 Susan Loconto Penta, CWE Board Chair
Susan Loconto Penta is a Cofounder and Managing Partner at MIDIOR Consulting where she oversees the delivery of consulting services. With 25 years of experience as a management consultant, entrepreneur, senior executive and engineer, Susan is able to achieve dramatic results for her global clients by leveraging the disciplines of product development and product management to improve their financial performance.Read more... Chair: Susan Loconto Penta - Midior Consulting
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 Susan Rittscher, CWE President & CEO
Susan Rittscher, President and CEO of the Center for Women & Enterprise joined the organization in 2008 to continue her life's work of creating possibilities, connecting communities, and impacting lives through service. She has over 30 years of non-profit experience and 18 years of experience as a CEO of small and large not for profits. Most recently, Susan was director of Executive and Volunteer Development for the YMCA of the USA, with responsibility for educating and training the executive and volunteer leaders of the nation’s 2,600 YMCAs. Susan was formerly President and CEO of the Greater Providence YMCA, where she served for 12 years. She is a catalytic leader with strong skills in developing others, creating growth in the organizations she leads, and collaborating with others to provide innovative service.Read more... President & CEO: Susan Rittscher - Center for Women & Enterprise
Elizabeth F. Ames
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Alexis Brooks
Alexis Brooks is VP of Marketing and Communications for Inside Cable, Inc., a Massachusetts based telecommunications firm where she leads business development, market branding and public relations nationwide. She also oversees Inside Cable’s Community Technology Initiatives division and serves on the Board of Visitors for the Dimock Community Health Center.Read more...
Alexis Brooks - Inside Cable
Karen Copenhaver
Karen is a partner in Choate, Hall & Stewart LLP’s Business & Technology Group. Her practice focuses on technology transfer and licensing of intellectual property, particularly in the areas of software licensing and open source business models. Karen is the Director of Intellectual Property Strategy for the Linux Foundation, a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux, and serves as an advisor to Black Duck Software, Inc., where she was instrumental in establishing automated methods of software compliance management as an industry best practice.Read more...
Karen Copenhaver - Choate, Hall & Stewart
John Doyle
John J. Doyle is the district controller of UPS in the East New England district which services Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In 2008, he has taken on an additional responsibility, assuming the position of operations manager of the Norwood, Massachusetts facility. Doyle has over 20 years experience with UPS. As district controller, he oversees all activities related to financial planning and revenue management, financial analysis, performance reporting, accounting and auditing. On the operations side, Doyle oversees all logistics related to the pick-up and delivery of customer packages.Read more...
John Doyle - UPS
Charleen Heard - Dream Team Interiors
Ellen G. Hoffman
Ellen is the former President of Devonshire Custom Publishing, a Fidelity Capital company. Prior to that she was Senior Vice President of Fidelity Investments, holding various positions in marketing, strategic planning, systems planning and business management. Ellen also held brand management positions at Lotus Development Corporation, where she was in charge of Lotus 1-2-3, and The Gillette Company, where she marketed various personal care product lines.Read more...
Ellen G. Hoffman
Pamela F. Lenehan
Pam Lenehan is President of Ridge Hill Consulting, a strategy consulting firm. She spent 21 years on Wall Street and was a managing director in Investment Banking at Credit Suisse First Boston, where she did mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt financing for public and private technology companies. She went to the corporate side where she was SVP Corporate Development and Treasurer of Oak Industries which was sold to Corning, and then became CFO of a high-tech start-up.Read more...
Pamela F. Lenehan - Ridge Hill Consulting, LLC
Mela Lew
Mela Lew is a Bar Examiner with the Board of Bar Examiners of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She is also a member of the Character and Fitness Committee of the National Conference of Bar Examiners. Ms. Lew is a 2008 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, from which she received her Master of Public Administration. Immediately prior, she was a Partner and the General Counsel of Atlas Venture, an international venture capital firm with over $2 billion under management. Before Atlas Venture, she served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Oak Industries Inc., a NYSE company that was acquired by Corning Incorporated in 2000.Read more...
Mela Lew
Sandy Lish
Sandy Lish, principal and co-founder of The Castle Group, is responsible for the agency’s business development and strategic management, with particular emphasis on the PR division. Sandy works closely with her teams to provide a unique blend of service and results for clients such as Friendly’s, Virgin Money, Deloitte and MassArt. She also provides senior counsel on crisis and transition communications, and leads media and presentation workshops for senior executives.Read more...
Sandy Lish - The Castle Group
Jim Matheson
Jim Matheson, General Partner, joined Flagship Ventures in 2000 and focuses on creating and funding new ventures in the sustainability, clean technology and special technologies (e.g. nano-technology, materials and software & system) arenas. He brings to this task over 20 years of technology and leadership experience across a variety of organizations and roles designing, engineering and deploying sophisticated technology platforms. Jim also formerly served as a Navy F-14 & FA-18 pilot including duties flying combat missions from an aircraft carrier, and as a TOPGUN Instructor and Adversary Pilot. He also gained broad experience in emerging aircraft & weapons system design, testing and procurement, and was deeply involved in many of the military’s IT modernization initiatives.Read more...
