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

John Henry, Chair

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

Cheryl Forté, Treasurer

Josefina Lyons, Clerk

Joan Bragen
Resource Development Consultant

Jim Buza
Program Development Manager
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Alice Coogan
Corporate Relations Manager
North Shore Music Theatre

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

Catherine Davy
Dean of Arts & Sciences
Bentley College

Gail Dowd
Vice President
Director of Financial Reporting
Eaton Vance

George Field, Esq.
Verrill Dana, LLP

Alba Marina Gomez
Program Manager - Boston
Center for Women & Enterprise

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

Dimitry Herman, Esq.
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP

Joshua Leichter, Esq.
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Lucy D. Lovrien, Esq.
Attorney at Law

Charles Mollor
Managing Partner
MCG Partners

Robert Poirier
Chief Operating Officer
Braver PC

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.

Sarah J. Weatherhead, Esq.
Art Technology Group, Inc.

Lisa Winsor, Esq.
Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

Advisory Committee

Bob Fraser
Managing Partner Emeritus
Goodwin Procter LLP

Barry Gordon, Esq.
President
Gordon, Mond & Ott

Laura Marchetti
Senior Relationship Manager
Senior Vice President
Silicon Valley East

Joanne Zitek
Principal
Zitek Associates 

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.