legal profession.
West was a trial lawyer for 12 years in both the private and public sectors, handling all phases of civil and criminal litigation. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and earned her law degree from Georgetown Law School.
Dynamic and motivated professional with a proven track record of generating and building imperative business relationships, managing and spearheading complex projects from concept to completion, designing business route to market strategies for some of the world’s largest beverage alcohol importers and suppliers, and coaching individuals within and outside of Martignetti Companies to success. Skilled in building cross-functional teams, demonstrating exceptional communication skills, and making critical decisions during challenges. Adaptable and transformational leader with an ability to work independently, creating effective presentations for executive leadership and C-suite management, and develop opportunities which further establish organizational goals, key producer KPIs, and exceed key supplier and customer goals and objectives.
Selected as one of Boston Business Journals 2019 40 Under 40 honorees, as well as Martignetti Companies Women of the Vine & Spirits 2019 representative. Nicole was featured in Boston Voyager Magazines 2019 “Most Inspiring Stories” section and currently serves as co-chair of Martignetti Companies 2020 Women’s Beverage Alcohol Symposium, as well as an active member of Martignetti Companies 2019 Corporate Mentorship Committee. An active member for the past four (4) years with Mass Mentoring Partnerships Cheers to Mentoring and Champions of Mentoring Committees, as well as MMP’s 2019 Falmouth Road Race Fundraiser. An active volunteer with Hillel at Boston University, Jewish Federations of North America National Young Leadership Cabinet, JDC, and Keshet.
10+ years of initiating and delivering sustained results and effective change for the world’s most highly recognized beverage alcohol producers such as DIAGEO, Moet Hennessy USA, Remy Cointreau, Pernod Ricard USA, Proximo, Treasury, E&J Gallo, and William Grant & Sons across Massachusetts, against a wide range of on-premise customer bases including but not limited to MGM Springfield Casino, Encore Boston Harbor Casino, Gillette Stadium, Fenway Park, Big Night Entertainment Group, Varano Group, and DePasquale Group.
Major experience lies in strategizing and leading cross-functional teams to bring about fundamental change and improvement in strategy, process, and profitability – both as a leader and sales consultant.
Esha is a management consultant professional with the PwC US Advisory Practice. She has over 10+ years of experience in Analytics Consulting. She has accumulated breadth of experience while working for clients across Healthcare Providers, Health Insurance Companies, Pharma & Life Sciences, Airlines, Retail and Professional Services industries. She has led several consulting engagements which involve hypothesis development, generating actionable insights from data, developing and implementing strategy and business development.
With over 9+ years of experience in leading multicultural teams and applying strategic thinking, project management and data science skills to solve complex problems, Esha is committed to giving back to the community through active commitment to the organization’s mission.
Colin Burch was named Vice President, Marketing and Broadcasting in January 2017. In this role he is responsible for guiding the organization’s marketing efforts with a particular focus on the club’s digital and social media strategies with MLB, promotional ticketing initiatives and a host of platforms designed to bring children and families closer to the game. During his tenure, Burch has coordinated and implemented marketing plans and broadcast logistics for a variety of non-baseball events at Fenway Park including Polartec Big Air, Capital One Frozen Fenway, and the AIG Fenway Hurling Classic.
Burch’s broadcasting responsibilities include overseeing the club’s relationships with its broadcast rights holders including Entercom Boston (WEEI), New England Sports Network (NESN), and Red Sox Spanish Radio. He also serves as a liaison between the club and Major League Baseball’s broadcast rights holders in ESPN, FOX/FS1, TBS and the MLB Network. In addition, Burch manages the licensing of the club’s intellectual properties in the film, television, and commercial industries.
Since beginning his Red Sox career as an intern during the 2003 season, Burch has worked for the club in a variety of marketing and broadcasting roles, most recently as Sr. Director, Marketing and Broadcasting.
A native of Ruxton, MD, Burch graduated from Washington and Lee University in 2004. He and his wife, Kathleen, reside in Wellesley, MA with their daughters, Belle and Lily.
Ann McFarland Burke is a seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience in planning and economic development. Ms. Burke holds a BA from Miami University, Oxford OH and master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Ms. Burke specializes in creating strategies to increase organizational capacity in downtowns, including Business Improvement District (BID) development, downtown revitalization and strategic planning, management and economic development. She has previously served as the Vice President of the Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts and has owned her own downtown consulting firm for over 20 years.
Ms. Burke co-authored enabling legislation to create BIDs in Massachusetts, authored a Guidebook for forming Business Improvement Districts in Massachusetts, led the successful development of BIDS in Springfield, Amherst, Hudson, Worcester, Cambridge, and Boston MA, and advised numerous other communities considering BIDS and other downtown initiatives. Ann Burke served as MMP’s Board Clerk from 2014-2022.