Jim Matheson - Flagship Ventures
Timothy L. Mould
Mr. Mould is a Partner in Accenture’s Management Consulting Practice. He focuses on helping companies to formulate and implement operational strategies to drive growth and profitability through lean re-engineering, shared services, outsourcing and strategic IT investment. He has a broad portfolio of project experience across business functions including both upfront strategy and planning engagements as well as large-scale global transformation program management projects.Read more...
Timothy L. Mould - Accenture
Kate Murtagh
Kate Murtagh is a Managing Director and the Chief Compliance Officer of Harvard Management Company, Inc. (HMC). Ms. Murtagh joined HMC in May 2006 to fill the newly-created Chief Compliance Officer position. Ms. Murtagh is responsible for regulatory, tax, and legal compliance (domestic and international) relating to all internal and external investment activities of HMC. Ms. Murtagh is also responsible for ensuring that HMC conducts business and implements operations in accordance with regulatory, ethical, legal and industry best practices. As Clerk of HMC, Ms. Murtagh also oversees corporate governance issues for the HMC Board and its standing committees.Read more...
Kate Murtagh - Harvard Management Company
Carol Sanchez
Carol I. Sanchez, CPA is the founder and Partner of Sanchez & Santiago, LLC. She has over 25 years of experience in audit, accounting, internal audit, merchandising, international, and consulting experience with multinationals like Global Resources, Staples, Inc., The Timberland Company, Verizon, Stride Rite International, and KPMG.Read more...
Carol Sanchez - Sanchez & Santiago, LLC
Victoria Sassine
Victoria Sassine is currently a lecturer of finance at the Graduate School of Business, Babson College. Victoria has worked in strategic financial and brand management positions in a variety of industries, including Biotechnology (Biogen Idec), Consumer Products (Kraft Foods, Phillip Morris Companies, Polaroid), and Petrochemical (Royal Dutch Shell). Victoria also serves as a consultant to non-profits, developing operational and financial metrics to measure economic impact. She serves on boards of several non-profit organizations, focusing on entrepreneurship and the economic empowerment of women.Read more...
Victoria Sassine
Chris Sheehan
Chris Sheehan is a managing director of CommonAngels, joining the group in 2005, and is currently either a board member or observer at Carbonite, Outside the Classroom, OwnerIQ, Xconomy, Insightix, and GateRocket. Within CommonAngels, Chris manages deal flow, due diligence and the investment process. He is also a managing director of the group’s two venture funds.Read more...
Chris Sheehan - CommonAngels
Susan Hunt Stevens
Susan Hunt Stevens is the Founder/CEO of Practically Green, a company that helps people live greener by using technology and social networking to make it simpler to understand green choices and reward and recognize the positive impact of those changes.Read more...
Susan Hunt Stevens - Practically Green
James Sturgis
James Sturgis, Jr. is the Director of Supplier Diversity for the Royal Ahold family of U.S.-based retail grocers. Ahold is an international group of quality supermarkets and foodservice operators based in the United States and Europe. In New England, James represents Stop & Shop. James joined Stop & Shop and the Ahold family in October of 2004. Previous to this role, James was Manager of Supplier Diversity for PepsiCo, Inc. It was at PepsiCo that James honed his supplier diversity skills. At Ahold, James is responsible for ensuring diverse supplier participation in every category of buying. These categories include items that Ahold resells in its grocery stores as well as products and services required to conduct business (not-for-resale).Read more...
James Sturgis - Ahold USA
Yolanda Taylor
Yolanda Taylor has 15 years of experience in the investments business with 12 years as an analyst, portfolio manager, and director of research at Fidelity Investments. Ms. Taylor has an in-depth knowledge of all aspects related to analysis of companies across multiple industries, with particular emphasis on financials and health-care.Read more...
Yolanda Taylor
Elizabeth Williams
Beth Williams stepped into the top spot at Roxbury Technology Corporation (RTC) in 2003. Bu the following year, the company had built its first remanufacturing plant and started producing 100,000 cartridges annually. Under her guidance, RTC has experienced double-digit growth and garnered awards and positive press for its successful, socially conscious approach to businessRead more...
Elizabeth Williams - Roxbury Technology
Constance S. Wright
Connie Wright, Managing Director of Business Solutions of Accounting Management Solutions, has more than 25 years of accounting, consulting, and professional services management experience, and is responsible for the small, emerging, and middle market practices of AMS.Read more...
Constance S. Wright - Accounting Management Solutions
CWE Worcester Advisory Committee
Francesca D’Angelo - Blue Cod Technologies
Nancy Engel – The Sunny Window
Charlene Heard
Jennifer Houghton – Foley Hoag, LLP
Constance S. Wright – Accounting Management Solutions
Christine Wyman - Integral Marketing International
CWE Providence Advisory Committee
Jennifer Cooke - FH French, Co. Inc.
Robin Dziuba - Merrill Lynch
Kathy Goulding - Coastway Credit Union
Martha Hultzman-Lefkowitz - Champi, Garfinkel and DeRienzo, P.C.
Susan Keller Esq. - Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
Pamela F. Lenehan - Ridge Hill Consulting
Christine Lynch - Horton Construction
Georgina Macdonald – Morgan Group, LLC
Nancy Mayer
Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth H. Roberts
Mandie Sullivan - Hogan & Stone
Shanna Wells - Rhode Island Commission on Women
