Board of Directors

As of August 1, 2008 the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston and Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts of Massachusetts, Inc. officially joined forces to become a single, unified organization offering a combined menu of high quality legal and business-oriented programming. Our newly combined organization will operate under the name Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston with VLA being maintained as the name for our organization's legal services component. With the merger two Boards also came together, joining board members from both the Arts & Business Council and VLA. The new Board of Directors is as follows:

Board of Directors

Chuck Moller, Chair

Managing Partner

MCG Partners

Patricia Saint James, Esq., Vice-Chair
Looney & Grossman LLP

Cheryl Forté, Treasurer

Josefina Lyons, Clerk

Charless Allen Bargfrede
Assistant Professor
Berklee College of Music

Jim Buza
Program Development Manager
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Justin Daniels, Esq.
Skadden Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates

George Field, Esq.
Verrill Dana, LLP

Donald C. Gorder, Esq.
Chair, Music Business Mgmt.
Berklee College of Music

Joshua Leichter, Esq.
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Lucy D. Lovrien, Esq.
Attorney at Law

Lee Reese
Global General Manager
American Express

Wanda Reindorf
Chief Financial Officer
Conservation Services Group

Ron Ryan
Vice-Precident and Chief Financial Officer (Retired)
Haemonetics Corp

William Sopp, Esq.
Burns & Levinson LLP

Gregory G. Sullivan
Echelon Events Inc.

Lisa Winsor, Esq.
Lando & Anastasi, LLP

Jim Lucchese
CEO
Echo Nest

Liz Lynes
Senior Manager, Human Resources
The Broad Institute, INC

Aaron Von Staats
General Council
PTC

Cha-Chi Loprete
100.7 WZLX

Advisory Committee

Bob Fraser, Esq.

Managing Partner Emeritus
Goodwin Procter LLP

Alan S. Geismer, Jr., Esq.
Sugarman, Rogers, Barshak & Cohen, P.C.

Legal Advisory Committee

Thanda Brassard, Esq.
Fiduciary Trust Co.

Patricia Nelson, Esq.
Law Office of Patricia Nelson

Paul E. Nemser, Esq.
Goodwin  Procter LLP

David Plotkin, Esq.
Brightcove, Inc.