Tom Caron serves as studio host for NESN’s Boston Bruins coverage. His duties include hosting the network’s 1/2 hour pre-game show The Boston Globe Pre Game Report and the network’s Boston Bruins post-game show Overtime. The Lewiston, Maine native also serves as NESN’s Red Sox field reporter, delivering live interviews from the field and from the clubhouse after Red Sox broadcasts for NESN’s Red Sox post-game show W.B. Mason Extra Innings. He also serves as the play-by-play announcer for NESN’s Providence Bruins and ECAC Hockey telecasts. The multi-talented announcer joined NESN in 1996 as co-host of Front Row, a nightly sports magazine program.
Caron began his career as a sports reporter covering the Vermont Reds, Cincinnati’s AA affiliate, for a daily newspaper in Vermont. His first on-air work came as sports anchor for WPTZ-TV in Plattsburgh, New York in 1986, where he worked as a beat reporter covering the Montreal Canadians and Montreal Expos.
After a stint as sports anchor at WNNE-TV in Hanover, New Hampshire, Caron moved onto WGME-TV in Portland, Maine in 1988. Caron stayed at WGME for five years anchoring nightly sportscasts, hosting weekly ski segments and producing a number of half-hour specials each year.
In 1993 Caron was hired by the Portland Pirates to serve as their radio play-by-play announcer and communications director. While working with the Pirates, Caron also served as the play-by-play announcer for the New England Stingers of Roller Hockey International and as a sports reporter at WPXT-TV in Portland. In addition to hosting a weekly hockey feature at WPXT, Caron also served as the station’s play-by-play announcer for local and professional sports.
Sandeep Kumar is a Business Transformation and Consulting Leader for Financial Services at EY. In his current role, Sandeep is responsible for client engagements, client value propositions and building relevant capabilities at global scale for wealth, asset management and retirements sector. As EY’s Americas Retirement Technology Leader, Sandeep partners with clients to deliver large business led and technology enabled transformation engagements.
He has 26+ years of experience managing client engagements globally and leading large digital business transformation initiatives for leading financial services institutions. His global experience spans across US, India, China and Europe working with multi-cultural teams. He is passionate about helping clients solve their problems by connecting the dots between business, technology and operations to create long-term value.
Sandeep brings valuable experience, innovation and insights re: leadership and management challenges faced by large wealth & asset management firms that are burdened with fragmented legacy-technologies.
As a thought leader and a hands-on, problem-solver, Sandeep brings a broad and balanced perspective of right-sourcing strategies. He has led large deals and engagements “lifting-out” capabilities, transitioning to ODCs/GCCs and transforming these to next-gen capabilities.
Sandeep believes in the purpose of building a better working world by leveraging his knowledge, skills and experience to empower people with the right mindset needed to navigate what’s next and become the transformative leaders the world needs.
Sandeep holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics.
Deb Lawrence is a Senior Vice President at Bank of America in the firm’s Global Commercial Banking division. In her role she leads a team of professionals to deliver a full array of commercial and investment banking products and services to mid-sized companies headquartered in the Boston area. She is responsible for helping clients achieve their strategic objectives through lending, treasury and liquidity management, hedging advice, international expansion, and corporate finance recommendations. She has been involved in numerous syndicated credit facilities and public equity offerings to assist in M&A and buyout activity. She also connects individuals at client companies she works with to the Merrill Lynch and Private Bank divisions of the Bank that provide personal banking and wealth management services.
Prior to her current position, Deb led Fleet National Bank’s Massachusetts Professional Services Banking Division. Previous positions included leading the National Staffing Services Banking Division, and managing various portfolios of mid-sized companies in many different industries.
Deb has been with Bank of America and its predecessor Fleet Bank for over 25 years. She started her banking career as a management trainee at Shawmut Bank in the Commercial Banking Training and Development Program. She has a B.A. with a History major from Gordon College, and an M.B.A. with Highest Distinction from Babson College. Deb is passionate about many charitable causes throughout New England and has been involved with numerous not-for-profit organizations over the years. Most recently she serves as a Board Member for the United Way of Mass Bay and Merrimack Valley and the Mass Mentoring Partnership.
Migdalia was raised in the Roxbury and Dorchester area of Boston and is the first in her family to pursue higher education. She graduated from English High School with a state championship for the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Mock Trial tournament. She then graduated Boston College with a degree in Political Science & Communications, and earned a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School.
Migdalia is currently Chief of Juvenile Unit at Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. Previously, she worked as a Trial Attorney for the Youth Advocacy Division. She defends young people charged with delinquent/criminal charges and is assigned to the Roxbury office, handling the Suffolk County jurisdiction. Previously, she worked for 2 years as an Attorney for the South Coastal Counties Legal Services, Inc. under the U.S. Department of Justice LAV (Legal Assistance for Victims) grant, representing low-income victims of domestic violence with family law cases and child custody/abuse cases.
Migdalia was also an Assistant District Attorney for Suffolk County for 7 years, and was assigned to the Boston Juvenile Court, handling cases involving youthful offenders in Superior Court, and delinquency cases in the Juvenile Court. Prior to BJC, she was assigned to the Roxbury Division of Boston Municipal Court.
Migdalia was the 2011 recipient of the Brian J. Honan Award for Community Service and Courtroom Excellence at the Suffolk County D.A.’s Office, honored as Distinguished Alumni of English High School in 2011, received the Agent of Change Award for her commitment to youth by Mass Housing in 2011, and was a recipient of the District Attorney’s Role Model Award in 2012. She has been an active board member of the Massachusetts Association of Hispanic Attorneys (MAHA) since 2011, and served as President of MAHA in 2017. She also founded the annual Juvenile Justice Youth Symposium in 2017 to engage young people in thought and discussion about the Juvenile justice system that impacts them directly.
George was the Managing Partner of EY’s Boston office as well as the New England market segment leader from 2012-17. He led double-digit market growth/revenues during all five years and was not only responsible for nearly 2,000 people, but also for the revenue goals for all service lines in the area. From 2002-12, he was a Senior Assurance Partner for EY, including leading the New England assurance practice. While in these roles, he helped a wide variety of companies in different industries, including on IPO and M&A transactions. Prior to that, George was an Assurance Partner at Arthur Andersen serving emerging and growth-oriented companies in all commercial sectors in the New England market from 1978-2002. George is currently a Senior Advisor to Avalt, a Boston-based private equity focused family office, and is a member of the board along with being the audit committee chair of EverQuote (Nasdaq-EVER). He was also the Chairman of the Board of Mass Mentoring Partnership for many years and was past chair of the Massachusetts Society of CPA’s. In addition, he serves as a Trustee for the Yawkey Foundation II and on the Board of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay, BELL and the Wonderfund.
Jack Neuhauser is a leading and highly accomplished college administrator. He has held nearly every academic position during his long career. He served as President of St. Michael’s College for eleven years. Prior to this appointment he was Academic Vice-President and Dean of Faculties at Boston College after serving for twenty-two years as Dean of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He also has served on numerous for-profit and not-for-profit boards including those of large academic medical centers and major financial firms. Jack has conducted, overseen, and implemented countless strategic plans.
Throughout his career he has concentrated on improving the organizational quality and stature of the institutions he served with the goal of strengthening their position in the marketplace. This has become critical as institutions wrestle with changing demographics and accelerated change.
An avid runner, Jack’s marathon days are behind him; he resides on an old farm in Vermont where he vainly attempts to keep the flora and fauna at bay.
Tim Ostrander is a Senior Advisor at the Ayco/Goldman Sachs office in Boston. With just under 20 years of experience, Tim specializes in providing guidance to senior corporate executives. His areas of expertise include benefits and compensation maximization, tax compliance, estate planning, wealth transfer, investment strategy, and risk management.
Since joining the firm in 2004, Tim has made significant contributions in various positions within the financial counseling business at Ayco/Goldman Sachs. Notably, he played a pivotal role in the successful opening of the Boston Ayco/Goldman Sachs office in 2015. Throughout his tenure, Tim has earned a reputation as a trusted and accomplished wealth advisor. His skill set and deep understanding of the financial landscape have led to him becoming the primary advisor for over ten CEOs and four senior Private Equity partners.
Tim earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Management from SUNY Geneseo and his MBA from Union College. He holds his Series 3, 7 and 66 licenses. Additionally, Tim serves on the foundation board at SUNY Geneseo and is the vice chairman of the finance committee.
Tim currently resides in Needham, MA with his wife and three sons. In his free time, you can find Tim on the sidelines of various athletic fields coaching his kids, on top of a mountain during the winter, or sneaking in a quick 18 holes whenever the weather allows. A perfect day for Tim would be spent on Lake George, out on the water, alongside family and friends.
David Ureña is an Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. Before joining the Civil Rights Division, David worked with immigrant worker communities and low-income New Yorkers in New York City as an employment lawyer at the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center (now an independent non-profit organization named TakeRoot Justice) and MFY Legal Services (now named Mobilization for Justice). David attended Fordham Law School and the University of Pennsylvania.
Jim Connolly, National Bank Holdings Corp
Edmund F. Kelly, Liberty Mutual Group
Regina M. Pisa, Goodwin Procter
George Neble, Retired from EY
Jacqueline Conrad, Skidmore College
Rev. J. Donald Monan, S.J., Boston College
